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None of the data was normally distributed (Table 1), hence none-parametric regression analyses was conducted to assesses how well the relationship between difference and time can be described using a monotonic function. It follows from figure 1, that the land-based GSTA datasets compared here follow the same general tr... | 0_0 |
It should be noted that the lead author is employed by the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and all of the 20 additional authors are either employed by them or are recipients of substantial funding from them. It is incongruous in the extreme that all these employees and repeated recipients of gen... | 0_0 |
Climate change policy presents investment risks, opportunities | 0_0 |
Several observers have noted the hypocrisy of tens of thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, and environmental activists traveling from all parts of the globe to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, where they will huff and puff about the evils of emitting carbon dioxide. In response, summiteers have come up wi... | 0_0 |
vociferous opposition at home. That was the situation Obama's less "arrogant" approach was designed to change as a way of increasing America's power, not reducing it. | 0_0 |
The World Health Organization confirms a new case of human-to-human transmission of the avian flu virus. | 0_0 |
Dr Mllers work on infrasound, the low frequency sounds emitted by wind turbines, has frequently brought him into conflict with Denmarks wind industry, with representatives accusing him of misleading the public. | 0_0 |
Section II challenges the legal basis of AB 1493 and ARB's regulatory proposal. "Maximum feasible" greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions cannot be achieved without mandatory engineering and design modifications to increase new-car fuel economy. However, the federal Energy and Conservation Act of 1975 prohibits States from ad... | 0_0 |
Eleven years ago, in 2004, Crater Glacier already contained more ice than before the 1980 eruption, and was growing thicker at the rate of 15feet (5meters) per year. | 1_1 |
Figure 2. Predictions from the IPCCs First Assessment Report compared with outturn since 1990 (RSS & UAH). The world has been warming at exactly half the predicted rate, and the trend falls wholly outwith the prediction interval (orange region). | 5_1 |
On Tuesday evening, Competitive Enterprise Institute staff live-blogged President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address. Experts on immigration, communications, banking and finance, energy and the environment, labor, consumer issues and more reacted in real time to the president's remarks. | 0_0 |
If school choice is off the table, then I would be very supportive of a program to increase starting teacher pay, funded by larger class sizes and substantial reductions in useless administrators and assistant principals. Anyway, it is kind of an interesting study, though you may find the pdf file format really irritat... | 0_0 |
Distances 335 km (210 miles) WNW of Chichi-shima, Bonin Islands, Japan | 0_0 |
Since failures in climate science claims are on the rise, can we start naming climate prediction failures after scientists and activists? I can think of a few: The Hansen Hiatus , for example. | 5_1 |
"Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on Thursday ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the retirement age." | 0_0 |
The authors grew five aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) clones with varying tolerance to ozone for three years in 30-m diameter FACE plots located in Wisconsin, USA, receiving atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 360 and 560 ppm with and without exposure to elevated O 3 (1.5 times ambient ozone concentration) to study the in... | 0_0 |
Note: 1 Method 3, that is taking the average of the 5 individual trends results in reject/reject for the IPCC 2C/century trend. However, as I noted, that is meaningless, as the uncertainty intervals only include the variation due to measurement uncertainty and fail to properly include weather. | 5_1 |
No scientific evidence indicates these products have caused any harm and the settlements with As You Sow provide no benefit to public health or the environment but that is irrelevant. By simply pretending otherwise, courtesy of Proposition 65, As You Sow has made junk science a reality and turned a pretty profit by doi... | 0_0 |
The film even quotes one of America's founding fathers as being worried about climate change. In the late 1700s, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "A change in our climate is taking place." Then, in 1817, The President of the UK Royal Society, Joseph Banks, addressed the melting polar ice. It's doubtful that either Jefferson's o... | 0_0 |
Slsar our politicians and AP funds away our pension money on green (s) dreams? | 0_0 |
The appeal of the late Stephen Sugar against the decision of the appeal court that the BBC is exempt from FOI has been unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court . The corporation is to remain beyond scrutiny. | 0_0 |
The farmers association said the government had failed to deliver on its election commitment to protect land and water resources by quarantining some areas from mining, saying the draft plan pulled up short on delivery. | 0_0 |
World Resources Institute. "Keep Tropical Forests Alive," Informational Pamphlet, Undated. | 0_0 |
Life on Earth will look dramatically different by mid-century | 0_0 |
Some of the organizers of ?Planet under Pressure? are founding their plea on the notion that we (as humanity) have entered the ?Anthropocene?: a new geological era in which humans- not natural conditions- are the main drivers of geological and meteorological processes. Citing a website devoted to this concept, Martin R... | 0_0 |
Knutti and Tomassini (2008) : This study used initial estimates of aerosol forcing totalling 1.3 W/m in 2000, in line with AR4 but far higher than the best estimate in AR5. Although it attempted to observationally-constrain these initial estimates, the studys use of only global temperature data makes it impossible to s... | 0_0 |
the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored. | 1_2 |
Note that not only was 1998 demoted, but also many other years since 1975 ??? the start of Tamino??s ???modern warming period.?? By demoting 1998, they are now able to show a continuous warming trend from 1975 to the present ??? which RSS, UAH and Had Crut do not show. | 5_1 |
James Kelly, who directed the nuclear engineering program at the University of Virginia for many years, says that fears about uranium mining are wildly overblown. "It's an aesthetic nightmare, but otherwise safe in terms of releasing any significant radioactivity or pollution," he told me. "It would be ugly to look at,... | 0_0 |
The committee went to great lengths to defuse the money line from the Climategate e-mails i.e., "Mike's Nature trick to hide the decline." While explaining how "trick" could merely refer to a "clever device," the committee failed to even mention "hide the decline," a phrase referring to Mann's still-unexplained deletio... | 5_2 |
The big stink 93.9 million years ago blame CO2 | 0_0 |
But killing the Keystone pipeline will not stop tar sands development. The Canadian government is committed to production, and if shipments to refineries on the Gulf Coast are blocked, then the heavy crude will be diverted to Asia. With world demand for oil expected to continue to grow and prices to remain lofty, tar s... | 0_0 |
The Sierra Club is not only lying to its members, it is lying to all of us when it says: "Getting all of the energy we need without using fossil fuels is no longer a question of whether we canbut whether we will." We can't, we shouldn't, and we won't but we must wait until Obama is no longer in office and, as early as ... | 0_0 |
One paper has been published in Nature, which has been critical of our satellite intercalibration. But, Nature has just accepted for publication, our rebuttal to that article which had several serious factual errors in it. I do want to point out that the satellite measurements do have independent validation, which the ... | 0_0 |
Professor Richard Tol, a long time advocate for carbon pricing and a leading world authority on estimating the damages of global warming, estimates the probability of achieving a global agreement at a UN climate conference He said in November 2012: | 0_0 |
Predictions that the world would run out of food and resources turned out to be wrong. In the 1970s people were told global cooling was inevitable. Now it's global warming. | 0_0 |
DR. SPENCER: I'm sorry four-hundredths of a degree C per decade. And probably this cooling from Pinatubo is a large portion of that cooling signal. It probably wouldn't have happened otherwise. Now I also put on here, the surface temperature measurements from thermometers. There are a few groups in the world that are d... | 0_0 |
The author of the \(\pi=3.0\) paper rightfully remarked that the Santa Fe conference was "notable for the breadth of opinion and the span of credibility of its speakers." But those who know the first 100 digits of \(\pi\), much like your humble correspondent does, will probably figure out that Boslough's implicit opini... | 0_0 |
Complementary theories as to why this calculation works have been described previously 10 . The most significant theory appears to be: Fewer sunspots; reduced solar magnetic shielding; increased galactic cosmic rays penetrating the atmosphere; increased low-level clouds; lower average cloud altitude; higher average clo... | 2_1 |
Anyhow, it did not seem to matter to Wirths office, Hansen, or the growing careerists at NCAR and NOAA; because whomever was pushing man-made global warming on the United States, were also doing it at the international level too. | 0_0 |
The Wall Street Journal today published a selection of the leaked emails and an editorial concluding that the emails "give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics." | 5_2 |
If the observed warming over the last half century can anywhere be claimed to be unusual, it would have to be where it was greatest in the Arctic. Both satellite and surface station data show a warming of about two degrees Celsius since the 1970s. But the surface station data show that warming in context. Recent warmin... | 2_1 |
Two years ago, climate experts told us that the mild winter in the US was proof of global warming. Now they tell us that the US and Canada aretoo small to be important. | 5_2 |
This weekend, I sent an email to Lord Monckton to thank him for his hard work and to inquire as to his injuries. Below is his kind response which I share with the American Thinker readers: | 0_0 |
Almost every American will be injured in a car crash during his/her lifetime. | 0_0 |
Sandy was merely the latest "confluence" (tropical storm, northeaster and full-moon high tide) to blast the New York-New Jersey area. It was never a matter of if, but only of when, such a storm would hit. | 0_0 |
On the face of it, the observational study TCR estimates in Figure 2 offer reasonable support to the AR5 1.02.5C range, leaving aside the Tung et al. (2008) study, which uses a method that AR5 WGI discounts as unreliable. However, I have undertaken a critical analysis of all these TCR studies, here . I find serious fau... | 0_0 |
One question still remains open: Why didnt Rahmstorfs science-colleagues even lift a finger when the Foster & Rahmstorf 2011 paper appeared? Did it really have to take 2 years to discover that the simplistic methodical approach was incomplete? Other than scientific reasons, could other reasons be involved here? | 5_2 |
But denying the existence of downwelling IR radiation from the sky (which is measured continuously at many sites around the world) is, in my opinion, a losing strategy. | 0_0 |
I??ve pointed out before that Ammann and Wahl??s submission to GRL was rejected and was only taken out of the garbage can after they got the editor replaced. (Compare the silence on this to the hysteria about Soon and Baliunas at Climate Research.) It is disquieting in the extreme that a corporation, like the Universit... | 5_2 |
After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants the top brass of the entire U.N. system spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world's agenda. | 0_0 |
TodayisInternational Polar Bear Day 2015and environmentalists will be marking the occasion with petitions, calls to action and alarmist claims about the threat to the very existence of these iconic animals. | 5_2 |
June of 1933 also had a heatwave, and Hartington, Nebraska was very hot. In fact it was so hot, that high temperatures during June 1933 averaged 9.2 degrees warmer than June 2012 . | 1_7 |
July 14-16, Seattle. NOAA co-hosting with Univ. of Washington | 0_0 |
Climate is driven by the sun, as a recent NASA study has confirmed. Now the suns about to enter an extended period of cooling, of that the experts have little doubt. | 2_1 |
Politico's Morning Energy reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by an attorney general in an attempt to silence the debate on climate change. | 0_0 |
Of course my high opinion of Monckton is well known. | 0_0 |
???There have now been several major ice core surveys, and everyone of them says the same thing. CO2 clearly does not cause temperature changes, it follows temperature changes.?? | 2_3 |
The claim comes in three flavors, overlapping and intentionally muddled to prevent teasing apart fact from propaganda. First there's the claim that climate change is worsening air quality and leading to problems like asthma. Thus, the president speaks of "doctors and nurses and parents who see patients and kids grappli... | 0_0 |
Global cooling started 2 million years ago write that down! | 0_0 |
First of all, nearly all crop plants grow bigger and better - and produce greater yields - when exposed to higher-than-current atmospheric CO2 concentrations; and they use water more efficiently in doing so. The former of these facts can readily be verified by a perusal of the data we have archived within the Plant Gro... | 3_3 |
As for UK winters, the sort of drop envisaged would return temperatures to the bitter winters of the 1960s, the coldest period since the 19thC. It is inevitable that spring temperatures will also be similarly affected, with a disastrous impact on the length of the growing season. | 1_2 |
What both of these views have in common is the belief that any statement can be given a precise, quantifiable probability. Frequentism does so by assuming that there always exists a class of eventswhich is to say, hard datato which you can compare the A before you. Subjective Bayesianism, as we have seen, can always pu... | 0_0 |
Since the petition was made public in April, the climate treatys backers have been in damage-control mode. The lawyer-filled Union of Concerned Scientists branded the petition as a deliberate attempt to deceive the scientific community with misinformation. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch have published s... | 0_0 |
The Obama administration has a new environment and energy policy advisor Nathaniel Keohane. Keohane was the chief economist at the Environmental Defence Fund, so its like asking the fox to mind the henhouse. Or business as usual under Obama, if you prefer. | 0_0 |
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." | 0_0 |
"The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence." | 0_0 |
German Utility blames renewables for2.7bn loss | 0_0 |
It was also interesting that the media condemned the addition of newer, more reputable science to the outdated report. The New York Times suggested that reference to one study had been challenged only so it could be replaced by a study backed by the oil industry. In fact, the 1999 study that was deleted is junk science... | 0_0 |
All these points confronted and contradicted the political agenda of blaming human CO2 for global warming and latterly climate change. Refutation began in the 1995 Second Assessment Report (SAR) and hit full stride with the 2001 Third Assessment Report (TAR) and its central feature, the Hockey Stick. Accurate determina... | 5_1 |
Yes, you can fix the regressivity problem by redirecting revenue to the poor. But if you fix the regressivity problem, you just distort the economy more, and on top of that, you undermine the incentive to conserve among the very people who emit a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_0 |
Paul Martin signaled Thursday that Canadians will pay whatever price necessary to keep his corrupt Liberal government in power. With pre-election bribery of the cities and other useful fools at over $8 billion and rising, Martin is now promising to send the Canadian Armed Forces into harms way to corral David Kilgour's... | 0_0 |
El Nio and La Nia events are the dominant mode of natural ocean-atmosphere variability on Earth. They have long-term impacts on temperature and precipitation patterns globally. Those long-term impacts have been one of the primary focusses of my research over the past 5 years. An introduction to those findings are prese... | 2_1 |
We do not know if the ACT??s 90% renewables target by 2020 is even technically possible or what new gas fired capacity would be essential near the ACT to help the NSW grid cope with the huge random fluctuations inherent with greatly increased wind power near the ACT. | 4_4 |
"San Francisco's already done it, and now New York may follow suit. New York City Councilman Leroy Comrie thinks the city should consider a ban on "Happy Meals" and similar fast food promotions aimed at kids unless those meals meet certain nutritional standards, Jay Dow reports." | 0_0 |
In problems of this kind, the more diverse are the interests of the parties, the poorer are the prospects for success. Contrasting value judgments often cause conflict. With GHG controls, the differing interests of rich and poor nations have emerged as especially problematic. | 0_0 |
Moreover, DSM policies have created razor-thin supply margins, resulting in price volatility and rolling blackouts during periods of peak demand. During the summer of 2007, California utilities actually told people to turn off their air conditioners on hot days. That is not efficient. It is a good way to get heat strok... | 0_0 |
Hansens hottest year ever is nonsense. He shows a sharp rise in temperatures after July just as the coldest La Nina on record set in. This is horrifically bad science. | 5_2 |
Studysuggests that global sea level is less sensitive to high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations than previously thought. | 1_6 |
clean 2004-05 US was hit by eight major hurricanes including the frdande Catherine. These hurricanes are likely background to the sekundra peak in 2004-06 from the lower curve in the graph above. The major damage vckte course, great attention, and Gray gives an NST next research sociological description of how this tri... | 0_0 |
You have not only shrugged off that abuse, you have also survived the scorn and ridicule of your fellow West Australian Joanne Nova (I found that while googling your email address). It is a species of bravery I do not know if I can tap. | 0_0 |
Climatologist Pielke Sr. counters claim of "more moisture' causing more extreme weather: "Stratospheric water vapor concentrations decreased by about 10% after year 2000' | 0_0 |
Global Warming ended more than a decade ago as shown here, and in Reference 4 and also Reference 2. | 1_4 |
Activists and even some scientists will tell you that the science behind the expected major warming of the globe is rock solid. In fact, the projections of temperature increases in coming decades are based on entirely unproven forecasting systems which depend on guesses about crucial aspects of the atmosphere behaviour... | 5_1 |
The latest round of tension between Japan and China reveals the underlying instability in East Asia. The Chinese are in high dudgeon over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing captain, whom Japanese officials claim rammed Japanese vessels in disputed waters in the East China Sea. They have apparently shut off exports of ... | 0_0 |
Hansens 2001 paper exposedhow NOAA and NASA massively corrupt the US temperature record. The image below shows the various steps of data tampering.. | 5_2 |
Four Decades of Subsidy Rationales for Uncompetitive Energy | 0_0 |
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 15 August 2014 Update An El Nio Mulligan? | 0_0 |
Something is wrong. I just dont know if it is the state of our government, or the conspiracy conjecture videos being faked. In any case, there are interesting puzzlements. | 0_0 |
The paper is titled: On the relationship between global, hemispheric and latitudinal averaged air surface temperature (GISS time series) and solar activity . | 0_0 |
Also known as Hatfield Earthworks, there is not much to see but bank and ditch. Plenty of atmosphere though. | 0_0 |
The mle2 function works by calculating profile likelihoods; to calculate the log-likelihood of a slope, it requires a function yielding the log-likelihood of the slope given the time series. Here I applied a useful attribute of the arima function in R that the log-likelihood is one of its attributes. I defined a functi... | 0_0 |
(1) The ice core isotope data were hugely significant because they showed that the Younger Dryas, as well as the other late Pleistocene warming and cooling events, could not possibly be caused by human emissions of CO 2 because they occurred thousands of years before such emissions had any effect on atmospheric CO 2 . | 2_1 |
Environmental laws since the 1970s require public input into federal land-use decisions including logging on national forests. This has led to lawsuits challenging efforts by the U.S. Forest Service to prevent forest fires by thinning out trees (most of which are dead or diseased) and brush by machines and carefully co... | 0_0 |
UPDATE #1 (10.01.2010 @ 6:45am): Due to immediate negative response, 10:10 has already removed the video from their website, and Google (?) has made it "private' on Youtube. | 0_0 |
Congressman Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, argued recently that "It's important for the president to act because the Congress is still denying the science and is not about to pass any legislation. The president has broad authority to accomplish many reductions through reg... | 0_0 |
Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the worlds oceans ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress, heat waves and heavy rains are intensifying, coral reefs are dying, and fish and many other creatures are migrating tow... | 0_0 |
Firefighters are spending a third day tackling a major blaze at a wood recycling plant in South Yorkshire. | 0_0 |
Many people erroneously think economic growth unavoidably leads to environmental degradation, but Moore and White show major improvements in air quality occurred as our use of fossil fuels doubled. New coal plants, for example, emit 90 percent less sulfur dioxide than plants built 50 years ago. Moore and White rightly ... | 4_5 |
OK, so is CO2 the limiting nutrient? Id assert that it often was. Yes, for some lands and crops adding Nitrogen or Phosphorus increases growth (so they are the limiting nutrients). And farmers have gone out of their way to assure that their lands are not rate limited on those common fertilizer components. But Greenhous... | 3_3 |
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