Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Seitz is a distinguished physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project and was a consultant to the secretary of war during World War II. He was the science adviser to NATO in the late 40s and, in 64, he became the first president of the NAS. He has received 15 national and international prizes in addition to the National Science Medal, and holds more than 30 honorary doctorates.
The evangelical leaders need to give more thought to the unintended consequences of their well-intentioned acts. During the Middle Ages, good people left their property to the Church. This acted as a brake on economic development as the dead hand, or mortmain, of the Church took this useful land out of the economywith the poor paying the price through lack of opportunity to improve their lot. By devoting spiritual and temporal energy to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the evangelical leaders will probably hurt the poor more than they help them. As Matthew 7: 15 says, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." By adopting a green agenda, the evangelicals may have thrown the poor to those wolves.
But the bottom line, as expressed by Ariel Lugo, is this. "We are asking Latin countries to go to enormous efforts on the basis of a scientific theory that is full of uncertainties."
16 EPA, Fact Sheet On Clear Skies Initiative.
Pictures of cuddly polar bear cubs have been a mainstay of many organisations wanting you to donate to their cause of saving the polar bears for many years. Polar bears live in the Arctic and are well adapted to that environment. The NG article On Thin Ice mentioned above also contains photographs of polar bears in their natural habitat. Thats where things really get interesting: most of these pictures were taken at Svalbard which is OUTSIDE even NGs exaggerated minimum summer sea-ice extent, the other ones at unspecified locations, perhaps the local zoo.
But, everyone already knows this, as we demonstrated the non-impact of U.S. emissions reduction efforts in Part I and Part II of our analysis of last summer?s Waxman-Markey offering. And as far as the global warming goes, Kerry-Lieberman?s The American Power Act of 2010 is similar to Waxman-Markey?s American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.
Unfortunately, coral reefs are supposed to be threatened by increasing CO2. It??s supposed to make the various animals?? carbonate skeletons and shells dissolve, by decreasing the ???pH?? of the ocean (pH is a measure of relative alkalinity/acidity) and thus making the seas more neutral than they are today. Careful chemical calculations based on the complex carbonate chemistry of the ocean are said to prove that, no question. Aquarium tests are said to have shown it beyond a doubt, with statistically significant results. The claim has been repeated ad nauseam ?? and yet the reefs are thriving where they are not impacted by true threats like pollution and coral mining and curiously, the killing of parrotfish .
Unlocking America's still abundant hydrocarbon resources and unleashing our innovative, hard-driving free enterprise system would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in leasing, royalty and tax revenues for federal, state and local governments. It would put millions back to work help stanch the flow of red ink keep tens of billions of crude oil spending and investment in America and create enormous new wealth, instead of redistributing a dwindling pool of old wealth.
No. Science is not aimed at building a politically potent consensus over questions of public policy.
If Democrats think they can count on the unhappiness with President Bush and the residue of repugnance with the performance in Washington when the Republicans controlled all the levers of power, they are delusional.
These polarized parties could and did act decisively when one of them controlled both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. But the more frequent periods of divided party government inspired willful obstruction and policy avoidance.
Of course, I am by no means the only person to have been mistreated in this way by the UN. Professor Paul Reiter, for instance, who on any view is the foremost expert in the world on the transmission of malaria and yellow fever, was nominated to the US delegation of scientists negotiating the text of the 2007 climate assessment report. Suspecting that the UN's bureaucrats would play the same games with him as they have played with so many others whose scientific knowledge shows the climate scare to be just that, he was careful to send four copies of his nomination papers to separate senior UN bureaucrats, by recorded delivery.
Whenever I concluded with the feeling that "something isn't right", I was trying to comfort myself by the idea that I was working as a doctor and my mission was to help to the sick and injured ones and those members of the local populations that were affected by the activity of our troops. This comfort has prevented me from seeing the problem in its entirety for several years and to understand that what NATO, and especially the U.S., is doing in numerous countries of the whole world must be ranked as the highest degree of perversity and intoxication by power. But even more importantly, all these conflicts were intentionally fabricated while the excuses to launch such conflicts and the American imperialist policy in these conflicts doesn't seem to have any limits. Everyone who opposes the imperial ambitions of the U.S. in any way, even if he were defending the identity, economy, and sovereignty of his nation, must be "erased off the map of the world".
SM: Both. We see those two things as mutually reinforcing. So we try to help elect more pro-growth Republicans. Let me just restate that: We're interested not just in helping elect more pro-growth Republicans but also helping de-elect some of the anti-growth Republicans. As the people at CEI know, just because someone has an "R" next to their name doesn't mean that they are pro-growth. And so we think that by doing both of those things we can help improve the gene pool in Congress and also change the political calculus some of these members make when they stand up and vote on tough issues.
On August 5, 2015, an EPA-hired crew negligently reopened the Gold King Mine above Silverton, Colorado and unleashed a 3,000,000-gallon toxic flashflood that contaminated rivers all the way to Lake Powell in Utah. EPA waited an entire day before notifying the public, offered apologies but only minimal compensation, refused to fire, fine or demote anyone and issued a report that whitewashed the agency's incompetence and even scrubbed the names of EPA on-site coordinator Hayes Griswold and his team.
Theres a discussion over at Judith Currys excellent blog, about peak oil. I find the whole madness surrounding peak oil to be one more example of our human love for warnings of future disaster. Few people want to hear that tomorrow will be OK, that things will work out. Instead, most folks want to hear some terrible story about what tomorrow holds, whether its peak oil or climate meltdown or the coming ice age. Go figure.
So basically, Mann wants a legal guarantee that he can dish it out, but he doesn't have to take it. What a jerk.
The costs of stabilizing emissions of carbon dioxidea major greenhouse gasby 2010 are likely to be substantial. Estimates center around $80 per ton of carbon reduced, which translates to a 20-cents-per-gallon gasoline tax. Not long ago Congress balked at a much smaller BTU tax. Few legislatures elsewhere in the world are likely to be any bolder. So the most likely outcome of international negotiations over the next decade is that a select group of developed countries will agree to do something that has a relatively low cost.
I had recently taken a position at an Ivy League institution when another junior faculty member showed me a micrograph of a macrophage containing intracellular bacteria. I immediately noticed an electron-dense material near the bacterial cells, which I suspected might be actin filaments of the host cell. I agreed to test this hypothesis, and using a fluorescent actin stain, found that, indeed, many of the bacterial cells had actin filaments on one pole. Could this bacterium be harnessing the hosts actin to move within cells? I wondered aloud to my colleague. A month later I brought additional data confirming my findings to my collaborators office, where I noticed a paper on his desk with the bacteriums name and actin in the title. He and a senior professor were listed as the authors, but I was not. Wheres my name? I asked.
During my professional career as a military and later civilian physician, I have also met a large number of incompetent politicians and superiors who have exchanged their personal profit and careerism, mixed with hypocrisy, ignorance, and populism, with honor, education, and desire to honestly work for the society.
This is the same EPA that proposed restrictions for new wood stoves in early January. The reason given was to reduce the maximum amount of fine particulate emissions (soot) allowed for new stoves sold in 2015 and 2019. The soot is made up of solid particles and liquid droplets that measure 2.5 micrometers or less.
distorting influence, which can be counterproductive indeed. Yet politics,
So, sure. The Chaos argument does tell us that the fact that we can??t predict weather doesn??t mean we can??t predict climate. But the same chaos argument shows us that accurate, skillful climate prediction will be very difficult??? and it may also be impossible!
Bill Nye the "Science Guy" once again took to Twitter to spout doom and gloom about global warming, this time lamenting how gasoline is too cheap.
In a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research a paper, Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature , researchers Chris de Freitas, John McLean, and Bob Carter find that the El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key indicator of global atmospheric temperatures seven months later. By their analysis they have shown that natural forces related to ocean heat cycles are the dominant influence on climate. See the WUWT post on it here and the original paper here .
Alam et al . report that "irrespective of the differences in growth environment, higher CO 2 in the ambient air during measurements improved the photochemical efficiency of the plants as reflected in higher net photosynthetic rate, effective photosystem 2 quantum efficiency, and photochemical quenching." What it means
Of course, Bert Halperin knew better. He conjectured that the future historians were going to learn about this dinner anyway because there would be a distorted report about this event at The Reference Frame. The historians wouldn't have a better source so they would have to rely on this blog and analyze what can be trusted and what cannot be trusted. However, Bert Halperin has conjectured that there are so many blogs that the historians could not find the information anyway. Has he tried to find information about Wilczek and poems , for example? ;-)
Robert J. Michaels is the Daniel P. Hann Distinguished Scholar in Law and Economics, California State University , Fullerton. He is senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. He can be contacted at
At a minimum, Cullen's proposal amounts to a plan to turn meteorologists into preachers of the global warming apocalypse. She comments: "Meteorologists are among the few people trained in the sciences who are permitted regular access to our living rooms." Most people are content to get their sermons in church. Nothing will drive down viewership of the Weather Channel faster than an endless parade of Al Gore wannabes urging us to repent of our sins of emission.
"Climate Change is the defining issue of our age. Previous generations had to deal with the rise of Nazism or communism. This is the issue on which my generation of politicians will be judged. This is our Dunkirk."
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNCCC or COP15) in Copenhagen has concluded with no treaty , no "agreement", no "goals" other than trivial ones, no "enforcement" provisions, and no "reparations" to third world countries, whom do we thank?
> >> >>case-studies exist, yet there is no comprehensive information
Murray chronicles seven environmental catastrophes, and shows the hand of the professional environmental movement in each one.
It is a great honor for me to be here tonight, getting a chance to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to such a distinguished audience.
I swear, sometimes I think people have totally lost the plot. This is mental onanism of the highest order, to sit around and debate if something is culturally sustainable. Like I said ... lets get back to feeding the kids. Once thats done, we can debate if the way we fed them is culturally sustainable.
The Bloomberg report is here . It actually says little about emissions, but as far as I can see it says nothing like what Ms Goldenberg suggests it does on the subject of renewables. try this for example:
However, in looking at longer rainfall and river flow records, Prof. Lane shows that we have forgotten just how normal flooding in the UK is . He looked at seasonal rainfall and river flow patterns dating back to 1753 which suggest fluctuations between very wet and very dry periods, each lasting for a few years at a time, but also very long periods of a few decades that can be particularly wet or particularly dry. In terms of river flooding, the period since the early 1960s and until the late 1990s appears to be relatively flood free, especially when compared with some periods in the late 19th century and early 20th Century.
Narrator: But maybe the heat will get us by creating more air pollution. That's what the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, said in a report titled Heat Advisory. It sounds plausible because smog forms when emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds bake in the heat of the Sun. However, the NRDC report is fundamentally flawed.
The results reveal the European Union target of limiting global temperature rise to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels shouldnt be considered safe.
James Hansen, the high priest of global warming, told Congress in 2008 that those who question him should be tried for "high crimes against humanity and nature."
* Full report: What Is Wrong With Stern? (pdf) Lilley-Stern Rebuttal 2
There are sober, serious reasons to be concerned about the IPCC. Remember the 2010 InterAcademy Council report that identified significant shortcomings in each major step of IPCCs assessment process? The one that criticized the IPCC for claiming to have high confidence in many statements for which there is actually little evidence?
University Study Confirms Renewable Energy Isn't Economically Feasible
In other words, it would innebra to erknna that science can only offer the best possible frklaringarna in nulget is that asset, not the absolute truth. 's Society and politics can live with this fact, but for those who want to improve the world, this has always been a sin.
When ? not if ? Chinese consumers close that gap, they?ll be driving more than 20 times the number of cars they are driving today. Chinese electricity consumption is similarly rapidly too, with new coal-fired power plants opening like clockwork.
Did a Secret Climate Deal Launch the Hockey Stick Fakery
The team concluded the event couldnt be tied to climate change, though, because of limited data on severe weather events in the fall. The team included researchers at South Dakota State University, who said the storm is not cause for alarm.
And so on. The Deutsch-Marletto texts are made uselessly contrived in the very same sense as the sentence involving visual, symbolic channels. There is no point of talking about a "constructor". This redundant concept doesn't help your understanding of anything in Nature or mathematics.
Here is the link and I hope and pray that all Skeptic Professors and sincere sceptic writers and so on and so forth will read this article by Dr Latour. I immediately passed it on to Hans Schreuder since it vindicates his well-known essay that Greenhouse Gases cool the Planet. This essay by Hans Schreuder is central to what I call my book Climate for the Layman but which is, in fact, a compilation of articles and essays.
Not that this should come as too much of a surprise as it is well known and demonstrated by literally thousands of scientific studies that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a plant fertilizer, so the more that there is, the better plants grow.
The Real Victim in the ExxonMobil Lawsuit is the First Amendment
Meanwhile, nearly 1 inch of rain fell in 30 minutes at the Palmdale Regional Airport late Thursday afternoon, the weather service tweeted at about 4:30 p.m.
But it is worse than it seems the 1936 temperatures were not just over 100 degrees, but they were way over 100 degrees. In 1936, 24% of the US reached 110 degrees compared to only 4% in 2012.
A good example of how inaccurate climate forecasts are, is shown in the two images below. NOAA??s Climate Prediction Center issued a long range forecast for the past winter inFebruary, 2009. Brown and orange represents above normal temperatures, and as you can see they got most of the US backwards.
"The global warming debate is about whether the assumptions underlying the global warming hypothesis are right or wrong. The NAS report dodges this all important issue," said CEI policy analyst Paul Georgia. "It also is likely to unduly alarm those who don't understand scientific methodology or the nuances of the global warming debate, i.e., most of the public."
For the second straight year the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing unseasonably cold winters. Deaths are being blamed on the bitter subfreezing temperatures, and meanwhile, scientists are attempting to explain why the freeze is occurring. Climate scientists are suggesting that the cold winters, characterized by the influx of freezing Arctic air, are paradoxically related to global warming. How is this possible?
relatively flat part of the curve, you get lessvariance. And this was not considered by Exponentwhen they made this comparison and reached thetherefore conclusion
Scientists have found that violent temperature swings are uncommon during warm interglacial periods. Evidence from sea bed sediments going back 500,000 years show that temperatures only swing over a range of about one degree Celsius during interglacials like the one we are currently experiencing. In contrast, the latest Ice Age experienced violent temperature changes over a range of 10 degrees C from cold to warm and back again in relatively short periods of time (The Guardian , June 11, 1998).
This is my first tomato this year; its August 2ndr. The vines did go in a bit late because I didnt want to over tax the house painters. But, August 2nd is still very late. How are other Illinois gardeners tomatoes doing?
in terms of attribution, to what extent are regional changes in the current climate due to natural climate variations and thus transitory, and to what extent are they due to anthropogenic forcing and thus likely to continue.
Secondly, emissions will eventually have to be measured, not just crudely estimated as is done now. Not only CO2, but all the other twenty-three Kyoto gasses, from all sources, will have to be included. The compliance costs are not included in Treasurys estimates (see The ultimate compliance cost for the ETS ). Therefore, the actual costs the ETS will impose on us will inevitably be higher than we are being led to believe.
In September, I referred a new, peer-reviewed article by RN Maue on the development of strength and frequency from tropical hurricanes during the period 1980-2011. Maue anvnde of a energy index: Every 6 hours accumulated wind speed squared. I quoted his conclusion the population of major global hurricanes HAS note Increased since 1979. The overall trend is flat proving conclusively thatthere is no overall global Increase in hurricanes, mines or major.
The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Ocean Heat Content data is only available to the public in an easy-to-use format through the KNMI Climate Explorer , where it is available only for the depths of 0-700 meters. The NODC recently released its new dataset for 0-2000 meters but its available only to the public in limited subsets and it is smoothed with a 5-year filter, which makes it useless in attribution studies. Regardless, this doesnt stop proponents of anthropogenic global warming who repeatedly and nonsensically claim only greenhouse gases could have caused the warming and that the warming continues.
The Lukewarmer Hypothesis: The true underlying trend for the earth??s surface temperature is precisely equal to 1/2 the mean model trend.
The top chart reveals the wide, extreme swings in Arctic region temperatures, which took place without any significant change in CO2 levels. On the chart, 'C3' has noted the 'peaks' of many of the temperature extremes with red dots. In addition, the points at which the shift occurred to higher temperatures are denoted with purple arrows. There are seven of these extreme upward spikes in temperatures marked in this manner.
The authors note that "one of the most important contributions the ocean makes to earth's climate is through its poleward heat transport," and they say that concern has arisen over the possibility that global warming could affect this phenomenon by "reducing high latitude convection and triggering a collapse of the deep overturning circulation." More recently, however, they report that "by identifying water mass ventilation for shallow, intermediate and deep waters," Talley (2003) has concluded that "the contribution of the shallow circulation to the global heat transport is indeed much larger than previously thought, and overall dominates the heat transport." What was done
That "no level of government shall regulate either the ownership or possession of firearms." (Period, no exceptions.)
It is one of the hallmark features of a capitalist economy that investors will react to changes in policy and regulation in order to make money out of new opportunities. It is one the great risks of a capitalist economy that such speculation can be unfounded. With the current re-assessment of the west's energy policy in reaction to a number of fearsglobal warming and energy security foremost among themit seems that both these phenomena are occurring. A lot of people are getting very rich as a result of policy changes, but there is substantial risk that we are seeing an energy frenzy develop. Economic historians might well look back on the first decade of this century as the days of the "Kyoto Bubble."
LN: In the Middle Ages, Greenland was probably warmer than today. So what's the problem?
"And I haven't even got to the polar bear scene yet."
CEI also opposes all government mandates and subsidies for conventional and alternative energy technologies.
WUWT reader pat writes at 2013/12/26 at 1:59 pm
People who worry about the planet and not about real problems such as how to feed seven billion of its human inhabitants or how to provide enough electricity to keep the lights on in the worlds cities or who think improving the economy is a poor choice to make when more than 14 million Americans are out of work are seriously out of touch with reality.
Torcellos America would also see countless scientists thrown into prison for continually presenting evidence that shows there is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm. The latest to be locked up would be Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee last month that There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earths atmosphere over the past 100 years.