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Oh, one more thing. I was surprised to learn from a "progressive" blog, corroborated by a renowned "scientist", that the releases were part of a coordinated campaign receiving vast amounts of secret funding from shady energy industry groups. | 0_0 |
Fortunately, we have windmills in Ireland producing almost no electricity to compensate. | 4_4 |
Marc started by making his point that many news stories about global warming science apply uneven labels to the advocates vs. the skeptics of catastrophic global warming theory, and that some more marginal media outlets have gone much farther, explicitly comparing climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers. Despite Marc men... | 5_2 |
A news story on heat waves has appeared the Washington Post entitled More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming U.S. and European Researchers Call Long Hot Spells Likely . Excerpts from the article on August 4, 2006 by Juliet Eilperin, Post Staff Writer, are, | 0_0 |
Original Image, with captions and description. The original is interactive with clickable regions for close ups. | 0_0 |
It takes a further act of faith to think that ocean temperature and icecap melting are in any way related to carbon dioxide. | 0_0 |
Should we trust that future generations will be smart, well-equipped human beings capable of taking care of themselves? | 0_0 |
Will the Hadley Centre attempt to flatten out the appearance of a 1943/44 and/or 1944/45 El Nino in the Global SST data. That rise and fall also appears in the COADS and MOHMAT Marine Air Temperature datasets, and, as illustrated above, in the CRUTEM3 LST data. Global Ocean Cloud Cover and Wind Speed datasets also indi... | 0_0 |
Nonetheless, virtually every major national environmental organization continues to reject nuclear energy, even after four leading climate scientists wrote them an open letter last fall, imploring them to embrace the technology as a key climate solution. Together with catastrophic rhetoric, the rejection of technologie... | 0_0 |
Science will release Dr. Andrew Dessler's new paper on cloud feedback at 2 PM (EST) on Thursday and Dr. Roy Spencer will release a statement at CFACT's press conference which raises serious questions about the study and details its flaws. "Andy Dessler's study will not stand hard scrutiny. COP16 delegates worried about... | 5_1 |
such opportunities as access to credit, the establishment of systems of identification, the creation of systems for credit and insurance information, the provision for housing and infrastructure, the issue of shares, the mortgage of property and a host of other economic activities that drive a modern market economy. | 0_0 |
As every individual, therefore, endeavors as much as he can both to employ capital in support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; everyindividual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neith... | 0_0 |
It seems the problem is her injury occurred in CA and she's now in MO. The doctors in MO don't want to see her due to the paperwork and issues required under the CA laws. | 0_0 |
See the original post for explanation of the methodology and the exact programs driving these lines. | 0_0 |
The Clinton-Gore administration wants more GEF funding to implement the Kyoto Protocol. The Senate made it clear that it will not ratify the protocol unless developing countries participate. Funding of the GEF allows the administration to claim developing countries are participating by accepting money from the American... | 0_0 |
There is value in measuring how much methane is escaping into the atmosphere, since doing so allows us to identify leaks in pipelines and flawed equipment that reduce efficiency as well as potentially damaging the environment. But using an inaccurate portrayal of methane emissions as a reason to push for a ban on frack... | 0_0 |
America depends on abundant, reliable, affordable energy 85% of it hydrocarbons. C oal generates half of all US electricity, and up to 90% in its manufacturing heartland versus 1% from wind and solar. Newfound natural gas supplies promise a sea change in US energy supplies and electricity generation. However, oil still... | 4_5 |
By Michael Patrick Leahhy, Breitbart, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
Malaria and yellow fever were once common in non-tropical regions. During the Little Ice Age when it was much cooler than it is today, malaria was still a major problem in Europe.33 Earlier in this century, the Soviet Union, not known for its balmy weather, experienced a major malaria epidemic. At the same time, Alaska... | 0_0 |
The return of China alone would be enough to make the West "live in interesting times." To make things even more interesting, Islam too is back, this time in the form of a totalitarianism which manages to combine an ideological comprehensiveness (Salafism) unseen since Communism and an existential nihilism (jihadism) w... | 0_0 |
Plants in a CO2 enriched atmosphere generally prefer warmer temperatures than those exposed to air with lower CO2, Idso said as he described a series of experiments. The doubling of the airs Co2 concentration typically boosts the optimum temperature for plant photosynthesis by several degrees centigrade and this also r... | 3_3 |
Since I know many of my readers are aware of error. Many are aware that using test with high errors is a well know trick to claim something is proven, when in fact, all one has done is failed to disprove using very little data. Since my readers know this trick, know that I know it, and know that any competent statistic... | 0_0 |
Sandy was "unprecedented," the result of "weather on steroids," various "experts" insist. "It's global warming, stupid," intoned Bloomberg BusinessWeek. "Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared. We must protect the great NY metropolis from r... | 0_0 |
Climate activists have no problem trying to force the people of the world to spend trillions of dollars for CO2 reductions based on the presumption that climate models are accurate. But when it comes to ozone, NRDC pleads uncertainty and then chooses increases in future ozone-forming emissions that are grossly at odds ... | 0_0 |
They are already making great strides. Just as the President Obama promised, in the interest of ending billions of years of climate change the coal industry, which has provided 18% of America's primary fuel, is now bankrupt. | 4_1 |
Recent news reports suggest that a new syndrome call it Climate Change Derangement Syndrome (CCDS) is on the rise. | 0_0 |
Using data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, they found that existing nuclear plants generate reliable electricity, on average, at $29.60 per megawatt-hourone million watts expended for one hour. Existing hydro, coal and natural gas arent far behind, at $34.20, $38... | 0_0 |
Adam Smith was insistent that the economic relationships in society need no guiding and commanding hand from government. They arise quite naturally and spontaneously among people, without political orders or directives. | 0_0 |
But that is not deterring Toyota, Honda, Ford Motor and several European carmakers from introducing new hybrid and plug-in models. | 0_0 |
Extreme drought occurs in Texas during more than 25% of years. Below are all the years since 1900 which experienced Palmer Drought Index extreme drought for at least one month during the year. | 1_7 |
That component is the sensitivity of our atmosphere to a doubling of the concentrations of CO 2 . The activists who have tried to dominate the discussion of climate change for more than twenty years have insisted that this sensitivity is high, and will amplify the warming caused by CO 2 by 3, 4 or even 10 times the 1C ... | 3_1 |
Sea Level Rise Less Than 0.7 mm/Year And Falling | 1_6 |
Environmentalism, on the other hand, is deeply political. It asks for the reorganisation of the world (and other comments to that effect) | 5_2 |
There is already a well established system for measuring the strength of tornadoes, and a well established database to back it up. Yet Elsner has attempted to replace this with a statistical model, based on a small amount of potentially unreliable data. | 0_0 |
Declining Discount Rates and Economic Growth Rates | 0_0 |
Time then for me to dig out some slides that Ive used off and on in lectures since 1999 as an illustration of Henrik Svensmarks cosmic rays in action, controlling our climate. But first, just to show that Im not being kooky, heres a graph from a 2000 paper by E. N. Lawrence of the UK Meteorological Office. TheTitanicdi... | 0_0 |
The two researchers report that "in the context of prolonged severe droughts," the 20th century "has been relatively moist compared to preceding centuries," and they say that their PDSI reconstruction and the Uinta Basin precipitation reconstruction indicate that "the early to mid 17th century in particular, and portio... | 1_7 |
The opposite is occurring. Why this test was not performed eludes me. Perhaps that is because it provides yet another piece of evidence supporting the hypothesis that we have simply overstated the sensitivity of surface temperature to changes in carbon dioxide. | 0_0 |
Flashback 1977: CRU Director Hubert Lamb of U. of East Anglia: Climate Change Is Natural: "Nature doesn't know what "normal' means' Lamb: "The idea of normal weather is an unfortunate legacy resulting from the idea that grew up in the early days of this century that the climate was constant. Nature doesn't know what "n... | 0_0 |
I have had over 21 inches of snow at my house, here on the valley floor, at no elevation at all. For over a month now, every morning except one or two has been below freezing. And we all remember the arctic cold just before Christmas. | 1_3 |
But for the last 15 years, Earths surface temperatures have failed to rise, despite rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. All climate models predicted a rapid rise in global temperatures, in conflict with actual measured data. Todays models are often unable to predict weather conditions for a single season, let alone long... | 5_1 |
NASA in 1999: "Winter in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to warm' Warmists in 2010: "Global warming means colder and snowier winters in Europe and North America' Nostradamus Science: Warmist predict anything could potentially happen then any climate event is conveniently "consistent' with their global warming the... | 0_0 |
What is far from clear is the influence, if any, from CO2. Its influence must be very small, for it seems easily overwhelmed by natural influences such as the PDO and the three phenomena studied by SteveF. | 2_1 |
Al Gore testifies before committees in both the House and Senate today on global warming. | 0_0 |
A LEADING global warming expert believes the latest UN warning on man-made climate change is a ???big gamble?? as temperatures have not increased since 1997. | 1_4 |
By Brent Kendall and Amy Harder, WSJ, Via GWPF, Aug 9, 2015 | 0_0 |
Where classical liberals see molehills of individual responsibility, politics can make mountains of government accountability. Look what the Soviet Union's Himalaya of a government was able to do with atomic power at Chernobyl. | 0_0 |
Chitons Facing Ocean Acidification Grit Their Teeth and Prosper (6 April 2015) | 0_0 |
Well, the mainstream American media, predictably enough, have totally ignored the entire scandal. There is, however, that small phenomenon of which they may not be aware, and for which they can thank none other than His Greenness Al Gore. Yes, that's right: a surprising number of Americans are now using the Internet, a... | 0_0 |
The GangesBrahmaputra delta is the dumping ground of the Himalayas. As wind and rain erode the mountain range, massive rivers carry more than a billion tonnes of sediment into the Bay of Bengal each year; in some places, the layer deposited since the most recent ice age is more than one kilometre thick. As in all delta... | 0_0 |
Unfortunately for the politicians and spin-meisters, the facts do not support this obscene posturing. | 0_0 |
Europe's economy has contracted and, after a mild winter, continent-wide demand for energy has declined. Thus, power utilities have been operating at lower capacity levels, resulting in less carbon dioxide and other airborne pollutants being released into European airspace. Recent economic data shows the European econo... | 0_0 |
"Since its passage, an ever increasing number of academics, politicians, and industry members have come out against the . The arguments of those opposing UIGEA have varied, but a popular and effective argument in light of the economic crisis is the potential for tax revenue that congress might draw from the lucrative o... | 0_0 |
Here is just one more indication that despite what some would like you to believe, the MWP was not a regional non event. | 0_0 |
As the air's CO 2 content rises, water losses via evapotranspiration from wheat fields will likely be reduced. Consequently, wheat will likely fare better under drought conditions and should additionally display increased water-use efficiency. | 3_3 |
So if they are using temperature and salinity to come up with pH, how can they determine that the ???ocean acidification?? they claim in the PR is truly a function of dissolved CO2, and not just part of the normal regional and seasonal salinity pattern? That concern is backed up by one of the images in a photo collage ... | 5_1 |
Moreover, as the members of Congress gear up for the 2014 election cycle, their attention will be on fundraising. | 0_0 |
This is legislative thuggery, andenergy realists shouldpounce it whenever it rears its ugly head. Our response should be always, Take that gun away fromour head, and then well debate the merits of your cap-and-trade bill. | 0_0 |
Yes, not even that. According to the IPCC the global temperature has risen by about 0.74 degrees C. In jmfrelse with Linderholm's data is not much to react ver. Especially as we have not seen someone tempera Turkish accession in the 2000s. | 0_0 |
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures... | 0_0 |
According to the Spanish scientists who conducted the work, their data suggest that "under future environmental conditions, barley species will be able to succeed in salinized areas in which growth is not currently possible." This phenomenon, quite obviously, should prove a great blessing to humanity. Reviewed 7 April ... | 3_2 |
Focussing our scientific and policy efforts onclimate model simulations that are able only to predict (at best) the response to increasing greenhouse gases and carbon mitigation policies are strategies with diminishing returns and likelihoods. | 0_0 |
In the mutli-decadal climate battle, organizations like Heartland have only recently erected a forum for scientists who do not embrace catastrophism, so that they may present their results and bypass what had been a media blackout. The initial, hockey-stick phase of the catastrophists response, while making use of tang... | 5_2 |
Claims that the only way to stop methane from having a greater warming impact on the planet is to stop fracking entirely are not supported by the scientific data. It is true the science of measuring methane is an evolving science that utilizes progressively less-flawed methods, but few studies have as many shortcomings... | 0_0 |
Attorneys General Global Warming Lawsuit: A Desperation Ploy | 0_0 |
PR from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Dec 25th, 2013: | 0_0 |
It turns out that few people understand how the IPCC makes some of its most important decisions. | 0_0 |
First, carbon taxes are not strictly a tax on bads (i.e. greenhouse gases), they are a tax on economic inputs: virtually all economic activity relies on energy consumption. In that regard, carbon taxes are taxes on both bads and goods. Sure, they tax greenhouse gases, but they also tax food, medicines, clothing, housin... | 0_0 |
In the words of the authors, "virtually all of the heat transport in the southern hemisphere is confined to a shallow circulation in the upper 500m," while "in the northern hemisphere a contribution by a deeper circulation is still present and represents the contribution of North Atlantic Deep Water." However, they say... | 0_0 |
We need to do that, and can do it without hurting the environmental values we all cherish. | 0_0 |
FURTHER READING: Andrew Biggs exposes "The Protected Class," Robert McHenry discusses "Culture and Its Discontents," and Jay Richards explains "Greed Is Not Good, and It's Not Capitalism." Kevin Hassett argues "Obama's Obsession Drives Progress in Reverse" while Arthur Brooks and Peter Wehner make "The Moral Case for C... | 0_0 |
Days after being challenged here to come out of the closet, Craig Emerson peeks out: | 0_0 |
Natural Gas Rig - Suncor Energy (Photo credit: Suncor Energy ) | 0_0 |
The trend of the warming since circa 1650 A.D., the nadir of the LIA, was well within natural variability. | 2_1 |
Although, much remains to be learned on this subject, it is clear that many corals will not succumb to the presumed negative impacts of rising temperatures and ocean acidification. And when adaptive and evolutionary responses are considered, it may be that few, if any, corals will actually suffer harm from increases in... | 3_2 |
One of the standard excuses for the team to ignore Antarctic sea ice has been the Arctic is losing sea ice much faster than the Antarctic has been gaining it. As is normally the case with climate experts, they have no cluewhat they are talking about. The graph below shows Antarctic sea ice in red, and Arctic sea ice in... | 1_1 |
Not one of these people did their jobs: the professor did not write the book himself, the assistant plagiarized instead of researching, the dean and the committee did not hold the professor accountable, and all ended up rewarded. By contrast, for example, learned papers and distinguished careers in climatology at MIT (... | 0_0 |
Clouds have an albedo effect that exceeds the green house effect so the net effect of clouds is cooling. | 0_0 |
And it has the standard picture of stacks with white smoke coming out of them, so we will see the carbon pollution. | 0_0 |
Getting higher crop yields per unit of water used in the process of obtaining them will be a key element of mankind's struggle to feed our ever-increasing numbers over the next four decades, when our food needs are expected to double (Parry and Hawkesford, 2010); and with both land and water shortages looming on the ho... | 3_3 |
Even so, Australians now know that China has a charming and formidable leader who visited the country and offered something of value to Canberra. | 0_0 |
A major conclusion of our analysis is that there are large uncertainties associated with the surface temperature trends from the poorly-sited stations. Moreover rather than providing additional independent information, the use of the data from poorly-sited stations provides a false sense of confidence in the robustness... | 5_1 |
Dow, through AEA, now writes on its website that it opposes "unfettered" free trade and urges "caution." It's hoping to indefinitely delay a final decision by the DOE and the Administration. | 0_0 |
?Subsequent evidence? Need to convince readers that there really has been | 0_0 |
Global Warming / Environment / Energy: | 0_0 |
However, the exclusion stipulates that all large-scale field tests, as well as any field release of biotech organisms involving unusual species or novel modifications, still generally require an Environmental Assessment or EIS. But the list of excluded or included activities could be modified via notice-and-comment rul... | 0_0 |
Lew said that the economy is strong and more resilient after 40 months of growth but the economic recovery is not fast enough, which led Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to ask whether approving the pipeline would help speed up job growth. | 0_0 |
China had doubled its 2015 solar power goal to 10 GW after the Japanese nuclear power crisis. | 0_0 |
Russia is demanding that it receive guarantees from the European Union and Japan that they will buy Russian carbon dioxide credits before it will agree to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, according to the Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (March 28, 2002). Kyoto supporters want the protocol to come into force before the Wo... | 0_0 |
The fact that we found it difficult to discern warming trends at many stations that are not located in rapidly developing urban areas may indicate that the actual increase in global temperature caused by anthropogenic perturbation is less pronounced than estimated in the last IPCC Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Ch... | 5_1 |
AR5 gives a likely (1783% probability) range for TCR of 1.02.5C, pretty much in line with the 595% CMIP5 model TCR range (from fitting a Normal distribution) but with a downgraded certainty level. How does that compare with the observational evidence in AR5? Figure 10.20a thereof, reproduced as Figure 2 here, shows var... | 0_0 |
"The unemployment rate and the nation's increasingly precarious fiscal position its enormous budget deficits and its ballooning debt will be the dual points of emphasis in President Obama's second State of the Union address on Tuesday." | 0_0 |
have eluded others for health reform, entitlement reform, climate change? Those | 0_0 |
Put in such stark terms the choice isn't that difficult, Murray notes. "Marxism brought us the Gulags. The worst that most commentators can say about free enterprise these days is that it brought us McDonalds." | 0_0 |
Elected: I'm now vice chair at my local UKIP branch | 0_0 |
That's an odd position to take about the only viable technology capable of producing reliable, industrial-sized amounts of zero-emissions power. Either it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding about energy basics, or it suggests the president's pledge to move to a green economy is more about serving Democratic constit... | 0_0 |
Unemployment will bring reduced nutrition, increased stress and higher rates of heart attack and stroke, spousal and child abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide and premature death. The social, economic and health care costs will further "fundamentally transform" America, as President Obama says he is determined to do... | 0_0 |
Rahmstorf is a real piece of work. When it comes to global sea level, he happily chucked the tide gauge data and instead used the 1992-2005 subset of the satellite data. But when it comes to local sea level data like the northeastern US, he happily ignores the satellite data and sticks religiously to tide gauge data. | 5_2 |
Nice disection of the moral argument. However, it is surely best defeated by pointing out that CO2 is a fertilizer and good for the planet. | 0_0 |
A linear fit to anomalies show warming from the 1971 through 2012 was approximately 0.16C/decade. In contrast the recent decadal trend ending in 2012 was -0.05C/dec. Moreover, the 11 and 12 year trends ending in 2012 are -0.05C/dec and -0.02 C/decade respectively. All 13-year or longer term trends ending in 2012 are po... | 1_4 |
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