Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
None of which is to say that reduction of carbon emissions is impossible. But the limiting of fossil fuels cannot be carried out with an unenforceable international regime, using complicated regulations that the United Nations does not have the staff or the mandate to supervise, with the help of a treaty that effectively penalizes those who bother to abide by it. I no longer believe that a complicated carbon trading regimein which industries trade emissions "credits"would work within the United States either: So much is at stake for so many industries that the legislative process to create it would be easily distorted by their various lobbies.
Might be partly responsible? Sorry, thats a long way from Tipperary
Exit of Canadas expert a sure sign IPCC in trouble
Demands that institutions eliminate hydrocarbon stocks, and society stop using fossil fuels, would reverse this progress, jeopardize people's health and living standards, and prevent billions of still impoverished people worldwide from enjoying the living standards many of us take for granted.
10 Reasons Why the #WebofDenial Campaign Is Wrong
I think we will see the mean sea level continuing to level off over the next few years, and then starting to fall as lower temperatures reduce the melt rate, and ocean heat content falls further, and faster under the quiescent sun.
For Americans, sovereignty is not an abstract concept of international law and politics, nor was it ever rooted in an actual "sovereign" as head of state. Starting with the Revolution, we rejected sovereignty and legitimacy outside of a constitutional framework of representative government. "No taxation without representation" was one early formulation, and "We the People" the most famous and broadly influential. Americans see themselves as personally vested with sovereignty, an ineluctable attribute of citizenship, and they therefore react with appropriate concern when globalistas insist that "pooled" or "shared" sovereignty will actually benefit them. Since most Americans already believe they have too little control over government, the notion of giving up any authority to unfamiliar peoples and governments whose tangible interests likely bear little relation to our own is decidedly unappealing.
Predictably, rent seekers flocked to the market, with new wind and run of river small hydro projects. The combination of additional electric supply and poor economic conditions in major U.S. markets has led to a collapse in the export price for BCs electricity. BC Hydro is purchasing expensive clean energy and selling it at loss into the export market.
Once you go into details, you realize that for some decades, models are doing a much better job than for some other decades. That is because our models are only as good as our understanding of the natural processes, and there is a lot we dont understand.
In March, around the time of the moon's closer proximity a reporter named Andrew Bolt, writing for Melbourne's Herald Sun, happened to be interviewing Australia's leading Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery. Bolt was looking to get a figure as to how much the earth's temperature would drop if Australia reduced its carbon dioxide emissions 5% by 2020. At first Flannery was unwilling to give an answer, probably because he didn't have one. Bolt pressed him for an actual number, something he could get his arms around. Flannery responded with "look it will be a very, very small increment." Bolt continued to ask Flannery for an actual number.
WSJ: Obamas Climate Plan Will Increase Poverty & Redistribution
Date: 1995 Edited by: Ronald Bailey Published by: Free Press
A little known 20 year old climate change prediction by Dr. James Hansen that failed badly
This text is somewhat inconsistent with Figure 27 which shows a differential of ~0.5 psi, but thats a different story. Either way, the observed pairwise differences between Patriot measurements (fluctuations in Exponents terminology) was much higher than that observed in their simulations an issue that Snyder did not confront. Exponent presented thetable of pairwise differencesshown below:
"Since it is abundantly clear that there is no one temperature of the atmosphere all talk of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is simply an exercise in futility." A look at the globe from either of its two poles to its equator and everything in between tells us with simple logic that being able to determine its "temperature" is impossible. The Earth, however, has gone through numerous warming and cooling cycles, all of which were the result of more or less solar radiation.
Thus, there is no warming in the pipeline using the authors terminology, nor any heating within the atmosphere! Perhaps the heating that was observed priorto 2003will begin again, however, it is scientifically incorrect to report that there is any heat that has not yet been realized within the climate system.
Meanwhile, since 2005, China's emissions have grown by 71 percent, or about 3.9 billion tons, which is about six times the total reductions achieved in the U.S. and Germany. In the Middle East, emissions have jumped by about 600 million tons, an increase that effectively cancels out the combined reductions achieved in both the U.S. and Germany since 2005.
Electricity from wind farms also increases the cost of electricity by adding to the burden of keeping the grid in balance and makes it difficult to keep transmission lines from being overloaded. Moreover, mountaintop wind farms require additional transmission capacity, which will only be used between 25 to 35 percent of the time due to wind powers low capacity factors. All of these costs are part of the true cost of wind power, but are usually ignored when the projects are being sold.
The people of devoutly Catholic Fiesch and Fieschertal have made the annual pilgrimage since 1674, when Europe was in the grip of the Little Ice Age. (Related: Little Ice Age Shrank Europeans, Sparked Wars.)
Yu et al . (2012) conclude their report by stating that their findings suggest that "coral reefs in the southern Great Barrier Reef are frequently influenced by periods of high storm activity," and that the reefs in that part of the world "show strong resilience to natural disturbances over the past century," indicative of the fact that the continued existence of that region's corals is not nearly as tenuous as many climate alarmists have made it out to be. References
I suppose there are exceptions in the law for LLNL and other government agencies to withhold documents and emails from the public for national security purposes. Much as Santer might like to think global warming is one of those exemptions, I doubt he could successfully make a legal case for that.
Even in what the authors describe as a nutrient-poor , low-productivity calcareous grassland, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment significantly increased both vegetative and reproductive biomass production. In addition, they say it is known from many studies that heavier seeds result in seedlings that "are more robust than seedlings from lighter seeds (Baskin and Baskin, 1998)." Hence, the continued rising of the air's CO 2 content would appear to bode well for these nutrient-poor Swiss grasslands, as well as for other low-productivity grasslands around the world. References
And he is quite aware that Ontario's weather doesn't represent the globe's weather. He was making a broader point about the trend toward global cooling in the past decadea point that Pederson, deliberately or unconsciously, sidestepped.
"We are looking for a new kind of environmental governance, something more inclusive, in which all parties have a stake and it's not just governments which have the right to speak."
The following table is taken from Arrow, et al.:
The solution is clean-energy abundance for a high-energy planet not scarcity with the goal of decoupling human progress from its potential impact on the climate. That path forward would seem to be one that rests on advancing solar and nuclear technology. In a New York Times commentary, venture capitalist Peter Thiel focuses on the latter:
According to the DC, the Keystone pipeline is: "A minor concern when compared to the potential regulatory onslaught that Podesta could unleash from within the White House"about which the WFB coined the term "Regicide."
To most of you, what Im about to say will not be in the least controversial. But to some others, the idea that not all risk and uncertainty can be quantified is somewhat heretical.
For reasonable citizens there ought to be no question easier to answer than whether or not human-caused global warming is real and is threatening the future of the Earth.
Canadian climate scientist told the National Post that the research provides cover for the Bush administration's opposition to the Kyoto Accord, which attempts to rein in the release of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse
The annualized differential in total costs for Germany between the no-nukes, no coal and lots of wind forecast pushed by Germanys Greens and an economically least cost expansion plan amounts to more than $120 billion over ten years and perhaps as much as $200 billion. A lot of money, in other words.
Met Office : Warming Unabated 2010 Almost As Warm As Thirteen Years Ago
Arctic sea ice extent declined at a fairly rapid rate through the first three weeks of July, but the loss rate then slowed due to a shift in weather patterns. In Antarctica, the advance of sea ice nearly halted for about a week in early July, and then resumed. At the end of the month, Antarctic extent was at or near a record high for this time of year.
At the same time, having worked to demonize the president as illegitimate and not loyal to America or American values, every subsequent compromise made by GOP leaders to keep the government open or to pass policy was by definition working with the enemy.
It is relevant that the environmentalists want to control not only us, they want to control also the climate. In its immodesty, arrogance and irrationality, the theory of climate control (the term coined by Ray Evans) reminds me of the ambitions of communist central planners to control the entire society. R. Evans, ?The Chilling Costs of Climate Catastrophism,? Quadrant, June 2008 (online atwww.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2008/09/the-chilling-costs-of-climate-catastrophism), in which he argues that ?the warmists? try to introduce such ?degree of control over our lives which is unprecedented, except in time of war? (p.12). The idea is further developed in his ?Laputans in Retreat?, Quadrant, July-August 2010;www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2010/7-8/laputans-in-retreat).
West et al . conclude that "legume species identity and N supply are critical factors in determining symbiotic N-fixation responses to increased atmospheric CO 2 ," and that "species identity may be an important factor controlling the response of N fixation to global change."?? In terms of all-important growth, there also appears to be a wide range of responses among species; but it is encouraging to see that in the face of soil nitrogen additions, such as are likely to occur from continued atmospheric N deposition, the four leguminous plants of this study all exhibited increases in biomass production in response to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, with some of them being extremely large. Reviewed 14 September 2005
A 1.1 C increase in nighttime temperature (1) "extended the duration of grain filling," (2) "promoted the filling rates of the superior and inferior grains," which (3) "resulted in a significant increase in the 1,000-grain weight by 6.3%," that (4 and 5) "significantly increased wheat aboveground biomass and grain yield by 12.3 and 12.0%, respectively"
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One was a Nobel laureate physicist, two were Apollo astronauts . . . and another was me.
But the PGR rising is offset by sea bottom sinking. As the earths mantle rises, the mantle in the surrounding area must flow down and under to compensate. As can be seen in figure 1, the North Atlantic, the bottom between Newfoundland and Greenland, and the ocean bottom north of Canada, is sinking. These areas are totally under ocean, unlike the rising areas that are mostly land. The sink rate seems to be 3 to 4 mm/year over an area much greater than the rising sea bottoms, which would appear to more than cancel any sea level rise due to PGR. The 0.3 mm/year positive adjustment to sea level rise by the UC sea level group does not appear to be justified.
The differences appear to be in the low end of concentration, the 15% to 30% range. It suggests that the brief gains we saw may be wind related, blowing floating ice around, compacting it when winds are strong versus allowing expansion when winds are weak.
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what every citizen should know about global warming:
The Penn State inquiry exonerating Michael Mann?the paleoclimatologist who came up with ?the hockey stick??would be difficult to parody. Three of four allegations are dismissed out of hand at the outset: the inquiry announces that, for ?lack of credible evidence?, it will not even investigate them . Moving on, the report then says, in effect, that Mann is a distinguished scholar, a successful raiser of research funding, a man admired by his peers?so any allegation of academic impropriety must be false?
Fire crews have drafted in specialist equipment to help them tackle a major blaze above Holmfirth.
The President and Democrats claim the secret science bill would unduly burden regulators. Baloney. The rules would simply require that promulgators of government edicts live according to the same rules they impose on us: Be honest and transparent. Show us your data, calculations and analyses. Demonstrate that you have examined all relevant studies not just what supports your agenda, while you ignore everything else. Back up your analyses and decisions with actual evidence . Answer our questions. Recognize that collusion, deceit and fraud have no place in public policy, and will no longer be tolerated.
WSJ's Favorite Skeptics Headed for Chicago
The EPA claims, as it does for virtually all its regulations, that it is linked to heart attacks, decreased lung function, and premature death in people with heart and lung disease. This is worse than junk science. It represents no science whatever, being an invention of EPA employees who specialize in such nonsense. The Earth produces soot every day and circulates it globally.
The Met Office should hang their heads in shame and also the BBC for reporting the temperatures recorded by this station. Well done chaps I hope you can get the message out to the wider world. If anyone lives in that area the site looks easily accessible.
Let that last line sink in: Four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress!
The Democratic attorney general in U.S. Virgin Islands dismisses claims he's violated the Constitution's First Amendment with his inquisition targeting fossil fuel companies and global warming.
Obamacare waivers weren't in original law, appearance of political favors persists:
The plaintiffs contend that these remunerations were indeed kickbacks since virtually no conditions were placed on the settings of these programs, other than the physicians in question were high decile. In some cases, the programs were cancelled, yet the payments were still made.
Although these signs are encouraging, environmental doomsaying is proving to be persistent and resilient. Three recent books that have received lavish praise in the environmental world and some general media outlets illustrate this point: Paul and Anne Ehrlichs' One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (Island Press); James Gustave Speth's Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (Yale University Press); and Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows's Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Chelsea Green). All three books demonstrate that little has been absorbed from the wrong predictions of the past thirty years or the analytical framework that led to those predictions. To the contrary, the analytical frameworks these authors use are becoming more slipshod and simpleminded.
Interesting indeed. Epic FAIL for the Met Office.
31 This example was provided by the American Petroleum Institute.
The ad, in which Gingrich and Pelosi don awkward smiles while talking about clean-energy solutions, is coming back to haunt him, along with other statements he's made about climate change, as he officially launches his presidential bid. While Democrats have a long and winding list of grievances against the former House speaker, his past environmentalism could cause problems on the political right.
Twitter has reinstated my account. They got many thousands of angry tweets and apparently relented.
Prevent and reverse federal regulations on fracking. The federal government should allow states to regulate fracking without federal interference. The Department of the Interior has issued federal regulations on fracking on federal and Indian lands. Recently, the EPA released methane regulations for oil and gas activities. But federal regulations duplicate existing state regulation of fracking since companies must obtain state permits for all wells, including federal wells, and must comply with all state regulations. Citizens working with state and local bureaucrats have a significantly better sense about their environment than Washington bureaucrats who may be thousands of miles away. Local government officials should therefore have the prerogative of instituting regulations regarding fracturing.
You may have seen stories about 2010 being the warmest year ever. And by ever the warmists dont mean the history of the world , they mean about the last 180 years. The truth is too inconvenient :
"Gore's agenda for saving the world from global warming has always included population control," Myron Ebell, director of global warming and international environmental policy at the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "Advocating population control specifically for Africa is just another form of imperialism. Gore's eco-imperialism is uncomfortably close to the original racist goals of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who advocated population control in order to control the number of black and brown people in the world."
2. Change to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is observed to follow change to global temperature at all time scales.
There is simply no way this is going to help, and it is amazing to me that educated people can't see it, yet I think that is the case (I don't believe they are trying to be evil) A staggeringly large percentage of what goes awry in the world can be explained by bad or mismatched incentives, so it is incredible to me that our education system seems to so consistently resist teaching this topic.
Verification of IPCC Sea Level Rise Forecasts 1990, 1995, 2001
Even the UN and the EU are wising up to the greenhouse gas scam, "the biggest environmental scandal in history", says Christopher Booker.
Lofgren says those concerns are reasonable and that her bill addresses them by limiting slots to graduates of research universities designated by the National Science Foundation.
In other words, Antarctica could actually be cooling, but someone just wanted a red map.
emissions. The Bush tax cuts were not a proximate cause of the giant public debt
As can be seen, the relative size of the natural forcings become larger since more forcing is required to cause the same temperature changes when the feedback fighting it is strong. Remember, the NET feedback (including the direct increase in emitted IR) is always acting against the forcing?? it is the restoring force for the climate system.
What is "slight" Is it a tenth of a degree? A hundredth of a degree? A thousandths of a degree? Flannery had no answer. That's because he doesn't know what the number is. It's like saying the car is going to cost you money to buy. Well ok but how much? Well, we really don't have a number for you but trust us it does have a price. Well then, I'm not going to buy it if I don't know the price. What's scary and dangerous about the climate war is that governments will force you to buy that car no matter what it costs.
A relatively greater warming of tropospheric temperatures (roughly the lower 8 km in the atmosphere) when compared to the surface with a cooling in the stratosphere (roughly 10-25 km).
Take a look at these pictures Graham shot as he joined thousands of others to wade through the devastation asking people, "Do you need to get somewhere safe? Do you have something to eat and drink? Do you have clothing? A blanket? What do you need? How can I help?"
In Roman times and in the Medieval Warming (900 1300 A.D.) temperatures were higher than today by five and six degrees Celsius. No industries then!
Round Up of Snowy Winters & Global Warming Claims ? Excerpted from Climate Depot's Extreme Weather Report
I have some indirect reasons to think that e.g. Al Gore is getting money from these barbaric acts as well and he should therefore be executed as soon as possible if we want similar things to stop. The arrogance of this criminal is just breathtaking. This guy who has earned tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars from the ideology that leads to the flattening of villages in Uganda has posted the following latest text on his blog:
As has been shown time after time, the private market, when allowed to function, works much better than an overregulated industry. Moving the state into the middle of the electric market will only create a host of new problems. The state cannot build power plants faster, cheaper, or more efficiently than the private sector. The state cannot set prices better than the private sector. The state can, however, spend the taxpayer's money faster than the taxpayer could. Other states, such as Pennsylvania, and other countriesEngland, for examplehave made a success of electrical deregulation. California could too. But it must allow the market to work.This essay originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, January 23, 2001. Available from the Hoover Press is In Sickness and in Health: The Kyoto Protocol versus Global Warming, by Thomas Gale Moore, part of the Hoover Essays in Public Policy series. To order, call 800-935-2882.
Current climate models are overly damped and deterministic, focusing on the impacts of external forcing rather than simulating the natural internal variability associated with nonlinear interactions of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system, Curry said.
Scaremongers tell us that unless we act, polar bears might die. Meanwhile an Arctic researcher shot a polar bear . Dead. Statistics aren??t clear if drowning or do-gooders kill more bears, but it??s close.
The columnist Larry Bell, a professor at the University of Houston, points out that, "As for expecting renewables to fill in the power curve, European Union experiences offer a painful reality check. Approximately 7.8% of Germany's electricity comes from wind, 4.5% from solar. Large as a result, German households already fork out for the second highest power costs in Europeoften as much as 30% above the levels seen in other European countries. Power interruptions add to buyer's remorse."