Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The costly cap-and-trade energy bill supported by Obama would lead to big tax increases , administration officials privately have conceded , even though they publicly claim otherwise. Officials at the Treasury Department think cap-and-trade legislation would cost taxpayers hundreds of billion in taxes, according to internal documents circulated within the agency and provided to The Washington Times by CEI . It could raise household taxes by $1761 per year , equivalent to a 15 percent tax increase. It would also result in loss of steel, paper, aluminum, chemical, and cement manufacturing jobs. (Obama earlier admitted that under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket .)
That's not the only example of compromise. Although the big island of Hawaii has outlawed GMOs, the local law excludes the papaya plant, which has been genetically modified to resist a species-threatening virus. I guess the principle here is: we're against the genetic modification of seed, unless we really need it.
Toward the end of the past decade, China set itself an ambitious goal: to dramatically ramp up its electric vehicle production and surpass the rest of the worlds automobile industries in this important new market. It was a policy intended to play a crucial role in the countrys economic development and long-term energy strategy and in solving some of its important environmental and health problems.
Bear in mind that this reassessment explicitly won't address EPA's May 2010 "Tailpipe Rule," which established first-ever greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles, much less the December 2009 Endangerment Rule, which represents the fountainhead of all greenhouse gas regulations. Still, a determination that nullifies EPA's authority to regulate stationary sources can represent a major political and policy setback for EPA.
Instead, Pugh at CNN informs you that global warming is even worse than he thought! What a deluded liar.
The response in the House of Representatives has been a bipartisan push for more green card slots for STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) graduates of American universities.
During the past few days, I??ve been assessing the GHCN-Daily dataset , which is a very large data set and plan to do a number of posts on this topic, including a description of the data set. It turns out that literally hundreds of stations that expire around 1989 or 1990 in the NASA data set are alive and thriving in the GHCN-Daily parallel universe. More on this over the next few days.
rationale core to the Obamian outlook and under-noticed in analyses of Obama foreign
Among the many ongoing lawsuits that the Sierra Club is pursuing is one against Navajo coal mining, the Keystone XL pipeline, one seeking penalties for ?ongoing violations? at Montana?s Colstrip power plant. They filed a suit against the power rate increase for Mississippi?s Kemper County coal plant.
"Microsoft said today that the final version of its Windows Intune cloud-delivered PC management solution for businesses will be available for purchase or the start of a free 30-day trial on March 23 in 35 countries."
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Like other wind energy projects, Cape Wind is dependent on the PTC extension. It is time for everyone who opposes government intervention in markets to contact his or her representativesas Mary Kay Barton didand voice opposition to the PTC extension. Call and say: "Stop supporting wind energy. It is an inefficient system that leads to perverse outcomes. The massive expansion of wind energy that we've seen in the past six years would not survive on a level playing field."
Never mind hurting the feelings of flora and fauna, tree-hugging, censorship-demanding greens are denigrating the devastating experiences of victims of mass murder by putting them on a par with things like tree-felling and desertification. That is the natural consequence of their putting nature on a par with ? in fact even higher than ? humankind.
Second, an insurance policy worthy of the name should help make the insured whole after some unfortunate event has struck. Kyoto can do nothing of the kind. Quite the contrary, whatever resources we apply to prevent climate change are resources we cannot use to adapt to climate change if and when it occurs. Kyoto is all premium and no coverage.
What's Wrong With Regulating Carbon Dioxide Emissions?
Schwarzenegger declares fiscal emergency in Calif. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency Monday and called lawmakers into a special session to address California's $11.2 billion deficit. The state's revenue gap is expected to hit $28 billion over the next 19 months without bold action. The emergency declaration authorizes the governor and lawmakers to change the existing budget within the next 45 days. Without quick action, the state is likely to run out of cash in February. Possibly California has too many climate change bureaucrats? The landscape is vastly more complex than we thought, Sayles said. Others have a big head start and a lot more resources. California has 120 people working on this full-time .
This data can be communicated through the WAN to a proposed central data and communications entity (DCC), which may then provide the data to authorised third parties.
17b. The ability of regional climate models to reproduce precipitation observations
I presume Prof Lewandowsky did not mean to forget the original link to the Alene gotcha page he is referring to: http://verdanthopes.blogspot.com/2011/03/tomorrow-belongs-to-us.html
Wind power. States are reducing or terminating Renewable Portfolio Standards and programs. Kansas, West Virginia and Indiana repealed their mandate, Ohio froze its standard at 2.5% renewable electricity, and North Carolina may freeze its RPS. Wildlife groups are finally recognizing and objecting to the serious habitat destruction and bird and bat slaughter that is a hallmark of wind and solar facilities.
7 Apr 2015 Thick drifts of snow in Korca.
??? The Fox Basin encompasses the northern end of the Hudson Bay. In 1996 studies estimated the bear population to be 2119 and then was raised to 2300 bears in 2004. The results from a recent aerial survey published in 2012 now estimate that the Fox Basin embraces about 2580 bears. Instead of listing this population as increasing, or at least stable, Derochers PBSG hid their thriving population with an odd data deficient designation.
There are curved brass Viking horns on the table, along with a variety of halberds and pikes and medieval weapons on the wall but in true Sir Humphry fashion, mixed in with the horns and plates on the table is a very lovely and apparently authentic antique Fijian war club who knows why? Because Sir Humphry, my daughter said ... that made sense to me. I take my hat off to the man, he indeed has the eye for quality. At the end of the hall above you can dimly see a fully caparisoned horse and rider, heres a closeup. Its full-size, and up on a stand but doesnt even start to dominate the huge hall ... like all of Sir Humphrys works, from the exquisite gardens to the windvaneon top of one of the towerswith the golden bat that is the symbol of the Grey family, the hall and all of its contents was very, very impressive.
Based on this Mises Institute post , this may no longer be true. If a family is comfortable with $45,000 a year, or doesn't think it has the prospect of earning more than that, there appears to be little incentive to work.
how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;
Contrary to the lies of climate experts, US drought is near historically low levels. The animation below flashes between December 2014 and December 1963
Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea), but also the lingering association of the
This is a spoof on the xkcd.com/1321/ cartoon that was doing the Twitter rounds the other day.
This blind spot for the human-welfare effects of climate-mitigation policies also shows up in assessing the risks of geoengineering. Scientists rightly note that geoengineering could itself have unintended and undesirable spinoff effects. For example, the Nature article highlights work by Alan Robock of Rutgers, which concluded that sulfate from the 1783 Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland weakened the Indian monsoon and also reduced rainfall in Africa's Sahel. Nature goes on to note,
Verification of the forced component of twentieth- century climate trends simulated in model experiments depends on the existence of accurate estimates of these trends in observations. Given the limited sampling in both space and time of the observations and proxy records, these verifications must be handled carefully. In particular, knowledge of the spatial patterns and magnitudes of climate trends over the oceans is hampered by the uneven and changing distribution of commercial shipping routes and other observational inputs as well as different approaches to merging analyses of the observations (Rayner et al. 2011).
Changing Cryosphere Land / Sea Ice
In The Guardian, it is argued that people believe in conspiracy theories because conspiracies actually sometimes happen . This differentiates the believers from believers in telepathy and so on.
And now oceanic cycles have switched to a cold mode , where data shows that the amount of Arctic summer sea ice has increased by more than a quarter since 2007.
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Global Warming Policy Experts Available for Interviews
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Where has global warming gone? Onto the ash heap of the history of the last twenty-plus years of bad policies, wasted billions of the public treasure, and all of it driven by the UNs mendacious science.
Examples of documented questionable climate record adjusting by the climate agency officials are not hard to find: Melbourne , U.S. western areas , 1997 global versus 2014 , winter 2014 , U.S corn belt , Texas winter temps , Paraguay , Africa , Iceland , GISS land temps , northern hemisphere pre-1940 , Alice Springs (Australia) , Bolivia , U.S. temperature trends , Arctic adjustments , Antarctica , New Zealand , Australia , Germany , and many others .
These are among the reasons Congress has rejected nearly 700 climate bills. The Clean Power Plan is the result of the EPA colluding regularly with radical environmentalist pressure groups and circumventing our legislative process, laws and Constitution.
The Dangers of California's "Investment Authority' Bill
A worldwide agricultural model constructed by Searchinger et al. (2008) finds that the increases in crop prices that follow from the increased demand for ethanol will induce a global change in the pattern of land use. Those land use changes produce a surge in GHG emissions that is only dissipated by conventional life-cycle emissions savings many decades hence. Although Searchinger et al. modeled ethanol production increases that were beyond those mandated in existing law, the emissions from land-use change per unit of ethanol would be similar regardless of the ethanol increase analyzed.
That polar bears have survived through previous warm periods is not to say that polar bears will have an easy time of it this time around. Obviously, humans have constructed barriers that may impinge upon the bears preferred methods of adaptationwe hunt them, we relocate them, we destroy them if they become a nuisance to our civilization, a situation which may increase in frequency and intensity as the bears are forced to spend more time on land and less on the ice floes. But, nevertheless, the bears will do their best to keep up with a changing climate, just as they have done since their species grew separate from brown bears some 200,000 years ago.
The International Civil Aviation Organization is forming a plan for a global aviation CO2 emissions trading system, which the EU can work into its current Emissions Trading System, the European Commissions director general for climate action Jos Delbeke said Thursday evening.
The second "expert" would be discarded soon afterwards because the sane homeowner would realize that this "expert" had predicted in "The Progressive" (1970) that during the 1980s, 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the " Great Die-Off " because of hunger. Fortunately, the homeowner knows a very good psychiatrist whom he could recommend to this "structural expert #2" who is still employed by the Stanford University. Let's hope that he will never have dreams about billions of people dying in hunger again.
Higher-than-average temperatures, easily and obviously explained by referring to weather patterns, are instead the fault of AGW
CEI bases its challenge on the Federal Data Quality Act (FDQA). The FDQA requires that data disseminated by the government meet basic scientific standards for "objectivity" and "utility." CEI contends that the National Assessment on Climate Change (2000) fails this test. The FDQA prohibits taxpayer funding of dissemination of such junk science, and last week CEI filed suit.
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Hadley Centre. HadCRUT4 tropical temperature data downloaded on February 27, 2013 from Wood for Trees.
Of course, had Rogers advocated energy policies that encouraged economic growth as opposed to economic contraction, energy efficiency wouldnt be so much of a threat to Duke Energy. Now Rogers will no doubt jump on the decoupling bandwagon (if he hasnt already) to preserve his profit margin.
I've seen the desire to save the earth. I mean, obviously, that's a commendable desire. And that's sort of related to this last point that I've got on the list. Let's jump down there, world view. This is maybe the most important thing which influences a scientist's perception. People that traditionally work the climate change issue aren't meteorologists. Meteorologists deal more with daily weather, and they have a feeling for what weather systems do and why they do it. If you go back about 30 years, the original climate scientists were more experts in radiation or physicists who didn't know that much about weather. And those first researchers ended up overestimating the amount of global warming there would be in response to increasing levels of greenhouse gases. That's because they didn't understand the ways in which the atmosphere responds to a forcing.
Harrelson batted cleanup, encouraging the crowd that America's youth are not a lost cause on climate and energy issues and then detailing how CFACT is successfully educating and mobilizing college students from coast to coast as part of its Collegians program.
Indeed, earlier this year David Whitehouse from the Global Warming Policy Foundation concluded that there had been no global warming for 15 years .
Figure 2. Trend in TOA Solar Radiation, 2000-2012. Red line shows trend, a decrease of 0.15 W/m2 per decade.
The TCRs of the 30 AR5 CMIP5 models featured in WGI Table 9.5 vary from 1.1C to 2.6C, with a mean of slightly over 1.8C. Many projections in AR5 are for changes up to 20812100. Applying the CMIP5 TCRs to the changes in CO 2 concentration and other drivers of climate change from the first part of this century up to 20812100, expressed as the increase in total ERF, explains most of the projected rises in global temperature on the business-as-usual RCP8.5 scenario, although the relationship varies from model to model. Overall the models project about 1020% faster warming than would be expected from their TCR values, allowing for warming in-the-pipeline. That discrepancy, which will not be investigated in this article, implies that the mean effective TCR of the AR5 CMIP5 models for warming towards the end of this century under RCP8.5 is in the region of 2.02.2C.
The EPA has used non-public data to justify 85 percent of $2 trillion worth of Clean Air Act regulation benefits from 1990 to 2020. The agency also uses such datasets to assert that Clean Air Act regulation benefits exceed the costs by a 30:1 ratio originates from the secret data sets.
Dr. David Malmquist, Assistant Research Scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research will be addressing the subject of sea level rise at a Capitol Hill briefing this Thursday sponsored by the Cooler Heads Coalition. "Current sea level rise can be explained by natural processes," according to Malmquist. Claims that global warming will cause sea level rise to accelerate is unfounded, he says. "Observations show that current rates of sea level rise preceded any substantial inputs of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."
But not any old multilateralism. The other major theme of the position papers is that the world organization, a haphazard array of at least 37 major funds, programs, and institutions, and a proliferating number of regulatory and other authorities, should be knitting itself into a much more close-knit global system, with greater control over its own finances, along with a stronger role in setting the international agenda.
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The consensus agrees that humans are driving the increase in temperatures, except for the minor detail that temperatures arent increasing.
Some argue that tax or emission permit auction revenues could be made revenue neutral with the funds dedicated to compensate the poor by lowering their income taxes. The amounts involved are potentially very large. The Congressional Budget Office estimates $1.25 trillion could be raised over 10 years from a carbon tax of $20/ton applied in 2013 and rising in real terms at 4% annually. This amount is equivalent to 54% of the total revenues ($2.3 trillion) collected by the federal government in fiscal year 2011.
I looked through the metadata for all of the stations in Wisconsin, and only found one which lists a morning time of observation for much ofthe 1930s. This should cause the temperatures to be recorded too low.
A few others took advantage of the situation, the newspaper GT stllde itself outside the area and BJD participants on a piece of sausage and a kttbulle. The aim was to ifrgastta and of course also that f (almost) free advertising.
MATH NOTES: The standard exponential decay after a time t is given by:
AGW True Believers Debunk NOAA's Pause-denying Research
Why then single out the Republican Party as an insurgent outlier? Newt Gingrich, first among other Republican leaders, took this polarization to a new level. He was key in the transformation of the party into a destructive and delegitimizing force in American politics (which makes his recent bonding with Trump very fitting).
The holiday spectacle of feckless warmists on ice should prove a lasting image. It distracted from the annual warming campaign of getting the media to label the year gone by "one of the warmest ever" to distract from the fact that the world has not warmed at all since the nineties. "Warmest ever" depends on splitting hundredths of a degree as though they were significant. The media never seems to get around to reporting that all the fuss is really over an occasional year about 0.45 degrees above average. Actual world temperatures have reflected nothing like the warming predicted by climate computer models for most of the time the models have existed.
Boatner responded: "You won't find them on the fire line in the American West anymore, because we've had climate change beat into us over the last 10 or 15 years. We know what we're seeing, and we're dealing with a period of climate, in terms of temperature and humidity and drought, that's different than anything people have seen in our lifetimes."
A few who jumped on this direction from the city was arrangrerna of the festival Way Out West which was held in the Castle Forest every year. This year was all that was served within festivalomrdet vegetarian.
Declining Snow Cover Causes Record Snow Cover: "This winter (December-February) will almost certainly be in the top two snow cover years for the northern hemisphere. Right now it is positioned as the snowiest winter on record. As our top climate scientists explain it, the shortage of snow cover is the cause of the record snow cover.'
Links to the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware:
But the major point here is that it is NOT the lack of warm air that inhibits tornado formation during tornado seasonit is the lack of sufficient wind shear to cause thunderstorms to rotate. And it is the persistence of unseasonably cool air, over most of the U.S., that produces these wind shear conditions.
Even at the low experimental pH of 7.5 (corresponding to 2,000 ppm atmospheric CO2) chitons suffer no ill. Having been around for over 300 million years they obviously have learned how to cope with fluctuating changes in their environment
So, if it is indeed sulfates cooling the warming, given that there is no net change in global temperature, then the northern hemisphere should be cooling since 1998 (the first year in Kaufmann?s paper) while the southern warms. Here are the sad facts:
Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved:
Suppose there is a $3,000,000 per gallon tax imposed on dairy products and with this tax in place a single gallon of ice cream is purchased each year. The tax revenue (direct burden) is $3,000,000. The excess burden is the value lost by destroying the dairy industryfarmers, processors, vendors, etc.minus any gains by those who produce and sell whatever substitutes replace a portion of the lost dairy products. In addition the excess burden would include the lost value to consumers who give up ice cream, milk, cheese, etc. for less appealing alternatives.
Molly: Well, we could start by not producing so many seedlings. Also, do you ever think about all of the vines, flowers, and shrubs that we displace? They have rights, too, you know.
Testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Price Drop Points to Likely Double Dip in Housing Market:
And heres what they look like in the Steig et al paper:
In completing his analysis, Boretti thus concludes, quite logically, that the "rise of sea level in the bay of Sydney by 2100 is therefore more likely less than the 50 mm measured so far over the last 100 years, rather than the meter predicted by some models," the latter of which would appear to be the source of "inspiration" for the Australian government's pronouncements.
Temperature trends in C/decade. Models with multiple runs have separate boxplots; models with single runs are grouped together in the boxplot marked singleton. The orange boxplot at the right combines all model runs together. The default settings in the R boxplot function have been used. The red dotted line shows the actual increase in global surface temperature over the same period per the HadCRUT4 observational dataset.