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The White House will seek new public comment on the ?social cost of carbon? (SCC), a metric that helps regulators estimate the benefits of rules that cut greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_0 |
The impact of the Iraq War had been such that foreign leaders in countries like | 0_0 |
Tackling Poverty is Best Response to Climate Variance | 0_0 |
Writing in the Guardian, Nick Clegg reveals 1,600 companies on the London Stock Exchange will publish greenhouse gas figures from April | 0_0 |
The nice thing about businesses conspiracies is that you always know the motive- Money! You already know what the other guy wants to do before you begin negotiation. You also know that if it doesnt work out for either one of you, the relationship wont last. What you dont know is, whether the other party gives a crap wh... | 0_0 |
Rick Piltzs take on this is that the know-nothings are in the saddle. As Piltz further notes, The Senate can put a stop to this. | 0_0 |
Excerpt: Carter: The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998. Oddly, this eight-year-long temperature stasis has occurred despite an increase over the same period of 15 parts per million (or 4%) in atm... | 1_4 |
Glaciers have been disappearing for 20,000 years when Chicago was buried under a mile of ice. | 2_1 |
Obama: I Dont Have Much Patience for People Who Deny Climate Change | The Weekly Standard | 0_0 |
As documented by previous temperature charts , the global atmospheric temperatures have been on a declining trend over the last 15 years. The adjacent chart depicts similar results with a change: instead of CO2 levels (ppm), this chart shows the recent human CO2 emissions in gigatons. | 1_4 |
National defense to protect against the aggressive attacks of other countries that would threaten the citizens freedom and security; | 0_0 |
Different estimates of recent trends in the average temperature of the earth vary widely in precision, depending on how and when they were made. Calculating the average surface temperature for a single year requires averaging local temperatures recorded at thousands of points all around the globe at different times of ... | 0_0 |
These actions are intended to increase the cost of the hydrocarbon energy that powers our economy. Yet raising the cost of transportation fuels, electricity, lighting, heating and air conditioning will raise the price of food, materials and equipment. This will severely impact the bottom line for factories, utilities, ... | 4_1 |
on Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 7:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
He also said there was no danger of sea level rises swallowing Pacific islands or coastlines and former US vice president Al Gore had exaggerated 100 per cent about sea level rises. | 1_6 |
The IPCC report, which is published every six years, is used by governments worldwide to inform policy decisions that affect billions of people. | 0_0 |
So neither the warm climate that sustained high Andean plant growth 5,000 years ago, nor the subsequent frigid climate that caused the glacierization, could possibly have been caused by human activity. | 2_1 |
Obama can make plans for his inauguration, the weather gods appear to be in his corner. | 0_0 |
A new paper just published and available for preview for the upcoming issue of Nature demonstrates that hyped claims that drought has increased aren??t founded in science. Plotting the Palmer Drought Severity Index globally over the past 60 years they show little change in drought. | 1_7 |
At the outset, lets be quite clear: There is no consensus about dangerous anthropogenic global warming (DAGW)and there never was. There is not even a consensus on whether human activities, such as burning fossil fuels to produce useful energy, affect global climate significantly. So whats all this fuss about? | 5_1 |
That's an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of global warming lobbyists since 2003, when Congress previously voted on climate change legislation, and means that Washington can now boast more than four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress." | 0_0 |
A recent study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences investigated sources of fugitive methane emissions in the Four Corners region in the southwestern United States and found 250 point sources of methane emissions. Researchers found 4966 percent of the methane escaping into the atmosphere cam... | 0_0 |
Alarmists made huge news out of last years warmth, and forgot to mention that five out of the last six years started out with below normal temperatures. (The 2013 numbers will probably rise a little before the month is over.) | 1_3 |
The peace process falls under Abbas's jurisdiction, and there have been rumors of dissension, or at least coolness, between Abbas and Fayyad. Nor is Fayyad, a member of the "Third Way" splinter party, certain to win the support from Fatah that he will need to serve another term. What is important is that Abbas and Fayy... | 0_0 |
"It is generally agreed that doubling CO2 alone will cause about 1C warming due to the fact that it acts as a blanket. Model projections of greater warming absolutely depend on positive feedbacks from water vapor and clouds that will add to the blanket reducing the net cooling of the climate system. ... This, however, ... | 3_1 |
1) UK Businesses Face Wave Of Green Taxes | 0_0 |
The timing of these climatic changes can also be deduced from observations of abandoned Adelie penguin colonies along the coast of Victoria Land. This is because penguins depend on sea ice extent. Research into penguin rookeries suggest a ""penguin optimum'' associated with a warmer climate and less sea ice between 400... | 0_0 |
MP: There's just one small, inconvenient problem with making a connection between climate change and an increasing frequency of violent tornadoes the link doesn't actually exist. The chart above displays the annual number of "strong to violent tornadoes" (F3 to F5 on the Fujita Scale) in the US from 1954 to 2012 based ... | 0_0 |
The federal Energy Information Administration, the Department of Energy's independent research arm, recently provided a reality check on the costs of GHG reduction requirements. EIA estimated that reducing national GHG emissions 11 percent below business-as-usual by 2025 would cost a total of $620 billion nationwide du... | 4_1 |
The Kyoto Protocol also spells out what happens to countries that breach their commitments. There is a 130 percent penalty in the second Kyoto period for each ton by which the targets are breached. That means that the second-period targets will be considerably larger than the first period's targets, which the EU countr... | 0_0 |
To better understand the context of global warming since the industrial period started in 1850, it is also important to study pre-industrial temperature development when atmospheric CO 2 concentrations were low and fairly stable at about 280 ppm. Obviously any change in climate during those pre-industrial times would e... | 2_1 |
?To me, the most significant thing that the Climategate emails show is that the deck is stacked against the publication of research results that are critical of the established scientific consensus, and the skids are greased for papers that run in support?. Not a good situation for the advancement of science.? | 5_2 |
CHRIS TURNEY: The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds encircle Antarctica, and over the last 20 or 30 years or so, theyve been pushing further south. Now so actually in a way its almost like Antarcticas withdrawing itself from the rest of the world | 0_0 |
The adjacent chart from a new peer-reviewed study makes this very clear. Not only were the Medieval Warming temperatures some 2.9 degrees higher than the recent current modern warming, those unprecedented temperatures existed at atmospheric CO2 levels significantly below the claimed "tipping point" of 350ppm. | 2_1 |
Overall, temperatures are increasing. This statement is unscientific because the starting and ending dates are not specified. Temperature has declined since the Holocene Climate Optimum 6000-10,000 years ago. The Old Kingdom, Minoan, Roman, and medieval warm periods were also warmer than the present. | 2_1 |
Unfortunately for Markey, his point Athe critical importance of upgrading our natural gas infrastructurewould be undermined by his point Bblock new exports on the grounds that it would be a overall net plus to consumers and world stability. | 0_0 |
But, again, who knows? The only thing that is certain, as Cohen et al. describe it, is that traditional radiative greenhouse gas theory and coupled climate models forced by increasing greenhouse gases alone cannot account for this seasonal asymmetry. And so we have yet another reason why so many scientists are so skept... | 5_1 |
It??s not human activity that??s to blame for the sea surface temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef but the ENSO, a very natural and well recognised climate phenomenon. | 2_1 |
The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 158-month period that ended about 2004, but warming trends have dropped drastically since then. There was a similar drop in the 1940s, and as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-... | 1_4 |
Stats tampering puts NOAA in hot water | 5_2 |
Children just aren't going to know what snow is. Dr David Viner, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 20 March 2000 | 0_0 |
Now, opening up "previously inaccessible" areas to oil and gas development could also be a font of economic and national security benefits. One thing we know for sure about Arctic mineral resources--they aren't owned by Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Venezuela, and never will be controlled by OPEC. | 0_0 |
A graph over 1000 rpm, with concentrations p y axelnbekrftar it is jmvikt (lines from ythav and deep sea verlappar, s only one visible): | 0_0 |
Tree hugger explains. Global warming makes non-existent record cold Arctic air hold more moisture. The Arctic has been warming out of control for decades, so the record cold air you think you are feeling doesnt really exist, and even if it did you are an insignificant pipsqueak on the planet compared to Moscow or Tuval... | 0_0 |
"It's a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error," he said, without providing evidence. | 5_1 |
Nonetheless, there is no doubt that the proponents of "lawfare" have used this strategy successfully against Israel, and increasingly against the United States. By threatening U.S. officials with prosecution for alleged war crimes or human rights abuses, asserting jurisdiction over them when they travel abroad, for exa... | 0_0 |
I cam across this interesting piece, published by NOAA in 1999: | 0_0 |
If the climate shifts hypothesisis correct, then the current flat trend in global surface temperatures may continue for another decade or two, with a resumption of warming at some point during mid-century. The amount of warming from greenhouse gases depends both on the amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted as wel... | 5_1 |
rsringar from uniting in Tibet and pines in Jmtland shows that climate ndrades properly on pure 400 and 600. The average temperature can have svngt as much as television degrees p ten years. | 0_0 |
This working paper paper was revised and expanded from its original form on August 2, 2010. The original version of this working paper was published on November 1, 2008. Both versions are available as PDFs below. | 0_0 |
An analysis of nuclear genes suggests that the polar bear is old enough to have survived through several periods that were warmer than today between the Middle Pleistocene and the early Holocene. | 3_2 |
Even taking it as given that greenhouse-gas emissions are altering the climate in potentially dangerous ways, still, we must ask whether there are negative health and mortality effects from higher energy prices; whether restrictions on fossil-fuel energy would make us poorer; and whether a poorer-but-cooler world is be... | 0_0 |
Heinzow calculates that water equivalent to Lake Constance (13 cubic miles or 55 cubic kilometers) must be pumped 1,165 feet (350 meters) high, just to buffer the supply-demand discontinuity caused by the thousands of wind turbines that are already planned for the North and Baltic Seas. There are only two alternatives ... | 4_4 |
Back in summer 2002, when the original WWF report on polar bears was released, we performed an analysis between observed climate changes in the Arctic, and polar bear population trends, as given by the WWF. | 0_0 |
Owens and Lyons were joined in the study by UCRs Steven M. Bates; Benjamin C. Gill at Virginia Tech. and a former Ph.D. student with Lyons; Hugh C. Jenkyns at the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom; Silke Severmann at Rutgers University, NJ, and a former postdoctoral researcher with Lyons; Marcel M. M. Kuypers at... | 0_0 |
Daniel Ben-Ami is the author of Ferraris for All. He has worked as a financial journalist and economics writer for more than 20 years. | 0_0 |
You have already heard that there has been increased seismic activity at Yellowstone National Park over the last few days. Since December 26th, there have been several earthquakes a day, some jut over 3.0 magnitude, in the vicinity of the north side of Yellowstones lake. This is a seismically active region, but the lev... | 0_0 |
We used the HEM to analyze the economic effects of instituting the BoxerSanders proposal. HEM is appropriate for this analysis, as similar models have been used in the past to understand the economic effects of other carbon tax proposals. In particular, we conducted simulations running a carbon fee that started in 2014... | 0_0 |
Brewer's remarks are an expansion of comments she made last week during a televised debate between the four Republican gubernatorial candidates.... | 0_0 |
The cable describes a visit made by the FSHP to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital in October 2007. Built in 1982, the newly renovated hospital was used in Michael Moore's film as evidence of the high-quality of healthcare available to all Cubans. | 0_0 |
In other words, each proxy may have its distinct frequency response function, which could confuse the interpretation of climate variability. Finally, another concern is the lack of understanding of the air-sea relationship at the multidecadal timescale, even in the reasonably well observed region of the North Atlantic ... | 5_1 |
By Larry Kummer, Editor of the Fabius Maximus website, from which this is reposted, WUWT, Aug 8, 2015 | 0_0 |
The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperature of 0.7 C (about 1.2 F) during the twentieth century. Consequently, this record should not be cited as evidence of any trend in temperature that may have occurred a... | 5_1 |
Now, for the global mean temperature, there exist some regulating mechanisms that prevent the Earth from deviating by more than 10 ??C or so from some normal value - like 15 ??C. It's plausible that the global mean temperature hasn't left the 5-25 ??C interval for billions of years. Moreover, most of the changes of the... | 3_1 |
Evidence points to growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather worldwide due to global warming, but an effort to detect changes in the intensity of tornadoes has yet to be made. | 0_0 |
Environmental groups will assuredly become much more influential within the new administration, but it is an open question how much political capital President Obama will be willing to spend on their behalf. Easy issues like removing some of the restrictions placed around the listing of the Polar Bear under the Endange... | 0_0 |
6 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, pp. 3-4. | 0_0 |
I posted earlier todayon areport regardingthe Earths heat balance; see | 0_0 |
GREENIE WATCH However, as we all know it is in the nature of orthodoxy to ignore `minor issues'. However, this time seems an even bigger dog has come to bite! So far it has not been seen with the scientific AGW establishment that one single paper comes along to destroy more or less the whole basis of many careers (yet)... | 0_0 |
in their lifetimes. Or as Stuart Taylor, another moderate critic of the Obama | 0_0 |
Ive told the Government and the Opposition that I see it as virtually impossible to get this legislation through by the end of June, he said. I think its better to come back after the winter break and well have a better idea then whats happening in the US . | 0_0 |
Tuesdays focus is on writing big cheques for centralised power-generation including carbon capture and storage (CCS) and nuclear, which may be necessary in the short-term, but there was scant detail on how to exploit advances in grid connectivity, flexibility and energy efficiency. | 0_0 |
To whom it concern: My name is Aurora G. Villanueva, a member of the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club. I wanted to clarify my position in relation to the statement made by Ms Dhalla during the inquiry. The letter she presented in the inquiry that was signed by me, but not written by me.. It was prepared by the office of ... | 0_0 |
It is now six months since I reported on what even environmentalists are calling "the biggest environmental scandal in history". Indeed this is a scam so glaringly bizarre that even the UN and the EU have belatedly announced that they are thinking of taking steps to stop it. The essence of the scam is that a handful of... | 5_2 |
Feldstein, a Harvard economist who has advised Obama, earlier warned that "the barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early and sustained recovery." He compared Obama's tax increases to the ones that contributed to the Great Depression a... | 0_0 |
So according to Dessler the only way clouds can affect surface T is by absorbing energy on its way out of the Earths climate system. But Andy, what about the energy that clouds reflect which thereby never gets into the Earths climate system? No wonder Dessler thinks cloud feedback is positive, he ignores more than half... | 3_1 |
It is essential to understand that every one of the "global warming" predictions made in the 1980s and the decades since then has been WRONG. Every one of the computer models on which those predictions were based was WRONG. | 5_1 |
As the primary factor driving climate, Malberg believes it is the sun. The following charts shows the mean value for sunspot activity since 1679 along with mean Central European temperature anomaly: | 2_1 |
Sachs's not-so-subtle shift of emphasis from the pipeline itself to the "carbon budget" belies his denial that he and his allies simply oppose fossil fuels. Given his reliance on the worst-case RCP8.5 scenario, it is axiomatic that the use of fossil fuels must be reduced dramatically in order to adhere to the "carbon b... | 0_0 |
The GISS temperature graph is nonsense. The 1940s were just as warm as the warmest recent years | 5_1 |
31 Aug 11 ??? Following the coldest June in nearly 40 years and the coldest July in 50 years, this month is now one of the coldest Augusts since records began in 1851. | 1_3 |
While the White House is at fault for refusing to allow the EPA to discuss the 2001 NRC report, EPA scientists similarly have a lot of explaining to do over their reported refusal to allow the White House to include references to the recent work by Willie Soon and Sally Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for As... | 2_1 |
The bottom panel of following graphic shows what most meteorologists already know: there has been a downward trend in strong (F3) to violent (F5) tornadoes in the U.S. since statistics began in the 1950s. As seen in the top panel, this has also been a period of general warming. For those statistics buffs, the correlati... | 1_7 |
Photos of melt glass known as trinitite formed at the ground surface from the melting of sediments and rocks by the very high temperatures of the Trinity nuclear airburst in New Mexico in 1945. This material is very similar to the glassy melt materials now reported. | 0_0 |
When an agency is faced with two initially plausible readings of a statutory term, but it turns out that one reading would cause absurd results, I am aware of no precedent that suggests the agency can still choose the absurd reading and then start rewriting other perfectly clear portions of the statute to try to make i... | 0_0 |
No matter how you adjust and tweak, the models just don't get it right. This caused the researchers to ask some fundamental questions about what drives the climate models?the ?forcings? in climate speak. They focus on the usual suspects: rising greenhouse gases and the change in Earth's albedo caused by retreating nort... | 0_0 |
"SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): "With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I'm a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery."" | 0_0 |
A proposal by Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the U.K., made a splash at Cancun. Anderson authored a paper for the Royal Society urging the adoption of a draconian World War II-style rationing system ? for carbon emissions. ?The Second World War and the concept of... | 0_0 |
Global temperature projection for the coming century, based on warming/cooling cycles of the past several centuries. A projection based on assuming next cool phase will be similar to the 1945-1977 cool phase. B projection based on assuming next cool phase will be similar to the 1880-1915 cool phase. The predicted warm ... | 1_2 |
Pursuant to the Anti-Kickback Act, it is unlawful to knowingly offer or pay any remuneration in cash or in kind in exchange for the referral of any product (including a prescription drug) for which payment is sought from any federally-funded health care program. Daiichis kickbacks took the form of honoraria payments, m... | 0_0 |
But Reed's amendment calls for the SEC to specifically adopt the measures advocated in "Climate Strategies and Metrics," a manifesto put forth by the World Resources Institute and the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative. This document says companies should be required to put down specific numbers for ... | 0_0 |
The next graph shows the ten year running mean of violent tornadoes vs. the GISS US anomaly. Warmer years have fewer tornadoes. | 1_7 |
Somin includes the following, which I think is an example of where defenders of the President's process (as different from the outcomes) are missing reality. He writes: | 0_0 |
He has about 416 days to go before the planned delivery of the signatures to the Comrade General Secretary of the U.N. So far, he has about 1,100 signatures; 999,998,900 additional signatures are undoubtedly in the pipeline. ;-) The question is a sociological one but you can't fail to notice the complete detachment of ... | 0_0 |
Current measured long term warming rates range from 1.2-1.6 C/century. Some climatologists claim 6+C for the remainder century, based on climate models. One might think that these estimates are suspect, due to the empirically observed limitations of thecurrent GCMs. | 5_1 |
And, please note, not a single advisor, nor any of their climate science "experts" foresaw this lengthy cooling trend that is contrary to the "settled-science" warming predictions. | 1_2 |
William Yeatman, FoxNews.com , 1 April 2010 | 0_0 |
Google Near Deal in Drug Ad Crackdown: | 0_0 |
Four of the 15 methods of determining climate sensitivity the amount of warming to be expected if CO2 doubles are based on looking at recent trends in global temperature. Warming since 1950, when CO2 emissions began in earnest, has occurred at a rate of 2 F per century. Again, comparing the warming since 1950 with the ... | 3_1 |
This month, after a three-year investigation, Harvard University suspended a prominent professor of psychology for scandalously overinterpreting videos of monkey behaviour. The incident has sent shock waves through science because it suggests that a body of data is unreliable. The professor, Marc Hauser, is now a paria... | 0_0 |
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