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In their final chapter, "A Declaration of Energy Independence: America's $50 Trillion Opportunity," Moore and White turn their attention to the United States' good energy fortune. According to the authors, America has more recoverable oil and gas than Russia, twice as much as China, and three times as much as Saudi Ara... | 0_0 |
Climate change analysts use research and analysis to make recommendations for climate-related legislation, fundraising, and awareness campaigns. | 0_0 |
The State Department encourages you to join the debate as follows: | 0_0 |
The sound and the fury that has characterized the public discourse on global warming often obscures a basic economic fact: we are in the situation we are in because it requires fewer resources to generate electricity with coal or propel automobiles with petroleum than it does to accomplish those same goals with solar c... | 0_0 |
A New Marshall Plan for Africa? AEI's R. Glenn Hubbard and Columbia lecturer William Duggan"s new book The Aid Trap (Columbia Business School Publishing, September 2009) argues for a Marshall Plan for Africa. Recognizing that current aid efforts are not producing intended results, Hubbard and Duggan explain how restruc... | 0_0 |
This is the exact opposite of the 100% fraudulent NCDC climate extremes index (CEI) which reports that the region of the country with unusually hot days has increased to record levels. | 5_2 |
To counteract all this reverence and submission, but there a widespread delight in seeing yesterday's heroes as villains or failed today, and periodically choose a character like idol of the moment, to be preserved in order to vent their contempt more ' the '(and mourn his tragic demise in most cases) .. | 0_0 |
Hurricane Sandy was asuper storm not because it was an intense hurricane (Sandywas a category 1before making landfall), but because it was massive in area and merged with a winter frontal storm. The combined storm system contained more integrated kinetic energy (IKE) than Hurricane Katrina . Scientistssimply do not kno... | 0_0 |
NASA's Hansen admits sulfates are a 'wild card' | 0_0 |
This is a tough one. The above plot seems to suggest that the observations favor a low climate sensitivity?? maybe even less than any of the models. But the results are less than compelling. | 3_1 |
One of them said, ?I am a Jew. How could you accuse me of being a member of the Hitler Youth?? I said, ?If you behave like the Hitler Youth than I will call it as I see it. And if you ever break up someone else?s meeting again and trample on other people?s freedom of speech, I will say it again.? | 0_0 |
Alas, not so for some of the major environmental groups. This is because due to its hosting a folk "life" festival, the Smithsonian presents all aspects of rural living, including (gasp!) cars and (horrors!) machinery used for resource extraction. The technology that has improved rural life greatly doesn't fit today's ... | 0_0 |
One can begin to arrive at the political problem of liberal progressivism when one notes that each of those reversals saw the white working class abandon Democrats in record numbers. Nixon's Silent Majority, Reagan Democrats, angry white malesthese catchphrases from those past elections are merely euphemisms for the wh... | 0_0 |
The West Virginia Board of Education voted yesterday to put an end to months of controversy and open up teaching standards to permit students to consider both sides in the climate debate. | 0_0 |
A committee of five middle school parents, three teachers and one administrator met to determine whether the book and video served a proper purpose within the curriculum. | 0_0 |
After the modification of the photo was exposed last week, city officials defended the practice as common in advertising. | 0_0 |
For the past decade the world has not warmed. Global warming has stopped. Its not a viewpoint or a sceptics inaccuracy. Its an observational fact. So we are led to the conclusion that either the hypothesis of carbon dioxide induced global warming holds but its effects are being modified in what seems to be an improbabl... | 1_4 |
When only a few firms engage in rent-seeking, the rent seeker's concentrated benefits will far outweigh his portion of the diffuse costs imposed on the economy as a whole. But each rent seeker's success encourages others to get in the game. In time, the costs of government adversely affect millions of bottom lines. Wor... | 0_0 |
The real-world data-based results of Holgate and Boretti, as well as those of other researchers (Morner, 2004; Jevrejeva et al., 2006; Wppelmann et al., 2009; Houston and Dean, 2011), all suggest that rising atmospheric CO2 emissions are exerting no discernible influence on the rate of sea level rise. Clearly, SCC dama... | 1_6 |
A central conceit in the climate change debate is not just that experts can forecast the planet's weather a century from now. It is the implicit, and explicit, assumption that anyone might forecast technology in the year 2110. The world's future energy choices and appetites are the central features of all climate mitig... | 0_0 |
On March 13, 2013 someone with the pseudonym Mr. FOIA released the remaining 220,000 emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to a select few. Since then we have heard nothing. Mr. FOIA suggested there was more useful information with examples, such as origin of the ter... | 5_2 |
Germany, which has prepared an energy plan for the next 100 years, is investing not only sulleolico and biogas, on clean coal, the energy source cheaper. Moreover, Germany, France and Britain, in addition to coal can enjoy dellenergia nuclear, after coal, the least expensive. | 0_0 |
Ive shortened the span of the weekly data. As noted in the mid-April 2013 update , Ive started using January 2001 so that the variations can be seen AND so that you can see how flat global sea surface temperature anomalies have been since then. | 1_4 |
My sometime unorthodox views, and insistence on remaining in New York City when going would have been wiser, have made it difficult to discover a position in a research university. Despite some earlier opportunities, I stayed put until the two young gentlemen who Im responsible for could be booted onto the streets with... | 0_0 |
In most applications of (1), T is not a radiative temperature, but rather the temperature at a single level of the atmosphere, usually close to the ground. The CCSP report presents three separate analyses of the global surface temperature trend that use land- and ocean-based observations to evaluate T. As they reported... | 0_0 |
A junk science-fueld attack on insecticides continues. | 0_0 |
One section, noting that "conflict-related activities emit significant greenhouse gas emissions," calls on all parties to "cease destructive activities" like warfare and then channel the money that would have been spent on war and other defense projects toward "a common enemy: climate change." | 0_0 |
However, the project collapsed last year after the company said it would need at least 1.5bn to be viable, something the government refused to sanction. Shell then teamed up with SSE and hopes to use its Goldeneye gas field in the North Sea to store the liquified CO2. | 0_0 |
Scenario 1: The earths average temperature during each year of the period 2014-2030 remains the same as is average temperature observed during the first 13 years of this century (2001-2013). This scenario represents a continuation of the ongoing pause in the rise of global temperatures. | 1_4 |
"We want to have the whole thing collapse and be found by future generations in the dustbin of history," said Ebell, whose group is backed in part by the fossil fuel industry. | 0_0 |
The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados | 1_7 |
Lawsuit delays video gaming law's implementation: | 0_0 |
The records show that changes in global temperature do not always follow changes in atmospheric CO2 levels. | 2_3 |
One might argue that these quotes are highly selectivebut they are only a tiny sampling (not a single one from Michele Bachmann, only one from Gohmert!). Importantly, almost none were countered by party officials or legislative leaders, nor were the individuals quoted reprimanded in any way. What used to be widely seen... | 0_0 |
In contrast, here??s a graphic from Richard Muller??s 2011 lecture. Unlike Allen, Muller understood Hide the Decline, which is shown here in one of its manifestations. (This is the WMO graphic; the more important Hide the Decline was in the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment reports.) Hide the Decline is not 0.02 deg C i... | 5_2 |
"The reasons for the increase are a two per cent rise in total demand for energy compared to the previous year and a switching from gas to coal, which produces between two and three times more carbon dioxide." This last statement is incorrect: coal produces less than twice as much CO2 per Btu than natural gas. | 0_0 |
But what about the bribed doctors? Some may think twice about accepting honoraria again, but most will just go on to the next opportunity. And for all those physicians who would even attend such educational events, let alone be influenced by them: Once a brown-nosing nerd, always a brown-nosing nerd. | 0_0 |
China gives back in the climate game. No US sndebud come with demands jmfrs he with a pig in a saga that krmar himself in front of the mirror. The United States requires, addressed to China, to tillvxtlnder should not avoid mandatory utslppsgrnser. | 0_0 |
One year later, acoustical study at a standstill | 0_0 |
New technology for cleaner, cheaper energy will shape the future more than politics. | 0_0 |
The BOM: Homogenizing the heck out of Australian temperature records | 0_0 |
I have no problem with private people spending money however they want, but after throwing around sums of this magnitude, it seems amazing they feel the need to stop Heartland from spending a couple of million dollars in opposition. It's like a rich guy telling you that your Chevy Nova is in the way of his Ferrari and ... | 0_0 |
Ethanol produces a large water footprint : According to Environmental Science & Technology magazine, the amount of ethanol needed to fuel a vehicle for one mile is 50 gallons, a high number when you tally what??s used for an entire crop. Of course, the water use comes almost entirely during the agricultural cycle. With... | 4_4 |
workplace: Generally, junior professors write long and unsolicited emails | 0_0 |
Climate experts often argue that we need to purchase the insurance policy of action on greenhouse gases. They say that energy taxes are like buying fire and theft insurance for your house. But this analogy, like much of their alarmism, is false. If anything, climate science acts as a fire alarm (to alert us to any pote... | 5_2 |
on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 3:36 pm and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
Following this methodology, since none of the known forcing functions are able to accurately reproduce the observed temperature rise (0.6-0.7C/100 years), the modelers tune? parameters associated with the greenhouse effect (with some justification) and claim that their models can reproduce reasonably well the observed ... | 5_1 |
Antarctic sea ice extent has been growing for 30 years,and is near a record high . | 1_1 |
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If, as you work, you feel you know the source of the data, please dont tell the others. | 0_0 |
Lost in the vexatious interpretations of the nonstandard language, used for arrangements in academic soft money positions, are some simple facts. The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics employs Dr. Soon, paying him wages through money that it receives from grants, as it does for many others it employs. The gran... | 0_0 |
Whoa, that cant be right! Mr. Gore showed those videos of ice retreating in Antarctica. Well, yes, sort of. Scientists expect that global warming will make the sea currents that circle Antarctica a bit warmer, leading to more precipitation and more snowfall on the continent. Besides, Antarctica is so damn cold that rai... | 1_1 |
LOST has a more immediate prospect of imposing its terms on us including Kyoto-style "global warming" provisions that we have elected not to adopt. This is found in Section 207, "Pollution from land based sources", requiring that we "shall adopt laws and regulations" to prevent, among other things, "global warming" or ... | 0_0 |
As Injuries Rise, Scant Oversight of Helmet Safety: | 0_0 |
So to criticize there would be a little above tantoma could justify hatred current? The truth '' that the company 'English and' sick of Iconoclastofiliail pleasure of creating icons, myths, then coupled with the pleasure of destroying them. And this is probably a reflex reaction to the fact that in the ancient land of ... | 0_0 |
So let's thank the Canadian Senate, for killing this "Carbon" bill, and for bringing some sanity to our energy policy. | 0_0 |
The issue of loyalty to colleagues came starkly to the forefront in response the release of the Climategate emails. I was criticized for my early essays by colleagues because talking about even the broad issues of uncertainty, transparency, losing trust etc was viewed as insensitive to the feelings of the individual sc... | 5_2 |
So does the observational evidence in AR5 support its/the CMIP5 models TCR ranges? | 0_0 |
NPR Affiliate Managers Voice Discontent with Firing of Juan Williams: | 0_0 |
Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that will cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities in California and consolidate several business units to cut costs. | 0_0 |
Inexpensive energy attracts manufacturing: Energy-intensive companies are expanding in order to take advantage of low-cost natural gas, which boosts GDP and creates employment. Since 2009, the German chemical company BASF has invested more than $5.7 billion into North America, including a formic acid plant under constr... | 0_0 |
But what if those learned people?s papers can?t get published in the respected journals because they contradict views of influential orthodox mainstream gatekeepers who attack their merit ? the exact circumstances exposed in the U.K. East Anglia University Climate Research Unit?s ClimateGate e-mails? In this case, thos... | 0_0 |
Finally, after more than a year of erratic diplomacy, the Obama administration appears to appreciate the necessity to the peace process of face-to-face negotiations. Issues such as the move of Israeli Jews into contested East Jerusalem may rankle, but the White House seems to realize that at this stage of affairs, givi... | 0_0 |
"Talks imploded Thursday between DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders in the final hours before a midnight deadline, and Minnesota began a historic government shutdown." | 0_0 |
koda Vision C concept. The new generation of kodas got pretty close to that. The design contributed by the koda chief designer Jozef Kab who is Slovak may beat other brands by its similarity to BMW etc. The vertical ribs on the front grille belong among the details that make it sexier, I think. The horizontal ribs of V... | 0_0 |
Medieval Warm Period seen in western USA tree ring fire scars | 0_0 |
Cause gasoline prices to increase by up to $0.50 gallon, or by 10 percent on an average gallon price; and | 0_0 |
A compilation of at least 30 published studies based upon satellite and ocean observations demonstrate climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 levels after all feedbacks is only about 0.5 C, which is ~7 times less than the 3.2C claimed by the IPCC AR5 modelled mean estimate. | 3_1 |
The irony is that the Supreme Court, which jealously guards against any hint of a religious symbol on public property lest a religion be established, has gone a long way toward making the Earth Cult the official religion of the United States. | 5_2 |
"The average global temperature has risen, which has pushed up average humidity. This in turn leads to flooding," said Pamela Heck, a climate risk expert at the Zurich-based company. Scientists disagree with Heck's assessment of the situation (see below), but that hasn't stopped the company from fanning the global warm... | 0_0 |
My policy-analysis, on the other hand, is not value-neutral: I hold environmental protection in very high regard (I wouldn't have spent 16 years in college studying biology and the environment if I didn't), but I believe that environmental protection must complement, rather then displace, other values such as fiscally ... | 0_0 |
It is the job of research scientists, like Bill, to challenge the fashionno point to the job otherwise, is there. If the fashion has the answers, then there is no reason to find new things out through research. Thus Bill, in the best scientific tradition, naturally found himself outside of fashion and the kind treatmen... | 0_0 |
The AGGI is a pseudoscientific metric that cant possibly measure what it purports to measure since no one (including NOAA) understands the effect of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, much less that they are harmful. | 5_1 |
Tanzanias great central plateau, which sprawls across Dodoma, Singida and parts of Tabora regions, has suffered from drought for years, and maize has not been widely cultivated here because it cannot withstand the arid conditions. | 0_0 |
Apparently there were different interpretations of the recommendations. See Figure 3, which presents the model outputs of TOA incident shortwave radiation in absolute form. There are three primary groupings. The 2 models from one modeling group start about 338.5 watts/m^2. Theres the middle grouping of 5 models that st... | 0_0 |
Thus, the contribution of the minimum land surface temperatures to the construction of a global average surface temperature trend is NOT tightly coupled to that thermodynamic state of the Earths climate system. It insertion into the diagnosis of Equation (1) will introduce an error which we have shown in our paper | 0_0 |
A White House memo that noted the danger of imminent bankruptcy at the end of August 2011 says, OMB, DPC and NEC have been working with press and OLA to be prepared for this news to break. | 0_0 |
If Europe chooses a solo effort through a one-sided climate protection target of 40% less emissions, it would mean billions in losses for us that our global competitors would not otherwise have gained. The damage done to competitiveness among energy-intensive companies in the EU would be considerable. | 0_0 |
What this means: The IPCC knows the pause is real, but has no idea what is causing it. It could be natural climate variability, the sun, volcanoes and crucially, that the computers have been allowed to give too much weight to the effect carbon dioxide emissions (greenhouse gases) have on temperature change. | 5_1 |
NOAA generated their fake map through an amazing hockey stick of adjustments of 3.5 degrees in Michigan. By massively cooling the past and warming present, they tried to fool Great Lakes ice into believing that the freezing point of water has changed. | 5_2 |
Meanwhile, a coalition of more than 40 island nations was claiming that, without big money and drastic regulations, it would soon be ?the end? for them. ?We are facing at this moment the end of history for some of us,? claimed Antonio Lima, vice-chair of the Alliance of Small Island States. ?All these countries are str... | 0_0 |
PG&E;, Exelon, Duke -- progressive companies or energy-rationing profiteers? | 0_0 |
Obama's second and even more significant reversal of the presidency's constitutional position is his hesitance toward, and even retreat from, its core role as the protector of the nation's security. | 0_0 |
He also fails to explain how the global warming from 1860-1880 and again from 1910-1940, which occurred at exactly the same rate as the warming from 1976-2001, did not cause any loss of sea-ice extent. Spencer 2, Nuccitelli 0. | 0_0 |
There are many possible causes of sea level rise, including tectonic deformation of the sea floor, or production of new water at the hundreds of undersea volcanoes, but it is generally attributed to two mechanisms. | 0_0 |
No. The radio frequencies emitted by the smart meters are 15,000 times lower than the limit set by the Federal Communications Commission, said Gary Smith, NV Energys director of the smart meter program. | 0_0 |
Lauer and other commentators seem to think that there's something of a contradiction here. I don't see it, perhaps because it describes my own position so well. I support the Arizona law, but I'm also worried that it could lead to civil-rights abuses. | 0_0 |
The document also asserts the "rights of mother earth," a concept that environmental activists have been pushing for. | 0_0 |
S hr I interpret the situation. OH has blogginlgg and p Twitter facing a false accusation against an KVA colleague. He bedmer sjlv that thing he accuses his colleague from is extremely serious. He wants nmligen that the colleague will leave KVA which would be a very unusual and poignant event facilities. What transpare... | 0_0 |
Even if we agree that greenhouse emissions need to be reduced to save the world from global warming, subsidizing electric vehicles makes no sense. | 0_0 |
ONCE upon a time there was a turkey that lived in a pen. Every morning a farmer brought food and water and talked to the turkey with soothing words. | 0_0 |
4. But what about birds and forests. Doesn't DDT do a lot of damage there? | 0_0 |
I must admit, it astounds me how some scientists can be so sure of theories which involve events in the distant past that we cannot measure directly. Yet we measure the entire Earth every day with a variety of satellite instruments, and we are still trying to figure out from that abundance of data how today??s climate ... | 5_1 |
Which is why the Democrats' sudden decision to push for "comprehensive" immigration reform is so disappointing. If this were a sincere effort at reform, it would be laudable. But it's almost impossible to find anyone in Washington not paid to spout Democratic talking points who believes this is anything but a naked pol... | 0_0 |
In many ways, the question was as surprising as revealing. It assumes that climate change only matters to conservatives, that those individuals cannot be scientists, and that the only reason for challenging the climate orthodoxy is to prevent some national legislation. All of those assumptions are wrong. | 0_0 |
If the movie were simply boring, An Inconvenient Truth might still be worth enduring if only to mine the extensive data and whatever environmental information might unfold. But environmentalism isn't Guggenheim's real concern. Presiding over the "rebirth" of Al Gore is. You get the feeling the director would be fine wi... | 0_0 |
(edited March 12) Soledad OBrien and her CNN panel manage to stumble into Contessa Brewer territory in this appearance by attempting to paint Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak as a racist for making a point about Barack Obamas support for a proponent of critical race theory during his days at Harvard Law School... | 0_0 |
Similarly, the report doesnt include data from other large emitters. Carbon price data from key competitor countries such as Chile and China are excluded. So is the carbon price from the carbon-backsliding Canadians. | 0_0 |
If one conveniently ignores the extremely quiet 2013 and 2014 wildfire seasons and compares 1986 to 2012, wildfires in 2012 burned nearly four times as much acreage in 1986, but there were fewer wildfires in 2012 than in 1986. | 0_0 |
"The directive applies only to patients from the US and Canada who come to Zurich for elective, non-essential health treatments," said Zurich University Hospital spokeswoman Petra Seeburger. | 0_0 |
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