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on Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at 5:51 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
"The next administration, the Congress, and the courts" could argue "you can't repeal the Environmental Protection Agency regulations or overturn them in court, we made an international commitment," Ebell said. | 0_0 |
Undaunted, Davis set out to organize workers at these hospitals and then threaten strikes if management refused to acknowledge the union. His first conquest was Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, which 1199 organized in 1958. Seven other voluntary hospitals caved, following a 46-day strike against them that began ... | 0_0 |
Zeke has a post at Skeptical Science: Understanding adjustments to temperature data | 0_0 |
Finally, there is the problem of enforcement of any international agreement. If countries do not adhere, then global mitigation objectives cannot be met, and new rounds of negotiations become necessary. Global GHG emissions-detection technologies may be insufficient to identify breaches when there are many sources of t... | 4_2 |
"An elderly Upper East Side woman claims a sanitation agent chased her, threatened her with arrest and slapped her with a ticket for putting day-old newspapers in a city trash can." | 0_0 |
valuable thing to do is to tell the story about abrupt change as vividly as | 0_0 |
With our nation drowning in debt, energy prices skyrocketing, and unaccountable pseudo-scientific agencies like EPA and Interior hobbling economic growth with endless delays and red tape, Dr. Robinson decided to run for Congress. As a scientist and thoughtful, Christian family man, with proven math and budgetary skills... | 0_0 |
Why we argue climate change: Settled science isnt necessarily so | 0_0 |
The incident reveals that Beijing is willing to use its increased economic strength as a tool of coercion, no matter the consequences for its own standing in international markets. But that is not all it reveals. Indeed, this is one in a series of arguments and incidents between China and Japan over the last decade rel... | 0_0 |
The focus on greenhouse gas mitigation, both domestically andinternationally, has been misplaced, and the money and attention ofworld leaders toward greenhouse gas mitigation efforts would be bestdirected elsewhere. | 4_2 |
The column by Frances Beinecke (Despite misinformation effort, U.S. is targeting climate change, July 11) recites all the tired myths and cliches of the global warming movement but offers not one iota of evidence. One would have hoped the leader of an organization with an annual budget of more than $100 million would b... | 5_2 |
Certainly, if the method wereas Burger and Cubasch claimprone to using nonsense predictors when applied to multiproxy network with the signal-to-noise attributes of the Rutherford et al (2005) proxy network, and calibrating over intervals with trends similar to those in the actual observations, there would be at least ... | 0_0 |
Don't get me wrong. I am quite hawkish when it comes to the exertion of an expansive federal power to combat genuine national security threats. But my tolerance for such authority only reaches "national security" challenges as they are fairly traditionally construed (e.g., dealing with the threats presented by people w... | 0_0 |
Australians would be well advised to watch this green train wreck very closely if they wish to avoid a repeat of the fiasco that is unfolding in Europe. | 0_0 |
NEW YORKFormer President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new climate initiative Monday to help cities measure their risk for severe weather and natural disasters. The hope is to help curb the impact of deadly storms like Superstorm Sandy, which devastated parts of New York City last O... | 0_0 |
The five Chinese researchers report that "both plant species grown under elevated CO 2 showed shoot and root dry weight biomass stimulation ranging from 6 to 102% and an increase of shoot and root Cs content ranging from 6 to 150%." | 3_3 |
Professor Mann is currently under investigation by Penn State University because of activities related to a closed circle of climate scientists who appear to have been engaged in agenda-driven science. Emails and documents mysteriously released from the previously-prestigious Climate Research Unit at the University of ... | 5_2 |
"The much paraded reform of financial governance institutions has not gone far enough," the position paper for the U.N. leadership's keynote session asserts, and the voting power of emerging players and developing world, in general, which demand a greater say on these matters, remains inadequate." | 0_0 |
FoodPolitik: Controlling Your Food, the Trojan Horse of "public health': | 0_0 |
In fact, up until very recently President Obama's campaign website had a section devoted to the President's goals for every energy resource except coal. Only after facing intense criticism, and disappointing primary results in coal states, the Obama campaign attempted quietly to add a "clean coal" section to its site. | 0_0 |
The admission is paucity of high-resolution palaeoclimatic evidence, meaning no direct measures of temperature and precipitation exists. Thus, the reliance I emphasize the wordon tree-ring data as a stand-in for what was not measured. | 5_1 |
This idea was introduced by the previous Labour government and is already widespread in Europe. | 0_0 |
Jack Kemp is co-director of Empower America and Distinguished Fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. | 0_0 |
Horizontal axis is thousands of years before the present. Second graph shows a decrease in El Nino intensity since the Minoan Warm Period 3,000 years ago. Bottom graphs show modern droughts are not unusual or unprecedented. | 1_7 |
An email conversation provided additional information on this site. First, the Minden Press-Herald was recommended as a good site for the local view on the problem. This link contains a summary of the EPAs decision to defer the action date by 90 days . The EPA basically agrees that communication is a great thing and th... | 0_0 |
The National Snow And Ice Data Center in Colorado has still failed to mention this on their web site. They continue to discuss the record Arctic minimum, and until recently were featuring an article about penguins being threatened by decliningAntarcticsea ice, even though Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing ... | 1_1 |
There are nineteen USHCN stations in Virginia . NOAA tell us :- | 0_0 |
"President Obama and labor unions are entering a new and difficult stretch in their relationship as the White House looks to find common ground with Republicans on issues like trade and the deficit." | 0_0 |
Related stories auf Deutsch at Readers Edition and eigent mlich frei. | 0_0 |
On Sep 28, 2005, (CG1- 590. 1128000000.txt), Rob Wilson emailed Osborn and Briffa, both IPCC Authors, and complained about my email to ODowd (which had been copied to Wilson). Osborn immediately replied, calling the request that the data be archived an abuse of my position as an IPCC peer reviewer. Rosanne D??Arrigo (C... | 5_2 |
Obama believes the president should lead a revolution in society, the economy, and the political system, but defer on national security and foreign policy to the other branches of government. This upends the Framers' vision of the presidency. They thought the chief executive's powers would expand broadly to meet extern... | 0_0 |
Call it an economic train wreck, a constitutional crisis, orlegslative thuggery. Litigation-drivenregulation of carbon dioxide (CO2)under the Clean Air Act (CAA) is all of the above. | 0_0 |
It's the nature of media (and, perhaps, society in general) that it often works to build controversy where none exists. Few places is that more evident than political races. When Texas Governor Rick Perry official entered the presidential race last week, he made comments about climate change and the adequacy of the sci... | 0_0 |
The following salient observations, many geological in nature, may help you put recently published and overly dramatic press reports of shockingly rapid glacial acceleration on the Svalbard Islands into a more naturally occurring context. | 0_0 |
But even after the USDA's subsequent environmental review concluded that coexistence was not a problem, Vilsack nevertheless sowed confusion and concern among American plant breeders and farmers by proposing geographic restrictions as well as minimum separation distances from other crops for the commercial cultivation ... | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, Bjorn Lomborg has his own take on things at Project Syndicate, looking at the IPCC's cost estimates, the attempts to adjust them to help the green movement and the embarrassing chasm between current and earlier estimates like those of Lord Stern: | 5_2 |
Of course, it is quite possible that human emissions will cause the climate to change. If it does so, and where danger is posed due to that change, it is likely to harm only the most poverty-stricken on the planet. Much like the example of malaria above, extreme weather, and disease-enhanced warmth are only threatening... | 0_0 |
"Over the last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spent at least $200,000 on billboard signs, direct mail and radio ads, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Those funds were for attacks against Republican opponents of several vulnerable House Democrats as well as against Rep. Roy... | 0_0 |
On January 8, 2014, the White House posted a curious video claiming that global warming causes more severe winter cold. Called "The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes," it featured the director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), John Holdren, claiming that a "growing body of evidence" sho... | 0_0 |
???This paper??s results concerning average seawater salinity and acidity show that, on a global scale and over the time scales considered (hundreds of years), there would not be accentuated changes in either seawater salinity or acidity from the observed or hypothesized rises in atmospheric CO2 concentrations.?? | 3_2 |
1. Observed natural variation, which has produced periods of warming statistically indistinguishable from the warming which ended in 1998. | 2_1 |
Firstly, hundreds of tide gauges show sea level rising at about a third of the rate than satellites do . Worse, the original satellite raw data showed the same slow rise, until it was suddenly adjusted. The real scandal is that the rapidly rising trend was largely created by adjustments in the first place. These latest... | 5_1 |
According to the White House website, President Obama has only made public reference to nuclear energy three times before last night. Two of those were cursory observations that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill could be a boon to development of low-carbon technologies, including nuclear power. The other was a puzzl... | 0_0 |
The Audi ad tells preening, greener-than-thou progressives 'here is the car for you.' At the same time, it lampoons the authoritarianism of green busybodies, allowing the rest of us to admire the car's mpg rating without feeling we have to identify with Al Gore or the Sierra Club. | 0_0 |
CEI: Is the Club for Growth taking into account government regulations, which seem to us to be taxes on people's behavior, if not their wallets? | 0_0 |
Gregory Melleuish is right when he says that ?climate change has become an issue only because it has been seen to have practical policy implication? (p. 9). G. Melleuish, ?The Dubious Future of History,? Quadrant, May 2010;www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2010/5/the-dubious-future-of-history. | 0_0 |
Y2Kyoto: We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans | 0_0 |
According to official data, average sea level rose by 18 centimeters during the 20th century (i.e., less than two centimeters per decade) and the first 10 years of the 21st century show no accelerating trend. The average forecasts of the IPCC for the current century report an increase of 30 centimeters, or three centim... | 1_6 |
Indeed, given the rather tepid estimates of actual 'global warming reduction' the Kyoto Protocol might achieve if everyone does everything they have pledge to do (increasingly unlikely), there is a strong argument that a tax reform that reduces tax rates across the board (personal and business) and reduces the tax burd... | 0_0 |
Say what? What could possibly justify that kind of adjustment, seven tenths of a degree? The early part of the record is adjusted to show less warming. Then from 1973 to 1989, Matanuska is adjusted to warm at a feverish rate of 4.4 degrees per century ... but Matanuska is a RURAL station. Since GISS says that the homog... | 0_0 |
According to this index, the 8 most severe droughts at the 6-month time scale for the summer rainfall region of South Africa happened in 1926, 1933, 1945, 1949, 1952, 1970, 1983 and 1992. There is considerable decadal variability and an 18 to 20 year cycle is only found in the number of dry districts. | 1_7 |
And researchers at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., reported this week that nighttime summer temperatures across the country have been unusually high for the past eight years, a record streak. Its just incredible, when you look at this thing, said Richard Heim, a research meteorologist at the cente... | 0_0 |
Back around 18,000 years ago during the deepest part of the last Ice Age, a period known as the Wisconsin, sea levels were about 400 feet lower than now. That was because lots of the water was bound up in land ice. Then about 15,000 years ago huge ice sheets covering North America and Eurasian land masses began to rapi... | 1_6 |
3,000,000 North Americans are seriously injured annually in car crashes. | 0_0 |
"The court's decision today voiding the SEC's hedge fund registration rule is a victory for all shareholders. Hedge funds have been a major force in holding corporate CEOs accountable, ensuring they deliver value to investors. This market force for practical corporate governance benefits not just hedge fund customers, ... | 0_0 |
Prize lecture, "The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than | 0_0 |
So far this month, the US is having its10th coldest January on record, and the coldest since 1982 | 1_3 |
CSIRO. 2014. State of the Climate 2014. Australian Government. | 0_0 |
Across the country, there are 104 commercial nuclear reactors. They consume 67 million pounds of uranium annually, the vast majority of which is imported from Australia, Canada and former Soviet republics. The 200-acre Coles Hill deposit (Mr. Coles's family has lived on the spot since 1785) is thought to contain nearly... | 0_0 |
He didn't know what the first sentence of a text could have possibly meant. He must have been stupid! However, he didn't give up and finally figured out what the sentence meant. | 0_0 |
A coalition of environmental groups on Friday challenged state Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens over a new technique to extract underground natural gas using propane, rather than water. | 0_0 |
...the scientists say, pauses in warming were always to be expected. This is new - at least to me. | 0_0 |
Tech Central Station has a team on location in Johannesburg, South Africa to cover the World Summit on Sustainable Development, August 26-September 4.Jim Glassman and editor-in-chief Nick Schulz are heading the team. Their up-to-the-minute coverage includes commentary and interviews on such wide-ranging issues as clima... | 0_0 |
Among the longest records of active hurricane zones is on the US east coast. NOAAs Hurricane Research Division has data back to 1851. No major hurricane (category 3 or more) has hit the continental US since Wilma in October 2005. That is the longest pause on record. NOAA says It is premature to conclude that human acti... | 1_7 |
Making summits that advance Canada's interests produce results that justify the time and expense invested in them should be a foreign policy priority. | 0_0 |
The mass media conveyed in many cases the perception that these tropical hurricanes were a result of the greenhouse effect. But there are no indications of an increasing trend in the intensity or number of tropical hurricanes . The large increase in damage caused by severe storms in different parts of the world is caus... | 1_7 |
The study concludes, "Given her assumptions, Dr. Yellen's analysis is internally consistent and compatible with mainstream economic analysis. However, her costs estimates include only direct costs . . . and very optimistic assumptions . . . about the economy's ability to reduce emissions at low cost." Furthermore, the ... | 0_0 |
17a. The ability of regional climate models to reproduce temperature observations | 0_0 |
When correlating CO2 with temperature trends in various periods of cyclical warming and cooling the last 110 years we find a negative correlation from the late 1800s to 1917 (-0.35), positive from 1917 to 1940 (+0.43), negative during the WWII and post WWII boom from 1940 to around 1975 (-0.40), positive from 1975 to a... | 2_3 |
The only reason we have seen any temperature change on Earth is because the ocean surface warmed a little. In fact, the measured ocean surface makes up most of the measurement in global average temperature. I found this cool plot of ocean temperatures on line: | 2_1 |
Alternative-Fuel Cars Flood Auto Show | 0_0 |
"Especially at a time when many American businesses and families are hurting financially, Congress ought to scale back burdensome and ineffectual regulations," Crews said. "Ours is the age of Spending Stimulus; what we need instead is a "Deregulatory Stimulus' to jumpstart small business formation and job creation, and... | 0_0 |
Heres an email which like many others, makes the point: | 0_0 |
In Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA, petitioners ? a coalition of industry groups, states, and non-profit organizations ? sought to overturn the EPA?s endangerment, tailpipe, triggering, and tailoring rules for greenhouse gases (GHGs). In June of last year, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Ap... | 0_0 |
The total weight of 4,000 turbines themselves (mostly steel, and without the concrete pads they sit on) would be 888,000 tonnes or 1,958,040,000 lbs (a lot of GHG). The Centennial Project was placed in the best wind producing area in the province (south of Swift Current) so its abilities cannot be reproduced elsewhere,... | 0_0 |
But first, lets illustrate how badly the climate models used by the IPCC simulate global surface temperatures in light of the recent slowdown in global surface warming. | 5_1 |
You may notice that we run into so many problems of ambiguity at the basis of climate science. For example the ambiguity of whether they are conserving energy or energy flux, and the ambiguity of what happens if you take the incorrect approach. But one of the biggest ones is this idea of a global average temperature or... | 0_0 |
IPCC doesnt write scientific reports for their own sake. Those scientists are there for a purpose. That purpose is to produce material useful to the UNFCCC. | 5_2 |
Highly paid experts tell us that sea ice is rapidly disappearing, which explains why global sea ice area has been averaging above normal for the past two years. | 1_1 |
dire warnings maintain that global warming poses catastrophic dangers to mankind. On the other hand, real science and a strong economy are the best tools we have to deal with whatever challengeithefuture holds. | 0_0 |
October 14, 2012. Advanced search. Mount Shasta glaciers growing, despite warming. Kilimanjaro glacier bad example of global warming. | 1_1 |
responding, "Well, I'm not going to give them more time." Nor did it help matters when a Rolling Stone profile on McChrystal reported an unconcealed disdain in his camp for its | 0_0 |
Agreement 4 is a bilateral between the United States and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to cooperate on activities and facilities supporting access to timely, usable, environmental data and satellite imaging technology. | 0_0 |
Some of the coal being burned overseas is coal that is not being burned here. In March, the U.S. set a record for coal exports in a month, 13.6 million tons. Indeed, on the same day that Zichal was talking about Obama's legacy on climate issues, the Energy Information Administration released a report showing that U.S. ... | 0_0 |
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Focuses on High-Speed Rail in Florida: | 0_0 |
Calculation of pressure change need to induce ice-age cycle | 0_0 |
Goklany (2011) estimated that the increase in the poverty headcount due to higher biofuel production between 2010 and 2004 implies 192,000 additional deaths and 6.7 million additional lost DALYs in 2010 alone. | 0_0 |
However, as discussed above, simply assuming Logo gauge calibration doesnt solve the problem of variability and, in particular, it creates real interpretation problems for three balls that end up being too warm, for which Ive proposed other alternatives.I recognize that reasonable people may regard these alternative ex... | 0_0 |
In 2003, two Harvard-Smithsonian Professors, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, published a peer-reviewed paper in the scientific journal Climate Research which identified solar activity as a major influence on Earths climate. This paper also concluded that the twentieth century was not the warmest, nor was it the centur... | 2_1 |
1. Canada's oil production is rising, Mexico's is falling. For many years, the U.S. has relied most heavily on crude imports from Mexico and Canada. Over the past ten years, Canadian crude production has risen by 600,000 barrels per day while Mexico's has fallen by about that same amount. I'd rather have a reliable, lo... | 0_0 |
Kyoto Economics: The Costs and Follies of Eco-Energy Planning | 0_0 |
Buy Fonte's book "Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?" | 0_0 |
The primary myth about ENSO is the La Nia phase of ENSO is the opposite of El Nio. It sounds like it might be true, but its nonsense. There is nothing in the instrument temperature record that supports it. Ill show you how the differences present themselves in the data later in the post. | 0_0 |
Scientists, however, have increasingly been questioning alarmists, like Gore, and the U.S. government for listing the bears under the ESA. For starters, there are way more polar bears alive today than 40 years ago. | 3_2 |
Social security may send you more accurate payments adjusted for inflation, adaptive optics improves some telescopes as well as Ronald Reagan's Star Wars, eyeglasses adjust some vision disorders, and similarly adjustments may be applied to remove as accurately as we can the spurious effect of various biases that affect... | 0_0 |
Energy flow is driven by differences in energy, not absolute energy. Global warming should produce fewer and weaker storms, not more and stronger storms. | 1_7 |
Finally, ethanol boosters claim their fuel improves "overall environmental quality." A bigger fiction is difficult to conjure up. In December, a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers from the University of Minnesota found that while corn-ethanol-fueled vehicles emit marg... | 0_0 |
In early October, The Wall Street Journal published an article, ?Mississippi Plant Shows the Cost of ?Clean Coal?.? It is testimony to the nonsense about ?clean coal.? The plant, the reporters note, was meant to demonstrate that Mississippi Power Company?s Kemper County plant was ?meant to showcase technology for gener... | 0_0 |
This new type of El Nio is more predictable, said Webster. Were not sure why, but this could mean that we get greater warning of hurricanes, probably by a number of months. | 0_0 |
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