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More interestingly, the article quotes Mark Serreze of NSIDC as follows: | 0_0 |
According to Mio the fatal assumption made by the IPCC is that the atmospheric concentration of the 13C isotope (distinctive in prehistoric plants) are fixed. They also assume C3-type plants no longer exist so would need to be factored into the equations. Indeed, as Miso points out such plants, make up 95% of the mass ... | 5_2 |
We all know that global warming has been on hiatus ? set on pause ? however you like to characterize the lack of significant warming, for over 15 years. Depending on how you do the statistics, the vast majority of the climate models used to guide our energy policy have over-predicted the surface warming trend since the... | 1_4 |
"Greece is likely to default over the next three years because budget-cutting won't be enough to reduce the nation's debt burden, Pacific Investment Management Co. Chief Executive Officer Mohamed A. El-Erian said." | 0_0 |
By saving an hour's worth of lighting and other electricity use every day, the Morning Challenge campaign says the average household can emit 85 fewer kilograms of carbon per year. Staying up late ensures mankind's doom. | 0_0 |
I en tnkvrd artikel i The Globe and the Mail skriver Margaret Wente om det dilemma som CO 2 -hysterin har samkat miljengagemanget. | 0_0 |
In Figure 4, the climate model outputs of TOA incident shortwave radiation are presented as anomalies, with the base years of 1996-2015. With the model outputs in anomaly form we can better see the similarities and differences in the curves. Two models from one modeling group really stand outtheyre the models that star... | 0_0 |
Here in Britain, where we had our fifth freezing winter in a row, the Central England Temperature record according to an expert analysis on the US science blog Watts Up With That shows that in this century, average winter temperatures have dropped by 1.45C, more than twice as much as their rise between 1850 and 1999, a... | 1_4 |
This is an interesting graph that anyone interested in climate change should know. Most scientists dont believe that solar variance causes all of the change we see, yet most also will tell you that this is some of it. In reality nobody really knows. | 5_1 |
"With the double verification of this phenomenon provided by both weekly biomass and periodic net photosynthesis determinations," the four researchers concluded that "atmospheric CO 2 enrichment may be capable of preventing the deaths of some plant species in situations where their demise is normally brought about by e... | 3_3 |
Virtually everything about progressive politics today is about liquidating the Jacksonian influence in American life. From immigration policy, touted as ending the era when American whites were the population of the United States, to gun policy and to regulatory policy, President Obama and his coalition aim to crush wh... | 0_0 |
Now, under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. (Applause.) Thats important to know. Over the last three years, Ive directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states. Were opening up more than 75 per... | 4_5 |
The meters are tested by the manufacturer, by NV Energy and the UNR, through a contract with the utility. Through 2011, when 500,000 meters were installed, there were 60 requests to have meters tested. NV Energy determined all 60 had been accurate, Smith said. | 0_0 |
?David Holland?. Everything we found was cc?d to you and/or Dave Palmer, which | 0_0 |
He figures ``the specter of litigation'' might affect member government policy. | 0_0 |
The ratio of Te to T0 provides an indication of the magnitude of the infrared optical depth, which is referred to as n. n includes contributions from both clouds and gases. | 0_0 |
and a check of the typical weather does make it look like this is a bit late for snow. Perhaps we have someone Czech reading who could comment on how usual, or not, this kind of May Snow might be? | 0_0 |
In November the Environmental Protection Agency announced a reduction in 2014 biofuel mandates to 15 billion gallons from 18 billion. This decision was made because gasoline consumption has fallen and fuel mixes made with over 10% biofuels can damage car engines. | 0_0 |
According to Sedjo, 76 percent of the tropical forest zone is still covered with forest. (True State of Planet, p. 199) | 0_0 |
"With many Michigan cities facing budget crises and residents fleeing the state at a rate of 15,000-20,000 people a year, politicians in the state are frantically drafting proposals to control premium rates. Most of the proposed solutions simply limit how much insurers can charge. That is similar to forcing restaurants... | 0_0 |
The United Kingdom's initial assessment of carbon emission allocations under the government's scheme has been criticized for containing "basic errors." According to the Independent (Feb. 29), "The oil industry's trade body, the UK Offshore Operators' Association (UKOOA), said officials had made basic errors in estimati... | 0_0 |
Including all 18 contributions gives a September ice extent minimum of 4.8 +/- 0.77 million square kilometers, with a range of 2.5 to 5.6 million square kilometers. | 0_0 |
As usual, he has cooled the past and warmed the present. Hansen has created a 0.15C additional warming between 1910 and 2012, which didnt exist in the February 20, 2012 version of the same file. | 5_1 |
Referring now to J. Budziszewskis masterpiece, The Revenge of Conscience . In response to the question, Why are things getting so much worse so quickly?, he divides matters of conscience into the following zones: | 0_0 |
"Google on Monday was among investors pumping $42 million into a climate change inspired technology startup that calculates the chances of crops being ruined by weather." | 0_0 |
The burdens from these climate policies fall overwhelmingly on the worlds poor. This is because rich people can easily afford to pay more for their energy, whereas the poor will be struggling. It is surprising to hear that well meaning and economically comfortable greens often suggest that gasoline prices should be dou... | 4_1 |
An analysis of BEST data for the question: Is Earth Warming or Cooling? | 0_0 |
GISSuses an insidious trick to hide their data tampering. They cool pre-1963 years, and warm post-1963 years. This makes their data tampering look much less severe than it actually is. A better visualization is to normalize the graphs to the most recent common data, and show the total magnitude of the tampering. The an... | 5_2 |
Vasseur spoke at the Fishermen and Scientists Research Societys annual meeting in Truro, N.S., last weekend and said ocean conditions are changing faster than expected. | 0_0 |
Perhaps they would like to return to the climate of the 19thC, when the North Chinese Famine of 1876-79 killed 13 million. | 0_0 |
What does Barack Obama think of McCain's conviction on climate change? | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist From Obama's remarks to his campaign staff: " Those of you who are concerned about global warming? I don't care what he says, John McCain is not going to push that agenda hard ." | 0_0 |
How much easier it would have been for climate scientists if reality did support their assertions and predictions. Instead the scientists engage in contortions worthy of a Cirque du Soleil performance in order to cling to their preordained conclusions about the world?s climate. A honest scientist would question their o... | 5_2 |
The public is evenly split over its perceptions about media coverage of global warming. Thirty one percent believe that the media's reporting of the problem is "generally exaggerated," while 32 percent believe it is "generally correct" and 32 percent believe it is "generally underestimated." The full analysis of the po... | 0_0 |
New paper finds climate models fail to accurately predict clouds over the ocean critical for climate projections | 5_1 |
It would be fun to watch a cinematic spoof of this sort of thing. Maybe along the lines of South Parks Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow? | 0_0 |
Latitudinal Gradients in Turtle Species Richness, Size and Range | 0_0 |
Both the right's fear of government and the left's fear of technology have jointly stunted our nuclear energy policy, but on this issue liberals hold the balance of power. Like Nixon's going to China, this is something only Mr. Obama can do. If this president clears the path for a new atomic age, American scientists ar... | 0_0 |
A recent World Bank report (Climate Risks and Adaptation in Asian Coastal Megacities, October 2010) examined the impact of climate change on Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Manila, under a range of different scenarios through to 2050. It concluded that the costs from major flooding events on infrastructure and the econo... | 0_0 |
Some form of government funding will be necessary to call it forth. Government, though, has often short-changed basic energy science in favor of large demonstration projects. It has also found it difficult to avoid wasteful stops and starts in funding. There may be a productive role for properly structured demonstratio... | 0_0 |
But lest we forget one of the largest Green groups on the issue, the Rainforest Action Network, they say all these numbers are too low and claim almost two and a half acres per second are wiped out (two U.S. football fields) with 150 acres per minute, 9,000 per hour, about 214,000 per day (an area larger than all of Ne... | 0_0 |
David Rothbard is president of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) a public policy organization he co-founded in 1985. He co-hosts a daily radio commentary called Just the Facts, which airs on over 100 radio stations. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Times a... | 0_0 |
Following a press release from the World Meteorological Society , a regular commentator at this blog Sid Reynolds questioned whether the WMO has infra-red rose coloured glasses and can only see when warm records are broken, having previously listed an impressive slew of recent record breaking cold events. | 5_2 |
First, our environment is already clean and safe not sure we need more environmental snake oil salesmen. | 0_0 |
Challenged that critics call them Frankenfoods, Brand replied, | 0_0 |
The article (and his Figure 1 reproduced below) explains why a meaningful global agreement is unlikely to be achieved. For example he says: | 0_0 |
The debate has, of course, its scientific dimension but this part of the debate doesn?t belong here. I also do not intend to play the role of an amateur climatologist. | 0_0 |
Thus one could argue that for 400 years, the earth was cool, in some way due to a prevalence of La Nias, and this reversed in the 20 th century during which there were two major periods of El Nio dominance in which all the global warming of the 20 th century took place. | 2_1 |
CO2 is also a biogeochemical forcing, so when you increase CO2, plants can respond. All plants like CO2, but some plants like CO2 more which may use water more efficiently. Thus there are complex nonlinear interactions due to increasing CO2. That really complicates how CO2 affects the climate system. Our work suggests ... | 3_3 |
That's actually not surprising. Credit for early action was an issue of recurring controversy during 1998-2005, and the one thing virtually all stakeholders eventually agreed on is that current law does not authorize any federal agency to implement a greenhouse gas (GHG) early action program. | 0_0 |
Read here . Earth's climate and environment has suffered from a wide range of extremes over billions of years. Yet climate models extrapolate their predictions from conditions experienced during mid-1970's to late 1990's - definitely, an incredibly microscopic view of actual Earth climate history. | 5_1 |
The UK biofuels industry stands to be devastated by draft proposals being developed by the European Commission, renewables chiefs have warned. The great irony is we have been repeatedly asking for a clear pathway to 2020, not least to secure investment in technological advancement. Nobody listened. Now Europe is planni... | 0_0 |
WHO: Time running out to solve E. coli outbreak: | 0_0 |
Projected trend over oceans: 0.3 F/decade | 0_0 |
Once again, we have yet another experimental demonstration of the fact that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment generally enables plants to find the extra nitrogen they need to take full advantage of the aerial fertilization effect of elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, with the result that total ecosystem carbon content... | 3_3 |
Americas 104 nuclear plants generate enough electricity for nearly 75,000,000 homes and produce about 2,000 tons of spent uranium fuel annually. So Yucca will be able to hold all the used fuel from the past 50 years, plus another 35 years of used fuel, without expanding on the original design. | 4_5 |
Professor Mike Hulme, of the UK's Tyndall Centre, has been conducting research on people's attitudes to media portrayals of a catastrophic future. | 0_0 |
There was global warming on the order of about 1F during the twentieth century. There is disagreement as to its cause. | 5_1 |
EPA is corrupt, and Beale, whom we have discussed here before, was in charge of the air pollution rule making while stealing almost a million and claiming to be a CIA agent. | 0_0 |
NRLs general linear climate model: ENSO + volcanic aerosols + solar activity + anthropogenic effects explains 85% of the CRU temperature variance for the period 1979-2010. | 0_0 |
How successful Ban and his chieftains will be at pushing that agenda may soon be seen, as the secretary general hosts the lead-off event of the fall diplomatic season, a two-day summit starting September 20 on the so-called Millennium Development Goals. | 0_0 |
In light of the natural cooling cycle the Earth has been in that is good news and it will be even better news when the planet emerges from the cycle that reflects the lower levels of radiation from the Sun. | 2_1 |
Overall message of the metals is duck and cover and risk off in $US. | 0_0 |
The analysis is an example of the value of synthesis research centers, Garrison says, in addressing societys environmental challenges. | 0_0 |
Paris To Test Banning Gas-Guzzlers (Yes, SUVs!) In City Core: | 0_0 |
The public's trust in the supposed scientific consensus took a blow when a vast body of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia came to light in what has been dubbed "Climategate." Climate scientists derided their critics, blocked access to peer-reviewed literature, withheld data from ex... | 5_2 |
A while back, New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg told me that America should build 100 nuclear power plants by 2030, a proposal endorsed by the Senate Republican Conference. "This will clean up the air," he said, "and reduce reliance on foreign oil. This is a much more constructive approach than the climate ch... | 0_0 |
Exhibit A is the Corker-Cardin legislation, passed unanimously in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, providing for limited congressional review of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear weapons program. Exhibit B is the legislation combating human trafficking, passed unanimously by the Senate last Wednesday. Exhi... | 0_0 |
As I have explained elsewhere Mann is attempting to legally punish any attempt to "question his intellect and reasoning"?that's from the DC Superior Court, which preposterously backed his argument?on the grounds that Mann's scientific claims have been investigated by multiple government panels, which have exonerated hi... | 0_0 |
on Monday, April 13th, 2015 at 7:28 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Sunnier skies over Antarctica in turn mean that more solar radiation is reflected by high-albedo snow and ice instead of being absorbed in the cloud cover. Thus Antarctica has cooled. | 1_1 |
Europe?s strategy was founded on two fears: first, that global warming was an urgent threat that needed to be prevented imminently and at all costs; and second, that the world was running out of fossil fuels, which meant oil and gas would become ever more expensive. Both conjectures, however, turned out to be wrong. | 4_5 |
The silent media ignore a Colorado Democrat who says women dont need firearms to defend themselves from predators and a patronizing vice president who says women cant handle an AR-15 anyway. | 0_0 |
Incidentally, Backreaction reviews some at least superficially clever attempts by Cliff Burgess and others to solve the cosmological constant problem within the large extra dimensions scenario. A cosmic string or, more generally, a co-dimension-2 brane induces a deficit angle in the surrounding spacetime but leaves the... | 0_0 |
In fact extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones (hurricanes, in the US) have been at historic lows with atmospheric carbon dioxide at contemporary highs. Jimmy is seriously full of it. | 1_7 |
For this spring the Australian BOM predicted it would be dry and warm, instead we got very wet and quite cold. The models are so bad on a regional basis, its uncannily like they are almost useful if they call things dry, expect wet. | 5_1 |
Those are the reflections you can make when reading your paper in the deserted, and yes, rather relaxed and pleasant, city. And as the late Gilbert Becaud, I'll wait until September to do my ususal European holiday tour. Have a nice summer. Now it's time to head out in the rain and find that paper and cosy corner. | 0_0 |
UN IPCC 2001: "Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms' Also, The UN IPCC Draft in 1995: "Shrinking snow cover in winter' Analysis: "In 2010-2011, heavy snow was due to global warming. Then in 2012 the lack of snow in the Eastern US was due to global warming, and now in 2013 heavy snow is again due to... | 5_2 |
No they arent. Ice extent just took a large jump up and ice now fills most of the Beaufort Sea. | 1_1 |
Others being peddled at the Bali conference are that man-made "global warming" threatens polar bears and coral reefs, caused Hurricane Katrina, shrank Lake Chad, expanded the actually-shrinking Sahara, etc. | 0_0 |
That's all this study is that's all it's meant to do is scare people. It actually says in the study that without action to prevent climate change What is the action? Carbon taxes, regulations, UN treaties, EPA regulations its political lobbying disguised as science." | 0_0 |
FACT: Global temperature has not risen at all in the last 10 years. | 1_4 |
So, what does it mean to "deal with" climate change? Well, I'd argue that there are basically two options, and we've been wasting a huge amount of time, money, and energy on an approach that was doomed from infancy, that being mitigation, or the rollback of greenhouse gases to pre-industrial levels. | 0_0 |
German meteorologists say that the start of 2013 is the coldest in 208 years ??? and now German media has quoted Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov from the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, who says it is proof that we are heading for a ???Mini Ice Age.?? | 1_2 |
Figure 2. Projected global sea level rise from the IPCC?s business-as-usual (A1B) scenario (black curve) and the Kerry-Lieberman emissions scenario (red curve). | 0_0 |
By Robert Johns, Master Resource, Aug 13, 2015 | 0_0 |
But this month fellow Queensland University researchers admitted in a study that reef coral had once more made a ???spectacular recovery??, with ???abundant corals re-established in a single year??. The reef is blooming. | 3_2 |
Now, because of Secretary Vilsack's trial-ballooned planting restriction policy and his continuing insistence that some type of coexistence plan be developed, even products that do reach the marketplace could eventually be subject to the vagaries of politically driven limitations that serve only the interests of the or... | 0_0 |
The former chancellor Lord Lawson has urged the Government tokeep Britains coal-fired power stations working for as long as wasneeded to avoid any short-term power shortages. In a House of Lords debate on energy policy and electricity generationLord Lawson also called on ministers to give every encouragement it can to ... | 0_0 |
Sources say, the Environmental Protection Agency will propose a regulation Monday that will cut carbon-dioxide emissions from existing coal plants by up to 30 percent, compared with 2005 levels, by 2030. It is | 0_0 |
Economist Robert Higgs has ripped apart the notion that war is good for an economy. And, in particular, he has focused on World War 2. On release of Higgs book, Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity , the publisher wrote : | 0_0 |
We know this thanks to some excellent reporting this week by Dina Cappiello of the Associated Press. The wind industry, says Cappiello, reports bird kills only on a voluntary basis, and "the Obama administration in many cases refuses to make the information public, saying it belongs to the energy companies or that reve... | 0_0 |
The States' Duty to Defend Against Federal Excess | 0_0 |
Under this approach, an OMB Office of Information and Spending Affairs would request each agency to indicate the "costs" and "benefits" of their various expenditure programs. Smart agencies would soon report glowingly high benefit/cost (B/C) ratios. Imagine further that OMB were to argue that many of the expenditure pr... | 0_0 |
Strike two : Summer ice (June, July) is 80-90% of what it was 30 years ago, not half. | 1_1 |
As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to rise, it is likely that this plant species, and possibly others, will exhibit larger-than-predicted CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthetic rates. Indeed, the author's final sentence states that "it is premature to conclude that the relative stimulation of photosynth... | 3_3 |
That a warmer, drier climate will spawn more frequent forest fires and fires of longer duration is almost a tautology. Nonetheless, some studies find no changein global fire activity over the past century and more. Ocean cycles and forestry practices also influence the frequency and extent of wildfires. Whether recent ... | 1_7 |
The adaptation measures being taken in Mitradanga are fascinating; not only are they effective, but they actually make sense in context of the local culture. The rest of the world can learn something from Bangladesh. | 0_0 |
Good to see no caveats about the availability of the data and also interesting to note that he says that the scientists have been cleared of "many" of the allegations. Perhaps I'm reading too much into that, given his later responses though. | 0_0 |
In any case, more reliable satellite data reveal that 2015 was only the third warmest year since recordings first began in 1979. Other than major 2015 and 1998 El Nino ocean spikes, there has been no statistically significant warming in nearly two decades. Yet although weather balloon (radiosonde) measurements closely ... | 1_4 |
Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed, or could not be located. | 5_1 |
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