Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Beginning in April 2014 and continuing to present day, Lokis Castle has been rocked by numerous earthquakes, many of significant magnitude (see Figure 2). This earthquake swarm demonstrates that active and powerful geologic forces exist just south of the Svalbard Islands. Closer to, and west of the Svalbard Island Chain, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake was recorded in January 2015.
During the month when Antarctic ice set an all-time record high, NSIDC featured an article describing how missing sea ice threatened penguins.
The studies also found that due to the long-lived nature of energy-using capital equipment, it would be very expensive to further improve energy efficiency in the short time frame contemplated by the Kyoto Protocol. Meeting the Kyoto targets is further complicated in European countries where they are moving to retire nuclear capacity.
It would be a nightmare, which is precisely why Members of Congress never have voted to subject greenhouse gases to the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court, however, bizarrely determined in 2007 (Massachusetts v EPA) the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases, even though Michigan Representative John Dingell, who authored the Clean Air Act, said that "This is not what was intended by the Congress."
Lloyd and Graumlich discuss declines in treeline during the past millennium. Evidence of this decline can be seen in this recent photo of a subfossil medieval tree in alpine tundra well above the present treeline. Whatever the cause of the changes in treeline may be, O&B; have presented no evidence that the foxtail ring width chronology (which cannot be identified in the citation anyway) is a valid proxy for long-term temperature changes.
It was no accident that Rhoades was the lead author. Adjusting historical records is essentially a data manipulation exercise peppered with statistical pitfalls and there is persistent worldwide criticism that climate scientists have very limited statistical skills.
de Miranda, Evaristo E. "Tropical Rain Forests: Myths and Facts," Environmental Gore. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 1994.
It looks as though my advice may have been followed since the previous minutes refer to contacting COPE and the latest minutes show that Richard Horton, the editor of the Lancet, has been invited to address the panel on the subject of peer review. Horton is closely involved with COPE. He doesn't appear to have been made a full panel member, however.
In the Northern Hemisphere, Figure 12, according to the models, the sea surface temperatures should be warming about 3.4 times faster than has been observed for the past 17 years. The model performance in the Southern Hemisphere is even worse, Figure 13. There, the models show a warming rate that is about 8.5 times higher than the actual warming rate. In total, for the global oceans, the models have projected a warming thats 5 times higher than the rate the oceans have actually warmed. The model trend isnt 50% higher, not twice as high, not three times. The models are off by a factor of 5. Written another way, global sea surface temperatures have warmed at a rate over the past 17 years thats only 20% of the rate projected by the multi-model mean of the climate models presented to the CMIP3 archive for use by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 4 th Assessment Report published in 2007.
I don't expect our government to answer truthfully. If they did, they might have to start a RICO investigation of themselves.
However, the EU, since the industrial revolution, has produced more cumulative emissions per capita than China, Zou said.
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1913Low Min Records Broken in Last 7 Days (272 tied) according to the NOAA . Below is a screenshot showing location and the biggest difference between old record and new record. The list is just the ones I could capture in a screenshot.Wow. Many records broken by over 30F. Imagine the old record was 15F and it is now -23F. A 38F difference.
Apparently Mr. Lazear is unaware that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle for seventeen years. A visit to
Thou shalt not worship false Prophets ??? especially sun cycles, ocean cycles, volcanic influences and ???Objective Science?? in general
So starting from the simplest zero-dimensional model (planetary energy balance model) and saying that it does not answer all relevant questions and resolve issues related to the diurnal cycle, and therefore the greenhouse effect doesnt exist, is well, I cant even find a word for this. Use a higher dimensional model and play around with it, but if the model has the correct physics, the greenhouse effect is not going to disappear. Trying to demonstrate that the greenhouse effect doesnt exist with one of these models, particularly by applying a particular model for something that is beyond the assumptions built into the model, makes no sense.
Hillary Clinton proclaims almost daily that women receive only 78 percent of the income that men receive. Her message is so misleading as to be dishonest. The 78 percent number is the ratio of women's to men's median pay. It does not adjust for occupational and other differences in the work that men and women do. For example, skilled neurosurgeons and football, baseball, and basketball stars are men. Domestic workers and hospital cleaning crews are mainly women. A recent paper by Diana Furchtgott-Roth summarized studies at Cornell and other quality economic departments. When adjustment for occupational differences are considered, the ratio is 92 or 94 percent, not the advertised 78 percent. And the remaining difference may not be due to discrimination. Differences in time in the work force, hours worked, and other factors may play a role.
Avoiding Carbon Tunnel Vision: Defining the Dimensions of "Green"
the report is clear CO2 does not account for even a majority of the warming seen over the past century. If other species accounted for 65% of historical warming that leaves only 35% for carbon dioxide. This, strangely enough, is in line with calculations based strictly on known atmospheric physics, calculations not biased by the IPCCs hypothetical and bastardized feedbacks.
If you listen to journalists, you'd think sport-utility vehicles were more dangerous than Saddam Hussein. SUVs supposedly deplete the Earth's resources, poison its atmosphere and encourage rude driving. Worst of all, because of their size they allegedly pose a grave collision threat to just about anyone who ventures outdoors. According to a recent New York Times report, the worst safety hazard is yet to come -- once these "expensive toys" depreciate and are sold by the "responsible family people" who now drive them, they'll be bought by teenagers who'll handle them even more recklessly.
Making things better won't be easy. The state needs to get serious about fixing its insurance system and doing away with the combination of the Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund that subsidize insurance rates for people living on the coast. State and federal governments should discourage continued destruction of coastal wetlands.
Lawrence Solomon's Amazon Blog: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK3RXPPYI6K709I
If those CBO subsidy numbers aren't depressing enough, consider this lagniappe from the number crunchers: EVs do little or nothing to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. EVs burn less gasoline than other vehicles. But the CBO notes that this efficiency allows carmakers to build and sell even more pickup trucks, SUVs, and other fuel-hogging vehicles while still complying with federal rules on overall fleet efficiency. "Consequently, the tax credits will have little or no impact on the total gasoline use and greenhouse-gas emissions of the nation's vehicle fleet over the next several years," said the CBO.
Chapter 3 The Top Scientists and Best Experts? makes a very valid point, but cites William Gray as an example of an expert that should have been included in the IPCC (Gray is far from the top of my list of people whose input I would value on the IPCC.)
But there was no significant reduction in global wheat production that year, though it was slightly depressed from the previous year.
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Nye, who's not actually a scientist and is best known for hosting a science show, says it's "very bad news" gasoline is selling for less than $2 a gallon he tweeted out a picture of a gas pump where you could buy fuel for $1.68 a gallon.
Despite sixteen years of no global warming, a UN climate panel nevertheless now claims it is 95% certain humans are causing global warming. Marc Morano, editor of ClimateDepot.com, says this is absurd, and here explains why: "The UN IPCC is up to its old tricks. The 95% figure is essentially a made up number by a few handpicked UN activist scientists. The IPCC is fulfilling its mission to give political leaders a scientific narrative to push for global warming regulation. As one U.K. scientist said, "The UN is simply a political organization masquerading as a scientific body.' Expect only fawning media coverage of this upcoming IPCC report."
2. The global climate has been much warmer than it is today during most of the existence of life on Earth. Today we are in an interglacial period of the Pleistocene Ice Age that began 2.5 million years ago and has not ended.
Plainly, then, the Met Office should now publicly withdraw the claim . That is, the Met Office should admit that the warming shown by the global-temperature record since 1880 (or indeed 1850) might be reasonably attributed to natural random variation.
The regional temperatures and even the global mean temperature has been changing by many degrees Celsius, up to 10 degrees or so, and these changes have taken place at all conceivable timescales, long and short. In particular, during the recent tens of millions of years when the composition of animals and plants was already virtually indistinguishable from the composition we observe (except for, most notably, some evolution of the details of mammals that occurred in recent millions of years) but the temperatures still differed by up to 10 C from the modern ones.
THE ROLE OF ideas and ideals in bringing about the Russian revolution comes into even sharper relief when we look at what was happening outside the Kremlin. A leading Soviet journalist and later a passionate herald of glasnost, Aleksandr Bovin, wrote in 1988 that the ideals of perestroika had "ripened" amid people's increasing "irritation" at corruption, brazen thievery, lies, and the obstacles in the way of honest work. Anticipations of "substantive changes were in the air," another witness recalled, and they forged an appreciable constituency for radical reforms. Indeed, the expectations that greeted the coming to power of Gorbachev were so strong, and growing, that they shaped his actual policy. Suddenly, ideas themselves became a material, structural factor in the unfolding revolution.
Another tenet of AGW theory bites the dust in the face of real-world data: AGW theory proposes that increased CO2 levels lead to increased water vapor in the atmosphere (despite empirical data which shows the opposite) and therefore supposedly lead to increased rainfall in most regions. A paper published today in the Nature Climate Change February 2012 edition studied rainfall over the Indian subcontinent 1813-2006 and finds rainfall has decreased since the 1930s as CO2 emissions markedly increased with industrialization. The data instead shows a natural, cyclical variability in mean annual rainfall that peaked in the 1870s and 1930s with absolutely no correlation to levels of CO2.
Arent there more whoppersthe powerful Category 4 and 5 monsters that will mow down pretty much anything in their path? As is the case with much severe weather, we simply see more than we did prior to satellites and (in the case of hurricanes) long-range aircraft reconnaissance. As the National Hurricane Centers Chris Landsea (with whom I have published on tropical cyclones) has shown, if you assume the technology before satellites, the number of big storms that would be detected now is simply unchanged from the past.
Additionally, see de Laat and Crok (2013) A Late 20th Century European Climate Shift: Fingerprint of Regional Brightening? The authors argue that a shift in the North Atlantic Oscillation (similar to the Arctic Oscillation) in the late 1980s caused more sunlight to warm European surface temperatures in an apparent shift. I would suspect that something similar occurred over Russia at that time as well.
Skeptics dont think for themselves, he declares. Itd be a tad more convincing if it didnt come from the man who parrots a consensus. Hes the one outsourcing his thinking. Its psychological projection run riot. Those who think check the data; those who dont poll the crowd.
A number of papers released in 2016 show glacier behavior in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) has been inconsistent with climate models and their assumption that glacier behavior is dominated by surface temperatures.
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A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that current climate models are unable to simulate the climate following large volcanic eruptions, a major cause of natural climate variability. According to the authors, the paper confirms others with the same findings and " raises concern for the ability of current climate models to simulate the response of a major mode of ."
24. With how much certainty can we attribute recent climate related disasters to climate change?
Obama also moved rapidly to get the Cabinet in place and the sub-Cabinet
Despite idealistic claims that solar PV can allow Arizona to avoid construction of new power plants, it will not. Solar is not consistent enough as a power source to meet the utilitys reliability requirements for power generation (the dispatchability problem). In addition to intermittency, the peak output of solar panels is at noon, but the peak electrical demand is in the late afternoon.
Frequency Of Early Season Hot Weather Plummeting In The US
Here is a graph of all time arctic temperatures taken from Watts Up With that HERE . It shows the entire HISTORY of arctic ice measurement. So the longest in HISTORY isnt too big a deal is it. You can clearly see the ice has GROWN from last year. You can also see that most of the sea ice melts every year.
The five Spanish researchers conclude their report by stating that their study "confirms the potential interest of using moderate CO 2 enrichment strategies in greenhouses located in areas such as the Mediterranean basin, where the agricultural sector is facing scarce and declining water resources, and needs to drastically reduce the contamination due to fertilizer emission to ensure the sustainability of greenhouse production." And, of course, it demonstrates the significant benefits that may come to open-field agriculture, as the CO 2 content of earth's atmosphere continues to rise. Reviewed 13 May 2009
As I argued in a rebuttal to former EPA Administrator Russell Train:
Martin Durkin brings us the documentary answer to global warming alarmism - recently broadcast in the UK. Enjoy:9005566792811497638UPDATE: The Telegraph has a story today on how some of the scientists interviewed for the film have received death threats and been subject to other forms of intimidation.
Scientific understanding about the Earth??s climate is tentative at best. As a result of uncertainties over what causes climate to change and how and when, there are rival theories and arguments among scientists about how to interpret the evidence.Rather than join these arguments, we have examined the processes that have been used to analyze the available data in order to derive forecasts of climate over the 21st Century. We have concluded that the forecasting process reported on by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lacks a scientific basis.
To borrow the alarmists' claim that is ritually, if absurdly, made about the science: "We have a consensus against greenhouse gas (energy) rationing, and the consensus is growing."
The first 20 ppm accounts for over half of the alleged heating effect of CO2 to the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm, by which time carbon dioxide is tuckered out as a greenhouse gas. Source
Jo Nova finds the Medieval Warm Period
Obviously it would be uncharacteristic of a talkshop post to be without some graphs and analysis, so here are the monthly page view stats since the blog started just over two years ago:
Focused on answering this important question, the three Australian researchers conducted a study where they assessed "how temperature and the coral symbionts (Symbiodinium) affect survival, symbiont uptake, settlement success and habitat choice of Acropora millepora larvae." Their work was conducted at Heron Island (Australia), where the coral larvae were exposed to seawater temperatures of 22.5, 24.5, 26.5 and 28.5C, and where within each treatment the larvae were offered symbionts with a variety of distinct thermal tolerances.
The President?s Climate Action Plan and the Electricity Industry
Mark Steyn has just filed to countersue Michael Mann for $20M. Excerpts:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Thanks to Craig Idso of CO2science.org for his fabulous collation of research and his Medieval Warming Project which is an excellent resource, try the animated map! A big thank you to John N for his work in helping to create the map.
In September, Horner and CEI filed a lawsuit against the EPA, asking the U.S. District Court to order them to produce record regarding secondary, non-public email accounts for EPA administrators, the existence of which accounts Plaintiff discovered in an Agency document obtained under a previous request which the EPA says were known only to a few EPA staff members, usually only high-level senior staff.
They lamented that Mother Nature was not cooperating with their predictions that global temperatures would smash heat records last decade. They blamed their miscalculation on sulfate emission trajectories and revised their forecast to show a cooling trend lasting until 2020.
Glassman: Now there were declining temperatures from the 1940s through the mid-'70s. Was there a lack of magnetism?
To rectify this situation President Obama should immediately approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Congress should pass laws to allow unfettered export of all fossil fuel energy resourcescoal, oil, and natural gas. Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia wrote the U.S. Congress on March 6 asking for a loosening of U.S. export limits so that they can buy American natural gas and reduce their dependence on Russia.
An educated and independent minded citizenry threatens socialism.
Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics.com , 30 March 2010
The following is the reproduction of the email exchanges involved in the contribution of our paper (Lindzen and Choi, ?On the observational determination of climate sensitivity and its implications?) to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The editor of the PNAS follows the procedure of having his assistant, May Piotrowski, communicate his letters as pdf attachments.
Pre-Industrial And Current CO2 Levels Deliberately Corrupted.
Conclusion #2: Air quality in the U.S. has improved considerably since NSR was adopted. The NSR program probably had little to do with this improvement.
At the White House, he praised President Obama's Clean Power Plan, saying "climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to a future generation."
BEDEMIR: Aah, but can you not also build bridges out of stone?
"The current public debate surrounding Wal-Mart fits within a historical context of democratic responses to changes in the retail sector. From Sears Roebuck and the emergence of the mail order industry in the late 19th century to the various chain stores that emerged during the 1920s, the American public has proven wary of retail innovations. Wal-Mart, as the largest retailer in America and the pioneer of the large discount chain store, is currently experiencing this same public wariness regarding its business practices and its role in the American economy."
Agreement 1 is a bilateral side agreement with Mexico included in the North American Free Trade Agreement to secure that treaty's approval by Congress. The side agreement established the Border Environment Cooperation Commission-National Development Bank program, which is currently budgeted at $7.1 million annually.
Cut the income of a family of four by $1,900 per year in 2016 and lead to average losses of $1,400 per year through 2035;
I imagine you had no intention that this post would devolve into another paleoclimate debate, which in the minds of some, is of course perfectly synonymous with the hockey stick debate.
Too bad you didnt stick around to see what you were protesting about, you might have found it interesting. The flyers handed out were obviously written without the benefit of knowing what was being presented that night. Kids, do your homework.
Another Example Of An Environmental Tradeoff Reduced CO2 Emissions And Lower Fuel Cost Versus Personal Safety
Actual sea level rises to date, may be somewhere between 1.4mm per year (Sceptic scientists) and 1.7mm per year (IPCC position). In calculating the prediction errors, the IPCC figure has been used. The errors would be larger if the sceptical scientists figure was used. These figures assume that the natural sea rises are included in their predictions.
Inflation Actually Near 10% Using Older Measure:
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6: He has have an amateur interest in basic economics. 7: He has self-published a small book which is now used in a college economics cours. 8: His research has always been supported 100% by the US Government. 9: No one knows whether it is currently warming. 10: Warming seems to have stopped about 15 years ago.
The credibility of official ideology, which in Yakovlev's words, held the entire Soviet political and economic system together "like hoops of steel," was quickly weakening. New perceptions contributed to a change in attitudes toward the regime and "a shift in values." Gradually, the legitimacy of the political arrangements began to be questioned. In an instance of Robert K. Merton's immortal "Thomas theorem" "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequence" the actual deterioration of the Soviet economy became consequential only after and because of a fundamental shift in how the regime's performance was perceived and evaluated.
Lord Nigel Lawson, a long-standing member of Margaret Thatcher?s cabinet where he played the key role of finance minister, published a book in 2008 reflecting both his lifelong knowledge, views and experience and the insides he acquired during his involvement in the work of the House of Lords Special Committee which, in 2005, put together the oft-cited report called ?The Economics of Climate Change?, a report that was very critical of the prevailing dogmas of contemporary environmentalism.