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We cant let the climate wars continue to derail efforts to have an energy policy that puts in place rising efficiency standards, for buildings, windows, traffic, housing, packaging and appliances, that will drive innovation which is our strength in what has to be the next great global industry: energy and resource effi... | 0_0 |
Ive posted before about the growing food crisis, and its potential effect on the worlds poor. | 0_0 |
Global Warming Linked to Anger Outbursts, Obscenities | 0_0 |
Furthermore, although the Obama Administration was not the first to implement federal fuel efficiency standards, the President's EPA and Department of Transportation required the first-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles. The Obama Administration recently finalized new fuel-efficiency rules for cars an... | 4_1 |
The question is whether, after the extras burdens and bureaucracy involved cause businesses to relocate and after energy restrictions cause brownouts and blackouts, the administration's opponents and the general public will be able to join the dots. If they do, environmentalism could be a major factor in any backlash. | 0_0 |
The three Japanese researchers report that plant dry weight increased monotonically with each increase in CO 2 , to where the CO 2 -induced increase in plant shoot dry weight in the 10,000 ppm environment was 274% greater than that in ambient air at 45??C and 286% greater than that in ambient air at 60??C, while plant ... | 3_3 |
Remember the criterion of science? Only falsifiable predictions yield the meaning of observations. Climate models do not give falsifiable predictions, especially not at the resolution of CO2-forcing. Therefore, they can give no causal meaning to increased atmospheric CO2. They cannot explain the warming climate. They c... | 5_1 |
And when the accompanying chart showed that fully half of all volcanoes in the Cascade Range had erupted around the same time, well, it looked obvious that volcanic activity correlates with low sunspot activity. | 0_0 |
The University of Colorados Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming. | 0_0 |
loss based on transient phenomena, while not acknowledging the possibility of | 0_0 |
No one source really has specific "reliable" numbers and it varies anywhere from 23% to 40% depending on where you get your information. The reason more people are not falling for the global warming hoax is because many are taking the time to examine the overall picture. | 5_2 |
Clearly geologically induced heat flow is a tenable alternative explanation to recent glacial acceleration on the Svalbard Islands. Disappointingly, this possibility is never mentioned in worldwide press releases, but the much more speculative notion of man-made global warming is mentioned in nearly all media coverage. | 0_0 |
A paper published by the Danish Meteorological Institute finds a remarkable correlation of Arctic sea ice observations over the past 500 years to ???the solar cycle length, which is a measure of solar activity.A close correlation (R=0.67) ofhigh significance (0.5 % probability of a chance occurrence) is found between t... | 2_1 |
"New' energy, high-speed rail stars of speech: | 0_0 |
Global warming Idiots: "Sunspot and temperature correlations do not prove causality." | 0_0 |
Illustration of increased trade winds in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the recent warming hiatus, which enhanced the flow of ocean water through the Indonesian archipelago. This resulted in an abrupt increase of Indian Ocean heat content. Credit: Sang-Ki Lee | 1_4 |
It is also this latter difference that will make my next policy substantially more expensive. In standardizing options, the Congress standardized on the most expensive options (broadest possible benefits, smallest possible deductible). | 0_0 |
Anyone who lives in the nation's capital knows that it has been FREEZING, with well below average temperatures. Even today, inauguration day, started out with the wind chill in single digits. It's good to know that the president already is seeking to fulfill his promise to halt global warming. After all, as candidate B... | 1_3 |
The position papers from Ban's conclave make clear that Ban and his team are deeply concerned that momentum toward the MDGs, as they are known, is faltering, although one paper notes that "with the right policies, adequate investment and reliable international support, the MDGs remain achievable." | 0_0 |
What Mr. Lazear wants the U.S, to do is limit "carbon emissions" but admits that "The economics also work against a major transformation in the technology of producing power, either mobile or stationary. Coal is cheap. Natural gas is becoming even cheaper." | 0_0 |
CAA 165(a)(3) , also cited by the majority, provides additional contextual evidence that BACT does not encompass GHGs. The provision stipulates that the owner or operator of a major source may not cause, or contribute to, air pollution in excess of any ?(A) maximum allowable increase or maximum allowable concentration ... | 0_0 |
In 2007, Obama explained he was running for president "because I don't want to wake up one morning four years from now . . . to see that the oceans rose another few inches and the planet has reached the point of no return because we couldn't find a way to stop ourselves from buying oil from dictators. I don't want to s... | 0_0 |
The Professor looked very closely at the diagram showing the anomalies in short-wave and, separately, in long-wave radiation, and noticed that, though both had run level until 1997 (and, indeed, there had been no ???global warming?? from 1980 to 1997), they had been sharply dislocated until 2000, when short-wave radiat... | 1_4 |
That's bad news for our refineries along the Gulf of Mexico, which could be refining Canada's heavy crude and blending it with light crude from North Dakota. | 0_0 |
To be fair, President Xi had an inherent advantage during this recent trip Down Under. In addition to attending the G-20 meeting, the Chinese leader was there to sign the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement one hailed by many Australians as the most comprehensive FTA China has signed. | 0_0 |
In this Saturday, July 31 file photo a field of unidentified cereals burning near the town of Voronezh some 294 miles south of Moscow, after weeks of searing heat and practically no rain. A severe drought destroyed one-fifth of the wheat crop in Russia, the worlds third-largest exporter, and now wildfires are sweeping ... | 0_0 |
Therein lies a principle. So theoretically if the molecules of Carbon Dioxide gas are hotter than the other gases, then theoretically it might be possible for the teeniest-weeniest warming to occur. But it is as remote as swimmers off the coasts of the Riviera who might occasionally piddle while bathing; it is as remot... | 2_3 |
But sometimes, the King Bull says no, not good enough. No one knows why. The smell? Bad taste? In that case, in another few days the mother will try again. And it may or may not be accepted that time. | 0_0 |
Baliunas: No, those observations have been overturned. . . . Ice can change for reasons other than temperature. It can change because precipitation's changed. Some of the models, in fact, say that sea ice should be growing as you warm a little bit because it's so cold at the North Pole that you warm a little bit and ge... | 0_0 |
Abraham again artfully distorts or carefully omits what I actually said. First, he says that the IPCC predicts 20-50 cm of sea-level rise this century, not 6 cm. Well, yes it does, but the reason for the difference is that the IPCC's figure (which still amounts to below 2 feet, not 20, and it's actually rising at just ... | 0_0 |
This blog has relocated . You can sign up to receive an e-mail each time a new post is added under the "Email subscription" bar a little below the photo. | 0_0 |
Lower energy prices, end dependence on conflict oil, generate jobs and cash for the American and Canadian economies. | 0_0 |
Big-Government grows one law at a time | 0_0 |
Check out the National Consumer Coalition's Cooler Heads website at www.globalwarming.org. | 0_0 |
Finally, some appeasement conservatives seem to think that agreeing to a carbon tax will let them shed the climate denier label that has dogged them in the past. But theyre engaging in wishful thinking. Conservatives will not be able to take the climate issue off the table with a carbon tax, because efficient taxation ... | 0_0 |
As the hostilities between the current government and the Tea Party movement have become increasingly rancorous, the division of American society into two cultures holding thoroughly incompatible worldviews has become obvious. In fact, the two forces are clearly on an unavoidable collision course. Although many people ... | 0_0 |
The Chinese submission is part of the paperwork submitted by a variety of nations in advance of negotiations on a new global climate treaty, which is slated to be unveiled at a grand climate summit meeting in Paris at the end of 2015. This weeks ballyhooed climate summit in New York City was intended to kick-start the ... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia on the FTC's misguided efforts: | 0_0 |
As my latest book describes, I contend that they have been fooled by Mother Nature, and that in fact warming alters clouds in ways that mitigate not amplify ??? the small amount of direct warming caused by increasing atmospheric CO2. | 3_1 |
Please dont hesitate to contact me or Jim Lakely if you have questions or suggestions. | 0_0 |
Of course, this war on coal comes from the same administration that put the "crucify them" Administrator Al Armendariz in charge of the biggest oil and gas producing region of the country. In fact, EPA's crucifixion philosophy is so obvious now that even the left leaning Washington Post said that the Obama EPA is "earn... | 0_0 |
Every once in a great while when our moon's orbit takes it closer to Earth something quite remarkable can happen, a government official tells the truth. Apparently the increased gravitational force of the closer moon wrenches the truth from the unwitting official's mouth. Before you know it he or she has blurted out so... | 0_0 |
antarctic runway melting antarctic runway melting australias $46 million antarctic airstrip melting leaving scrambling find link frozen continent dreamers cast ... | 0_0 |
Many Europeans blame the United States for this lack of progress. In Europe, the social demand for action on climate appears to be stronger than it is in the United States. Yet, even in Europe, GHG reductions have not been nearly as sharp as those stipulated by the Kyoto Protocol. European leaders harshly criticized Am... | 0_0 |
The math often is applicable, of course; usually for simple problems and in small cases the results of which would not be in much dispute even without the use of probability and statistics. Take, for example, a medical trial with two drugs, D and P, given to equal numbers of patients for an explicitly definable disease... | 0_0 |
The climate science field, and the broader community of academics, have received an enormous black eye as a result of defending the hockey stick and his behavior. Its time to increase the integrity of climate research particularly with regards to increasing transparency, calling out irresponsible advocacy, and truly pr... | 0_0 |
I hope that you are following the lively discussion about Burger and Cubasch at Climates of the Past here , where Mann aka Anonymous Referee #2 is carrying on in a quite extraodinary way. Ill probably try to weigh in over there at some point. The dialogue has exploded fairly quickly and Ive collated some of the discuss... | 0_0 |
Well, might i suggest that warming only compromises defense if silly projects are proposed to weaken our economic and military posture. | 0_0 |
Conservation is part of the answer. Higher electric prices will induce consumers to conserve, thus reducing demand, but supply must be addressed as well. While dismaying consumers, higher electric rates will also encourage suppliers to find new sources of energy. For a price, more power can be bought from elsewhere. In... | 0_0 |
Plentiful and inexpensive fossil fuels are the preferred energy source, whether it be to run your car, heat your home, or generate electricity. Oil, gas, and coal are relatively safe, readily portable, fairly efficient, and relatively energy dense. While fossil fuels perhaps are not the perfect energy source, they do g... | 4_5 |
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark New Zealand. A judge has disregarded as inadmissible expert evidence from a statistician who showed that the adjustment method NIWA claimed they used only give a 0.3C/Century rise in temperature and ruled that NIWA (now a limited company) can adjust the temperature record as ... | 5_1 |
Reservations among member governments continued at the meeting of environment ministers on March 2. Environment Daily reported, "At a ministerial meeting in Brussels environment minister Altero Matteoli made a prolonged attempt to force a declaration from his colleagues that future emission-cutting action should depend... | 0_0 |
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. | 0_0 |
Michael Mann, a climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University said "If you're a betting person or the insurance or reinsurance industry, for that matter you'd probably go with a prediction of greater frequency and intensity of tornadoes as a result of human-caused climate ch... | 0_0 |
Whether ratified or implemented through the back door, Kyoto will have serious destructive consequences. Energy rationing will devastate employment in the steel, chemical manufacture, petroleum refining, cement, and paper industries. Rising consumer energy prices will squeeze working families and the poor. Slower growt... | 4_1 |
When I re-examined the De Bilt data, I was intrigued both by the size of the adjustment for a seemingly innocuous move of a couple hundred meters from a pagoda hut to a Stevenson hut and by the large discrepancy between the adjustments applied in 3 standard versions of the data. If the KNMi adjustment is right, then er... | 5_1 |
Cutting Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Exporting Technological Solutions to Developing Countries | 0_0 |
"I think they would have preferred the term "ironic". They were those kind of people." | 0_0 |
Carswell's advice to British Conservatives and, by implication, American Republicans, is to "stop drifting to the soggy center." Tony Abbott shows you can win. | 0_0 |
Round these 'ere parts there is much excitement over the possibility of a Grand Match , when Scottish lochs freeze over to a sufficient extent to allow for a curling tournament. There have only been three of these since the war, but the ice on some of the likely lochs are now within a whisker of the seven inches requir... | 0_0 |
Now that we've considered the benefits the EPA claims Utility MACT would bring, let's consider the costs. The EPA's own estimates say the rule will cost $10 billion annually, making it one of the most expensive regulations ever. More than 20 states are suing the EPA to stop the regulation, which they fear would endange... | 0_0 |
. . .the Massachusetts decision was a real travesty. It is impossible to review the history of the public debate on GHG regulation in this country beginning in the 1980s, when potential climate change first came to prominence, and conclude that authority to regulate GHGs was always available, hiding in plain sight in t... | 0_0 |
x=x-mean(x);year=c(time(x))/10;Year=year-mean(year) | 0_0 |
The study was written by Peter Schwartz, former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network. | 0_0 |
5. Al Gore's extreme proposals on climate change are smart politicsand bad policy. | 0_0 |
Americans increasingly understand that even sending US carbon dioxide emissions back to 1870 levels, as congressional climate bills would do, will not reduce global atmospheric CO2 levels, because emissions from China, India and other nations will rapidly offset our painful reductions. Those countries have made it clea... | 4_2 |
NASA proposes to launch space-based lasers that would, over several years of operation, gradually push the asteroid into a safe trajectory. They warn, however, that radically new technologies will have to be developed at enormous effort and cost. A coordinated world effort is urgently required. | 0_0 |
Environmental stresses induced by exposure to pollutants, drought, intense solar radiation and high air or water temperatures generate highly-reactive oxygenated compounds that damage both terrestrial and aquatic plants. Ameliorating these stresses typically involves the production of antioxidant enzymes that scavenge ... | 0_0 |
I write this while seated at a table where a certain shop proprietor is happy to stash the bored husband of an enthusiastic shopper. This may seem an odd way to begin a discussion of global catastrophe perhaps, but the incongruity of this mundane snapshot of real life juxtaposed with apocalypse raises a crucial questio... | 0_0 |
Nuccitelli ends by saying, Overall, Spencer made very few factually correct statements in this interview. On any other subject but this, where true-believers such as Nuccitelli now routinely get away with outrageous falsehoods that smear the reputations of any scientists bold enough to raise even the mildest questions ... | 5_2 |
Washington officials are also hopeful that the Guadalajara meeting might produce a common front on global climate change that the North American countries could press for together at the upcoming UN-sponsored climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. European countries have been working under an emissions cap and trad... | 0_0 |
Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd. | 0_0 |
"The region is a welter of putrefaction, where men die like flies. Even with all the money in the world and half its population it is impossible to finish this railway." The Public Works Company, 1873 | 0_0 |
Nah, it is of course all the food we best and the songs that stands for about 25 percent of the average Swede klimatpverkan according arrangrerna. We can output has been not change our eating habits and reduce klimatpverkan 25 percent less n we stop taking verhuvudtaget. Besides, it was the GT outside festivalomrdet, l... | 0_0 |
Figuring out what to make of the climate change talks recently held in Paris isn't as easy as you might think. Talk about a confusing atmosphere. | 0_0 |
on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 at 3:57 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
As illustrated and discussed, while global surface temperatures rose slightly in 2014, the minor uptick did little to overcome the growing difference between observed global surface temperature and the projections of global surface warming by the climate models used by the IPCC. | 5_1 |
Finally ???more than 97% of all actively publishing* climate scientists agree that climate change is real and human caused?? is probably an underestimate, as virtually everyone acknowledges that the surface temperature is warmer than it was, and that multifarious human activities have some influence on climate. Rather,... | 3_1 |
"In his dissenting opinion, Judge Robert Smith argued the court was being too prudish in what it considered art even though he finds lap dances 'distasteful.' 'Perhaps for similar reasons, I do not read Hustler magazine,' Smith wrote. 'I would rather read the New Yorker. I would be appalled however, if the state were t... | 0_0 |
Thats the way I learned it from the big boys of climate/meteorology. | 0_0 |
Asian Droughts. Numerous drought related disasters have occurred over the Asian mainland this century. The most notable include: | 0_0 |
Computer model simulations of complex, chaotic systems often are massive failures producing worthless prediction output.....all the climate models used by the IPCC and the major climate research agencies are no different - with that said, there are times when a simpler and more elegant model approach can produce superi... | 5_1 |
The could learn a lot about di-hydrogen oxide. | 0_0 |
This illustrates the non-intuitive nature of climate. As the global temperature was climbing from 1985 until 1998, global sea ice was increasing. Since then it has decreased, and currently is where we were at the start of the satellite record. Variation in the average is 2%. Nothing unusual here. | 1_1 |
EPA's constantly changing and increasingly narrow interpretation of NSR enforcement policies has had major negative effects on businesses, workers, consumers, and the environment. Evidence to this effect was presented at hearings and in written petitions to EPA and is referenced in EPA's Report to the President. This s... | 0_0 |
The problem with the IPCC process, however, is that the scientists and experts participating in each iteration have become increasingly biased toward climate alarmism. It is getting harder to separate the ideologically motivated alarmists from the honestly worried scientists. Past assessment reports, especially the 2nd... | 5_2 |
They claim the model we used was ???bad?? (even though it is commonly used in many previous studies, and recommended to us by one of the leading climate modelers in the world), and that is was ???tuned?? to match the data. The last claim is absolutely hilarious, since the more complex climate models they use are consta... | 5_1 |
By Timothy Cama, The Hill, Aug 14, 2015 | 0_0 |
Although manufacturing employment declines in certain years, that change is simply a result of the American free market at its best. As a market expands, new jobs replace old jobs and the economy grows. Chart 4 provides the impact on manufacturing employment. | 0_0 |
Pollen is disseminated by the wind. Organic farmers and activists have long argued that plants on an organic farm cross-pollinated by a neighbor's genetically engineered crops would no longer be considered organic and therefore would be denied the higher price such foods command in the marketplace. Therefore, organic p... | 0_0 |
Read here . UK ocean experts, using the best tidal gauges available, discover that sea level rise is not accelerating. In fact, it has been decelerating since 1960, as the below graph indicates. (click on image to enlarge) | 1_6 |
It shows general warming from 1680 following the cold of the Little Ice Age (LIA) that was coincident with the Maunder Minimum of sunspots. This warming shows why charges that others and I were global warming deniers were false. What we questioned was the claim that humans were the cause. Dickens Winters relate to Char... | 2_1 |
Over the past 50 years southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming. Similar losses have been experienced in eastern Australia, and although the science is less certain it is probable that global warming is behind these losses too........Desalination pl... | 0_0 |
First, get the MSU tropical T2LT series and then for convenience, center the data and the time series (dividing by 10 to yield changes per decade): | 0_0 |
This principle applies well beyond Halloween. It is present when people worry about the effects of genetically engineered food, now that food borne disease is under control. It is present when people worry about chemicals when chemicals have done so much to improve our lives. And it is present when we worry about the w... | 0_0 |
"Good Science Prevails': Renowned Scientist Fred Singer Talks Climate Change | 0_0 |
Note the precision in the probabilities. Very impressive. However, Dr Jones unfortunately appears to suffer from xenophobia. Heres a communication from Prof Phil Jones (for it is he) gleefully relating in a Climategate email about our Dr David Jones | 5_2 |
1000 years (900-1100) Suess cycle with +/- 0.65C | 0_0 |
The combined land and ocean surface record (Figure 1) shows a warming trend of about 0.11 C per decade (1958-1998) and 0.19 C per decade (1979-1998), while the satellite temperature records (Figure 2) since 1979 show a warming trend of 0.05 C per decade.4 The contrast in temperature trends between the surface and satel... | 0_0 |
The Four Corners area, which is made up of Northwestern New Mexico, Southwestern Colorado, Northeastern Arizona and Southeastern Utah, contains the San Juan Basin which is one of the premier natural gas deposits in the United States. The San Juan Basin has contributed more than eight percent of the nations current natu... | 4_5 |
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