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Assessing the Agenda for Congress' First 100 Hours | 0_0 |
"While Senator Claire McCaskil works to roll back the Clean Air Act | 0_0 |
My own experience makes me skeptical of how environmental forecasting is being used. In 1991, several colleagues and I drew national and international attention when we used a computer model to forecast possible effects of global warming on an endangered species. Our computer program forecast that the Kirtland?s warble... | 0_0 |
Bendigo News, sport and weather | Bendigo Advertiser | 0_0 |
Nature CAN cope with climate change: Unusual behaviour of plants and animals suggests we??ve underestimated their ability to adapt, claim studies | 3_2 |
If someone is still wondering why anyone would take these risks, or sees only a breach of privacy here, a few words | 0_0 |
Instead of thinking as economists, we should think as international relations realists. In the realist school of thought, a man comports with another?s will only in proportion to the cudgel wielded over his head. We will not, solely through moral suasion, convince others to act against their own national interests. | 0_0 |
There is a lot more 3+ metre thick ice than there was two years ago, when David Barber declared that all the multiyear ice was gone. | 1_1 |
In Figure 2 of the blog article , CRU had displayed two chronology variations, falsely asserting that I had heavily promoted these versions as follows: | 0_0 |
As of 1974, climate experts showed a strong temperature spike around 1940, followed by plummeting temperatures until the 1970s, with 1970 actually cooler than 1900. | 2_1 |
Update January 24 2012 : There are other insightful discussions of this paper, including | 0_0 |
3. INABILITY FOR GCM MODELS TO PROPERLY RESOLVE REGIONS OF OCEAN UPWELLING WHOSE COLD WATERS CAN ENHANCE THE OCEANIC UPTAKE OF CARBON DIOXIDE | 5_1 |
(*This column has been edited lightly for clarity, May 22, 2013.) | 0_0 |
6) Imports are constrained by the ICTs to France and Holland, which already running close to capacity. Unless investment is made to expand this capacity, then there is little room for increased imports. In any event, there is the question of how much spare capacity France or Holland would have during periods of high de... | 0_0 |
He will argue that the 2008 Climate Change Act, which ties Britain into stringent targets to reduce the use of fossil fuels, should be suspended until other countries agree to take similar measures. If they refuse, the legislation should be scrapped altogether, he will say. | 4_2 |
Kenneth P. Green, Steven F. Hayward, and Kevin A. Hassett, "Climate Change: Caps vs. Taxes," Environmental Policy Outlook, June 1, 2007. (Washington: American Enterprise Institute). Available at http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.26286/pub detail.asp. | 0_0 |
A&N; then adds the excuses of trade winds, volcanic activity and solar activity give us cooling that hides the warming. As I recall volcanoes were an afterthought to explain the pause that the warmists denied. I seem to recall a number of denials of solar activity having any influence on the climate, except when they n... | 1_4 |
The close of the cooling event is coincident with a major transition from zonal to mixed flow in the North Pacific, indicating once again a global-scale association between Antarctic and North Pacific climate. It was also coincident with the onset of the modern rise in CO2, which has been followed by the warmest temper... | 0_0 |
Both domestic programs that subsidize risk-taking and international aid programs that subsidize risk taking should be phased out as quickly as possible, replaced with fully-priced insurance regimes. Eliminating risk subsidies would show people some of the true cost of living in climatically risky areas, and would, over... | 0_0 |
Still, Akasofu doesnt completely deny the existence of climate change, so much as question what causes it. One culprit he suggested is the recent lack of sunspots. | 2_1 |
Heres the clip from todays World Bank media event announcing its new report on climate: | 0_0 |
Moreover, measurement of carbon content, which would be required for tariffs or sanctions to be implemented, is costly. Most major products include components from many different countries involving many different production practices. Which ones should be the benchmarks? It seems obvious that there is great potential ... | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Island of Contrast | 0_0 |
The roller coaster ride actually looked for a day like it might cross the 2009 line, but soon turned down again, ending this week at 5,142,813. Heres the recent JAXA data | 0_0 |
The report says EPAs proposed new source performance standard for hydraulic fracturing could cut unconventional natural gas production by up to 11 percent and unconventional oil production by as much as 37 percent by 2015 | 4_1 |
Heres the reasonwhen you are sick you are susceptible to infections, and I am here to assert you are not a sterile thingyou have bugs everywhere, on your skin, in your nose, mouth, throat, and respiratory tract, certainly in your intestines, and in female genital tracts. Male urinary tracts are relatively free of bugs. | 0_0 |
The DN writes Omar Daham enthusiastic about the German energiewende and how individual hushll and villages around puts up their own solar collectors and Gnar up for biotervinning. Although the subsidies cost a lot, but ND. | 0_0 |
A recent study (Idso, 2013) reviewed a large collection of such literature as it applies to the worlds 45 most important food crops (making up 95% of the worlds annual agricultural production). Idso (2013) summarized his findings on the increase in biomass of each crop that results from a 300ppm increase in the concent... | 3_3 |
India to build observatory to study neutrino particles: | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the action in Congress needed to increase access to domestic energy sources: | 0_0 |
Jacobson noted that some carbon particles specifically white and gray carbon, the variants associated with some types of ash can exert a cooling effect because they reflect sunlight. That must be weighed against the warming qualities of the black and brown carbon particles and CO 2 emissions generated by biomass combus... | 0_0 |
CO 2 emissions due to human activity rose gradually from the onset of the Industrial Revolution, reaching ~1 billion tonnes per year (expressed as carbon) by 1945, and then accelerated to ~9 billion tonnes per year by 2007. Since ~1945 when CO 2 emissions accelerated, Earth experienced ~22 years of warming, and ~40 yea... | 2_3 |
Some Democrats seem to be convinced Romney doesn't stand for that ? and therefore want him to be the one to face President Obama in November 2012. | 0_0 |
All of which proves we're far from down and out in the space race, and that even old technologies work when we're committed to their success. | 0_0 |
fired on 5-of-6 humor elements, which is virtually unheard of. | 0_0 |
Obamacare beneficiaries have also funded Obama's inaugural committee. | 0_0 |
A more complex matter is whether mature technologies should be subsidized. My instinctive response is no, but there is a case to be made that if low cost and reliable energy sources can be made even less expensive to homeowners and businesses, then there can be genuine societal and business benefits to be gained from t... | 4_4 |
Ms. Figueres lectured, "To be a success, Durban needs to address further commitments of developed countries under the Kyoto Protocol." | 0_0 |
Robert Bradley, CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, said: "BP put form over substance and took their eye off the ball." Bradley called "Beyond Petroleum" "a failed corporate strategy . BP went after an environmental fad, basked in the glow of the Left environmental movement, and now may have destroyed... | 0_0 |
Latest figures, available for 2012 from the EIA, show that fossil fuels accounted for 82% of electricity generation, with wind/solar contributing less than 3%. | 0_0 |
As a result of these various phenomena, Darbah et al .'s gas exchange measurements indicated that whereas the CO 2 -induced stimulation of net photosynthesis in aspen clone 42E was about 31% over the leaf temperature range 32-35C, it was approximately 218% over the temperature range 36-39C, while for aspen clone 171 th... | 3_3 |
One of the big lies of 2012 is that March and July were the hottest ever in the US. According to GHCN HCN daily temperatures, those records were actually set more than 100 years ago, in 1910 and 1901. | 1_7 |
Greenland did have a warm period ten years ago but temperatures have been plummeting ever since. | 1_2 |
Read More: Swedish Church's episcopal letter about the climate. Lena Krantz, Climate Enlightenment 2014-08-01. | 0_0 |
Threat of Kyoto is leading to wholesale deforestation in New Zealand. | 0_0 |
This is the same EPA leading the effort to shut down coal-fired plants that produce electricity. It is the same EPA seeking to stop the Pebble Mine, described as "a natural resource project in Alaska that could yield more copper than has ever been found in one place anywhere in the world." | 0_0 |
Heartland Institute Conference: CO2 Rise Increases Biodiversity, Crop Yields | 3_3 |
Romney also has no economic plan to speak of, and liberal New Republic writer Jonathan Chait blogged Monday it's because doing so would "undercut the political salience of his managerial reputation." In other words, "he'll be running as the advocate of a specific program rather than the guy who will do for America what... | 0_0 |
Though climate models have proved to be an obvious inconvenient truth, alarmists continue to ignore this elephant in the room. | 5_1 |
Here's the thing. All of the sciences are becoming increasingly specialized. So most "scientists" Abraham and, a fortiori, the accident-prone Monbiot among them have no more expertise in predicting or even understanding the strange behavior of the complex, non-linear, chaotic object that is the Earth's climate than the... | 0_0 |
Miliband's Decarbonisation Policy Won't Work | 0_0 |
In conclusion, the EPA Endangerment findings is the culmination of a several year effort for a small group of climate scientists and others to use their positions as lead authors on the IPCC, CCSP and NRC reports to promote a political agenda. | 5_2 |
Both of these questions are poorly formulated also because each assumes that respondents accept that global warming is happening. But the U.K. Met Office data released earlier this month demonstrates that there has been no overall warming for 16 years. Since all of the events listed as choices for question #2 occurred ... | 1_4 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on what such a reduction would entail: | 0_0 |
Hansen drew comments from a report released by the WWF in the summer of 2002 titled, Polar Bears at Risk. This report also fingered climate change as the major threat to polar bear well-being. | 0_0 |
Along with Minister of Planning Jarbawi and others who think deeply about the state they hope to see emerge from the negotiating process, Fayyad has been developing the literature that will inform and instruct his constituencies. For example, the Palestinian National Authority official program document outlining its ag... | 0_0 |
We can identify such hostility as a stated aversion to the risk-of-loss and as a withering contempt for the achievement-of-gain. Both, of course, being the corresponding sides of the same speculative coin which environmentalism preoccupies itself with in its project to circumvent the process and thereby disenfranchise ... | 0_0 |
8,200 years ago, the post-Ice Age interglacial warm period was interrupted by a sudden global cooling that lasted for a few centuries (Fig. 3). During this time, alpine glaciers advanced and built moraines. The warming that followed the cool period was also abrupt. Neither the abrupt climatic cooling nor the warming th... | 2_3 |
Yet this startling growth has not produced so much as a twentieth of a Celsius degree of global warming. Any warming below the measurement uncertainty of 0.05 C in the global-temperature datasets is statistically indistinguishable from zero. | 1_4 |
An incredible oil boom is underway, destroying the governments measely estimates for production and getting the US to the point where we will soon challenge Saudi Arabia for the worlds biggest producer | 0_0 |
Another member of Gorbachev's very small original coterie of liberalizers, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, was just as pained by ubiquitous lawlessness and corruption. He recalls telling Gorbachev in the winter of 1984-1985: "Everything is rotten. It has to be changed." | 0_0 |
That wasn't the end of it. Dr. Carlin was then directed not to spend any more EPA time on climate change, and was even forbidden to speak with anyone outside the agency regarding endangerment issues. | 0_0 |
hen the extra N2O emission from biofuel production is calculated in "CO2-equivalent" global warming terms, and compared with the quasi-cooling effect of "saving" emissions of fossil fuel derived CO2, the outcome is that the production of commonly used biofuels, such as biodiesel from rapeseed and bioethanol from corn (... | 0_0 |
A plethora of peer reviewed studies provide absolute confirmation that prior periods were indeed warmer than our modern era; that both warming and cooling affected the entire globe and not just the European/North Atlantic region; and, that the significant prior climate change was entirely natural, not from human CO2 em... | 2_1 |
Brian Christley, a resident of Abergele, Wales, wrote to the Daily Telegraph : Over the weekend just gone, the coldest of the year so far, all 100-plus off-shore wind turbines along the North Wales coast were idling very slowly, all using grid power for de-icing and to power their hydraulic systems that keep the blades... | 4_4 |
Americans Hit by Excessive Federal Regulations, Threatened by New Energy Rationing | 0_0 |
and the key to winning that support is to show clearly which party is | 0_0 |
national security policy execution; he watches President Obama and his advisers | 0_0 |
Popular in the 1970s, disaster movies now fail to capture the public's interestfew people want to see films in which the plot revolves around something big and impersonal going really wrong. Quite simply, these movies have no real plotno villains, no moral conflicts, and no struggles beyond survival. Sure, we've had Tw... | 0_0 |
In reality, the cost penalty for the participants would be higher than Nordhaus has estimated because the compliance cost of carbon monitoring, reporting, policing and disputation has not been included. The compliance cost per unit of GHG emissions would escalate as smaller and smaller emissions sources are included. | 0_0 |
Truly these days, in more ways than one, are we moving towards a new dark age. Fortunately, however, the latest available data show the downward trend in global temperatures continuing, At least the one thing we dont need to worry about, it seems, is global warming. | 1_4 |
Just as important, the image of Congress is far more that of a dysfunctional body riven with partisanship than a well-oiled, or even marginally oiled machine working hard to help the country and its people with their daily challenges. On this front, the blame is widespread, going both to an irresponsible minority and a... | 0_0 |
Federal global warming program director of Environment America | 0_0 |
Researchers at the University of Alabama-Huntsville have published evidence supporting Richard Lindzen's iris theory, which says that when the Earth's surface warms, cirrus clouds open up to let the heat out. They have analysed data on rainfall and cloud cover and the heat escaping to space. They find a strong negative... | 3_1 |
According to the RSS satellite data, since September 1996 there has been no global warming for 210 months (17 years 6 months). NOAA?s 2008 State of the Climate report said 15+ years without warming would show a discrepancy between prediction and observation. There has been no warming in central England for 25 years. | 1_4 |
Sea level is not rising as predicted. In some interpretations of the sea level data, it has not been rising since 2004. | 1_6 |
Petitioners in Mass v. EPA denied the case posed any risks to the U.S. economy,claiming, for example, that, The NAAQS program is entirely separate from the mobile source program at issue in this case( Initial Brief of Petitioners , August 31, 2006, p. 28). Not so. | 0_0 |
Where do these people come up with this crap? The last 13 months has been barely above average, and almost half a degree cooler than 1998 | 0_0 |
Massachusetts v. EPA held that the general term ?air pollutant? includes greenhouse gases, but that doesn?t mean it can never be used in a narrower sense in specific statutory contexts. In a law as complex as the CAA, identical words can be employed differently in different programs. For example, Kavanaugh observes, in... | 0_0 |
Rudman offensive but NZ temp record dubious | 5_1 |
By Judith Curry, Climate Etc. Aug 13, 2015 | 0_0 |
And who is George Lucier? Hes a senior bureaucrat who has spent 28 years as a ward of the taxpayers at the National Institute for environmental Health Sciences. His only awards are from the federal agency that employs him. He is a toxicologist, and there is no reason to think he knows as much about the science of globa... | 0_0 |
Growth skepticism's rise to orthodoxy has tremendously damaging consequences for America and the world. Within the developed world, it means accepting as permanent a situation in which many people struggle to get by. Many people live in poverty, and many more struggle to maintain an apparent middle-class status. | 0_0 |
After this exchange, I lst part of a recent SPPI report by William M. Gray, who strongly criticize precisely the section of the IPCC AR4 that is about hurricanes. He has genomfrt own extensive research over more than 55 years and has supervised an impressive number of graduate students in the hurricane research. He cit... | 0_0 |
"This is a trade barrier in the name of environmental protection, and it constitutes an attack on the interests of travellers and the international aviation industry," it said in an editorial. "It will be difficult to avoid a trade war focused on a "carbon tax' for airlines." | 0_0 |
The link is the putting the evidence in context. It is weighing the argument against the counter-arguments, the significant facts. It happens not just in the judicial system, but in religion, in politics and in our work and in our personal life. If we are not always on our guard against putting the evidence in context,... | 0_0 |
At the current sea-level-equivalent ice-loss rate of 0.05 millimeters per year, it would take a full millennium to raise global sea level by just 5 cm, and it would take fully 20,000 years to raise it a single meter. | 1_6 |
Cop driving pick-up truck runs over woman, 21, sleeping on the beach | Mail Online | 0_0 |
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a non-toxic, non-irritating, and natural component of the atmosphere. Long-term CO2 enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter-term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth-enhancing, water-conserving, and stress-alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric ... | 3_3 |
However, he predicted bushfires would burn far less area in central Australia by 2070 as hotter, drier, weather reduced the amount of fuel blazes had to feed on. | 0_0 |
All countries act in unison to increase the optimal carbon price periodically and continue to maintain the carbon price at the optimal level for all of this century (and beyond). | 0_0 |
Thanks to Lyn Jenkins,Dean Koehler and Laurel for these links | 0_0 |
The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. | 0_0 |
He recounts the derision of historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and economist John Kenneth Galbraith Cambridge neighbors after the war for Harry Truman, the onetime haberdasher and member of veterans' groups and service clubs. | 0_0 |
An approximate 180% increase in the air's CO 2 content more than doubled the dry mass produced by well-watered and fertilized St. John's wort plants, while it also more than doubled the concentrations of both hypericin and pseudohypericen found in their tissues, which means that the CO 2 increase more than quadrupled t... | 3_3 |
Radio Free Europe; With the Winter Olympics less than six weeks away, the security spotlight has been focused on host city Sochi, nestled uncomfortably close to Russia's volatile North Caucasus republics and their ongoing Islamic insurgency. But Andrei Soldatov, the editor of agentura.ru, a Russian site dedicated to te... | 0_0 |
"As the snow of the coldest March since 1963 continues to fall, we learn that we have barely 48 hours' worth of stored gas left to keep us warm, and that the head of our second-largest electricity company, SSE, has warned that our generating capacity has fallen so low that we can expect power cuts to begin at any time.... | 0_0 |
Peter S on April 29, 2015 at 2:40 pm | 0_0 |
The coalition alleged that the method used to collect national temperature records, which show a national warming trend of almost one degree Celsius in the past century, almost 50 per cent above the global average, had been unscientific. That had created an unrealistic and unreliable indication of climate warming, it s... | 5_1 |
Independent data analyst Steven Goddard recently released a study of the officially adjusted U.S. temperature records used by NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other scientists who say they prove we are dangerously warming. (You didn't even know they adjust the raw data, did you?) | 5_1 |
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