Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
COP-18 is having a party in Qatar. Champaign and Caviar while preaching the end of the world and doom!!! As China is now clearly the problem with CO2, and China only does what benefits China, dont expect to see much agreement. Yet whatever is agreed, expect to see the Obama admin sign onto it. If not via a treaty signed by the Senate, then via EPA fiat. California has already started Cap and Tax, so expect to see yet more business leaving California for better places. Texas, start that BBQ and order some extra beer
ONE of the first tasks for the team conducting the Department for Transport?s ?urgent review? into the inability of our transport system to cope with snow and ice will be to interview the cocky public figure who assured breakfast TV viewers last month that ?I am pretty confident we will be OK? at keeping Britain moving this winter.
and nonprofits and toward the government. Pay attention to the first thing on
Mr. Dunavant doesn't believe the governor has an open mind on the issue. He calls Mr. Kaine, "our 'supposed green' governor" and says that the "only thing green about him is his love of money." Coles Hill "is all about greed," he says. "It's criminal activity as far as I'm concerned."
Molly: OK, Heath, but youll understand someday, when trees have used up all of the natural resources. The experts at the UF all agree that our continued use of atmospheric carbon dioxide could cause mass starvation by the end of this century .
So even in a relatively well-controlled series were talking substantial adjustments. If one views the adjustment as a statistical estimate, then how does one estimate the error distribution? In a trivial sense, the GHCN, GISS and KNMI adjustments cannot all be correct and, if either of the GHCN or KNMI adjustments is correct, then the error in the other one is about 1 deg C, an amount that seems very high in a well-measured instrumental site for a period that isnt long ago. Even in the 20th century, adjustment errors of about 0.5 deg C are necessarily occurring in at least one of the series.
The crisis grows as new generations of students go through four years of constant agitation about morality-driven divestment from fossil fuels. Crane clearly didnt go to a college like the one I teach at, somewhere in one of the 97 percentiles below Princeton.
1 Of course, Dewey would never resort to the base language of Lenin and Trotsky. As a respected man of letters, he left the coarse attacks to those who did not mind dirtying their own hands.
Unless an economical low-carbon source of power generation becomes available, it is unrealistic to expect that countries, especially developing ones, will accede to any demand to produce power in a higher-cost manner merely to emit less carbon.
"More than 77,000 federal government employees throughout the country including computer operators, more than 5,000 air traffic controllers, 22 librarians and one interior designer earned more than the governors of the states in which they work."
a "mancession" the Obama administration is focusing on the struggles women are facing during these tough economic times."
The Skeptics Handbook is a carefully and accurately written account of matters to do with contemporary climate change. Every statement in it is founded in data contained in numerous research papers in refereed scientific journals.
The National Interagency Fire Center reports 85,000 wildfires occurred in 1986, versus only 47,000 wildfires last year. Fewer wildfires occurred in 2013 than any year since 1984, and 2013 had the third-fewest wildfires since records began in 1960.
Of about 4,000 organisations estimated to qualify for the scheme, only 1,229 have registered to date, leaving thousands at risk of fines.
"General Motors, Ford and Chrysler hope to work with the UAW to lower their health care costs for active workers in contract talks that begin next week, but the union plans to resist higher costs for its members."
"America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential work at homethe unfinished work of American freedom. In a world moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and promise of liberty." President George W. Bush (Second Inaugural Address)
"Wealthier is healthier, and richer is cleaner," says Murray. "Limiting economic activity can have a dramatic impact on quality of life. Even "baby steps' towards emissions reduction could result in the deaths of more people in the U.S. than global warming would worldwide."
Ive lived through the Democrat Governor Grey (out) Davis and rolling power outages every summer (and occasional outages in winter). Bought 2 generators. One small one for initial use, one bigger one for more extended outages when running the major appliances was needed.
I dont intend to be telling Australia what they should do for their energy source except that they cant continue to burn coal without screwing everybody including my grandchildren.
T(k) = F(k)/ + T(k-1) * exp(-1 / )
As an article in EOS, the journal of the American Geophysical Union points out, "More people are moving into coastal areas that are vulnerable to natural hazardsparticularly earthquakes on the west coast and hurricanes on the east coast. Furthermore, the effect is amplified because the people who are moving into these coastal areas represent the higher wealth segment of our society, plus their wealth has been increasing. Climate researchers Roger Pielke Jr. and Christopher Landsea have demonstrated that when you normalize the insurance losses to account for increases in population and wealth, the trend of increasing damage amounts in recent decades disappears.
Is there any issue more dependent on widespread lapses in critical thinking than the idea of man-caused global warming?
Going well beyond that and opening a new chapter in his approach to energy and climate, Mr. Obama promised up to $36 billion in federal loan guarantees for nuclear facilities and declared, "we're going to have to build a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in America. "
He said the increase in precipitation and vapor in the atmosphere doesnt mean there will be an increase in the frequency of severe weather, though.
Nature magazine ("Seizing global warming as an opportunity," June 12, 1997) argues that the conference in Kyoto represents a major opportunity for countries to "devise sound economic policies that make sense both scientifically and environmentally."
Barack Obama has been likened on more than one occasion to Mr. Spock, the famously cold, logical Star Trek character. And in a wide-ranging, unintentionally devastating assessment of the "Obama Doctrine" for the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg uses the analogy more than once. But Obama is no Spock. Spock is logical; Obama is not. Spock is moved by tragedy; Obama is coldly indifferent.
12f. How well do atmospheric models deal with atmospheric convection
One hundred years ago, the average Westerner had an annual income equivalent to $4,000. A man could only work somewhere he could walk to; a woman .spent much of her life performing backbreaking domestic labor. Medical science, while advancing. was still almost medieval ln its practical application.
Lucia notes that a third of the worlds main four measurements of global temperature confirms cooling since 2001 .
If the tropical near surface specific humidity over tropical land has not gone
Predictions of harmful global warming from human-generated greenhouse gases are largely based on computer model "experiments" intended to show what happens to the earth's climate system when it is subjected to various "forcings" or postulated changes in energy levels. Although impressive in their complexity, the models suffer from several well-known weaknesses. The computers that operate them are not fast enough to simulate climate change on sub-global scales; hence the models cannot forecast the regional or local impacts of global warming or cooling.
CO2 levels have been 10-20 times higher in the past half-billion years, with no correlation to temperature.
Reducing CO2 with a carbon tax will have at most tenths of a degree moderation in global warming.
County Commissioner posts global warming stance on Web
That would be like saying in the late 1800s, "as a society, we must reduce hay consumption." After all, millions of acres of land were dedicated to raising feed for horses, numbering about 20 million.
The conference was opened by the Governor-General, Michael Jeffrey, who as a concerned layman called for action on climate change. General Jeffrey lists melting peat bogs in Russia, storm surges in Florida, and loss of the Antarctic ice sheet as concerns.
DR. ROY SPENCER: Thank you, Jonathan. As Jonathan mentioned, I'm here to give you my perspective of what we do and don't know about global warming. I'll also give you an update on global temperatures based on our satellite data. That's something that we update every month.
The dominance of the regional climate feature of ENSO, as reported in the McNabe et al 2010 paper,further documents why the use of a global average surface temperature trend (or global average radiative forcing) is a grossly inadequate metric to diagnose climate variability and change .
The Treasury Department just released to my CEI colleague Chris Horner the unredacted FOIA documents on their internal discussions of cap and trade policy that he had requested. The information previously covered up? "One advantage of auctioning allowances is the potential for raising large revenues (perhaps $300 billion annually)..." That's over 2% of GDP! Another of the previously blacked out text: "Domestic policies...will involve significant costs and potential revenues, possibly up to several percentage points of annual GDP (i.e. equal in size to the corporate income tax)."
But do we know any of this? Is it the case that states fail when they cannot feed themselves, or is it the case that food production and distribution becomes harder as states fail? The economist Amayata Sen, having witnessed the Bengal Famine, noted that often food shortage was less the cause of famine than the prevalent social conditions which beset its distribution famines had occurred at times when food had been more abundant than when famine had been averted. No famine had occurred in a democracy , he observed. Ditto, is it the case that numerous societies throughout history have collapsed due to their failure to adapt to environmental change, or have they failed to adapt to climate change because they were collapsing for other reasons?
The same conclusion applies to the UK's Muir Russell and Oxburgh inquiries, which didn't even mention Mann, because they were "investigating" only employees of the CRU.
Fisker was one of a handful of auto companies to receive sizeable federal loans to help support the birth of an electric car industry in the United States. As ABC News reported in October, Fisker's efforts have been beset by delays. And despite benefitting from U.S. taxpayer support, the company had signed a contract with a firm in Finland to assemble its first generation electric vehicle, a flashy $97,000 sports coupe called the Karma.
Environmentalism is based on lies and the lies reflect an agenda that regards humanity as the enemy of the Earth.
The slides from Dr. Pielke's presentation can be found here: Pielke Considering the Human Influence on Climate slides
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hansen using La Nina as an excuse for his failed 1988 hottest year ever prediction.
They will (see below) allow us to provide some discussion of the synthetic
A 2013 Breakthrough Institute report offers a number of suggestions for government policy on nuclear, including more R&D; on advanced reactor designs and licensing reform. Also, here is a post from last year on why the GOP needs to step up its game on climate change.
Why would Wikipedia risk its reputation in this way? Apparently because its "editors" care more about their role in the global warming debate than about the Web site's future.
EPA rules mean the price of everything people do will skyrocket: heating and air conditioning, lights and refrigeration, televisions, computers, medical equipment, machinery and every other gizmo that runs on electricity. Poor, minority and blue-collar families will have to find hundreds of dollars a year somewhere in their already stretched budgets. Shops and other small businesses will have to discover thousands of dollars, by delaying other purchases or laying people off. Factories, malls, school districts, hospitals and cities will have to send out search parties to locate millions a year at the end of rainbows.
The satellite measurements do seem to show a steady increase in sea level, but it seems to be little known that the instruments are subject to drift and they have to be calibrated on tide gauge measurements.
Believers, Skeptics Stand Ground on Climate Change
vaccination . . . . "Abstinence is the best way to prevent HPV," says
WASHINGTON, DC, JULY 15. Over 160 People gathered at the National Press Club today to learn more about the cost and impact of the treaty that the Clinton Administration plans to sign in Kyoto in December. "The Costs of Kyoto", organized by Competitive Enterprise Institute, invited a distinguished group of speakers to discuss the different impacts that the Kyoto treaty would have, both nationally and globally.
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By Staff Writers, Phys.org, Aug 13, 2015
In fact, the paper argues that any new agreement should be based and built on the structures of the old Kyoto deal, with developed country Parties taking the lead in greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Reuters reports that a number of energy producers want Allocating down their coal and gasanlggningar in Germany as they become olnsamma No's large subsidies goes to frnyelsebart. It is not excluded that there will be some blackouts after 2015, warns the German energy industry.
"The dissolution of carbon dioxide in the oceans may lower the pH slightly to about 7.9 or 7.8 by the end of the century at the worst . Environmentalists like to call this a 30 per cent increase in acidity, because it sounds more scary than a 0.3 point (out of 14) decrease in alkalinity, but no matter. It is still well within the bounds of normal variation."
The company says 26 Fisker employees have been let go from the Delaware factory where renowned automotive engineer Henrik Fisker promised to one day begin producing affordable electric sedans. A Delaware newspaper also reported that subcontractors working on the car venture have been let go.
* Ocean heat content trend (0-2000 m, NODC) = 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules/decade
"...they cant ignore our arguments any longer. For many years we had been hearing from the scientific consensus side that natural climate change is nowhere near as strong as human-caused warmingyet the lack of surface warming in 17 years has forced those same scientists to now invoke natural climate change to supposedly cancel out the expected human-caused warming!
The 1999 study in the science journal Arctic that first reported apparent problems among the Hudson Bay polar bear population suggested that their condition may be related to the earlier seasonal break-up of sea ice on western Hudson Bay a phenomenon that seems to correlate with the 1950-1990 Arctic warm-up. But, as mention previously, the 1950-1990 Arctic warming period seems to be part of a natural cycle and not due to manmade emissions of greenhouse gases.
Tinker suggests the reason might have to do a bit with politics. The states required under CPP to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions the least tended to vote Democrat in the 2012 presidential race, while those that have to reduce their emissions the most tended to vote Republican.
Sizzling temperatures. Melting ice caps. Destructive hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and droughts. Disappearing polar bears. The end of civilization as we know it! The end of Planet Earth!
Oh, sure, I can recycle my shovel. But some of the metal will inevitably be lost in the process. All that does is make the inevitable iron-death move further away in time ... but recycling doesnt magically make iron extraction sustainable.
...sort of. Do read the whole New Yorker piece: Taking It to the Streets ...McKibben, who is an author and an environmental activist (and a former New Yorker staff writer), had been alarmed by a conversation he had had about the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline with James Hansen , the head of NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and one of the countrys foremost climate scientists...What would the effect be on the climate? McKibben asked. Hansen replied, Essentially, its game over for the planet ...
While homeopathy continues to enjoy the support of Britains royal family and is funded through the UKs National Health Service, the House of Commons report found its principles were theoretically weak and scientifically implausible.
Granted, all my numbers may change a bit if different assumptions are made about the baseline scenario, the particulars of international cooperation, or the various parameters of the climate model simulator (for example, I used a climate sensitivity of 3.0 C). But the bottom line will remain the same?climatologically, the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act, in and of itself, is a meaningless bill. To make it effective, it must involve the world?s developing counties.
Of course, Colorado's lawmakers are a reflection of their constituents. According to a recent poll commissioned by the Independence Institute, Coloradans across a wide range of demographic groups and political affiliations reject Obama's Clean Power Plan. Citing possible electricity rate hikes, impacts on poverty in minority communities, and the EPA's own admissions that the new carbon regulations would deliver minute or nonexistent effects on global temperature and carbon reductions, 59 percent of Coloradans said they oppose the plan.
* Using bucket method only = 0.3 F/decade
They fear a repeat of the so-called ???Maunder Minimum?? which triggered Arctic winter whiteouts and led to the River Thames freezing 300 years ago.
Although summer temperature data has very little predictive power regards pika biology, it was Stewarts only link to CO2 climate models. Using that dubious link to summer , he projects impending climate doom and widespread pika extinctions. But if Stewart was truly concerned about preserving pikas, instead of preserving CO2 theory, then all the data suggests small talus areas that are subjected to grazing are the relevant concern. To protect the pikas forage, simply fencing off livestock from the edge of those small talus slopes would be a simple affordable solution. Stewarts own data also suggests, along with the USFS surveys, that wherever there is large talus area, there has been nothing to suggest imminent extinctions. So why does the pikas climate change extinction story persist?
Using the Global Warming Hoax to Destroy America
Moore and White show the Industrial Revolution was driven by fossil fuel development with all peoplenot just the privileged reaping benefits from the energy revolution.
In this context, equation 12.1 provides a good representation for Venus, with little diurnal variation and pole-to-equator temperature gradient (Jupiter and Saturn have large internal heat sources, so equation 12.1is not applicable). For Venus, a time integration or spatially varying energy balance model would add nothing.
Trapping depth varies with climatic conditions, so the air-ice age difference could vary between 2500 and 6000 years.
"Vaccination to prevent viral and bacterial diseases is modern medicine's most cost-effective intervention. Vaccines to prevent the expected avian flu pandemic could save the lives of millionsif vaccine R&D; were not in such a sorry state, as the result of an unfortunate confluence of biology and public policy."
If the justification for these supposedly eco-friendly clothes washers is so weak, then who is supporting DOE's proposed rule? Clearly, it is not consumers. Those who want front loaders are free to go out and buy them. The proposed rule would only serve to force that choice on the rest of us. "It is distressing to see the federal government treating the consumer preference for top loaders as an obstacle to be overcome through mandates," says Fran Smith, executive director of Consumer Alert, a Washington-based consumer group.
We have a written record of what they were for. Why so many folks feel compelled to make up so much stuff is beyond me
We aren't sure how this happens, but small natural variations in global average cloud cover changing how much sunlight is let into the climate system are a strong possibility.
FACT: Tropical storm activity has been falling since the 1980s.
Everyone knows that different climate models predict both higher and lower rainfall in the same areas at the same time, and the type of phrases used to describe the ability of climate models are: low confidence ( National Centre for Atmospheric Research ), irrelevant with reality (Koutsoyiannis ), or an absence of skill (Kiktev). Compare the different projections of climate models below, which model is right.
I am saddened and angry that Norwegian politicians have devalued the Nobel Peace Prize.
We need less hot air, all right. Too bad this deal won't reduce the political kind.
The first sign that something improper had occurred came when NREL responded to media inquiries claiming that the paper was entirely the DoE's idea, while the DoE's Office of Congressional Affairs wrote to a Senate oversight office to claim that it was all NREL's doing.
Climate Alarmists Falsely Imply Carbon Dioxide Is Soot
There are also uncertainties in ocean temperatures. This is no small issue, as oceans cover 71% of Earths surface.
1988 Hansen Model CO2 vs. Mauna Loa Observatory
300 Scientists Request Explanation for Temperature Shenanigans
Well, let's see. Here are some notes on my previous health insurance buying decision
The fly is not spread, as far as anyone can tell, by warmer weather. (And even if it were, global temperatures have been flat for the past 15 to 20 years.) Instead, it seems to be spread by the increased transportation of honeybees across the country by beekeepers.
According to the paper prepared by Secretary General Ban's own climate change team, however, the newly rebranded challenge still depends on the same economic remedy proposed for Copenhagen: a drastic redistribution of global wealth, "nothing less than a fundamental transformation of the global economy."
To compare energy sources honestly and rationally for specific purposes (heating, lighting, transportation or manufacturing, for instance), we need to apply the same standards and analytical methods for each alternative. However, those who champion "renewables" have consistently misrepresented the human, environmental, capital, manufacturing and maintenance costs of providing reliable, affordable energy in sufficient quantities to power a modern economy and maintain desired living standards.
A high-level draft published on Tuesday left out details of precise price support, however, and these are to be announced in the second half of 2013.
jamspid on April 25, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Even more ironic that Lysenko himself has tried to make the planetary engineering, to change the climate of Siberia: he said, planting trees in groups, the weakest they have sacrificed to allow the plants more resistant to survive.
"The Federal Reserve Board's ruling this week on debit card swipe fees could have implications for consumers if banks and retailers decide to pass along the costs of implementing the decision."
Silver is moving more or less with gold recently, but is in a downtrend from a recent high. This, too, is not good for gold.
You may also have general questions about El Nio and La Nia and their long-term effects. Theyve likely been asked and answered previously. They too were included in the book, but feel free to ask questions on any thread at my blog Climate Observations .
On the fifth day of the expedition, one cable simply snapped. Four days later, it was clear that this made all the cables break. So out of the first 18 days, Sprite only collected data from 7 hours. :-) They were trying to fix the radar and/or give them a new one.