Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In a world where atmospheric O 3 concentrations are still a significant scourge of both wild and cultivated plants alike, we can be thankful the air's CO 2 molecules are working overtime to heal, or prevent, the damage that is done, or would otherwise be wrought, by the pernicious oxygen triplet. Reviewed 14 April 2010
Brian: Where the wheels are looking wobbly to the point of parting from the vehicle?
A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds that Total Cloud Cover (TCC) has significantly decreased over Spain by about 4% since 1960, the same period during which the IPCC claims there is no explanation other than man-made greenhouse gases to account for global warming. P oorly-understood natural fluctuationsin cloud cover could alone account for global warming or global cooling,as discussed byDr. Roy Spencerin his book ,
Is the Holocene interglacial, our interglacial, just about kaput? Well, thats the trillion dollar question, isnt it? I went deep into the science on this in The Antithesis, you may refresh or intimate yourself with the poignant literature there. The present consensus seems to be that we will not have an extended interglacial this time, even though we are also at an eccentricity minima, just like the Holsteinian was 400kyrs ago. All things considered, our interglacial seems to match best the last half of the Holsteinian, the bit where we fall off into an ice age.
Synopsis: Recent global warming has not caused more frequent or more severe droughts. Source here . "Droughts have not become more extreme or erratic in response to global warming. Real-world evidence from Africa, Asia, and other continents find no trend toward more frequent or more severe droughts. In most cases, the worst droughts in recorded meteorological history were much milder than droughts that occurred periodically during much colder times."
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Part one from the UK Channel 4 documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque"
Christie Todd Whitman really didnt know the difference between ozone depletion and global warming when she became EPA chief.
As usual, Tocqueville was onto something hugely important. From the Founding Fathers to the Jacobins and Bolsheviks, revolutionaries have fought under essentially the same banner: advancement of human dignity. It is in the search for dignity through liberty and citizenship that glasnost's subversive sensibility lives and will continue to live. Just as the pages of Ogoniok and Moskovskie Novosti must take pride of place next to Boris Yeltsin on the tank as symbols of the latest Russian revolution, so should Internet pages in Arabic stand as emblems of the present revolution next to the images of rebellious multitudes in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the Casbah plaza in Tunis, the streets of Benghazi, and the blasted towns of Syria. Languages and political cultures aside, their messages and the feelings they inspired were remarkably similar.
I added the eight metre line on to the graph.Hansenis a world class wanker.
Ice cores provide the historic record and Mauna Loa the recent. Both were designed to produce a smooth linking curve of increasing CO2.
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No it doesnt. CO2 does not warm the atmosphere, never ever. The sun does. CO2 just slows cooling, at least theoretically, resulting in an increase of average temperature readings.
Similarly, Yale University's Professor William Nordhaus, one of the world's leading economists, recently published a study that estimates that the damages to 2100 caused by a global warming of 3 degrees C will be $22 trillion. Achieving the Stern Review's emissions targets by 2050 would reduce the damages to $9 trillion, but the measures necessary would cost $27 trillion.
A senior Western diplomat who has observed the situation closely during the past five years warns, "The notion that a deal will come along that forces Hamas to go along with it . . . I think that vision is pretty far off, particularly given the makeup of the Israeli government. Meanwhile, Hamas is getting paid by the Syrians and the Iranians. They'll face tough consequences if they stick their necks out."
Our basic premise is that a person is responsible for the carbon emissions of his descendants , weighted by their relatedness to him.
expansion of welfare rolls, at the end of 1933, was abruptly cancelled when the
A Recipe for the Survival of a Species of Frogs in a Warming World (8 April 2015)
By Staff Writers, Phys.org, August 7, 2015
But in what could be a disconcerting harbinger for the 2010 melt season about to reach its low point during the next three to four weeks the ice thickness measured by Polarstern scientists this summer is almost exactly the same as measurements taken in the central Arctic in 2007.
Design to Win: Philanthropy's Role in the Fight Against Global Warming
Since 1928 -- the mid-point of the period 1851-2005 -- there have been 134 landfalling hurricanes as compared to 145 landfalling hurricanes prior to 1928. So there's actually been a significant decrease in hurricane frequency though global temperatures likely have warmed somewhat since 1928.
Of the 124 studies that examined the issue of whether or not there was a "Little Ice Age" between 1300 and 1900 A.D. (which Soon and Baliunas believe we are still emerging from, providing a natural explanation for recent warming), 122 found evidence "confirming the existence of the Little Ice Age."
Meanwhile, NYU happily hosted delegates from Iran , which hangs people for the crime of being gay. President Obamas Internal Revenue Service harasses conservative donors and organizations, keeps groups out of the political process, stonewalls investigators and lies with impunity. His Federal Communications Commission plans to micromanage internet access, content and operations. At the behest of hyper-partisan Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, police swat teams burst into homes belonging to Governor Scott Walker supporters, ransacked them, took computers, and told families Dont call a lawyer or else.
Schembri said the test simulated a rare and extreme scenario and noted that the fortwo had received solid ratings from the governments crash test program. The fortwo has received top scores from the Insurance Institute in front-end and side crash tests against comparably sized vehicles but in the front-end tests against the C Class, the institute gave the mini car poor marks.
In fact, from 2010 to 2011, the number of large-scale CCS plants operating, under construction, or being planned declined, said Matt Lucky, the reports author. Numerous projects in Europe and North America are being scrapped altogether, Lucky added. Last month, TransAlta, the Canadian electricity giant, abandoned plans for a CCS facility at an Alberta coal-burning plant because financial incentives were too weak to justify costly investment in CCS.
But as part of an international research project dubbed Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA), Jacob and his neighbours are now using five varieties of maize seed that are being tested in an effort increase food production and help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change.
BR: Curiously it is indeed despite the rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and also in the seas well talk more about this in more detail later the global temperature has not risen lately. How does one explain this?
But Cap and Trade which will cost jobs in carbon-intensive fields just as it creates them in solar panel manufacturing. A report from the Brookings Institution estimates that, by 2025, the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill would reduce employment by over 40% in coal-related industries and 35% in crude oil-related industries. Most of these workers would find jobs in other fields, but the overall effect on employment and GDP would be modestly negative.
During the scandal Strong declared no wrongdoing or involvement in Oil-for-Food, and was never charged. He then left the UN that year and moved to Beijing where his close friendships with top Chinese government leaders dated back to the Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse-tung.
The Chronicles lengthy editorial, No denying makes three major points, one sound and the two unsound. Yes, the scientific method requires openness and honesty, something that Climategate has revealed to be absent among top U.S. and international climate scientists who were behind the influential United Nations/Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate reports.
Pastor and Post (1988) have suggested, in the words of Menyailo and Hungate, that "changes in temperature and precipitation resulting from increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations will cause a northward migration of the hardwood-conifer forest border in North America." Consequently, if such a shifting of species does indeed occur, it will likely lead to an increase in methane consumption by soils and a reduction in methane-induced global warming potential, thereby providing yet another biologically-mediated negative feedback factor that has yet to be incorporated into models of global climate change. References
The doubling of U.S. oil production between 2008 and 2015 is an amazing story of American ingenuity, persistence, and, of course, drilling. The story is made more amazing by the fact that federal energy policy actively hindered this energy renaissance as it was taking place. In the first few months of the Obama Administration, the Department of the Interior cancelled oil and gas lease sales. In 2011, the Obama Department of the Interior blocked access to most of America's offshore oil and gas reserves, placing a de facto moratorium on drilling. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) hostility to the oil and gas industry was exemplified by regional administrator and Obama appointee Al Armendariz, who was captured on tape explaining that his policy was to "crucify" select oil and gas firms in order to terrify the others.
"How do you get rid of Hamas?" the PA's minister of planning, Ali Jarbawi, asked rhetorically in our conversation. "Produce results in the peace process! Hamas is a symptom, not a reason. It flourishes on the lack of a peace process."
This graph by Drs Christy & Spencer of UAH is referenced in Anthonys article The Ultimate Sceptical Science Cherry Pick of 10th June and will be referred to as the spaghetti graph.
UK/Australian seasonal forecasts: FAIL
???? it appears that many, perhaps all, global climate and numerical weather prediction models and even many high-resolution regional models have a premature onset of convection and overly frequent precipitation with insufficient intensity,?? ??
Dr Mann has played fast and loose with details all his professional life, starting from his original ?innocent? errors on the hockey stick to his ?innocent? promotion of himself as a Nobel Prize winner to his ?innocent? misrepresentations of these investigations in his current legal complaint. All these ?innocent? mistakes should put to rest at least one thing. It will be for a jury to decide whether he is merely careless or fraudulent, but rigour, or rigor, or any other spelling thereof, is something he knows not.
The international community has become inundated with summits. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, there was the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, the G7 and NATO; today our leaders go to all kinds of meetings, the G20, NATO summits, WTO negotiations, the Summits of the Americas, Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) meetings, and UN climate change talks, to name a few. We even have hybrid meetings such as last June's G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy where the number of attending countries expanded, arguably transforming the meeting into something like the "G8+BRICs+Friends."
When I constructed CO2 curves using Hansen's scenario assumptions and I compare his scenarios to the actual CO2 data recorded since 1988, I get an almost exact match to Scenario "A"
Some are arguing that America is a nation in decline and they can surely point to the near destruction of our nuclear energy industry as one example. That decline can begin to end in 2017 with the inauguration of a new President.
In short, exactly the opposite of what leftist activists intended let alone claim to have achieved has actually occurred. If you think 2012 marks the demise of The Heartland Institute, I suggest you check back with us in five, 10 or 20 years. Well still be here, fighting for smaller government, individual liberty and free markets just as we have for the last 28 years.
Britain Must Stop Economic Growth to Meet Kyoto Targets
Kerry-Lieberman?s domestic greenhouse gas emissions reduction schedule is 17% below 2005 emissions levels by 2020, 42% below by 2030, and 83% below by 2050. Compare that to Waxman-Markey?s 20% reduction in emissions (below 2005 levels) by 2020, 42% by 2030, and 83% by 2050. Except for a bit of relaxation of near term targets, the bills? long-term intentions are identical.
Congress will not tolerate "forgery and identity theft" in attempting to influence the passage of legislation, members solemnly intoned. The letters misled Congress and imperiled its integrity and deliberative process.
In fact, the United States and the rest of the developed countries have little role to play in the future course of global warming except as developers of new energy technologies and/or as guinea pigs of making do with less fossil fuels.
German Die Zeit's Twisted Perception: Doubt Being Fanned Worldwide By Climate Godfather Marc Morano
Video: French throw national tantrum over small reduction to pension "birthright":
The results for 400 ppm stabilization look odd in many cases As it stands
The people out there are really uncertain about the topic of climate protection, and here the IPCC has made a fundamental contribution to that. Six years ago the experts from the IPCC projected that every year the global temperature would rise 0.2C . And in 2013, thats only 6 years later, ladies and gentlemen, they are forced to backpedal and recognize that over the last 10 years the temperature has risen only zero point zero-five degrees Celsius. They erred by a huge 75%! And those who want to advise us what do for decades and prophesize whats ahead and that were supposed to act based on that, such an uncertain factual basis is surely not the fundamental basis on which to act politically, ladies and gentlemen!
UPDATE: Turns out this research vessel was mostly a taxpayer funded junket for getting video stories to BBC in the UK and ABC in Australia, see update2 below.
Every individual, as long as he did not violate the laws of justice a respect for every other persons right to their life, liberty and honestly acquired property would then be left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or group of men.
As of Wednesday, this months mean temperature was 13.2 C, which is a substantial drop from 2011s mean temperature of 15.3 degrees.
Record snow in Victorian Alps ACT Govt brings in 40% emissions target
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Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol states that emissions trading "shall be supplemental to domestic actions for the purpose of meeting quantified emissions limitation and reduction commitments ." As the Business Roundtable notes, it is unclear at this stage how much of its target the U.S. would be able to meet through "supplemental" emissions trading and how much it would have to meet through "domestic actions." The EU, for example, intends to push the position that no party should be allowed through trading to meet more than 10%-50% of its emission reduction target.24 At its recent conference, the Group of Eight the U.S., Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Italy, and Russia endorsed the use of emissions trading and other market mechanisms "to supplement domestic actions" suggesting that only part of a nation s target can be met through trading.25
A survey of all of the current tidal gauge sites around the UK coast shows that sea levels have actually fallen slightly in the last 10 years.
NEPA is therefore a recipe for stagnation, a particular problem for "gatekeeper" regulatory agencies that must grant approvals before a product can be tested or commercialized. Something must be done to change the system. But what? Short of substantive reform of the underlying statute by Congress the preferable and definitive solution agencies themselves can take some minor steps to mitigate the act's worst effects.
The campaign to make ?ecocide? a crime sums up the opportunism and censoriousness of the green lobby.
With the recent failure of the climate negotiations in Durban to agree to a meaningful successor to the Kyoto Protocol, it's hard to see how the European Trading System stays in existence for much longer. The fight over airline emissions could be the last straw.
I think it represents the soul of the company, said Chrysler executive Ralph Gilles Wednesday in introducing a resurgent Chryslers newest vehicle at the New York Auto Show.
Sir David King - 'Greens' Want to Take Us Back to 17th Century
But Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee wanted Chairman James Inhofe to drop the bill from a planned markup. He refused, the bill passed on a party-line vote, and a Senate vote will be set soon. President Obama says he will veto the legislation. Why this opposition?
What will this forced, premature elimination of America's electric capacity do?
And I have only included the best estimates from Solomon et al. and Ramanathan and Carmichael. In fact, both studies include a range of estimates. Had I used the low end of the ranges, the remaining warming from GHGs would have been quite a bit less than 50% of the "observed" warming.
That's precisely why farmers love ethanol. It increases the value of their crops. In 2007, the powerful farm lobby convinced Congress to enact a Soviet-style ethanol production quota that forces Americans to use increasing amounts of corn-fuel. As a result, U.S. farmers divert more than 500 billion pounds of corn into the fuel supply every year.
Another common set of arguments relate to inequality. Economic growth is said to benefit the few rather than the many. While a small elite has enriched itself in recent decades, the mass of the American population has been impoverished. From this perspective, it is typically argued that we must restrain growth to level outcomes.
Its been linked around quite a bit, but if you haven't seen it, Scott Adams, creator of "Dilbert", has a blog . Most of the posts are humorous, but in this post he provides a framework for thinking about humor:
A conservative Republican, in cohoots with Gore and Pelosi, arguing that we need to take action to address climate change imagine that! Key players in the Climate Denial Machine, such as web spinner Marc Morano, are holding Gingrich's feet to the fire: "Newt Gingrich is arrogant enough to believe that he doesn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else," Morano told Fox News, and went on to predict that the ad was going to hurt Gingrich with the Republican base.
Among the companies that have received Teri corporate awards is Hero Honda, a joint venture between the Japanese car company and an Indian firm that manufactures millions of motorbikes every year.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would do the world a lot of good if it adopts similar standards.
properly understood, is integral to the process. Foreign-policy-making is
Peer-reviewed pocket-calculator climate model exposes serious errors in complex computer models; The paper, Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate model , by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, Willie Soon, David Legates and Matt Briggs, survived three rounds of tough peer review in which two of the reviewers had at first opposed the paper on the ground that it questioned the IPCC's predictions. When the paper's four authors first tested the finished model's global-warming predictions against those of the complex computer models and against observed real-world temperature change, their simple model was closer to the measured rate of global warming than all the projections of the complex "general-circulation" models... The link provided for download is broken, you can find it here instead. Click "pdf".
In late August, the governor's office leaked a discussion draft of an executive order that would require Colorado state agencies to work with area utilities to achieve a 35 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from power generation by 2030. As with Obama's climate regulations, Hickenlooper is seeking to impose his preferred policy by executive fiat.
On top of the cold weather wind speeds reached 4-8 m/s, sometimes with gusts of around 15 m/s, which reduces the felt air temperature by 2 C. The weather is more like in February. These low temperatures are caused by cold northern air currents
David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.
John and Donny continue their exploration of think tanks across the country in Episode #45 of the In The Tank Podcast. Jess Fields, Article V project coordinator at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show to discuss the importance of independence and give updates on the Article V movement. Also featured in the podcast is a study by the Cato Institute about privatization and a discussion about the most patriotic states. LISTEN TO MORE
The results suggest that both vulnerable and secure households respond to weather-related events, but they do so in different ways, said Alexander, associate professor and chair of the department of anthropology, forensic science and archaeology at Baylors College of Arts and Sciences.
As Antarctic sea ice soars to record levels, experts warn that penguins are threatened by disappearing sea ice.
The next two graphs of measured lapse rates show how changes in the lapse rates change the temperature at the surface. The altitude at which this happens can be seen on the graphs of the temperature of the atmosphere as a function of altitude measured by radiosondes in different parts of the world, during existing local atmospheric conditions. The first measurements were taken at a location in Australia and shows what happens if there are more "greenhouse gases" near the surface, there is more water vapor in the air on the wet day and the temperature at the ground is lower. In the theory of AGW a small increase in the concentration of CO 2 is amplified by an increase of water vapor, and the temperature is supposed to increase. Instead in the measured data the temperature falls when the concentration is increased and the theory of AGW is hopefully dead at last.
17e. The ability of regional climate models to model precipitation values for the next 10 years
"The fast-track process has meant cutting red tape not cutting corners," Strickland wrote in an e-mail to the AP.
Which agreements specifically? Deese apparently did not name names. Fortunately, the State Department has a searchable database on International Agreements to Which the United States Is a Party (TIAS) going back to 1996. So I decided to check for environmental agreements negotiated or adopted during the Bush presidency as executive agreements rather than treaties. Using the search terms "environment" and "conservation," I find 15 environmental executive agreements. I list them at the end of this post.
?Scientists now speak of humanity?s increased demands and impacts on the globe as ushering in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Such selfish and destructive appropriation of the resources of the Earth can only be described as interspecies genocide.?
In return for running the pool, the "ERT would receive fees in the form of greenhouse gas reduction credits from the utilities." It is unclear whether ERT would sell the credits or retire them. Fred Krupp testified that ERT would retire the credits. If so this would contradict other statements made at the hearing that early action crediting would cut costs through emission trading.