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First we can remember Tiljander which was simply flipped to improve the high number of correlated series, from memory, this counts for 3? of 484 series but it is worse than that. Luterbacher, which included 71 series of ACTUAL physical temperature data, also skewed the results so subtract another 71 bs proxies from 484... | 5_2 |
Got that? Nuclear is part of the ancien r gime like oil and coal and natural gas that Obama's green revolution would overthrow. | 0_0 |
I know that these comments sound like conspiracy theories and most people who say similar things are simply nuts. But I can't help myself: Yes, I do think that the appearance and their way of thinking makes it very likely that Frank Marshall Davis was the actual biological father of Barack Obama . I can't give you any ... | 0_0 |
A paper published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds, " In the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE (cyclone energy) has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s. Additionally, the global frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historic... | 1_7 |
In fact, farmers have managed to keep different crops separate for centuries. Although weed seeds are spread by birds and by weather, pollen moves much smaller distances. Farmers have already agreed on buffer zones between crops that might cross-pollinate, and seed comes with guarantees against the presence of weeds an... | 0_0 |
The summit in Cancun failed to produce a binding deal or even a concrete renewal of the Kyoto Protocol. However, the UN climate dignitaries did finally reach an ?agreement? of sorts, citing the accord as evidence of progress and vowing to expand the climate regime later. Almost every government in the world signed on t... | 0_0 |
Further, Figure 2 gives you an indication of just how meaningless the IPCC statement about the paleo-temperature history of the Northern Hemisphere really is. True, even in this proxy reconstruction, the temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period... | 2_1 |
The Week That Was: 2015-08-15 (August 15, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP ( www.SEPP.org ) The Science and Environmental Policy Project | 0_0 |
Worst of all, politicians are increasingly and intentionally obscuring and misrepresenting the nature, frequency and severity of storm, flood and surge risks, so that they can promote and permit more construction in high-risk areas, and secure more money and power. They insist that they can prevent or control climate c... | 0_0 |
That contradicts the findings of the DOE consultants, as well as Ebinger and Levi, who all concluded there would be many winners and very few losers. Because of the net benefits to the economy, consumers would be among the biggest beneficiaries. | 0_0 |
The single most frequently asked question I get after I give my talks is, Why didnt you mention the sun? I usually answer that Im skeptical of the cosmic ray gun theory of cloud changes controlling climate. But I point out that Svensmarks theory of natural cloud variations causing climate change is actually pretty clos... | 2_1 |
Seattle Voters Reject Fees on Grocery Bags | 0_0 |
Market-based alternatives to emission trading can be found in the work of a growing number of academics and policy experts advocating so-called free-market environmentalism.37 While are controversial, they at least illustrate the variety of promising alternatives to the now quarter-century-old NSR. | 0_0 |
Much of my vision for CEI emerged from my apprenticeship at the Council for a Competitive Economy. As the Council came to an end, friends encouraged me to create my own organization. They assured me that, with my alleged energy and enthusiasm, it would be easy. They lied. Our first year was incredibly difficult. One da... | 0_0 |
These omitted processes may well have important consequences for future African | 0_0 |
Antarctic global warming expedition airlifted from the ice | 0_0 |
"The magnificent moral impulse, the search for truth and goodness, is only a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the successful remaking of a country." | 0_0 |
8 hours ago AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. | 0_0 |
The last time there were 15 landfalling hurricanes in a four-year period was back in the 1880s. Even so, the entire 1880s ended up having only one or two more landfalling hurricanes than the preceding and subsequent decades. History, therefore, cautions us against jumping to rash conclusions about whether the opening d... | 0_0 |
Imagine hundreds of world leaders and nongovernmental organizations, science groups, and United Nations functionaries gathered for a meeting heralded as the most important conference since World War II, in which "the future of the world is being decided." These officials seem to agree that institutions of "global gover... | 0_0 |
The substance of what Murray says we know in fact turns out to be mere speculation. And highly contested speculation at that, with much criticism of the putative links between climate and conflict emerging from within the green camp itself. It is even contested by the IPCC | 0_0 |
The climate models upon which most of the dire predictions of global warming rest, also contain erroneous assumptions and ignore many of the natural variables that govern our climate. They were artificially tuned to match the warm trend from 1978-1998, using water vapor to amplify the perceived warming by CO2. This was... | 5_1 |
Agency expects new rule to boost oil extraction technique that critics say negates emissions reductions | 0_0 |
As the air??s CO2 content rises in response to ever-increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and as more and more carbon dioxide therefore dissolves in the surface waters of the world??s oceans, theoretical reasoning suggests the pH values of the planet??s oceanic waters should be gradually dropping. The IPCC and others... | 3_2 |
Opinion: UN-Backed Scientists Call For Mega-City Population Lockup | 0_0 |
Members of The Heritage Foundation staff testify as individuals discussing their own independent research. The views expressed are their own and do not reflect an institutional position for The Heritage Foundation or its board of trustees. | 0_0 |
41: The consensus is only that humans are contributing to warming. 42: Roy Spencer agrees with that consensus. 43: Only a small number of scientists know enough about climate sensitivity to have an informed opinion. 44: Only a few of us work on the question how sensitive is the climate system. 45: Only a few of us know... | 0_0 |
Connecticut Legislature Rejects Ban on GM Grass | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President Iain Murray on why we should privatize Amtrak. | 0_0 |
4. IPCCs 5 th assessment report (AR5) shows lower temperature predictions than the previous report (AR4) and has even increased the range of uncertainty for climate sensitivity (see item 7 below) yet it has increased its claimed level of certainty of future higher temperature-rise predictions over that claimed for prev... | 5_2 |
Is Chicken Little going around telling all the other chickens that the sky is falling out of the goodness of his heart? Or is there something Chicken Little wants? And once Chicken Little has the other chickens convinced that the sky is falling, will there be a Federal Department of Falling Sky? And will Chicken Little... | 0_0 |
As more states approve applications for an Article V convention, opponents of constitutional reform continue to object to any potential changes to the all-important document. But as constitutional scholar Rob Natelson writes in this new Heartland Policy Brief, James Madison and other Founders "emphasized state official... | 0_0 |
Warmist energy and climate website CO2-Handel reports here that once again global CO2 emissions have increased, reaching a record level in 2012! Yet CO2 Handel forgets to tell us that global temperature hasnt risen in almost 15 years: | 1_4 |
Many peer-reviewed papers (e.g. Douglass et al., 2004, 2008, 2009; Schwartz, 2007; Monckton, 2008; Lindzen & Choi, 2009) show that the IPCC has exaggerated the warming effect of greenhouse gases up to 7-fold. Without that exaggeration, there is no climate crisis. | 5_2 |
Following the pledge in a May 13 letter to CEI's attorney, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker (AG Walker) has withdrawn the District of Columbia subpoena action against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), yet the original Virgin Islands subpoena remains, meaning AG Walker can move at any moment ... | 0_0 |
Bill Frezza: Alternative Energy's Alternate Reality | 0_0 |
Orange News, sport and weather | Central Western Daily | 0_0 |
Steven F. Hayward reviews The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes. | 0_0 |
The Affordable Power Alliance will urge the new Congress to honor its constitutional duties, and prevent the Obama administration from imposing excessive regulations inspired by extreme ideologies. Congress, including Democrats up for reelection in 2012, needs to heed the overwhelming public demand that America's econo... | 0_0 |
/s/ Richard Gordon JSC, Astronaut, Gemini Xi, Apollo 12, 9 years | 0_0 |
Answering the how-much-warming question is difficult. Models overemphasize radiative transports, undervalue non-radiative transports such as evaporation and tropical afternoon convection, and largely neglect the powerfully homoeostatic effect of the great heat-sinks ocean and space that bound the atmosphere. | 5_1 |
Science is a process. The results of that process do not depend on whether scientists are good or bad, altruistic or selfish. The issue is whether they follow the scientific process. | 0_0 |
Richard North, the professor who brought to light the financial irregularities in a write-up co-authored with Christopher Booker, has also said in a TV interview that, "If Dr Pachauri does not resign voluntarily, he will be forced to do so." | 0_0 |
Hansensays that each doublingof CO2 causes a 3C temperature increase. Venus has 97% (0.97 mole fraction) CO2. In order to get to 97% on Earth, wewould require less than 13 doublings. That would raise temperatures by about 35degrees, using Hansensown exaggerated theory. Nowhere near 600 degrees. | 5_2 |
People around the province woke up to snow Monday morning, after an ???unseasonably cold Arctic airmass?? descended over the province. | 1_3 |
Now, as I'm sure people will argue, not everyone can do this. If predictions of strong sea-level rise come to pass, low-lying areas, many of them in poor countries, will be inundated, potentially leading to mass exodus. The same is true if desert areas become sharply dryer. | 0_0 |
Were the struggles of this campaign season a precursor to future uncertainty regarding party identity and leadership? | 0_0 |
Finally, the recent financial crisis and economic bust are typically blamed on our lust for material betterment. Greedy bankers lent money recklessly, and lax regulators let them get away with it. But behind them all, it is alleged, stood the gluttonous American consumer with rapacious demands for ever more goods and s... | 0_0 |
I?m not opposed to moderation and frugality, and we certainly should put aside our avaricious and materialistic ways. Sacrifice, too, is virtuous and meritorious, as long as it is voluntary and sincere. | 0_0 |
The latest USA Global Forecast model shows a landfalling tropical cyclone near the Tampa are next week. The forecast position is shown above. If this verifies (as either a tropical storm or a hurricane), it will add another layer to what already will be an interesting potlical event! | 0_0 |
One of the Fascists, distracted as I had intended, began trying to offer a commentary on what I was saying. Using my elbow, I kept her away from the microphones and continued talking. Eventually, the squad marched out of the room and rapidly dispersed before the police could round them up. | 0_0 |
Campbell, I.D. and Flannigan, M.D. 2000. Long-term perspectives on fire-climate-vegetation relationships in the North American boreal forest. In: Kasischke, E.A. and Stocks, B.J. (Eds.). Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forests. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA, pp. 151-172. | 0_0 |
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation, here are the Luis Russell Orchestra performing Goin' To Town , in 1931 (2:55). Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments. | 0_0 |
The APS notes that the models seem able to reproduce the Arctic declining ice trend, but not the Antarctic rising ice trend. Moreover, the APS has spotted that the IPCC had done its ice graphs using only 17 out of its 40 models, these 17 happening to produce reasonable fits with the data. The APS says, | 5_1 |
In their Reply to Mann, B and C will point out that Mann et al 2005 deals with pseudoproxies in a tame network (using my terminology here). | 0_0 |
It also came as the state government released a report on future impacts of climate change in Victoria, finding average temperatures could increase by 1 to 4.2 degrees by 2070 relative to 1990. | 0_0 |
That was largely the logic behind the faltering Kyoto Protocol, in which China pledged only to reduce the carbon intensitythe relative greenhouse gas efficiency of its industrialization, without any effort at actual cutbacks. | 0_0 |
Recently Xstrata announced plans to cease smelting and refining copper in Queensland. Then Blue Scope Steel decided to reduce production and shed workers. Now Rio has signalled the sale of its aluminium processing empire. Next we can expect that a large coal fired electricity generator will be unable to repay its debts... | 0_0 |
Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have criticized the use of corporate jets by companies receiving taxpayer funds. | 0_0 |
For the Left, here be dragons. Getting truth directly from the Internet is habit-forming just in time for elections in England, the United States, and perhaps Australia. | 0_0 |
Despite the continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions from us, rise of global surface temperatures has been easing since 1998. | 1_4 |
Meanwhile, Finland and France are probably the most technologically advanced European countries as far as nuclear energy is concerned. And Britain, Lithuania, Switzerland, and Slovenia are the other countries where nuclear power plants may be built soon. | 0_0 |
The most shameful aspect of the developed worlds rush to implement climate change mitigation policies is that they have often been justified by reference to ethics. Yet the results have been the very opposite of ethical. said Mr Montford. | 4_1 |
5 See Robert Jervis' classic Perceptions and Misperceptions in International Politics, 1976. | 0_0 |
But when one examines my actual post , it does not contain any statements that contain the assertions about which Schmidt complains. Precisely what Lucia warns against when dealing with Schmidt. | 0_0 |
Once again, perhaps his speechwriters were aware of claims of falsified records and the besmirched Charles Monnett (whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement), and reports of rebounding polar bear populations. While they dont get much mainstream press coverage, several scien... | 3_2 |
On longer time scales, ocean mixing caused by deep ocean currents causes long term changes in ocean temperatures. These changes also affect long term carbon dioxide trends. Carbon dioxide held in large quantities in cold deep ocean water is slowly released as ocean currents mix this cold water with warmer surface water... | 2_1 |
Again, in the words of the authors, "both coral and fish assemblages demonstrated resilience to large-scale natural disturbance ? with most taxa approaching the asymptote of abundance and species richness that existed prior to the disturbance." They note, however, that "this outcome may not necessarily be the case in m... | 3_2 |
The temporal extent of modern observations is too short to properly measure natural ENSO variations: averaging together at least 200 years is required to obtain robust ENSO statistics in a stable climate . Using paleoclimateproxies to extend the observational record is another option, but is complicated by the uncertai... | 5_1 |
Average Radiative Forcing from CO2, aerosols, volcanoes: 0.8 W m-2 | 0_0 |
Multiple large corporations are now working with Obama and Democrats to pass the infamous 'cap & trade' legislation, which will result in the the consumer and small businesses absorbing the trillions of dollars of direct/indirect costs it will generate. These big corporations are working behind the scenes for their own... | 5_2 |
Wind Power Prices Rising, Defying Predictions of Renewable Power Apologists | 0_0 |
See press release from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany): | 0_0 |
On the other hand, if Speaker Ryan, filling his fiduciary responsibility as a constitutional officer and his heartfelt vow to become a party of ideas and policies, moves to enact constructive policies, or simply to keep the government operating, it is hard to see how he could avoid the fate of his predecessor John Boeh... | 0_0 |
In fact, the productivity of private industry has provided governments with billions of dollars for the remarkable environmental cleanup of the past three decades. And it has poured additional untold billions into private and nongovernmental environmental projects. | 0_0 |
Ring bases his predictions on lunar cycles in particular drawing on five of the lunar cycles known most to astronomers on the basis each creates an orbiting pattern that influences weather. He writes that these cycles feed into each other and fit like cogs in a gearbox with such celestial precision that after each luna... | 2_1 |
Precedent on Environmental Pacts: Treaty or "Executive Agreement"? | 0_0 |
In a very comprehensive study of the western Arctic Kaufman and coauthors from the US, UK, Canada, Norway, Iceland, and Russia (2004), studied proxies from over 140 sites in the western hemisphere part of the arctic. Their abstract notes Paleoclimateinferences based on a wide variety of proxy indicators provide clear e... | 2_1 |
I applaud Chris Mitchell for fighting back, and not caving in to the bullies. I dont think defamation threats are as good as getting even , but its much better than letting them get away with it. | 0_0 |
The third front involves Congress reasserting its lawmaking authority. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution says, "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress." Much of that power has been given away to federal agencies. Congress passed 285 laws last year, compared to 3,830 final rules from ... | 0_0 |
The dramatic transformation to a supposedly green economy still largely undefined will not be cheap. In fact, according to the UN, the price tag will be in the trillions of dollars per year. And consumer prices will have to increase across the board, too, with food, energy, and housing at the top of the list. | 4_1 |
The basic political and economic calculations behind Byrd-Hagel are still in place today, despite the changes in the membership of the Senate since 1997 that has moved that body to the left. There is zero chance that a Kyoto II treaty can achieve the consent of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate. Not... | 0_0 |
Starting a new debate on such a significant issue at this point in the election cycle is a recipe for really bad legislation: to suggest writing a major bill that will touch on virtually every sector of the U.S. economy in an election year will be inviting every special interest in the country to a party where the taxp... | 0_0 |
Benjamin Zycher is the John G. Searle scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. | 0_0 |
But the commission also wants to measure sustainability, environmental degradation, and climate change while admitting measurement of these factors is highly subjective, difficult, and possibly impossible. The difficulty of making guesstimates operational is made worse by the report's implicit assumption that all envir... | 0_0 |
Wunsch wrote that, "The Gulf Stream's existence is a consequence of the large-scale wind system over the North Atlantic Ocean, and of the nature of fluid motion on a rotating planet. The only way to produce an ocean circulation without a Gulf Stream is either to turn off the wind system, or to stop the Earth's rotation... | 0_0 |
Government eyes crippling climate-control measures | 4_1 |
According to an MSNBC article one of the scientists while speaking about human populations worldwide, stated: | 0_0 |
IPCC AR5 WG2 wrote 2, 4, 7 and 8. | 0_0 |
Initially, Antarctic ice cores were proof of CO2 creating temperature increase and low pre-industrial levels. Then we learned temperature increase preceded CO2 increase and levels were similar to today. The former was widely accepted and contradicted the major assumption of the hypothesis, so recently Shakun et al trie... | 2_3 |
And for that to happen, the paper continues, "it will be necessary to deeply reflect on the substance of sovereignty, and accept that changes in our perceptions are a good indication of the direction we are going." | 0_0 |
Carbon dioxide has been suspected as an important factor in ending the last Ice Age, but its exact role has always been unclear because rising temperatures reflected in Antarctic ice cores came before rising levels of CO2, said Shakun, who is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Post-doctoral Fellow... | 2_3 |
And yes, I did help make the tutu, with the aid of this video . It is videos like that that remind me there are whole worlds of which I am virtually unaware. Note the number of views - 1.4 million, on making a tutu. | 0_0 |
A new paper by Kim, Webster, and Curry in Science (2009) has arrived. The paper is accessible to the general reader without training in tropical meteorology or an exhaustive knowledge of the rapidly evolving state of El Nino science. | 0_0 |
In fact, in recent years, important work has been done comparing the predictions that models have made about warming that should have already occurred with actual observations. The NRC report looked at the evidence that was available in 2001 and concluded that, in fact, the models had overestimated warming. | 5_1 |
December 16, 2015 | Commentary on Energy and Environment, Sovereignty | 0_0 |
Hethen set about rebuilding it and then filling it with the most amazing, idiosyncratic, eclectic collection of objects that one could ever imagine tripled. For example, we walked into one room to find an antique tripod-mounted (and doubtless inactivated) Vickers machine gun mixed in with a variety of medieval weapons.... | 0_0 |
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, We, the People of the Earth, request You to act judiciously and expeditiously to protect the Earth from anthropogenic climate change. Respectfully, People of the Earth. | 0_0 |
Paleo-Climate Scientist Examines Recent Peer-Research, Determines All N. Hemisphere Regions Had Large Medieval Warming | 2_1 |
Gia Dvali argues that if you have "N" stable particle species that are conserved because of "N" $Z 2$ symmetries or something similar, they can't be heavier than | 0_0 |
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