Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
There was the negative: "In the hot, sodden mess that is our planet as 2015 drags to a close, the pact reached in Paris feels, in a lot of ways, like an ambitious agreement designed for about 1995, when the first conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Berlin," The New York Times editorialized. It's too modest and unenforceable for them. Others were cautiously optimistic.
Their claim that I had never mentioned the rejection of this comment at Climate Audit is simply untrue. Osborn stated that he was unwilling to search through hundreds of comments at Climate Audit, but how can CRU pretend to have a basis for claiming that I had never mentioned the rejection of the comment at Climate Audit if they havent thoroughly examined the thousands of posts and comments. If CRU did not carry out the requisite examination, they should refrain from making claims that can only be made responsibly on the basis of a thorough examination. BTW I was able to locate mentions of this rejection (theres more than one) in a few minutes, but I had an idea of where to look.
EPA's narrow interpretation of the RMR&R; exclusion is discouraging investments in efficiency improvements by utilities, even though such improvements are closely linked to lower emissions and are encouraged by other federal and state environmental programs. The type of modification to electric generators proposed by Detroit Edison, for example, would reduce the amount of coal needed to generate the same level of power by about 112,000 tons per year.24 Detroit Edison estimates 1,000 other electric utility units in the U.S. could similarly replace their turbine blades, reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 81 million tons per year.
A second possibility is a long-term decrease in middle and upper tropospheric humidity, and no increase in convective mixing. In this case, daytime mixing would bring down the lower humidity air to the surface from the same altitude as before. There is some radiosonde evidence for such a decrease in absolute humidities above the turbulent boundary layer (e.g. Paltridge, 2009 ). If real, such a decrease might well result in negative water vapor feedback, since a small decrease in mid- and upper tropospheric humidity can have a natural radiative cooling effect which outweighs the warming from a larger increase in lower tropospheric humidity (e.g. Spencer and Braswell, 1997 ; Miskolczi, 2010 ). Of course, all climate models exhibit strongly positive water vapor feedback, approximately doubling the direct warming effect of increasing CO2 alone.
Rather than raise our cost of energy to lower our emissions, it would make more sense to subsidize natural gas plants in developing countries to lower their reliance on coal and wood.
Business groups said the paperwork and costs involved in complying with the CRC scheme could put a significant new burden on companies already struggling in an uncertain economic climate. The Bank of England is expected to underline fears about the economy today with forecasts for faltering economic growth and persistent inflation.
So, with the major groups at the bargaining table with the government, whose watching out for the environment in our own backyards?
Even with improvements, however, dry, objective measures such as GDP fail to capture a lot of life. Robert Kennedy articulated this concern in a speech in 1968 when he lamented that GDP "measures everything . . . except that which makes life worthwhile." GDP positively reports the use of resources, for example, but it fails to account for depletion of those resources, whether due to environmental damage or unhealthy working conditions.
Gee, we need to show more sea surface warming during the hiatus, but we dont want to increase the trend since about 1982.
"The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday that it lost $8.5 billion dollars this fiscal year and blamed its financial problems on a significant decline in mail volume. The USPS operates off the revenue it generates from stamps and shipping costs, though it also has a $15 billion line of credit with the U.S. Treasury."
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the "Great Die-Off."
Consistent with these historical observations are the reported experimental studies 9 that show that calciferous marine organisms are much more immune to the effects of ocean acidification than is usually supposed. In fact these experiments suggest that even for some of the extreme projections of ocean acidification most of the organisms are likely to survive or adapt.
how to restore "climate change" as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year's Copenhagen summit;
Lynnwood was MUCH worse, spiking well into the UNHEALTHY levels for everyone (about 120). The red line shows preceding 24-h averages.
As if to confirm this point, we watch in bemusement as the sea ice resolutely refuses to do what anyone expects. The Greenland ice melt has gone fast, then slow and some are even claiming that the refreeze has started weeks ahead of schedule. The pause in the alleged Arctic death spiral looks set to extend to another year, but the Antarctic has blipped below its long-term mean for the first time in years.
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Last week the US had the opportunity to put a responsible adult in charge off the country. Instead we got a repeat performance ofspectacularincompetence for the next four years. Obama is right back to where he was four years ago, claiming that he can control the weather.
On the same day, February 20, NASA's James Hansen was speaking in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Lensic Theater, with a follow-up presentation the next day at the Santa Fe Institute where he proposed "a steep energy tax to curb global warming."
This hearing was followed by a special seminar organized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, using the same format but focusing on scientific topics. The Academy will soon publish a report about this seminar.
The nineteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in Warsaw, Poland in November. The Warsaw meeting was designed to develop an international approach for controls on the release of green house gases (GHG) to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expired last year. A key issue is devising compensation for poor countries for the costs of adapting to climate change. With developed countries like the US and those of Western Europe mired in slow or zero economic growth, this is likely to be a tough sell. Even if things were moving along better in developed economies, however, little would come of these meetings.
Well meaning collectivists (you can call them Commies) dont care about results or solving problems, they care about power and control.
Fuel economy standards compel automakers to please government planners rather than satisfy consumers. Thats a recipe for an auto industry with lower sales, reduced profits, and fewer jobs.
A new review paper from SPPI and CO2 Science concludes, " In summation, and in view of the numerous similar findings from across a wide and varying geographic area, it would appear that much of Canada has (1) experienced less-variable extreme moisture conditions, as both it and the rest of the world have emerged from the relative cold of the Little Ice Age and are now basking in the greater warmth of the Current Warm Period, and that (2) this finding appears to be independent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration."
The key to this scam, designed to curb global warming, is a scheme known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), set up under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and administered by the UN. It enables firms and governments in the developed world to buy "credits" which allow them to continue emitting greenhouse gases. These are sold to them, through well-rewarded brokers, from firms in developing countries that can show they have nominally reduced their emissions.
Sir Humphry laughed his marvelous laugh, and said , You know, I have only two skills in this liferiding horses, and recognizing quality. I saw these in a bunch of old rubbish behind a shop in Crimea, and bought them and brought them back. Well, naturally, how foolish of me not to have guessed. Of course, being Sir Humphry, he had exact replica period wooden cannon mounts made for them.
Experts featured on the program are Fred Singer, Richard Lindzen, Willie Soon, Craig Idso, Lord Christopher Monckton, Joseph D'Aleo and E. Michael Smith. We also feature two musical items by the Minnesotans for Global Warming. I thank you one and all for being a part of the program, which we hope will have along life and be rebroadcast on many outlets and eventually be shown in schools to balance the Gore flick.
This narrated video gives an overview of net primary production and the carbon cycle. High-resolution data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, indicate a net decrease in NPP from 2000-2009, as compared to the previous two decades. Credit: NASA/Michelle Williams
Lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuba during the entire month of February. Ties the record low temperature for ANY month of the year.
34 D. J. Gubler, Resurgent vector-borne diseases as a global health problem, Emerging Infectious Diseases 4, 442 (1998).
Of this estimate, $74 billion comes directly from the output of new hydrocarbon production alone. The rest is generated by multiplier effects as the surge in economic activity drives higher wealth, spending, consumption and investment effects that ripple through the economy. This potential re-industrialization of the U.S. economy is both profound and timely, occurring as the U.S struggles to shake off the lingering effects of the 2008 financial crisis.
Kuroyanagi et al . conclude that if oceanic pH remains within the range of 8.2 to 7.9, the "large foraminifers should be able to maintain present calcification rates," but they note that any further drop in pH could lead to reduced rates of calcification. We hasten to add, however, that although the IPCC's A2 scenario predicts a maximum pH decline of approximately 0.5 pH units by about AD 2270, the more recent analysis of Tans (2009) suggests a maximum pH drop of only about 0.14 unit at about AD 2090, after which pH begins to rise to asymptotically return to its current value after several hundred years. This latter projection, therefore, suggests that oceanic pH will not even -- or ever -- come close to creating a major decline in M. kudakajimensis calcification rate. Reference
In the words of Lozano-Garcia et al ., "the data from Lago Verde strongly suggest that during the Little Ice Age lake levels and vegetation at Los Tuxtlas were responding to solar forcing and provide further evidence that solar activity is an important element controlling decadal to centennial scale climatic variability in the tropics ( Polissar et al ., 2006 ) and in general over the North Atlantic region ( Bond et al ., 2001 ; Dahl-Jensen et al ., 1998 )." References
26 "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change," Center for Naval Analyses, CNA, 2007.
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Climate change mitigation will increase demand for deployment of less carbon-intensive forms of energy, including hydropower some of which have historically resulted in social conflict and human insecurity (for example because of forced resettlement), and this is a basis for concern about increased violence and insecurity in the future (Conca, 2005; McDonald-Wilmsen et al., 2010; Sherbinin et al., 2011). Other research points to an increased use of nuclear power increasing the threat of nuclear proliferation or incidents of nuclear terrorism (Socolow and Glaser, 2009, Steinbruner et al., 2012). Climate policy responses also have the potential to reduce conflict in various ways, as explained further in Section 12.5.4.
IER's Kish deemed the climate report "a scare tactic designed to excuse the President's agenda of centralizing power in Washington and making energy more expensive and jobs harder to find."
When Heartlandgate first broke, I saw no parallels with Climategate. Now, with the involvement of Gleick, there most certainly are parallels. There is the common theme of climate scientists compromising personal and professional ethics, integrity, and responsibility, all in the interests of a cause.
This question of "strategic literacy" of NATO leaders cannot be overemphasized at a time when NATO allies are elaborating a new (i.e., post 9/11) strategic concept. The task promises to be a daunting one if only because, since the end of the Cold War, the very concept of "strategy" has become increasingly problematic in the West in no small part because the concept of the "West" itself is no longer self-evident.7
Highlights New Video of Top EPA Official Admitting "Pain" of EPA Regs on Coal Communities
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Let us note the political strategy that will be pursued in trying to get the Senate to go along. First, politicians will be nudged with the bogus claim that "the American people" are mightily concerned about global warming. Even before Kyoto, the New York Times concocted a poll finding that 65 percent of those polled (by telephone) believe the United States should take steps to cut emissions right now, "regardless of what other countries do." The bogus nature of these polls, and the political aims of the organizations that conduct them, must be made explicit. The newspaper avoided publishing the wording of its questions and the sequence in which they were asked. But it is clear that human agency global warming was presented as a fait accompli, with all scientific controversy excised.
The videos also have a host of other misrepresentations, including stating that the model-predicted tropical tropospheric hot spot has been observed ( it has not ),that only by including CO2 (imaginary) positive feedbacks can models predict temperature (without including any consideration of ocean oscillations, clouds, water vapor effects, etc.), and many others. Sad day for science.
In 1984, Green and Schwarz figured out how the anomaly works in type I superstring theory with the \(SO(32)\) gauge group which is given by a hexagon diagram in \(d=10\) much like it needs a triangle in \(d=4\) but the same trick may apply even after compactification. The new spin-one gauge field is told to transform surprisingly nontrivially under a gauge invariance of a seemingly independent field, a two-index field, and the hexagon is then cancelled against a 2+4 tree diagram with the exchange of the two-index field.
"Thumbing its nose at property rights, the Los Angeles City Council has just passed an ordinance requiring big-box stores like Home Depot to build shelters for the day-laborers (virtually all illegal aliens) who congregate on their premises. Recently, the City Council passed an ordinance banning new fast food restaurants in predominantly-minority South Central Los Angeles, enforcing what Slate's Will Saletan has called "Food Apartheid.' Although the ban was passed in the name of fighting obesity, it may well increase obesity, since the junk food sold in convenience stores is often much less nutritious than a Big Mac or Quarter Pounder."
" The principal finding of this work is that of the strong correlation between flood-rich phases and solar magnetic activity."
Mann recounted interviews in which administration officials spoke in identical
New York City turned to crime when the lights went out in the
It is also clear from ice core data that the climate after each of the last 4 ice ages warmed to more than 2degrees C higher than today before dropping 8 degrees all without human help. Each time it did return to lower temperatures. It is also clear from ice data that for the last 10k years the climate has warmed and cooled naturally more than we have seen recently.
The results aren't pretty, and they generally get worse over time as the Act's emission caps tighten. Relative to baseline levels, ACESA would:
what he has done comes to a different conclusion than Caspar and Gene!
In light of Laird et al .'s discovery that there have been "no modern equivalents" to Northern Great Plains droughts experienced prior to AD 1200, it would appear that 20th-century global warming has done nothing to exacerbate drought conditions in this part of the world. Therefore, any claims to the contrary are clearly incorrect. References
What is also blatantly obvious is the warming of the tropical Pacific to depth is dependent on 4 La Nia events. And according to Trenberth et al. (2002) and Trenberth and Fasullo (2011), sunlight warms the tropical Pacific during La Nias, not infrared radiation from manmade greenhouse gases. (In the real world, downwelling longwave radiation decreases during La Nia events.)
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* Sea surface temperature trend (Victor Gouretski-GRL, 2012) = 0.2 F/decade
For if such evidence was detectable at the North Pole, it would be equally detectable at the South. But in Antarctica, evidence of human warming is so completely absent that the place is cooling.
For environmentalists, it does not matter if the real climate is a deep cold. They committed to the lies about global warming in the late 1980s and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel and Climate Change (IPCC) has maintained the hoax ever since. Along the way we learned that the computer models on which it based its assertions and predictions were rigged and bogus, but that has not deterred the IPCC which is now referring to a "pause" in global warming. This is lying on a global scale.
Dyson came to this country from his native England at age 23 and immediately made major breakthroughs in quantum theory. After that he worked on a nuclear-powered rocket (see video below). Then in the late 1970s, he got involved with early research on climate change at the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Let s examine the case for a climate treaty through a series of questions.
Yesterday, the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply reported a slowdown in British manufacturing exports to Europe.
It's not clear whether the Judiciary Committee will act on this or whether a bill will come to the floor of the House, much less the Senate.
One reason is, of course, because scientists like Pederson know the public will lose faith in the AGW theory if what it predictswarmingisn't occurring. How silly of the public to demand actual evidence of warming before making some very expensive decisions to cope with warming, but there it is.
Another deceptive value is that few know how a greenhouse works and even fewer the atmosphere. Indeed, nobody knows how the atmosphere works. If they did, weather and climate forecasts would work.
The country is not fully electrified and is subject to a large number of power cuts and power reliability uncertainties. In order to resolve this, India urgently requires many new installations, with coal a significant contributor.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, said that he "respected" the Pope. We have never heard a radical feminist to have said that they "respected" Lawrence Summers. In this sense, the radical Islamists look more reasonable than the feminists in the otherwise isomorphic sequences of events - but it may be just a consequence of selective bias. ;-)
States in decades past. In the same vein, the limits Obama put on the American
In his excellent book "Antifragile," Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers two insights that may helpful to anyone grappling with the science of climate change and the follow-on policy implications. Both are based of the following NNT anecdote:
The report, entitled Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, is a cost/benefit analysis which claims that reducing the future population is the cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions. Although the report stresses that non-coercive means should be pursued to reduce births, its terms of reference are somewhat Orwellian in tone:
Next consider the two balls in the ellipse on the upper border of the corridor on the left panel. If these balls had also been deflated by 0.38 psi, their implied temperature in the right panel would be much too high. Indeed, any deflation for these two balls would move them too high in the right panel. For these two balls, I guessed that there was zero deflation and, using this assumption, they fit nicely in the right panel.
The latest result was released by LifeWay Research, a Southern Baptist-affiliated polling agency. It was based on a survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors of various denominations in October 2010.
Thus T is the global average surface temperature ?. However, where is this temperature and its change with time, T, diagnosed?
I dont wish to demean the proud hard working people in Newcastle in any way, I just thought this was very odd and worth noting. Thanks to everyone who attended our talk. A special thank you to the two protesters handing out flyers at the city hall telling everyone how wrong we are.
These aerosol effects make the challenge of accurately predicting changes in climate even more difficult just from the direct and semi-direct aerosol effects identified in the Kim et al 2012 paper.
As Prahalad points out, over four billion people in the world lived on an annual income of $1,500 or less (in 2002 dollars), with one billion living on less than a dollar a day. Nevertheless, based on purchasing power parity, this market represents an economy of $13 trillion or more, not that far off from the entire developed world.
"No matter what the weather is like, it always turns out to be exactly the kind of weather we should expect if human activity were causing global temps to rise'
"Magnus v. U.S., decided today, concludes that a defendant who pled guilty in 1996 to violating D.C. handgun ban can now have that plea set aside given D.C. v. Heller, assuming his conduct was indeed protected by the Second Amendment (and didn't, for instance, involve the possession of a gun to facilitate an illegal drug transaction). "A conviction for conduct that is not criminal, but is instead constitutionally protected, is the ultimate miscarriage of justice," and a defendant can therefore ask to have it set aside (via a petition for coram nobis relief) even many years later."
In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Patrick Jenevein, CEO of Tang Energy Group whose website lists developing wind farms as one of its projects, agrees: "Without subsidies, the wind industry would be forced to take a hard fresh look at its product. Fewer wind farms would be built, eliminating the market-distorting glut. And if there is truly a need for wind energy, entrepreneurs who improve the business's fundamentals will find a way to compete."
In the meantime, a negotiation that allows countries to make and trade-off a wide variety of relevant actions might make far more sense than one in which all transactions have to take place in the coin of emission caps. Some countries with strong green lobbies might still wish to offer caps. Others might pledge R&D; spending, sectoral GHG caps, aid to poor nations for adaptation, or more funding for climate science.