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OPT Report: Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost. | 0_0 |
The only problem is nothing humans did 150 years ago could have caused this. CO2 didnt start rapidly rising until much later. Phil Jones has attributed the 1860-1880 and 1910-1940 warming to natural causes, like the sun. | 2_1 |
The biggest turnaround will come on the climate change agenda. While Obama will not back down, committees have significant influence, as previously mentioned, through the appropriation process. Also, expect oversight on Obama Administration policies. | 0_0 |
Agreement signed at Washington December 21, 2004; entered into force December 21, 2004. | 0_0 |
13 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 |
"I just started driving around town, particularly to the areas I knew had been hit the hardest," Graham said. "I partnered with some people who were just doing the same thing I was-helping whoever needed help without ever having met them before. It was really emotional, seeing how many folks came out to help the commun... | 0_0 |
But if no one died, doesn't that mean EPA is lying when it says there is no safe level, that all PM2.5 particulates are toxic, that its regulations are saving countless lives, and that the direct and ancillary benefits vastly outweigh their multi-billion-dollar annual costs? And if that is the case, shouldn't EPA offic... | 0_0 |
23 Edward Luttwak, "The Middle of Nowhere," Prospect (May 2007); James Zogby, "Arab Attitudes in 2005," Arab-American Institute; Joseph Joffe, "A World Without Israel" Foreign Policy (January/February 2005); Eytan Gilboa, "Public Diplomacy: The Missing Component in Israel's Foreign Policy," Israel Affairs (October 2006... | 0_0 |
New study: tropical forests are using far more CO2 and so growing far faster than previously believed. | 3_3 |
It should be remembered that we have had accurate satellite measurements of sea ice only since 1979, a period which has been entirely during the positive (warming) phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO, see graph below). The PDO is an index of weather patterns over the North Pacific Ocean that flips every 30 ye... | 2_1 |
On the other hand, federal, state, and local taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel average 48 cents a gallon. The federal 18.4 cents gas tax and 24.4 cents diesel tax raised $35 billion in 2014, which is used to fund mass transit as well as highway projects. Electric vehicles make no contribution to maintaining our roads o... | 0_0 |
7. Aggregation. EPA proposes to consider modifications to be separate and independent projects unless they are dependent upon another project to be economically or technically viable or the project has been intentionally split from other projects to avoid NSR. EPA says it "generally would defer to the States to impleme... | 0_0 |
In either event, shouldn't the researchers and universities be compelled to return the hundreds of millions of dollars they received for these deceptive, unethical, illegal human experiments and compensate the test subjects for subjecting them to emotional distress when they realize they received "lethal" doses? Should... | 0_0 |
But it would be irresponsible to not mention how incredibly irresponsible key members of the climate science community have become. | 0_0 |
The types of fuel that are the main sources of energyThe main uses of energy suppliesWhich countries supply the U.S. with the most oilThe extent of oil reservesThe rate of global warmingThe terms of the Kyoto Protocol international environmental treatyThe environmental record of nuclear power plantsThe extent of urban ... | 0_0 |
During last year??s summer drought, NASA scientist James Hansen made a big splash with a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and a Washington Post op-ed arguing that global warming was the cause ofthe four biggest hot spells of the past 10 years. However, as noted in skeptical blogs, meteorological... | 1_7 |
Daschle thwarts ANWR vote, unveils own proposal | 0_0 |
Or so reason the people who lately claimed that the U.S. heat over the past 13 months was only a one in 1.6 million event. After making this dubious calculation, it was argued that because the result was so incredibly tiny, something-that-could-only-be-global-warming caused the temperature to take the values it did. | 5_1 |
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is coordinating a search and rescue for a Russian passenger ship beset by ice approximately 1500 nautical miles south of Hobart. | 0_0 |
Mo nukes, mo nukes, mo nukes. The inevitable outcome of green activism is more nuclear power its the gift that keeps on giving. Jennifer Marohasy has the Aussie version of this hippie head-popper . | 0_0 |
Delegates from around the world gather in Bonn this weekend to chart the future of a new global-warming treaty they hope to sign in Mexico this fall or in South Africa in 2011 at the latest. This treaty would lock our nation into massive new taxation, regulation, subsidies and redistribution; take unprecedented control... | 4_1 |
Like the cloud trails seen in the Wilson cloud chamber, cosmic ray ionization trails in our atmosphere can act as cloud seeds. Some studies suggest that ions play a central role in creating aerosols. Aerosols are minute but important atmospheric particles that can serve as the cores of growing cloud droplets. Aerosols ... | 0_0 |
Let us look at the last three decades average global temperature but update the Met Office graph to Hadcrut4. You will notice it is essentially the same showing a steady increase the unchanging underlying rate of global warming. Now, bearing in mind the imposed constraint in the Met Office approach of decades with arbi... | 1_4 |
Happer mentions that 12,000 years ago, the Earth cooled and warmed by 10 degrees in just 50 years. Kraken says that the temperature change wasn't global: well, most of the important temperature changes are not global, either. The temperature change in the last 100 years isn't global, either: 30% of the HadCRUT3 station... | 2_1 |
Environmental activists have already filed new lawsuits challenging the alfalfa re-approval and the sugar beet partial deregulation. They have also challenged the experimental field testing of a genetically engineered variety of eucalyptus, modified to increase tolerance to cold temperatures. Any of the dozens of fully... | 0_0 |
You would think that demonizing electricity would be a tough sell to a populace devoted to smartphones, gaming consoles, DVRs, flat screen TVs, iPhones, tablets, and the next "must have" gadget. But you'd be wrong. Earth Hour, an annual "turn off your lights" media event sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF... | 0_0 |
The main point I am making here is that, no matter whether you assume the climate system is sensitive or insensitive, our best satellite measurements suggest that the climate system is perfectly capable of causing internally-generated radiative forcing larger than the external forcing due to increasing atmospheric carb... | 3_1 |
The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a few basic lessons from this. Here is my wish list, which seem painfully obvious. | 1_3 |
Over the past week, Australia hosted the Group of 20 (G-20) meeting in Brisbane, and the public heard speeches from a number of leaders including those from the United Kingdom and Germany. But eyes were mostly trained on the words and deeds of presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping. | 0_0 |
It has been observed many times in the past that there are many aspects of the global warming debate that reasonable people should be able to agree on: carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, the temperature has gone up a bit, that sort of thing. | 0_0 |
Sea level rise certainly poses problems for the US east coast, but to a large extent this is due to subsidence. The naive belief that we can somehow halt the rise of the oceans carries the very real danger that we ignore the geological side of the problem. | 1_6 |
upside the head with a two-by-four to understand that little can be accomplished | 0_0 |
During the 20th century, both CO2 and temperatures increased, but not necessarily together. The correlation is poor. For several multi-decadal periods during the 20th century temperatures fell while CO2 increased. | 2_3 |
At issue is ethanol, a fuel distilled from corn that can be used to run cars, but which shouldn't be used to run cars. | 0_0 |
Job Wanted: Tall Statistician Seeks Match | 0_0 |
The results of this study clearly indicate, at least for this particular part of the world, that cyclone frequency and intensity do not respond to changes in temperature as predicted by climate alarmists, who say they base their claims on the output of state-of-the-art climate models. Hence, there is little reason to b... | 1_7 |
How has the MWP almost disappeared again, just in time to perhaps go missing in IPCC AR5? Science supplemental information says the average resolution of the 73 paleoclimate series is 160 years, and the median is 120. The proxy selection was deliberately weighted toward low frequency resolution, since the entire Holoce... | 5_1 |
\] It's the expectation value of the product of fields at these two points \(x,y\). Well, these two operators should be time-ordered by \(T\); it's a technicality saying that the field at a lower time i.e. lower value of \(x^0\) or \(y^0\) should appear on the right side. But if \(x,y\) are space-like-separated, the or... | 0_0 |
Attempting to apply current interpretations of rules retroactively is a violation of due process. It also is unlikely to be effective regulation, since it occurs too late to change the behavior in question. By punishing, after the fact, those who at the time were thought to be operating within the law, this enforcement... | 0_0 |
Said by Dr Heidi Cullen in testimony to the US House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment a few days ago (h/t WUWT ). | 0_0 |
They want me to stop? They have set Run my speech, and now makes me up with the position they fretrder. I tnker: That from the pieces out with! | 0_0 |
"A year on, global warming alarmists are still exploiting Hurricane Katrina and the intense hurricane season of 2005 for political purposes. Contrary to what they say, the science linking global warming with hurricanes remains a field of active inquiry and dispute. Moreover, diverting precious resources into policies d... | 1_7 |
When we talk about the evolution of the Earth's temperature, we are talking about the increase or decrease. The simple question "is the temperature rising?" is too ill-defined because there isn't just one temperature (consider many places on the globe and above the globe) and there isn't just one time scale (and one pa... | 5_1 |
100 Years Ago, The Father Of Global Warming Said Antarctica Would Have Millions Of People | 0_0 |
Besides an overall growth of nesting Elegant Terns in Isla Rasa and southern California colonies as a result of successful conservation efforts, since year 2000 whenever Elegant Terns have confronted poor oceanographic conditions, indicated by high SST (>1.0C) anomalies in the Midriff , breeding pairs have abandoned Ra... | 0_0 |
The IPCC freely admits not knowing which scenario is most likely. But we should bear in mind theres NO EVIDENCE that these amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause any harmful effects. Theyre guessing. Theres no knowing whether 1200 ppm of CO2 (three times what is there now) will produce 0.52 to 0.98 m of sea-level ... | 5_1 |
8. When the signal (results) is in the range of the noise (background natural variability) the reliability of the research is compromised by the signal to noise confusion. In studies with small effects like the US EPA air pollution premature death studies, confirmation bias (also called tunnel vision) energized by inte... | 5_2 |
There are currently 85,870 climate change analysts in the United States, with 4,840 new climate change analyst job openings created each year. | 0_0 |
> >> techniques I believe we can present the range of future climate | 0_0 |
Note to Skydragons: Exercises such as Postma that use (or misuse) the planetary energy balance equationcannot disprove the existence of the Earths greenhouse effect. If you want to disprove the existence of thegreenhouse effect, you need some sort of alternative explanation for a whole lot of fundamental physicsthat ex... | 0_0 |
Not only mountain tops were covered by a layer of snow during the night. In regions of Liberec, Karlovy Vary, Hradec Krlove, Pardubice and st snow fell even at lower elevations. | 0_0 |
The reduction in climate pollution even as Congress failed to act on climate change brings America more than halfway towards Barack Obama's target of cutting emissions by 17% from 2005 levels over the next decade, the Bloomberg analysts said. | 0_0 |
Thirty years from now, we will probably not be interested in today?s specific computer forecasts, but we may have lost our faith in science, a deeper and, to me, a more important problem. | 0_0 |
"The future of climate change legislation in the United States could rest in California, where voters will decide on Nov. 2 whether to pass Proposition 23, a ballot measure that would roll back the state's ambitious greenhouse gas emissions targets. With some polls showing voters in California split over the issue, for... | 0_0 |
Long ago I collected a few observations about the fall of Communism that I thought ought to be immortal, but that I've hardly seen mentioned in recent years. Here's my attempt to resurrect them. | 0_0 |
The NOAA chief said climate change is already raising sea levels, lengthening growing seasons, prompting earlier spring snowmeltsand shifts in river flows, causing more intense drought and increasing the incidence of extreme weather. | 0_0 |
Andrew Montford draws attention to another paper just published by Gavin Schmidt, et al., that the failure of the earth to warm is one incredible, incredible coincidence. From the preview: Climate models projected stronger warming over the past 15 years than has been seen in observations. Conspiring factors of errors i... | 1_4 |
ANDREW DARBY AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. | 0_0 |
But up on Capitol Hill, there appears to be progressbipartisan progress, eventoward changing our immigration laws to reflect current and emerging realities. | 0_0 |
Researchers are keen on maintaining a record of the trends into the future. For one reason, plants act as a carbon dioxide sink, and shifting plant productivity is linked to shifting levels of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Also, stresses on plant growth could challenge food production. | 0_0 |
So given never let a crisis to to waste it is a very short stroll over to manufacture a crisis as needed. The thing that surprised me was how many folks some of these videos had that watched them, and how many videos there were. Large chunks of the world culture are clearly quite willing to embrace the Conspiracy Conje... | 0_0 |
President Bush makes access to affordable energy the focus of his Labor Day speech. | 0_0 |
1) I agree with the Burger and Cubasch results and conclusions in general. Indeed, all NH reconstructions published to date gives a qualitative information only: For example, MWP and the Current Warming are warmer than LIA. But it is impossible to conclude with a certainty: either CW or MWP is warmer. It is even more s... | 5_1 |
The most recent eruptions of Mount Hood the tallest peak in Oregon took place about 220 years ago and 1,500 years ago, according to Professor Adam Kent of Oregon State University and Associate Professor Kari Cooper of University of California-Davis. | 0_0 |
Indeed, these fears were justified. The twin totems of liberal progressivismlofty ambitions and impatiencehave been on full display when liberal progressives discuss the administration's decisions. Paul Krugman decries a too-small stimulus, a bill whose near-trillion-dollar price tag shocked middle-class Americans. Jon... | 0_0 |
To the extent that the recent literature produces a more accurate estimate of the equilibrium climate sensitivity than does the climate model average, it means that the projections of future climate change given by both the IPCC and NCA are, by default, some 40% too large (too rapid) and the associated (and described) ... | 5_1 |
We agree with them on this point; for their work must also imply that it does not disprove the existence of a slowly-evolving non -anthropogenic warming signal, such as whatever it is that drives the well-established millennial-scale cycling of earth's climate that has alternately brought the planet into and out of the... | 2_1 |
Strategic considerations aside, there is an additional reason for Global NATO to get associated with the Thousand Ship Navy. Hard as it is to remember today, there was a time when NATO captured the imagination of Western audiences: Until the mid-sixties, in fact, the prospect of an Atlantic Union was seen in Europe as ... | 0_0 |
Early next week, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize the crown jewel of the president's Climate Action Plan, a suite of regulations to control greenhouse gases from the electricity sector, including: | 0_0 |
John Berlau: Obama is right to praise Congress for passing "part of" his American Jobs Act, because Congress passed the right part. The modest but significant deregulatory provisions for startup and emerging growth companies. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act that Obama signed in April exempts newly listed... | 0_0 |
Whatever CRUs original purpose in constructing the 2006 regional chronology, one feels confident that it was not constructed merely as an illustration of the tradeoff between variance and bias. SupMat 9 then more or less concedes that the sites in the 2006 regional chronology meet the common signal test of Briffa et al... | 0_0 |
CRUs False Claims about Advocacy and Heavy Promotion | 0_0 |
UCSF Chancellor Rejects Narrow View of Conflicts of InterestGreg Conko's post on Medical Progress Today | 0_0 |
Advocates of immediate precautionary actions often state there is nearly unanimous agreement among scientists that the globe is warming at an unacceptably rapid rate and that society is to blame. But the claim of a scientific consensus on the causes of global warming is not supportable. Consider these two points. | 5_1 |
Darwin, say what? How could Charles Darwin, whose On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, and who died in 1882, have anything to do with the 1929 science of the Big Bang Theory? Well, in 1925 a high school science teacher, John Scopes was tried by the State of Tennessee for violation of the states, Butler Act. ... | 0_0 |
All of them need to be in the same folder, because the CO2 and CERES.R file calls the setup file, which loads the data files and the function file. If youve downloaded the CERES 13 year file, it is unchanged, no need to reload. Open the CERES Setup.R file to see the names of all of the datafiles loaded, and open the CE... | 0_0 |
That's in line with what President Obama said when he was running for President ("Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."), but a lot less than what EPA and the White House have been saying about the Waxman-Markey bill. | 0_0 |
Yet, the climate scientists who prepared the 5 th Assessment Report for the IPCC create illustrations like their SPM.10 (my Figure 1), which amusingly use climate models as proof that past global warming was caused by carbon dioxide emissions and that global temperatures will continue to warm in response to future CO2 ... | 2_3 |
The Pacific Ocean covers almost 33% of the surface of the globe. It covers more of the Earth than the continental land masses combined. And climate models overestimate the warming there by 2.4 times. Yet somehow were supposed to believe all of the IPCCs predictions of gloom and doom when, after more than 2 decades of m... | 5_1 |
And they said that only 100 bombs could wipe out civilisation! | 0_0 |
By Staff Writers, China Daily, Aug 6, 2015 | 0_0 |
At the end of the table value is thus also the cooling effect with clouds and these certainly belong to the difficulties in climate science due to the interaction of several factors.The evaporation from a liquid surface falls within the field of fundamental physics and chemistry, and it can be determined using controll... | 5_1 |
Economists debate the "message" being sent by the choice of recipients for this year's Nobel Prize in Economics. | 0_0 |
And the fact that "climate change has sped up sea level rise that was supposed to take centuries has recently been projected as taking just decades," he wrote, only complicates his decision to have children. | 0_0 |
Clearly, the weight of real-world evidence continues to suggest that it is the recurrent millennial-scale cycling of earths mean global air temperature that has been responsible for the bulk of the warming of the 20th century, which could yet continue its upward course, level out, or begin a slow decline; for this phen... | 2_1 |
Kilimanjaro's link retreat and global warming | 0_0 |
Richard Tols article reveals it was predicted back in 1991 the world would not agree to legally binding international agreements, such as carbon pricing or targets and timetables for emissions reductions with penalties for breaches of commitments. | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, however, good news doesn't earn headlines. If you want to write a bestseller and get invited to all the best symposia, you're better off finding a new scare that allows you to shout, "The end is near!" And when one doomsday prediction goes up in smoke, simply find another one. Think I'm kidding? WWF has ... | 0_0 |
It was, at the least, a logical stretch to try to redefine the physical greenhouse effect or to create an alternative version of it, but the attempt was certainly an obvious one to take given the position climate science had put itself in with this previous postulate of solar heating being too cold. The logical propaga... | 5_1 |
and using his popularity and momentum to capture enough Democrats to overcome | 0_0 |
Following the super La Nina of 2010/11, we had a period of extremes ??? snow and cold to start, then floods and drought, tornadoes and heat and a landfalling hurricane. | 1_3 |
Probiotic is a method of introducing benign intestinal bacteria to provide good flora. | 0_0 |
Tucson, AZ. Extremely costly rules that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is imposing on industry, especially users of diesel engines, have no sound scientific basis, writes John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. | 0_0 |
"It's no secret that some congressional Democrats aren't particular thrilled that the Constitution was read on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, objected on the grounds it was being read "like a sacred text."" | 0_0 |
Many of us are old enough to remember the scare stories from the 1970s, a time when climate scientists were warning that Earth was returning to an ice age. | 5_1 |
Question 6 (for Pederson): In his textbook Earth's Climate: Past and Future, William Ruddiman writes: "Earth's temperature reacts strongly to small changes in CO2 values at the lower end of the range (less than 200 ppm), but changes much less at the high end of the range (greater than 800 ppm)" (page 134). Some sources... | 0_0 |
Jay Lehr, Cooling looms as Earths climate calamity, Environment & Climate News, July 2013 | 0_0 |
How many times have you heard that we humans are "using up" the world's resources, "running out" of oil, "reaching the limits" of the atmosphere's capacity to cope with pollution or "approaching the carrying capacity" of the land's ability to support a greater population? The assumption behind all such statements is th... | 0_0 |
Without a doubt, the melting glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro serve as one of the most public symbols for those concerned about global warming. But is this valid? Well not according to the Center for Science and Public Policy, which notes in a recent paper how the glacial retreat on Kilimanjaro is much more complex than the... | 0_0 |
On call, officials stress public options in health care shift: | 0_0 |
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