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"The first sentence in Marion Clawson's Forests for Whom and for What? begins, `Forests serve the American people in many ways and have the potential to serve more people in better and more generous ways.' This same insight can be expanded to include all of humanity and all the world's forests." (True State of the Plan... | 0_0 |
Cook the books has a favorite small-boy yah-boo tactic. He condemns anyone who raises any question about global warming, however sensible, as perpetrating or perpetuating what he calls climate myths. | 0_0 |
Data supporting the link between consumption of red meat and cancer are, as Kelly and Stier point out, "flimsy at best," with the IRAC admitting that "there is limited evidence for the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat" and "no clear association was seen in the high-quality studies." Nevertheless, IRAC mad... | 0_0 |
provides clear evidence FDRs New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression and that World War II did nothing to create prosperity...Higgs also demonstrates how little-known changes in weapons procurement policy in 194041 transformed the role of defense contractors in the political economy, why the U.S. civilian econ... | 0_0 |
For the past decade, scientists have come to the defense of Michael Mann, somehow thinking that defending Michael Mann is fighting against the ?war on science? and is standing up for academic freedom. Its time to let Michael Mann sink or swim on his own. Michael Mann is having all these problems because he chooses to t... | 0_0 |
Now, what I do not fully understand is why the IPCC claims that the ocean heat content increases indeed ARE consistent with the climate models, despite the relatively high sensitivity of all of the IPCC models. While some might claim that it is because warming is actually occurring much deeper in the ocean than 700 m, ... | 0_0 |
NW Wash Costco Milk: $2.50/gallon - - SW BC Costco Milk: $4.45/gallon --> 78% more expensive There is more at issue than just the volume of Canadians heading to the city. The notion of striving to act like a good ambassador while in another country seems to have been discarded in favour of rushing for good deals (think... | 0_0 |
A Serious Problem With The Use Of The Global Averaged Surface Temperature Trend To Diagnose Global Warming and Cooling | 0_0 |
The first thing they will do, and the one thing I think they were always going to succeed in doing at this conference is to agree to establish what will be delicately called the institutional framework. Now that is a code word for world government. | 0_0 |
Plentiful gas from the Marcellus shale formation has persuaded Shell to plan a $2-biillion ethane "cracking" plant near Pittsburgh creating 10,000 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent jobs. Steel plants, electric utilities and countless other industries will also benefit from shale gas. | 4_5 |
AndrewMontford,author of The Hockey Stick Illusion (2010), blogs at Bishop Hill . | 0_0 |
Clean Energy Incentive Program: Why It Makes EPA's Power Plant Rule Even More Unlawful | 0_0 |
A year and a half ago, the Climate-gate scandals showed that "scientists" ? actually, government-funded global warming activists ? were skewing climate data and trying to silence climate change skeptics. | 5_2 |
""They warned us at first that we had to move the vegetables from the front, that no vegetables were allowed in the front yard. We didn't move them because we didn't think we were doing anything wrong, even according to city code we didn't think we were doing anything wrong. So they ticketed us and charged me with a mi... | 0_0 |
So, the EU Climate Minister saying it doesn't matter whether the global warming science is wrong. She seems to think that higher costing energy will help raise people out of poverty. How How does that make sense? | 0_0 |
Following up on Anthonys comments, I have been digging a little, using Tims links. The Littlebrook power station just to the west of the QE Bridge does discharge warm water from its condenser into the Thames. The intake and outflow are the two circles in the Thames, visible in the Bing ariel view if you scroll left. Th... | 0_0 |
Twenty years later came a new development. The demagogic UNESCO projects about a New World Information and Communication Order did not disappear when the US and the UK left the organization in protest and UNESCO, as a result, lost one fourth of its budget. The NWICO project was simply quietly transferred from Paris to ... | 0_0 |
The clouds and precipitation is cooling western Washington, but temperatures are surging over the Columbia Basin--some folks are already over 100F. Expect many temps above 105F, some reaching 110F | 0_0 |
Full-throated presidential support for nuclear would not only help with the funding and regulatory issues, but also public acceptance. Venture capitalist Sam Altman has said that he believes that just as "the 20th century was clearly the carbon century the 22nd century is going to be the atomic power century. It's just... | 0_0 |
Figure 11 presents the 2014-to-date and 1982 Hovmollers for wind stress (not anomalies) along the equator. The simplest way to explain them is that theyre presenting the impacts of the strengths and directions of the trade winds on the surfaces of the equatorial oceans. In this presentation, the effects of the east to ... | 0_0 |
Quoting one journalist, a George Mason University analysis found that U.S. media outlets pretty much agree that climate change is real, its happening, and were responsible. That debate is over. As a result, critics are no longer being interviewed, the study said. In the view of mainstream media outlets, seeking or pres... | 5_2 |
> >> of interest here at CRU, although IRI in the States would also be well | 0_0 |
Figure 1.) Photo of the Western Pacific Ocean Kavachi sub-marine Volcano eruption plume as it breaks through to the surface (January 2014). | 0_0 |
Also in April, the Environmental Protection Agency held a conference to address a problem many had thought confined to the past: bedbugs. "Don't let the bedbugs bite," is a cute saying with a troublesome past. In the past, tiny, flesh-eating bugs would often live inside wooden bed frames and feed on unsuspecting people... | 0_0 |
???We need more. We need more of everything ??? wind power , renewables, hydro. But we will certainly need more coal,?? said Milton Catelin, CEO of the World Coal Association. He argued that with 1.5 billion people still living without access to electricity, coal needs to grow. | 4_5 |
The main forms of human disturbance are the river-control structures such as dams and levees, the dredging of canals, and draining and filling. | 0_0 |
On rainfall, there is almost always one model that is right because there are so many models and they all say different things. | 5_1 |
The whacky world of climate alarmism is falling apart . The leading acolytes of the movement will continue to wail that its all the fault of those evil energy interests that supposedly make fellows like me question the theology of AGW theory, but in reality they have no one to blame for their increasing irrelevance but... | 5_2 |
The first part of Dr. Christy's testimony concludes: | 0_0 |
Instead of complaining politely about the plan on the basis industry might lose some water, what about rural leaders pointing out the obvious: that the plan will deliver no environmental benefit until something is done about the 7.6 kilometres of concrete barrage that sits across the bottom of the Lower Lakes? | 0_0 |
Climate change and renewable energy movements falter | 0_0 |
EPA currently employs some 20,000 people at an annual budget of over $8 billion. The new hires alone would cost taxpayers another $24 billion annually plus hundreds of billions of dollars in economic pain, manufacturing shutdowns, and new job losses that EPA's CO2 regulations would inflict. | 4_1 |
Genentech is another biotech giant funding the inaugural. One aspect of Genentech's pro-Obamacare lobbying in 2009 came to light in a New York Times article revealing that many members of Congress supporting Obamacare provisions read from a script prepared by Genentech's lobbyists. | 0_0 |
www.nvi.com .au/.../corporal-smith-remembered-as-a-great-leader/?cs... | 0_0 |
Phil, thanks for your thoughts ? guarantee there will be no dirty laundry in | 0_0 |
Carbon dioxide emissions from non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countriessuch as China and Indiaare projected to grow by 9 billion tons per year. The Partnership for a Better Energy Future reports: "for every ton of CO2 reduced in 2030 as a result of EPA's rule, the rest of the world will have ... | 4_2 |
"Bracing for an election cycle that will be marked by heavy outside spending, massive voter registration drives, and 16 months of presidential politicking, the American labor movement confronts a daunting slate of demographic changes and other trends that could make 2012 a rocky year for unions." | 0_0 |
But Climategate was only the tip of the iceberg. An AR4 warning that unchecked climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was found to be lifted from an erroneous World Wildlife Federation (WWF) report and misrepresented as peer-reviewed science. IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri attempted to parry t... | 5_2 |
The amount of electricity produced from green energy sources in Scotland fell by almost half for a period earlier this year because it was not wet or windy enough. The figures prompted opposition concerns that Scotland could be left in the dark if the wind isnt blowing. Scot MacNab, The Scotsman, 28 September 2012 ( ht... | 0_0 |
At the 4.47 mark Ottmar Edenhofer, deputy director of the PIK, forgets about what his boss had said was very easy to calculate , and shifts the blame for the Himalayan blunder on the IPCC overall peer-review process: | 0_0 |
If youre so interested in creating more jobs, why not approve the Keystone pipeline, which will create tens of thousands of jobs? Wallace asked of the pipeline under review. | 0_0 |
used the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, which he headed since its | 0_0 |
"The long-term change for the Arctic sea ice has been very consistent. It shows a decline over these (past) three decades especially in the summer. In the past 3-4 years Arctic sea ice has been below the average for the last 30 years." That's great but the Arctic is not the globe. It's one percent of it or so. There ar... | 1_1 |
Over the past two weeks or so, several hundred protesters assembled outside the White House to oppose the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which is designed to transport bitumen produced from oil sands in Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast. During the protest, actor Daryl Hannah, climate scientist James Hansen, and ... | 0_0 |
The United States should be taking steps to ensure a sufficient supply of electricity to cope with the lower temperatures, but has been wasting billions to support renewable energy, wind and solar, that is costly and ineffective. The U.S. Energy Department projects that solar power will make up 0.6 percent of total U.S... | 4_4 |
he is presented as a co-author of the Berkeley Earth temperature record (BEST). He criticizes the climate skeptics who want to interpret every adjustment as something criminal. | 0_0 |
Frozen $46m runway melting shouts the news on dozens of Fairfax sites from newspapers in towns large and small across our wide brown land. | 0_0 |
1. The science that predicts the extent of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is not settled science. (Jan 2013) | 5_1 |
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) cites the White House's plans to apply the Clean Air Act to global warming as an excuse for Congress to pass "cap and trade" legislation. | 0_0 |
"As the expedition descended the Coca watershed towards the Napo river, their provisions and their Andean Indian bearers gave out Disheartened and starving, Pizarro ordered the construction of a raft, sending his second-in-command Orellana ahead to find food. Orellana and his fifty companions never returned. Instead th... | 0_0 |
Obama should take a lesson from his political hero, the last truly great Democratic president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. If World War II had not come, FDR might have ended up an average president. His New Deal, we now know, did not end the Great Depression, though it did wreck his own political party. But FDR joined the p... | 0_0 |
S. Raghavan is also an author with A.K. Sen Sarma of the Chapter entitled Tropical cyclone impacts in India and neighborhood in Pielke, R.A., Jr. and R.A. Pielke, Sr., Editors, 2000: Storms, Volumes I and II, Routledge Press, London. His work is obviously of significance in the context of the impacts of Hurricane Katri... | 0_0 |
Scientists, Czymzik et al., analyzing 450 years of data from Germany, found the IPCC's increased flooding prediction to be the total opposite of reality. Instead, it was determined that colder climates have a greater frequency of floods. | 1_7 |
Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values determined from ice cores spanning many thousands of years. | 0_0 |
Frigid Spring Freezes Global Warming Claims | 0_0 |
The issue of separating natural from anthropogenically forced variability, particularly in context of the attribution of 20th century climate change, has been a topic of several previous threads at Climate Etc. The issue of natural vs anthropogenically forced climate variability/change has been a key issue of contentio... | 0_0 |
Paradoxically enough, the first Persian astronaut has paid her trip herself. Anousheh Ansari has also become the first Muslim woman in space and the first female space tourist in the world. Congratulations. | 0_0 |
"The most pessimistic model projects five to seven times as many heat-related deaths in Los Angeles, with six to eight times as many heat waves. Snow pack and high altitude forests would shrink up to 90%. The scientists' temperature projections are higher than previous estimates, particularly in summer. Their predictio... | 0_0 |
While certainly the burning of coal for power generation produces some costs that lie outside the market forces acting to establish the price of electricity, the magnitude of those externalities is anybodys guess. Epstein et al. have extended their wild guess. Last year, the National Research Council extended theirsit ... | 0_0 |
Of course there is a spectrum of views on climate as she points out which range from outright disbelief that temperatures are rising at all to acceptance of a measurable human signal in the global temperature record. However, she portrays this range of views in a very simplistic manner in an attempt to ridicule those w... | 0_0 |
Mr. Bloomberg's Arverne by the Sea initiative transformed what he called "a swath of vacant land" into a "vibrant and growing oceanfront community," with "affordable" homes starting at $559,000. (The land was vacant because a 1950 storm wiped it clean of structures.) The new homes were built on 167 acres of land raised... | 0_0 |
A careful analysis of global temperature graphs from each of the measurement agencies confirm that ??? despite variations between them ??? there has not been any notable warming since 2000. Depending on which graphs you use, global temperatures since 2000 have been more or less flat. Some, such as the GISS data, show a... | 1_4 |
The researchers hypothesize that long-term warming may change the community of soil microorganisms so that it becomes more efficient. Organism adaptation, change in the species that comprise the soils, and/or changes in the availability of various nutrients could result in this increased efficiency. | 3_2 |
If government spending were a poker game, we'd be entering uncharted high-stakes territory around now. President Obama has seen President Bush's $3 trillion budget, and raised him another trillion. We need a breather to take it all in: TARP, a $787-billion stimulus bill, and a projected $1.845 trillion budget deficit. ... | 0_0 |
By ignoring these realities, Obamas policy prescription is found to be erroneous. The taxation or regulation of CO 2 emissions is an unnecessary and detrimental policy option that should be shunned. Why would any government advocate to increase regulations and raise energy prices based on flawed computer model projecti... | 4_1 |
One of the first things I noticed is the beautiful countryside. But something that really jumped out at me were the help-wanted signs. Help-wanted signs everywhere. | 0_0 |
Are we prepared for the new green future where jobless Australians survive from backyard vegie gardens, poaching kangaroos and wild pigs from carbon credit forests and cooking with biomass on a wood stove? Of course we will enjoy pirate movies downloaded at the speed of light using the NBN (as long as the sun is shinin... | 0_0 |
Please pass this along to anyone you know who has had enough of the arrogance and ineptitude of a government that is supposed to serve the people. | 0_0 |
As the science of decadal prediction is in its infancy, one would like to assess and understand the following: | 0_0 |
In the spirit of the season, I thought Id try to find out whos been naughty, whos been nice, and whos been torrenting at work. | 0_0 |
concentrations will result in broad-scale decreases in the concentrations of all elements essential for plant function and animal nutrition," as proposed by Loladze (2002). They also say their generally opposite results for non-essential trace elements (some of which can be toxic) "may be applicable to contaminated sys... | 3_3 |
Full Expensing of Capital Will Reduce Carbon Intensity | 0_0 |
Many people participating in the World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour are honestly motivated by their personal desire to live in a clean and beautiful environmentwhich is understandable. However, they are unknowingly lending their support to a movement that wants to clamp down on human progress. The implicit idea behind Ea... | 0_0 |
2. Melting of the icecaps yet the icecaps in Antarctica and Greenland are actually increasing. Sea ice does not affect global sea level as it floats (Archimedes Principle). But the fact that Antarctic sea ice reached the greatest extent ever recorded in June 2014 suggests that this part of the world at least is getting... | 1_1 |
During the height of immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, our ancestors had no hesitancy in tossing millions of new arrivals straight into the melting pot, and no one was embarrassed by Americanization. Because the melting pot directly forms the shared values of citizens who see themselves as "We the ... | 0_0 |
"Denmark has announced that by the end of this decade, it will produce a third of its energy from renewable sources - wind power, in particular, but also solar power and the burning of 'biomass.' More ambitiously, the Danish Government has set a goal of running the entire country on renewables by 2050." | 0_0 |
The problem with Australias $23 carbon tax isnt just that it is internationally high, it is also applied broadly. | 0_0 |
The temperatures from each source individually. This results in 5 trends. Because the lack of precision due to each instrument, these will have the largest uncertainty intervals. Making conclusions based on these maximize error . That is: we increase our risk of failing to reject the IPCC projections when they are wron... | 0_0 |
Charles Anderson PhD, a materials physicist, has a new post today which calculates the cooling effect of CO2 and other "greenhouse" gases to be 100 times greater than the heating effect. | 2_3 |
There was a lot more choice. If the process was "harder" in any way before, it was because there were far more choices. It was harder in the same way that it is generally harder to shop in the US than, say, in the old Soviet Union. Obamacare circumscribes policies such that a large package of benefits are mandated, not... | 0_0 |
But many Inuit communities said the researchers were wrong. They said the bear population was increasing and they cited reports from hunters who kept seeing more bears. Mr. Gissing said that encouraged the government to conduct the recent study, which involved 8,000 kilometres of aerial surveying last August along the ... | 3_2 |
As a result of their experimental manipulations and measurements, the two researchers found that adult corals, as they describe the situation, "are capable of acquiring increased thermal tolerance and that the increased tolerance is a direct result of a change in the symbiont type dominating their tissues from Symbiodi... | 3_2 |
Go to data then to paleoclimate. Did this to stop getting hassled by the skeptics for the | 0_0 |
Obama proposes that Washington cover large medical bills, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the most expensive care. He offers a plan that wouldn t fundamentally alter the underlying economics of the health-care system. Costs are likely to keep rising under this proposal, albeit with a heavier taxing of the treasury, p... | 0_0 |
Will UK get towers of power ... or a load of hot air? | 0_0 |
Zhou et al . conclude that "vegetation variability on the Tibetan Plateau might be mostly driven by thermal impacts (i.e., surface air temperature), whereas precipitation impact is less clear." Overall, they say "vegetation activity demonstrates a gradual enhancement in an oscillatory manner during 1982-2002," suggesti... | 3_2 |
Other fraud is evident through public exposure of e-mail files retrieved from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at Britain's University of East Anglia. Scandalous exchanges among prominent researchers who have fomented global warming hysteria confirm long-standing and broadly suspected manipulations of climate data. The ... | 5_2 |
Finally, satellite measurements show a statistically significant cooling since 1979. These measurements perfectly match weather balloon data. Computer models predict a 0.35 degree Celsius warming over the same period. | 0_0 |
The book argues that far from cutting down on Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions, this gas, which every human being and member of the animal kingdom exhales night and day, could (and should) naturally increase from the current supposedly dangerous 350 parts per million (ppm) to 1,000 ppm in order to make Earth a truly gree... | 3_3 |
And of course Australia is not the United States. Abbott was helped by ferocious splits in the governing Labor party. Nothing similar is happening, yet, with America's Democrats. | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | The Grenfell Record | 0_0 |
After all, he wrote, ``It is essential to measure what we say in terms of its effect on the goal. Experienced international lawyers know where many of the sensitive nerve endings of governments are. Where possible, they should try to avoid irritating them.'' | 0_0 |
The real story is that so many Chamber and NAM members are standing firm, and that most observers do not expect the Senate to pass a cap-and-trade bill this year. | 0_0 |
President Should Declare Global Warming Victory and Go Home | 0_0 |
The result of a fear-driven gamble with the Continent?s industrial future is a costly shambles that threatens to undercut Europe?s economic and political position in a world that is sensibly refusing to follow its lead. | 0_0 |
"Richmond's short-lived role as a mecca for allegedly illegal Internet gambling cafes may be a thing of the past." | 0_0 |
Instead of addressing these concerns, Hansen responded with insults. | 0_0 |
A suggestion to Dr. James Hansen: go protest coal in China: | 0_0 |
Since the algae and lichens that are major components of BSCs are typically stimulated and grow ever better as the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration is experimentally increased (see Deserts (Algae and Lichens) in our Subject Index), it logically follows that as the air's CO 2 content continues to rise, so too will the pr... | 3_3 |
21 IPCC 1995, p. 40 and Chapter 6. | 0_0 |
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