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Corporate Welfare on a Vast Scale: Obama's Cap-and-Trade Scam Threatens Economy
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the mostly hidden costs of federal regulation:
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Whether Spencer is right or wrong, the claim CO2 is not the only cause of the warming is different than, humans are not to blame for the increase . Mann??s portrayal is a clear exaggeration of what his source actually says.
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But a bigger gaffe is Hansens claim that Earth absorbs only 240Wm^2, averaged over the surface of the planet. In this number fudge Hansen applied a bogus averaging technique to illuminate a flat Earth by a constant frigid twilight. As such he deliberately omits to account for the fact Earth is a rotating sphere subject...
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Note that no one is suggesting that Lunar cycles are the dominant drivers of climate, just that they change conditions on Earth in ways that may favor certain kinds of climate patterns, and may explain the magnitude of some of the extremes. The message is that climate models will not be complete without factoring in th...
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The brief, which lists Kagan as "counsel of record," argued that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia "lacked jurisdiction because petitioners failed to exhaust the exclusive statutory review procedures" at the agency. Directly attacking the reasoning of Judge James Robertson, appointed to the D.C. Dist...
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Since 1 January 2001, the dawn of the new millennium, the warming trend on the mean of 5 datasets is nil. No warming for 13 years 5 months.
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Members of the IPCC met in Kuala Lumpur last week to discuss the consideration of the Greenland and Antarctic data for the IPCCs next report its fifth. Analysis of the extent of reduction in mass of the two major ice sheets will be the reports main focus.
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The four researchers first note that " A. laticollaris is an appropriate species to predict the response of shallow-water thecate Foraminifera to predicted increases in atmospheric CO 2 , given its isolation from a shallow-water semi-tropical setting." Hence, they go on to say their results indicate that "at least some...
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Pictures: National Snow & amp; Ice Data Center
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But for Murray, the main message was not the internal and external factors which have produced conflict across the Middle East and North Africa and the deaths of refugees It was climate change.
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Floods are notoriously difficult to predict, particularly flash floods. Coarse resolution global climate models do a dreary job of simulating the local distribution of rainfall events. Apart from the actual physics of precipitation and the complex interactions between the cloud microphysics and small scale turbulent an...
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However, the conclusion must be that drawn that warming was more widespread in the Arctic not just the Atlantic side than is currently noted in the official sea ice data bases covering 1920-1945/50 and that the official records appear to very substantially overstate the ice area extent during this period.
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In the simplest of terms, Robredo et al . conclude that "elevated CO 2 mitigates many of the effects of drought on nitrogen metabolism and allows more rapid recovery following water stress."
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In the blog article , CRU made another untrue assertion about Climate Audit with reckless indifference:
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Around the world, meanwhile, record low temperatures continue to make a mockery of global warming theories. While anecdotal, to be sure, Cairo, Egypt, just saw its first snowfall in more than 100 years . In the United States there have been thousands of new records for cold temperatures and snowfalls just in the month ...
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> >> >From: Mike Hulme
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The study notes that this ridge which has resulted in decreased rain and snowfall since 2011 is almost opposite to what computer models predict would result from human-caused climate change.
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Feel-good actions won't make a dent. For example, it is fashionable to favor locally grown produce in part to reduce the carbon from transport. But transport from producer to retailer is a trivial partless than 5%of energy used in the life cycle of produce. Almost all of the emitted carbon is associated with production...
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Polar bear populations are at near record levels and seem healthy, and even I have seen them playing around on floating ice chunks in the Arctic summer. They are a terrestrial animal, after all, as anyone can see who visits the Churchill area in the summer and takes a polar bear cruise on one of their giant bear-proof ...
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No Master Lock on Job CreationRyan Young's quote in The Washington Times
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The first principle to keep in mind is context. While it is true that global temperatures have risen somewhat during the past 100-plus years since the Little Ice Age ended, there was little room for temperatures to go at the time but up. The Little Ice Age, lasting from approximately A.D. 1300 to 1900, brought the plan...
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A similar heavy precipitation event happened in the same area in late September of this year, but it was about 15 degrees warmer, which resulted in heavy rainfall but no blizzard, said Dennis Todey, a climatologist at SDSU.
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Massarenti writes not necessarily eugenics the monstrous forms adopted by the Nazis
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Interpreting the PSD provisions to encompass GHGs makes no logical sense, Kavanaugh argues:
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While most aktrer, tminstone in theory, stdjer the Mertonska standards governing scientific research communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, originality and skepticism knner many pressured to stdja extreme prospects when it comes to climate science. As a result there is a tendency in this area for the stta politi...
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Some scientists propose, therefore, to use modern technology to create a carefully engineered analogue to this effect. Proposals to seriously study geoengineering are gaining adherents among climate policy experts. In late 2006, NASA and the Carnegie Institution jointly sponsored a high-level expert workshop on the sub...
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CEI general counsel Sam Kazman said he would fight to quash the subpoena on First Amendment grounds. The subpoena was issued by Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker, a leader of the prosecutors' climate change campaign.
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The IPCC states that anthropogenic influences on the climate dominated natural ones sometime between 1960 80.The recent episode of global warming that occurred after that transition began in 1980. The world has warmed by about 0.4 deg C in this time. This analysis indicates that all of this warming occurred between 198...
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Read here . Climate modeler scientists needing to make their "global warming" case - adjust temperatures until desired result is met.
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CLICK HERE to buy the book on Amazon. (ISBN: 1595550674)
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Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century but the report??s author now says true estimate is still unknown
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In fact, there has been a cooling, and a rather fast one that would subtract 2.7 ??C per century if it continued by the same rate (and it surely won't).
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The recent bout of wintry weather and the overall political climate have almost certainly killed climate-change legislation this year.
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MV Akademik Shokalskiy ( Russian : ) is an Akademik Shuleykin -class ice-strengthened ship, built in Finland in 1982 and originally used for oceanographic research. In 1998 it was fully refurbished to serve as a research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work. It was named after the Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky . T...
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Carlo Stagnaro is Research Director of the Italian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni www.brunoleoni.it
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on Monday, December 6th, 2010 at 7:43 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
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Lets examine some of the legal elements of this case. Fragoules is Kathleen Fragoules, who was employed by Daiichi Sankyo as a sales representative from approximately March, 1997 until January, 2010. The case was filed in March, 2010, and is a qui tam action.
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Al Gore Sells Out to Big Oil & Gas: ???Al-Jazeera received its initial funding through a decree from Emir of Qatar, & Qatar, gets its wealth from its vast oil & natural gas reserves??
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New emissions policy will force biggest UK firms to reveal CO2 figures
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By Staff Writers, CO2 Science , Aug 11, 2015
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Its not in the air. Atmospheric temperature readings show global temperatures have been flat for more than a decade .
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In this documentary, Al Gore fudged the Vostok Ice core temperature and CO 2 line graphs so it would show a CO 2 spike coming first but alas the real graph showed just the opposite. See data, in a shorter time frame (240,000 Years Before Present rather than 420,000 years) to make it easier to see which came first, Figu...
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Doesn't it also mean there really are safe levels and PM2.5 particles are not really toxic or lethal? Doesn't it mean EPA's draconian standards should be significantly modified, and companies and communities should be compensated for their costs in complying with excessive, unjustified particulate regulations?
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The Asia-Pacific treaty occupies that field until something more attractive comes along for the 155 nations that have rejected Kyoto's cuts. Finally, it is Kyoto's death knell to all but the most intransigent because it accomplishes what Kyoto failed to do: It brings together the top emitters, prominently including the...
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"Once a year I will do one of these shocking actions to raise awareness about climate change."
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Like Obama, Hickenlooper using heavy-handed tactics on climate policy
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An Effective Global Deal on GHG Control Is Unlikely
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Markowsky, an executive vice president for American Electric Power until 2000, certainly understands that the quickest and most economic way to reduce carbon emissions from the 1,445 existing coal-fired power plants in the U.S. is to increase the efficiency and net power produced of a facility. Remember, CCS will requi...
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Fact two: natural processes are responsible for most if not all if the warming over the past 30 years, a warming that you continue to cite as proof of the effects of greenhouse gases.
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Hansen writes as if we all live in Lake Woebegone where every child is above average and every household can beamong the 60% that receives more in dividends than they pay in higher energy costs. But, as noted in my earlier post on Hansens testimony,fee-and-green-check confers windfall profits on some and inflicts windf...
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This section of the agenda fits neatly into other UN-sponsored activities that are afoot. In October, a few weeks after the release of 2030 Agenda, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) part of the World Health Organization (WHO), an arm of the UN released a report concluding that red meat, like beef a...
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Similar difficulties surround other elements of the Administration s scenario. Under Article 6 (joint implementation), U.S. firms may earn emissions credits by helping companies in other industrial countries reduce their emissions or enhance greenhouse gas-absorbing "sinks." But here again, only projects "supplemental"...
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By the way, Mr Boslough fails to have a unified ideology with his fellow LFCSes such as James Hansen, Michael Mann, Al Gore, and many others as well. That's because those other LFCSes actually claim that the "deniers" do have a unified motivation: they're hired by the Big Oil to lie about the climate in order for Phili...
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In the Senate, the subsequent anthrax scare showed its vulnerabilitybut there, at least, some devastating attack would have resulted in a more supple response, with most states enabling governors to pick temporary replacements to replenish the body and get it up and running quickly. The 2004 move by Massachusetts, the ...
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Republicans at the top of the ticket were missing in action; Republican voters returned the favor. Nationally, in the 2008 election, GOP turnout fell by more than 4 percent while Democratic turnout rose by over 9 percent, according to American University's Center for the Study of the American Electoratenot enough to ch...
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Scientists On Trial? Retired Lawyer?s Blogsite To Examine Earlier ?Predictions? Made By Climate ?Experts?
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This is a satellite measurement of ground temperature, free of all the errors which make ground stations unreliable.
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Temperatures taken by satellites are very precise; those taken from ground stations are less so.
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8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, "Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably...
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Bonus Podcast: In The Tank (ep45): Texas Public Policy Foundation, Article V, Privatization, and the Fourth of July
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In a study of cyclic behavior of the Sun, Russian scientists now predict 100 years of cooling.
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New paper at SPPI: Flood Activity in Asia
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See also another related Tuesday article, What a light Higgs would mean for the future of particle physics .
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France also escapes. All along, that country has relied on nuclear power, which is clean and does not emit greenhouse gases. The United States could follow suit and replace old power plants with nuclear ones. But needless to say, our home-grown enviros rule that roost, too. Nuclear power has been thoroughly demon-ized ...
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The Financial Post is now on Facebook. Join our fan community today.
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As the fight over the PTC points out, wind energy cannot survive without the tax credits.
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United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in 1988 predicted sea levels would rise two metres by the year 2100 (112 years-time). This is 17.9mm per year. Error to date is 1,050%
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2) Between 1980 and 2012, Arctic temperature anomalies have increased from 0.22C to 0.79C, an increase of 1.01C. During the same period, however, Antarctic anomalies have fallen by 0.87C.
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In concluding, the Norwegian, Swedish and UK researchers say that "based on such evidence we urge some caution in assuming broad-scale extinctions of species will occur due solely to climate changes of the magnitude and rate predicted for the next century," reiterating that "the fossil record indicates remarkable bioti...
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All actual data indicate that if there is an underlying trend beneath the noise of the weather data, it is currently less (and probably much less) than 1 C per century, i.e. certainly much less than 0.5 C in a "few decades".
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Because of this "doublespeak," say the experts, "The dangers of global warming are not getting through to the public." I have a better explanation. Blaming SUVs for hurricane Katrina sets off the public's B.S. detector, as do implausible scenarios of sea levels rising 20 feet and the climate "tipping" into an Ice Age i...
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It's the same kind of President that believesor says he doesthe pronouncements of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC's "Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report" claims that world will face "severe, pervasive, and irreversible damage" if coal-fired and other carbon-basedcoal, oil, and natural gase...
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Meanwhile, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has acknowledged that due to a satellite sensor malfunction, it had been underestimating the extent of Arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles ??? an area the size of Spain. In a new study, University of Wisconsin researchers Kyle Swanson and Anastasios Tsonis conclude th...
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The critical issue is not climate sensitivity (to a doubling of atmospheric CO 2 levels) or how much global warming is due to CO 2 , because none of it is.
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Using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Science and Public Policy Institute paper published last month found that if the United States eliminated all carbon dioxide emissions, the overall impact on global temperature rise would be only 0.08 degrees Celsius by 2050.
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Air Pollution has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. Virtually the entire nation has achieved clean air standards for four of the six "criteria" pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act (carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and lead). In addition, air quality in the 10 largest metropolitan areas...
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Joel also pokes fun at Lashof's excuse that NRDC had to use 1996 emissions because who the heck knows what emissions will be 50 years from now. This is emphatically not what NRDC says about the CO2 emissions that allegedly control our climate destiny. Can you even imagine NRDC saying that climate models must use 1996 C...
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Workers compensation systems vary from state to state. State statutes and court decisions control many aspects, including the handling of claims, the evaluation of impairment and settlement of disputes, the amount of benefits injured workers receive and the strategies used to control costs.
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Our hysterical anti-science friends claim that Arctic warming and melting caused the decline in multi-year Arctic ice, which was occurring prior to 2008.
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Ethanol can be made in a variety of ways, but the usual way is still the most common: yeast is fed sugar molecules isolated from fruits or vegetables, and it produces ethanol as a byproduct. The ethanol is then distilled from a dilute solution by controlled heating in order to drive off ethanol vapor. In the United Sta...
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Much of CRUs prominence exists because of IPCC activities by its employees. Much of the Climategate dossier, including some of the most controversial emails, arise out of IPCC activities by CRU employees. These include the emails arising from the September 1999 IPCC Lead Authors meeting in Arusha, Tanzania (up to and i...
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Democrats have been most successful when their national leaders pursued policies appealing to different parts of the party's diverse coalitions. But President Obama's coalition and policies are almost entirely of the political left. That's left his party with few, if any, candidates (except perhaps Clinton?) who can du...
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There are good reasons people buy mini cars. Theyre more affordable, and they use less gas. But the safety trade-offs are clear from our new tests, said Adrian Lund, the institutes president.
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European leaders, like the big re-insurance companies, have been quick to link the catastrophic flooding this month in central Europe to global warming. And some have then used that to blame the United States. According to an August 15 Reuters story, German Environment Minister "Juergen Trittin, a Green, said higher gl...
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The environmentalists succeeded in discovering a new ?noble cause.? They try to limit human freedom in the name of ?something? that is more important and more noble than our very down-to-earth lives. For someone who spent most of his life in the ?noble? era of communism this is impossible to accept.
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Apologies to Mark Perry for quoting his whole post, but if you are not reading Mark Perry, you should be. The second example comes from Overlawyered :
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Other modern temperature charts. Historical and fabrication-temperature charts.
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Morano noted that other GOP candidates and officials have modified their stance on climate change and energy regulation in recent years particularly former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who at the first presidential debate last week recanted an old environmental ad he cut.
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"The Justice Department is putting together subpoenas as part of its probe into allegations of criminal misconduct by News Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night. The subpoenas are a sign that the phone hacking crisis surrounding the company is becoming a more serious problem in the U.S."
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Sooo, the real risk derives from the ruling class, idiot-elites who authored the recent global financial meltdown, are in the process of destroying the states of California, Illinois and New York, and are driving the U.S. economic machine into a banana republic destitute condition of galactic-sized debt. The good news ...
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Florida's $2 Billion for High Speed Rail Goes Elsewhere:
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Limbaugh describes this process as the aristocracy circling the wagons:
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More than two centuries of scientific research have failed to make the duration or magnitude of monsoons predictable. Monsoons depend on sea and surface temperatures and wind conditions in the Indian and Western Pacific oceans, the timing of El Ninos in the equatorial Pacific, variations in Eurasian and Himalayan winte...
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Keith Briffa who has succeeded in persuading the conspirators that in order to achieve the desired result of pretending that today's temperatures are exceptionally wrong that they should rely upon the measurement of tree rings from a single tree in rural Russia.
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The gulf between the hard realities of the global energy market and the Obama administration's energy policies grows wider by the day.
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" homogenation practices used until today are mainly statistical, not well justified by experiments, and are rarely supported by metadata. It can be argued that they often lead to false results: natural features of hydroclimatic times series are regarded as errors and are adjusted."
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Once there was modern science, which was hard work; now we have postmodern science, where the quest for real, absolute truth is outdated, and ?science? is a wax nose that can be twisted in any direction to underpin the latest lying narrative in the pursuit of power.
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As we approach the end of October, Arctic sea ice continues to grow well above the level of recent years. Unfortunately, NSIDC systems have been down for the last week, but all the other datasets are in pretty good agreement.
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It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 will not be able to cause catastrophic warming. The so-called greenhouse effect will not...
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