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Operates 90% of the time at full capacity or 2,880 MW | 0_0 |
If those reefs are surviving low aragonite and low pH conditions then that is definitely cause for optimism about the worlds tropical coral reefs and would be an exciting scientific breakthrough. the pH is low there due to the CO2 bubbling, then thats really important, and somebody should go and have a look, because th... | 3_2 |
Not so in environmental policy. Experts make predictions of the future that are hard to verify. Indeed, public policy advice is full of self-defeating prophesies. Bad things will happen if we dont change our ways. We often act on such information, and thus deny ourselves the opportunity to check whether the prediction ... | 0_0 |
In light of the differences among climate model projections, our work stresses the need for more accurate prediction of SST trends in these sensitive areas, and not just the overall amplitude of the Tropical Ocean warming, in order to reduce the uncertainty in global climate forecasts. | 5_1 |
It is now July 31, 2018. You are sitting by a stream, thinking back to Nov. 23, 2012 the day the U.S. stopped emitting carbon dioxide altogether, permanently. It's been a very rough six and a half years without carbon, and it's about to get a lot rougher. Because today is the day you realize that it's all been for naug... | 0_0 |
Over the last 3o years of satellite measurement, the growth of the ice amount in the Southern Ocean which surrounds Antarctica was more than 4 percent . | 1_1 |
Fracking is vital to national security, in other words never mind the environmental benefits that would come from replacing a billion tons of coal with natural gas, which would produce about 1.5 billion fewer tons of CO2 a year. | 4_5 |
Compliance costs from thousands of regulationspouring out from over 60 departments, agencies, and commissionsamounted to $1.17 trillion in 2008. The federal government spends another $49.1 billion just to administer and enforce its rules. This figure is on par with federal income tax revenues ($1.2 trillion) and Canada... | 0_0 |
It has not to be that way. After all it is hard to hear about Christians that truly keep to Matthew 6:3-4 : | 0_0 |
Nuccitelli begins by condemning Roy Spencer for saying, No one knows whether it is currently warming, because we only see warming in the rear-view mirror, after it has occurred. This truism is characteristic of Roy, who gently nudges the language of climate science in the direction of greater rigor. One cannot measure ... | 0_0 |
Every month, the Earth has yellow (warm) spots and purple (cold) spots. It has been like that for billions of years. | 2_1 |
The only waygreenhouse gas regulationscould stop oil spills is bymaking deep water drilling unprofitable. That, however, would make America more dependent on IMPORTEDoil (duh!). Is that want opponents of S.J.Res.26 want? | 4_1 |
Likewise, regardless of whether temperatures rise in the future, this will not increase air pollution. For particulate matter, higher temperatures are associated with lower pollution levels. For ozone, most ozone-forming pollutants will be eliminated over the next 20 years, making future climate virtually irrelevant fo... | 0_0 |
But even with such big efficiency gains, China's expected rapid economic growth will push its absolute volume of emissions to between 9.6 and 10.1 billion tonnes of CO2 per year by 2020, compared with 5.2 billion tonnes in 2005, according to a study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. | 0_0 |
What a strange editorial is Automotive News' April 24 offering about corporate average fuel economy, "Face it, makers: Sooner or later, CAFE must rise." | 0_0 |
Amusingly enough, \(8.6\GeV\) is also one of the two lower bounds on the WIMP mass that appear in this paper . On the contrary, you can't find this figure in the newest CDMS II paper from Friday . | 0_0 |
So other than sunlight, wind, and rainbows ... just what is sustainable development supposed to be built of? Cell phones are one of the most revolutionary tools of development ... but we are depriving future generations of nickel and cadmium in doing so. Thats not sustainable. | 0_0 |
As scholars who had worked for more than four decades with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, we faced a ton of scorn from sitting Republican lawmakers and outside observers for making this argument and denial from most of the mainstream media. For reporters, professional norms and concerns about accusations of part... | 0_0 |
Abengoa, which went public (NASDAQ) on October 17, 2013, at an opening share price of $12.37, once enjoyed a "top pick" and "safest" moniker, hit a high of $28.88 on September 3, 2014, but has now nosedived to $6.50. The law firm Levi & Korinskywhich claims it has "extensive expertise in prosecuting securities litigati... | 0_0 |
* The Council for the National Interest WA (CNI) is a non party political group who recently hosted Professor Cliff Ollier with a presentation titled Rising Sea Level Forecasts: Fact or Fiction? Professor Ollier's address was so comprehensive and well received that his speech was the basis of CNI's most recent newslett... | 0_0 |
In addition to leaving General Motors and Chrysler saddled with excessive costs and union ownership , Obama harmed them by radically ratcheting up federal CAFE fuel-economy standards , which affect them more than their foreign competitors. 50,000 jobs could be lost. And his global-warming regulations will destroy count... | 4_1 |
Director, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute | 0_0 |
Second, the President re-asserted the primacy of terrorism as the most important direct threat to the nation, though he derided those who would advocate a strategy of " invading every country " harboring terrorists (whoever they may be). This position again plays to the crowd, to Americans who can still remember devast... | 0_0 |
Now it is energy crunch time. The "Greenest" nations all over Europe are trying desperately to renege on their expensive "renewable energy" commitments. Nevertheless, they must backtrack without alienating the same voters they had earlier convinced to "save the planet" with recycling, biofuels, etc. One misstep will se... | 0_0 |
As you can see, Hansen has clawed back most of the gains of the 1930s relative to recent years ??? perhaps leading eventually to a re-discovery of 1998 as the warmest U.S. year of the 20th century. | 5_1 |
Roy, a Ph.D economist who has been dragged through the ad hominem mud , is right to put the onus on David Appell now that the latters fishing expedition backfired rather badly. One might also challenge Joe Romm, the bully of bullies as documented at the Breakthrough Institute by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus . | 5_2 |
In addition, computers and mobile phones both mjliggjort an exchange of information and ideas that would have been otnkbart from just 30 years ago, and contributed to the development of knowledge that also would have been regarded as a future utopia. | 0_0 |
The Kyoto Protocol calls for U.S. taxpayers to make similar contributions -to Third World nations. Funds distributed by the GEF have already been used to curtail. energy use in India, for example. If Congress continues to fund the GEF, the Clinton administration will claim that enough developing countries are participa... | 0_0 |
The Anomaly axis is hundredths of a degree C or 40 = 0.4C. So the total temperature rise from this ground based measurement is about 0.7. Now without getting into the endless problems with ground based measurements this isnt too much compared to what happens all the time. | 0_0 |
military leaders clearly assumed they would work with the White House on | 0_0 |
There are currently Australian special forces along with NATO and Arab coalition partners fighting with the Kurdish Resistance and the regular Iraqi army against ISIS. Eventually we are going to need Challenger tanks to drive ISIS out of Iraq and back across the Syrian border .Worked for Rommel and the Africa Corp. | 0_0 |
South of the Svalbards, a recently discovered 200-mile-long string of very active deep ocean hydrothermal vents indicates that this portion the rift system Nicknamed Lokis Castle is wellheating up (see Figure1). Norwegian scientists refer to this region as Norways Yellowstone at the bottom of the sea. | 0_0 |
Much has been written both in favor and against the notion that in the 1970s, the consensus among climatologists was that global cooling was on its way (strangely, foretelling similar disasters as with global warming nowadays, including refugees in the millions, crop failures, droughts and extreme weather throughout). | 5_1 |
How Precaution Kills: The Demise of DDT and the Resurgence of Malaria | 0_0 |
The post has been updated to include brief discussions of the other datasets in which the 1945 discontinuity appear. | 0_0 |
These economic gains arise for a variety of reasons. First, there is an increase in job creation directly associated with producing shale oil and gas not otherwise under current policy. In addition, the resulting energyused all across the economybecomes less expensive. Cheaper energy lowers the cost of doing business, ... | 4_5 |
Remember all those stupid graphs where someone with an axe to grind against democracy, or people, or civilization, would point to a steep rise as irrefutable evidence that this cant go on and something must be done? | 0_0 |
Also, a large value of tan(beta), above 30 or so, is desirable to solve the soft CP-problem in sufficiently minimal models of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. | 0_0 |
Now its 2 C climate change target not safe | 0_0 |
Lindzen Summarizes Current State of Climate Science | 0_0 |
What is the reason for the lack of warming observed at the surface of the Earth since about 1997? Many causes have been proposed, and with increasing frequency, but most only represent partial explanations. There are clearly more putative causes than can possibly be the case. --David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Poli... | 1_4 |
Antarctic Sea Ice Sets New Record For Jan 31st | 1_1 |
The first group of thunderstorms are now passing through western Washington and more are coming tonight. The left panel below shows the 11 AM radar, the heaviest showers are west of the Sound, with some fairly heavy (yellow colors). An infrared satellite image shows the area of clouds associated with an upper level tro... | 0_0 |
The Washington Times discusses the attorneys general shake down of Exxon Mobil with Myron Ebell. | 0_0 |
Now lets beclear about this: a complete meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet would raise the planets sea level 7 meters (7000 mm). The sea level rise rate today is about 3 mm per year and decreasing according to satellitedata. A rationalreading the tide gauge data is even less. | 1_6 |
The world awaits answers, based not on writings of sundry freelance journalists and non-experts, but on actual verifiable data on whether the globe is warming at all, and if so by how much. Only then can policy options be calibrated. As things stand, there is little doubt that the IPCC will need to be reconstituted wit... | 5_2 |
This highly recommended lecture by atmospheric scientist Dr. Joseph Fletcher, former NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Labs and Cooperative Institutes, provides multiple lines of evidence that climate is primarily forced by changes in solar irradiance which are amplified by various solar amplification mechanisms ... | 2_1 |
By Andy West, Climate Etc. Aug 14, 2015 | 0_0 |
Anyone who knows anything about global climate knows the Earth has generally warmed since the 1680s. Politics has made that period, which covers the Industrial Revolution, of climatic interest as people wanted to prove that human production of CO2 was causing warming. The problem, ignored by proponents, is that it has ... | 2_1 |
A paper for the scientific journal Climate Dynamics co-authored by B.N. Goswami, recently retired director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, shows why the models relied upon by the U.N. climate panel?s recent assessments predict monsoons inaccurately. | 5_1 |
MICHIGAN 60% of electricity; 10th in coal use | 0_0 |
At night the soil cools by loss of infrared radiation. The Stefan-Boltzmann equation lets us estimate the rate at which IR energy is being lost based upon surface temperature and emissivity, and simply dividing that by the product of the soil depth and soil bulk heat capacity gives us the rate at which the soil layer t... | 0_0 |
Might I, not nearly so smart as Rayne, suggest its because of the death of the Northeast? out-migration of manufacturing and energy intense activities. The developement of an energy usage decline to a service economy with a declining economic base? | 0_0 |
Multiple researchers have investigated how flood activity has changed over the recent past and how this extreme weather event has responded to the global warming of the past several decades. Their analyses provide a means of evaluating climate-alarmist claims that CO2-induced global warming is leading to more frequent ... | 1_7 |
the big questions facing America as a global power. Campaigns serve as crucial | 0_0 |
price of meat, milk and eggs has gone up 10 to 20 per cent. The price | 0_0 |
If the effects in #4 are net negative, and they are large enough even to be recognizable against the backdrop of natural variations in #5, do they outweigh the substantial costs, in terms of increased poverty, slowed development, lost wealth, etc. in substantial CO2 abatement. | 4_1 |
Well, I suppose you can hope for that big earthquake that your report says ( page 7 )could cause the sea level to rise by an additional meter. Youdhave it madeif you could blame atmospheric CO2 for earthquakes. Your elite thinkers should start working onthat paper now. | 0_0 |
Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data: | 0_0 |
Unlike last year, this year well be hearing next to nothing about Arctic sea ice in the media. In fact the most recent NOAA report about the Arctic was about 2012! Thats how desperate they are. | 5_2 |
Climate change has long been thought to be the main culprit in coral degradation. While it does pose a serious threat by making oceans more acidic and causing coral bleaching, the report shows that the loss of parrotfish and sea urchin the areas two main grazers has, in fact, been the key driver of coral decline in the... | 3_2 |
Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer pe... | 1_4 |
Since late Friday, the country has experienced uncommonly cold weather as temperature dropped below freezing in many areas, Kuwait Meteorology Center said yesterday. | 1_3 |
Taking the aerosol or volcanic emanation, it doesnt matter which as cooling factor, means that CO2 forcing was overestimated during the post 1975, pre-98 period, and overestimated during the post-98 period. The difference in model vs actual radiative forcing is equal to the reduced reflectivity of the atmosphere of pre... | 5_1 |
( see footnote 1 SPM, page 3). | 0_0 |
With your energy policy frdriver you not only basic industries, but the entire chain of vrdeskapande operations out of the country. One can not at the same once step out krnkraften and coal power in any case if one wants to survive economically, he added. | 0_0 |
Lieberman tried but failed to persuade Senate colleagues to support a version of the 1992 Energy Policy Act that included a GHG early credit program. Instead, House and Senate conferees established the Section 1605(b) voluntary reporting of greenhouse gases program, which does not award or certify credits. | 0_0 |
This range for Gillett et al. (2013) excludes an outlier at either end; doing so does not affect the median. | 0_0 |
rather than particular to our own country. Returning to the Iranian example, | 0_0 |
This group naturally includes the United Nations and all of its subsidiaries, the EU, and left wing politicians and media everywhere. At a news conference in Brussels recently, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is ... | 5_2 |
Well, now a economics blog has taken them on at their own game and produced their own graph showing the use of the word sustainable is reaching terrifying proportions and simply cant go on: | 0_0 |
Yet while the world has been embracing the atomic bomb, the U.S. nuclear mission degraded. Only the U.S. and UK, among all declared nuclear powers, are not currently modernizing either their weapons inventory or delivery systems. Contrary to President Obama's dream of a "global zero" future without nuclear weapons, pro... | 0_0 |
Under the title Lindzen lors de laudit de lAPS : Milankovitch et lArctique | 0_0 |
The Conclusions of Press Releases Should Match the Scientific Study, Don't Ya Think? | 0_0 |
"No judge should try to impose new policies. These issues belong in the political arena, not the courts. But even if the United States embraced tough anti-global warming policiesand other industrial countries did the samethe effect would be offset unless developing countries joined. The Intergovernmental Panel on Clima... | 0_0 |
That sort of distance is much larger than the size of a typical piece of cloud. As a consequence, simulation of clouds requires a fair amount of inspired guesswork as to what might be a suitable average of whatever is going on between the grid-points of the model. Even if experimental observations suggest that the mode... | 5_1 |
JC comment: with all these uncertainties in the observations of ocean temperature, unequivocal and very likely in the AR4 seem over-confident. | 0_0 |
The \(2\TeV\) LHC excess could prove string theory | 0_0 |
In April 2014, CEI sent a request for correction of this statement under the federal Information Quality Act, citing peer-reviewed scientific articles debunking it. In June 2014, OSTP rejected this request, claiming that Holdren's statement was his "personal opinion," not the agency's position, and that they thus did n... | 0_0 |
Fox News reports the Audubon Society is nearly alone among national and state environmental organizations in supporting the measure. Speaking with Fox News, Gail Gatton, executive director of Audubon Society Washington State said, "I think for us, I-732 isn't about money. It really is about what are the market-based in... | 0_0 |
Empower families and businesses to drive energy efficiency by eliminating government mandates. Washington should realize that the economy does not need government mandates, rebate programs, or spending initiatives to make businesses and homeowners more energy efficient. Consumers will make those choices by themselves, ... | 0_0 |
The Arctic sea ice concentration reached its minimum around September 15th this year. Figure 2, below, from the Polar Research Group at the University of Illinois, shows the distribution of ice in the Arctic on that day. As you can see, the North Pole was not even close to being ice free. Figure 3 shows the Arctic Basi... | 1_1 |
Evolutionary Biologist Shows Polar Bears Resilient to Climate Change | 3_2 |
Drill cores taken from Greenland??s vast ice sheets show that Earth??s climate is capable of very rapid transitions and abrupt climate change. | 2_1 |
John: (Laughing) Course not Brian. When do you want to start the interview? | 0_0 |
Frost is coming from the White House, and therefore also from NATO | 0_0 |
5. If this global atmospheric cooling trend persists much longer, the greens and the MSM "journalists" will pirouette 180 degrees and claim human CO2 causes cooling (and climate change) | 1_4 |
We have on occasion, criticised our fellow sceptics. Our arguments are that environmentalism isnt a new form of Left-wing ideology, and that the climate debate wont be settled by science, because environmentalism is a political phenomenon. Were not particularly interested in challenging sceptics arguments, because they... | 5_2 |
Russias chief climate negotiator said the country will never sign up to extend the Kyoto Protocol for a second implementation period, casting further doubt on chances of a deal at the international climate conference in South Africa at the end of this month. We will never sign Kyoto 2 because it would not cover every c... | 0_0 |
Obama and Feinstein aredeterminedto deny Americans their God given right to defend themselves from tyranny. | 0_0 |
Doiron was quite harsh on the logic used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and on the NCA. In essence, the IPCC states that the cause of recent warming must be CO2, because its unvalidated computer models cannot account for the observed warming unless it assumes strong amplifying anthropogenic ... | 5_1 |
"Renewable energy" is a sexy term used to drive public policies and spending. | 0_0 |
(p9) Projected changes in climate extremes under different emissions scenarios generally do not strongly diverge in the coming two to three decades , but these signals are relatively small compared to natural climate variability over this time frame . Even the sign of projected changes in some climate extremes over thi... | 2_1 |
An aerospace company proposed to speed up its manufacturing process for parts and subassemblies by using a new adhesive that would dry or cure faster. The company says the project would have reduced VOC emissions and overall energy consumption. However, by improving efficiency, the project would have increased utilizat... | 0_0 |
Indeed, the authors of this paper find that " CF is a primary modulator of warming (or cooling) in the atmosphere" and that the net effect of more clouds produces a net negative-feedback cooling effect. | 3_1 |
Whatever the weather is, they will rationalize it as being caused by global warming. The incredibly low (non-existent) standards of climate science make this possible. | 5_1 |
To look at the charts as they are today, click the links. The rest of this posting will be my evaluation of those charts as they stand today. They will change over time, so if this posting is read some weeks or months in the future, this analysis will not match the charts. | 0_0 |
Bob Carter is a geologist, David Evans a mathematician and computer modeller, Stewart Franks a hydrologist and engineer, and Bill Kininmonth a meterologist and former Director of the National Climate Centre. | 0_0 |
It's a record that would seems to largely prevent any simple conclusions from being drawn that is, rising temperatures with few drought years, followed by falling temperatures and increasing drought frequency, followed by temperatures rising back to the original levels with increased drought frequency, followed by a le... | 1_7 |
At this time there was also no relation between the cooling period and the sharply increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere that were measured by chemical methods. In their reporting the IPCC have adopted the data published in G. Callendar's 1958 paper On the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere (Figure 9). | 2_3 |
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