Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
It is the environmentalists tendency, of course to see upward prices as a reflection of actual scarcity, the consequence of environmental degradation. But the figures rarely bear out this relationship. The rights and wrongs of the Chinese governments anticipation of wheat shortage would no doubt produce debate between those of left and right persuasions about central planning and market failure. But meanwhile, the green steals a march on red and blue with vulgar economics. The climate debate descends to science .
The last monthly record in the GISS station data is June 2009. Ms. Smith would be deeply disappointed that her efforts were in vain. GISS is taking only the McMurdo data now and ignoring Scott Base. Why are we not surprised?
It looks as though there is a very strong compensatory effect from carbon dioxide fertilisation.
Sans security, I approached the rotunda alone. (Guards were present to keep the protesters from accosting the attendees who were bold enough to continue past the cluster of vocal opponents shouting accusations about "ruining the planet for the children.")
It is totally obvious how LFCSes such as Mr Boslough are "answering" such questions. They use the same methodology as if they decide whether \(\pi\) is equal to \(3.0\). Is the answer \(3.0\) good for "the cause"? Mr Boslough figures out that it is because if \(\pi\) were equal to \(3.0\) in his most famous paper, then the Christians would look like morons. As far as Mr Boslough's reasoning goes, this answers the question: the claim \(\pi=3.0\) has to be included in the paper and similar papers may be spread all over the world.
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by Dennis Ambler | December 14, 2010
On the issue of American "decline," Mann makes the essential point about how Bush foreign policy diminished U.S. influence:
In an interview with Norwegian broadcaster Sigrid Agnethe Hansen (23 June 2015), polar bear biologist Jon Aars from the Norwegian Polar Institute said (via Google Translate and some inference on my part for a few words): Last year in autumn we saw that there was more ice, particularly in denning areas.
If you question whether global warming is happening, or whether human activity is causing it, or whether it's worth doing anything about it, then you must be a crack-pot. You are standing athwart the "consensus of scientists." You are disputing "settled science." You are a "global warming denier," the moral equivalent of an apologist for the Nazi holocaust.
Here is an idea: a series of Mega Millions-like lotteries for primary and general elections, with awards that can range up to the hundreds of millions for a big general election where your lottery ticket is your voting stub.
Congress's Busy Agenda Just Got Even Busier
Slutvrdena fr concentrations after 1000 RR in turn about 1.6, 13.5 and 16. Let's see what happens if you suddenly stop fossilfrbrnningen:
All the while, Dow continued to voice support for LNG exportsit was, after all, a player itselfeven portraying itself as supportive of the DOE's evaluation process. "I think they are doing a great job of looking at the issue," said Blitz in October. "They are being conscientious. They are thinking it through. I am confident they are going to come out with a reasonably good answer that talks about energy security, consumer pricing, and domestic growth and jobs because I think those are public interest issues."
Confused visitors will be forgiven for thinking Oregon State University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Congressman Pete DeFazio and the "progressive-socialist" wing of the Democratic Party. Or for likening what's going on there to political retribution as practiced in Third World thugocracies.
Study: Climate Change To Open Arctic Sea Routes By 2050
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Here's the simple truth that most people are not told: The Sun warms the Earth and the Earth warms the atmosphere.
As impressive as these entities might want to make renewable energy appear, the growth in wind and solar power cannot possibly replace traditional energy sources, or keep up with the growth in energy demand. Nor can it be reconciled with its unsustainable impacts on vital wildlife species.
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thorough understanding of the uncertainties is essential to the development of good policy decisions. . . . Climate projections will always be far from perfect. Confidence limits and probabilistic information, with their basis, should always be considered as an integral part of the information that climate scientists provide to policy and decision makers. Without them, the IPCC could give an impression that the science of global warming is "settled," even though many uncertainties still remain. . . . Without an understanding of the sources and degree of uncertainty, decision makers could fail to define the best ways to deal with the serious issue of global warming.
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As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration rises, it is likely that rice plants will increase their nitrogen uptake and utilize this important mineral resource to enhance their biomass production and grain yield, even under conditions of low soil nitrogen availability. However, if more nitrogen is available to rice plants, it is likely that CO 2 -induced yield increases will be even greater. Thus, one can anticipate that yields of this important food crop will increase in future years, enabling the sustenance of greater human populations in areas where rice is utilized as a staple food crop.
The U.S. should act prudently by increasing its certainty about the underlying assumptions and resulting predictions of climate change, ensuring that the benefits justify the costs, and undertaking concrete commitments and actions only in the context of an overarching strategy that would actually have an impact on climate change if action is necessary.
Marshall Institute Comments on the Draft Strategic Plan of the U. S. Climate Change Science Program
As distasteful as progressives may find it, though, they may want to consider trying an updated version of their 1990s strategy, if only as an insurance policy.
The vlknde climate Professor Hans von Storch has written an interesting article in a magazine called Technologist Climate science: the shrinking middle. The article is also available as a blogginlgg on climate blog Klimazwiebel. He criticizes Dr. developments in climate science Dr. climate scientists in the head from under him by the politicization from an ever-shrinking influence on what pstS be the true picture of how the climate will develop in the future and what risks this medfr.
5. The NAS said Mann downplayed the "uncertainties of the published reconstructions...Even less confidence can be placed in the original conclusions by Mann et al. (1999) that the 1990s are likely the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year, in at least a millennium.
20 For a concise introduction to the new Great Game, see Flynt Leverett and Pierre Noel, "The New Axis of Oil," National Interest (Summer 2006), and Richard Weitz, "Averting a New Great Game in Central Asia," Washington Quarterly (Summer 2006); for the Long War, see Tony Corn, "World War IV as Fourth-Generation Warfare," Policy Review (January 2006), and "Clausewitz in Wonderland," Policy Review (September 2006).
Fear of the present: Working-class voters may believe that they and their children can move upward, but they are as or more motivated by their fear of moving downward. They recognize that their relative lack of education means they are at more risk of being laid off in downturns. Their relative lack of earning power means they find it harder to save for retirement, afford medical care, or pay for their children's education. Their relative lack of specialized skills means they are more vulnerable to competition from unskilled immigrants and more likely to remain unemployed if they lose their job. This gnawing fear that everything they have built is at risk of falling apart is a central feature of their political identity.
As I have mentioned before, I am not concerned with finding the sea level rise rate, but rather the change in sea level rise rate. But this set of data averages out to have a 20th century rise rate very close to the commonly reported tide gauge derived average of 1.8 mm/year. ( Click on image if animation does not advance .)
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The Heartland documents show that the organization is using its taxpayer-supported status to spread lies and misinformation.
Of course, we could go into the dark side of the environmental movement, which inevitably involves population control of one kind or another (usually forced upon some far-away people of a different skin color...not upon the enforcers):
"Full panic mode': Climate Institute Now Says To Expect "Warmer Colder' Winters! "They can no longer get their stories straight' "Propaganda machinery switched into high gear'
And as Steven Mosher recommended to me, use RStudio as your portal into R, much the best Ive found.
Trade union GMB has signed a landmark agreement with the fracking industry in a bid to accelerate the exploitation of shale gas and oil resources in the UK and boost local supply chains as the sector develops. In a move that is likely to anger environmental groups, GMB signed a joint charter with UK Oil and Gas (UKOOG) which argues that gas is "essential" to British industry and households and will continue to play a key role in the UK's future energy mix. Gary Smith, GMB national secretary, said gas was a matter of national security. "Our homes and large parts of British industry need gas; any suggestion to the contrary is just not real world," he said in a statement. -- Jessica Shankleman , BusinessGreen, 9 June 2015
What this overlooks is that the major environmental groups do not have a monopoly on CAA litigation. There are legions of NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) activists whowould not hesitate to petition EPA to apply PSD and BACT requirements tohalt or delayconstruction of big box stores, shoppingmalls, fast-food restaurants, and other development they find offsensive or contrary to smart growth.
Through several more years of "careful, quantitative measurement" at CERN, Mr. Kirkby predicts he and his team will "definitively answer the question of whether or not cosmic rays have a climatically significant effect on clouds." His old ally Mr. Svensmark feels he's already answered that question, and guesses that CERN's initial results "could have been achieved eight to 10 years ago, if the project had been approved and financed."
From Jo Nova a look at how the MWP looks when other data is used, not just a few trees in Yamal.
So, we can conclude as a matter of simple maths, that a climate that is stable has feedbacks which are either negative, or if they are positive, the feedback must be smaller than the original change.
From my perspective, it looks like an act of desperation on the part of DeSmog blog:
They are going to take from the western countries the very large financial resources required to do that. Monckton said, adding They will disguise it by saying they are setting up a $100 billion fund for adaptation to climate change in third world countries, but actually, this money will almost all be gobbled up by the international bureaucracy.
None of this is going down well with rural lawmakers from districts with National Forests, who fear for the livelihood of their constituents. "Why in the world would Wisconsin be importing timber from Canada rather than harvesting timber that is rotting in our National Forests?" asks Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wisconsin) (Greenwire, May, 5).
Given the new studys cost data, state governments should think twice about working with the EPA. The agency has called on states to submit compliance plans, and the regulators intend to impose a federal plan on states that dont. Either option will force states to uproot the electric grid, imposing economic hardships.
...Since the 1970s, scientists have tracked rapid uplift and subsidence of the ground and significant changes in hydrothermal features and earthquake activity. In 2001, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the University of Utah, and Yellowstone National Park to strengthen scientists ability to track activity that could result in hazardous seismic, hydrothermal, or volcanic events in the region...
My administration will not deny facts we will be guided by them, Obama said, in an apparent dig at Bush aides accused of subverting science for ideological reasons.
And in this sense, we already have carbon taxes. The U.S. (andCanada, and much of Europe) already have dozens of hidden carbon taxesvehicle fuel economy standards, appliance standards, renewable fuel mandates, building insulation standards, mass-transit subsidies, etc.
As for what this result implies, the researchers conditionally -- and rather amusingly -- state that further warming of present day Greenland climate "will result in temperature conditions that are warmer than anything seen in the past 1400 years." But, of course, their work more directly and unconditionally implies that late 20th-century and early 21st-century weather has not yet been warm enough to confer "unprecedented" status upon Greenland air temperatures. What is more, Vinther et al . readily admit that the independent "GRIP borehole temperature inversion suggests that central Greenland temperatures are still somewhat below the high temperatures that existed during the Medieval Warm Period." Reviewed 21 April 2010
The court also ordered OSTP to produce emails without redacting any of their content (as opposed to recipients' private email addresses and contact information). These emails are odd in light of OSTP's subsequent position that Holdren's claim was merely his "personal opinion," since they show taxpayer resources being used to produce the video that broadcast his statements, since a government "contractor" was used to produce the video in question. They also were exchanged among 17 federal employees working in multiple agencies (including NASA, the OSTP, and other White House offices).
You see, although there are approximately 20,000 polar bears in the Arctic and their numbers are increasing, Kazlowski is still concerned that anthropogenic global warming is going to kill them all.
It was a big weekend for the delicate diplomacy of climate change.In Brussels, EU ministers met to try to figure out how to slash greenhouse gas emissions without concomitantly putting their economies at a serious competitive disadvantage to countries that have not adopted costly emissions controls. Fortunately, French President Nicholas Sarkozy's "solution," to start a carbon trade war with the U.S. and China, was quickly discarded as too protectionist.
The storage of carbon in soil is typically assumed to decrease with global warming, thus exacerbating the rise in atmospheric CO 2 that is predicted to drive the warming. The real-world data obtained in this study contradict this assumption and prediction. In the words of the authors, "our data for boreal forest soil even suggest an increase in the C storage capacity in those soils in response to climatic warming," which would be expected to "retard the increase in the atmospheric CO 2 concentration" and thereby slow the rate of global warming.
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Two of them are a bit below that, but they all sort of have a fair bit of spread, so a bit of uncertainty, but the risk is starting to rise for El Nio later in the year.
This 800 year lag became known and past dispute by 2003, which is very significant. The old low-resolution ice core data, which showed carbon and temperature moving in lockstep for the last half million years, was the only supporting evidence we ever had that carbon caused temperature.
Having played a singing elephant on stages across the country, Cleo Berry is well acquainted with the vagaries of show business. But he still was stunned to learn that he had unwittingly become an amputee in advertisements that New York City is posting to warn of the dangers of diabetes.
All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbors, and to purchase with a part of its produce, or what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for.
Shall I send a cheque to the House of Lords? Letwin asked Lawson The UK Met Office has revised itsglobal temperature predictionsas a result of a new version of its climate model and climate simulations using it. It now believes that global temperatures up to 2017 will most likely be 0.43 deg C above the 1971 -2000 average, with an error of +/- 0.15 deg C. In reality this is a forecast of no increase in global temperatures above current levels. If the latest Met Office prediction is correct, and it accords far more closely with the observed data than previous predictions, then it will prove to be a lesson in humility. It will show that the previous predictions that were given so confidently as advice to the UK government and so unquestioningly accepted by the media, were wrong, and that the so-called sceptics who were derided for questioning them were actually on the right track. --David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 7 January 2013
CEI: What do you think of the president's economic advisers, namely Larry Lindsey and Paul O'Neill?
There was the positive: The Paris deal "establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis," President Obama said. "I believe this moment can be a turning point for the world." U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called it "a monumental success for the planet and its people."
Over the last decade opinion polls have shown steadily rising public support for nuclear power in the United States following two decades of strong public opposition. The aftermath of the Japanese nuclear crisis will reveal how robust this shift is.
In summary, contrary to Santer??s claim that none of the lapse rate trends are significant, all of them (or all but one of them) are significant relative to the three major indices using up-to-date data. As I said above, Santer et al 2008 is ???worse than we thought??.
Traditional anthropogenic theory of currently observed global warming states that release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere (partially as a result of utilization of fossil fuels) leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature because the molecules of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) absorb the infrared radiation from the Earths surface. This statement is based on the Arrhenius hypothesis, which was never verified (Arrhenius, 1896).
We are going to explain this and more in a series of blog posts. To build a better model, we had to understand the conventional basic climate model, the core model used to compute the high sensitivity to carbon dioxide. We unpack it, show the errors, then fix it. We calculate the sensitivity to carbon dioxide using this alternative model ??? which shows that the sensitivity to carbon dioxide is much lower.
Contrary to the results of many shorter-term elevated-CO 2 -exposure experiments (see Acclimation in our Subject Index), where downward (but typically not complete ) acclimation of photosynthesis has been observed, Csintalan et al . were able to report that "native mosses showed upward acclimation," indicative of an extremely positive long-term photosynthetic adjustment of the five species to life-long (indeed, multi-generational) atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. Reviewed 13 July 2005
Last week the Washington Post ran a news article that falsely claimed my organization, The Heartland Institute, received millions of dollars from Exxon Mobil and foundations affiliated with Charles G. and David H. Koch .
This high frequency is extraordinary. It is unclear what the cause of death could be, and it cannot be determined due to the extent the whales are decomposed. Researchers believe that its due to biological reasons. Young whales and mothers are especially vulnerable shortly after birth. They do not exclude the possibility that the construction of the windpark near the Darss peninsula may have been a factor .
67. It is a myth that global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate because accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures.
Hot air? White House takes credit for Bush-era wind farm jobs:
I also keep the bulk of all my stuff either on offline computers / disks or encrypted (or both). So WHEN a machine gets compromised, the bad guys get an encrypted bag of bits. I only decrypt the bag of bits on rare occasions, and then will often press the disconnect from the network button during the process so while its possible for some information to leak, its much harder. (The few hundred GB of data in the block would have to be duplicated somewhere outside of it for transmission later when networking came back I think Id notice. So the malware has a couple of race conditions to deal with. It has to do bad things during the decrypted window, which can be short, and not leave them behind in that space as it goes back to encrypted before the network connection returns)
Hence the AR4 Section 2.7.1.1.2 dismissal of the ACRIM composite to be
Exaggerating the Extent of Other Nations' GHG Reductions
Slowly, the totally one-sided view that human emissions of greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide (CO2), are causing catastrophic anthropogenic global warming/climate change (CAGW) is shifting. Contrary views are being more broadly expressed in part of the press, but not in all media outlets. The appeal to the authority of government funded research and government agency publications remains strong in many media outlets. It is strange the many of the radical children of the 1960s, who rejected government authority, now embrace it so fervently. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy.
This packagewhich provides a wealth of information toreporters, policymakers, scientists, educators, the publicand students of all levelsis posted on NSFs website .
Which computes the change in temperature with time of the 700 m deep ocean layer (dT700/dt) which has a heat capacity of Cp in response to Hansen's radiative forcings and radiative feedback in response to surface temperature changes ( Tsfc).
We don?t really want the bullshit and optimistic stuff that Michael has written
Obamas Clean Power Plan faces opposition from black, Hispanic leaders
Obama demonstrates once again that he has no interest in upholding the US Constitution or fulfilling his oath of office.
end. Prices have skyrocketed as more grains go to biofuel production or
India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world today and American companies want to benefit from the Indian economic boom. Bilateral trade today stands at $61 billion and American foreign investment in India is approximately $16 billion. However, only 10 percent of India's imports come from the U.S. and only 2 percent of American exports go to Indiain effect the same as what goes to Netherlands, a country whose population equals that of India's financial capital, Mumbai. Growth in trade would benefit both American and Indian markets. The recent announcement of over $14 billion in trade deals for American companies will potentially create over 50,000 jobs in the U.S.
The enduring myth of "accelerating" is a leftover from earlier IPCC climate reports and the original AGW hypothesis that speculated greater levels of atmospheric CO2 would generate "runaway" global warming leading to a catastrophic "tipping point" climate change. That's how 'AGW' turned into ' CAGW '.