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Germany?s green energy strategy is likely to change significantly after federal elections on September 22; Merkel has promised voters to drastically curtail the ?20bn burden they have to pay renewable energy investors every year should she win. | 0_0 |
EPA moves to fix air pollution rule after Supreme Court loss | 0_0 |
As I mentioned above, we were accompanied on the cattle-viewing expedition by Sir Humphry Wakefield, who lives with his wonderful wife Katharine in Chillingham Castle. After our trip to see the cattle, Sir Humphry gave us a guided tour of the Castle itself. | 0_0 |
7. When this theory was actually tested, the same researchers, Jensen et al (2008) discovered that global warming will have a positive effect on the suitability of Svalbard for nesting geese in terms of range expansion into the northern and eastern parts of Svalbard which are curently unsuitable. | 3_2 |
This would be reasonable if only southern hemisphere sea ice were actually in decline rather than increase. | 1_1 |
Common sense is emerging on Human Rights Commissions | 0_0 |
It appears that the accidental sale of 14 copies of the latest Harry Potter book at a Coquitlam store last week may have been a marketing blessing in disguise. | 0_0 |
2) Continued improvements in energy efficiency can reduce the intensity of energy use but not enough to offset the need for more energy to meet the economic aspirations of the world?s current 6.2 billion people, let alone 7.5 billion in a mere 20 years? time. | 0_0 |
By Natalie Obiko Pearson Jul 16, 2013 2:49 AM ET | 0_0 |
Regardless of this report, is the vlknt is that klimatknsligheten br snkas is why that in AR5 given aerosols cooling effect a lower value, you AR4. These were utilized d ad hoc for reducing the impact of carbon dioxide. If you enter a lower cooling effect from aerosols, sr obvious that you have a need to reduce vein kl... | 0_0 |
Issues related to religion (particularly Evangelical Christianity) and the global warming issue have been discussed previously here: | 0_0 |
Again, LOST supporters say don't worry, but it is not clear they are being straight with us. The World Wildlife Federation and Don Kraus of Citizens for Global Solutions have been telling environmentalists that LOST could stop Russian from polluting the Arctic. | 0_0 |
The results of the present study were low compared to those of other such studies of French forests, which have shown productivity increases on the order of 100% over the 20th century. Nevertheless, the authors' results still portended significant growth enhancements throughout the current century. Under a doubled-CO 2... | 3_3 |
Stated more plainly, the historical temperature record does not agree with what computer models say should have happened. The upshot is that, if the models get the past 10 thousand years or so wrong, how can we trust them to predict the future? The answer, of course, is that we can not. The situation is made clearer in... | 5_1 |
United Nations climate envoys have proposed the creation of a global "climate court" that would be responsible for enforcing a sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a "historical climate debt." | 0_0 |
Is this destruction and poisoning of the natural world, this trampling of human rights, the legacy that climate campaignerswant to leave the world? Is this really the only ethical way to deal with the question of global warming? Is it even ethical at all? | 0_0 |
Further, in the presence of multidecadal oscillations with a nominal 60-80 yr time scale, convincing attribution requires that you can attribute the variability for more than one 60-80 yr period, preferably back to the mid 19th century. Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my... | 5_1 |
Conservative Groups Criticize Senate Climate Title | 0_0 |
The books' subtitles hint at the authors' shared questions of interest but also their divergent styles and methods. Sanger's book is about Obama's "surprising use of American power," whereas Mann focuses on a struggle to "redefine American power." Sanger, who is the New York Times chief Washington correspondent, takes ... | 0_0 |
The editors of the journal remonstrated. They said that despite the article's admittedly poor methodology and the strenuous objections of the paper's referees, they published it to make constructive progress in the debate among scientists, the media, and the general public about a highly charged issue. Unleashing it ha... | 0_0 |
SM: We were very pleased. The last election was the first we were engaged in. We were involved in 16 congressional races and we won 10. So, we felt good about that-- especially because, with the exception of one or two of them, all the rest were highly competitive, very close races, where we really feel that the money ... | 0_0 |
As ever more anthropogenic CO 2 is emitted into the atmosphere and the air's CO 2 concentration rises ever higher, so too does the photosynthetic prowess of earth's terrestrial vegetation grow ever stronger, as the great global greening of the earth gains ever more momentum and sucks ever more CO 2 out of the air and i... | 3_3 |
Simple arguments allow us to understand why there are differences in horizontal temperature gradients among the planets. There are two fundamental time scales that determine how a planetary atmosphere transfers heat. The radiative timescale, t rad , is the time it would take for an atmosphere above some pressure level ... | 0_0 |
My conclusion (which, is different from that of the authors) based upon the research presented by Santer et al.?that the models are on the verge of failing?is further strengthened by the results of another paper published in 2011 by Foster and Rahmstorf. | 5_1 |
The second largest henge structure known to exist in Britain or Continental Europe is Durrington Walls Henge in Wiltshire, Southern England, second only to Marden Henge further NNW. | 0_0 |
Where??s that positive feedback that is supposed to manifest itself in water vapor, the most potent natural greenhouse gas? | 2_3 |
In short, the careerist climate AGW scientists and their political insiders conspired to convince the world that humans had to pay dearly for exhaling the carbon gases that the natural world and our trees inhales to flourish. | 5_2 |
Most Americans even think that on cultural issues things are getting worse: things like crime rates and infant mortality rates and the number of illegitimate births and so on. And we find in the last 15 or 20 years that even these trends show improvement. The crime rate is down, the abortion rate is down, the rate of d... | 0_0 |
Wanted or Not: Alternative-Fuel Cars Flood Auto Show | 0_0 |
on Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 11:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
In the context of motor vehicles, the decision probably does not matter much. The statute contains a safety valve that allows the administrator consider "cost, energy, and safety factors." For practical purposes, the agency discretion that was rejected in the initial decision returns through the medium of drafting spec... | 0_0 |
Germany has told its folks to just bail on I.E. and move on. I agree. | 0_0 |
Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium | 0_0 |
Here is the basic assumption and aim of the study. Consider exactly what their basic premise implies: | 0_0 |
Of greater concern to the system's advocates is that prices of tradable emissions permits in the EU ETS have declined to record lows in the commodities marketplace. While the European Union just released preliminary (and incomplete) data showing that its carbon emissions have fallen at a greater-than-expected volume in... | 0_0 |
The results of this study ???indicate that seawater chemistry can drive phenotypic plasticity in coralline algae,?? and that ???the ability to change the energy allocation between cell growth and structural support is a clear adaptive response of the organism,?? which they say ???is likely to increase its ability to su... | 3_2 |
The latest news, as reported by Myron Ebell, the director for energy and environment of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is that "Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) this week introduced a bill to block the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new and existi... | 0_0 |
A further study on North American drought story appeared in mid-2013 in PNAS by Asmerom et al. Interestingly, these authors describe a long-lasting mega-drought that over three centuries took place in the Little Ice Age. Yemane Asmerom and colleagues see a connection with the low solar activity at this time, which had ... | 1_7 |
Why the Medicaid Mandates on States Violate the General Welfare Clause: | 0_0 |
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The Norwegians' past decision to give a Nobel Prize to Jimmy Carter, which was a poorly-veiled attempt to sway American voters in favor of John Kerry and against George Bush, failed to achieve its objective. Similarly, giving Al Gore the prize will not likely have any lasting effect on American politics. | 0_0 |
Fortunately, we have solved this problem before. In 1949 the federal government built a test facility at Idaho National Laboratory to study and evaluate new nuclear reactor designs. We owe our nuclear power industry to the foresight of those New Dealers, and we need their openness to innovation again today. Earlier thi... | 0_0 |
Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. | 0_0 |
Unfortunately for their credibility, since at least the year 2000 global temperatures have trended level despite significant increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. | 1_4 |
I am fully aware of the fact that I am making many assumptions here. For example, I am assuming the average human emissions of CO2 over the next 6000 years will the same as for the last 60 years. As a result, rising temperatures in the oceans could accelerate if it were not for the logarithmic affect of additional CO2.... | 2_3 |
To order the study contact CEI at (202) 331-1010. | 0_0 |
How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen: A Skeptic's View | 0_0 |
You certainly know the jig is up when the New York Times finally recognizes that the feverish climate fervor is overheated. They reported on June 6 that The rise in the surface temperature of Earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred ev... | 1_4 |
Graeme Pearman Claims Antarctica is Warming (Global Warming and The Cosmos, Part 1) | 0_0 |
It is known that low-altitude clouds have an overall cooling effect on the Earths surface. Hence, variations in cloud cover caused by cosmic rays can change the surface temperature. The existence of such a cosmic connection to Earths climate might thus help to explain past and present variations in Earths climate. | 2_1 |
The economic cost of the expansion of renewable energy could become prohibitively expensive. Subsidies in the EU for solar and wind power should be phased out as quickly as possible. | 4_4 |
New paper: GISS temps and solar activity | 0_0 |
This morning I read a terrific recounting of the the fact that a whole section of the scientific establishment is defending Gleick on the grounds that it??s OK to lie to promote their cause?? from the intellectual heights of the establishment and specifically from those who have proclaimed themselves to be experts on s... | 5_2 |
More pertinently, exploitation of previously inaccessible resources could significantly diversify U.S. oil and gas--a longstanding objective of U.S. energy security policy. | 0_0 |
The problem: Meehl et al (2013) are using a climate model ( NCAR CCSM4 ) that doesnt properly simulate the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that drive El Nios and La Nias. As far as I know, there are no climate models that properly simulate El Nio and La Nia processes. Weve discussed this numerous times, and as a ref... | 5_1 |
Gaia's indulgences printed by CFACT, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, state, "This indulgence serves as a remittance for all your carbon sins. You are hereby forgiven for: flying where you choose, machine washed clothes, driving your vehicle, your computer and electronic conveniences, taking hot showers, exha... | 0_0 |
The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.?? ??? Robert Jastrow | 2_1 |
It's called All Models are Wrong , the corollary of course being that some are useful. I predict that this will become a must-read. | 0_0 |
A chief complaint of Lomborg's many critics is that his "Litany" was a straw man. Allen Hammond of the World Resources Institute, for example, argued at an AEI forum in October 2001 that Lomborg's Litany "paints a caricature of the environmental agenda based on sometimes mistaken views widely held thirty years ago, but... | 0_0 |
on Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 10:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The latest target of the Warmists: Viscount Christopher Monckton begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting of Brenchley, a mathematician and leading critic of the global warming theory, a.k.a. "climate change." Monckton was recently mocked and browbeaten in a 115-slide presentation by John Abraham, ... | 0_0 |
Figures 13 and 14 reminded me of two things: | 0_0 |
In May, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the rate of manmade carbon dioxide emissions was three times greater during 2000 to 2004 than during the 1990s. But while humans may be burning more fossil fuels than ever before, that ever-increasing activity isn't having any sort... | 0_0 |
Economic growth is a major issue in this presidential campaign. Research has done much to uncover the factors that contribute to growth. Secure property rights, rule of law, open markets, and limited trade restrictions all play important roles. But the Trump and Clinton campaign messages are all critical of freer trade... | 0_0 |
Im pulling it up here as I found it interesting, but a little unclear, and doubt that it will be clarified there. | 0_0 |
Professor Denning had mixed feeling about the 10-year-old documentary and was surprised that the movie was not exactly as he had remembered it to be when viewing again in preparation for his Heartland appearance. Although surprised that the film had aged fairly well, Denning said he disagreed with the film mostly on em... | 0_0 |
Calls for an independent inquiry into what is being dubbed Climategate are growing as the foundation for man-made global warming implodes following the release of emails which prove researchers colluded to manipulate data in order to hide the decline in global temperatures. | 5_2 |
Because people knew that with Satans help one could cook the weather, the extreme weather and harsh conditions during that period contributed to mass executions and Witch Trials. | 0_0 |
Quote of the week #9 negative thermometers | 0_0 |
?This was the year that even one scientist at NASA predicted that the Arctic ice in the summer would be gone completely,? he said. ?Well, there?s 60 percent more ice this year than last year and the reason is because of the cooling sun and the cooling temperatures.? | 1_1 |
Everybody understands that suburban sprawl, snow removal, pavement, brick, dark roofs, huge amounts of fuel being burned, etc. causes temperatures to rise. It defies explanation how scientists could accept a finding that UHI is not affecting the temperature record. | 5_1 |
The big winner in the climate change money train is the National Science Foundation. They are requesting $1.616 billion dollars. They want $766 million dollars for the Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Program. This is a 15.9% increase from their last budget. They also need another $370 million for ... | 0_0 |
A statistician, who up to then had nothing to do with climate science, described Mann as the mastermind of an international conspiracy, aformer industry consultant who claimed Mann did not do his work properly. | 0_0 |
The data show that the environment is not an issue on the front burner for most Americans today. In Pew's 2016 question about priorities for President Obama and Congress, 47 percent said "protecting the environment" should be a top priority. As a point of comparison, 75 percent said strengthening the nation's economy a... | 0_0 |
Bloggies nominations are open but only til Sunday this week. There is still no Science and Technology category, after 2013 when 4 out 5 finalists were skeptics. Protest by nominating science blogs for all the other categories that apply. As Ive asked before : | 0_0 |
The impact on energy prices, national economies, jobs, and people's lives has been profound and negative. For example, in response to the unfounded alarmism, Germany moved aggressively toward wind and solar energy over the past 15 years both politically and with taxpayer and investment spending. It also shied away from... | 4_1 |
The past few years have seen several countries, including the Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil, Kuwait, Thailand, the UAE and Indonesia, once the world's largest LNG exporter, join the ranks of natural gas importers. More than a dozen other countries are considering or constructing import facilities. The market for US ex... | 0_0 |
Our assessment of the intermodel spread in the instantaneous forcing from CO2 is similar to that obtained by Collins et al (2006) for both the shortwave and longwave components. Collins et al (2006) documented that at the top of model the range of instantaneous forcing for a doubling of CO2 is 1.2Wm2 for the longwave p... | 5_1 |
17 The satellite MSU (1979-1998) and balloon radiosonde date (1958-1998) show no net warming in the high (60 -90 N) northern latitudes. See ftp://wind.atmos.uah.edu/msu/t2lt and J. K. Angell, Comparison of surface and tropospheric temperature trends estimated from a 63-station radiosonde network, 1958-1998, Geophysical... | 0_0 |
"In an address before the National Forum on Biodiversity in 1986, Dr. Ariel Lugo pointed out that according to the only available study of the rate of increase in tropical secondary forests, almost half of the 11.3 million hectares of virgin tropical forest cut annually were turned not into wasteland the equivalent of ... | 0_0 |
In January, my friend, Robert Carter, an Australian scientist born in New Zealand, died suddenly. Bob was a former university department head and a geologist, known internationally for his work in paleoclimatology. He fought against the social irrationalism of CTBS for years. After he publicly questioned it, he lost hi... | 0_0 |
Missing the Sept 30 deadline will mean an immediate 5,000 fine, and 500 for each day after that, up to a maximum of 45,000. | 0_0 |
rice and other cereals over the past six months has generated a $120 | 0_0 |
Whats more, James Camerons movie Titanic has been remastered in 3D for the centenary. | 0_0 |
- Entropy (all exchanges of heat on Earth and the atmosphere require entropy to increase, which is incompatible with a hypothetical "greenhouse effect" -which requires entropy to decrease in order for heat to flow from cold to hot) | 2_3 |
If this cooling trend were to continue, it would spell disaster for the world's hungry. Let's hope ' the pause ' in global warming does not last much longer since it unfortunately seems to project a cooling regime over the U.S. | 1_4 |
As CO2 has increased, the number of F3-F5 tornadoes has decreased. Extrapolating the trend, we can see that at 480 ppm there would be zero severe tornadoes. | 1_7 |
Curiously, the post-World War II period of increasing fossil fuel use and associated increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is concurrent with the most sustained lull in landfalling hurricane activity throughout the record. While this doesn't disprove any association between global warming and landfalling hurricane fre... | 0_0 |
Now, just last week, we discover that the new Chief Scientist, Ian Chubb, believes too that "scientific consensus . . . provides the best guidance we have for decisions that are informed and rational", and that "the science is in on climate change". | 0_0 |
The real scientific debate, Professor Carter noted in his book Climate: the Counter Consensus and other works, is about the direction and magnitude of global human effects, and their likely significance in the context of natural climate change which has been occurring ever since Earth developed its oceans, atmosphere a... | 2_1 |
However, she did propose that the AMS establish what amounts to a global warming litmus test for meteorologists seeking AMS certification. And given the importance professional societies put on continuing education, it is hard to see how in practice Cullen's proposal would not threaten the credentials of meteorologists... | 0_0 |
Marlo Lewis Jr.Vice President for Policy & Coalitions | 0_0 |
Temperatures dropped to -3C in West Salmi, -2C in north Abdaly, and 3C at Kuwait International Airport. Temperature reached below freezing in desert areas, the center noted. | 0_0 |
"The rhetoric," reports US News, "has struck home with Americans across the countryparticularly those currently or formerly employed in the embattled U.S. goods-producing and manufacturing sectors, who have repeatedly borne the brunt of corporate efforts to move work overseas." | 0_0 |
Thirty-three years later, the area of sea ice on Earth is almost exactly the same as 1980 | 1_1 |
Regarding the EPA's new plan, the letter calls the coordination needed between multiple state agencies, public utility commissions, regional transmission organizations, and transmission and reliability experts: "Unprecedented, extraordinary, and extremely time consuming." The Senators ask for more time so that states a... | 0_0 |
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions are down roughly 37 percent from 1970 levels, and are lower today than at any time since the Great Depression. | 0_0 |
So, the picture of changes in ENSO, when viewed in terms rainfall response patterns, may be limited by errors and biases that have been long-term features in climate models. Research is required to test the potential impact of SST biases on the change in average precipitation in the tropics. We must improve models, but... | 5_1 |
Denning: Claimed that about one-third of the coral reef is now bleached, although Denning admitted that the biggest damage from global warming was not about the health of the coral reef but about a decline in the economy. According to Denning, replacing fossil fuels would reduce the Global GDP by 1 percent over the nex... | 0_0 |
Climate: The Counter Consensus by Robert M. Carter | 0_0 |
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