Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Wind generated electricity does not replace electricity from nuclear power stations because these operate at base load, that is they will be working for the whole time that they are available.
Third, the U.S. could offer to pay for China's GHG reductions as well as its own. Although some ACESA provisions amount to paying other nations to reduce GHG emissions, the bill does not appear to envision the kind of very large transfer payments that the China/G-77 group is demanding. In their view, past U.S. emissions are a kind of historical guilt, and contemporary Americans should pay to expiate our ancestors' sins.
For all the media attention the President will try to generate for this idiocy, Ken Haapala, president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, says ?It is unlikely that the current Senate would approve a binding agreement.? Haapala notes that lawmakers that include the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)m and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), ?have all insisted that the international agreement the U.N. is working on is a treaty and cannot be enforced without Senate approval.?
Lower average annual wages by $170 in 2015, $270 in 2020, $400 in 2030, and $960 in 2050; and,
For example, thinner oils were conventional, but thicker, more tarry deposits, despite having been utilized by humans for centuries, were unconventional oil, so they werent counted regarding the peak.
From Process to CO2 acquitted for not having committed the facts of Claudio Costa and. Iuculano (PV)
SciAm: CIA trying to keep global warming top-secret How would you re-energize a dying pseudoscientific fad that almost no one wants to consider seriously anymore? (Lubo Motl, The Reference Frame)
However, DOE Congressional Affairs is on record saying the following:
I could go on, but Parker has already received plenty of ridicule for her statement. It seems everyone from Rush Limbaugh to People magazine jumped on her. The disturbing thing, though, is that such forays in public policy analysis are far from unique among celebrities. A recent issue of Elle magazine featured Gwyneth Paltrow's growing concerns over bioengineered foods ("I understand the capitalist ideal," she explained, "but it's gone a little far."). And Leonardo DiCaprio has made us well aware of his views on climate change, throughamong other thingsan op-ed in Time (given his role in Titanic, he may know a thing or two about rising sea levels).
With an average of just one EF-5 tornado a year, the numbers are simply too sparse to reach any proper conclusion. It still remains the case that 1974 had more EF-5s than 2011, and that the decadal total in the 1970s was significantly higher than the latest 10 year period.
The Yaris has received good ratings in past front and side testing but received a poor rating in the crash with the Camry. Toyota spokesman John Hanson said the car-to-car test had little relevance to consumers because of its severity.
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Somethings Fishy With Global Ocean Temperature Measurements
On October 10, an unprecedented group of Attorney Generals from 25 different states , joined together to ask Secretary Jackson to postpone implementation of the Utility MACT rule because it threatens to endanger electric reliability, eliminate jobs, and saddle consumers with significantly higher costs. The next day, the EPA issued a statement declaring that the rule would be implemented as planned on November 16 . The MACT (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) rule condenses potential future coal-fueled power plant improvements and upgrades into an unachievable timeline. As a result of the Utility MACT rule, electricity providers already have outlined which coal-fueled power plants will be shut down. The remaining plants will have to spend billions for the required overhauls for marginal or questionable benefits to public health.
There were 1209 proxies (from some larger candidate set) that met three initial screening criteria, (such as minimum length of record and stated minimum correlation among the individual members at a given site). From these 1209 records, a nominal screening cutoff of p < .10 with either of the two closest instrumental temperature grid points, was established. (After accounting for temporal autocorrelation, this p value rises slightly to p < .128). If one assumes a positive relationship between ring measure and temperature (i.e. one tailed test), the expected number of sites meeting this criterion is: 1209 * .128 = 155. (If one assumes that either a positive or negative relationship might occur, which they do not, the number is half that, about 78.)
Back in the 1950s, Gorbachev's predecessor Nikita Khrushchev had seen firsthand how precarious was the edifice of the house that Stalin built on terror and lies. But this fifth generation of Soviet leaders was more confident of the regime's resilience. Gorbachev and his group appeared to believe that what was right was also politically manageable. Democratization, Gorbachev declared, was "not a slogan but the essence of perestroika." Many years later he told interviewers:
But medical examiners from six of Arizona's counties " four of which border Mexico " tell the Arizona Guardian that they've never encountered an immigration-related crime in which the victim's head was cut off.
It does not look bright for Europe right now. The economy has stagnated and no one sees something soon end p elndet.
ver time's it looks s hr in Antarctica:
Congressional Democrats and Vatican join White House and Leftist assaults on basic rights
It seems that de Boer has realized that Europeans have failed to reduce emissions and wants someone else to do it for them. Instead, he should realize that Europe's experience shows that the game of emissions reduction might not be worth the candle and that other approaches are needed.
I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it.
Morgan also accused the government of believing in fantasy for making the argument that Kyoto would be good for the bottom line and represents an opportunity for businesses to restructure and create new goods and services. "Such a leap of faith is tantamount to believing in the tooth fairy," he writes. He lambasted carbon trading schemes. "Just imagine the potential for Enron-like games that could be played when accounting for the purchase of emissions credits from places like Russia and other countries. And how could anyone convince Canadian voters that sending money to Russia was good for the Canadian or global economy?"
In the U.S. and other countries with strong rule of law traditions, most judges, even if sympathetic with the climate activists' concerns, are reticent to engage in the sort of creative interpretation required to reach a ruling favorable to the plaintiffs. Doing so feels uncomfortably like policy making, particularly in light of the extensive efforts over the past decades to get legislative and executive officials to take action. But in all things, including judging, there are exceptionshence the climate activists' strategy of filing a multitude of lawsuits in courts of all sorts. Sooner or later, a court will be persuaded that the alleged climate crisis justifies judicial intervention.
Keep an eye out at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org. There, in due course, will appear the letter I am now drafting to Abraham, asking him several hundred pertinent questions designed to make him and anyone who may think of relying upon him understand that academic dishonesty and deliberate lying on this scale and with this amount of public circulation is just not acceptable, and will not be tolerated.
Guardian: Science: Antarctica live (MASSIVE COVERAGE, NO HINT ABOUT THE SHIPS CURRENT PREDICAMENT!)
The main argument for anthropogenic causes of warming is that the rise of late (particularly 1978 1998) has been so steep and swift that it couldnt be anything else. This was always an absurd argument, because we have at least two periods in the last 150 years prior to most of our fossil fuel combustion where temperature rises were as fast and steep as 1978-1998. But if temperatures did not rise as much as we thought, this argument is further gutted.
A society that cares what a martial artist conjures up about agriculture is already contaminated by an epidemic of foolishness.
In January of this year, The North American Electric Reliability Corporation warned that the reliability of the grid was in jeopardy. Thanks to the Obama administrations (i.e. EPA) relentless attack on coal, the NERC noted that beyond the 38 gigawatts of electricity capacity that has already been announced to retire, it estimated that another 35 to 59 gigawatts will come off-line by 2018 depending on the scope and timing of EPA regulations. If you think the downed lines that Hurricane Sandy will produce are a problem, consider a future in which the electricity they are supposed to distribute will be significantly reduced.
Uchiyamada was merely rephrasing the same suite of problems that have plagued the promoters of all-electric cars for more than a century: the vehicles don't have enough range, take too long to refuel, and cost way too much. That point was reinforced last year in a report issued by Deloitte Consulting (PDF) that found the most likely buyers of electric cars are people with household incomes "in excess of $200,000."
Global warming theory requires that both poles warm, but we are seeing the exact opposite the poles move opposite each other.
Ice Core Analysis Shows Fastest Decline in Solar Activity for 10,000 Years
Note further that we dispute their claim of high understanding of LLGHGs, particularly with a view to the applied climate sensitivity value used in atmosphere-ocean combined general circulation models (AOCGCMs), where apparently realistic values generated by rapid radiative transfer models are taken and turned into complete nonsense.
Uncle Sam Says No, You Absolutely Can't Have These Cars:
in uncomplicated geology like that in Lancashire or the Bowland Basin, the process of fracking is well understood and the industry can be easily regulated. The opportunities for the economy in those areas are huge and so is the security that the gas supply would bring.
Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council, . . . has made
We have found no indication that sea level has accelerated over the last 30 years. It doesnt look good for the fans of acceleration.
The IUCN attributes the dramatic decline to poaching of the turtles eggs as well as entanglement in fishing lines.
Congress designed the Clean Air Act forty years ago in order to regulate smog, not greenhouse gases. Whereas an industrial smog polluter emits hundreds of tons in a year, even a moderately sized building can emit an equivalent quantity of greenhouse gas. If the Clean Air Act were to apply to greenhouse gases, then virtually every mansion, apartment, and office would become subject to Environmental Protection Agency inspectors.
Hirshberg's Stonyfield, therefore, hardly has a surplus of scientific credibility that it can share with ClimateCounts.
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I've not followed the sea level rise story closely, but my interest was piqued by Morner's lecture at Cambridge a few weeks back. I don't suppose this news will surprise him very much.
what elements of the observing system are important for initializing and verifying decadal predictions; and
At the same time, a tax on carbon dioxide will do nothing to effect global temperature in a measurable way.
especially security services, loyal to the central government. As it happened,
cap and trade (a price on carbon via an overall limit on emissions paired with some form of market for such pollution permits)
Another common set of arguments relate to inequality. Economic growth is said to benefit the few rather than the many.
For example, any heat up high must be 24C hotter to back-radiate 1C near the surface ( http://nov79.com/gbwm/satn.html#upp ), without considering absorption by oceans, and several thousand degrees when accounting for oceans absorbing most of it. The trivial use of radiative transfer equations by Myhre et at, 1998, does not even look at such factors. They did mention clouds, which shows that they needed to account for everything in the atmosphere, while they mentioned almost nothing.
The U.S. Postal Service has fallen on tough times, thanks to a lousy economy and competition from email. According to The Economist, last year's 4.5-percent decline in mail volume represented the largest single-year decline since the Great Depression. This produced a $2.8-billion reported loss (real losses could be even higher, since the Postal Service does not have to follow the same accounting rules as private firms). In January testimony before Congress, Postmaster General John Potter said that the government mail carrier could lose $6 billion next year and admitted, "No one knows at what point mail volume will bottom out."
Physician condemns EPA Cargo Cult ScienceGuess who?
-> Then there's Roger Pielke Sr., who writes: "There is no optimum temperature. First, human society has developed over a wide range of climates. Second, there is no single temperature that we experience; we typically have maximum temperature during the day and minimum temperatures at night. Winters are colder than summers. It is also important to emphasize that a global average surface temperature or its trend over time is irrelevant for the temperatures that society and the environment deal with. It is the regional and local climate that matters."
At the same time that it was becoming a major player in the propaganda game, the UN inside was gradually turning into a "lawfare" machine against the West. As Joshua Muravchik explains: "In the General Assembly, the Arabs have a unique leverage with which they can make the UN say whatever they want (except in the Security Council where the US veto has prevented that). The 22-nation Arab League constitutes a decisive bloc within the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference , which is decisive in turn in the 115-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which constitute nearly two-thirds of the UN and is the organization's main bloc."
ALMOST three dozen alien species are thriving in Ireland because of global warming and record rainfall levels.
Beenstock et al note that tide gauges show rising trends (red dots below) in places which are right next to gauges showing the sea level is falling (blue dots). But most of the time the tide gauges show a trendless change (yellow dots).
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sensibly declined to attend yet another climate summit ? this time called by Ban Ki-moon for Tuesday in New York under the auspices of the United Nations ? which profits handsomely from much-exaggerated climate scares. Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel likewise intend to skip the event.
First, the combination of the natural gas revolution created by fracking and the economic doldrums we are stuck in have already cut our emissions of greenhouse gases dramatically without Congress doing anything at all. If they did jump in, they?d be as likely to screw that up as make things better.
97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Papers, according to the scientists that published them
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) announces plans to counter the Environmental Protection Agency's recent finding on greenhouse gases.
American technology of clean coal called clean coal, lowers by 99% the emissions of smog, known as PM10 particulates.
Under this theory of island biogeography, "The rule that is followed for teaching purposes," Wilson says, "is that for every 90% loss in area, the number of species that can live indefinitely there is cut by one-half." (Science, p. 737)
Tide gauges and benchmarks show very little sea level rise. And why should there be much sea-level rise? The ARGO bathythermographs show that in the first 11 years of the record, 2004-2014, the ocean to a depth of 1900 m warmed at a rate equivalent to 0.23 C per century:
Russia has announced a ban on wheat exports for the rest of the year. They must. Though they are now a major wheat exporter, the recent drought had caused a large shortfall, now wild fires are burning many fields of what remains.
Also, the above chart of the 12-month means clearly shows a climate that moves from cooling to warming phases, and then back - a natural oscillation that 'catastrophic global warming' skeptics have long discussed, while being dismissed by the IPCC and its cohorts.
Let's assume, for the sake of illustration, that Hansen is correct for all of these forcings. In that case, the average of the all-forcings curve over the period 1955-2010 is about 0.8 W m-2.
If the single most likely election outcome occurs a Clinton presidential victory and a narrow edge for Democrats in the Senate, with a reduced Republican majority in the House the party divisions will be huge. A Trump loss will energize the Ted Cruz/Tom Cotton/Freedom Caucus wing, with Cruz doubling down on his assertion that Republicans keep losing because the party is not pure enough: It keeps nominating moderates like Romney and liberals like Trump instead of purists like Cruz (who would theoretically bring out tens of millions of voters who stay at home otherwise).
Geophysicist says the mini ice age will start within a few years and will last 60-80 years.
Current climate models generally overpredict current warming and assume that the excessive warming is cancelled by aerosols, the researchers say in their paper. offers a potentially important example of where the secondary effect is to warm, thus reducing the ability of aerosols to compensate for excessive warming in current models. That is, the degree to which aerosols can compensate for model over-prediction of warming remains open, the research suggests.
Has there ever in history been such an almighty disconnect between observable reality and the delusions of a political class that is quite impervious to any rational discussion on climate and energy policy? ???Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph, 27 April 2013
Also, I used a pretty conservative "correction" based on Thompson et al. Others contend that the "correction" should be larger, and in and of itself could invalidate the EPA/IPCC "most likely" description.
Assuming the world copied the Australian Carbon Tax?? it will cost $2,000 trillion to cool the planet by one degree.
Instead, he explains that adjustments are used because they're good things when they are done right.
The Indian government is finding out something that most of us have known for a long time: that measures aimed at dealing with global warming are expensive. This has led a senior official to question the validity of Sir Nicholas Stern's conclusion that global warming can be successfully mitigated at a cost of a mere 1 percent of global GDP:
Your letter repeats several false statements that appeared in the fake memo and have been circulated widely in the press. We thank you for this opportunity to set the record straight about our position on climate change."
Global Cooling Radio (listen and talk to your favourite skeptics)
One of the reasons for doing this is I think that even folks who have spent a lot of time dealing with these issues and dealing with environmental issues can sometimes be confused about what the science does or does not say. New studies are published all the time. We see the headlines. Sometimes the headlines conflict. Sometimes the experts conflict. Those of you who were at the hearing last week, the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, heard Dr. Steven Schneider and heard Dr. Richard Lindzen giving very different views about what the levels of uncertainty are and what the science is and is not showing. We'll also hear some different perspectives later this afternoon.
And until the models can explain what happened in the past they should not be trusted for guiding policy into the future.
Depending on the company, your insurance company will probably give you a few other tools to help manage costs. First, they may have a deal with a local HMO or provider network to provide diagnosis and care. Try to route your workers to this network - it can save a lot of time and money. Also, insurance companies often offer free risk analyses and on-site audits. By all means take them up on it - its one of the last free services around and can really have value. Finally, insurance companies are increasingly recommending process changes to your HR process to provide for new employee physicals (to baseline pre-existing conditions) and for drug and alcohol testing (because injuries related to these are not compensable).
3/27/2008: I inserted a link to a relevant post comparing to IPCC projections to data.
"Trees are flowering earlier in the year than they used to, here in Lubbock and across the entire northern hemisphere," according to Hayhoe. "Lubbocks climate for plants feel just like Austins did 20 years ago. Thats how fast things are changing and we can see them all around us."
And nope, like most of those other sinful deniers, I don't get paid to think in any tank.
The De Bilt series begins in 1706, but is a splice of measurements taken in 5 different locations: Delft/Rijnsburg (1706-1734), Zwanenburg (1735-1800 & 1811-1848), Haarlem (1801-1810) and Utrecht (1849-1897) reduced to De Bilt and De Bilt (1898-present).
The scientists at RealClimate (lead defenders of the climate orthodoxy) are not unaware that the hot spot is not appearing. They responded about a year ago that 1) The hot spot is not an anthropogentic-specific fingerprint at all, but will result from all new forcings
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The trash that is left in a landfill isnt put to any good use, she said.
Lev Semenovi Pontryagin was born in Moscow, Russian Empire, on September 3th, 1908, i.e. 105 years ago, and died in May 80 years later, about 25+ years ago.
I have been exploring the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.** There are some spectacular walks from Evans and Govetts Lookouts near Blackheath.
Its fairly obvious that they have an agenda here with regard to how smaller cars are going to be entering the North American market in larger numbers, Hanson said.
Texas led the charge into wind energy, and is now facing blackouts just when they need the electricity the most.
There were supposed to have been nine questions asked, but we are only given sight of two of them.
On this map of Texas and nearby, its remarkably easy to pick out the Dallas-Fort-Worth metroplex. Almost as easy are the hot spots over Galveston and Oklahoma City. Abilene is the hot spot about 1/2 way from Dallas to New Mexico. Then there is El Paso, lit up like a bonfire. And above it Santa Fe New Mexico. The odd one for me was the hot spot almost on the Texas border and about 45 degrees SE of Santa Fe. Making the 3 rd point of a roughly equilateral triangle with El Paso and Abilene. Theres no there, there, Im thinking
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There are these places called think tanks, and although Ive never seen one, I picture them as highly walled zoos in which curious specimens of thinking animals are kept on display and are made to perform (on paper) for food. I have no contacts with zookeepers.
The incredible correspondence details a conspiracy to silence any and all dissent challenging the alarmist mantra of human-induced climate change. Self-serving senior figures within the IoP are shown to have harassed and harangued every attempt for a grassroots debate among members over the global warming controversy.
"French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde made history Tuesday by becoming the first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and her appointment received wide praise in Chicago, where she once served as chairman of one of the world's largest law firms."
Evidence is accruing that changes in Earths surface temperature are largely driven by variations in solar activity. Examples of solar controlled climate change epochs include the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and Early Twentieth Century (19101940) Warm Period.