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Twelve hundred more Americans will die on the nation's highways if the Federal auto fuel economy requirements known as CAFE are raised to 40 mpg, according to a new study, CAFE's "Smashing Success': The Deadly Effects of Auto Fuel Economy Standards, Current and Proposed, released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute... | 0_0 |
As a close associate of Secretary General Kofi Anan, Strong was appointed to chair the panel that created the UN's Iraq office for its "Oil-For-Food" program. Introduced by the Clinton Administration in 1995 under a UN Security Council Resolution, the program's intended purpose was to allow Iraq to sell oil on the worl... | 0_0 |
The committee apparently made no effort to obtain, much less consider, the volumes of available news reports, analyses (including from Congress) and commentary about Mann, the hockey stick and/or Climategate. | 0_0 |
Al Gore's Strange Nobel Prize | 0_0 |
Bars show 595% uncertainty ranges for TCR. | 0_0 |
At the beginning of the climate conference in Bonn, Germany, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres called on delegates to do what was "politically possible" and make "incremental" progress. By most accounts, the Bonn talks fell short of even these modest goals. Rifts between poor countries and rich nations that were pap... | 0_0 |
Bipartisanship is busting out on other issues too. Agreement was reached on extension of the children's health insurance program, first passed as part of a bipartisan agreement between Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich. | 0_0 |
No doubt these Antarctic findings are continuing to chill concerns about catastrophic man-made global warming. | 0_0 |
So, to save your benefits, you are going to have your taxes increased. And since Social Security, like every government program, is leaky, and since it pays a negative rate of return, you are going to have to pay present value of more than a dollar of taxes to save present value of a dollar of benefits. That is a bad i... | 0_0 |
Dow Chemical's recent resignation from the powerful National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) in a dispute over liquid natural gas (LNG) exports underscores its expanding split over this issue with the broader business community. But in a less visible way, it also suggests the nation's largest chemical company is ret... | 0_0 |
Since 1991, when global temperatures rose slightly past the 1940 levels, there have been 7 years of drought. | 1_4 |
Bringing natural gas into the U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue by placing it on the agenda of the third action plan won't guarantee progress amidst all of these political distractions but it will reassert the spirit of cooperation between our two countries in time for the next U.S. president whomever he or she may be ... | 0_0 |
"Independently of the method used,we find no significant upward trend in normalized disaster loss.This holds true whether we include all disasters or take out the ones unlikely to be affected by a changing climate. It also holds true if we step away from a global analysis and look at specific regions or step away from ... | 0_0 |
More recent was the March 11, 2011 shutdown of the Fukushima reactor in Japan as the result of an earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Three of its cores melted in the first three days, but there have been no deaths or radiation sickness attributed to this event. That's the part you're not told about. | 0_0 |
Every movement has its nutters. Climate warriors have long ago stopped being civil. But we seem to be entering a new level of radicalisation. | 5_2 |
From the NOAA data, the computed monthly anomalies in exactly the same Manner In computed themwith the AMSR-E data That is, relative to the June 2002 through July 2009 period of record. The results (shown below) were so surprising, I had to go to my office this Saturday morning to make sure I didnt make a mistake in my... | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, what will likely emerge a few months into the Clinton presidency is a deep desire by Republicans to recapture the party mojo by once again prevailing in the forthcoming 2018 midterm elections by using the old scorched-earth strategies. Following the road maps of 2010 and 2014, party leaders will want to ... | 0_0 |
10. The story is ably told by Richard Pipes, "Team B: The Reality Behind the Myth," Commentary (October 1986). | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship John Berlau on why the bill is a terrible idea: | 0_0 |
This "slow boat to Kyoto" is less defensible than business-sanctioned high tax rates, since we need some system for raising revenues. | 0_0 |
Congress and states must reassert their legislative roles, restore federalism and separation of powers as the foundation of our American system, and address the extreme deference that courts too often give "agency discretion." | 0_0 |
The intensity of the radio frequency is 5,000 times less than a cellphone, 3,200 less than a cordless phone in a home and 26 times less than a wireless router in your home. | 0_0 |
you're Al Gore or a Hollywood liberal) flying in private jets. And we are told | 0_0 |
(i) If e >> 1, the dynamic time scale is much greater than the radiative time scale, and hence radiativeprocesses dominate. This regime is characteristic of Mars. Consequently, on a planet with e >> 1,the equator-to-pole temperature gradient is very large, in response the latitudinal variations of solar radiation.Also,... | 0_0 |
The real issue is what steps countries should take to control greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. At the negotiations in Kyoto, Japan, more than 150 countries have been focusing on "targets and timetables." While such discussions can provide good political theater and photo ops, they miss a fund... | 0_0 |
Well discuss and present what is called the phase locking of ENSO events to the seasonal cycle in this chapter. | 0_0 |
In the 1970s and 80s, environmental policies rose to prominence as environmentalists scored many political victories. But our successes in cleaning rivers and air pollution were unfortunately followed by an environmental populism that led to an intellectual and economic downward spiral, often driven by fears of approac... | 5_2 |
Drew Shindell, an atmospheric physicist at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies who attended Della-Martas presentation, said the European findings are especially significant because they draw on long-term surface temperature records. | 0_0 |
(3.) An El Nio- and La Nia-related component to explain the year-to-year wiggles above and beyond the anthropogenic global warming component (1.). | 0_0 |
Knappenberger and Michaels quantify the mismatch between models and observations. From Cato at Liberty, AGU 2014: Quantifying the Mismatch between Climate Projections and Observations | 5_1 |
New governors usher in era of labor union reform: | 0_0 |
The New York Energy Plan estimates that the eight wind farms, with a combined 250 wind turbines, would produce approximately 900,000 kilo-watt hours (kWh) of electricity per year. But this is a drop in the bucket compared to the state's total electricity demand. For example, this amount equals 58/100 of 1 percent of th... | 4_4 |
Can anyone possibly believe that emission reductions of 80 percent are anything other than a fantasy? | 0_0 |
a particularly juicy target. With US$6 billion worth of annual | 0_0 |
An Inconvenient Truth predictably thrilled audiences at this year's Sundance and Cannes film festivals. That has much to do with the politically receptive crowd, and also much to do with the current conception of the "documentary." Nonfiction movies have never been completely impartialeven the cuddliest nature film usu... | 0_0 |
I'm scared of big government just because it's big. The government is going to spend $2.8 trillion next year. Two-point-eight-trillion anything is scary. How about coming home to find out that your cat had 2.8 trillion warm, fuzzy kittens? | 0_0 |
One geoengineering possibility involves injecting sunlight-reflecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere, intended to mimic what large volcanic eruptions already do every once in a while. In a more science-fiction-like vein, another proposal would place numerous small "sunshades" in orbit to prevent a small amount... | 0_0 |
Two, the very large climate modeling overestimates of global warming are primarily a result of the assumed positive water-vapor feedback processes (about 2 o C extra global warming with a CO 2 doubling in most models). Models assume any upper tropospheric warming also brings about upper tropospheric water-vapor increas... | 5_1 |
Dutch engineer develops autonomous quadcopter vehicle Reuters "Online retail giant Amazon hopes to offer delivery by drone in the United States by the end of 2016. Now a Dutch software engineer is working on a quadcopter that he says will be able to deliver much more. Thorstin Crijns envisions a quadcopter that can tra... | 0_0 |
This is similar to what happened with the El Nio in 1998. Also don't be surprised to see it soon followed by a La Nia cooling. Although not well understood, there is no evidence linking these naturally occurring reversals of Pacific trade winds and deep-ocean currents to any man-made influences. | 0_0 |
To extricate themselves from the dismal probabilities of the previous paragraph, proponents of declining discount rates appeal to the possibility of correlated discount rates. In essence, the coin flips stop early in the game and we are stuck with the rate chosen on that last flip, which at the time of analysis is unkn... | 0_0 |
This archive contains some 5.000 emails picked from keyword searches. A few | 0_0 |
BAZELL: How do they know? Dr. Michael Mann and his team analyze human historical recordstree rings, glaciers, and all sorts of other evidence from as far back as the year 1400. Their conclusion: The earth has never been as warm as it is now. The reason: We burn things. And everything we burn from a match, to gasoline f... | 0_0 |
This measurement is the thickest ice recorded for a late March/early April date since detailed record keeping began in 1964.?? | 1_1 |
Budiansky, Stephen. "The Doomsday Myths," U.S. News and World Report, December 13, 1993, pp. 81-91. | 0_0 |
Europe 4 : An upwards trend of forest NEP ( Net Ecosystem Productivity ) of 1 0.5 g C/m 2 /year between 1950 and 2000 across the EU 25,?? ending with ???a mean European forest NEP of 175 52 g C/m 2 /year in the 1990s.?? And that ???61% of the change in NEP was attributed to changes in CO2, 26% to changes in climate, an... | 3_3 |
Error budgets are also bothering AJStrata , who views the so-called homogenisation adjustments as science fiction. | 5_1 |
Led by Earthjustice, the Conservation Law Center, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Geographic Society, and the Pew Charitable Trust, environmentalists are urging the White House to use the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate a 6,000-square-mile area in the Gulf of Maine and off the coast of Massachusetts as a ... | 0_0 |
NOAA s nearest tide gauge shows sea level rising in that region at 0.54 mm / year , which means that would take nearly 2000 years for sea level to rise one meter. See the plot below: | 1_6 |
The creator of the infamous "hockey stick," Michael Mann of the University of Virginia, came out swinging when the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing July 29 on whether the last century was the warmest in the past thousand years. Responding to the devastating refutation of his claim, Mann reso... | 5_2 |
Study finds increased CO2 will greatly enhance productivity of world's major crops | 3_3 |
Western provinces can expect a fifth-consecutive deep freeze to move in and stay. | 0_0 |
Wind turbine rotors can be turned to maximize wind capture. But this is the extent of what the technology can achieve by way of ???control.?? Wind production for electricity is otherwise uncontrollable, except through turning the machines offcurtailment, which is also the one way of making the technology predictable. H... | 4_4 |
However, with respect to the uncertainty of the multi-decadal global model predictions, when run in a hindcast mode, the paper | 5_1 |
Yesterday I posted the satellite-based global-average monthly sea surface temperature (SST) variations since mid-2002, Which was When The NASA Aqua satellite was Launched Carrying the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E). The AMSR-E instrument (Which I serve as the US Science Team Leader for) Provide... | 0_0 |
"Neither the absorption nor the reflection coefficient of glass for the infrared light is relevant for this explanation of the physical greenhouse effect, but only the movement of air, hindered by the panes of glass." | 0_0 |
But if you subtract all the "special characteristics" of Sandy that are related to its random path, there is almost nothing left. In fact, by the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), Sandy isn't even the largest storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season . It's not even the second one. It's not even the third one: Sandy ... | 1_7 |
At the same time, the scandal of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attempts to sell the Senate seat vacated by Obama (and the ham-handed efforts of Roland Burris to grab the prize), along with the embarrassing fandango of New York Gov. David Paterson (D) as he sought to fill Clinton's vacant Senate seat, caused a backlas... | 0_0 |
North America's northeastern coast has been battered by hurricanes and other major storms throughout history. A 1775 hurricane killed 4,000 people in Newfoundland; an 1873 monster left 600 dead in Nova Scotia; others pummeled Canada's Maritime Provinces in 1866, 1886, 1893, 1939, 1959, 1963 and 2003. | 1_7 |
Maybe the New York Times can dig up Walter Duranty to report about this 5-year plan. | 0_0 |
Ivan Osorio: "Ask any CEO where they'd rather locate and hire." Answer: Right to work states. | 0_0 |
In March 2012 President Barack Obama stated, "We can't just drill our way to lower gas prices." He said the same thing earlier that year on the campaign trail. He said it a lot. Perhaps the line polled well, but it was not true. The U.S. did drill its way to lower gas prices over the past several years (for both natura... | 0_0 |
The typical old-fashioned diet was almost as bad as being a modern vegan. | 0_0 |
9. Mexico - Agreement to Promote Technical Cooperation in Environmental and Natural Resource Areas | 0_0 |
Now, what about ecosystems? The best thing we can do to protect ecosystems is to make sure they're healthy and resilient, and there's only one way to do that, which is to build wealth around the world. Only wealthy countries can afford to leave biological resources untapped, reduce the strain on local ecosystems and he... | 0_0 |
134.Plaintiff?s lawsuit was designed to have and has had the effect of inhibiting legitimate debate on the issues and public policy surrounding the theories expounded by Plaintiff and others and of restricting the free flow of ideas concerning the merits of those theories? | 0_0 |
So have their precipitation predictions had anything to do with their recent camera shyness? Possibly. Heres Prof Tim Flannery in New Scientist in 2007 | 0_0 |
A series of international meetings on climate policy were held starting in 1990 and culminating in the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which called for significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Since then substantial differences have developed between the American and European Union approaches to Kyoto. Dr. Thorning w... | 0_0 |
The Clean Air Act requires that the Carbon Pollution Standard be based on an adequately demonstrated technology, which the courts have interpreted as being commercially demonstrated. In a recent post for Master Resource, I compared the state of CCS technology today to past pollution control technologies whose commercia... | 4_4 |
"Ken Salazar can no longer avoid issuing deep-water drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico. Though the secretary of the interior recently said he would not bow to political pressure on lifting the de facto drilling moratorium in the gulf, rumors that he would crack under that pressure were confirmed Monday evening when... | 0_0 |
Mr. President there is no real climate knob the government can use to turn the temperature down. Weve seen the simple calculation using the IPCCs own formula and assumptions lead one to believe that this entire effort is less about trying to control our planets climate and more about using scary scenarios as an excuse ... | 4_1 |
Those subpopulations have been of concern to scientists who said their numbers are declining. Inuit in those areas have disputed the scientific claims, saying they have seen more bears. | 3_2 |
39 EPA, New Source Review Questions and Answers. | 0_0 |
For a short background from my perspective, Dr Zorita, co-authored a paper in 2004 which pointed out the loss in variance created by methods used in Michael Manns hockey stick as demonstrated in the hockey stick posts linked above. The VonStorch and Zorita paper had a mistake in replicating Manns results in that they d... | 5_1 |
$300 BILLION ! Lets just pause and think about that for a moment more than global software AND biotech sectors combined that is a phenomenal statistic. If there had been no global warming scare over the past twenty years, most of these companies wouldnt even exist! | 5_2 |
#3. The oceans are not going to be boiling from CO2 emissions as predicted by NASA's top climate expert. | 5_2 |
A zero day attack is one that is done when a bug is found, but not yet known to the public and fixed by the vendor. The first day it shows up is in an attack on day zero | 0_0 |
Piltz simply dismisses the Journal's charge of Sens. Rockefeller and Snowe acting as "bullies" in admonishing ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that disagree with their climate change agenda. Why? He gives no reason -- even though these are government officials initiating communications with a private party while brand... | 0_0 |
Models often differ from theory, though. Climate models used by the IPCC are notorious for not properly simulating even the most basic of ENSO-related processes. See Bellenger et al. (2012) ENSO representation in climate models: from CMIP3 to CMIP5 . One of the known problems is that they underutilize sunlight (downwar... | 5_1 |
Congressional reaction to EPA's decision to proceed with the "appropriate care and attention this complex issue demands" rather than "rushing" to regulate CO2, was predictable. | 0_0 |
"Similarly, the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil have been cut to about 12 percent of their original size, yet a team of Brazilian zoologists that combed the forests could not confirm a single case of extinction. Instead, they rediscovered several birds and six species of butterfly considered extinct 20 years ago. An... | 0_0 |
SM: That's a good question. We ask the question throughout the book that despite the irrefutable evidence that things are getting better, why do people think things are getting worse? I think one reason is the media. The media inundates us with bad news. We say in the book that good news to the media is a contradiction... | 0_0 |
In the past 300 years there has been major changes in what appears to have been a significant shift in atmospheric circulation above the entire trans-Antarctic region between about 1700 and 1850. Concurrently there has been abrupt climate change in the North Atlantic as well as a significant change in atmospheric circu... | 0_0 |
The course of apocalyptic movements is generally similar. In order to keep the enthusiasm of its followers at a fever pitch and to attract new followers, it is necessary to keep stoking the fires with more and more outlandish claims. The hysteria peaks as doomsday is moved closer and closer to the present, and then -- ... | 0_0 |
UK Environmentalists Hope To Destroy The Entire Countryside By 2050 | 0_0 |
From the grasping at straws file, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm has been talking for a while about remaking Michigan as an alternative energy powerhouse. Henry Payne reports on her breakfast talk yesterday morning at the DNC Convention: | 0_0 |
But such recourse cannot account for the recurring white-working-class swings toward the GOP in prior years. Issues change, yet the same pattern has recurred for over 40 years. Something deeper must be at work, something that operates at the level of values rather than that of ideas. To discern what those values are, w... | 0_0 |
DCC/CC scientists have also included fundamentally flawed literature reviews such Oreskes 2004, Anderegg et al 2010, and Cook et al 2013 as robust measures of 97-98% scientific consensus for CAGW. All three of these studies has been heavily criticized in the scientific literature for flawed methodology which distorted ... | 5_1 |
Ill make one prediction: If Obama does not veto the Keystone XL Pipeline after talking the talk on climate change, green groups will go ballistic (even though, Cato Institutescholar Chip Knappenbergercalculates , full-throttle operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline wouldadd an inconsequential 0.0001C/yrto global tempera... | 0_0 |
A global perspective is developed on a number of high impact climate extremes in 2010 through diagnostic studies of the anomalies, diabatic heating, and global energy and water cycles that demonstrate relationships among variables and across events. Natural variability, especially ENSO , and global warming from human i... | 0_0 |
So using the 20th c for tuning is just doing what some people have long | 0_0 |
CNN is reporting on TV that many firefighters say fires burn hotter than they used to. | 0_0 |
Hoyer joins Obama in calling past vote on debt ceiling "a mistake': | 0_0 |
1. The rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998-2012; 0.05 deg. C/decade) is smaller than the trend since 1951 (1951-2012; 0.12 deg. C/decade) (SPM-3). | 1_4 |
Bipartisanship is not necessarily a good thing. Strong partisans often dislike the results, and some bipartisan compromises are bad policy. But like it or not, bipartisanship is suddenly busting out all over. | 0_0 |
Can Coastal Marine Fish Evolve to Tolerate Ocean Acidification? | 0_0 |
Stephen McIntyre, who debunked the Hockey Stick temperature reconstruction by Climategate-implicated Michael Mann, disputed the Committees judgment with respect to the infamous trick to hide the decline. | 5_2 |
But its only if we include a strong warming effect from Mans CO2 emissions that we can reproduce the observed warming of the past 60 years. We cannot think of any other reason for the warming. That argument from the UNs climate panel, the IPCC, is the argumentum ad ignorantiam, the fallacy of arguing from ignorance. We... | 5_1 |
This is a continuation of the theme of my last 2 blog posts, dealing with the fact that a greater number of strong to violent tornadoes occur in unusually COOL years, not warm years. | 0_0 |
The Obama Environmental Protection Agency and environmental activists frequently claim that climate change will disproportionately affect poor and minority communities. In their view, this justifies unprecedented environmental regulations, like EPA's pending "Clean Power Plan" (CPP) to reduce carbon dioxide and other g... | 0_0 |
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