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Another $2 billion in the bill was to be allocated per year for researching and developing effective carbon capture and see question method for coal plants kind of like creating a GITMO for dangers posed by Kerry's climate-ravaging carbon terrorist provocateurs. In addition, there was to be a multibilliondollar revenue... | 0_0 |
We have written so much about the link between climate change and hurricanes (a.k.a., tropical cyclones, TCs) that we sometimes wonder if there could be anything new to report. No sooner than we have such a thought, yet another article on the subject appears in some leading scientific journal. A sentence in the abstrac... | 1_7 |
House moves to overturn FCC on Net neutrality: | 0_0 |
The key lesson to be learned is that not only must scientific knowledge about climate change be publicly owned the I.P.C.C. does a fairly good job of this according to its own terms but the very practices of scientific enquiry must also be publicly owned, in the sense of being open and trusted. From outside, and even t... | 5_2 |
American Thinker; Next month, if all goes according to plan, the Environmental Protection Agency will launch the most serious assault on American business since the 1970's. New regulatiosn governing the release of Carbon Dioxide will hit every corner of the economy, causing your electric bill to skyrocket (as promised ... | 4_1 |
Finally, think about this question, posed by Ronald Bailey in 2000: What will Earth look like when Earth Day 60 rolls around in 2030? Bailey predicts a much cleaner, and much richer future world, with less hunger and malnutrition, less poverty, and longer life expectancy, and with lower mineral and metal prices. But he... | 0_0 |
Scientists tell Congress that warming evidence is 'overwhelming' - The Hill's E2-Wire Twenty-five U.S. scientists issued an open letter to Congress today that calls evidence of human-induced global warming "overwhelming" and accuses opponents of emissions curbs of misrepresenting emails among climate scientists hacked ... | 5_2 |
Germans are always assumed to do things effectively and calmly look for high revenues and profits etc. And the right business practices to achieve such things are pretty much obvious. Except that there seem to be hints that at the VW Group level, there is some denial of the obviously correct algorithms one should follo... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what everyone needs to know about global warming. | 0_0 |
The EPA acknowledges the problem, and has proposed a "tailoring rule" that substantially increases the emission levels allowed before regulatory requirements are triggered. The statute sets limits of as little as 100 tons per year of emissions. The agency wants to increase this to 25,000 tons per year of emissionsfor n... | 0_0 |
www.guyraargus.com .au/story/.../australias-antarctic-runway-melting... | 0_0 |
Personal Freedomthe degree to which individuals can choose the course of their lives | 0_0 |
New Book ECO-FREAKS Reveals Destructive Environmental Agenda | 0_0 |
Moreover, most of the discussion is highly politicized. For instance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change undercuts its own credibility by allowing government-appointed non-scientists to write the well-publicized report summaries. Many of its predictions are no more reliable than guesses. Notes H. Sterling Bu... | 5_2 |
Business groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute, have been challenging the revised estimate on various fronts. | 0_0 |
But Mr Peever who is also a member of the Federal Governments business roundtable on climate change says cutting pollution will be expensive and in some cases the technology to cut it has not even been developed yet. | 4_1 |
That would mean last year was about the coolest year that we have had in Australia for about 26 years. | 1_3 |
Australias CSIRO has legal disclaimers for its scary projections: | 0_0 |
Bloomberg News, like the Times, has shown a disinclination to join in this kind of reasoning. Not only that, Bloomberg's editorial board questions the Schneiderman definition of a "climate denier": | 0_0 |
Most importantly, they are modest in their aspirations for themselves. They do not aspire to be "type A business owners"; they want to go to work, do what's asked of them, not have too much stress in their lives, and spend time with their families. They want structure and stability in their lives so that things are tak... | 0_0 |
Institute for Energy Research, "North American Energy Inventory," December 2011, http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Energy-Inventory.pdf (accessed July 1, 2016). | 0_0 |
As children playing on the beach, we discovered a fascinating behavioral pattern among hermit crabs. Place a dozen in a cardboard box, and within minutes the crabs exit their shells and try to occupy another. This mild stress-induced response probably reflects their life-long drive to continue growing by repeatedly com... | 0_0 |
The Supreme Courtcase of Massachusetts v. EPA (April 2, 2007)has set the stage fora policy disaster. Mass v. EPAs second anniversaryrapidly approaches, and in a Power Point presentation leaked to Greenwire last week,EPA reveals how it plans to respondto the Court.But first, some background on the case and the Pandoras ... | 0_0 |
NOAA has placed a series of buoys along the equatorial Pacific to keep track of the ocean temperatures below the surface. These buoys show quite warm water extending 100-200 meters beneath the surface. This figure shows an east-west cross section across the central Pacific of the underwater temperatures. Red is much wa... | 0_0 |
days although interestingly the RCM (which does a much better job of | 0_0 |
First, there is a widespread misconception that the reference to a decline refers to concealing an observed fall in global temperatures since a peak in 1998, the warmest year for some time. Instead, it really has to do with graphic trickery suggesting that man-made CO2 emissions over the past 40 years have produced a n... | 5_2 |
CET winter December ??? March temperatures have shown an even more significant loss -1.45C in the last 13 years of since 2000. | 1_3 |
During the mid-20 th Century flat temperature period, Figure 4, the models do reasonably good job between the latitudes of 60S-60N, but fail to capture the observed warming of the Southern Ocean and the polar-amplified cooling over the Arctic. | 5_1 |
Course change is one of the most essential maneuvers in politicsand also one of the most dangerous. A badly executed course change in 1979 wrecked Jimmy Carter's presidency: By retreating to Camp David and firing his economic team, he only confirmed his reputation as the worst economic manager since Herbert Hoover. But... | 0_0 |
The European Environmental Agency tracks Europe's performance regarding the reduction of CO2 emissions. Its latest report states: "The European Union's greenhouse gas inventory report shows that emissions have not only continued their downward trend in 2008, but have also picked up pace. The EU-27's emissions stood 11.... | 0_0 |
The problem with these sorts of studies is that no class of proxy (tree ring, ice core isotopes) is unambiguously correlated to temperature and, over and over again, authors pick proxies that confirm their bias and discard proxies that do not. This problem is exacerbated by author pre-knowledge of what individual proxi... | 5_1 |
All three models generated robust annual mean warming (?0.5 C) throughout the Holocene (Fig. 1, black and yellow), resulting in a model-data inconsistency in global annual temperature of ?1 C. Discrepancies were different during last millennium and the start of the deglaciation. Over the last thousand years, climate mo... | 5_1 |
French Asks Airlines to Cut Flights Ahead of Strikes: | 0_0 |
Climate Change / Global Warming: The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is called the worlds foremost authority on global warming / climate change. Using climate models, in 1990, the IPCC predicted significant, continuous global warming to 2012 and beyond. According to comprehensive satellite data, the... | 1_4 |
Everyone should perceive flaws! To talk about "sceptics" as the ones who will "seize" upon "evidence" of flaws is unwittingly to make global warming into a matter of religion and not science. It's not the skeptics who look bad. "Seize" sounds willful, but science should motivate us to grab at evidence. It's the nonskep... | 0_0 |
The deadliest cyclone in recorded history was Cyclone Bhola , which struck Bangladesh (then part of Pakistan) in 1970. Estimates for the number killed range from 200,000 to 1,000,000 people. Like Katrina, this storm was classified as a category 3 when it made landfall. But unlike Katrina it did not have minute by minut... | 1_7 |
The Committee has, willfully or inadvertently, become instruments for a political movement that will result in human suffering and grief. None of the Nobel science prizes have ever been given to climate related research. The Committee however, states in the press release that indications of changes in the earth's futur... | 0_0 |
Regardless, climate models are made interesting by the inclusion of "positive feedbacks" (multiplier effects) so that a small temperature increment expected from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide invokes large increases in water vapor, which seem to produce exponential rather than logarithmic temperature response i... | 3_1 |
And as Dr Goklany goes on to explain, the WHOs results use climate modelresults that apparently overstate the warming trend three-fold compared toobservations despite using 27% less greenhouse gas forcing. | 5_1 |
Nicolas D. Loris, "The Antiquated Act: Time to Repeal the Antiquities Act," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2998, March 25, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/03/the-antiquated-act-time-to-repeal-the-antiquities-act. | 0_0 |
Where's the global warming? asks major European media outlet | 0_0 |
The lack of climate skeptics on PBS's "Newshour' | 0_0 |
A June 4, 2003, e-mail from Keith Briffa to fellow tree ring researcher Edward Cook at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York stated: ?I got a paper to review (submitted to the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences), written by a Korean guy and someone from Berkeley, that claims that ... | 0_0 |
As I mentioned previously, the real impact of the Kerry-Lieberman bill only emerges if it is applied to the rest of the world, and in particular the world?s developing nations. | 0_0 |
Climate spin: Behind-the-scenes emails show profs evading questions | 5_2 |
A few days ago I published an article about the new alarmist hockey stick by Marcott et al. My take? | 5_1 |
Third Assessment Report, a suite of recent global climate model experiments, and | 0_0 |
"Kerry and Graham support a border tax to protect American jobs from products produced in countries that don't commit to reducing their emissions. That is an admission that energy prices are going to go up and so are the prices of goods and services that are produced with or use energy. Consumers will be poorer as a re... | 4_1 |
As laid out in the August 2000 report entitled "Fear Profiteers" that I helped edit, Fenton Communications has also been a key player in numerous scares, including those involving biotech foods, "toxic" chemicals in breast milk, toys and medical equipment made with PVC plastic, chemicals in the environment alleged to m... | 0_0 |
Dr. Sallie Baliunas: The temperature of the Earth has increased over the last 100 years. . . . The warming began early in the 20th century, late in the 19th century. But before that, there was a very long, protracted cooling that began in the 14th century that continued to the mid-19th centurya 500-year relative cold s... | 2_1 |
28.b. How much do you think the potential impact of global climate change is one of the leading problems for humanity in terms of social and economic issues. | 0_0 |
CARBON TAX OR CAP & TRADE? - OR GO ON LIVING? | 0_0 |
In his peer-reviewed 1980 paper Apparent Trends of Mean Temperature in New Zealand Since 1930 , JWD Hessell found that exposures of most New Zealand weather stations have been affected by changes in shelter, screenage and/or urbanisation, all of which tend to increase the observed mean temperature. A systematic analysi... | 5_1 |
7. "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness. | 0_0 |
Climate Hustle is hosted by award-winning investigative journalist Marc Morano. A former communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Morano is publisher of CFACT's ClimateDepot.com. The film is a production of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and CDR Communica... | 0_0 |
He also observed that EPA Director Lisa Jackson herself has acknowledged the Clean Air Act "is not specifically designed to address greenhouse gases." The House-passed Waxman-Markey did, but it died with Senate inaction and the election of a new Congress, an election in which it was an issue. Along with Obama-Care, the... | 0_0 |
In short, they are repeating all of their prior explanations for 40 years of political defeat. People are voting their pocketbooks, our voters won't vote unless they have something to vote for, and outside interests are once more conspiring to distract the voters with phony issues and slick ads. This, then, is the deci... | 0_0 |
The man who effectively shapes world policy on climate change was born in 1940 in a hill station in northern India. | 0_0 |
So much for the good news. As always in the case of energy resources, politics trumps economics or, at minimum, seriously affects economic outcomes. In Mexico, oil is regarded as the national patrimony, not to be plundered (i.e., developed) by foreigners. In much of the Middle East, oil is regarded as a "weapon," to be... | 0_0 |
I also askedhow much the biological effects of oceanic nutrient enrichment from melting icebergs and ice shelves he had discussed might affect the results of model-projections he had told us were based only on the physics. He admitted this was a good question and that uncertainty was high. Increased nutrients (particul... | 5_1 |
As the Climate Institutes report notes in small print, the Swedish carbon price is levied primarily on oil, coal, natural gas and petrol. | 0_0 |
In a letter to Reverend Williams, CEI Senior Fellow Iain Murray, who was baptized and raised in the Anglican Church, writes, "There is a terrible opportunity cost to drastic action to reduce climate change, and that cost would likely weigh heavier on the world's poor than the effects of global warming itself." | 0_0 |
Escaping climate change: one if by land, two if by sea? No, according to recent results. | 0_0 |
State's response is also somewhat unbelievable because the document that fell into my hands showed State's date-stamp, the signature of a State Department official and the names of persons still living along with 30 pages of detailed instructions on how to change the IPCC's science document and the summary for policyma... | 0_0 |
In my private election-prediction memo two years ago, I wrote the following words: "Democrats are split between progressives, who seek a radical and swift move to the economic left, and centrists, who want to re-regulate and "spread the wealth around' but nowhere near the degree of the progressives. . . . Who will win ... | 0_0 |
Power companies are considering new nukes in part because federal regulations have changed for the better over the past few years. Today, companies can apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a single license to build and operate a plant, an improvement over the old two-step process. Companies also can cho... | 0_0 |
To put it fairly but bluntly, the global-warming alarmists have relied on a pathetic version of science in which computer models take precedence over data, and numerical averages of computer outputs are believed to be able to predict the future climate. | 5_1 |
54: Roy Spencer has been wrong many times. 55: In research, we are usually wrong with our initial opinions. 55: It is much easier to be wrong than right. | 0_0 |
Steve McIntyre is auditing Mann?s libel case. He has 3 recent posts: | 0_0 |
Other researchers used actual historical (real-world) data for land use, atmospheric CO2 concentration, nitrogen deposition, fertilization, ozone levels, rainfall and climate combined with their knowledge of plant physiology and growth to develop a computer model that simulates plant growth responses for grasslands, fo... | 3_3 |
All this and a double dose of hottie to kick off the 2011 round-up season awaits... | 0_0 |
grade, according to the proposal. Other proposed revisions include | 0_0 |
Typically the argument says growth may have been welcome in the past, but the time has come when the costs outweigh the benefits. America is reaching the stage, so the argument goes, where it is bumping against the limits to growth. | 0_0 |
In the same period, a boom in the production of shale gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing technology saw a rapid switch from coal fired electricity production to gas burning. | 4_5 |
The Met Office says the 15-year standstill is not unusual. This is true but again the Met Office is being economical with the truth. The IPCC concluded that the period 1960-80 marked the start of mankinds domination of the Earths climate via greenhouse gas forcing. The period before 1960-80 the IPCC regarded as being s... | 1_4 |
Why should you be interested? The hypothesis of manmade global warming depends on manmade greenhouse gases being the cause of the recent warming. But the sea surface temperature record indicates El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 32 years, ... | 2_1 |
"I firmly believe that we will need 20 to 30 new plants by 2030 if we are to have any hope of addressing climate change and en suring our future energy security," said John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, in a speech delivered in May. | 0_0 |
"Somalia was judged the most corrupt country, followed by Myanmar and Afghanistan at joint second-worst and then by Iraq, in the Berlin-based watchdog TI's annual corruption perceptions index (CPI)." | 0_0 |
Now, as an aside, the term "carbon" (or "carbon pollution") is political propaganda, a rhetorical device designed to assume the answer to the underlying policy question even as it demonstrates the user's moral superiority to him/herself, to the given audience, and to the larger community of the right-thinking. Carbon d... | 3_3 |
The Cooler Heads Coalition is sponsoring a science briefing for congressional staff and media on Friday, November 5, at noon, featuring University of Virginia climatologist Patrick Michaels on "Why We Shouldn't Sweat Global Warming." The briefing will be held in Room 366, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Lunch will be s... | 0_0 |
Angela Merkel can't be charmed and she lacks the inner compass for ideas that Thatcher used to have. Moreover, it seems that she hasn't lived in communism: at least, she has learned nothing from that era. | 0_0 |
Maunder Minimum of sun spots caused Little Ice Age that occurred from the 16th to the 19th centuries. | 0_0 |
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former. | 0_0 |
Developing from an improved observational system the empirical information and theoretical knowledge needed to assess adaptation options. | 0_0 |
This effort has apparently been conducted with participation thereby direct assistance and enabling by the Obama White House which, shortly after taking office, appointed Holdren's office to the lead role on IPCC work from the Department of Commerce. The plan to secretly create a FOIA-free zone was then implemented. | 0_0 |
This is why climate mitigation makes no economic sense: the cure costs more than the disease. | 4_1 |
If you were to scroll up to Figures 9, 6 and 4, youd note that the scales of the anomaly graphs are very different for the three components of the top-of-the-atmosphere energy imbalance. That is, the differences in the simulated TOA outgoing shortwave radiation are so great that the y-axis on Figure 6 spans 12 watts/m^... | 0_0 |
5. Richard Lindzen, "Climate Alarm: Where Does It Comes From?" remarks to the George C. Marshall Institute, December 1, 2004, available at http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=264. | 0_0 |
Climate Change. Further I cannot find a physical link between CO 2 and climate change. Even when CO 2 is increasing and climate is relatively steady, unchanging, 1900 2014. Ice ages last about 100,000 years, between warm periods of 20,000 years. The cycle period is about 120,000 years, caused by planetary motion of sol... | 2_1 |
Figure 1 below tells us an interesting story about the climate of the past 800,000 years including (a) the most recent 10,000 years have generally witnessed a warming (warmer conditions are towards the right, cooler towards the left), (b) cold periods dominate the last 800,000 years, (c) climate can change rapidly, and... | 0_0 |
My own personal reaction to the rather lengthy reviews (12 pages worth) is that all of the reviewers rejected the idea that IPCC model projections could be compared in such a way that led to the conclusion that indicate cause for concern regarding the consistency between climate model projections and observed climate b... | 5_1 |
Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist | 0_0 |
Furthermore, the model was run on the basis of data from the discredited SRES scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that predict countries such as Zimbabwe, Vanuatu and North Korea overtaking the USA in per capita income by 2100. There was no discussion of the appropriateness or robustness of these... | 0_0 |
This is Page 8 & 9 The Skeptics Handbook II. 20 page PDF | 0_0 |
But not only is science-led politics difficult, if not impossible, it is also potentially dangerous. Sarewitz concludes: | 0_0 |
EPA has perverted the Clean Air Act by declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant, despite the plain intent of the laws authors to exclude such naturally occurring gases, and despite major flaws in the science used to claim carbon dioxide endangers human health. | 3_3 |
The danger in EPAs authority to regulate GHGs is amplified by the fact that EPAs source of regulatory authority is the CAA. To trigger regulation under the CAA, EPA must make a finding that GHGs may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to the endangerment of public health or welfare. We learned again from y... | 0_0 |
Shell fish grow in water with varying pH, yet we seem to look at decreasing the mythical sea pH is by 0.1 standard unit is supposed to be very damaging. A number of the studies tend to look at one variable, pH, and ignore others, like pollution. Are they saying that for all the ranting and raving about water quality in... | 3_2 |
Here is an approximate, preliminary look at the winter for the 90 days ending february 26, 2011. December/January was the coldest in Florida (winter vegetables) history and remember the frosts and freezes in California and south Texas. | 1_3 |
Climate scientists have determined that time began in 1979, and feel verycomfortable starting most of their trend lines in that year. When generating global warming propaganda, itis important to cherry pick the coldest year for starting your trend. | 5_2 |
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