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I was fortunate to meet with Yasir Abed Rabbo, the diminutive, chain-smoking Palestinian veteran of more negotiating sessions with Israelis than he can count. Referring to the productive 2007 talks between President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that were torpedoed by corruption charges, forcing Olmert's... | 0_0 |
A guest post today at a Dutch climate blogby Dr. John Christy notes that climate " models, on average, depict the last 34 years as warming about 1.5 times what actually occurred" and that the model predictions diverge from observations by even more in the atmospheric layers most affected by greenhouse gases . According... | 5_1 |
And it is often claimed that ocean acidification is happening as a result of increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. However, I have repeatedly pointed out that the opposite is also possible because the deep ocean waters now returning to ocean surface could be altering the pH of the ocean surface layer with resulting ... | 3_2 |
However, climate scientists are saying that sea level rise is not necessarily linear. I believe them. The Konsensus Krazies didnt help the level of discussion by saying that the Greenland Ice Cap could melt and that we should actually be concerned by it. | 5_2 |
This discrepancy between our analyses of the data explains why t he linear trend I calculate from 1950 to 2006 shows a tiny decrease , essentially no decline, contrary to his sharp decline graphed in red in the figure above. The graph at the top of this post shows data from FRED from 1960 (start of that dataset) on US ... | 0_0 |
It is entirely appropriate, at this time in U.S. history, to re-examine the rules and regulations known to be ineffective or damaging to the manufacturing sector of the country's economy. EPA's recommendations and the Bush administration's Clear Skies Initiative are good places to start, but they do not mark the end of... | 0_0 |
This is the opposite pattern to what would be expected if man-made greenhouse gases were the cause, as even alarmists claim the increase in greenhouse gases has only had a significant effect since 1950. Instead, this new paper demonstrates Eastern Arctic temperatures peaked in the early 20th century, followed by a decl... | 1_4 |
Where doesMr. Obamastand on creation care theology and Gores central organizing principle?I dont know but will loudly applaud anyjournalistwho, interviewing the President,has the curiosity and moxie to pursue this line of inquiry. | 0_0 |
Moreover, every responsible economist acknowledges that drastic action to reduce fossil fuel use would increase energy costs, which would in turn reduce household income around the world. Wealthier is healthier, and richer is cleaner. Limiting economic activity therefore can have a dramatic impact on quality of life, n... | 4_1 |
Lehr: There is nothing we can do about it. Bleaching is a natural outcome, and Lehr described concern about the Great Barrier Reef as fear mongering. Bleaching has occurred in a small portion of the reef, but an underwater survey of the 1,000 mile long reef shows that it is thriving; there is no more bleaching than was... | 3_2 |
I just think they dont understand the climate, he said of climatologists. Their computer models are full of fudge factors. | 5_1 |
This causes the cloud to dissipate. And because clouds reflect sunlight, cloud dissipation causes more sunlight to transfer to the ground and seas, ultimately resulting in warmer ground and air temperatures. | 0_0 |
"Night after night, year after year, this nightside reporter observed lights left on in federal government buildings. So I decided to see just how much taxpayers were spending to keep empty buildings illuminated." | 0_0 |
Fig. 5 shows trajectories of person years vs. time in the United States, for ancestral females that are constrained to have exactly 0, 1, 2 or 3 children . . . . | 0_0 |
August 16, 2015 at 12:04 pm Edit | 0_0 |
As Dick Lindzen alluded to back in 1990 , while everyone seems to understand that the greenhouse effect warms the Earths surface, few people are aware of the fact that weather processes greatly limit that warming. And one very real possibility is that the 1 deg. C direct warming effect of doubling our atmospheric CO2 c... | 3_1 |
Skeptics advancing alternative explanations (hypotheses) for climate variability represent the way the researcher community used to operate, before politics, policy outcomes, and billions of dollars got involved. | 0_0 |
As the international team of researchers from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Sweden and Switzerland describes it, this history depicts ???a long-term cooling trend of -0.30C per 1,000 years over the Common Era in northern Europe?? (see figure below). Most important of all, however, they note that their t... | 2_1 |
In the debate, Jette said that most people who cross illegally into Arizona are "just trying to feed their families." Brewer disputed that, saying, "They're coming here, and they're bringing drugs. | 0_0 |
There is a new paper which assesses global model skill at accurately representing albedo (thanks to Willie Soon for alerting me to it) . The article in the May 2006 issue of the journal Tellus (subscription required) is entitled | 0_0 |
The Americans have not seen a noticeable shift in French opposition to agricultural subsidy removal, and possible deals on trade seem far less likely than even yesterday evening. So while the greens and Euro-politicians bleat about action on climate, the policies Africans most need seem to be ignoredagain. | 0_0 |
Models are not ready to predict the climate. Misusing computers to spew out multiple ?what-if? scenarios is unscientific. This approach simply means ?if all our unproven assumptions are correct, this could happen.? | 5_1 |
Ive told this story before but it requires repeating because of awareness of climate science corruption. Even skeptics realize claims of incompetence are inadequate. Official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate science was completely orchestrated for a premeditated result. T.R.Wigleys 1983 paper Th... | 5_2 |
When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence of this seven years ago... | 5_2 |
CEI is 20, and I am supposed to summarize two decades? To paraphrase Mickey Mantle, had I realized CEI would live this long, I would have kept better records! CEI's present activities are amply documented elsewhere in this report, and CEI's future is also clear: To boldy go, la "Star Trek," where no free market organiz... | 0_0 |
The resulting fires are not the "forest-rejuvenating" blazes of environmentalist lore. They are cauldron-hot conflagrations that exterminate wildlife habitats, roast bald eagle and spotted owl fledglings alive in their nests, boil away trout and trout streams, leave surviving animals to starve, and incinerate every liv... | 0_0 |
3. Watts, M., July 29, 2012. New Study Shows Half of the Global Warming in the USA is artificial. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-release-2/ | 0_0 |
"What the White House doesn't want you to know about global warming" was the plug CNBC used to introduce its story about the news that the New York Times had broken that day: The White House had heavily edited the global climate change section of the Environmental Protection Agency's draft report on the state of the en... | 0_0 |
This common fingerprint is often misrepresented and misunderstood. In addition to the contradiction presented by the observed lack of warming of the troposphere compared to the surface warming over the last 20 years (see question 4), there are important unresolved questions. For example, computer models predict a cooli... | 0_0 |
on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 at 7:43 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
I am willing to accept the analysis of folks like Ilya Somin who say that the President's non-enforcement decision on immigration laws is legal. But I think his concept of "precedent" when he says there are precedents for this sort of thing is way too narrow. This is an important, dangerous new precedent. | 0_0 |
This really is a serious effort to explain the realities of life. | 0_0 |
Thus, the wind industry wants to use more public land and of course, more public money so that it can continue killing the public's wildlife with impunity. But since the wind industry can claim that it is doing something no matter how insignificant with regard to carbon dioxide emissions, the Obama administration is wi... | 4_1 |
Arctic ice has recovered from its September minimum so strongly, that extent is now back to the average for 2001-10, according to JAXA. Indeed, based on Version 1, that was withdrawn in September, extent is 11,000 sq km higher than the average in the last decade. ----Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 2 Dece... | 1_1 |
The biggest story in American politics today is this: Andrew Jackson is mad as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore. | 0_0 |
Deadly Typhoons: Killer Cyclones strike coastal areas along the Bay of Bengal with periodic frequency much like the floods along the Yangtze River in China. They historically have also devastated the China coast, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Southeast Asia. | 0_0 |
In stanbul, the snow could reach a depth of up to 30 cm (12 inches) throughout the week,Mayor Kadir Topba announced on Tuesday. | 1_3 |
According to the FSHP, a more "accurate" view of the healthcare experience of Cubans can be seen at the Calixto Garcia Hospital. "FSHP believes that if Michael Moore really wanted the 'same care as local Cubans', this is where he should have gone," the cable states. | 0_0 |
"Sen. Snowe should be commended for trying to eliminate the worst aspects of the committee's initial proposal, but her efforts to produce a compromise are at risk of being for naught, since liberal Democrats remain committed to the public option and have even taken to demonizing Baucus for his willingness to compromise... | 0_0 |
(2) The ballooning of agriculture subsidies to farmers to push them into cultivating corn (despite everybody well knowing the environmental impact from corn fuel will be worse) | 0_0 |
New YorkMy teenage son and I put in a lot of hours together in Boy Scouts. Then girls came along and he quit just short of his Eagle. It's a sore point. | 0_0 |
Kan milj r relsen r ddas frn sig sj lv? | 0_0 |
Indeed. But remove that line and the rest of the op-ed does a tremendous disservice to the anti-regulatory cause, fostering as it does needless climate alarmism, even adopting talking points straight from an Al Gore seminar. "For the past 20 years, I have seen the ever-so-gradual effects of rising sea levels at our far... | 1_6 |
The think-tank, which champions "sound climate science," is known for its skeptical view of the catastrophic climate change narrative, raising fears that the attorneys general will target not just fraud but scientific disagreement on climate issues. | 0_0 |
Since May 1997, CEI has chaired the Cooler Heads Coalition, the climate change working group of the National Consumers Coalition, an alliance of some 28 pro-market public policy groups, headed by Consumer Alert. On behalf of the Cooler Heads Coalition, CEI publishes May Cooler Heads Prevail, a biweekly newsletter on th... | 0_0 |
New York Times Tries to Stoke the Fires of Global Warming | 0_0 |
NCDC shows that recent warming is identical to an earlier warming, when CO2 was much lower (310 ppm) and increasing slowly (3 ppm / decade.) | 2_1 |
Uncertainty about the problem (man-made climate change) is a given; but uncertainty about the chosen solution is inexcusable. This is to say, we should be confident that our solutions are going to be effective, and the more expensive the solution the more confident we should be. In short, big responses require high lev... | 0_0 |
simulating todays rainfall distributions) the frequency doesnt change half | 0_0 |
Chinese Drought 1941-1942-Over 3 million perish from starvation | 0_0 |
It has been estimated that the U.S. national commitments to the UN to reduce emissions by 28% will prevent threehundredths of a degree centigrade in warming by 2100. | 4_2 |
George Russell is executive editor of Fox News | 0_0 |
I also do not understand how it can be said that this technology has never given results cost-effective, since it has a much higher return than, for example those of a photovoltaic plant of the same capacity. | 0_0 |
By the 1990s the agency had become highly politicized. Early hires began leaving and were replaced by more radical staff, a circumstance which rapidly rose to epic proportions when the new Obama Administration later swept through the EPA bureaucracy overnight. | 0_0 |
Im a fragile woman and I thought my blog, Verdant Hopes, might be a force for good in the world. Instead it has made me a victim once again. | 0_0 |
Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin | 1_7 |
Munday et al . state that their data suggest that the larval clown fish is "capable of regulating endolymphic fluid chemistry even in waters with pH values significantly lower than open ocean values," and they thus conclude that "the larval clown fish is robust to levels of ocean chemistry change that may occur over th... | 3_2 |
take a look at the whopper of a correction the Post has posted, essentially recanting the entire thing. | 0_0 |
Fact 2. Between 2001 and 2010 global average temperature decreased by 0.05 degrees, over the same time that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increased by 5 per cent. Ergo, carbon dioxide emissions are not driving dangerous warming. | 2_3 |
A climate criminal alters their own data to makethe climate appear to be warming. | 5_1 |
According to one of the papers, the current generation of climate models (CMIP5) are worse at simulating past global climate than the previous generation of models (CMIP3); i.e., the models are making giant leaps, but in the wrong direction. | 5_1 |
Rapid temperature switches of several degrees within a few years to a decade have long been known from evidence in ice cores and other ancient climate records. | 2_1 |
Besides the White House's extreme scare-mongering, the report's credibility is also D.O.A. due to its blatant falsehood regarding "CO2-caused" warming of the globe and the U.S. | 5_2 |
In the last analysis, history itself may be the most intransigent participant in the negotiations. For the better part of twenty years, Fatah and its PLO brethren dedicated their efforts to the eradication of the Jewish state, modifying their basic covenant only when physically expelled from contiguous territories or i... | 0_0 |
ut in 2023, the infamous year of perpetual summer, lived up to its name, taking 500,000 lives worldwide and costing nearly $500 billion in losses due to fires, crop failures, and the deaths of livestock and companion animals. The loss of pet cats and dogs garnered particular attention among wealthy Westerners, but what... | 0_0 |
But there are bright spots. There are politicians on the central level who starts taking to no man living under the gallows s maybe it starts to be time to change the language, or tminstone to slow down the train towards financial ruin. | 0_0 |
"It is becoming increasingly clear that the state Legislature isn't interested in updating its eminent domain laws to better protect property owners against unwarranted seizure by the government." | 0_0 |
If nothing else, finding a common cause amongst that lot is a major achievement! | 0_0 |
The answer? "An enhanced political will is clearly needed to avoid return to status quo, to push forward regulatory mechanisms, and improve financial governance." | 0_0 |
Let's check the numbers, provided the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency , a really excellent organization that works to keep our air breathable. I will be showing you concentrations of small particles (PM2.5, less than or equal to 2.5 microns in size, particles that can make their way deep into your lungs and cause all kind... | 0_0 |
It is astounding that the Japanese regulators think that your bedtime is government business. Then again, this is the same country that has a legally allowable maximum waistline. | 0_0 |
The United States is having better luck at controlling its emissions than most other countries, without the multi-billion-dollar mandates of Kyoto. | 0_0 |
NOAA recently announced that July 2012 was the hottest month on record for the CONUS. As the above map shows, though, only Virginia actually broke the state record for July, logging up 79.0F, beating the previous record set in July 1934 of 78.6F. Or, at least, thats what NOAA tell us, but what do the thermometers say? | 0_0 |
Vaclav Klaus Joins Skeptics' Conference | 0_0 |
Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times, 10 January 2010: A period of humility and even silence would be particularly welcome from the Met Office, our leading institutional advocate of the perils of man-made global warming, which had promised a ?barbecue summer? in 2009 and one of the ?warmest winters on record?. In fact, the... | 0_0 |
G20 Stimulus, A Plan for Carbon Dioxide and Mark-to-Market Reforms | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 at 7:52 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The multi-model mean are not expected to present the year-to-year variations in sea surface temperature associated with the El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Some of the models simulate ENSO; others dont. The models that do attempt to simulate ENSO do a poor job of it. (This is documented in numerous peer-reviewed pa... | 5_1 |
RSS satellite data show only 0.2C global warming since 1990, considerably short of the 1990 IPCC threshold of an additional 0.5C warming to detect an anthropogenic "enhanced greenhouse effect" | 1_4 |
Yes, but what about the "consensus"? The IPCC states that it is likely that most of the warming over the past 50 years is due to man's emissions. How did it come about? Large models which could not simulate human behaviour supposedly described natural climate variations. According to the author, "the fact that these mo... | 0_0 |
Following on from this, the authors examine climate model development and testing, and both sections are interesting. For example, the section on tuning models includes this: | 0_0 |
Now consider Obama's "green jobs" plan, which includes regulations, subsidies, and renewable-power mandates. The "broken windows" in this case would be lost jobs and lost capital in the coal, oil, gas, nuclear, and automobile industries. Currently, these industries directly employ more than 1 million people. | 4_1 |
Lets confirm a few things that were blatantly obvious in the trend maps in Figure 1. | 0_0 |
on Friday, October 29th, 2010 at 10:29 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Now, looking at Figure 2, it is clear that CO2 has little influence on global temperature over this longer timescale. Note also that from about -130,000 to -100,000 CO2??s contribution remains at around its highest level while temperature falls more than 8 degrees. Similarly from about -400,000 to -350,000. In all of t... | 2_3 |
This is another indication of why leading climate economists such as Yale's William Nordhaus find that the drastic policies proposed by Sir Nicholas Stern would carry a net cost of one-and-a-half times as much as global warming. | 4_1 |
A pending maunder minimum? Well everyone is predicting a solar cycle decrease, with most other studies predicting more of a decrease than Wang, Lean, Sheeley 2005. | 0_0 |
The global temperature report for July 2004 from the University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center found that the month was the coolest month in four and a half years and the coolest July in a dozen years. | 1_3 |
The Winnepeg Free Press here and Yahoo report here that Western Canada needs to brace for a brutal winter. Hat tip reader Matti Vooro. | 0_0 |
Instead of adopting the attitude of Candide's Dr. Pangloss that this is the best of all possible worlds and that any change is detrimental, we should reexamine ways in which our fears of the future impede our developing the resiliency we need to meet the challenges that the future may bring. If the world does become, s... | 0_0 |
So our biggest power station, the leviathan Drax plant near Selby in North Yorkshire, is switching from dirty, non-renewable coal. Biomass is far more expensive, but the consumer helps the process by paying subsidies via levies on energy bills. | 4_4 |
After a tremendous backlash from the vast majority of American farmers who want access to biotech crops as well as both Democratic and Republican farm-state politicians the USDA finally relented and approved Roundup Ready alfalfa without the planting restrictions at the end of January 2011. But this is hardly a case of... | 0_0 |
Gas Drilling Slowdowns But Gas Prices Are Rising: At What Price Do Drilling Rigs Head Back To PA? | 0_0 |
To the extent that Briffa et al 2013 is supposed to deliver on this expectation, it is a complete failure. Supplementary Material 9 is the only discussion of the regional chronology. It begins with a discussion of what appears to be the 2006 regional chronology, though this is not explicitly stated. On the contrary, th... | 0_0 |
Murphy, who is senior economist with the Institute for Energy Research, testifed before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works concerning the White House's recent estimate of the "social costs" of carbon emissions. Murphy notes, "the public and policymakers have not been fully informed on what the ec... | 0_0 |
Indeed, the study says that the "modern maximum" a peak in solar activity that lasted much of the last century corresponds very well with an increase in global temperatures. | 2_1 |
For years, certain natural gas producers, led by Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, have pursued a myopic strategy of demonizing coal in an effort to seize a larger share of the electricity generation market. | 0_0 |
Jackson does, however, recall one interesting moment during the first half that has something to do with the latest controversy. He recalls, during a television timeout, there was an especially long delay that prompted him to approach an official. | 0_0 |
According to New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin, that is. In todays Science section, Revkin writes that there has been a slight increase in sea-ice area around Antarctica in recent decades. But in a Sept. 21 article, Scientists Report Severe Retreat of Arctic Ice , he reported that sea ice around Antarctica has seen... | 1_1 |
According to the Paris-based International Energy Agency, in 2012 the world emitted a little over 31 gigatons of carbon dioxide. China was the No. 1 emitter, accounting for more than one-fourth of the carbon produced. The U.S. was second, emitting about one-sixth. | 0_0 |
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