Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In order to help clear the air on clouds, the National Science Foundation is releasing an online multimedia package on the role of clouds on climate change, entitled, Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change. It addresses such pressing questions as, will clouds help speed or slow climate change? Why is cloud behavior so difficult to predict? And how in the world are scientists learning to project the behavior of these ephemeral, ever-changing, high-altitude phenomena?
'Intimidation Campaign': Subpoenaed Free Market Group Blasts AG's Climate Change Shutuppery
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Paul Chesser, GlobalWarming.org , 31 March 2010
As water is widely stated to be a much more potent green house gas, ought there not to be some visible impact from this stuff? I mean, if it can be wobbled back and forth from near none to near 100% humidity, that ought to show some effect if the GHG thesis has legs, no? If it is trapping heat, then there ought to be some heat trapped. And if it is not, then that argues for other effects being larger.
The weather bringing the snow is the same cold southerly system which has brought unseasonal cold to Adelaide.
36 James L. Johnston, "Emissions Trading for Global Warming," Regulation, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1998), pp. 19-23).
We might eventually displace some coal when we find an economical way to liquefy natural gas; making it easier to transport. But it won't be a lot of coal, and the carbon reductions would be modest in any event. Every other alternative on the low-carbon diet plan entails a significant energy overhead, too. Scrubbing huge amounts of carbon dioxide out of smokestacks and tailpipes isn't easy and can't be done without sharply reducing efficiency. We already pay significant efficiency overhead for the scrubbers that remove comparatively tiny amounts of sulfur dioxide from coal plant smokestacks and for the catalytic converters that remove comparatively tiny amounts of nitrogen oxide pollutants from tailpipes.
As shown in the accompanying figure, the 11 B-derived pH values for the South China Sea fluctuated between a pH of 7.91 and 8.29 during the past seven thousand years, revealing a large natural fluctuation in this parameter that is nearly four times the 0.1 pH unit decline the acidification alarmists predict should have occurred since pre-industrial times.
He said he had answered an ad for the photo shoot because the $500 it promised would help pay his rent. He remembered liking the photographer, Morten Smidt, though said he did not understand that the pictures were for a stock photo agency, Image Source. But he acknowledged that he had signed a standard release allowing alteration of his image.
intensify in the next few years amid increased demand for meat and
The AP report on eagle deaths was published just one day after the Fish and Wildlife Service revealed that it will not prosecute the operator of a proposed wind project, to be located in Kern County, Calif., if that project kills a California condor. The California condor is among the world's most endangered animals, with a total population of fewer than 250 birds in the wild. The proposed wind project will be built on public land.
Or, rather, they did. I was telling this story at a lecture to Government and opposition leaders in Madrid recently, when one of the civil servants in the front row burst noisily into tears. I stopped and apologized for having caused distress. The civil servant said she had just returned from Haiti, where the doubling of world food prices had put even mud pies beyond the reach of the poorest Haitians. Now, she said, they were dying in large numbers. And she felt so helpless.
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According to Nature, (". . . as Japan seeks to bridge split on emissions policy," June 12, 1997) Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and their Environmental Agency cannot agree on reduction methods and targets to be negotiated in their own country in December. For now, a compromise consists of a flat-rate emissions reduction for developed countries and a per capita-based emission ceiling for developing countries, allowing total emissions to increase while decreasing per capita emissions.
Their new research suggests the ??90s were not greatly different from some other decades such as the 1830s and 1940s that also showed marked temperature spikes.
More importantly though, the President while mentioning Chinese actions in the South China Sea and Russia's activities in Ukraine fails to grasp or even evince concern that great power competition is on the comeback trail. Such a competition would be incredibly injurious to Mr. Obama's attempts to remake American society: one can wage an aggressive war against terrorist networks at a fraction of the cost of deterring conventional major power conflict. As for his assertion that we have a military with "no peer", he is for the time being correct. Yet the trajectories of our drawdown and China's buildup present a difficult match for the United States that is on course to become deeply apparent in East Asia by the 2020s. Were we to continue to fixate on terrorism as our greatest threat, we would surely accelerate that imbalance and make such a war more likely.
Whether that Being has any interest or involvement in humans or our Earth is the religious and philosophic question for others to discuss.
"Lots of snow and lots of ice," they sing, "bloody great shame we are still stuck here Ice cold, cha cha cha. Boats at the stern and boats at the bow. Up in the air the Chinese came, flew around once and left the game. The French dropped by but couldn't get near. Bloody great shame we're still stuck here."
One is to deny that you have changed course at allto insist that the ship is sailing steady as she goes. This was the technique used by Ronald Reagan. In 1981, Reagan persuaded Congress to enact the ambitious Kemp-Roth tax cut. But Reagan's tax cut reduced federal revenues much more than expected.
There is a peculiar symbiosis, in which, Lynas and his ilk give the scientific establishment authority by constructing nightmare visions of the future, which are given credibility by figures such as Sir Martin Rees and Lord May. The service that Lynas does for the Royal Society is to connect this institution to our everyday fears and anxieties, to give it relevance at a time when, as with politicians, it struggles to define its purpose.
Environmentalism is something else than ecology. But even ecology is only a derivative science (R. Nelson) and may be considered a science only in a ?classificatory sense.? Sometimes it is only a ?scientific poetry? filled with mathematical equations.
This observation-based analysis of real-world data pretty much verifies both the reality and the tremendous strength of the CO 2 -induced Greening of the Earth phenomenon, which has been observed in numerous independent studies conducted throughout the world, the reviews of many of which we have archived in our Subject Index. In addition, it refutes the unfounded arguments of climate alarmists, who contend that various environmental stresses and resource limitations will not allow the full potential of the well-documented aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment to be manifest in nature. Indeed, this phenomenon is itself a "force of nature" that can be neither hindered nor halted, as it bestows its blessings upon wild and domesticated plants alike, without regard for artificial boundaries drawn on maps or the political persuasions of man.
Children are routinely used as props in the Beyond Coal campaign. Recently, for example, the Beyond Coal campaign paid for placards at subway stops in Washington, D.C., suggesting that children are human filters for coal-fired power plants. In 2010, the Beyond Coal campaign produced an anti-coal video featuring a toddler smoking cigarettes during a tea-party. Neither ad is even remotely truthful.
None of this portion of the IPCC assessment is drawn from peer-reviewed material. Nor is it consistent with the documents sent to external reviewers.
Snyder also speculated that the greater variability among Patriot balls arose from timing, pointing out that the Colt balls, being measured later, were closer to the asymptote, but did not quantify the impact of this observation.
A potentially serious inconsistency has been identified in the tropics. The favored explanation for this is residual error in the observations, but the issue is still open.
NOAA shows that 2012 was the most extreme weather year in US history, despite the fact that there was little extreme weather last year other than Sandy which isnt included in the index. According to their fake index, 2012 was almost three times as extreme as the very extreme year of 1936 . Their claim is almost entirely based on very mild temperatures during the winter and spring of 2012. which they are trying to pass off as extreme.
Claim: Measurements reveal that CO2 levels are a consequence of temperature, not the cause. Temperature drives CO2 levels.
Republicans have been getting a lot of advice on how they should change their party ever since Mitt Romney's defeat in November 2012. They need it.
Currently, the US imports about 8% of its gas, the bulk of that via pipeline from Canada. But a sizable chunk of LNG imports are from Yemen and go mostly to Massachusetts, where political wrangling fueled by advocacy groups has blocked construction of the necessary pipelines to take advantage of overflowing domestic supplies. That's left Massachusetts vulnerable to price spikes. Earlier this year, shortages occurred after two Yemenese LNG tankers bound for Boston never sailed because of Al-Qaeda inspired terrorist attacks.
"After former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was appointed in 1979, the consumer price index surged into the double digits, causing the now revered Fed Chief to double the benchmark interest rate in order to break the back of inflation. Using the methodology in place at that time puts the CPI back near those levels."
There is no science or data to support this lunacy, yet it persists and grows century after century.
As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, it is likely that seedlings of Larrea tridentata will be able to better deal with episodes of drought and high temperature stress that currently limit seedling establishment and survivorship in their arid home range. Indeed, the current paper demonstrates that elevated CO 2 concentrations reduce the deleterious effects of drought and high temperature on both plant water relations and photosynthesis in this species. Thus, it is almost guaranteed that the Mojave Desert will become a greener and more vegetated biome in the years to come.
Whats really going on? Our sun has gone quiet again, during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century, dating back to 1906, says Vencore weather analyst Paul Dorian .
The red line in the graph above indicates where we are this year, the yellow line indicates where we were last year and the forecast indicates what the Experts predicted. Note, there is more ice this year than last. How can we be at the tipping point as many headlines and scientists claim??????
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The bad news is there is talk of extending federal credits for electric vehicles. We can soon expect to see proposals in Congress, promoted by swarms of crony capitalists and their lobbyists, who will argue that the fledgling electric vehicle industry needs just a few more years of subsidies to finally become competitive with gas-powered cars.
Another recent study, by scientists from the U.K., Hawaii and Massachusetts, concluded that ???marine and freshwater assemblages have always experienced variable pH conditions,?? and that ???in many freshwater lakes, pH changes that are orders of magnitude greater than those projected for the 22nd-century oceans can occur over periods of hours.??
Especially in the renascent subfields such as ecology and public health, these publications and the media attention help steer money in the direction of these scientists, which buys them loyalty from their institutions, who appreciate the publicity and the dollars.
In January 2014 a group of scientists led by Xianyao Chen published an analysis of global sea level trends based on satellite data in the journal Global and Planetary Change . Here they detected a deceleration in sea level rise, from 3.2 mm in the period 1993 2003, to only 1.8 mm per year in 2008. The reason: Pacific ocean cycles.
If you simply glance at their figure below (Figure 1), you see our interest in their workthere is clearly no trend whatsoever in global tropical cyclone activity. In their own words, we learn Note also that the global storm days do not show any trend over the past 44 years. We noted!
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Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn on Obamas latest Climate Change speech:
fell flat. Whenever it combined Calvin and Hobbes (both exceedingly cute), with
No one disputes that levels of carbon dioxide are increasing globally, but CO2's impact has not been as great as many scientists had predicted.
I recently published an e-book (pdf) about the phenomena called El Nio and La Nia. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Nia events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 30 years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data thats available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warmingand, as Ive said numerous times throughout this post, there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.
IPCC First Report (1990-1992), Summary for Policy Makers, p.52. Sea levels will rise by one metre by the year 2100 (110 years-times). This is 9.1mm per year. Error to date is 535%
To appreciate why this approach will fail, consider the following analogy.
Robert Reinstein has had a series of careers spanning almost four decades of professional experience in science, economics, and diplomacy. Among other senior policy making positions, he was principal negotiator for the Bush Administration at the Rio Treaty and on the energy aspects of the both Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. Reinstein also chaired two working groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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The historical data also casts serious doubt on the hypothesis that carbon dioxide causes dangerous global warming. Since 1958 theres been a 30% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. If this had a major influence on temperature wed expect to see clear evidence of the temperature line rising relative to the SOI line, which is not apparent.
Given all the publicity about the supposed unprecedentedness of the recent increase in Rosenthal et al 2013, the data in the article offers little support for the assertion that the modern rate of increase is 15 times greater than any previous increase or, indeed, for the weaker proposition that the modern increase is unprecedented. Moreover, it stands against claims that modern temperatures are themselves unprecedented, not only within the Holocene, but within the last two millennia.
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The key question for policy makers should be whether California's energy policies benefit consumers. The answer is no. With a few exceptions, electricity prices in California are higher than in the rest of the nation. The oft-repeated claim that California electricity rates are high but overall bills are low is a myth. Residential power bills increased by 36 percent since 1990.
"And we have seen winters warm somewhat since the 1970s, but what that's going to lead to is generally less snow," Spencer further explains. " You can't claim that global warming is causing more snow. It just doesn't work that way. Yet those that promote the whole global warming fear-mongering point of view, they try to blame everything on global warming."
"In several areas routine surgery was put on hold for months, while in many others new thresholds for hip and knee replacements have been introduced."
But against the larger backdrop the even sharper ideological polarization in both houses with the loss of moderate and conservative Democrats and the infusion of sharply conservative Republicans, the likelihood that the professions of desire to work together will soon degenerate into the familiar tribalism the possibilities of action on issues like these merits interest and attention.
The IPCCs most recent Assessment Report, published in 2013, backcast its near-term predictions to 2005 so that they continued from the predictions of the previous Assessment Report published in 2007. One-sixth of a Celsius degree of warming should have happened since 2005, but, on the mean of all five datasets, none has actually occurred:
Weak Warming of the Oceans 1955-2010 Implies Low Climate Sensitivity
I'd be curious what Ken Green and Steve Hayward make of all this, but I have a few, mostly cynical, thoughts.
These actions reflect President Obama's campaign promises to "bankrupt any company that tries to build a new coal-fired power plant," replace hydrocarbons with heavily subsidized solar, wind and biofuel energy, make energy prices "necessarily skyrocket," advance rent-seeking crony-corporatism and "fundamentally transform" America's constitutional, legal, energy, economic and social structure.
11. Are computer simulations of the earth's climate accurate?
His initial $2 million donation is supposed to grow and it should compensate victims of wildfires and other "extreme weather events". Additional funds should similarly go to victims of droughts, floods, and other natural disasters. All this stuff is painted as being linked to the "climate change". In reality, these events don't depend on any "climate change" at all. Precipitation, sunshine, wildfires, droughts, floods etc. are weather events that may be counted as business-as-usual weather that takes place in a normal, moderate, tropical, subtropical or almost any other climate. These phenomena have been the norm on our blue, not green planet for billions of years.
What causes the mid-latitudes to warm, while the tropics show little warming?
This abundance has caused companies to wonder if their higher-priced tar sands oil will be competitive. However, once the initial investments are made and the refineries are operating, the risk is eliminated, say Messrs. Huber and Mills. If so, America could very soon be receiving a steady supply of black gold from the sands.
The greatest risk of current carbon withdrawal policies is that they will fail to achieve any useful result while imposing major costs on the world s economy. The economic repercussions will fall most heavily on the poor at home and abroad. Starving the world of energy is all too likely to produce a world of more starving people. The risks of climate change are speculative; those of climate change policy are all too real. Once this is realized, it is likely that few policymakers here or abroad will rush to join the global warming bandwagon. The road to Hell, we all realize, is often paved with good intentions. The global warming debate illustrates that maxim very well; even a baby step on this destructive path should be avoided.
Niger Innis is national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, a 68-year-old human rights organization; Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, America's largest Hispanic Christian organization, with 25,434 member churches; Amy Frederick is president of 60 Plus, a senior citizens advocacy organization representing over 500,000 seniors nationwide. The three are co-chairs of the Affordable Power Alliance, a humanitarian coalition of civil rights, minority, small business, senior citizen and faith-based organizations that champion access to affordable energy.
Since even immediate and total shutdown of all carbon dioxide-emitting vehicles, power plants, and factories in the U.S. would decrease global warming by only a hypothetical and undetectable two- tenths of a degree Celsius by 2100 , it is misleading to imply, as the report does, that the Obama administrations climate policies can provide any measurable protection from extreme weather events.
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Here is a copy of Hansen's 1988 model with the actual satellite derived temperature (UAH Lower Troposphere) data from Dec. 1979 to November 2009 overlaid
While the IPCC claims that a large temperature increase occurred between 1977 and the turn of the century (presumably based mainly on sea surface temperatures (SST), recent SST data published by Viktor Gouretski and John Kennedy in Geophysical Research Letters (2012) and the latest Ocean Heat Content (OHC) data from the National Oceanic Data Center (NODC) show only a minor warming between 1975 and 2000; Hadley NMAT data show nearly the same results. In short, SST and NMAT show a ~zero difference between 1942 and 1995, while OHC showed a difference of less than 0.1 C. These comparisons are summarized below.
In the words of the four German scientists, they observed ???reduced growth rates as well as weakening of barnacle shells only under very high pCO 2 (>1930 atm).?? However, they add that ???even under these highly acidified conditions, and corroborating other recent investigations on barnacles (e.g., McDonald et al ., 2009; Findlay et al ., 2010a,b), these impacts were subtle and sub-lethal.?? And ???furthermore,?? as they continue, ???ocean warming as expected to occur in the future (IPCC, 2007) has the potential to mitigate the negative effects of ocean acidification (Brennand et al ., 2010; Waldbusser, 2011; present study).??
(Footnote for wonks: the reason for the surprise lay in the way that the tax code of the time interacted with inflation. High inflation produced high revenues for government. In 1981-82, inflation was reduced much faster than forecasters had imagined possible.)
If a 6.5 watts/m^2 energy imbalance is considered implausible, what about model-simulated energy imbalances of -2.2 watts/m^2 and +2.8 watts/m^2? Are those values implausible as well? If so, why are those models used by the IPCC? Didnt they bother to check whether the models presented plausible simulations of Earths energy imbalance?
The doomsday stories of the pikas impending extinction began with a few contentious papers by Dr. Erik Beever. He re-surveyed a small subset of Nevadas pika populations and reported 28% (7 of 25) of pika territories, which had been occupied at the beginning of the 20 th century, were now vacant. He suggested those 7 populations had gone extinct possibly due to climate change. That claim was then trumpeted by groups like the National Wildlife Federation with articles like No Room at the Top .
Note the increase in TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation from 1900 to the early 1950s (Cell b). That indicates the modelers are still trying to explain part of the warming in the first half of the 20 th Century with a notable increase in the output of the sun, which may or may not have happened. Also notice the decrease in the amplitude of the solar cycle during the 21 st Century. Explanation: The modelers use different lengths for the solar cycle in future decades. They grow farther out of synch with time, so the average decreases in amplitude.
One by one, trailing their leader, six crept by me,