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The end of the last ice age was not triggered by rising CO2 levels, it was triggered by the Milankovich cycle. It nothing to do with humans back then, and it has nothing to do with humans now. | 2_1 |
The program awards transferable emission credits to companies that lower their emissions below the allowed limits. These credits can then be sold to other companies whose emissions exceed the limits. Whitman, who now heads the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is now pushing a national level version of the plan. | 0_0 |
Well, it worries me too. Politically, however, there may be a silver lining in this dark cloud. Concerning which, I posted the following comment on Keith's blog. | 0_0 |
The study was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and performed in part through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California at Santa Barbara. | 0_0 |
Indeed, the US Fish & Wildlife Service reported earlier this year that "the number of polar bears observed in 2012 was high relative to similar surveys conducted over the past decade." | 3_2 |
Sales: We know that, say, if you look back over the past 50 years there??s clear evidence of global warming. You know, the figures go like that. But there were figured released I think late last year that showed that there??d been a plateau for about the past 15 or so years , you know, so it was flatter. So if there??s... | 1_4 |
Well, you have to admit that they've tried hard. Labor, that is. In April 2007 Kevin Rudd, before his election as prime minister, appointed distinguished social scientist Ross Garnaut to advise the party on global warming. A strange decision, that: "Here's a scientific problem so let's appoint an economist to give us p... | 0_0 |
Conversely, rationally discussing the geological relationship between Fire and Ice in the context of the Plate Climatology Theory is far more thought provoking, avoids needless confrontation, and more importantly, increases the chances of discovering the truth about natural climate variations. | 0_0 |
The Wikipedia situation is so bad the Scottish Parent-Teacher Council (SPTC) is citing Wikipedia in particular as it demands special training for students so they can distinguish between reality and falsehoods on the Internet. | 0_0 |
Also last week, TWTW linked to Steve McIntyres simple model of temperatures, which out performs the global climate models in temperature forecasts. Christopher Essex correctly noted that the global climate models can be scientifically useful because they include a number of other variables. As always, TWTW appreciates ... | 5_1 |
Finally, an additional complication is discussed: future ENSOprojections all rely on the standardized emissions scenarios from the IPCC. Projections of future emissions reductions may be overly optimistic, perhaps requiring attention to a wider range of CO2 changes for accurate ENSO impacts studies. | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, environmental activists, western powers and UN agencies dictate what issues are important and use them to keep us poor and deprived: Manmade climate change, no GMO foods, no DDT to prevent malaria, using wind and solar power and never building coal, natural gas, or nuclear power plants. This is a criminal tr... | 0_0 |
Yesterday I published a study that reviews EPA's performance for more than 1,000 Clean Air Act deadlines. Here's the big takeaway: the agency missed 84 percent of its date-certain duties by an average of 4.3 years. | 0_0 |
Wayne Crews' op-ed in Big Government | 0_0 |
people, like monkeys, can be angels of generosity when all eyes are | 0_0 |
In addition to the fact that "production of Bacillus thuringiensis crystal endotoxin proteins in a crop plant limits specific herbivorous insect attack without the need for chemical treatments," to quote the seven scientists, "elevated CO 2 conditions could modify herbivore-induced defenses at the vegetative stage, and... | 3_3 |
The climate alarmists, says Carlin, have now been making their apocalyptic predictions for almost thirty years and it is now possible to compare their predictions with actual physical observations. Suffice to say all the predictions of a significantly higher temperaturethe warminghave been wrong.?? | 5_2 |
By Elana Schor, Politico, Aug 14, 2015 | 0_0 |
As for Gore and the U.N.'s scientific claims, it has been quite a joy to watch the entire man-made global warming fear movement disintegrate before our eyes. A movement that had the divisive Gore as its face was bound to fail. A movement that utilized the scandal-ridden U.N. which is massively distrusted by the America... | 5_2 |
Workers' compensation laws rely on a "no fault" rule that provides benefits regardless of who is responsible for a workplace injury. There are exceptions, however, for employees who hurt themselves due to reckless behavior or drug or alcohol abuse. In addition, employees who cause self-inflicted injuries or injure them... | 0_0 |
The two ads - worth $2,070 - and about $4,000 in travel costs to the event in Montreal for an Alberta-based communications consultant (earning $100 an hour)... A consultant received $100 an hour for his work, an ad was bought for $2,000 (compare with the stolen $300,000,000 for Gore's own ads full of lies). What a crim... | 0_0 |
The measure of good science is neither the politics of the scientist nor the people with whom the scientist associates. It is the immersion of hypotheses into the acid of truth. That's the hard way to do it, but it's the only way that works. | 0_0 |
Introducing a variable e = t dyn / t rad . There are several different regimes for e: | 0_0 |
1. First principles tell us never to accept that all of the science is in on any proposition; always remain open to the relevance of new research. | 0_0 |
Someone in power in India does not like wind turbines. | 0_0 |
Despite global warming during the 20th century the number of tropical cyclones annually making landfall in the Philippines did not experience any net change. All variability was merely oscillatory activity around a mean trend of zero slope | 1_7 |
Bonus: Dozens of blog articles about dozens of recent scientific papers that disagree with the so-called "consensus". A large portion of physicists in Russia, especially solar physicists, have reached a "scientific consensus" - as others would call it - that the Earth will enter a period of global cooling in a couple o... | 1_2 |
The missing ingredient is wind shear, specifically an increase in wind speed with height, and a change in wind direction with height. | 0_0 |
TENNESSEE 62% of electricity; $220 million in annual payroll | 0_0 |
Depth 66.2 km (41.1 miles) set by location program | 0_0 |
When it gets cold, you do get more drought. One can only hope this is a one off or the world will become a very hungry place. | 0_0 |
But any kind of trading assumes a price that makes any risk involved worthwhile. And although the EPA assumes a price of $15 per ton during the early years of the program, the market doesn??t support that price, at least not today. The limited experience gleaned from the small volume of trading that??s taken place so f... | 4_2 |
THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University will spend $30 million on two new supercomputers that will more accurately predict cyclones, tsunamis and the effects of climate change. Read more here . | 0_0 |
The statement that Nature doesn't give a damn about the random distribution of some papers written by a particular group of humans should be obvious and understandable. But I want to make one more related point. Even if the LHC found and confirmed one of the new sub-TeV models physics, it wouldn't mean that Nature woul... | 5_1 |
As the reconstruction of the climates development in the past by proxy data shows, theres a series of temperature cycles that appear to be unknown, or ignored by many climate scientists. Among these are the larger climate cycles of 150 million to 180 million years (see Part 1 and Part 2 ), but also the shorter and for ... | 2_1 |
It should be remembered that GISS use this data to create the GISTEMP surface temperature anomalies. In Chart 7 I have amended Chart 1 to include Southern Hemisphere annual mean data on the same basis as the raw data and GISS H. | 0_0 |
creation in 2004, to devise a new method of turning the financial screws on other countries. The | 0_0 |
Primarily because they expect to get free energy technology transfers, and billions of dollars a year in climate mitigation, adaptation and reparation money from Western nations that they blame (and which blame themselves) for the dangerous climate change, rising seas and extreme weather that they claim are unprecedent... | 0_0 |
In spite of the huge increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere the predicted temperature rise did not materialize so we need to ask what is wrong with Climate Science given that it claimed that the Consensus is supported by 97% of scientists and The Debate is Over. In my opinion the debate is indeed over b... | 5_1 |
14 W. H. Soon, E. S. Posmentier, and S. L. Baliunas, Inference of solar irradiance variability from terrestrial temperature changes, 1880-1993: An astrophysical application of the sun-climate connection, Astrophysical Journal 472, 891 (1996). Although change in the sun?s brightness is the simplest proposed mechanism fo... | 2_1 |
The problem with consensus some thoughts on how focusing on agreement leads to more polarization on #climatechange | 0_0 |
Obama: "And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen. But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change." | 0_0 |
The Maldives Sea Level Curve of the last 500 years and the proposed best estimate of possible sea level changes by year 2100 This curve is a detail (without error bars, anchor points and curved breaking points) from the one presented by Mrner,(2007). Sea level has been stable for the last 30 years. Future changes in th... | 1_6 |
I was quite amazed by the coal ex-mines. I had thought that a) an open-pit coal mine would leave a horrible long-term scar and b) that there wasnt much you could do with the land after mining. I was totally incorrect on both counts. | 0_0 |
"A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping. " | 0_0 |
Sixty four cosponsors from twenty three different countries signed on to Heartland's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change including Americans for Prosperity, Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, Freedom Works, Illinois Policy Institute, JunkScience.com, George C. Marshall Institute, National Center for P... | 0_0 |
There has been warming at the edge of the continent including where Wilkins Ice Sheet recently collapsed. The collapse could be due to global warming , oceanic volcanoes , and/or from internal stresses associated with the accumulation of ice in the bay. | 0_0 |
The British Met Office owns Britains most powerful super computer. It can make 1,000 billion calculations every second while consuming more electricity than a small town. The Met claimed that it will enable the Met Office to deliver more accurate forecasts, from hours to a century ahead. Some 400 climate high priests a... | 5_1 |
According to John Eick, director of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, "The workshop provided our legislative members with much needed facts, data, and historical anecdotes regarding these key policy areas. Feedback from our members since the workshop has been nothing but positive, and the panelists... | 0_0 |
Writing in Ottawa's Hill Times (Feb. 23), Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, summarizes the current state of global warming science and cautions against incorrect interpretations of what reviews such as that from the National Academy of Sciences (2001) were trying to do. | 0_0 |
Read here . (h/t Tom Nelson ) Enron alumni Jim Rogers is another "green" cap and trade lover who seems committed to destroying local environments for the sake of making a profit. If companies like Duke, and wealthy investors like Gore and Soros have their way, the world will be a barren wasteland because of the derange... | 0_0 |
Environmentalists may suggest, as they do in the Sierra Club publication, that "acknowledging the earth's sacredness," providing a "holy and awesome restoration of Nature herself," and having a "reverence for trees" are the only things that "can serve as a worldview." But that is not going to feed hungry mouths or prov... | 0_0 |
For example, northern Arizona where I live has a dry season and a wet season. In June when the humidity is very low the temperature is very high. In July when the Monsoons come the humidity goes up sharply. Not only does this result in a marked drop in daily mean temperatures, it also causes the countryside to turn gre... | 3_2 |
The Light Brigade will assemble at 11:30 AM near the Smithsonian exit to the D.C. Metro at the Mall side of the exit. The Brigade can be reached at 949-421-8867 for anyone seeking to meet up with it during the event or seeking comment. The Light Brigade is a joint project of CIP and CFACT, the Committee For A Construct... | 0_0 |
Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. dismisses warming causes cold claims: "They continue to miss the significance that it is the regional circulations that matter, not a global average anomaly' "Until and unless they can skillfully predict observationally documented CHANGES in the statistics (probabilities) of the different m... | 0_0 |
In the current climate, weather experienced at a given location or region varies from year to year; in a changing climate, both the nature of that variability and the basic patterns of weather experienced can change, sometimes in counter-intuitive ways some areas may experience cooling, for instance. Indeed, taking the... | 1_4 |
"As a father and an environmentalist I am particularly dismayed by the degree of pessimism for the future that is generated by predictions of an environmental apocalypse. Facts, Not Fear can help parents give their children a positive attitude towards the environment." | 0_0 |
After looking at the data, Ms Ameling might consider Rahmstorf as simply not a serious person who is irresponsiblyinserting fear into vulnerable young minds and doing a disservice to his country. | 5_2 |
Yet it is generally accepted and uncontroversial that 95 percent of the landmass of Antarctica has cooled over the last 20 years. | 1_1 |
or using Anthonys name. They seem to have adopted the Team tactic (Hansen in particular) of refusing to even speak the name of critics. | 0_0 |
Those topics will wait until another day. The fate of Democrats in Congress, including the public judgment voters will make on their capacity to govern, rests on passage of some health care reform bill. Never mind polls showing public misgivings about reform (and especially pay little attention to Gallup surveys with q... | 0_0 |
But there are also strong hints that Tesla is ripping customers off. There's no sucker like a green sucker I suppose. | 0_0 |
Bottom line is that some parts of NOAA are completely FOS. 1936 was much more extreme than 2012, by any reasonable standard. | 0_0 |
The remaining warmingthat which possibly could be caused by anthropogenic GHG increasesnow stands at about 0.366 Cor just 52% of the EPA's "observed" increase. | 0_0 |
John Nielsen-Gammon: Fred, even if there was no anthropogenic component to climate change, the farmers and ranchers in my state would still be desperate to know what's going to happen with this present drought, and with future droughts. Our analysis shows our drought is mainly natural, with the Pacific and Atlantic Oce... | 0_0 |
It seems environmentalists, frustrated that they weren't able to get cap-and-trade over the finish line with the largest liberal majority in Congress in a generation, think they need to get back to the "grassroots," and "connect with the people." I'm not making this up. Eilperin quotes Fred Krupp, longtime CEO of the E... | 0_0 |
Although the net effect of the increase in the air's CO 2 content (which tended to reduce plant water loss) and the increase in the air's dryness (which tended to enhance plant water loss) resulted in no net change in plant iWUE, it can be appreciated that had the air's CO 2 content not risen over the period in questio... | 3_3 |
Dozens of people registered to vote out of small mail box locations and from self-storage yards - there is no legitimate way for a person to appear on the list of Electors from a self-storage yard | 0_0 |
Misguided environmental regulations, green obstructionism, and the NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome have combined to delay the construction of desperately needed new power plants and transmission lines. Needless economic regulation has prevented the development of more appropriate pricing structures. | 0_0 |
Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remain divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility. | 0_0 |
By 2012, they'd come of age, when data revealed that (British) men outspent womenon shoes. And the Telegraph's 2013 report that the British military's base stores had struck a record deal to bring posh face scrubs, eye creams, and moisturizers to its shelves, to help British soldiers in their fight against blackheads. | 0_0 |
Surrounded by low albedo (high solar absorbing) mudflats nearby with low tide near time of Tmax | 0_0 |
The big news this week is furnished by my colleague at CEI, Chris Horner, who released some interesting documents he obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from the Treasury Department. Chris's initial blog post was picked up first by Amanda Carpenter in the Washington Times and then by Declan McCullough... | 0_0 |
We have not seen an increase in the number of storms, nor an increase in their intensity, Briggs said. It is true that some models would predict that as the surface gets warmer, more energy is available, but statistically we cant say weve seen it. | 1_7 |
The report also suggested that the institutional bias in favor of intervention in climate policy can be explained by public choice theory, which says that climate scientists define themselves as providing "good" in the political sphere, which is the technical information required to save ourselves from impending climat... | 0_0 |
Now I am calling you out. Perhaps you might care to explain to me why you are so keen to make claims that are so apparently false? | 0_0 |
Notice that the vast majority of the all-time records were set more than half a century ago and that there are exceedingly few records set within the past few decades. This is not the picture that you would expect if global warming from greenhouse gas emissions were the dominant forcing of the characteristics of our da... | 2_1 |
So RC's "nothing to see here" argument based on the alleged insider meaning of "trick" raises rather than allays suspicion that CRU is attempting to fit data to a predetermined conclusion. | 0_0 |
Of course the food supply p festivalomrdet planned since long time back's one can speculate why arrangrerna chose dark ages year's surprise at the eleventh hour? Maybe they did not want stricter biljettfrsljningen? Or so they would not give mjligheten from restaurants nrheten to arrange catering just outside the area? ... | 0_0 |
You would think there would be ONE historical set of original RAW data, but no not found it yet there looks to be many copies, all with slightly different processing, mixes, histories, updates, quality assurance, etc | 5_1 |
The founder of the Weather Channel is ridiculing Al Gore over his calls for action on global climate change, saying in a column that global warming is a hoax and bad science. | 5_2 |
Losing electricity, no matter where you live, is losing every technology that enhances and preserves your life. You lose the ability to cool or warm your home, apartment, or workplace. You lose the ability to keep food safe in your refrigerator and freezer. You most certainly lose the lighting. You lose the ability to ... | 4_5 |
A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics by Dr. Willie Soon finds the " Most convincing evidence for a sun-climate connection during the Holocene." Professor Soon finds " The Equator-to-Pole Temperature Gradient is linked to Total Solar Irradiance ," noting, " This newly disco... | 2_1 |
The potential that future warming would cause additional declines does not bode well for the ability of the biosphere to support multiple societal demands for agricultural production, fiber needs, and increasingly, biofuel production, Zhao said. | 0_0 |
Climate variability or climate change are popularly reported to be significant causes of the mass killing in the Darfur region that began in 2003 All studies of this conflict agree that it is not possible to isolate any of these specific causes as being most influential . Most authors identify government practices as b... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the likely results of the Kerry and Graham plan: | 0_0 |
Glaciers are retreating on the Antarctic peninsula, as well as in Patagonia, and on the sub- Antarctic islands, and in West Antarctica adjacent to the peninsula. | 0_0 |
The European Commission has abandoned consideration of Science 2.0, finding it too ambitious. That was the wrong call, says Colin Macilwain. | 0_0 |
So what difference does it make when I use a fat-tailed exponential decay function, rather than a standard exponential decay function, in my previous analysis? Figure 2 shows the results: | 0_0 |
However, proof of global warming is not proof that human CO2 emissions caused that warming. | 2_3 |
The ongoing crisis in the Ukraine stirred much public interest, and great lessons can be learned from Peter Glover"s March 7 Breitbart.com article "Putin's Real Great Game: Energy Imperialism." Russia's annexation of the Crimea and threats to the rest of Ukraine after Glover's article makes it more important. | 0_0 |
Special Interests Love Cap and Trade The Foundry Remember, it was Enron who was the first big business supporter of cap and trade policies . Washington Times - Obama's cap, trade irk some in party "We want to thank the administration for killing all industry support for cap-and-trade," said William Kovacs, the top ener... | 0_0 |
temperature trends at individual levels even if the boundary layer averaged | 0_0 |
Lewis argues that the main flaw in the Marotzke and Forster research concerns the use of an equation describing energy balance in the climate system that links the so called radiative forcing acting to warm the climate with the sensitivity of the climate to changes in greenhouse gas levels. This equation is central to ... | 5_1 |
By Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation, June 4, 2015. | 0_0 |
Flawed articles about the safety of genetically modified plants have been known to help spread the propaganda of antitechnology activists. | 0_0 |
"If every polluter's lobbyist around Congress was suddenly replaced by severely asthmatic children, then maybe Congress wouldn't always be trying to gut clean air standards " | 0_0 |
The following paper is referenced: Kopp and Lean (2011) GRL , summarizing total solar irradiance measurements from space and the nontrivial discrepancies in the baseline measurements from different satellites with overlapping time periods. | 0_0 |
In the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, the ghastly 2010 novel by Rajendra Pachauri is being taken out of circulation. | 0_0 |
Responding to this concern, the six scientists went on to test the ability of the globally-important phytoplankton species Emiliania huxleyi to adapt to ocean warming in combination with ocean acidification. In describing their findings Schluter et al . state that "growth rates were up to 16% higher in populations adap... | 3_2 |
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