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That wasntalarmingenough either, so they bumped the numbers up to 3.1 mm per year, almost triple the 1990 number without any evidence that sea level rise had accelerated. | 1_6 |
In spite of the British ban on slavery from the early 19th century, Mr. Kerwick points out it was not outlawed in India until the 1940s not outlawed in Saudi Arabia until the 60s. | 0_0 |
Sir Davids comments were made in an interview in The Guardian. | 0_0 |
Early action crediting is being promoted as a way to protect industry in the event that the Kyoto Protocol or some other program to limit greenhouse gas emissions is implemented. But Jack Kemp, a distinguished fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on July 15 tha... | 0_0 |
3. Understanding how heat trapped in the ocean will be transported into the deeper layers and how that might affect global temperatures in the future. | 0_0 |
However, data indicate that the rise in the heat stored at depth of the tropical Pacific, in the form of warm water, was created by temporary increases in sunlight caused by La Nia eventsnot by an increase in infrared radiation from manmade greenhouse gases. Well discuss that later in this post, and Ill provide a quote... | 2_1 |
Specifically, the fluctuations in the halftime pressures of Patriots footballs exceed in magnitude the fluctuations that can be attributed to the combined effects of the various physical, usage, and environmental factors we examined. Therefore, subject to discovery of an as yet unidentified and unexamined factor, the m... | 0_0 |
$100,000 for The identified issue for this project is exposure to diesel emissions and other environmental hazards associated with inappropriate land use within West Oakland. | 0_0 |
/s/ Kenneth Suit JSC, Asst Mgr., Systems Integration, Space Shuttle, 37 years | 0_0 |
"An ironic bookend to that Richard Cohen column I linked earlier accusing the GOP of being a "cult" that can't face unpleasant realities. Look out here for actual chanting about how allegedly un-broke we are. (Even The One is more reality-based than that.) You've seen this schtick before remember Michael Moore's disgus... | 0_0 |
IPCC Reports say little , but acknowledge lack of data and understanding. There are very limited direct measurements of actual evapotranspiration over global land areas. Over oceans, estimates of evaporation depend on bulk flux estimates that contain large errors. The problem is this is the major mechanism of transfera... | 5_1 |
In a sharp escalation of tensions over Brussels' move to bring aviation into its emissions trading system from January 1, Hilary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, has written to her European Commission counterpart, Catherine Ashton, and other top commissioners, to "strongly urge" the EU to halt or suspend its plan. | 0_0 |
Solution: As noted here , "an ad hoc assumption, not supported by any factual evidence, solved the problem: The average age of air was arbitrarily decreed to be exactly 83 years younger than the ice in which it was trapped (Jaworowski 1994 & 1992)." I have added the red arrow to illustrate the arbitrary data shift of 8... | 5_1 |
Developing countries know increased energy use is a prerequisite for the economic development needed to combat the major problems they face today, including poverty, disease, famine, unemployment and violent conflict. Can improved technologies help them reduce energy use per unit of economic output, and thus lower gree... | 0_0 |
Now this is interesting. We brought several pair of socks, but no extra boots. | 0_0 |
Gasoline prices rising $0.20 by 2016 and $0.30 before 2030, and | 0_0 |
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP) aims to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. In a thoughtful piece for The Monitor, Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker notes 2015 carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. electric power sector were already 20 perce... | 0_0 |
A simultaneous drop in the land data? This leads to the question | 0_0 |
we notice the mean of all this can be looked at to be slightly cooler but still very hot | 0_0 |
espite the strong mechanistic or physiological basis for a role of warming in coral bleaching and coral growth, a robust demonstration of a direct causal link between global warming and global coral bleaching over decadal time scales has not yet been produced. | 3_2 |
Post-Moderns like unions (50 percent favorable), Obamacare (only 16 percent think it will have mainly a bad effect), and the U.N. (60 percent favorable). They are much less likely than Libertarians to say government should be smaller (85 percent vs. 55 percent), and are significantly less likely to say that cutting maj... | 0_0 |
* Nighttime marine air temperature (NMAT) is taken by thermometers at the decks of ships, well above the sea surface. The relatively minor warming of the ocean surface (71% of the Earth's surface), stands in contrast to the reported global warming between 1970 and 2000. It suggests that land surface warming has been gr... | 0_0 |
They made a little mistake though. Great Lakes ice extent was at an all-time record high for the date at the end of January. | 1_1 |
The National Research Council has released a hard-hitting report about global sea level, and in particular, sea level along thewestern coast of the United States. Yup, they really nailed it down. They predict the sea level along Californias coast to rise somewhere between4 and 30 cm (between 1.5 and 12 inches)between 2... | 0_0 |
Please str hr and soothes your ecological conscience and verlter for others to take responsibility for 50,000 workplaces in kolverksamheten, there is a arbetsfrdelning I Carefully said would call antiquated, Gabriel said. | 0_0 |
Seven of the last 10 years have produced above-average freezing in the waters west of Alaska, Cole said. Last year, seasonal sea-ice cover and thickness in the Bering Sea were higher than any time since record-keeping began four decades ago. | 1_1 |
As my presentation had pointed out, the very small fluctuations of just 1% in absolute global temperature either side of the long-run mean over the past 420,000 years, notwithstanding substantial astronomical forcings, are inconsistent with the notion that strongly net-positive (i.e. temperature-amplifying) feedbacks a... | 3_1 |
But if we quit the fight now, there is no assurance we will win these battles. The forces against freedom and for tyranny in each case are enormous, well-funded, and powerful. We are David against Goliath, confident and hopeful but still battling heavy odds. | 0_0 |
Yet the actual plotted global temperature results on Chart #2, through June 2013, reveal that global warming has died and world temperatures are well below the NASA "business as usual" scenario. In fact, the actual temperatures are practically below the NASA model's 'Scenario C' (the cyan/aqua curve on chart) that assu... | 1_4 |
M-pesa has in turn improved access to capital even more, and technology businesses are thriving all over Kenya as a result. | 0_0 |
A new paper published in The Cryosphere finds the largest ice cap in Tibet had approximately equal gain and loss of ice mass between 2000 and 2012, such that "Overall, our results show an almost balanced mass budget for the studied time period. Additionally, we detected one continuously advancing glacier tongue in the ... | 1_1 |
Over on WUWT, there was an interesting comment burried down in yet another long discussion thread. | 0_0 |
Brian Lilley with Alex Marlow on Benghazi. Brian Lilley recently released CBC Exposed available at your bookstores. Interview with John Gormley available here . | 0_0 |
Indian monsoon rainfall has dropped since the 50s, but climate change should increase it. Whats going on? | 5_1 |
Seal pups have been drowning because of thin and melting ice due to warmer than usual weather. So, the Canadian government has reduced the hunting quota by about 20 percent according to Doug Struck writing for the Washington Post : | 0_0 |
Also reported here is that Arctic sea ice volume has increased by a third in 2013 and that this growth continued into last year. Compared to the average of the period between 2010 and 2012, a 33 percent increase in sea ice volume was found in 2013 and and in 2014 there was still a quarter more ice than during that peri... | 1_1 |
Finally, what of corruptionwhat role does it play in undermining prosperity? In a very simple regression of Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index on the Legatum Index, we find an R-squared of 0.74. This shows a strong positive association between low corruption and high prosperity. | 0_0 |
Canadian winter, summer and annual temperature departures from 1961-1990. Averages for the years 1998 -2011 | 0_0 |
By the time most 'significant in the history of the Kingdom, after the execution of King Charles I arrive rule dellaristocratico Oliver Cromwell, not a popular leader and even a homo novus. More recently, the blame could be said to have been diBonaparte and his failed attempt to cross the English Channel. Nothing Napol... | 0_0 |
An Agenda for the Monday a.m. Obama and Bush Meeting | 0_0 |
"They are hitting that level earlier than expected because of their rapid growth the last decade," den Elzen said. "For meeting a 2-degrees target (of increasing global temperatures) such a high emissions rate is definitely bad news." | 0_0 |
Hahn picks up SEIU endorsement in California's special House election: | 0_0 |
Which raises the question: why the extreme response? China has long been engaging in a dangerous game of manipulating important economic numbers and concealing domestic commercial realities. Despite all its progress over 30 years, Beijing is afraid to shine too bright a light in dark places, and even more afraid that o... | 0_0 |
Gas shales are formations of organic-rich shale, a sedimentary rock formed from deposits of mud, silt, clay, and organic matter. In the past these have not been seen as exploitable resources, however, advances in drilling and well stimulation technology has meant that unconventional production of gas from these, less p... | 4_5 |
I need to gain an improved physical understanding of the regpar value. As I understand it now, a higher number gives more degrees of freedom to the linear fit. If my interpretation is reasonably correct, there should be a section in the paper describing these results and explaining them away with overfitting of trend u... | 0_0 |
4. Michael Grubb, "Relying on Manna from Heaven?" Science (November 9, 2001): 1,285. | 0_0 |
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? | 0_0 |
"In comparing the vast array of past climate changes in the Arctic with what climate alarmists claim to be the "unprecedented" anthropogenic-induced warming of the past several decades, White et al. conclude that "thus far, human influence does not stand out relative to other, natural causes of climate change." In fact... | 2_1 |
> >> not know the cost of global warming damage because our | 0_0 |
Incidentally, this became a common refrain. After the Spanish study embarrassed the White House, prompting substantial media attention and even questioning at a press conference, Obama swapped out Denmark for Spain for later references to an enacted "green jobs" program. | 0_0 |
As the Proliferation Security Initiative in Asia shows, though, this twenty-first- century naval diplomacy presents formidable challenges in terms of redefinitions of "sovereignty." Though the TSN concept is still a work in progress, it is worth noting that naval representatives from 72 countries have already taken par... | 0_0 |
Finally . Maurice Strong is plopped front and center in the Kyoto debate, and in a Canadian newspaper. That said, there's the sense of an editorial black pen at work; | 0_0 |
The reason I think Tiberius Gracchus is a good analog is that Gracchus too took actions that were technically legal. Tribunes always technically had the legal power to bypass the Senate, but in hundreds of years had never done so. Despite their technical legality, his actions were seenat the timeas extremely aggressive... | 0_0 |
Some of the speakers are measurably better now than they were years ago, because they continue to grow and hone their rhetorical skills. That is probably one reason we cant get the warmers to debate. | 5_2 |
SST and LST anomaly data used in this post is available through the KNMI Climate Explorer: | 0_0 |
In the current economic climate, knocking the lifestyles of the rich and famous is likely to strike a chord. And given the brouhaha that greeted revelations about Al Gore's carbon footprint, the makers of "James Cameron ? Hypocrite", who in 2009 produced a contentious documentary disputing climate change called Not Evi... | 5_2 |
RMS residual error 0.16 0.26 C | 0_0 |
Even some Democrats are finally questioning their party's "steadfast support" for policies that promote "renewable" energy over oil and gas: Senators Ben Cardin (MD), Robert Casey (PA), Kay Hagan (NC), and several colleagues have openly expressed concern about renewable mandates. One has to wonder why so many Republica... | 0_0 |
2. These global multi-decadal predictions are unable to skillfully simulate major atmospheric circulation features such the Pacific Decadal Oscillation , the North Atlantic Oscillation , El Nio and La Nia, and the South Asian monsoon . | 5_1 |
Climate change is a useful tool in that fear of catastrophe can be used to compel economically destructive actions that would otherwise be unacceptable. | 4_1 |
Our paper by Peters et al, 2004 entitled Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events discussed the issue of nonlinear scale interactions. In terms of the climate system, a nonlinear perspective of this type is certainly needed, but has been lacking in assessments. The vulnerability fra... | 0_0 |
If we had started the process twenty, ten or even five years ago, wed have enough oil flowing to slash imports and cut world crude and US pump prices significantly. If President Obama had approved the Keystone XL pipeline, within two years over 800,000 barrels of Canadian, Montana and North Dakota crude would be flowin... | 4_1 |
Simply put, the Kyoto accord will have an impact only if it effectively taxes energy use, either directly (e.g. carbon tax) or indirectly (trading rights in emissions, assuming regulatory caps on those emissions). The Kyoto tax effect can manifest itself in a number of ways, but most obviously it taxes energy use, a sp... | 0_0 |
On Dec 22, Pielke Jr and Anthony Watts both covered the story, referencing a blog post by Nielsen-Gammon here . | 0_0 |
However, this nonzero value of the Feynman propagator, while proving correlation, doesn't mean that any faster-than-light communication is possible. The correlation is nonzero not because the regions would be communicating "right now". Instead, it is nonzero because the fields at the two points \(x,y\) have evolved fro... | 0_0 |
As blogger Tom Nelson has correctly observed, NASAs Gavin Schmidt is referee and commentator, along with his paid job as coach and cheerleader for one side. | 0_0 |
John: Not much point really, is there Brian? Blind Freddy can see its a crock of it. A total waste of taxpayers resources and governments time. Government exists to maintain and expand the social and economic well-being of its population not to legislate natural events. No responsible government would even contemplate ... | 0_0 |
And, I think the theory linking human activities to climate change is plausible, and that humans may have contributed to some of the surface warming seen since about 1970. | 0_0 |
When I wrote Red Hot Lies ,I backed up the claim with specifics and evidence. Sadly if typically, a new talking point has emerged among the cap-n-trade cheerleading Left which as I showed at two town hall meetings with Rep. Michele Bachmann last Thursday excludes the non-financially financially vested Left, to their cr... | 5_2 |
Even someone with the IQ of a vegetable would realize that if you want to know the rate at which temperature changes in the sub box, you want these thermometers distributed evenly; failing that, if all 5 ???fast trend?? thermometer were in one tight region, and the 5 slow warming spread out, you want to weight the vari... | 5_1 |
If anthropogenic forcing has had any effect on sea levels, it should be evident in the latter half of that plot but there is no acceleration. | 1_6 |
Look down at the eastern United States the next time you fly over it, " says U. of Oklahoma zoologist Dr. Michael Mares. "It used to be solid forest all the way to the Mississippi. Now it's patches of isolated forest, exactly what we fear will happen to the tropics. But we didn't have a massive die-off." (Science, p. 7... | 0_0 |
The new energy sector is not short of private funding; its "cocktail party" popularity and the pressure of the Kyoto climate change agreement has produced an ever increasing devotion of resources to research, and a huge boom in speculative investment in the last couple of years. Private equity investments alone in the ... | 0_0 |
In a statement yesterday, Mr Blair said: ?Solving the climate crisis is more than just a political agenda item; it's an urgent priority that requires innovation, creativity and ambition.? | 0_0 |
When Al Gore rose to the vice-presidency by 1993 Wirth and Hansen were already well out in front of the man-made global warming pack extending the man-made ideology to other federal agencies and the university-level climate community with federal dollars. | 0_0 |
Climate Horror Stories That Wont Die: The Case of the Pika (Stewart, 2015) | 0_0 |
Simon, Julian L. and Myers, Norman. Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994. | 0_0 |
The four researchers say that for the Mediterranean zooxanthellate coral, "an increase in CO 2 , in the range predicted for 2100, does not reduce its calcification rate," and that "an increase in CO 2 , alone or in combination with elevated temperature, had no significant effect on photosynthesis, photosynthetic effici... | 3_2 |
Here are four energy wishes for 2014, and four rebuttals to those who want America to focus on green energy. | 0_0 |
This much is certain: We have turned the tide on statism in each of these three important areas. We've risen to the call to come to freedom's defense and have fought a good fight indeed. Let's finish what we've begun: Win these battles ... and the others likely to come our way ... and then the war. | 0_0 |
Counsel for Special Projects Hans Bader joins this chorus. "Under this bill, a blogger like Emile Zola, the courageous writer who exposed an anti-semitic witchhunt a century ago in the infamous Dreyfus Affair through his repeated and "vehement public' denunciations of public officials, would be subject to prosecution,"... | 0_0 |
Things got nasty. Someone came up with the brilliant but insidious idea of using the term ???denier?? to describe a person who remained agnostic or sceptical about the exact human contribution to the 0.7 degree global warming of the past 100 years. This malicious rhetoric came to be adopted by climate activists, media ... | 5_2 |
This dataset's superior length allows analysis of long-term climate change since the LIA, including the widely accepted 60-year cycle of global temperatures. | 2_1 |
Professor Richard Tol, one of the reports authors who is based at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland, said: These are essentially a collection of anecdotes. | 0_0 |
Alternate links (since this video has an annoying habit of "going | 0_0 |
Jason-1 shows sea level falling along most of the US East Coast. It is also quite clear from this map that cherry-picking one location isnt going to fly. | 1_6 |
The graph above plots the five year running mean of the PDO (turquoise line) on top of the five year running mean ENSO (red and blue.) When the PDO is negative, La Nia dominates. When the PDO is positive, El Nio dominates. | 0_0 |
Wetlands continue to multiply, with a growth of 26,000 acres a year. | 0_0 |
For a treaty to have any validity, it must be honored by both parties. That is why Ronald Reagan used to famously say, "trust, but verify." | 0_0 |
The boss of American oil company Breitling Energy took out a full-page ad in this week's Sunday Telegraph, trying to persuade us all to get behind shale gas. | 0_0 |
Heres the essay by Nagel that convinced me to read his books and his essays whenever possible. | 0_0 |
In Figure 7, Ive smoothed the model outputs of outgoing shortwave radiation with 5-year running-mean filters to help show the differences in the shapes of the individual model curves. | 0_0 |
This brand of "free and honest debate" seems to be one in which the Mountain State comes out as a big beneficiary. You can't deny that. | 0_0 |
Without embarrassment, Vice President Al Gore went to the climate change meeting in Kyoto, Japan, last winter and said that "we have reached a fundamentally new stage in the development of human civilization." This new stage is a crisis stage, and its "spiritual roots" are "pridefulness and a failure to understand and ... | 5_2 |
An Illustrated Introduction to the Basic Processes that Drive El Nio and La Nia Events | 0_0 |
There may be economic justification for doing something now. While estimates of the costs and benefits of climate change are highly uncertain and changing all the time, economic models suggest a modest carbon taxon the order of 1 to 10 cents per gallon of gasolinemight make sense, assuming most countries cooperate in a... | 0_0 |
42 How can you say to your brother, `Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye, when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers. | 0_0 |
The key issue in the pending case over the quest for Mann?s e-mails involves the extent of Virginia?s state freedom of information laws, which ATI is using to request Mann?s documents. That issue has galvanized a coalition of 18 heavyweight press groups ? including the Reporter?s Committee for Freedom of the Press, the... | 0_0 |
Brief Overview Of Several Climate Science Research Findings | 0_0 |
Plans for large-scale wind power collided with the reality that prevailing winds at nearly all the campuses are too weak to generate much electricity. To date, a single wind turbine has been installed, as a demonstration project. It spins too slowly in average winds to power a 60-watt light bulb. | 4_4 |
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