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And so the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP) arose. It is also a coal syngasification, CCGT generation, CCS facility. Estimated cost is now $3.5 billion (up from an original $2.5 billion), $8750/MWe. It relies on a $450 million federal grant plus $637 million in investment tax credits. It is only 400MW, but would suppo... | 4_4 |
Nobel Physics laureate Ivar Giaever has called global warming (aka, climate change) alarmism a "new religion" . . . a temple built on grounds of faith rather than upon scientific foundations. In this church, all unfortunate events that occur are attributed to human causation. Eco-elitist doom prophets and profiteers pe... | 5_2 |
For nearly ten years it has been suggested that heat flow from a geological feature was the likely reason for this local ice sheet melting. Recent publications strongly support, if not prove, that this is in fact the case. | 2_1 |
Saleska et al . used Terra satellite data -- Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) -- to determine whether or not the widespread Amazon drought of 2005, which peaked during the dry season onset (July-September), did indeed reduce whole-canopy forest photo... | 0_0 |
And the policy toward Iran has played out just as Clinton indicated. One pivotal | 0_0 |
Ultimately, the conferees backed a plan, hashed out by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, that would exempt EU heavy industries from emissions controls, so that they can compete on a level playing field in the global marketplace. Brown supported Merkel's proposal in exchange for he... | 0_0 |
VILLAGER #1: If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood. | 0_0 |
Soon, along with astronomer Sallie Baliunas and others, integrated more than 240 paleoclimatic studies in order to better understand weather extremes of the past 1,000 years. The team reviewed four decades of research, including work on ancient tree rings, glacier ice cores, sediments from lakes, rivers and seafloors, ... | 0_0 |
All this begs the question of how long it will take the warmist crew to readjust their scare story to win back the public. The majority firmly rejects their socialist prescription to solve an imaginary problem. | 0_0 |
In short, the probability of getting 484 sites that pass the p < .128 screening by chance, is very small, and his argument is utterly wrong. The only way it could be true is if somehow the temp-ring relationship magically arose in 1850 but didnt exist beforehand, which of course is ludicrous. | 0_0 |
From its opening images, which view Gore only from behind, as if he were some powerful figure about to spin around and reveal his greatness, An Inconvenient Truth lionizes the man more than his cause. The movie means to paint him as a misunderstood prophet, trudging through airports and convention centers bringing the ... | 0_0 |
EARTHS ENERGY IMBALANCE (ABSOLUTE) IN CMIP5 MODELS | 0_0 |
An alternative approach would involve developing technology to tackle what should be seen as a practical problem rather than a moral issue. | 0_0 |
Consider, for example, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which were a top priority for NRDC during President Obama's first term. The rule costs $10 billion annually and threatens to shutter 17% of the nation's fleet of coal-fired power plants (just as NRDC and EPA intended). Given these costs, you'd expect that the... | 0_0 |
INTERNET - Judge Rules That Sharing Porn Is Okay | 0_0 |
CC: Mr. John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for Science | 0_0 |
Finally they mention sea-level rise . The observed increase in sea-level at our ports is equivalent to the width of my thumbnail every ten years. | 1_6 |
CLIMATE OF FEAR | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog Vote Green in Western Australia this Saturday or face the pants-wetting consequences... | 0_0 |
Therefore, we use five models that have more than 10 members of the historical and RCP4.5 simulations to take a closer look at the recent SATg linear trends (Figure 2). Two model ensembles (CNRM-CM5 and CanCM4) exhibit a narrow spread, which means that they may not encompass a sufficient range of natural uctuations. Th... | 5_1 |
More market-oriented strategies, such as emissions trading, have a better track record for cost-effectively reducing emissions. Such programs attempt to mimic real market incentives by allowing companies with high compliance costs to buy emission credits from companies with low compliance costs, thereby directing spend... | 0_0 |
He also wasnt paid more because the Aether didnt exist, his revolutionary concept of spacetime provided the missing structure. As well as Einsteins scientific integrity, world governments were not spending trillions of dollars to prove the existence of the Aether and then tax it. | 0_0 |
As the DfT?s last report affirms one reason we have been so unprepared for the past three winters has been the obsession of our government and other authorities with global warming. They kept listening to climate change campaigners warning that Britain will heat up four or five degrees and believed we would never have ... | 0_0 |
The record has actually been broken twice today. The first place to beat the previous record of 37.1C (98.8F), set in Cheltenham in 1990, was Heathrow Airport where the temperature earlier today registered 37.9C (100.2F). | 0_0 |
Temperatures have been directly measured for a little over a century. The number of locations at which temperature is taken has gradually increased, reaching something like full coverage only in the last thirty to forty years. It is certain that at many individual stations mankind has caused changes in measured tempera... | 5_1 |
Hey, when you lose the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists . Anyway, given the Doomsday Clock's track record, maybe we should all feel pretty good about the state of the world. The Clock is hardly a precision timepiece. It was created to highlight the dangers either growing or ebbing of the Cold War between United States and... | 0_0 |
Bao credits his research ideas, analytical work and pleasure of working on this project to his two graduate students, Killingsworth and Hayles, as well as his long-time Chinese collaborators. Bao brought Killingsworth and Hayles to an interior mountainous region in South China in December 2011, where the group succeede... | 0_0 |
Based on simulations provided by mathematical models, climate alarmists generally predict more frequent and more severe floods in response to global warming. In this summary we examine real-world data relative to this claim as it pertains to Asia. | 5_1 |
This document is clearly written, up-to-date, and well illustrated with charts and graphs, making it an ideal hand-out or reference for high school and college students looking for an authoritative presentation of the "skeptic" view on climate change. | 0_0 |
Lewis Page, Climate change made sea levels fall in 2010 and 2011, The Register, August 20, 2013 | 0_0 |
If history is any guide, the window of opportunity for action will probably last for two years as the party "out of power" will likely make gains during the interim election. This provides Bush plenty of time, but his political capital must be focused and applied vigorously if the inertia that has deadlocked several im... | 0_0 |
Every bit as troubling as the monument designation itself is the use of the Antiquities Act to bring it about. Originally crafted to protect Native American sites of historical and cultural significance, the Antiquities Act has been used by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations to declare an area a National Monu... | 0_0 |
The EUs plan to regulate the output of carbon dioxide, as part of the effort to combat global warming, has stirred concern in the European aviation industry. Airbus which employs more than 50,000 people across Europe argues the proposals will damage competitiveness at a time of economic weakness, wants the EU to put on... | 4_1 |
But the political collapse of Republicans at the end of the Bush administration and demographic changes favorable to liberalism made this kind of trimming seem unnecessary to Democrats. In the Obama years, the Democratic Party seemed to be able to move left while enjoying an enduring advantage in presidential politics.... | 0_0 |
In effect, Team Obama and Waxman are saying, "You had better provide us with bipartisan cover to raise gasoline prices and destroy jobs, or we'll sic EPA on the economy, and won't you be in trouble with your voters then when EPA raises their energy prices and destroy their jobs!" Cap-and-trade Democrats are setting the... | 0_0 |
The graph below shows the absolute difference between Fort Collins temperatures and Boulder temperatures since 1930. There is some sort of discontinuity around 1940, but the UHI imprint is clearly visible in the Fort Collins record. The Colorado State Climatologist, Nolan Doesken manages the Fort Collins Weather statio... | 5_1 |
Lake, P.S. 2003. Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing waters. Freshwater Biology 48 : 1161-1172. | 0_0 |
Drivers are asked to refrain from distant journeys and not to leave their cars where they could interfere with the passage of emergency vehicles. | 0_0 |
So any minute now I expect environmentalists around the world will start a Boycott Biomass campaign. Clearly any truly compassionate green could do nothing less since biomass is a net killer, and warms the planet too. | 0_0 |
Like the touted benefits of wind and solar power, ?clean coal? is another environmental myth that is costing billions. Recently, the Global Warming Foundation reported that ?The world invested almost a billion dollars a day in limiting global warming last year, but the total figure$359 billion?was slightly down on last... | 4_1 |
One problem with that conclusion, according to some climate scientists, is that the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has limited the hiatus to 10-15 years. Anastasios Tsonis, distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, believes the pause will last much longer than that. He po... | 1_4 |
Congress and the courts must end the constant collusion and sue-and-settle lawsuits between the EPA and radical pressure groups. Congress must cut agency budgets, especially the billions of dollars the EPA and other agencies give to anti-energy advocacy organizations and rubber-stamping advisory panels. | 0_0 |
Global environmental change began to become a political issue in the 1980s. Climatologists and astrophysicists showed that a nuclear war could put so much dust in the air that disastrous cooling would occur, the infamous nuclear winter. With the end of the Cold War, the focus shifted to global warming. At that time, cl... | 0_0 |
Climate Treaty Negotiators Put U.S. in No-Win Situation, Experts Say | 0_0 |
In what is destined itself to become a much-derided quote in future years, Connor protests that snowy winters are weather not climate and therefore prove nothing, before immediately pointing to Russias hot summer as proof of global warming: | 5_2 |
Well, yes. DOE, under authority delegated to it in the 1987 National Appliance Energy Conservation Act (NAECA), can set energy efficiency standards for clothes washers, among other household appliances. And DOE is in the process of creating standards that would effectively regulate new top loaders out of existence in t... | 0_0 |
That the earth is currently in a long-term warming phase is not in dispute. It has been since the end of the last Ice Age, and in particular since the end of the Little Ice Age a couple of hundred years ago. It is therefore not surprising, nor alarming, that temperatures today are higher than they were a century ago. | 2_1 |
State legislatures are starting to repeal mandates to use alternative fuels such as wind and solar, which can be 10 and even 20 times as expensive as fossil fuels. The "fracking" revolution has made natural gas and oil plentiful and cheap, making the contrast with expensive and unreliable wind and solar even more appar... | 0_0 |
Stealth advocacy on climate change: A catastrophic failure of science | 5_2 |
"Maryland's Gov. Martin O'Malley who is well-regarded by environmentalists for consuming and metabolizing the green Kool-Aid on global warming supports the Calvert Cliffs expansion. O'Malley apparently realizes that Maryland needs the electricity given the fact that the state is facing rolling blackouts on summer days ... | 0_0 |
Sited at a radar station with waste heat exhaust systems clearly visible | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | The Guyra Argus | 0_0 |
These observed developments have prompted the U.K.s Met Office Climate Center (the national weather service) to quietly revise its projections. They now say: The latest decadal prediction suggests that the next five years are likely to be a little bit lower than predicted from the previous prediction. The predicted inc... | 0_0 |
Australias proposed carbon tax would have reduced worldwide temperatures by 1/20,000 th of a degree after ten years. (One twenty-thousandth .) | 4_2 |
Tell me one single place that heat is trapped. Heat has to be generated. Heat is always flowing from hot to cold. Heat is only maintained while heat is being constantly generated. Watch a bonfire. As the smoke rises up, so does the carbon dioxide. Within barely 100 feet it has lost its heat. Are these cold and rapidly ... | 2_3 |
Oregon State is a prime example of what happens when educational institutions fall under progressive-socialist control, and dependency on taxpayer handouts from political overseers in Washington. DeFazio and his fellow congressional Democrats gave OSU a reported $27 million in earmark funding during the last legislativ... | 0_0 |
The authors write that "sea-level rise is a high-profile and important aspect of climate change," noting that "in the last two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments, the sum of observed contributions to sea-level rise has consistently been less than the observed rise over multi-decadal periods, thus red... | 5_1 |
Their accounts are externally audited and annually submitted to the government of India, he said. | 0_0 |
It examines the science on both sides of the issue presents often hilarious planetary Armageddon prophecies of Al Gore, Leonard Nimoy, and other doomsayers and lets 30 scientists and other experts expose the climate scares and scams, explain Real World climate science, and delve deeply into the politics and media hype ... | 0_0 |
Obese dads pass on predisposition to obesity and metabolic disorders to their kids | 0_0 |
/s/ Dr. Joseph Kerwin JSC, Astronaut, Skylab 2, Director of Space and Life Sciences, 22 years | 0_0 |
Well, lets see what the facts tell us. | 0_0 |
Following in the heels of Corbyns forecast was the release of a new report by Dr. David Whitehouse , published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and what makes it fairly extraordinary after decades of global warming propaganda is that he concludes that there has been no statistically significant increase in annu... | 1_4 |
In this one, at about 2 minutes, even with the resolution turned up high, we have a dramatic tear wiped from what looks like a dry eye. | 0_0 |
Global Warming Reducing Temperature Stress on Chinese Rice | 3_2 |
I wonder what she might teach her students at TAFE? A balanced view of climate science enabling the students to use their own minds to evaluate the various arguments? Or ramming Gore-based propaganda down their throats? I wonder | 0_0 |
How is it possible that so many politicians, their huge bureaucracies, important groups in the scientific establishment, an important segment of business people and almost all journalists see it differently? The only reasonable explanation is that ? without having paid sufficient attention to the arguments ? they have ... | 5_2 |
But we didn?t learn the lesson. Half of the U.S. Senate thinks it needs corn ethanol subsidies to get re-elected. President Obama thinks corn ethanol is ?rural development,? not realizing that half the increase in corn farmers? profits comes from the pockets of their neighbors who are paying double for the grain they f... | 0_0 |
In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Wu et al . thus indicate that their results suggest "future increases in CO 2 would favor increased growth rates of larger diatoms, especially in productive regions, which may act to increase the rate and efficiency of carbon export from the surface to the deep sea." And this... | 3_1 |
Competitive Enterprise Institute General Counsel Sam Kazman said after the ruling that "as the government's course of action here demonstrates, there's a clear pattern when it comes to this administration: In dealing with global warming issues, agencies tend to act illegally." | 0_0 |
With erect posture and clear gray eyes, Chuck Provini still looks like the Marine who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1969 and was repeatedly decorated for bravery in Vietnam. | 0_0 |
Suddenly this "aristocracy based on talent and sensibility," in Siegel's words, seems to be discrediting its own policies and its conceit that it is uniquely fit to govern. | 0_0 |
I've written this week's column with the specific intent of giving you verbiage that you can simply cut and paste into the comment form. | 0_0 |
Another German in the audience said this was the saddest day of his life. He, too, had hoped that mindless, compulsory agreement with the State and disruption of discussions by anyone who disagreed had been swept away from Europe forever at the end of the Second World War. | 0_0 |
Midwesterners Leery of DOE Greenhouse Gas Program | 0_0 |
Eliminating Tall Tales from Fat Tails: On her web site, Climate Etc., Judith Curry discusses the issue of climate sensitivity, the temperature response of the climate to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. The fat tails are the significant error ranges on the high-end of possible temperature increases from enhanced ... | 5_1 |
137. Such improper chilling of free, robust and uninhibited public debate over climate change taints and skews the democratic process and distorts the resulting governmental public policy response to alleged global warming. | 0_0 |
Further, we should mention the possibility of confusing the public, and often many scientists as well, by clever use of words. I will give just two examples: | 0_0 |
50-60: Pension advisers. More doctor appointments | 0_0 |
In more detail, the ACORN-SAT Melbourne minimum temperatures before 1990 are shifted up relative to the raw data. The stepped adjustments would suggest instrument changes but the BOM records show thus is not the case. Further, there is no sign of the step changes in the direct Melbourne temperature records. An upward c... | 5_1 |
It was inevitable that sooner or later a court would be persuaded to declare that the threat of climate change requires judicial intervention. But whatever one thinks about climate change science and the severity of the threat to human populations, the Dutch court decision is a clear usurpation of the policymaking role... | 0_0 |
The result was an overall cooling effect that completely contradicts claims made by NASAs own climatology division that greenhouse gases are a cause of global warming. As illustrated by data collected using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), both carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxid... | 2_3 |
> >> thinking about these issues in Africa. For the first of the two | 0_0 |
As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration increases, it is likely that young mint and thyme plants will exhibit increases in photosynthesis and biomass production. Thus, the yields of these species in commercial herb farms should rise right along with future increases in the air's CO 2 content. The results of this study al... | 3_3 |
As he explained in the UN's world Commission on Environment and Development (UNCED) August 28, 1991, report: "It is clear that the current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicle... | 0_0 |
At the time, there was a unanimous consensus that the Earth was cooling, but James Hansen is just plain smarter thanthe NASA scientists in the 1960s who were still able to put a man on the moon. | 1_2 |
1878 : Universal Drought Across Australasia And The South Seas | 0_0 |
Another of the repellent tricks of Nazism and Fascism is to poke fun at the physical disabilities of one?s opponents. The Guardian, the British equivalent of Der Sturmer, the in-house journal of Hitler?s Sturmabteilung, has been running a rather childish hate-campaign against me for three years, ever since I successful... | 0_0 |
Another way of analyzing the Stern Review's conclusions was provided by Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at Cambridge University. Sir Partha noted that Stern's estimated costs of only 1% of total global economic output to 2200 would have to be paid by 2050. Thus the costs should have been av... | 0_0 |
The full text is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. | 0_0 |
Climate change is now quite clearly a purely political issue. So, when will a politician emerge possessing the temerity to stake out a position daring to state the truth about the US and climate change, that our rate of increase of CO2 emissions is among the best and maybe even the very best in the developed world over... | 0_0 |
This peer reviewed essay, which is heavily footnoted/referenced, addresses global warming and the possibility changes in policy would lessen its effects. The global warming impact of substituting natural gas for coal and oil is currently in debate. The paper compares the reduction of warming that would result from subs... | 0_0 |
America and the world will be cleaner, greener and more prosperous with an abundant supply of energy. It was heartening to hear President Obama acknowledge this reality saying, "the bottom line is this: Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we... | 4_5 |
Nothing can beat the intellectual excitement and satisfaction you get from research in the field and in the laboratory, Bao said. | 0_0 |
This suite of "aragonitic cold-water coral species," as the eleven researchers describe them, "collectively show an overall trend of higher ??pH values that is anti-correlated with seawater pH, with systematics generally consistent with biologically controlled pH up-regulation." And this result indicates that, "like sy... | 3_2 |
As to why the form of El Nio is changing to El Nio Modoki, thats not entirely clear yet, said Webster. | 0_0 |
Solomon cites a particular volunteer editor who goes by the pseudonym of "Tabletop" (real name Kim Dabelstein). | 0_0 |
If there's something wrong about the weather record, it must affect pretty much "most" of the raw data from the weather stations. Those raw data are used in pretty much all the datasets mentioned in the previous paragraph which could explain the high degree of their agreement (even if all of them are very inaccurate). ... | 5_1 |
The Arctic is getting greener as plant growth increases in response to a warmer climate. This greater plant growth means more carbon is stored in the increasing biomass, so it was previously thought the greening would result in more carbon dioxide being taken up from the atmosphere, thus helping to reduce the rate of g... | 3_1 |
Once a major storm makes landfall, it tends to sweep across the state, leaving destruction in its wake. With hurricane season well under way, it's time to devote some attention to ways that Florida can make itself more resistant to a cycle of storm damage that won't ease any time soon. | 0_0 |
As shown in our figure, the increase in Antarctic ice extent has been quite impressive, especially since approximately 2000. | 1_1 |
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