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We are beginning to understand that natural variability is pretty high in #5. Alarmist might be call "sun variability deniers" as they refuse to admit that Mr. Sun might have substantial effects on the Earth. They are kind of in a hole, though. They are trying to simultaneously claim in #3 that the climate is dominated... | 2_1 |
The 2020 CAFE standards are ambitiousthey require efficiency improvements at nearly two-and-a-half times the historical rate. Yet they weren't ambitious enough for liberal California legislators, who passed a law to accelerate Congress's timeline by four years. | 0_0 |
This is quite banal and shows the desperation of those involved in this unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists. | 0_0 |
"acting director of the National Labor Relations Board for Region 32 in Oakland -- has rejected 88 of 118 objections filed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers over an October election to represent Kaiser Permanente employees. The union vote involved NUHW and the Service Employees International Union-United Heal... | 0_0 |
It should be noted that these new papers, as well as others such as the one showing a 2,000 year general cooling trend with significant variation, do not disprove the hypothesis that human emissions of CO2 are causing global warming. But, they show that climate science, as practiced by the IPCC, is inadequate and that ... | 5_1 |
INCLUDING HIGHWAY 20 WAUCONDA SUMMIT... SHERMAN PASS | 0_0 |
So there are two aspects to Hansen??s assertion that Scenario B was ???more plausible?? ??? the handling of CFCs in near time and exponential vs linear in deeper time. In the vituperative debate in 1998 and thereafter, no one seems to have focused on the impact of CFC doubling. Does it make sense to say that doubling C... | 5_1 |
1. Major northern water storages above the NSWQLD border line were not adversely affected by the current drought conditions being experienced in Australia, holding on average 90% of their capacity compared to 20% on average for major southern storages. | 0_0 |
Ive been telling Java that I did NOT want an update for a while now (not liking the idea of going into brave new worlds of recently released bugs and holes; liking to stay with known good levels); so maybe in a few weeks I can let it go ahead and update | 0_0 |
A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which sorta looks like a giant LEGO, is set to become Europes largest renewable energy power plant. | 0_0 |
Because the range of leatherbacks is so great, national legislation on long lines will not be sufficient to save the animals. | 0_0 |
The press release does not explain what caused the warm periods over the past 10,000 years, some warmer than today, during which time the IPCC asserts carbon dioxide concentrations were quite stable until the 20th Century. | 2_1 |
Reducing emissions globally will require a massive investment in ???clean technologies?? ??? an estimated $2.1 trillion in wind turbines and $1.5 trillion in solar voltaic panels by 2030. These investments will create many green jobs. | 4_1 |
The core of the human caused global warming proposition is that an increasing level of greenhouse gases acts to reduce heat loss from the planet making the atmosphere here warmer. But is the greenhouse effect occurring as the IPCC models propose? This study analysed two important factors directly associated with the gr... | 2_3 |
(https://web.archive.org/web/20040719102733/http://sealevel.colorado.edu/2004 rel1.2/sl ib ns cu2004 rel1.2 global.txt) differs from the current one: | 0_0 |
The summer temperature reconstruction revealed the presence of warm conditions from the beginning of the record in AD 951 up to about AD 1350, which the authors associate with the Medieval Warm Period. Thereafter, temperatures declined and an extended cold period known as the Little Ice Age ensued, which persisted unti... | 2_1 |
Grist magazine reporter David Roberts called to host "war crimes trials for these bastardssome sort of climate Nuremberg." | 0_0 |
Oregon Degree Days Deviation Map 41 F | 0_0 |
Notably, over 50 percent of currently-active wind capacity is located in only five states; over 75 percent is located in just 11 states. Under the federal wind PTC, however, taxpayers in the states without RPS mandates pay approximately 24 percent of the PTC funding, even though they receive no direct economic benefit.... | 4_1 |
Alexander et al. published a peer-reviewed study that found storms in the southeast region of Australia showing a significant reduction since the late 19th century. | 1_7 |
Mr. Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington. | 0_0 |
The climate scientists are not only just wrong, but are now criminals who are intentionally committing fraud. Large parts of the public believe them. | 5_2 |
Ceduna News, sport and weather | West Coast Sentinel | 0_0 |
On the other side of the opinion spectrum, Roger Pielke Jr. , a University of Colorado political scientist, believes that journalists have been too obsequious to climate scientists to the detriment of climate science. | 0_0 |
Now that the global warming "hiatus" has expanded to a new record length of 18 years and five months, the RSS satellite temperature record shows a sub-zero trend. But if El Nio conditions occur this year, this may interrupt the warming pause, though the discrepancy between prediction and observation continues to widen.... | 1_4 |
Orange County Register editorial, 29 March 2010 | 0_0 |
These apocalyptic events are so tiring that there is a great temptation to adopt the method of an ancient Chinese Emperor who would generously pay for predictions, but if they would not come true, would have the fortune tellers and their families executed. | 0_0 |
"We're from the Earth Guardians group, and we're working on fracking and how it's going to affect our future and our health. So we wrote this song for all the gas companies that are putting their profits ahead of our future." | 0_0 |
US House Committee to Examine Obama Administrations Approach for Enforcing Wildlife Laws and Impacts on U.S. Energy | 0_0 |
Bringing climate change into the Syria issue does a great disservice to the innocent victims of that tragic conflict. Civil war in Syria is about people seeking to rid themselves of a bloody tyrant. Sadly, it has been exploited by religious fanatics whose endgame does not include benign democracy under rule of law. | 0_0 |
The Met Offices figure for a rise of 12 cm in the English Channel during the 20th century comes from a paper by Wahl et al (2013) ( here ). However, these results which are for absolute sea level - show almost no acceleration in sea level rise. At 0.13 cm/year, the trend over 1993-2009 was only 0.1 cm/year higher than ... | 1_6 |
Up to now, EPA has said and done whatever it deems necessary or convenient to advance its regulatory agenda. The health, environmental and societal costs are unjustified and can no longer be tolerated. It's time to clean house and start enforcing laws against human experiments and fraudulent research. | 0_0 |
The response from the defenders of Mr. Mann and his circle has been that even if they did disparage doubters and exclude contrary points of view, theirs is still the best climate science. The proof for this is circular. It's the best, we're told, because it's the most-published and most-citedin that same peer-reviewed ... | 5_2 |
The focus on direct energy use obscures the fact that Americans have many choices when it comes to reducing their energy and environmental footprint besides cutting back on the direct use of oil, natural gas, and electricity. Those who want to reduce their energy consumption but are unable or unwilling to forego the ro... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Robert H. Nelson in the Wall Street Journal on how the federal government's disastrous land management policies have led to increasingly destructive wildfires: | 0_0 |
Mr Ramesh said the rate of retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas varied from a couple of centimetres a year to a couple of metres, but that this was a natural process that had taken place occurred over the centuries. Some were, in fact, growing, he said. | 1_1 |
As you can see, the future holds nothing to fear. There will be a few El Nios in the next ten years, then a moderate cooling as we come off the peak of the 62 and 204 year cycles. There will be more of those in mid-century, as the AMO rises again, then more cooling for a period at the end of the century as both of thos... | 1_2 |
(rate constant for the reaction tergende) x (concentration of the reaction product) | 0_0 |
CEI Response: Our ad did not deny that global warming is happening. It took issue with the prevalent journalistic malpractice of selective reporting to alarm the public into supporting Kyoto-style, all-pain-for-no-gain, energy-suppression policies. If global warming is thickening the ice in Antarctica, then one effect ... | 0_0 |
The Danish Meteorological Institute has been tracking Arctic ice extent since 2005. They use the more meaningful30% concentration standard, and as of today show 2010 as the highest on record for the date. | 1_1 |
* Attitudes toward global warming have changed little in recent years, remaining highly polarized. The proportion saying the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated was 42 percent in a March 2012 Gallup poll. | 0_0 |
"The partisan divide started in 1997," says Jon Krosnick of Stanford University. That was when a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, threw his weight behind the UN effort to introduce mandatory caps for greenhouse-gas emissions. It has since widened. YouGov, a pollster, found in 2013 that 70% of Democratic voters saw e... | 0_0 |
"Thieves stole credit and debit card PINs from thousands Barnes & Noble customers, not by breaking into the company's website, but by hacking the keypads sitting right on their store counters." | 0_0 |
Approximately $3.1 billion in direct expenditures; and | 0_0 |
Each of these issues is critical to the future of the country. They can't be put on the back burner. It is time for some of our lawmakers to show some backbone and look for genuine cross-party solutions or at least interim steps, and not leave Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) twisting alone in the wind. | 0_0 |
A few days ago, Marc Morano received some credit from a Joe Romm - the cheerleader-in-chief at recent wild orgies celebrating the death of Michael Crichton - for having determined that Steven Chu, the future U.S. secretary of energy, is not quite psychiatrically OK (much like many similar participants of the Pozna conf... | 0_0 |
Considering the above, Earth's plants are gradually being freed from the environmental fetters that have for so long held them back and prevented them from exhibiting their true productivity potential, thanks to the life-giving carbon dioxide that has been emitted to the atmosphere by mankind's historic and ongoing bur... | 3_3 |
Josh writes:heres my take on that well known scam thats been in the news this week.Astonishing. | 0_0 |
Those in favor of pushing forward argued that the reason the Democrats lost in 1994 was not that they were too far ahead of public opinion, but that by failing to pass Clinton's health-care bill they had not heeded public opinion enough. Democrats were punished in 1994 for not governing, not for being out of step with ... | 0_0 |
I was appalled when they showed a 10-minute film on Pachauri, said the | 0_0 |
In Climate not to blame for African civil wars , Halvard Buhaug argues, | 0_0 |
As you will see in this post, the range of the climate-modeled energy imbalance has a much larger range, about 10 times the 0.5 watts/m^2 range mentioned by Trenberth et al. (2014). And there is no agreement about how the imbalance was created in the past, or might be created in the future. | 0_0 |
A review of polar microalgae studies suggests that both Arctic and Antarctic phytoplankton are resilient to temperature increases up to 6 C greater than normal Read More | 0_0 |
What I would like to know is where is the funding coming from for these lawsuits? | 0_0 |
Nuccitelli then turns to the embarrassing increase in Antarctic sea-ice extent mentioned by Roy Spencer, and produces various papers saying more sea-ice in Antarctica is what we should expect from global warming. | 1_1 |
The problem with the Michael Mann sort of scientist is that, rather than practicing science quietly behind the scenes, they want to participate in the public debate. They?re perfectly entitled to do so, on an equal footing with everyone else. Yet the minute anyone disagrees with them, they play the ?I?m a famous scient... | 0_0 |
Temperatures could start to rise again as we continue to add CO 2 to the atmosphere or they could fall as suggested by the present weak solar activity. Many climatologists are trying to address the issues described here to give us a better understanding of the physical processes involved and the reliability of the pred... | 5_1 |
Trump's bombastic rhetoric aimed at minorities, including Hispanics, African Americans, and Muslims, among others, including his pledge to build that wall on the southern border, will make it even more difficult than it was after the 2012 loss for Republican leaders to make any gesture on immigration that might broader... | 0_0 |
But, when the part of the detrended sea level that is correlated to ENSO3.4 is removed, the remaining orthogonal part of the rise rate appears to be lower at the end of the century than during the 1940s, and not particularly high compared to the rest of the century. So if my removal of the ENSO effect is correct, then ... | 1_6 |
Are human-induced changes to the environment causing global warming? Policy-makers and the general public want to know now whether increased amounts of "greenhouse gases' such as carbon dioxide are permanently altering our climate. Their sense of urgency is understandable, given what is at stake. A warming of even a fe... | 0_0 |
The how climate change might make some land unsuitable model was built from the IPCCs totally bogus emissions scenarios. The modeled scenarios A1B, A2A and B2A. | 0_0 |
Validation of Climate Models: Writing in Watts Up With That? , Tim Ball reviews a book by Vincent Gray, The Global Warming Scam and the Climate Change Super Scam. Gray is an expert reviewer of all five major reports of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), submitting thousands of comments. | 0_0 |
Dr Bill Gray from CSU is a good friend, the most widely recognizedhurricane forecaster, and one of themost senior global warming skeptics. He recognized the problems of global warming theory decades earlier than most former true believers like myself. In 1996, CSUs Bill Gray correctly predicted weak cooling for the nex... | 1_2 |
Here is a map of the SST anomalies for the past month. Warm water (dark orange and red) stretching from the central Pacific to the coast of S. America. You can also see the crazy warm water off our coast. | 0_0 |
Then there are the arguments about happiness. Growth skeptics point to opinion polls showing that rising prosperity is not making Americans happier. Some go even further and liken the drive towards prosperity to a mental illness. Many names disparage such acquisitiveness, including "affluenza," "luxury fever," and "stu... | 0_0 |
More than half of the world?s solar panels are installed in Germany. On June 6, Germany?s solar power production touched a new record of 23.4 gigawatts, meeting almost 40 per cent of the country?s entire peak electricity demand. But to understand that this record is quite meaningless, consider the grid?s narrow escape ... | 4_4 |
M-type=moment magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=B | 0_0 |
The HadCRUt4 warming rate from 1976-2001 was equivalent to almost 1.8 C/century (compared with warming at just 1.1 C/century from 1979-1996), but from 2002 to the present HadCRUt4 shows cooling at a rate equivalent to almost 0.5 C/century (compared with warming at almost 0.5 C/century from 1997-2012). | 1_4 |
In a speech at the National Press Club on April 13th, Climate Minister Combet revealed again that he is receiving unbalanced scientific advice, and that his understanding of the problem of hypothetical dangerous global warming is inadequate. His predecessor, Senator Penny Wong, exemplified the same weaknesses and so do... | 0_0 |
Key Tool for the Scare Campaign: Censorship. How bullying critics keep editors from straying. | 0_0 |
While there are a number of good and fun ideas but the contents of the book which describes providing nd a walk-through taste in the mouth. The reason is the political context that frutstter to Gteborgs future should be subordinated to a green planned economy. | 0_0 |
At the 4:30 mark the documentary tells us that glaciers in the Alps melted and allowed the Romans to expand their empire all the way to Scotland. The warm period also took hold globally, says the ZDF documentary, and was not a regional phenomena. The ZDF documentary shows at the 5:40 mark how the Chinese Empire blossom... | 2_1 |
Most people think the poles are melting theyre not,?? says Dr Benny Peiser.???Global sea ice is at a record high.?? | 1_1 |
If you chose to believe that our life is just a random accident, then the same probability is that there MUST be many equal locations, with equal, and probably MANY locations with superior life forms. So much for the No Superior Being debate, something superior must exist. | 0_0 |
Moreover, higher temperature must produce higher evaporation from the oceans and thus more rainfall. If this is combined with more abundant carbon dioxide, the aerial plant food, earth would have another green revolution. | 3_3 |
German meteorologists say that the start of 2013 is now the coldest in 208 years - and now German media has quoted Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov from the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory as showing it is proof as he said earlier that we are heading for a "Mini Ice Age." Talking to German me... | 1_2 |
Western Business Leaders Pile Pressure on China and India | 0_0 |
In the past years the fight was financed by US auto manufacturer Chrysler, and oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron, and others. The story of the PR manager is a story of a planned confusion. It is a didactic play on the art of lying. Doubt is now spreading across the world from America. | 0_0 |
Regional diabatic heating can also cause atmospheric teleconnections that influence regional climate thousands of kilometers away from the point of forcing. | 0_0 |
Other products like sugar, peanuts, and sesame seeds are thought to have their origin in tropical habitats, and for products like corn, rice and bananas, tropical forests "offer genetic improvements of several major crops In 1970 the U.S. corn crop was hit with a blight that destroyed half the crop in many areas. The c... | 0_0 |
This setting is characterized by very few degrees of freedom and leaves the regression susceptible to nonsense predictors. | 0_0 |
Many distributional analyses of carbon pricing focus on the uses-side incidence of carbon pricing. This is the differential burden resulting from heterogeneity in consumption across households. Once one allows for sources-side incidence (i.e. differential impacts of changes in real factor prices), carbon policies look ... | 0_0 |
UAH MSU satellite records have released the December 2008 data. The anomaly shows 0.074 ??C of cooling since November which is pretty substantial (100 ??C per century haha). | 1_3 |
Another fearmongering Stonyfield ad reads, "Earth to mom! Yogurts made without the use of antibiotics, hormones and toxic pesticides." | 0_0 |
Conceding the relevance to climate change in the planning decision-making process is still in an evolutionary phase, the tribunal ruled there was a reasonably foreseeable risk from rising sea levels and increased storm severity that would make the proposed developments unacceptable. Im going to assume that this propert... | 0_0 |
9. "The increase of global average temperature has to be limited to 2 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level." Again, this temperature increase is principally of natural origin. Unfortunately humans cannot end sunspot activities. | 2_1 |
Now lets compare the models to the observations in Figure 5. The models overestimate the rate of warming in maximum temperatures from about 45S to 5N and from 35N to the Arctic. The models underestimate the rate of warming slightly from 5N to 35N, but grossly underestimate the polar-amplified warming in the Arctic. Hmm... | 5_1 |
Forget the "Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus" mantra that gave the Brussels Eurocracy the vapors in the summer of 2002.8 Though the slogan captured well a moment of transatlantic relations, over time this mantra has obscured the issue. The truth is, for the past 15 years, and on both sides of the Atlantic,... | 0_0 |
The Locavores Dilemma - ...a controversial new book that argues that, far from making our communities healthier and more self-sufficient, the local food movement will destroy our economies, ruin our environment and probably lead to more wars, famine and incidences of food poisoning. | 0_0 |
But now its March! So, February data are in. Also, due to interest in this exercise, other bloggers are now performing variations on this analysis. So, naturally, I am extending my analysis. I think the variety of results will give various people more information to consider when forming their opinions about the predic... | 0_0 |
The process of a cosmic ray particle colliding with particles in our atmosphere and disintegrating into smaller pions, muons, and the like, is called a cosmic ray shower . These particles can be measured on the Earths surface by neutron monitors. | 0_0 |
Just before the storm began, the weather models (about 10 of them) were predicting 8-12 of snow for downtown DC. Even the most bearish model predicted 5. Same models likewise predicted 12-18 for western suburbs with the most bearish predicting 10. They shut down the government, all the schools, etc. | 5_1 |
on Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 12:36 am and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
President Obama's decision to reduce offshore drilling restrictions is an important move in the right direction. The U.S. needs a comprehensive energy program to bridge the country's adjustment to cleaner fuels that reduce carbon emissions. This includes green energy and nuclear energy, as well as clean coal, oil and n... | 0_0 |
Europe Environment Agency. 2004. Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emission Trends and Projections in Europe 2004, http://reports.eea.eu.int/technical report 2004 7/en/Analysis of GHG trends and projections in Europe.pdf. | 0_0 |
What is necessary for international action on GHG to move forward? A major requirement is a more credible demonstration of the benefits of costly emissions reductions. As noted above, public-opinion surveys suggest that individuals are most concerned about local effects. This suggests that reducing scientific uncertain... | 0_0 |
Indeed, on Monday, BP released the latest edition of its BP Statistical Review of World Energy, and that document shows that once again, the global energy story of today isn't wind, solar, or "clean energy," it is coal. The numbers put the lie to the ongoing story being pushed by the Obama administration, the Sierra Cl... | 0_0 |
Apologies for the crushing disappointment I know you feel. Now, wheres my hammer? | 0_0 |
Yet, instead of converting America to the green religion, Marchionne has gone native. Auto website Jalopnik calls the Viper straight up car porn. The Snake has tempted Marchionne and he has eaten the apple whole. His conversion is the untold story of Chryslers remarkable turnaround from bankruptcy just three years ago. | 0_0 |
As the undeniability of the problems in climate science exposed in these emails is beginning to be grasped by the public, scientists in the field have begun to speak out. Today on a thread at Watts Up With That , a post from climate scientist who studied at Harvard was featured. Sean is very clear, pulls no punches, an... | 5_2 |
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