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What is the problem with receiving such funding? Apparently oil companies give handsome sums to climate activist organizations that do not find it taboo to take oil money. Those very recipients simultaneously damn others for taking such funds, even when none were received, sought, or offered. Why should oil companies f... | 0_0 |
The press release states that Al Gore is one of the world's leading environmental politicians, even though the administration he was the vice president of did not even manage to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. His one achievement was a public policy stunt full of scaremongering and misrepresentation. | 5_2 |
Currently, a hybrid can cost from $3,500 to $6,000 more than a comparable gasoline vehicle. A typical hybrid doesnt come close to recouping this additional expense through fuel savings for many years. With an annual mileage of 15,000 miles and gas costing $4 a gallon, a hybrid would save between $650 and mid $700 a yea... | 4_4 |
The bottom line on this is simple: I can??t pretend to know the temperature within a few kilometers of my house right now to within a couple of degrees C without making basic scientific errors in everything from measurement and imagined precision to application ??? and when people like Jones and Hansen announce in all ... | 5_1 |
The AGW-alarmist frenklade the world of s seems the Antarctic ice tillvxttrend as a great mystery. Or perhaps as an annoyance. Why grows the sea ice in Antarctica No global temperature reservoirs, and No. their models says that it should decrease? Evidently's make it good to blame on global warming when it is about the... | 1_1 |
The administration has handed out $2.4 billion in grants to the EV sector, as well as nearly $2.6 billion in loans. None of those bets has paid off. Car buyers are staying away from all-electric vehicles in droves. And yet, for some reason, Romney avoided the subject in the debate. | 4_2 |
China has further revised up its solar power development target for 2015 by 50 percent from its previous plan, state media reported on Thursday. | 0_0 |
Nuclear engineering professor Higginbotham has been at OSU 24 years; he is president of the OSU Faculty Senate and director of a large NASA program on the campus. His inside knowledge of what the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics deans and certain faculty were doing to railroad the Robinson... | 0_0 |
The rational is that sun spot activity increases electromagnetic emanations from the sun to interfere with cosmic rays from the universe that cause ionization of water vapor and encourage cloud formation. More sun spots, less clouds. | 2_1 |
Of course, the negative PDO/more tornadoes connection will not necessarily hold every year, just as the La Nina/more hurricanes connection does not hold every year. | 0_0 |
In Spiegel Online writes Matthias Schulz of Germany plans to build an additional 60,000 wind turbines in forests, p alpsluttningarna and even in protected areas The question is how many forests that have to be sacrificed, how many horizons that must flckas of wind turbines from Germany to n their new klimatml? | 0_0 |
Aside from incompetent ideologically driven hacks such as himself who have no idea about climate science, or any science for that matter, there have been some serious scientists attending the conference. In particular, the conference was "remarkably well run", using Boslough's own words, by Dr Petr Chlek of LANL who ha... | 0_0 |
Most authors use values close to k = 0.269 at the characteristic-emission level in the upper atmosphere: however, Kimoto is not the only author to question whether that value is applicable at the surface. Indeed, he says the value of k should really be as little as 0.15 K/W/m2, to make proper allowance for non-radiativ... | 5_1 |
With increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, there is an imbalance in energy flows in and out of the earth system at the top of the atmosphere (TOA): the greenhouse gases increasingly trap more radiation and hence create warming (Solomon et al. 2007; Trenberth et al. 2009). Warming really means heating and extra... | 0_0 |
Most do not have a megalithic character, in fact, they tend to just be the ditch and mound around the outside. This, to me, tends to confirm the notion that they had some simple sighting apparatus, probably just some simple wooden poles, for local use in calendaring. It also points up the special character of Stoneheng... | 0_0 |
During the period 1941-1975, when global temperatures cooled, giving rise to concerns of a looming ice age, there were 11 years of moderate-to-severe drought. | 0_0 |
3. Most significantly, the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 adopted the UNFCCC treaty on the basis of a 30-year cooling trend followed by only 12 years of warming. That treaty dogmatically redefined climate change as being anthropogenic and eventually committed over 190 countries to combat dangerous warming. | 5_2 |
4. Langley, SP, 1876: Examination of the direct effect of sun-spots on terrestrial climates. Mon. Note. R. Astron. Soc., 37, 511. | 0_0 |
There is no such match between the steady rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration and the often dramatic ups and downs of surface temperatures in and around the Arctic. | 2_3 |
Since when is valuing personal freedoms, many of which are protected by the Constitution, and being suspicious of those scientists who have been claiming were all going to die, or questioning sweeping government intervention anything other than a deeply embedded American tradition and a very good idea under any circums... | 0_0 |
Allowing this flaw in judgment to stand would set an unworkable precedent for future elections and cause irreparable harm to the impartiality of this court, said Chief Justice John G. Roberts in his majority opinion. Furthermore, let me be the first to personally congratulate President Gore on his remarkable come-from-... | 0_0 |
Of course, in order to give Fits to the UK public, it is necessary to have smart meter technology, the roll-out of which is being accelerated under the new coalition government headed by David Cameron. | 0_0 |
So if it was so much warmer at 400 ppm CO2 then, why is it so much cooler at 400 ppm CO2 now? | 0_0 |
This graph of outgoing longwave radiation shows that since April of 2009, space aliens have been stealing the Earths heat. Now we know where Trenberths missing heat is hiding. | 0_0 |
Ah, yes, not only are they going to tweak the mid-century temperatures, but they are also going to make recent temperatures warmer than they are currently being reported. This will kill two birds with one stone. | 5_1 |
As Roy Spencer and John Christy have pointed out, all 73 climate models are forecast higher temperature trends in the atmosphere above the tropics, than what is being observed. Many of the models forecast trends that are more than twice of what is observed. A further issue with the study is that the period coinciding w... | 5_1 |
In one of the many documents released, Shukla denies he and his collaborators were attempting to silence dissent on climate change. | 0_0 |
To be sure, Australians did not confuse a well-crafted speech with action. Take for example, President Xi's pledge to Australia's Parliament that China will always address its maritime disputes peacefully. It would have more credibility if China were less obstructionist in moving forward on a long-promised binding Chin... | 0_0 |
5. Over the last 120,000 years, there have been 25 periods of warming where temperature rose by up to 8 deg C. These were not driven by human emissions, were natural and were neither irreversible nor catastrophic. | 2_1 |
Finally, Jacobson said, carbon particles released from burning biomass settle on snow and ice, contributing to further warming. | 0_0 |
And maybe while we're exchanging ideas with China about jointly addressing any climatological weapon of mass destruction threat, they can give us a hand with some other global dangers as well. China's assistance in arresting WMD terrorism threats posed by Iran, North Korea, and Syria immediately come to mind as example... | 0_0 |
Four years ago, Obama's PIC mostly matched his reformer rhetoric: He barred corporate money and capped contributions at $50,000. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both took large corporate contributions for their PICs. | 0_0 |
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Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire mirth | 0_0 |
Had he wished to be objective, he would have pointed out that the polar bear population has not been falling, but rising. | 3_2 |
This is an opinion about opinions of experts who use models that we know cant predict temperatures. Not only is this fact already piled three layers of nonsense deep, the most abjectly stupid point is the fourth layer, the pretense that these models might , in their wildest dreams, be able to predict rainfall which is ... | 5_1 |
UC Riverside-led study points to an ancient oxygen-free and hydrogen sulfide-rich ocean that may foreshadow our future | 0_0 |
Search and rescue of passenger vessel trapped in ice underway | 0_0 |
I found this comment from a reader who calls him(her)self wordsmith, posted under my Contact sidebar. Because its Christmas Eve and things are a little hectic, I thought maybe some readers could give me a hand and help out this poor warmist. Heres his(her) comment: | 0_0 |
Yet another reason that climate change may be more complicated than you think | 0_0 |
Obama's added 553 million acres worth of national monuments during his time in office, more than any other U.S. president. Most of these designations have put federal waters under increased protection, according to the Post. | 0_0 |
So the Congressman had asked me to write proving my result, and I had done so by preparing the second graph, from Tom Karl's own NCDC (it was labeled as such), which had also showed a pronounced downtrend in global temperatures. | 0_0 |
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson strongly criticized the lawsuit recently launched by eight state Attorneys General against several electricity generators for creating a "public nuisance" by contributing to global warming (Aug. 11). | 0_0 |
Now, if I take HadCRUT4 back to the beginning of 1997, I get this... | 0_0 |
Drought and forest fires happen. We have no reason to think that we can do anything to prevent the former, but we know that can do a lot about preventing and controlling the latter if only the environmentalists will let us. | 0_0 |
"Snowmageddon" threatens Massachusetts global warming forum | 1_3 |
In their determination to reduce GHG emissions in the near term rather than the long term, climate campaigners could have achieved a vastly better result with less cost and little bureaucracy through a simple, revenue-neutral $15-per-ton carbon tax. But perhaps the creation of a vast energy bureaucracy is really the ma... | 0_0 |
Of course, even these issues are not slam-dunks to be passed by both houses. On the N.S.A., there is a potent set of forces on the other side, including Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who are intent not to damage national security by hampering intelligence collection. And on both issues, it is not at all clea... | 0_0 |
The two questions most highlighted in their first poll, Climate Change in the American Mind, were: | 0_0 |
Ironically, a report of the National Academies just yesterday found that, Despite extensive investment in nanotechnology and increasing commercialization over the last decade, insufficient understanding remains about the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials. | 0_0 |
Even though they have been working on their PhDs for almost five years at OSU, and have about a year to go, Joshua has been forbidden access to the equipment he built for his PhD work, while Bethany has been told she will be dismissed from school. Matthew, who turned down a nearly "full ride" from MIT to go to OSU, has... | 0_0 |
First, some background. Pielke, a professor at the University of Colorado since 2001, holds degrees in mathematics, public policy, and political science. He has authored or co-authored seven books. He has won several awards for his academic work. For about two decades, he was a prolific writer and speaker on climate is... | 1_7 |
There are many factors to cause the climate changes particularly in regional and local scales. Considering only greenhouse gases is nonsense and harmful. | 2_3 |
Russian energy officials seek to expand their access to natural gas supplies in Africa. | 0_0 |
Bernhard et al . report that the protist they studied "is able to survive 10-14-day exposure to elevated CO 2 as high as 200,000 ppm." In fact, they say that "both ATP data and microscopic examination indicate that considerable populations of A. laticollaris survived exposure to all experimental treatments of elevated ... | 3_2 |
In the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover raised marginal tax rates to 63%, and went on a deficit spending binge. Similarly, Obama has proposed higher marginal tax rates, which will produce another $1.9 trillion in tax increases. | 0_0 |
In response to the President's Climate Action Plan, Senator Lisa Murkowski (AK-R) was talking about Obama's African tour when she quipped: "I encourage him to note what life looks like in parts of the continent where people do not haveor cannot affordaccess to energy." | 4_5 |
In the afternoon, the experimenters released lots of details officially (including a relevant preprint ) and I added this paragraph and the picture above which I find rather amazing. Does the picture convince you that the three colorful babes don't belong among the rank-and-file blue background lads but instead, they m... | 0_0 |
Nationwide, 319 coal-fueled power plants totaling 42,895 megawatts (13% of the nation's coal fleet and enough for 40 million homes and small businesses) are already slated to close, the Sierra Club joyfully proclaimed. Illinois families and businesses could pay 20% more for electricity by 2014, the Chicago Tribune repo... | 0_0 |
Yep, you read that correctly. The tropical hotspot trends are lower than the global atmospheric trend and the global surface trend - a magnificent and spectacular fail of IPCC climate "science." | 5_1 |
Given the studies already done on wind energys deleterious impact on wildlife, combined with the energy sprawl that will come with the industrys continuing expansion, it is virtually certain that as the wind sector adds more turbines, more federally protected wildlife including more bald eagles, an animal that has been... | 4_1 |
The hate and the disdain don't spring from anything as trivial as pique. Historically, Jacksonian America has been the enemy of many of what President Obama, rightly, sees as some of America's most important advances. Jacksonian sentiment embraces a concept of the United States as a folk community and, over time, that ... | 0_0 |
No wonder their projections are so often so far removed from reality | 0_0 |
After the tour, we were treated to a lovely dinner in an equally eccentric and equally impressive family dining hall in the private section of the castle. The evening had turned cold, and Ill tell you, the castle would be a nightmare to heat. Its not much more than a drafty pile of stones, and in this case the stone wa... | 0_0 |
If you live in any state except Texas (where the requirements are optional), you MUST purchase workers compensation insurance for your employees. As noted above, some may be exempt from coverage (owners, senior officers, some contractors) but if you have any paid workers at all, you will likely need a workers comp. pol... | 0_0 |
The contributions of Thornthwaite to practical applications of climate were summarized in a 1996 biography, The Genius of C. Warren Thornthwaite, climatologist-geographer.? | 0_0 |
I was a casual non-believer of this hypothesis because of the mere improbability of such an Earth state, Bao said. There was nothing rational or logic in that belief for me, of course. I remember I even told my job interviewers back in 2000 that one of my future research plans was to prove that the Snowball Earth hypot... | 0_0 |
Climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed thoughtfully and objectively. Unfortunately, claims that distort the facts hinder the legitimate evaluation of policy options. The rhetoric has driven some policymakers toward costly regulations and policies that will harm hardworking American families and do little... | 4_1 |
Ms. Macfarlane: I am not going to get into a discussion on this issue. It has been settled science for years, supported by an overwhelming consensus of scientists. I am not going to discuss it. | 0_0 |
This post provides an initial look at climate model simulations of the top of the atmosphere (TOA) energy budget and its three components. It includes the outputs of the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive (used by the IPCC for the 5 th Assessment Report). | 0_0 |
In my review of their book four years ago, I noted: "By the end it becomes clear that Nordhaus and Shellenberger aren't just trying to save environmentalism; they are trying to save liberalism, which they consider nearly as intellectually dead as environmentalism." Lately this ambition has taken wing, with their modest... | 0_0 |
Are politicians born stupid or do they develop that skill in Law School? | 0_0 |
It's troubling that American business would buy into this global industrial policy scheme, lining up to pledge non-hostility to Kyoto in return for the prospect of legislation that might give them relief from Kyoto's potentially massive costs. | 0_0 |
Instead, Burger and Cubasch have simply analyzed the sensitivity of the procedure to the introduction of subjective, and erroneous alterations. Their results are consequently statistically meaningless. This view was recently endorsed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in their report "Surface Temperature Reconstr... | 0_0 |
Big jumps? Ive been studying global warming for quite a while and never before has a climate scientist mentioned periods of no warming followed and preceded by big jumps in global temperatures. The first thing that should enter anyones mind after reading that is: what caused the big jumps in global surface temperatures... | 2_1 |
The windpark was just completed and is operated by energy giant EnBW . | 0_0 |
???If temperatures go up, there is going to be more evaporation, and that will produce more clouds,?? Professor Lambeck said. ???That could produce a negative feedback, but to quantify that is a very difficult thing. | 3_1 |
40% of the about 0.5 0C warming between 1715 and 1970 is accounted by direct solar forcing, the remainder by indirect solar forcing in which the GCR flux plays an important role. | 2_1 |
In other words, the NSF would like us to believe that the theory that increasing ocean acidification will slow coral calcification rates is correct, even though it is not readily observed because other confounding variables are involved. However, given time, these other confounding variables could be overwhelmed by the... | 5_1 |
Flanagan and Syed conclude that "in the absence of fire or other major disturbance, significant net carbon sequestration could continue for decades at this site and help to reduce the positive feedback of climate change on increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentration." | 3_1 |
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups. In this critical election season, let us hope enough voters step up to defend our liberties, jobs, civil r... | 0_0 |
During his first inaugural address, in the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt told the American people, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." | 0_0 |
Using a touch of humor and a three-card monte theme, Morano likens the crisis marketing to a sleight of hand; a Climate Hustle. He says: "when the people pushing you to get into the game, the ones predicting a calamitous future due to global warming, don't show their cards, it is a hustle." The film shows the cards so ... | 0_0 |
TITLE: The Past, Present and Future of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation | 0_0 |
The citizens seem to prefer some sort of an incinerator. However, designing an incinerator/thermal oxidizer that can safely feed the propellent granules and maintain stable temperatures, get one on site and get the necessary approvals seems like a tall order in, now, less than 90 days. In my opinion, the EPA has not re... | 0_0 |
This is awfully tendentious, since he takes it as a given that Arizona's effort to take some responsibility for a problem is best understood as "irresponsible"as if continuing to do nothing at the local level while too little is done at the federal level would be more responsible. Of course, "irresponsible" is lavish p... | 0_0 |
New research results suggest that magma sitting 4-5 kilometers beneath the surface of Oregons Mount Hood has been stored in near-solid conditions for thousands of years. The time it takes to liquefy and potentially erupt, however, is surprisingly shortperhaps as little as a couple of months. | 0_0 |
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. | 0_0 |
h/t The Register ??? the UK MET Office has published a report which suggests the pause in global temperatures might continue for many years to come. Or the pause might not continue. They??re not really sure. | 1_4 |
NIWAs analysis of measured temperatures uses internationally accepted techniques, including making adjustments for changes such as movement of measurement sites. For example, in Wellington, early temperature measurements were made near sea level, but in 1928 the measurement site was moved from Thorndon (3 metres above ... | 0_0 |
Click here to hear Fred Smith's response to the AGs. | 0_0 |
According to our result, the rapid warming during 1970-1990 contains a large fraction of unpredictable natural variability due to the AO. The subsequent period of 1990-2010 indicates a clear trend of the AO to be negative. The global warming has been stopped by natural variability superimposed on the gentle anthropogen... | 5_1 |
giving students more time to make up incomplete assignments while | 0_0 |
This is a curious move of the goalposts, since the IPCC claims a bogus 95% confidence that "most" of the warming since 1950 is anthropogenic on the basis of temperature rise since 1950 , not on the basis of sea level rise, and thus opposite to the claims of this new paper. In addition, this new paper claims climate mod... | 1_6 |
John also mentioned sea surface temperatures (SST), which avoid urban heat island influences. These measurements, covering (imperfectly) 71% of the planet's surface, are taken by four different methods, each introducing unique problems and uncertainties as well as referring to different depths of the ocean: | 0_0 |
F r er som inte tr ttnat... | 0_0 |
Our research has raised several issues on the robustness of the global surface temperature trend analyses. I am summarizing the questions raised over the last several months in this weblog, along with brief peer reviewed background material where available. Other weblogs, such as RealClimate.org, are invited to respond... | 0_0 |
As of 1990, the IPCC didnt see any Mann-made global warming. | 0_0 |
(2) Negative consequences of substituting "actual-to-future-potential" for "actual-to-future-actual" in the rules for estimating changes in emissions | 0_0 |
...In tropical regions, the models are too dry in the lower troposphere and too moist in the upper troposphere, (p763) | 5_1 |
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