Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Without abundant fuel and power, prosperity is impossible: workers cannot amplify their productivity, doctors cannot preserve vaccines, students cannot learn after dark, goods cannot get to market. Nearly 700 million Africans rely mainly on wood or dung to cook and heat with, and 600 million have no access to electric light . Britain with 60 million people has nearly as much electricity-generating capacity as the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, minus South Africa, with 800 million.
The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASAs history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.
Drew Thornley is the author of a new report, "Energy & the Environment: Myths & Facts," published by the Manhattan Institute.
add to that, freezing rain for Texas, snow in Arizona and New Mexico:
Since 1980 EPA has released some 4,000 pages of "guidance" and produced many (often conflicting) letters and several proposals for NSR revision, none of them finalized. Some commentators contend EPA has frequently and substantially changed its enforcement policies without going through the formal (and legally required) rulemaking procedure.17 While some concerns over enforcement are in response to policies adopted during the Clinton administration, particularly a series of enforcement actions begun in 1994, most concerns actually pre-date that administration. Three areas of enforcement policy have been the source of greatest concern.
According to Security Explorations researcher Adam Gowdiak, who sent the email to the Full Disclosure Seclist, this Java exploit affects one billion users of Oracle Java SE software.
Dear Chicken Little: The Sky Is Falling (Its Snowing) But Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Off New England Are NOTUnusual
It's 4:00 on Friday afternoon. Time to release a report with great news for the American economy, but which will leave hard-core enviros spitting, sputtering and gnashing their teeth.
"NPR fired political analyst Juan Williams Wednesday night over his statement on Fox News that he gets "nervous" whenever he sees people in "Muslim garb" boarding a plane. "
And in the past couple of months, studies of ice and snow in Antarctica suggest that the rate of snowfall there is beginning to pick upa situation which should ultimately lead to net gains in snow/ice mass there as the climate warms (Zwally et al., 2012; Boening et al., 2012). Such an occurrence is projected by virtually all climate models and ultimately results in Antarctica contributing to a decline in sea level. Admittedly, the negative contribution to sea level rise from Antarctica is expected to be slight, but nonetheless, it means that Antarctica is not going to readily shed its ice and contribute to a large and rapid sea level rise anytime soon.
Best regards, and thanks for all the fish, including the salmon that got away ...
Chapter 8, by Terry L. AndersonWater Options for the Blue Planet
The problem with such passion is that too fewincluding actors and politiciansconsider the consequences of climate policies, said Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Earlier this month, the EPA released its new Clean Power Plan, a 645-page set of regulations that aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the domestic electricity-generation sector by 30 percent by 2030 when compared with 2005 levels. The EPA claims that the new rules are needed because greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide threaten "the American public by leading to potentially rapid, damaging and long-lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of severe negative effects on human health and the environment."
The climate change projections over the 21st century reveal that the annual mean sea ice extent decreases at similar rates in both hemispheres...
(I should also discuss that that the Hamiltonian, the operator dictating how the system evolves in time, contains pieces governing the evolution of the regions around \(x\) and around \(y\) and they also commute with one another which guarantees the independent evolution of both subsystems or regions in time.)
Rulemaking on the Proposed Regulations to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Motor Vehicles
Because gasoline consumption is down, many refineries have hit a "blend wall" meaning the gasoline they are producing already contains as much ethanol as vehicle engines and related equipment can safely handle. However, the government still requires them to buy more corn-pone fuel or purchase RINs or pay hefty fines. That drives up the price of RINs and creates many opportunities or the unscrupulous.
EPA gave Gleick's group $468,000 in grants
This ends up being an average of 0.2 Watts per sq. meter for the 55 year period 1955-2010 a calculation that Levitus also made. Here's what the yearly energy imbalances look like which are required to cause the yearly changes in ocean heat content:
toward the idea of getting a box on changes in hurricanes, perhaps written by a
At the conclusion of the review in late-2009, President Obama decided to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, thereby tripling the troop level he inherited. With
So, naturally, when Elisabeth Rosenthal, a blogger on Green topics for The New York Times wondered out loud Where Did Global Warming Go? I was curious to know her answer. Turns out that, despite being heralded on the covers of Newsweek, Time, The Economist, and countless other news magazines, in TV documentaries, et cetera, it hasnt gone anywhere
Gore on the conference call acknowledged that cap-and-trade was dead and that the alarmists had lost in 2010. He bitterly blamed the usual suspects: Big Oil, King Coal, right-wing media, and professional deniers (I believe that is where he would put me and CEI). This is boilerplate nonsense. Three of the big five oil companies (BP, Shell, and Conoco Phillips) support cap-and-trade, as well as most of the big electric utilities (Duke Energy, P G and E, Exelon, PNM Resources, Entergy, etc.) and many other major corporations, such as General Electric, Dow Chemical, General Motors, and Ford Motor. Cap-and-trade died when the American people found out that it was a colossal transfer of wealth from them to corporate special interests (see the list in the previous sentence).
The experts have simply mixed up cause and effect when observing how clouds and temperature vary. The book reveals a simple way to determine the direction of causation from satellite observations of global average temperature and cloud variations. And that new tool should fundamentally change how we view the climate system.
Then interestingly, just last month, John Hinderaker cited the original study by Mr Hammer at Powerline and other studies, concluding:
there is no individual model that does well in all of the SST and water vapor
Moderator Christy George started by noting in her introduction that Marc serves as communications director to Sen. James Inhofe, saying "he is sort of his Karl Rove, or maybe his Dan Bartlett." Given the political leanings of the crowd, this cannot exactly be considered a compliment.
Even when the economic outlook looked brighter, the United States led criticism that the existing Kyoto Protocol's requirements on cutting greenhouse gases would prove too costly for rich countries.
Yet Curry herself is convinced that some of those facts are seriously exaggerated, and that the IPCC has failed to acknowledge the real uncertainty in the science. As a result, she's been engaging with climate outsiders, including outright skeptics, and trying to force her colleagues to acknowledge some of what she considers serious flaws in the IPCC process. She's been denounced, sometimes vehemently, for her efforts.
Arctic Sea Ice: Last week, TWTW linked to an article by Joe D??Aleo stating that the Arctic sea ice has stopped melting short of the observed record made in 2007. He was challenged on several blogs including claims of cherry picking data, but appears to be correct. As typical, with the fall equinox, Arctic daily average temperatures are falling and, as measured by the Centre for Ocean and Ice of the Danish Meteorological Institute, are more than 10K below freezing.
The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region are warmest in December during a typical El Nio and coolest in December during a typical La Nia. That is, El Nio and La Nia events normally peak in December.
"Sadly, by expanding the ranks of energy-rationing profiteers, the early credit provision in Senator Hagel's bill would sweep into history's dustbin his great legislative achievement, the anti-Kyoto Byrd-Hagel resolution. Our joint letter alerts the Senate to the hidden political and economic perils of an early credit program," said Lewis.
Borden noted oil tankers will still be able to traverse the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and telecommunications companies would still be able to lay cable, but fisherman can no longer trawl for crabs, lobsters squid and other delicious seafood.
Statistics Of Loebs Observed Changes In Top-Of-The-Atmosphere Radiation And Upper-Ocean Heating Consistent Within Uncertainty
DENNIS T. AVERY, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC., an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Hundred Years, Readers may write him at PO Box 202, Churchville, VA 24421 or email to cgfi@hughes.net
Today's liberal progressives are directly descended from the "New Left" of the 1960s. By this I do not mean student radicals, SDS members, Yippies, and others of the radical fringe of this movement. Instead, I define the "New Left" as those Americanslargely bearers of college and postgraduate degreeswho sought not merely to ameliorate some of the hardest edges of American life, as FDR did with the New Deal, but rather to transform American life now. They sought to eliminate, not ameliorate, poverty now. They saw Americans' pursuit of ever-increasing wealth as an impediment to these goals; why should already well-off families have more when some people had little? And they saw American defense spending as a crucial obstacle to these goals; if no one was attacking us directly, why shouldn't we spend on butter rather than bombs?
The EU carbon permit price, at its current low of around ten dollars per tonne, is not a reflection of the cost of meaningful climate change action. Rather it is an artefact of Europes economic mess and policy preferences. And the current CDM price of around $5 per tonne is indeed the price at which these emissions offset credits can be bought in secondary markets, but it bears no resemblance to the actual and expected carbon prices in major trading schemes including the EU, California and South Korea. None of these schemes expect to have their domestic price set in international offset markets.
The third emphasis should be on increasing adaptive capacity and building resiliency in societies. As several important papers by Indur M. Goklany have shown using official IPCC and British government data, the costs of addressing potential adverse impacts caused by global warming directly are much lower than by addressing them indirectly through emissions reductions. Mr. Goklany has also shown that the IPCC computer model forecasts of future temperature increases predict that a richer-but-warmer world will be better off than a poorer-but-cooler world. Modern industrial societies are already resilient, not least because they have lots of energy. Subsistence societies, on the other hand, are vulnerable to bad weather and to changes in climate. Building resilience in poor societies requires access to modern energy.
All in all, while some of the folks in the links are a bit strange, its an interesting winding back road to visit. Still, I find myself wondering how I got here, and why, and just where is that on ramp to the freeway back to mainstream civilization
The State Department predicts that building the pipeline will create:
Science & Medicine antarctica: frozen $46m runway melting ...
It's not just the final numbers in the markets that may breed this jealousy. One may see the edge internally, too. Volkswagen has developed the MQB platform architecture one of the essential parts of a good state-of-the-art VW Group car that the koda's success depends upon. However, it turns out that Volkswagen proper has only incorporated it in 20% of the models they produce. In koda, the percentage is 40%. The adoption of the good new trends seems to be faster in Mlad Boleslav than in Wolfsburg. VW Group Winterkorn recently said that investments like MQB have helped (brands like) koda disproportionately.
Air quality has been gradually improving in most of the U.S., a trend that began in the 1950s when states began passing air pollution laws targeting mostly smoke and particulate emissions (commonly known as soot).7 As Indur M. Goklany writes:
Seitz was the first president of the National Academy of Sciences and is a winner of the National Science Medal. Now hes a prime target of a government smear campaign. Hes been slammed in government journals and the mainstream press for his departure from the party line on global warming.
McKibben asserts methane, the primary component of natural gas, is escaping into the atmosphere in sufficient quantities that burning natural gas to generate electricity could cause more global warming than burning coal. He argues in favor of his view by showing methane is more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but he arrives at these conclusions by cherry-picking data helpful to his cause; ignoring studies that arrive at different conclusions; and reporting discredited studies as Gospel truths.
Politicians decided to close their eyes to the real environmental science because of the dollars that biofuel lobbyists were throwing around. The same lucre-spreading is happening in regards to cap and trade CO2 legislation.
Consider the ironies: A tribal party ended up nominating a man who has a very loose connection to the party and has had as many party affiliations in the past as he has had wives. A party moving toward more strident right-wing ideology, reflected in the candidacy of Ted Cruz, chose a nominee who is against free trade, has a long history of pro-choice sentiment, boosts Social Security, Medicare, and Planned Parenthood, and can sound like a neo-isolationist.
Some of this you couldnt make upan EPA employee who workded for 20 years at home? Corruption and coverups.
Budziszewski gives an illustration of Natural Law from the play Antigone , by Sophocles:
Note that the PDFs and ranges given for Otto et al. (2013) are slightly too high in the current version of Figure 10.20a. It is understood that those in the final version of AR5 will agree to the ranges in the published study.
I have written on the CPP twice in the past few monthsoriginally when it was first announced on June 2, and then after I gave testimony in Atlanta at one of the EPA's four scheduled "listening sessions." Upon release, we didn't really know muchafter all, it is, as the Senators' letter explains, complex and sweeping. But as more and more information is coming out, we see that the impact to the economy and U.S. energy security will be devastating.
David Montgomery of Charles River Associates raises additional concerns about the Administration s cost estimates. According to Montgomery, Dr. Yellen has looked only at the "direct" costs of compliance, ignoring the "ripple effects" of higher energy prices throughout the economy. Furthermore, Dr. Yellen apparently assumes that the $6.3 billion Climate Change Technology Initiative would increase the annual rate of energy efficiency improvement from 1% to 1.25%, yielding an additional 40% boost in energy efficiency over the next 12 years at no cost.28 Yet, as Montgomery notes, "Increasing the annual rate of efficiency improvement from 1% to 1.25% gives only a 4.5% improvement in energy efficiency over 12 years, not 40%. This is a simple compound interest calculation."29
Areview of climate policies indicates thatmarket fixinghas had many consequences that one can only hopeits architects did not intended.
The word like is positively loaded with ambiguity. Not to be redundant, but write out the last question mathematically.
It's also obvious what the Democratic Congress won't demand of Detroitthey won't call on the Big Three to significantly renegotiate the absurdly generous pension plans the unions demanded and irresponsible past CEOs agreed to.
the vetting process for potential Cabinet and sub-Cabinet members before the
A new study very well worth reading by Ermolli et al. (2013) looks at the influence of the spectral variation of solar radiation (SSI), especially the ultraviolet spectrum: It is fluctuating much more strongly, by up to 10% between a quiet and an active sun. And at low solar activity, it generates precisely the pattern in the wintertime that weve been seeing since 2006: The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which impacts the temperature in the Eurasian region especially in the wintertime, is controlled and effected by the UV radiation of the sun. When there is less solar activity, it gets colder in the region. This is precisely what we are observing, and the large part of the deviation observed in the pure GHG models stems precisely from that. Shouldnt this be a wake-up call for the climate scientists to look more closely at SSI? This should have been done long ago. However, that would have meant conceding that CO2 is not everything.
More valuable than any of these estimates, which depend on many variables that can change unpredictably, is the report's clear economic logic and common sense.
The more accurate method to assess heat (and cold) waves is to use the anomalies of temperature in the lower atmosphere. This provides a more spatially representative measure of such extreme weather events than does the surface temperature trend assessment which relies on point measurements, often at poorly sited locations. We have a paper under review that uses this approach (anomalies of the lower tropospheric temperatures) with respect to the 2003 European heat wave. The full paper will be announced on the Climate Science website when accepted, but several of its conclusions can be summarized as in the following;
A profound tragedy is unfolding in New Orleans, the most beautiful city in America, with the richest cultural history and the most wonderful style of living. I lived in New Orleans for seven years. I was married there. My children were born there. I have many friends there.
It is no coincidence, then, that working-class voters regularly turn from Democrats when liberal progressivism is on full display. In this election, with liberal progressivism on display as boldly as it has ever been, the reaction will be stronger than it has ever been. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Kansas; working- and middle-class voters just want something different from what liberal progressives offer.
Results of the experiment revealed the following: (1) survival was "100% at both temperatures and across all pH treatments," (2) metabolic rate increased as pH decreased in the low temperature treatment, while there was no significant difference across the different pH treatments in the high temperature regime, (3) muscle appearance and density did not change over either the temperature or pH treatment ranges in established or regenerated arms, (4) a faster response time in movement (motility) was observed at low temperature and low pH, (5) brittlestars across "all treatments had the same net calcification throughout the experiment," (6) arm regeneration rate within the low temperature treatment was "unaffected by the length of arm lost and the rate was similar between all pH treatments," (7) arm regeneration rate was significantly faster at higher temperatures than lower temperatures.
Koppen modified his system, with revisions in 1918 and 1936, the last was 52 years after his first publication. He was not done. He died in 1940 at the age of 90 but not before he had produced a more sophisticated system with another every important early climatologist, Rudolf Geiger. It is called the Koppen-Geiger system and is still used (Figure 2).
It's unclear why the committee didn't immediately exonerate Mann of the fourth allegation seriously deviating from accepted practices within the academic community except that by leaving it open, the committee apparently hoped to rebuild "public trust in science in general and climate science specifically."
A chain, we all know, is only as strong as its weakest link. We must have extraordinary confidence in the integrity of every link before we trust it. Has the process been sound? Has the globe warmed? Are we humans to blame? Will any warming continue? Would the impacts be terrible? Would the proposed solutions do any meaningful good? Will the benefits exceed the costs? Let any link in this chain of questions fail, and the treaty cannot be justified. It would be all pain, no gain and should be scrapped.
Distances	68 km (42 miles) WNW (290) from Kandrian, New Britain, PNG
In fact, the statistical model that they adopted has been rejected by essentially everyone. In particular, it has been rejected by both the IPCC and the CCSP, as cited in my previous message. I know of no work that presents argumentation to support their choice of model: they have just adopted the model without any attempt at justification, which is clearly wrong.
Carbon dioxide, a trace gas absolutely essential for human and other life, is currently four one-hundredths of 1 percent of the atmosphere.
In another action, the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Trade Commission and State of California agreed to a $14.7 billion settlement with Volkswagen, to compensate 482,000 buyers who bought diesel cars that the company illegally made appear less polluting than they actually were.
How Climate Change Has Got Worldwide Fund for Nature Bamboozled
This incredible theory finds evidence of a deep-space collision between Earth and Mars 10,000 years ago. The impact recorded in crater evidence that survives to this day sent the Earth reeling closer toward the sun, putting it in the path of greatly increased solar radiation. Its that change and not human activity that has led to the very real warming phenomenon, Dr. Orkan finds.
This means that the plateau or pause in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years.
on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 am and is filed under News.
These disclosures highlight a key fact with respect to global temperature data: the data sets are utterly lacking in integrity. Global warming alarmists confidently announce that worldwide temperatures have risen by, say .1 degree over a decade. It would be extraordinarily difficult to take measurements at many locations around the globe that would actually demonstrate that proposition. But the real situation is much worse: no one tells you what temperatures were actually measured at the worlds weather stations. Rather, they report claims of global warming based on adjusted temperature dataadjusted by alarmists, with the systematic purpose of manufacturing a rising temperature trend. If you subtract the adjustments, it may well be that there has been no net warming over the last 100 years at all.
The results are quite amusing. The American MSM merrily sails on, rolling out the same stock "sky is falling" climate change articles they have for years then, in the online comments, ordinary Americans tear them apart for their lies, as with this example from the Washington Post.
The blizzard accounted for the deaths of an estimated 45,000 head of livestock, reports said.