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Low temperature records are falling by the hundreds this winter. This is occurring despite the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicting that extreme cold outbreaks will become less frequent and less severe. When a theory's predictions are contradicted by real-world events, sound science requires us to ... | 1_3 |
Here's what Jon Entine, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has to say about the scientific consensus on GMOs: | 0_0 |
George Will??s statement is essentially that the blue the dot at the end of 2008 represents more ice than the dot at the end of 1979. This is true as factoids often are. | 1_1 |
This new peer-reviewed research regarding the Hudson Bay sea ice issue indicates there is actually no trend of earlier sea ice breakup in the area. The data analysis does show, though, a one-time shift to an earlier breakup date during late 1980's, but no trend prior or post to that event that can be attributed to AGW ... | 0_0 |
In a sane world, this exhibit would be considered to be satire. | 0_0 |
First, they claimed that Mitchell had deleted all the emails concerning AR4. (This excuse came on June 2, 2008, three days after Jones had sent an email asking Mann, Briffa, Ammann and Wahl to delete their emails concerning AR4. We know that Jones and Briffa had corresponded with Mitchell in March about Holland??s requ... | 5_2 |
What Sierra Club focused on was Obama's call for "new sources of energy" other than the traditional ones. He was referring to solar and wind energy. A recent news article on CNSNews noted that "Solar power, which President Barack Obama promoted accounted for 0.2% of the U.S. electricity supply in the first nine months ... | 0_0 |
So how would a proxy for cold water become one of the most important contributors to the Moberg (And Juckes) reconstructions of NH temperature? The shortest answer is that it has a hockey stick shape ??? indeed, the HS-ness of the proxy was observed in an early publication of this data in which it was actually overlaid... | 5_1 |
The development of this sentiment was not inevitable. President Obama took power with the strong support of most Americans, who hoped and believed he could make America whole again. Instead, in his deeds and in his words, in what he has done and in what he has failed to do, he has alienated the vast American middle. | 0_0 |
And here is one thing that was better for me but I guess must be worse for the Left since they complain about it so much | 0_0 |
The figures also show that all three climate cycles reached their maximum shortly after the end of the last millennium. With that in mind, we actually should have expected even higher temperatures than those seen in previous warm periods. Here perhaps the fact that the global temperature has seen a negative overall tre... | 2_1 |
The record shows no trend. Even the long warming fromt he Little Ice Age has stopped. | 1_4 |
Normally, a supply barge arrives in the Amundsen Gulf in early summer to replenish stocks of fuel and other necessities, says the CBC. But this year, that trip is being held up by ice. As much as 30 to 40 per cent of the Arctic Ocean remains covered in ice. | 1_1 |
Modern coal-fired power stations with efficient pollution controls do not release detectable particulates or noxious gases. Bans on dirty combustion and more clean electricity will clear the smog of Asian cities.All gases in the atmosphere have an effect on global climate, usually a moderating one, reducing the intense... | 0_0 |
Question: What is the degree of overlap in the data sets that are used to construct the global average surface temperature trend analyses? To frame this question another way, what raw surface temperature data is used in each analysis that is not used in the other analyses? | 0_0 |
author's name is known, but the reviewers remain anonymous. This is | 0_0 |
America is now engaged in a significant reappraisal of foreign policy, true to Ike's first warning. Our challenge now is to take to heart, to defend ourselves against the utopian quest to remake the world not only abroad, but at home as well. With equal fervor, we need to heed Ike's second warning, to gird ourselves fo... | 0_0 |
As for the NAS, it has distanced itself from its former president and touted its own 91 report that gave credence to global-warming hysteria. Ironically, the NAS will release a report in spring 99 about what additional research might reduce the scientific uncertainty about global warming. | 0_0 |
The EPA could finally act on a December 2009 petitionby the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.Org to establish national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) and other GHGs. | 0_0 |
Experts say such winds today would rip windows from skyscrapers and cause a deadly blizzard of flying glass, masonry, chairs, desks and other debris from high-rise offices and apartments. People would seek safety in subway tunnels, where they would drown as the tunnels flood. | 0_0 |
In 2007 he worked for Current TV, where he edited over 50 short-form documentaries for terrestrial broadcast | 0_0 |
There is an interesting chart that shows typical baselines used for a sample of crops. In particular, note that the USDA zone maps are based on degree days with a very high baseline: | 0_0 |
Eric Pooley of Bloomberg Businessweek also dismissed the legitimacy and importance of the e-mail revelations. ?When the next climate scandalette comes along,? he said, ?some news organizations will surely play to hype and get carried away with their coverage- in effect, becoming a handy transmission belt for the profes... | 0_0 |
Stuart Varney interviews scientist Pat Michaels , with the CATO institute, who was the target of physical threat from Climate Scientist Ben . He also DESTROYS Dan Weiss , from the Center for American Progress. | 0_0 |
Accordingly, it is much more difficult to predict future regional climates and the benefits of GHG abatement for specific populations and countries across the planet than to predict global patterns. Yet, what matters for local populations in deciding whether to support GHG controls and their costs is the anticipated im... | 0_0 |
The graph above plots the ten year running mean of US hurricane strikes vs. atmospheric CO2. As you can see, there is no correlation between increasing CO2 and increasing hurricane strikes. | 1_7 |
The study was part of a larger nationwide study commissioned by the American Meteorological Society to look at extreme weather events in 2013 from a climate perspective. | 0_0 |
However, during a winter break in 2006, Bao obtained some unusual data from barite, a sulfate mineral dating from the Snowball Earth period that he received from a colleague in China. | 0_0 |
Further, the Arctic has been referred to as a bellwether for global warming, owing to the observed amplification of warming in the Arctic in the last quarter of the 20th century. Hence, the importance of sorting out exactly what is going on in the Arctic Ocean and why is of outsized importance relative to its 2.8% effe... | 0_0 |
Then this one has the cop in charge having participated in a crisis training drill, so clearly he could have staged one. OK, and I guess anyone who trains for nuclear preparation could start a nuclear war too? | 0_0 |
Other commentators have pointed out recently that, while Arctic ice is at record low levels since 1979, Antarctic sea ice levels are at or close to record highs. I thought, therefore, that this might be a good time to look at satellite temperatures for the two poles. | 1_1 |
Not only did Arctic ice make a spectacular recovery this year, but the remaining ice is relatively thick and the water is cold. | 1_1 |
It is hard to convey just how bad this decision is; five members of the nation's highest court signed off on an opinion that, were it submitted as an answer to a first-year law exam on statutory interpretation and administrative law, would get a failing grade. | 0_0 |
the president of the Royal Society of London drafted a resolution in favour and circulated it to other academies of science inviting co-signing. The president of the RSC, not a member of the Academy of Science, received the invitation. He considered it consistent with the position of the great majority of scientists, a... | 5_2 |
Vice President Al Gore threatened to shut down the federal government if Congress does not approve President Clinton's environmental funding requests. "We are putting Congress on notice," said Gore. "We will not tolerate stealth attacks that do unacceptable harm to our environment or threaten public health." | 0_0 |
I sent an e-mail to EIKE to get their opinion on DIE ZEITs perception of the skeptic movement. They replied, addressing the warmist movement in general: | 0_0 |
Twenty years ago this week, Bill Clinton put us on the path which kept temperatures below Scenario C. | 0_0 |
At the end of 2011, federal ethanol subsidies worth 45 cents a gallon expired, in place since the 1980s, along with protective tariffs. But, the recently reduced mandate remained and it continues to provide farmers with benefits at the expense of American consumers. | 0_0 |
A COOL LATE SEASON STORM SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS OVER SHERMAN PASS TODAY. | 0_0 |
Dozens of people registered to vote out of office towers, but who did not list a suite number, causing the address to read similarly to ordinary residences - in many cases, these people are also registered to vote in other ridings using their home addresses, and in other cases, voters living in other ridings are only r... | 0_0 |
3. Renewable energy sources should always be used when it makes economic sense to do so. The less that governments intervene the more likely it is that this will happen. | 0_0 |
Over century-long time frames, a lot can change. In 1910 the idea of global air commerce was a gleam perhaps in a poet's imagination, but hardly forecast. Global air miles exploded by 1960, and continued ballooning for the next 50 years. The central challenge is not forecasting how many air miles we'll fly in 2110, or ... | 0_0 |
Genetic engineering serves as a proxy for what many latter-day Luddites find repulsive. The notion that the production of food is just as much science as art is disquieting to many people. Genetic manipulation serves as the most visible example of the type of cellular-level impersonality they cannot abide in modern far... | 0_0 |
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7. Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Weiner, The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years (New York: Macmillan, 1967). | 0_0 |
Today there is so much installed capacity, Bild writes, that on days with lots of sunshine and wind, the green power has to be sold to foreign countries even if they dont need it. When that happens the highly subsidized power gets sold at negative prices. The result? Huge losses for power companies. This is how disfigu... | 4_4 |
Useful ones might be Baldwin, Benestad (written on the solar/cloud | 0_0 |
The era of big government is definitely not over, but the era of top loading washing machines and freedom of choice apparently is. | 0_0 |
"The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 30 years ago is being granted additional time away from the Washington psychiatric hospital where he lives." | 0_0 |
Earth has the same amount of sea ice as it did when Hansen made that forecast in 1984 | 1_1 |
A new study, "Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California," published in the August 24 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences garnered considerable press coverage in California and the rest of the nation on August 17. The Associated Press coverage was typical: | 0_0 |
While some other bloggers and journalists insist that recent winter snows are proof of global warming effects, they miss the fact that models have been predicting less snow in the norther hemisphere. See this 2005 peer reviewed paper: | 5_1 |
The data suggests that changing solar activity is influencing in some way the global climate causing the world to get warmer. | 2_1 |
Simple - Heat in, heat out equals climate change. This is why heat into water changes the temperature. The same is true for cold in/cold out and why winter is predictable every year. | 0_0 |
It seemed far more likely to us, with 17 candidates in the race, a new money system that made it easier for more to stay in longer with the help of one or two "sugar daddies" running Super PACs, a delegate selection process that would keep a race going longer, and a more radical populist zeitgeist, that Trump and Cruz ... | 0_0 |
Individual responses were based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous observations and rates of ice loss, or composites of several approaches. | 0_0 |
At The American Spectator, Shawn Macomber has very good article on Warren Brookes, after whom CEI's journalism fellowship is named. He highlights Brookes's debunking of radical green hokum: | 0_0 |
Researchers at the Ohio State University Survey Research Unit have taken a unique approach to understanding public opinion on global warming. Between Sept. 1 and Oct. 5, 1997, before President Clinton launched the White House Conference on Climate Change on Oct. 6 at Georgetown University, they conducted a national tel... | 0_0 |
There's an interesting illustration of the intellectual class zeitgeist in the Fox story as well. Note how Friedman goes out of his way to point out that he isn't one of those horrible deniers. It's the 21st-century equivalent of "Some of my best friends are black." | 0_0 |
A problem with this approach is that GCM projections are relatively poor scenario generators. | 0_0 |
Mitt Romney: He says he's not interested in 2012, but the former Massachusetts governor's Free and Strong America political action committee donated to seventy-five GOP candidates nationwide, plus efforts to stop same-sex marriage in California and marijuana decriminalization in Massachusetts. | 0_0 |
In concert with the ads, several Green pressure groups are releasing "studies" about global warming. The World Wildlife Fund for Nature, released a report that warned of flooding in New York and Tokyo, droughts in Latin America, and the destruction of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. "Evidence for the warming of our pla... | 0_0 |
Considering the long years of media-driven drivel about global warming, the hoax should have been over by now, given the exposure in 2009 of thousands of emails between the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)conspirators and growing body of evidence that everything they asserted was a great steaming pil... | 5_2 |
This is a serious problem which has not been addressed by any existing climate change assessment. | 0_0 |
Is the Presidents renewed emphasis on climate changejust a sop to his environmentalist base? Doubtful.As a second termer, Obama has less reason politically to restrain his progressive impulses.Several regulatory options are now in play: | 0_0 |
Elsewhere they note the Newport, Rhode Island, tide gauge provides a 0.9-mm/y rate as well. The residual sea-level trend shows no apparent agreement with that of atmospheric CO2. When a Guilford marsh reconstruction is detrended and compared to the CO2 record of the same period, there is no indication of an exponential... | 1_6 |
A Clinton victory could inspire a return to the old playbook | 0_0 |
/s/ Al Worden JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 15, 9 years | 0_0 |
There are two factors that suggest Hopewells record may not be totally reliable. | 0_0 |
Stott isnt alone. Within the past two years, at least seven peer-reviewed studies published in the scientific literature have concluded that the influence of doubling the amount of CO 2 in the Earths atmosphere is likely to be substantially lower than IPCC has determined and have ruled out the high-end projections. | 3_1 |
To hear the Obama Administration explain it, Russia and the United States have common interests in Syria, difficult though it may be to reach an agreement based on them. We both want a stable Syria. Neither one of us wants the jihadi radicals to end up in charge of the country. We both want religious and ethnic minorit... | 0_0 |
As Nunavut government biologist Mitch Taylor observed in a front-page story in the Nunatsiaq News last month, the Inuit were right. There arent just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears. | 3_2 |
"The EPA claims that global warming will lead to catastrophic sea level rise, inundating parts of Florida, but the science does not support these alarmist claims," commented CEI's Paul Georgia, environmental research associate and managing editor of the Cooler Heads a bi-weekly newsletter covering global warming issues... | 5_2 |
Alan Caruba has good advice for humanity get over ourselves : | 0_0 |
None of whats going on today is outside long term variations in ice cover and thickness . On November 20, 1817 the President of the Royal Society proposed a letter to the British Admiralty: | 1_1 |
one of America's great manufacturing states is absurd on its face, but | 0_0 |
The Economist has a response to Howards talk, titled: Global Warming and Religion: Faith Upon the Earth. This essay is on the Economistss Erasmus Blog, which considers the intersections between religion and public policy. Excerpts: | 0_0 |
Second, the issue of less egregious bullying where people outside the predominant leftist consensus are considered beyond the pale. This one is rampant in climate science. The ostracism of non-consensus scientists (most recently Lennaert Bengtsson, see also the recent article on John Christy ), both publicly and privat... | 5_2 |
?(The summary for policymakers) is a document written to scare to public and scare the politicians into providing more funding for their own research and their own political agenda,? he said. ?The actual science report, which it supposedly is based on isn?t going to be released right away. They?ve always done it his wa... | 5_2 |
Since Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a suite of anti-coal regulations, collectively known as the "war on coal," which to date has lead to the loss of 26,000 megawatts of coal-fired electricityenough to power 20 million to 26 million homes. And that's just ... | 0_0 |
Noting that "many predictions of the impact of climate change on biodiversity assume a species-specific response to changing environments," Seebacher et al . proceed to argue, on the basis of their results, that "this resolution can be too coarse and that analysis of the impacts of climate change and other environmenta... | 3_2 |
To calculate the trends I used the OLS method, both from the formula and using the EXCEL LINEST function, getting the same answer each time. If you are able please check my calculations . The GISTEMP Southern Hemisphere and global data can be accessed direct from the NASA GISS website . The GISTEMP trends are from the ... | 0_0 |
Greenlands surface gained mass yesterday for the first time this summer. The net surface gain over the past year has been 300 billion tons. | 1_1 |
Bob Greenes postings on the M6 have some factual inaccuracies: | 0_0 |
Nicolas Loris, The Foundry , 25 July 2011 | 0_0 |
said that MJ restricted their use of paleo series to those that had correlations with | 0_0 |
Desperation Breeds Contempt for Free Speech, Freedom Itself | 0_0 |
The most valuable contribution U.S. scientists can make is to continually question basic assumptions and conclusions, promote clear and careful appraisal and presentation of the uncertainties about climate change as well as those areas in which science is leading to robust conclusions, and work toward a significant imp... | 0_0 |
We could also use a bit more skepticism regarding claims about human contributions to climate change. These claims depend on the output of climate models that purport to demonstrate a causal link between the observed atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases and surface temperatures. But these models do a poor job of rep... | 5_1 |
Adjacent is another study confirming the lack of prediction skill emanating from the IPCC. India still is hammered by monsoons but rainfall amounts are no different than in the past. | 5_1 |
Let's walk through the numbers. In 2005, domestic ethanol output totaled about 170,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, and domestic oil production was about 5.2 million barrels per day. By 2014, thanks to federal mandates that require its consumption, domestic ethanol output had nearly quadrupled to 620,000 barrels ... | 0_0 |
Over at Tallblokes Talkshop , moderator Tim Channon wondered about this regularly hot station reported in the news: | 0_0 |
Dr. Roger A. Pielke Sr. is Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado in Boulder and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. His books include Mesoscale Meteorological Modelin... | 0_0 |
This is laughably false and illustrated by over 3,000 peer-reviewed published scientific papers cited, analyzed, and referenced on this little unpaid-volunteer blog alone, not to mention many others, The NIPCC Report , and blogs by top climate scientists . The UCS is clearly projecting it's own shameful tactics of "try... | 5_1 |
Divesting fossil fuels portfolios is also financially imprudent. Fossil-fuel stocks are among the best for solid, risk-adjusted returns. One analysis found that a 2.1% share in fossil fuel companies by colleges and universities generated 5.7% of all endowment gains in 2010 to 2011, to fund scholarship, building, and ot... | 0_0 |
Christopher M. Taylor, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Franoise Guichard, Phil P. Harris & Wouter A. Dorigo Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils will be published in Nature on 12 September 2012. www.nature.com DOI 10.1038/nature11377 | 0_0 |
Their paper - now known to be seriously flawed (click the hockey stick graph for an article by an esteemed physicist) - was going to argue that there were virtually no natural variations of the climate in the past 600 years (and in 1999, millenium) or so and only in the industrial era of the 20th century, the temperatu... | 5_1 |
The structure of ACESA virtually assures that it will impose higher than necessary costs to achieve the climate benefits for which it aims. | 0_0 |
Governments have funded thousands of scientists to study one sort of problem. The unwritten rules of climate science research are fairly clear: workers will be rewarded if they find one kind of answer, and called a denier, defunded, sacked, and basically exiled in the tea-rooms of universities around Australia if they ... | 0_0 |
... was disappointed, however, that the poster abstract submitted with Lloyd Keigwin (WHOI), Misrepresentations of Sargasso Sea Temperatures by Global Warming Doubters, was rejected. It had to be truly disappointing when LFCS named Mark Boslough learned that Dr Chlek didn't want incompetent aggressive crackpots to expl... | 5_2 |
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