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During the last ice age, the East Coast got pushed upwards by a huge mass of ice depressing the interior of Canada and raising the surrounding regions. Now that the ice has melted in Canada, the East Coast is sinking back to its original elevation. The apparent rise in sea level has nothing to do with global warming. I... | 1_6 |
none of our work is propaganda. More than 100 academics and 150 elected officials participate in our research and education programs. | 0_0 |
Going through the NSR permitting process can cost more than $1 million and add a year or more to the time needed to preview proposed plant modifications.3 Installing BACT or LAER technology can cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for a single plant. A typical turbine efficiency improvement project at a po... | 0_0 |
* IPCC computer climate models have thus far not been able to predict warming or other climate changes accurately for even short, 10-year periods. It is therefore highly unlikely that they can do so for 100 years in the future. Therefore, they should not be used as the basis for energy and economic policies. | 5_1 |
Computer model predictions of 1.4-4.5 C global warming per CO2 doubling have remained unchanged for 36 years: yet the IPCCs medium-term global warming predictions made 25 years ago have proven exaggerated by a factor of two. Would it not have been appropriate at least to mention the models continuing exaggerations? | 5_1 |
doctrine of counterinsurgency aims to gain enough of local citizens' trust that they will help find rebel fighters and build governance structures, | 0_0 |
Unfortunately market forces were not favorable to Mr. Pickens, and in December 2010 he announced that he is getting out of the wind power business . What does he plan to do with his $2 billion worth of idle wind turbines? He is trying to sell them to Canada , because of Canadian law that mandates consumers to buy more ... | 4_4 |
Wherever I served in the world, I have never avoided the contact with the local populaces both contacts related to my healthcare services or simple conversations sparked by random encounters with the people or mutual visits. That's why I never depended exclusively on the NATO-related information sources but I could als... | 0_0 |
Let's not kid ourselves: Someone will want to turn the planet's minerals into energy until every last bit of coal and oil is gone. | 0_0 |
The four fast-track projects in jeopardy of losing stimulus funds due to eagle issues would alone generate about 416 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power roughly a half million U.S. homes during peak usage. | 0_0 |
This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below: | 1_1 |
Now the EPA's "observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century" has dropped from 0.702 C down to 0.486 Cand about 31% of increase from anthropogenic GHGs is gone. | 0_0 |
My main results are: Looking at the data 12 possible ways, I get 9 results that say reject the IPCC best estimate to a confidence of 95%. | 0_0 |
Four years ago, Republicans were riding high. The Bush re-election was the first since 1936 in which both the incumbent president won and his party gained seats in both houses of Congress. Republicans had also done well in 2002winning back control of the Senate. It was the first time since 1934 that a president's party... | 0_0 |
In early January, Mark D. Green, the editor of Energy Tomorrow, a project of the American Petroleum Institute, examined the reality of our vast energy sources. Keep in mind that every product we purchase is dependent in some way on oil. "Every day 143 U.S. refineries convert an average of 15 million barrels of crude oi... | 4_5 |
The ongoing rise in the airs CO2 content is causing a great greening of the Earth, the report adds. There is little or no risk of increasing food insecurity due to global warming or risingatmospheric CO2 levels. | 3_3 |
Via Instapundit "The University of East Anglias Climategate inquiries were not sufficiently transparent and failed to properly investigate some key issues, the Commons Science and Technology Committee has concluded. | 0_0 |
While the excitement from solar proponents is palpable, it is surprising how shameless they are about sucking the government teat while bemoaning the low price of natural gaswhich Solar Industry Magazine calls "a fly in the ointment" and "inconvenient." It blames "new technologies for oil and gas extraction" (no wonder... | 0_0 |
Global Warming: Melting Down the Facts About this Overheated Myth | 0_0 |
"This fifth generation of Soviet leaders was more confident of the regime's resilience. Gorbachev and his group appeared to believe that what was right was also politically manageable." | 0_0 |
Allan Sherman sincerely doubts that the world could do without his Good Advice . The comments are open for your Reader Tips. | 0_0 |
I often point out that the one-percenters already give back much more than they get. And we all (including Occupy Wall Street-ers) happily make that happen when we voluntarily exchange our money for iPhones, TVs, cars, microwaves, etc. Even our health insurance. We kick in a few extra percent for those entrepreneurs, r... | 0_0 |
The Pew poll broke down the electorate into component groups based on respondents' demographics and political attitudes. Two of the eight voting groups they identified help to explain why libertarians often think there is an easily reachable new constituency for limited government. These two groups were called Post-Mod... | 0_0 |
Markey's immediate response to the DOE studyreiterating stale, year-old talking points illustrates what can happen when politicians put ideological priorities ahead of independent science and economic analysis. | 0_0 |
The blaze is reminiscent of an earlier fire at the yard at the end of April, which took five days to put out. | 0_0 |
High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Road for America: | 0_0 |
After being nominated , Whitman was asked: Global warming, what is your thought on what the state of science is and what can be done to address it? She responded: Still somewhat uncertain. Clearly theres a hole in the ozone, that has been identified. But I saw a study the other day that showed that it was closing. Its ... | 0_0 |
A comprehensive environmental review by USDA scientists had concluded that a genetically engineered alfalfa variety was substantially equivalent to other conventional varieties and posed no genuine risks. Vilsack chose to ignore those findings and pandered to the organic food lobby by announcing that the Agriculture De... | 0_0 |
When I passed by, one called out: "That's Marita Noon! She supports the oil-and-gas industry! She doesn't believe in climate change!" Basking in my newfound celebrity, I turned, smiled, and waved as if I was greeting adoring fansand entered the building. | 0_0 |
In the last month, the Arctic Oscillation Index (AO) has gone strongly negative. You can see that it headed to its negative peak right about the time the Copenhagen Climate Conference started, so it is no wonder that they ironically experienced cold and snow there. It is also a setup for the record snow and cold Canada... | 1_3 |
The time has come to question the IPCC's status as the near-monopoly source of information and advice for its member governments. It is probably futile to propose reform of the present IPCC process. Like most bureaucracies, it has too much momentum and its institutional interests are too strong for anyone realistically... | 0_0 |
I f we'd had a warming due to CO2, this should appear as a deviation from the simple harmonic model since 1950.There are no signs of any additional heating due to CO2 as IPCC claims in their reports also CO2 effects of climate models for the IPCC based are exaggerated.The net effect of CO2 is thus so modest that it can... | 2_3 |
When capital is sufficiently available, would-be entrepreneurs at the bottom of the pyramid have demonstrated a willingness to launch new ventures and invest in their futures that is, to embrace free-market capitalism to the benefit of all concerned. | 0_0 |
Ice and snow are white, and reflect sunlight very effectively, Jacobson said. But because carbon is dark it absorbs sunlight, causing snow and ice to melt at accelerated rates. That exposes dark soil and dark seas. And again, because those surfaces are dark, they absorb even more thermal energy from the sunlight, estab... | 0_0 |
So, in todays post, Ill explain my results. But first, I will explain why I prefer to use merged data when comparing IPCC projections to data. | 0_0 |
Obama Admin Hides Official IPCC Correspondence from FOIA Using Former Romney Adviser John Holdren | 0_0 |
At a World Economic Forum in Davos, Vclav Klaus observed that all the participants of the meeting took man-made global warming for granted and convinced of its dangerous consequences. "Politicians fully subscribe to the idea that the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) publications represent "the" climate sci... | 0_0 |
The word "rainforest" was coined in 1898 by a German botanist to describe forests that grow in constantly wet conditions, with an average annual rainfall of 80 inches per year or more. There are differing kinds of rainforest including "flooded mangrove forests along the salty coastline of SE Asian islands, high-altitud... | 0_0 |
The IPCCs remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change. | 0_0 |
100,000 terminally ill "do not get proper palliative care': | 0_0 |
Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2 000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon. | 1_4 |
Our analysis shows that fewer extremely hot days were recorded over the past five years at both Observatory Hill and Parramatta than in the preceding five years of observation or the five years before that. | 1_7 |
An intriguing alternative has been floated by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.): a national nonprofit plan, not run by the government but with funding seeded by the federal government, available where private plans don't cut the mustard. | 0_0 |
McCarthy and the Post apparently neglected to notice that no UN category 3-5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005, setting a more than century-long record lull since 1900. In fact, NOAA and even the UN's alarmist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that there have been no incre... | 1_7 |
Of course this is not the first time scientists have been caught leaving out inconvenient data tending to disconfirm their pre-conceived conclusion humans are causing dangerous climate change. | 5_2 |
Internal EPA Document May Foreshadow Tax and Regulatory Actions | 0_0 |
Europe Adds Headache to Blair's Post-Election Hangover | 0_0 |
Organizations that receive government funding for climate research are surprisingly reluctant to have any public scrutiny or input. For example, the University of Virginia, Penn State and the University of East Anglia are using the courts to block disclosure of information relating to work paid for by taxpayers. These ... | 0_0 |
The world?s governing elites, however, no longer care about poverty. Climate change is their new focus. | 0_0 |
So, how many years does it take for a climatologist to accept that climate change, as opposed to weather fluctuation, has occurred (is "statistically significant")? The generally accepted time is 30 years. How long has the planet been warming? From the mid-1970s to no later than 1998. That's 23 years of warming, follow... | 0_0 |
Phony Science Begets Phony Public Policy | 0_0 |
Not only is Mr. Weaver an IPCC insider. He has also, over the years, generated his own volume of climate advocacy that often seemed to have crossed that dangerous line between hype and science. | 5_2 |
SCOTUS review of EPA's "Timing Rule" could deflate regulatory overreach | 0_0 |
The White House on 21st September released a Presidential Memorandum on Climate Change and National Security. Section 1 states its purpose: "This memorandum establishes a framework and directs Federal departments and agencies to perform certain functions to ensure that climate change-related impacts are fully considere... | 0_0 |
This study demonstrates the ability of certain corals to cope with the environmental stresses of sub-aerial exposure, including high substrate and air temperatures and solar irradiance. The authors noted that "tissue retraction in this species results in marked paling of color which has previously been interpreted as a... | 3_2 |
Its a knockout in the latest thriller in Manila where the President has axed his Office of the Presidential Adviser on Global Warning and Climate Change. Were saved, apparently. | 0_0 |
"Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor continues to hear cases in U.S. appeals courts, while also playing a role in public policy issues. Her critics say she should do one or the other, but not both." | 0_0 |
The whole theory rests on the ???coincidence?? of a CO2 dip of 7ppm in 1610 with the depth of the Little Ice Age, er, apparently 180 or so years later (according to their graph). Greenhouses gases can absorb infra red at the speed of light, and they drive the climate, we just don??t see the correlation, right? Yeah, ba... | 2_3 |
Spending fifty cents on a fancy bottle of soda water "guaranteed to cure all ills" is one thing. Spending more than our entire national economy on chasing an ephemera well, that's the sort of malfeasance of which impeachment charges are made. Before this scandal broke, a majority of Americans wanted no part of the "cap... | 0_0 |
Since at least the 1840s when sunspot cycles were discovered, scientists have proposed that solar variability could affect the climate, but direct evidence of that relationship and understanding of a mechanism have been lacking. | 0_0 |
As illustrated and discussed in If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads? , the IPCCs climate models cannot simulate the rates at which surface temperatures warmed and cooled since 1901 on a global basis, so their failings on a zonal-mean basis as discussed in ... | 5_1 |
Nor is Hansen part of the hallowed scientific "consensus" on global warming. He's much more apocalyptic. He still predicts faster and much greater sea-level rises, ice-sheet meltings and species extinctions than the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. | 5_2 |
But this is not to say that we may not raise other obstaclessome even in the name of doing something about climate change. For instance, a new study by Indur Goklany (2011) concluded that in 2010 alone the biofuels policies of the developed world caused 192,000 excess deaths in the developing world, from malnutrition a... | 4_4 |
I wonder how sea life manages to outrun El Nio and La Nia ENSO events without being cooked in place? These have far greater temperature variability in shorter time spans than climate change. | 0_0 |
Additionally, our estimates of climate sensitivity using our SCM and the four instrumental temperature records range from about 1.5 C to 2.0 C. These are on the low end of the estimates in the IPCCs Fourth Assessment Report. So, while we find that most of the observed warming is due to human emissions of LLGHGs, future... | 3_1 |
In short, most of the forcing predicted by the IPCC is either an exaggeration or has already resulted in whatever temperature change it was going to cause. There is little global warming in the pipeline as a result of our past and present sins of emission. | 3_1 |
(A) They proclaim the results and declare success before an experiment is completed (at 12m10s, the mp3 file above). In AGW, just look to the countless documents that take lAGW same as established truth, although the debate itself on the attribution of observed changes still very open. | 0_0 |
Prof. Lindzen critiques climate model calculations. We are expected to swoon over the fact that climate models, which are run on supercomputers, are state-of-the-art achievements in science. But ???state-of-the-art?? does not always mean accurate, or even useful, if the art is still in its infancy. | 5_1 |
Fire at R Plevin & Sons, Crow Edge on Wednesday | 0_0 |
On Thursday, the Met Office launched its new report on global warming, UK Climate Predictions 2009 otherwise known as UKCP09 . This is based on the output of Hadley Centre climate models that predict temperature increases of up to 6C with wetter winters, dryer summers, more heatwaves, rising sea levels, more floods and... | 5_2 |
Bottom Line: The statistical evidence on violent tornadoes, although frequently ignored by the media, politicians, and others claiming a link between violent weather and climate change, suggests that the frequency of violent tornadoes like the recent one in Moore, Oklahoma, has been declining over time, not increasing. | 1_7 |
The first report comes from the London School of Economics, and was sponsored by the neo-Malthusian organization, the Optimum Population Trust (OPT, patron: Sir David Attenborough). | 0_0 |
Ball also rejects the contention that climate change brings on more extreme weather events, not just higher temperatures. He said hurricane season was very quiet this year and tornadoes were down as well. He chalked up record high and low temperatures to the jet stream shifting from a west-east flow to more of a north-... | 1_7 |
After all, the late 1650s were quite warm years during a long cooling period in Europe that lasted from 1525 to 1800, and encouraged the establishment of the Central England Temperature Record in 1659. Indeed, in 1658 the Lord Protector (Britain's all powerful head of statea monarch in all important respects), Oliver C... | 0_0 |
On the same day of one of NASAs proudest achievements, the landing of the rover Curiosity on Mars , Dr. James Hansen and PNAS went on a media blitz to push a paper that is so technically flawed, that if it were a spacecraft, it would surely have burned up in the atmosphere due to a faulty understanding of that atmosphe... | 0_0 |
KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing on KUSI-TV on January 14 at 9 p.m. EST. A related report will be made available on the Internet at 6 p.m. EST on January 14 at www.kusi.com. | 0_0 |
Also, catch the date on emails withheld as being correspondence to Phil Jones and others in the deliberative processof drafting IPCC 5th Assessment Report, written before there was an AR5 deliberative process (for whatever that is worth: Arizona??s law recognizes no such exemption; also, IPCC acknowledges performing no... | 5_2 |
The news release is largely based on a statistical analysis of rainfall data. Few details are given, but it is obvious that the analysis did not properly model autoregression. When proper modeling is done, I am confident that there will not be a significant increase in either rainfall or extreme rainfall events. Indeed... | 5_1 |
Summarizing, neither meltwater forcing nor volcanic forcing is likely an able candidate to generate a significant global cooling trend. The biases in current models, if they exist, are more likely to be related to their sensitivity to the orbital forcing and additional feedbacks in climate models. Whatever the biases, ... | 0_0 |
Parts of the green movement have become hijacked by a political agenda and now operate like multinational corporations, according to two senior scientists and members of the House of Lords. | 5_2 |
That will undoubtedly change sooner or later. The Democratic Party, dating to the 1832 national convention engineered by Martin Van Buren to nominate Andrew Jackson for a second term, is the oldest political party in the world. It has had fallow periods some rather long in the past, and has come back to win again. | 0_0 |
Unless, that is, you dare to question the idea of man-made global warming. That, apparently, puts you beyond the pale. You can insist the 1969 Apollo moon landing was staged, or that 9/11 was an "inside job," and it's "live and let live" time. But disagree with the view that climate change is not only occurring but is ... | 0_0 |
Dissenters also see little evidence that Hamas can be made to knuckle under. Israel's former ambassador to Germany, Shimon Stein, said, "The real question is, if we sign an agreement with Abbas, can he deliver? Can he live up to it? Can he make Hamas comply? I don't think so." | 0_0 |
Also, there is nothing in the ocean heat content records or satellite-era sea surface temperature data to indicate greenhouse gases were responsible for their warming. That is, the data indicate the oceans warmed naturally. If that topic is new to you, refer to the illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge... | 2_1 |
Longer term the sun is behaving like it did in the last 1700s and early 1800s, leading many to believe we are likely to experience conditions more like the early 1800s (called the Dalton Minimum) in the next few decades. That was a time of cold and snow. It was the time of Charles Dickens and his novels with snow and c... | 1_2 |
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said. | 0_0 |
So, knowing Fred Singer, for example, helped me understand what makes for warm periods and cooling interspersed related to sun cyles. | 2_1 |
Molly Maple: Hey, Heath, you gonna participate in Earth Day activities this year? | 0_0 |
The return of both China and Islam in world history after a three-century-long eclipse has been the defining feature of the international stage since 1979. | 0_0 |
One topic on their agenda is the fate of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which was meant to curb our carbon emissions and which expires in 2012. | 0_0 |
But this considerably understates therisks. Ifjust 1% of the 1.2 million facilities that would become major stationary sources of CO 2 undertake new construction ormodifications,EPA and its state counterparts would have to process 12,000PSD permits per year. The ensuing administrative quagmire would bring new construct... | 0_0 |
is 351 ft tall , or 107 meters, or over 30-stories | 0_0 |
Meet David Crane , president and CEO of NRG Energy , the nations biggest independent power producer (IPP). This companysdiversified generation interests are fueled by every energy source from coal to wind. | 0_0 |
Ben you are gonna need a bigger sick bag | 0_0 |
Temperatures are plummeting across the globe, but the models are heating up. They probably sense a threat to their funding with the new Congress, and are responding by generating even more nonsensical scenarios. | 5_2 |
Worst, all this fakery pales next to what the full Energy and Commerce Committee had blessed as proof of imminent Climate Armageddon in April 2009. The Democrats' superstar witness was renowned climatologist Al Gore, who had earned a C and a D in the only science courses he took in college. | 5_2 |
The Heartland Institute's second Women in Politics Event, held just days before the 2016 election in our Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center, was simply fantastic. Speakers included Illinois Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti; Illinois state Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno; and Linda J. Hansen, deputy chief of staff for ... | 0_0 |
Now the issue is front and center again because of Kennedy and the extended search by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez (R)a seat Crist himself is seeking in the November 2010 election. | 0_0 |
The second front is installing sunset provisions. Like a carton of milk, every newly created regulation should have an expiration date, beyond which it gets discarded unless renewed by Congress. Obsolete rules should not be on the books at all. | 0_0 |
Although some ice researchers believe that it all lies within the natural variability, s like second green have it that istillvxten some way must have been caused by global warming. The stronger the winds could easily have been caused by a warmer climate, they say. And it fits ice cases well into The IPCC storyline whe... | 0_0 |
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