Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Thankfully, none of the test subjects died, or the charges would be much more serious.
Can you believe it, Stan? I never thought global warming could happen so fast. I guess I didnt listen
Given my experience with the Darwin, Australia records , I looked at the homogenization adjustment. According to GISS :
Second, the lower troposphere (from both the RSS and UAH MSU data) also do NOT SHOWunequivocally that the world continues to warm! Indeed, warming has also stalled since about 2002.
The high cost of taxpayer subsidies and consumer electricity rates also results in two to four jobs being lost in traditional industries for every wind and solar job created via government manipulation of the marketplace. Blue-collar, poor and middle class families feel the worst impacts from this enormous wealth transfer to lobbyists, pressure groups, bureaucrats, and "green energy" companies and investors.
Yeo Gets The Heave-Ho: Will Spend More Time With Green Directorships
Let me try again. When the crunch comes in a decade or so, the first thing that is going to happen is that the wealthiest people are going to lose their benefits. Yeah, I know, not fair, but does it surprise you? For years, Social Security advocates have desperately clung to the argument that Social Security is not welfare, it's insurance. That is why benefits for the wealthy still exist at all. But when crunch time comes, the wealthy, as usual, are going to get thrown overboard first.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on what the story actually said:
The Administration assumes "extremely rapid replacement of coal-fired power plants by new natural gas plants by 2008." "There is some inconsistency," according to CRA, "between a very low permit price and achievement of these assumed changes."
Capitol Climate Actiona coalition of radical environmental and other far-left activist groupsheld what it termed a "massive" anti-coal protest in front of the power plant that supplies the U.S. Capitol on Monday, March 2. Six to seven hundred protesters marched down the street and shouted amidst a major snowfall. The Capitol Police were out in force, yet the organizers failed in their efforts to provoke them into arresting the demonstrators.
Washington flooded in 1936, due to water flowing down the Potomac. It has nothing to do with the ocean or sea level.
No known consistent field theory predicts a nonzero \(Z\gamma\) decay rate of the new massive gauge boson. The string-theoretical Green-Schwarz mechanism mixes what looks like a field-theoretical tree-level diagram with a one-loop diagram. Their being on equal footing implies that the regular QFT-like perturbation theory breaks down and instead, there is a hidden loop inside a vertex of the would-be tree-level diagram. This loop can't be expanded in terms of regular particles in a loop, however: it implies some stringy compositeness of the particles and processes.
These state investigations similarly discourage Exxon from contributing to groups like AEI or ALEC, as well as discouraging Exxon's own speech about climate-related legislation and its costs. These groups themselves can sue an attorney general under the First Amendment, if the AGs' pressure on an oil company like Exxon causes them to lose donations they would otherwise have received.
Houses and water pumps are mounted on to plinths built high enough to withstand floods for the next 30 years. Alongside them stand huge tanks to harvest salt-free, safe to drink rainwater from the skies.
Some worrisome news from Greg Ladens Science blog , also in the running for Best Science Blog
Other environmentalists have undermined the cause with claims bordering on the outlandish; they've blamed global warming for shrinking sheep in Scotland, more shark and cougar attacks, genetic changes in squirrels, an increase in kidney stones and even the crash of Air France Flight 447. When climate activists make the dubious claim, as a Canadian environmental group did, that global warming is to blame for the lack of snow at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, then they invite similarly specious conclusions about Washington's snow -- such as the Virginia GOP ad urging people to call two Democratic congressmen "and tell them how much global warming you get this weekend."
Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, which has opposed any attempt to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, said even if there is global warming, Americans and the world will still need coal, gas, and other fossil fuels to run the technology, including air conditioning, to deal with it.
Ice core data from Law Dome focus on changes in nitrate and may reflect changing wind patterns over Antarctica. The wind currents that bring nitrate to the continent, however, are less well known than those that carry sodium and calcium.
Why are international development agencies pushing an antidevelopment agenda? It's an inconvenient truth, but curbing the planet's carbon footprint necessarily slows economic growth. Prosperity is essential for human well being, so international aid organizations need to carefully consider the impact of the climate "solutions" they advocate, lest they could do more harm than good.
"We felt it was time to pull together a large sample of recent studies from the last five to 10 years and look for patterns of variability and change," said Willie Soon, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Jeff Bingaman headline a congressional hearing on "Senators' Perspectives on Global Warming."
Secretary of State Kerry will serve as either the Obama Administration's designated scapegoat or environmental activist hero for the final decision whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. He's also a high-profile banner-carrier on the front lines of the President's religious war on climate change. Have no doubt that he realizes there's a lot of green at risk for his party, not to mention his own future ambitions, if decisions don't go with the greenies on both issues.
"If someone says, "You know, I'm not sure on the science; man may contribute; we need to look at alternative energy,' that's one thing. But he's a committed global warmist. He went and endorsed Al Gore's problem and most of Al Gore's solution by sitting there with Nancy Pelosi," Morano said.
The CO2 advocates simply predicted heat waves in the future, but anyone can do that and be right eventually. However, the mechanisms of every heat wave contradict nearly every aspect of the global warming theory. They cannot even argue that it is more likely because its warmer. Death Valleys maximum temperatures have not exceeded the 1930s. These heat waves are good examples of how weather dynamics cause extreme heat independently of the sun or CO2.
The failure to use income after taxes and transfers cannot be accidental. It seems to be a deliberate attempt to mislead the public. And it is not the only misuse of data. Much of the recent large rise in the income received by the top 1 or 10 percent results from the Federal Reserve's policy of lowering interest rates and raising housing and stock prices. Higher stock prices increase the incomes of those who own shares. Middle-income earners do not have large stock or bond portfolios. Their shares are mainly part of corporate pension plans. The rise in stock prices benefits the middle class by increasing the support for their future pensions. But the gain is part of their wealth and not part of their current income. So the rise in stock prices widens the spread in the income distribution and contributes to the clamor. That's measurement with little or no substantive effect.
Also, heavy rainfall has not increased significantly in the U.S. over the past 80 years. While the percentage of rainfalls of 1-2 inches per 24 hours has increased slightly in recent years, it showed a faster rise early in the 20th century.31
A warmer habitat would affect food supplies, predators, disease organisms and the metabolism of a lobster.
Case Study 3. Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council: "What If Polluter Lobbyists in Washington Were Replaced with Asthmatic Children"
???Our planet has been slowly warming since last emerging from the ???Little Ice Age?? of the 17th century, often associated with the Maunder Minimum.
With a mean temperature of 2.2C to 3.3C below the long-term average, the UK also endured the coldest March since 1962.
This does not mean, of course, that droughts havent occurred in North America over the last 100 years, but it doesnt support a link between rising global temperature and increased drought.
Surface temperatures and radiosonde have been massively diverging. The vast majority ofreported warming since 1980 is due toUrban Heat Island effects.
Another great president took exactly the opposite approach.
The magic of the EPA's benefit/cost analysis
This does not mean, of course, that droughts haven't occurred in North America over the last 100 years, but it doesn't support a link between rising global temperature and increased drought.
As it is, GHGs radiate upwards as much as they radiate downwards and I have seen no evidence that the two directions of emission do not cancel out. Since the vast majority of the atmosphere consists of non GHGs then GHGs actually provide a mechanism for cooling that non GHGs cannot provide so unless demonstrated otherwise I assume that the net effect of more GHGs is zero.
We used the Heritage Energy Model (HEM), a clone of the EIA's National Energy Model (NEM), to quantify the impact of freeing up the energy markets by lifting the crude export ban as well as increasing the availability of domestic petroleum and natural gas. The HEM was used to compare current policy (the reference case) to a policy with broader access to energy resources (the alternative case). To model the impact of lifting burdensome regulations on the oil and gas industry, several assumptions were changed. Under this policy alternative, recoverable shale oil and shale gas and their variants are 50 percent higher, and well spacing is 50 percent lower than the reference case. There are a few less impactful assumptions, which are discussed in the appendix.
Sarah Palin: She emerged from the election as controversial, polarizing, and electrifyingespecially to diehard Republicans in red-state America. Beloved by the talk radio set, Palin seemingly enjoys an inside track as the GOP's "true" conservative voice.
When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is
In fact, as Nature reports, Andreae urged Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen not to publish a recent article on climate geoengineering, fearing it would distract policymakers from what Andreae sees as the urgent need to cut fossil fuel use. Every scientist who expressed an opinion in the article thinks reducing fossil fuel use is the policy of choice for mitigating human-caused greenhouse warming.
Since his election and subsequent re-election, Dr Pachauri has opened himself up to accusations of hypocrisy, urging the population to follow in his footsteps and become vegetarians to cut down on methane while at the same time travelling the world, clocking up environmentally unfriendly air miles.
I recently have put up information that NASA team retired scientists reject the warming
Stated another way, the tradeoff is this: Instead of forcing the current generation to invest in climate policy, they could be forced to invest in infrastructure, machinery, tools, factories or anything else that would lead to greater production (and therefore consumption) capacity in the future. It would not make sense to invest for future generations at three percent when, instead, they could reap the reward of a seven percent return.
The head of the Space Research section of the Russian Academy of Science, Professor Habibullo Abdussamatov, in 2006 issued a press release, warning that the world should prepare for imminent global cooling. He predicted that the global cooling would start in 2012 2015 , and would likely peak around 2055.
on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 6:01 am and is filed under News.
Someday, perhaps decades from now, smart environmentalists are going to look back on climate change, and especially the monomania for suppression of fossil fuel energy, as the issue that ate their movement alive. A few people now are starting to get it. Eilperin's story notes one of them, Armond Cohen of the Clean Air Task Force, who told the Post: "The tragedy is that they spent the last 10 years on this and not anything else." CATF, the story continues, "has pursued an array of alternative strategies aimed at curbing climate change and air pollution." But that's all we hear about them, before going back to the grand plans of the Sierra Club and others to deploy an army of grassroots activists.
For him to say, as he told Canwest News yesterday, that there has been some dangerous crossing of the line between climate advocacy and science at the IPCC is stunning in itself.
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/the lack of climate skeptics o.html
Liberal Arts Majors Demand More Help at Job Fair
He says strong messages designed to prompt people to change behaviour only seem to generate apathy.
Kulusuk Farmer's Market Opens This Weekend
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspended issuing wind permits on public land indefinitely this summer after wildlife officials invoked a decades-old law for protecting eagles, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Cost to "avoid" global warming: $1.3 Quadrillion per Degree
This is never valid and certainly not when the claim that almost all of the experts agree is shown to be a total distortion of the real facts, as in the 97% scenario from the Doran and Zimmerman paper. By quoting it without checking the detail, he tarnishes his own credibility as a scientist.
All of the RC principals (Gavin Schmidt, Caspar Ammann, Rasmus Benestad, Mann, and Bradley) are frequent senders and recipients of the thousands of emails and other documents, now posted on many Web sites, that were hacked or leaked last week from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU).
The following plot of the U.S. shows correlation between the annual number of strong (F3) to violent (F5) warm-season (March through August) tornadoes and regional temperature departures from normal.
He starts by showing the global temperature for the last 4 years: you can see the fall that is occurring; itsvery plain to see .
In fact, the 381-month periods plotted in the graph have the earlier period warming to be just slightly higher (+0.01C) than the modern warming.
the IPCC argues that feedbacks from increased water evaporation will lead to enhanced warming. This is not observed in those regions most effected by water vapour. In fact the opposite seems to be the case implying negative feedback.
AlthoughClinton EPA officials assertedEPAs authority to regulate GHG emissions (as early as March 1998), and preached the gospel of climate doom, theytook no actionon the petition,leaving it for the Bush Administration to deal with.
Now by US terms, California is the land of expensive energy. Because of our insane renewable energy standards, electricity here costs about twice as much as in neighboring states, at about fifteen cents per kilowatt-hour. So lets take ten cents per kWh as a representative cost of residential electricity in the US.
Although I had not commented on Schmidts May 11 criticism of my regional chronology emulation, Schmidt was quoted by a thread commenter here . Again, to avoid any potential misunderstanding, Ive added a clarifying inline comment to hopefully alleviate Schmidts anguish that he might have been misunderstood by a commenter on a thread somewhere on the internet.
Professor Johnson, a skeptic of man-made global warming claims, says he has found a fatal flaw in key instrumentation that supposedly measures, and thus proves, the radiation emitted because of of the greenhouse gas effect (GHE) which is calibrated in Watts.These instruments are used for scientific measurements of outdoor downward atmospheric long-waveradiation- the supposed source of the GHEs added heating mechanism.
The May-June 2009 Heartlander reports on the success of the Second International Conference on Climate Change, held in New York City on March 2-4. Also in this issue:an announcement of the 2009 President's Council Retreat, June 14-16 in Chicago.summaries of Heartland public relations and government relations activities on our top policy priorities: budget and tax, tobacco, finance and insurance, health care, information technology and telecom, education, the environment, and urban affairs;announcement of the release of two new Heartland publications: The Skeptic's Handbook and Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? plus Science Director Jay Lehr's newest book, The Fluoride Wars;reports on the activities of our legal affairs senior fellow, attorney Maureen Martin;and much more!
Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Energy Economics and Climate Change
A serious approach to climate change is going to require legislation touching on many aspects of Americans? daily lives, since reducing greenhouse gas emissions is ultimately going to require substantial changes in our energy consumption.
And the urgency is that the longer we wait, the further down the pipeline climate travels and works its way into weather, and once its in the weather, its there for good.
Which is why the mere fact that we find ourselves becoming one of the world's largest producers of oil and natural gas is only part of the story. The current advantages are obvious: tens of thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industry, much needed given the unsatisfactory condition of the jobs market; enough domestic oil production to ease concerns about sudden supply cut-offs; enough natural gas to attract some foreign and domestic factories to our shores, and to out-compete more carbon-intensive coal as a fuel in electricity generation. The longer-run advantages of our new-found abundance are also obvious: exports of oil and gas to reduce our trade deficit, and enough natural gas sent from purpose-built terminals to ease Europe's dependence on Russia.
Science is about constant refinement of theories and data. When Rahmstorf is faced with old data andnew data from the same authors, he has a special methodfor deciding which data set isbetter. The version thatpoints to highersea level rise in the 21st century is alwaysconsidered to be better. Thushis insistence thatthe 2006Chuch and White sea level data is better than the2009 or 2011Church andWhitedata that incorporated Churchs and Whites data reductionimprovements.
According to a bio that was online in January 2010 but has since disappeared, Teske has a BSc in engineering and a masters in ?wind energy technology.? But a bio in this 2009 book makes no mention of a masters degree ? although it says Teske has been in the employ of Greenpeace since 1994.
What is the problem with elevates error? Oddly enough, the possibility that I might be accused of cherry picking is minor compared to the real difficulty which is that using one data set inherently introduces more scatter due to instrument variability. This elevates error, without reducing error. I discussed error previously and explained that if a null hypothesis is actually wrong it can take many, many years of data to disprove even a false hypotheses to a chosen, high level of statistical confidence.
The Los Angeles Times revealed in May 2015 that Tesla had received benefits of $2.4 billion. These included $284 million in federal tax credits, $517 million from selling California zero emission vehicle credits to other automakers and $1.3 billion in incentives from Nevada for siting its huge new battery factory there.
The students at these colleges numbered at times sixty thousand of the youth and young nobility of Britain and Gaul. Caesar comments on the fact that the Gauls sent their youth to Britain to be educatedIt required twenty years to master the complete circle of Druidic knowledge. Natural philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, medicine, jurisprudence, poetry and oratory were all proposed and taught-natural philosophy and astronomy with severe exactitude (Elder refers to Strabo I IV, page 197. Caesars Comm. Lib V. Sueotonius, V Calegula. E. Campion, Accounts of Ireland, pg. 18.).
USDA: Increased ragweed pollen a "troubling" effect of higher CO2
A later disturbance for the United States is the October 1973 Oil Embargoby the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, which disrupted oil supply and caused increased costs of gasoline, electricity, and natural gas. The United States suffered economic malaise until the early 1980s. Starting with President Nixon in 1973, a rallying cry for "Energy Independence" was proposed by all presidents without success. Conflicts between proponents of increasing energy production and environmental groups protesting environmental degradation stalled development of America's vast resources of fossil fuelscoal, oil, and natural gas.
CO2 is a beneficial element in our atmosphere and increases the growth rate of crops and forests, as many scientific studies have shown.
MOOSE: Ill do what I need to. Just so you know that. Ill do what I need to.
UPDATE 2: Please wear your blackest black...
Osborn also implies that I should have raised the inadequacy of their data in previous criticisms and that this is moving the goalposts on them. However, the Shiyatov transects were not described in Briffa et al 1995 either. Indeed, Briffa et al 2013 is the first CRU article that comes even close to providing technical information on the sites. My first appreciation of the comprehensiveness of Shiyatovs work came from the relatively recent publications, Shiyatov et al 2011 and Mazepa et al 2011, which I consulted as part of my consideration of Briffa et al 2013, though neither was cited by Briffa. Had I previously realized the comprehensiveness of the Shiyatov dataset, I would have raised the issue earlier.
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Ben Lieberman, National Review , 31 March 2010
(In fact the Virgin Islands Attorney General, Claude E. Walker, on April 7 issued a subpoena to my employer, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, demanding CEI's records concerning its work on climate-change policy.)
Recall this is a bipartisan projectthe Bushes are in favor of this socialist nonsense, being Yalies.
To back up their objections, many environmental pressure groups generally have large budgets and huge teams of lawyers. One group boasted of having 75 lawyers working on a measure in California.
As the G8 negotiations enter their final phase there appears to be no deal on agricultural subsidies or climate change. Much is at stake; some climate scenarios being proposed by France are potentially disastrous for global economies.
It is clear from the material presented in this report that the modern rise in the air?s CO2 content is providing a tremendous economic benefit to global crop production.
The use of the terminology climate sensitivity indicates an importance of the climate systemto this temperature range that does not exist. The range of temperatures of 1.5 C and 4.5 C for a doubling of carbon dioxide refers to a global annual average surface temperature anomaly that is not even directly measurable, and its interpretation is even unclear, as we discussed in the paper
Dr Pachauri said that the IPCCs report was the responsibility of the panels former co-chairs, British scientist Dr Martin Parry and Argentine meteorologist Dr Osvaldo Canziani.
Two prominent Obama administration officials tried to spin the Paris climate treaty as a done deal this week.
Firstly, the New South Wales Premier, Nathan Rees, has revealed himself to be an AGW alarmist (as we knew he would) by launching a scathing attack on former Treasurer, Michael Costa:
And we also know already that, in 1994, NWS changed their recordings of width from mean to maximum. (Even then, discrepancies in the data where path width has been underestimated have been found more recently, such as this one in 1997 see here ).