Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
How much you get depends on the type of system you have ? wind turbines, hydro-electricity schemes and solar photovoltaic panels are all included ? and whether you are installing them on an existing home or a new-build property.
Greg Barker, the energy and climate change minister, who is overseeing the scheme said yesterday: "I understand the original complexity of the scheme may have deterred some organisations and I want to hear suggestions as to how we can make the scheme simpler in the future."
CFACT Executive Director, Craig Rucker responded to her question.
Sales of small cars soared when gas prices topped $4 per gallon last year but have fallen off as gasoline has retreated to about $2 a gallon and the economic downturn has slowed car sales. The small cars are affordable prices of the three cars tested range from about $12,000 to $18,000 and typically achieve 30 miles per gallon or more.
But what I find remarkable is the precision with which they dare to suggest the mass of the WIMP: it seems to be \(8.6\GeV\). You see that it's clearly the same range as the \(7-10\GeV\) we've discussed in the context of the "WIMP is being seen" claims for years (an unexpectedly light estimate for a WIMP mass, at least for a majority of theorists) but the indicated precision seems to be much better now. Unfortunately, they didn't include an error margin.
Though from what I read, the PDO mainly affects temperatures around the Pacific Rim, the Pacific is in fact a very large part of the earth, so I wondered if its cylcling might have some correlation with world temperatures:
Physics students reveal bias for male lecturers (SciAm) Swimming against the unseen tide (Physics World) What has actually happened? Actors and actresses were asked to become physics teachers for a while. The men got much higher ratings from the male students; the women have received just slightly higher ratings from the female students.
Sahel Drought, various years. Famines/ droughts have occurred in the Sahel of Africa in 1910-1914, 1940-1944, 1970-1985. The drought in the Sahel claimed over 600,000 in 1972-1975 and again in 1984-1985.
Carbon cycle bestms of a number of processes on very different time scales. One is a fljd of the rapid supply between the atmosphere, vegetation and oceans where a clear global rscykel can be seen with a atmosfrmaximum in May and a minimum in October. This depends on the dominant vxtmassan are p Northern Hemisfren. This rscykel framtrder clear vein on insulated posts on the Mauna Loa and Dr. varies with 6-7 ppmv between minimum and maximum.
Thank you for inviting me to testify today on a topic that, I believe, has received insufficient attention since the threat of climate change came to the attention of policymakers world-wide. That topic is the need to focus on adaptive responses to climate variability, whether caused by human action or by the influence of bio-geochemical cycles, ocean currents, and changes in solar activity.
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released and here is the chart to prove it
Here is the trick - the signal which was just the pixel brightness component is essentially identical to the old black and white TV signal -- after all, a black and white signal is just the relative brightness of each pixel. So they took a black and white signal and then added bandwidth so that there was more information if one had a color set. Both technologies, old and new, worked from the same signal.
James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute, sums their actions up this way. The team consciously distorted and actively suppressed critical knowledge, then furiously tried to hide their actions by conducting a vicious smear campaign to discredit critics.
A sizeable amount of climate change is at least possible. There is no good reason not to seek to minimize its net costs.
Arctic air will move back into the central Plains, Great Lake States and Western U.S. this week. Winter Storm Warnings, Winter Weather Advisories and Wind Chill Advisories are in effect in many areas and more are expected.
Al: we are 'creating' temporary green jobs here in the USA- just look at these results from the Obama stimulus program :
Since these models start with the assumption that warming is caused by CO2 they cannot in turn provide evidence for that proposition. That would be a circular argument. The one exception might be if the authors could make a solid case that their models succeed in capturing complex emergent phenomena observed in nature, but this is the opposite of what is actually happening. The models are completely missing on their basic predicted ???fingerprints,?? like the predicted upper-tropospheric ???hotspot?? that thermometers can??t find .
In August 2010, the HockeySchtick site pointed out the 97% figure was just 75 self selected scientists. As as example of the way the chant is spun, the author, ???MS?? linked to the un SkepticalScience site and the screen image that John Cook posted in an article titled: ???Visually depicting the disconnect between climate scientists, media and the public??.
Even in 2035, with the most optimistic scenario, the International Energy Agency estimates that just 2.4% of the world's energy will come from wind and only 1% from solar. As is the case today, almost 80% will still come from fossil fuels. As long as green energy is more expensive than fossil fuels, growing consumer markets like those in China and India will continue to use them, despite what well-meaning but broke Westerners try to do.
41 GOP Senators means nothing happens at EPA starting with confirmation of political appointees without GOP approval.
6. Like it or not, oil is here to stay. U.S. oil consumption " as a percentage of its total primary energy consumption " now stands at about 37 percent. That's the exact same percentage as in 1949. Given the amount of money that has been spent over the past six decades on reducing our dependence on oil, the hard fact is that petroleum is a miraculous substance. Nothing else comes close to oil when it comes to energy density, ease of handling, flexibility, convenience, cost, or scale.
This article was written on October 31 and updated November 3, before the ???Climategate?? CRU email scandal broke, and it is all the more pertinent in the light of those disclosures. The CRU emails show how science has been perverted into a political movement, and how scientists conspired to serve a ???post-normal?? agenda where truth is trampled ??? exactly as the proponents of ???post-normal?? science had anticipated. With the association between ???post-normal?? science developed by Ravetz and its application in climate science by Hulme now widely exposed by this present post, Ravetz and Hulme jointly authored an article, published by the BBC on December 1, entitled ???Show Your Working': What ???ClimateGate?? means in which they sought to promote post-normal science further by capitalizing on the public disgust at the corruption of ???normal?? science. This is cynical because normal science was corrupted by covertly introducing post-normal activities in the first place.
pressuring Iran, Mann explains, Obama owed thanks to a Republican lawyer who in
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One hundred nuclear power plants is about twice what America needs, but Senator Gregg can be forgiven for his enthusiasm.
The book exploring solar influences, The Neglected Sun , considered six different solar cycles, each measured by their influence on Earth, not by counting sunspots. These influences include isotopes of Beryllium (Be10), Carbon (C14) found in ice cores, measurement of Alaska sea sediments, North Atlantic measurements of sediments from ice bergs, peat in China, stalagmites, etc. The authors of articles claiming that the revised counting implies the lack of solar influence commit the logical fallacy of a hasty generalization, at best. See links under Commentary: Is the Sun Rising?
Heritage: Take CBO report with a grain of salt: Obamacare repeal would not increase deficits:
Aided by George Soros, leftist foundations and our own tax dollars (via EPA and other government agencies), radical greens are spending millions to lobby Congress. The Washington Post is giving free media to what it calls "some of the country's most respected environmental groups" helping them spin absurd street theater like CarnivOil into "educational" programs about saving Planet Earth (with vile oil executives bribing boxing referees and knocking out crab-costumed activists).
to more variance. Im just going to focus on thescientific guidance provided by Exponent. And
The Science paper refers to several other papers that also derive these declining discount rates. A necessity for all of them is that the lower discount rate must be in force for an extended period.
A new review of the scientific literature by SPPI and CO2 Science:
It begins with measures of the amount of energy entering the Earths atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only consider changes in the irradiance portion of incoming solar energy (insolation). They claim that, up to 1950, it explained over 50 percent of temperature variation; then, CO2 became 90 percent of the cause of change. Part of the reason for downplaying irradiance is the low percentage of change in modern records. The earliest record from outside the atmosphere from a manned observatory was Skylab (19731979). Skylab showed a change of 0.14% in the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). An average over time shows a variation of 0.1% for an 11 year sunspot cycle. This seems like a very small number, and therefore of little consequence. The difficulty is that by varying TSI by 6% in a computer model, you can explain all temperature change for the entire history of the Earth.
International Atomic Agency Regrets Lack of Progress on Kyoto
Read here and here . Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, a Stockholm University scientist recently published a peer-reviewed study that found there were previous warming periods that produced a warmer climate than our current climate, over the past 2,000 years . As a followup to that study, Ljungqvist has published additional information for the past 1,200 years that examines paleo-reconstructed temperatures for specific Northern Hemisphere regions.
A compilation of some of the best journalism in the months leading up to Barack Obamas historic action to address climate change.
Fact 5. For an assumed tax rate of $25 a tonne of carbon dioxide, the costs passed down to an average family of four will exceed $2000 a year.
The list of optional attendees included several high-level officials, such as then-Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes and Nancy-Ann DeParle, another senior adviser to the president.
A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds Antarctic sea ice extent was much less than the present during the last interglacial period ~120,000 years ago. According to the authors, "During the last interglacial, the are only half of the Holocene levels, in line with higher temperatures during that period, indicating much reduced sea ice extent in the Atlantic as well as the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean."
The authors write that ???widespread amphibian extinctions in the mountains of the American tropics have been blamed on the interaction of anthropogenic climate change and a lethal pathogen,?? as we have discussed at length in reviews of papers we have archived under the heading of Extinction (Real-World Observations ??? Animals: Amphibians) in our Subject Index; and they note, in this regard, that ???limited meteorological records make it difficult to conclude whether current climate conditions at these sites are actually exceptional in the context of natural variability,?? questioning once again the original climate-alarmist contention that modern global warming was the primary culprit in the demise of the Monteverde golden toad ( Bufo periglenes ).
Most of the discussion on Swanson's blog is dedicated to the original disagreements concerning quantum mechanics. Many people say many wrong things and many irrelevant things.
Now, does that mean you must be heartless about such folks? Not at all. Id suggest that you send caravans of busses through those area and offer a one time one way trip to a shelter that has warmth and light. There ought to be plenty of those that are not in the mile or two coastal areas. YOU could also offer a bulk purchase of portable generators (cost to be added to their property taxes) and a daily fuel truck to deliver fuel (credit cards accepted). That could be done by contracting with larger vendors (perhaps even out of state, so not affected by the storm). Likely you could be up and running inside a day or two.
Warmist claims of a severe increase in hurricane activity go back to 2005 and Hurricane Katrina. The cover of Al Gore's 2009 book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, even features a satellite image of the globe with four major hurricanes superimposed.
To continue from Part I yesterday, the carbon taxon paper, on the white board, in the ivory toweris better policy than cap-and-trade, which is better than ad hoc regulation. We could spend and have spent hundreds of hours explaining why cap-and-trade is a horrible idea, and why regulations are often blunt-objects that often cause huge unintended consequences, but thats beyond this post.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on the unintended consequences of other auto regulations:
If a Religion of Global Warming follower asks you why the US won't sign the Kyoto treaty...
How, you may ask? They actually want the government to target climate-change skeptics with the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. That's right. They want to cap the critics with a law created specifically to go after organized crime. Their opponents are no better than drug cartels and the Mafia, apparently.
The misguided Arizona immigration law also demands Congressional attentionand not just on immigration. I don't blame Arizona for grappling with this problem. It is clear that Mexican drug gangs are growing more violent and more depraved, and their behavior is spilling across our borders in Texas and Arizona. They represent a threat to governance in Mexico, to the Mexican people and to our own. Congress needs to focus on ways to help Mexico battle these threats and definitely needs to find ways to beef up border security against drug lord terror. But border security is not enough to deal with our larger immigration issues, and the Arizona law is just awfulany law that has former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) saying it goes too far is indefensible.
This study thoroughly debunks the claim that temperatures on the planet today are in any way historic or unprecedented, says Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters.com. Will Media Notice?
Might governments have a Department of Philosophy, to peer deeply into the claims of tendentious lobbyists, no matter what their academic qualifications in natural science, or the length of their publication lists? There is an opinion that those who publish the most, often have the least to say. Its a pity that Ambrose Bierce disappeared in 1914, so isnt here to join the debate on philosophy and bushfire. I hope some from Australia, or other fire prone lands, such as USA, Canada, Africa, and even Europe, will.
" The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earths sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming or global cooling ." Until cloud effects are much better understood (as well as a host of other factors such as ocean oscillations), computer climate models will remain computer fantasy games.
"I'll give the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their allies, including opinion writer Marc Thiessen, credit. Despite living in a glass house of secrecy and unwillingness to disclose where their own money comes from, they have no qualms about throwing stones ."
Ben Pile on April 26, 2015 at 5:32 pm
Matt Ridley has an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal about the different ways economists and ecologists look at the world.
Opening Remarks at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change
The EPA claims more taxpayer-financed energy subsidies will help the poorest families. What about everyone else?
Now, about this time, the whole peak oil story started to go south, because no matter how much peak oilers howled there was more oil discovered every year. Every year the proved reserves just kept growing. And that process has continued to this very day, with more proved reserves than ever. How were the peak oilers to explain it? Hey, unconventional oil to the rescue!
The common nmnaren in this critique of vrldsfrbttrarna is that they are building a auktoritr, dogmatic and verdriven picture of the problems that you want to read.
Put another way, as Earth emits (relatively) less energy through carbon dioxide??s favorite wavelengths, some of that blocked heat, possibly transferred through kinetic collisions, just reroutes out to space on the water vapor wavelengths instead.
Heath: Yeah, well, theyve been saying scary stuff like that since I was knee-high to a shrub, over 100 years ago. And too many trees like you believe it. So, go ahead and participate in Earth Day. Have fun.
"repeated surveys "indicate general stability of these reefs over time," and they state that "in the context of the high bleaching and mortality of western Indian Ocean reefs after 1998, the general stability and improvement of these reefs six to seven years after the largest ENSO in recent history indicates reefs with considerable resilience to climate change."
WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: "For Obama, Green Is the Color of Money Wasted on More Solyndras"
Even President Obama has been criticized by former Vice President Gore for failing to do enough when it comes to climate change legislation. The now-defunct congressional climate bill failed because the Democrats realized it was political suicide. The new political expediency in Washington is global warming skepticism. The U.N. global warming treaty process lies in shambles.
$120,000 for This amendment extends the project and budget ending dates from August 31, 2003 to December 31, 2003. There is no change in the approved EPA funding amount of $50,000 for your diesel truck emission reduction initiative. The conditions numbered 1 through 7 in the award remain in full force and effect.
What??s interesting to me is how surprised the researchers are when pH levels naturally vary around the worlds oceans, and sometimes by as much as 1.4 pH units in a single day at a single location. Ocean acidification is a natural, daily thing in some places, and marine life copes. It appears to cycle with the PDO . Moreso, we know that corals evolved in a world with a much higher CO2 level, and ice age swings mean temperatures and sea levels have also rapidly changed, yet corals survived.
The independence of the Russell Review (113) "We accept the assurances that Sir Muir Russell has given about the independence of the Independent Climate Change Email Review and we expect him to be scrupulous in preserving its impartiality." Sir Muir says it's independent, so it's independent. Really, our parliamentarians think we are quite stupid, don't they?
Chris Horner says he is glad the emails are now public and says he sued for their release "to educate the public how taxpayer resources were used" to push for the censorship of climate change skeptics.
A cold weather emergency response plan to tackle disasters after record cold and snow brought down power lines and paralyzed much of the usually mild south earlier this year was activated in China on Wednesday. Read more here .
To be clear, this cover all days of the year, and not just summer. Nevertheless, there seems little evidence, over the country as a whole, of any trend to more extreme hot days.
skilfully does not specify it is an all time record for Canberra readers have to draw that conclusion and it is not mentioned that the urban heat island has been increasing for decades.
In examining sea-level changes for 100 years or more from stations on the Eastern Seaboard, Mr. Galvin could not find any acceleration in sea-level rise. University of Florida professor Robert Dean and Army Corps of Engineers analyst James Houston have independently reached this same conclusion.
Praying to Gaia for pay | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog Take away all the free money, and whod be left to believe in a man-made climate catastrophe? Flannerys hope: a global treaty to influence your every move | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog To say that Leftist groups are using the global warming scare to further their dreams of world government is not a conspiracy theory but the literal truth, as their very own words prove. EU still struggling to reach agreement Negotiations are slow for various reasons. EU agrees on offer for global climate talks - Brown | Reuters "Europe is making three conditional offers, money on the table, saying we will do everything we can to make a climate change deal happen," Brown told reporters. " I think this is a breakthrough that takes us forward to Copenhagen and makes a Copenhagen agreement possible." There was no immediate comment on his remarks by other ministers and no confirmation of a breakthrough.
Sitting on an artificial mangrove island in the middle of the ray and shark touch tank, Lindsay Jordan, a staff member at the New England Aquarium, explained the rays eating habits as children and their parents trailed fingers through the water. Does anyone know how we touch these animals when we are not at the aquarium? she asked.
(iii) For e ~ 1, there is parity between the two time scales. Such a situation occurs if the mass of theatmosphere is moderate and the velocities on the planet are relatively weak, which is the case for Earth.On such a planet, one would expect a pole-to-equator temperature difference but one where thetemperature of a parcel at a particular latitude is not in radiative equilibrium with the net radiativefluxes at the top of the atmosphere. Furthermore, a moderate diurnal temperature is expected.
Caldwell, John C. Let's Visit Brazil. London: Burke Publishing Company, 1961.
Global Warming Conference: The State of Climate Change Science
IPPs found out all too late that they were not the shire in the utility industrys middle earth but instead a small slice of Mordor. (Thanks Mr. Tolkien, and thanks to the lucky drudge who coined corporate America. It includes almost every business in the country, and for that matter its workers and shareholders.) But thats just me, Bob Michaels, and I never ran an IPP or had my ear to the ground to sense the (John Q. )publics moral outrage over carbon.
About half the adjustments actually created a warming trend where none existed; the other half greatly exaggerated existing warming. All the adjustments increased or even created a warming trend, with only one (Dunedin) going the other way and slightly reducing the original trend.
Four of the above guest speakers participated in book signing sessions: Ian Plimer, PhD Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science; Roy W. Spencer, PhD The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Scientists; S. Fred Singer, PhD Hot Talk, Cold Science; and Christopher C. Horner, J.D. Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal your Freedom and Bankrupt America.
Privacy & Security: Some administration policies post-9/11 undermine the ability to protect personal, digitized information. But private sector initiative in authentication and security can be far more effective than government efforts.
Claims of an overwhelming scientific global warming consensus have been repeatedly and thoroughly debunked.