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For every nation, this coerced energy and economic deprivation will make it increasingly difficult to adapt to future climate changes that nature inevitably will bring our way. So much for the modern era. Mankind ought to have the wealth and technology to adapt far more easily than our ancestors were able to do.
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Given such findings, for this particular portion of the planet, it should be very clear that relative coolness , as opposed to relative warmth, typically leads to more extreme storms, which is just the opposite of what the world's climate alarmists continue to contend.
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How can we believe in global warming when the temperature records providing the evidence for that warming cannot be trusted?
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Having established some reason to doubt the accuracy of the CRU data, we turn now to the now you see it, now you dont aspect. Here is my first attempt to gather data from CRU. It overlaps with Warwicks requests. This is not in the Climategate emails, it is personal.
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There is no scientific evidence to back up the assertion of a ???disappearing Grrenland Ice Sheet. For a detailed explanation as to why the Greenland ice sheet cannot collapse under any AGW scenario, see Ollier & Pain, 2009 .
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With instantaneous inputs, the Sun creates the water cycle and drives the entire climate. It heats up the surface to very high temperature, such as you can feel scalding your feet on a nice beach on a sunny day!
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Vongehr accuses Pinker of rejecting evolution. That's a very bizarre accusation as you will realize once you will swallow the totally crisp and highly conservative explanations of the evolution paradigm, as communicated by Pinker. Vongehr just likes the idea of evolution that is applied at many levels multilevel select...
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Moulin et al . conclude that "sea urchins inhabiting stressful intertidal environments produce offspring that may better resist future ocean acidification." And they add that the fact that "the fertilization rate of gametes whose progenitors came from the tide pool with higher pH decrease was significantly higher," sug...
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(All my posts tagged Matt and Janet Thompson , & Peter Spencer )
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Pinker says that even though the bees' behavior wouldn't be evidence in favor of group selection because it may be explained by the propagation of genes, the humans behave nothing like the bees, anyway. The human trait that group selection theory depends upon doesn't really seem to exist. And when some people do happen...
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WEST GLACIER REGION...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TUESDAY TO
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10 old climate change controversies - Josh 290
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There is quite a bit of confusion about the nature of hockey stick temperature constructions. Currently, many non-paleo climate scientists seem to want to avoid the discussion altogether. However, these studies are still freely passed through review, which seems to me a very biased point of view. I reported here , on a...
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Normally they put in fresh water pipelines ,irrigation systems drill bore holes or build the Hoover Dam
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But for all of the sturm und drang about climate change, what has actually happened? It's time to acknowledge five obvious truths about the climate-change issue:
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Symmetry Magazine , Universe Today , TAMU (stories added later)
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edmontonsun.com - Alberta - Stelmach complains of environmentalist 'hidden agenda' Premier Ed Stelmach launched into a scathing attack against Alberta's environmental critics today, saying some may have ulterior motives to attack the provincial economy.
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Require congressional approval for major regulations. A number of major regulations in addition to the Obama Administration's climate change regulations threaten natural resource development in the United States. Two of the most threatening are the EPA's proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) and more stringent o...
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Around the globe, the worst part of this is that we are being victimized by people we are told to respect from the President of the United States to the Pope of the Catholic Church. Their environmentalism is pure socialism.
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Obama economic report focuses on women, ignores "Great Mancession':
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Figure 13 presents the simulated energy imbalance in absolute form. There is a 5 watts/m^2 span between models for the base period energy imbalances. Four of the models energy imbalances for the base period are negative.
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By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Aug 11, 2015
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Nye's not the first to lament how cheap oil, gas and coal have gotten since summer 2014 when oil was more than $100 a barrel. One of the world's top energy authorities told reporters cheap energy was endangering the fight against global warming.
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First, slaves and fossil-fuelled machines play(ed) similar economic and social roles: energy slaves (machines powered by fossil fuels) now do the work in our homes, fields and factories, which used to be carried out by slaves and servants in the past. Both slave societies and developed countries externalise(d) labour (...
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A LEADING Chinese government economist has confirmed what a slew of economic data had already shown that Chinas long-booming economy has slowed dramatically and the era of double-digit growth is officially a thing of the past.
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Khosla Ventures confirmed it was hiring him, but declined to confirm his salary, which was estimated by industry sources.
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Hillary Clinton, for example, supports reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050; imposing a 55 mpg fleet standard for automobiles by 2030; generating 20% of electric power with renewables by 2020; reducing energy use by 10% by 2020; and supports investment in coal power only if it reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 20%. ...
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Selectively withholding key geological data, observations, and relationships allows global warming advocates to spin a pseudo-scientific explanation for polar ice melting, to efficiently provoke people to incite impassioned responses, to garner headlines, and to sway national and worldwide environmental policies.
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Just as old-fashioned hereditary aristocracies in their corrupt mode enjoyed the privilege of breaking laws and social codes with impunity, so it is with ours today. Codevilla documents a vivid example in which the aristocracy kept its own from being held accountable for their misdeeds:
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In the words of the authors, "the difference in effects of elevated CO 2 on green leaf tissue and leaf litter presented in this study confirms that the litter quality hypothesis of Strain and Bazzaz (1983) may not be realized in a high CO 2 atmosphere," as has also been noted by Norby et al . (2001) . Hence, they concl...
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And finally, the scientific pitfalls of mitigation have been clear all along. There are a dozen things humans do that can alter the climate, and we know very little about most of them, and even less about what we'd accomplish by changing any of them. We could easily make things worseand in fact, we probably did, when w...
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Tonight's entertainment en route to the tips features one of Kris Kristofferson's best: here's The Silver Tongued Devil And I . The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
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Heartland doubled the number of individual donors since Peter Gleick's Fakegate scandal
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Earth could recover from global warming faster than scientists once thought but it will still take tens of thousands of years, new research shows.
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David Ward has a PhD in Landscape Ecology, was formerly a Senior Research Scientist with the West Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, and also a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He has been involved in research into bushfire behaviour, bushfire ecolo...
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I think the characterisation of the discussion of the issue in the Third Assessment Report as "open" is not a reasonable one. Here is what the report had to say on the issue
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The key point here is that GHE believers can point to no modern discoveries (only models) to overturn what has long been known to chemical scientists carbon dioxide is an extremely efficient cooling gas.
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The defence of windfarms put forward by Mark Lynas and Chris Goodall, which was discussed a couple of days ago, has now had a response from Gordon Hughes. Hughes is less than impressed with the two greens table manners. He seems even less impressed with their analysis of the electricity grid. Andrew Montford, Bishop Hi...
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the three researchers conclude that ???this species would benefit from global warming and be able to withstand the predicted decrease in ocean pH in the next century during their earliest life stages.??
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By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 15, 2015
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China has won plaudits for investing in clean energy, making it the world's biggest wind power market last year, but a big majority of its energy will continue to come from high-carbon coal, at 69 percent and 64 percent in 2009 and 2015 respectively, according to national forecasts.
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4. The Climate Alliance's appeal "to take the gloves off for climate protection" must also be energetically opposed.
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Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson has said the government was not adequately prepared for the bad weather.
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Well, apparently President Obama's definition of "clean coal" is no coal. In his 2013 budget request, the President cut funding for coal research and development at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) by nearly 30 percent. This is at the same time EPA has proposed greenhouse gas standards for coal-fired po...
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Hidden effects of climate change may threaten eelgrass meadows
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FIRE in the landscape, or bushfire, is Australias most lethal and costly natural hazard. Big, uncontrollable bushfires can kill millions of trees and wild animals, thousands of farm animals, and sometimes humans too. Apart from deaths, bushfires incinerate property, such as bridges, farm fencing, homes, and even, a few...
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However, I asked him whether the draft Copenhagen Treatys proposal for what amounted to a communistic world government reminded him of the Communism under which he and his country had suffered for so long.
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Reagan did this in both word and deed. His State of the Union addresses often featured a reference to a person in the audience. This person was invariably an ordinary man who had had a moment of extraordinary heroism, not a captain of industry or a great entrepreneur. When Reagan went to Normandy, he did not laud the g...
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Open Letter on Credits for 'Voluntary' Greenhouse Gas Reductions
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From 2021, gas prices are between 2% and 4% lower if Lancashire shale gas production proceeds as projected.
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The New Scientist (July 3, 1999) reports a different mechanism for the ill health of coral reefs. Dick Barber of Duke University says that drought in the Sahel region of Africa has increased atmospheric dust fivefold. The dust carries viruses, bacteria, and fungi that can kill coral. The dust also carries iron that sti...
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If you want a laugh I recommend reading the Resilience Of England?s Transport Systems In Winter, an interim report by the DfT published last July. It is shockingly complacent. Rather than look for solutions to snow-induced gridlock the authors seem intent on avoiding the issue. The Met Office assured them ?the effect o...
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"I don't want to get into the debate about climate change. But I'll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There's no factories on Mars that I'm aware of." Kentucky state Sen. Brandon Sm...
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I have tried to get to discuss and explain their rejection of my analysis, Rossiter told Climate Depot . When I countered a claim of rapidly accelerating temperature change with the IPCCs own data, showing the nearly 20-year temperature pause the best response I ever got was Caleb, I dont have time for this.
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Excerpts from The Register, coverage of the Nic Lewis paper.
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Klaus appeared to be responding to the address of the Swiss president of the General Assembly, Joseph Deiss, who said on Thursday at the opening of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York that it was time for the United Nations to "comprehensively fulfill its global governance role."
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First, the largest group of balls imply deflation of 0.38 psi using the Non-Logo gauge an amount that, by coincidence, is exactly equal to the bias between Andersons Logo Gauge and Non-Logo gauge. An alternative explanation for these particular observations is that these balls were measured pregame using the Logo gauge...
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For the longest time, this industry's well-funded disinformation campaigns have duped reporters into practicing a profoundly distorted form of journalistic balance. In the early 1990's, the coal industry paid a tiny handful of dissenting scientists (with little or no standing in the mainstream scientific community) und...
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The book, new to the Millard curriculum this year, was part of "Plugged in to Non-Fiction," a collection of books on a variety of subjects. Parts of the book were required reading for sixth-graders in Millard reading and language-arts classes.
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by Barry Brill, Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
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Moreover, the energy, manufacturing, employment and economic benefits will be unencumbered by worrisome environmental impacts. Hydraulic fracturing has been utilized since 1949, and has been carried out more than 2.5 million times, safely and without causing any serious harm.
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Nicolas D. Loris is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, of the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, at The Heritage Foundation.
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Greenhouse gases, are not so much trapping heat, as acting by tapping heat. They are acting as a vector (tap) enabling the flow of energy between the adiabatic controlled atmosphere and the IR radiation that eventually leaves the atmosphere. And it is because the adiabatic cooling reduces the temperature, that the appa...
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Hearing: Full Committee: Vice President's Al Gore's perspective on global warming, Wenesday march 21, 2007.
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Every time a serious problem occurred for IPCC official climate science or those promoting it, they hired professional spin doctors. Why do official climate scientists need spin doctors? Answer, because they practice politics not science. Climategate, like its namesake Watergate, became exposed by the cover up, in this...
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We can never have zero pollution. The laws of diminishing returns increasingly come into play: getting rid of the last 10% can cost as much as eliminating the initial 90% and is rarely needed. And we cannot control nature's pollution: volcanoes, forest fires, poisonous algae blooms, deep ocean vents, erosion of rocks b...
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I worked with Trenberths NCAR as a hardware/software contractor for many years, looking at ways tospeed up their weather and climate models. During autumn 2009, I had a contract with them to look into accelerating their radiative transfer model RRTM, which isused in both the weather and climate models. After two weeks ...
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[These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of event...
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The Nevada program is a huge breakthrough for the school choice movement and was a long time coming. The Heartland Institute has been advocating education savings accounts since 1992 and I am proud to say has done more to promote the idea to state legislators than any other think tank or advocacy organization in the co...
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"Thousands of Kaleida Healthcare workers made their presence felt Monday outside Buffalo General Hospital."
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In the first section he refers to the earlier work by Eigil Friis-Christensen and Knud Lassen who showed a connection between the length of a solar cycle and temperature in the northern hemisphere.
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A free preview in pdf format is here . The preview includes the Table of Contents, the Introduction, the first half of section 1 (which was provided complete in the post here ), a discussion of the cover, and the Closing. Take a run through the Table of Contents. It is a very-detailed and well-illustrated bookusing dat...
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have a chance to recover," Martin said. "Getting a bad grade or
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Rapidly Melting Arctic Ice Right At 30 Year Mean
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Much visited by convention participants were thirteen Conference Exhibitors. All thirteen deserve recognition, but to list all would not be practical in this format. Pajamas Media deserves special recognition because of its "on location" coverage from the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Its online video arm of the new m...
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Antarctic sea ice extent continues to break records. Extent at 31st January, of 4.540 million sq km, beat the previous record set in 2008. This is 26% higher than the climatological average for this date of 3.598 million sq km.
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Under the Nature Conservation Act it is an offence to knowingly disturb a platypus habitat.
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The deep-ocean theory is one of a half-dozen explanations that have been proffered for the warming plateau. Perhaps the answer will turn out to be some mix of all of them. And in any event, computer forecasts of climate change suggest that pauses in warming lasting a couple of decades should not surprise us.
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What incentives do policymakers have to choose an "efficient' carbon tax?
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In addition,some biofuel policies can increase food prices and world hunger, fostering instability and strife, especially if scaled up enough to make a meaningful difference in global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
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These actions will benefit American companies, workers, families, consumers, balance of trade, environmental quality, and government revenues. We must not let anti-hydrocarbon ideologies or misinformed policy positions perpetuate this antiquated ban.
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With touching candour, the UN, in the latest IPCC climate report AR5, published this graph of world temperature observations (AR5 WG1 Chp 2 p.193). It reassures us that theres been insignificant global warming in about the last 20 years, while atmospheric CO2 concentrations became the highest in human history. Of cours...
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Thankfully, some of the tea partiers were friends of CEI, so they were able to stack the tea bags to the ceiling in our conference room. It took some effort to get them all in there. As our resident Briton Iain Murray said afterward, "That's a lot of tea!"
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> University of East Anglia web site:
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Ian Marchant, chief executive of SSE, warned that the government must invest more money in the project and said he would be happy to make sure no profit was made from using public funds.
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"California's largest public- employee union, Service Employees International Union, launched a seven-figure television advertising blitz pressuring GOP legislators to back Gov. Jerry Brown's tax extensions."
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This document , outlining how DECC should respond to Lord Turnbull's GWPF report on climate policy is fascinating. The scientific briefings that ministers get from DECC officials are indistinguishable from Greenpeace press releases.
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1. The processes that drive La Nia events are not the opposite of El Nio events.
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Russia is enduring its harshest winter in over 70 years, with temperatures plunging as low as -50 degrees Celsius, reports Russia Today. Dozens of people have already died, and almost 150 hospitalized.
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According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrows FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet.
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There isan interestingdissertation being defended on November 14 2011 at the Univeristy of Colorado. The announcement is given below. I have highlighted key sections.
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"Earlier today, I posted excerpts from Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio's excellent floor speech about President Barack Obama's proposal to address the deficit with tax hikes. Among other things, Rubio asked just how many jobs the president's proposed tax on oil companies would create. Turns out, energy analysts at consult...
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News for the alarmists is worse from their favorite model, that from the UK's Hadley Centre, which proved no more capable of predicting past climate than a table of random numbers when used for the flawed National Assessment on Climate Change. Wu et al. report in Geophysical Research Letters that their examination of t...
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Misuse of climate models as false prophets of doom is costly in lives as well as treasure.
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I first wrote about Teske a year-and-a-half ago. I pointed out that, when a Greenpeace protest vessel shut down Europe?s largest coal port in 2005, Teske was on board.
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Postmodern journalism maintains that the science of climate is like a toothpaste commercial where a consensus of dentists determines what toothpaste you should use. If you support their commercial's thesis, you are scientific; if you don't, then you are an enemy of the state, a Republican, or even a Trump supporter. Th...
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"All Americans have the right to support causes they believe in and the CEI subpoena is an abuse of the legal system and an effort to intimidate and silence individuals who disagree with certain attorneys general on the climate debate. Disagreeing with a government official is not a crime; abusing government power to t...
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Quoting the two U.S. researchers, "these findings indicate that juvenile massive Porites spp. are resistant to short exposures to OA in situ ," and that "they can increase calcification at low pH and low ?? arg if is elevated," while this latter finding leads them to also suggest that juvenile Porites spp. may actually...
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I wasnt too shocked last week by the distinctly cool response to the Fraser Institutes big report on the state of Canadian air quality (though the Suzuki Foundation coughed up a surprisingly well-written response).
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"Freedom, it turns out, has a taste, and it has a smell. The taste is that of Bazooka bubble gum, large wads of it stuffed into my mouth until my cheeks jowl out."
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