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China, which hosts U.N. climate talks next week for the first time, is promoting what it calls ambitious plans to boost energy efficiency and curb emissions. But its supercharged growth means even with rapid efficiency gains it cancels out other global efforts to combat climate change. | 4_2 |
This is not unprecedented. China and other developing countries resisted participation in the Montreal Protocol that banned a crucial air coolant until the industrial nations agreed to fork over more foreign aid. Though China was recently awarded $420 million to deprive its people of affordable air conditioning, Beijin... | 0_0 |
UN's World Bank Seeks More International Wealth Transfer | 0_0 |
Obama Readies the Military for Climate Change, Our No. 1 Global Threat | 0_0 |
Given their interest in grapes and elevated CO2, the team grew grapes in open-top chambers for three years (2004, 2005, 2006) with ambient (365 ppm) and elevated (500 ppm) atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Among many other findings, the team found that the elevated CO2 concentration increased net photosynthetic rate, int... | 3_3 |
The CO 2 emissions since 2000 to about 2.5 percent per year has increased, so that we would expect according to the Hansen paper a temperature rise, which should be stronger than in model A. Figure 1 shows the three Hansen scenarios and the real measured global temperature curve are shown. The protruding beyond Scenari... | 5_1 |
Many of us had perhaps "heard" of the Copenhagen climate summit in recent years, but knew only that it was some sort of kooky follow-up to the Kyoto Treaty, which President Bush had refused to sign. | 0_0 |
The authors grew mint ( Mentha sp . L.) and thyme ( Thymus vulgaris L.) shoots in tissue culture tubes exposed to several atmospheric oxygen concentrations and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 350 and 10,000 ppm to determine the influence of these two gasses on the growth of these herbaceous species. What was learned | 0_0 |
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill "er up, buddy,' and he'll say, `I am very sorry, there isn't any.'" | 0_0 |
Legal online poker getting closer, game of skill debates continue: | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, however, anti-energy politicians and government bureaucrats have instituted a variety of policies and regulations that have rendered at least 60 percent of recoverable oil inaccessible. Many of these regulations are based on concerns regarding the safety and potential contamination of water. However, a m... | 4_5 |
The Fremantle tide gauge result, the only other tide gauge operational in Australia over more than a century, shows the same modest sea level rise and about zero acceleration in perfect agreement with the worldwide result and the result of Sydney. | 1_6 |
The solar session was very informative to me. The comments and discussion were also interesting. Graeme Stephens argued that the solar forcing was one of the better understood parts of the record, with uncertainties of a several W/m2 at most. Whereas the uncertainties in the surface energy budget were on the order of 2... | 5_1 |
Most geologists beg to differ with such pessimistic accounts of the end times because they say humans and plant life typically evolve before they go extinct. | 0_0 |
There was no doubt that elevated O3 was bad for the plants, but the Burkey et al. team showed over and over that elevated CO2 restored the damage from caused by the ozone. From the perspective of the peanuts, O3 was definitely a pollutant while CO2 was a white knight ameliorating the damage from O3. If you are concerne... | 3_3 |
By the way, this is not proven yet but there is probably one other way my Obamacare policy will be worse than my last one: the doctor network in my policy will very likely be a LOT smaller. We could almost be sure this would happen precisely because Obama promised it wouldn't (his promises on health care are pretty goo... | 0_0 |
As I live in California, it makes it easier for me if I keep them in the list where I can see whats shaking near me. | 0_0 |
During an El Nio event, warm water that had been below the surface of the western tropical Pacific sloshes into the East Pacific Ocean on the surface, impacting the sea surface temperatures of the East Pacific and the NINO3.4 region directly. When the El Nio is done, the leftover warm water sloshes back out of the East... | 0_0 |
A blog post about alarmist Richard Somerville is here . Excerpt: In an email exchange, I asked Dr. Somerville what he thought was needed in order to spark the changes the letter seeks. He responded, I think a dramatic shocking surprising climate event that is unambiguously due to global warming may be the only thing th... | 5_2 |
In particular, the suggestions that koda's success hurts the whole VW Group are absolutely irrational. The success may breed jealousy but it surely doesn't reduce the overall profit. If you imagined that koda were not a part of the VW Group, the group's profits would surely be lower than they are now. You can see that,... | 0_0 |
He took a very select series of proxies, and essentially pasted them onto the 1083 of the 1209 total proxies. | 5_1 |
its toll, especially if his popularity declines? Can he square the circle with | 0_0 |
Over most of Antarctica, near-surface temperature and snowfall have not increased significantly. | 0_0 |
Yet it is another shift that makes the most compelling argument for addressing natural gas in the U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue in 2014: the recent fall in bilateral natural gas trade. Canada remains the largest foreign supplier of natural gas to the United States, and the United States is Canada's largest export m... | 0_0 |
he threat of environmental extremism in a vast new area provides the biggest reason to reject the treaty. The Kyoto Treaty was rejected as national policy for good reason. LOST is Kyoto with a court attached.?? | 5_2 |
If this is true, it's much more accurate and much more juicy than Tommaso Dorigo's version of the same rumor ! Your humble correspondent would also be likely to win a $10,000 bet with Jester at Resonaances (without losing $100), among other bets. But needless to say, the real value of the discovery would be priceless. | 0_0 |
This month, the attorneys-general of 16 US states issued subpoenas against a think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in an attempt to silence its climate dissent. The Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle lambasted this decision, saying: "I support action on climate change . . . But that doesn't mean I'm ent... | 0_0 |
Eos, Vol. 79, No. 28, July 14, 1998 | 0_0 |
Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change? | 0_0 |
Since 1998 the global mean temperature has not risen significantly. While the global temperature rose by about 0.5C from the 1970s until the end of the 1990s, it has stagnated for the last 15 years, though at a high level. The stagnation surprised a lot of experts, who are now searching for possible causes for this dev... | 1_4 |
I think I'm right in saying that there has been another paper published recently which reconstructed sea ice levels from old satellite photos and showed that the Met Office figures were too high, but I can't lay my hands on it at the moment. | 0_0 |
> >> >>concerned with better adaptation to the current climate in | 0_0 |
The Sun may have contributed as much as 66% of the observed twentieth century warming, and perhaps more. | 2_1 |
"So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What's the punch line? They were three of the five 'expert witnesses' Republicans called for last week's Congressional hearing on climate science." | 0_0 |
Weather Services International, part of the Weather Channel , said the pressure blocking system which made recent summers cool and wet has disappeared. | 0_0 |
The sharp upward swing of the graph was due to one single tree in Yamal. | 0_0 |
Example: Without the agreement, ice caps will melt and "huge lowland areas in the United States, including big portions of central Florida, could be completely flooded." (Now do you think the Senate should ratify? Duh.) Actually, that wasn't the New York Times but Bill Clinton on the evening news, engaging in pure dema... | 0_0 |
One major challenge is that real uncertainties often turn out to have been underestimated. In many applications, 20%45% of results are surprises, falling outside the previously assumed 98% confidence limits. A famous example is measurements of the speed of light, in which new and more precise mea- surements fell outsid... | 5_1 |
The fact of the matter is that the climate of the western United States features periods of very droughty conditions. Figure 3 shows the complete 108-year history of the PDSI for the Southwest. The current conditions were rivaled in the mid-1950s and exceeded in the first several years of the 20th century (and in case ... | 1_7 |
I, and a number of other scientists, believe that nature has a thermostatic control mechanism that pushes back against a warming influence, such as the relatively weak warming from more atmospheric carbon dioxide. (The direct warming effect of more CO 2 would amount to little more than 1 deg. F by late in this century,... | 3_1 |
The Grantham Research Institute is chaired by Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the infamous Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change which demanded an "urgent global response" to climate change. The called-for response includes a ramped up "emissions trading" of greenhouse gases. | 0_0 |
All estimates (OHC and TOA) show that over the past decade the energy imbalance ranges between about 0.5 and 1 Wm -2 . | 0_0 |
???However, in Palau wherever the water is most acidic, we see the opposite. There??s a coral community that is more diverse, hosts more species and has greater coral cover than in the non-acidic sites. | 3_2 |
Scenes of disaster are not unusual in Bangladesh. About 6,000 square kilometers of the massive GangesBrahmaputra delta, the largest delta in the world, lies less than two metres above sea level. On average, 6,000 people in Bangladesh die each year in storms and floods. In April 1991, a single cyclone, the worst in rece... | 0_0 |
WHY ARE THE DIFFERENCES IN THE TRENDS OF OUTGOING LONGWAVE AND SHORTWAVE RADIATION SO LARGE? | 0_0 |
And part of that debate, I believe, requires calling attention to Exxon-Mobil's funding of a pseudoscientific community whose purpose is to prevent us from tackling global climate change. | 0_0 |
Fortunately the antidote for this stink is straightforward: think with your own head. What was in the research paper that made the savages so upset? Check the research, but leave the scientists themselves alone! | 0_0 |
Sure enough, the Climategate emailers, who effectively but invisibly control the UN's climate panel to a dangerous extent, pretended that Professor Reiter's nomination papers had not been received. He then threw all his toys out of the stroller, produced the recorded-delivery slips, and made it plain that he would name... | 5_2 |
on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 7:38 am and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
Furthermore, from 1940 to 1970, carbon dioxide built up rapidly in the atmosphere, and according to the computer projections of climate, the temperature of the earth should also have risen rapidly. Instead, as the chart shows, the temperature dropped. | 2_3 |
The population around the Laverton station has changed significantly since the station was first opened. ABS statistics indicate a population increase from 7853 in 1933 to over 132,000 in 2008. It is also clear from aerial photographs that there has been significant urban development around the station since its incept... | 5_1 |
Easily the largest and most lucrative component in the CDM market is a peculiar racket centred on the manufacture of CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons, classified under Kyoto as greenhouse gases vastly more damaging than carbon dioxide. The way the racket works is that Chinese and Indian firms are permitted to carry on produci... | 0_0 |
The love affair with carbon taxes stems from a concern that carbon dioxide, a byproduct of energy use, is raising global temperatures and causing global warming. By taxing carbon dioxide, Congress would take action to reduce energy use. Many academic economists favor the carbon tax for restructuring the tax system, see... | 0_0 |
The second system is the impact on the biosphere itself. While carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that tends to trap the sun??s radiation, it is also a vital fertilizer that stimulates plant growth and consequently enhances the food supplies for all the animals, insects, funghi and bacteria which live on and around the... | 3_3 |
It turns out that far from being a stable pH, spots all over the world are constantly changing. One spot in the ocean varied by an astonishing 1.4 pH units regularly. All our human emissions are projected by models to change the worlds oceans by about 0.3 pH units over the next 90 years, and thats referred to as catast... | 3_2 |
Looking ahead, the "Clear Skies Initiative" announced by the Bush administration would require cuts in power plant emissions of what EPA calls "the three worst air pollutants" by roughly 70 percent.16 According to EPA, the Clear Skies Initiative would: | 0_0 |
Cloud Telecomputers to Exhibit Glass Platform at AstriCon 2010: | 0_0 |
Scientists are studying this question with great care. It now seems that the sun has a significant influence on climate. | 2_1 |
There were plenty of worthy candidates, doing actual work to build peace between quarreling parties and reducing standing armies, but this years choice was a populist attempt to influence the political discourse on climate change. | 0_0 |
Advocates of individual liberty and limited government can easily become depressed reading about President Barack Obama's latest exercise of unconstitutional power or the tragicomedy of the upcoming presidential election. But looking behind the headlines reveals something very different and positive: We are turning the... | 0_0 |
If we entered another Dalton type minimum post 2019, the present positive Global Temperature Anomaly would be completely eliminated. | 1_2 |
A promised $100 billion in annual climate financing that Western nations have already pledged to developing countries for carbon emission control and other actions by 2020 is only the "starting point" for additional Western financial commitments that must be laid out in a "clear road map," which includes "specific targ... | 0_0 |
Willie Soon in 2009 found a ten year delay from TSI to sea surface temperature changes in the tropical Atlantic. Moffa-Sanchez et al in 2014 found a lag of around 12 years from TSI to North Atlantic surface temperatures over the last thousand years. Usoskin et al in 2004 found that the correlation coefficient between n... | 2_1 |
"Imagine turning your car's steering wheel, or giving it a gentle tug, and having it break away from the steering column. Now you're speeding along holding the suddenly useless wheel." | 0_0 |
To stay warm, thousands of elderly are using travel passes to ride buses all day, while others seek refuge in libraries and shopping centers, the Sunday Express noted. Others are "putting their health at risk, in an attempt to keep costs down," by bundling up and turning the heat down or off entirely, said Age UK Chari... | 0_0 |
Marc Morano at Climate Depot writes a lengthy article on this issue. Apparently Rep. Leutkemeyer read aloud a report of more than 700 dissenting scientists that was prepared by Morano in 2009. An updated version of this report (which includes 1000 dissenting scientists) can be found here . | 0_0 |
(By convention, a failed to falsify result should be accompanied by an estimate of the error, or statistical power. I havent seen these discussed in the climate blog wars, but I do intend to extend my spreadsheet to include these at some point. Reporting both and errors are important if people are to draw inferences ab... | 0_0 |
A recent study of tide gauges showed a slight decrease in sea level rise rates since 1970 | 1_6 |
Lewis Deane on October 9, 2013 at 10:09 pm | 0_0 |
During 2014, sea ice extent has been above normal for 245 days, at an average of 295,000 sq km. | 1_1 |
Furthermore the Death et al. 2012 study states: The disturbance data for COTS and cyclones show periodic and random fluctuations but no systematic long-term variation over the 27 year observation period. | 1_7 |
In any case, time is up. Real life intrudes. I am told that shopping in this store is complete. There are fabulous bargains to be had elsewhere, and I should come along because, I?m told, I can ponder doom anywhere. Thus shopping really does trump apocalypse. | 0_0 |
moves up, but we dont know if the pdf itself will change. There are clear | 0_0 |
the brink of failure, triumph is snatched from the jaws of defeat by the extraordinary negotiating efforts of the UNFCCC secretariat and the government ministers attending. The triumph is embodied in a document, the substance of which is that a new consensus has been reached that represents a breakthrough or a conceptu... | 0_0 |
Economic impact estimates completed over the past 20 years vary in their coverage of subsets of economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other factors. With these recognized limitation... | 0_0 |
Paul O'Sullivan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Australian Embassy, explained why Australia is fighting against a treaty that imposes an undue burden with minimal return. | 0_0 |
The IPCC ARs list levels of agreement in the literature on a constellation of issues. The IPCC does *NOT* issue a single statement that constitutes the consensus, per Cook et als attempt. | 5_1 |
Indeed, much of our new-found energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together. So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. If a non-partisan coalition of ... | 0_0 |
Washington, D.C., November 10, 2010 The Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency finally today released its "guidance" for how power plants and oil refiners will be forced to comply with new greenhouse gas emissions regulations. | 0_0 |
4. High costs of seed. If the farmer doesn't make more from the biotech seed than from saving his own seed, he won't buy it. If the seeds increase his food security and/or profits the cost will be covered. 5. Legal restrictions on farmers saving biotech seed for replanting. Seed sales are the only way for biotech compa... | 0_0 |
IPCC's Policymakers Summary: A Political Document | 0_0 |
Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith of WeatherData Inc. in Wichita, KS, a world renowned expert on severe weather, talks about the issues of trying to connect weather and climate and where these issues fail. | 0_0 |
A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters titled " The Arctic Ocean warms from below " finds that geothermal heat at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean caused slight warming of 0.004C per year from 1993-2010. The authors find a temperature inversion with higher temperatures at the bottom of the ocean than the... | 2_1 |
Since the 1950s the world's temperature has risen by 0.12C per decade - but since 1998 it has slowed to 0.05C per decade. | 1_4 |
We conclude that at the global scale, this suite of climate models has failed. Treating them as mathematical hypotheses, which they are, means that it is the duty of scientists to reject their predictions in lieu of those with a lower climate sensitivity. | 5_1 |
People often talk about colonial masters, capitalists, and politicians as the sources of evil and inhuman acts. But most of us are not told that such things are happening today and their culprits are sometimes the same people who paint themselves as symbols of morality in the Western societies. | 0_0 |
First clips of "Climate Hustle" air on Hannity, devastate warming hype | 0_0 |
For further information or to obtain a copy of this study, please visit http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/apnm | 0_0 |
There are all kinds of conspiracy theories on the web. ANYTHING can be done with video and photoshop to make any visual you want. Just a question of time and talent. Folks get paid for videos that go viral. The result is a lot of crap. Alien spacecraft shown flying over The City and who knows what all else. Some quite ... | 0_0 |
The Antarctic Sea Ice Extent on Sept 13 2014 may have set a new all time record (at least for the satellite era, we don??t have data prior to that). | 1_1 |
Because sunspot activity has historically predicted periods of global warming and global cooling lots of sunspots translates into lots of warming and vice versa Hathaways study presented at a December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco acted to support global warming theorists and to discre... | 2_1 |
But we shouldnt clobber the economy. Thats why Ive always been against a carbon tax or emissions trading scheme because it harms our economy without necessarily helping the environment. | 4_1 |
Horrors! Now an Aussie Scientist Doubts the Climate Doomsayers | 0_0 |
Virginia has been thrust into the center of the immigration debate recently. Del. Robert Marshall asked Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to issue an opinion about whether the state's law enforcement officers could determine the immigration status of persons stopped or arrested. Cuccinelli's opinion that they can is prob... | 0_0 |
It used to be thought that the sun controlled the Earths climate, but the IPCC and the CSIRO ignore the sun and relate climate change to CO2 and so-called greenhouse gases. Outside that group many still think that the sun controls climate. There is a very good correlation between sunspot cycles and climate. We have ent... | 2_1 |
Marc Morano, a former aide to U.N. agitator and Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, told FoxNews.com the document shows the climate talks are intended to create more "taxing and regulatory authority." | 4_1 |
Equally important, the big computer models of global weather patterns have cut their projections of warming from about 5 degrees Celsius to less than 2 degrees Celsius. | 5_1 |
In his June 26, 1997 address before the United Nations President Clinton defended his environmental record, citing several "successes" such as toxic dump cleanup and his recent decision to implement new air quality standards. | 0_0 |
Minnesota Legislators Invite Heartland Staff to Lead Climate Change Seminar | 0_0 |
Februarys Update news: According to revised official Met office 1 figures, January 2008 was still the coldest month globally in 14 years 2 . At only 0.056 C higher than the nominal reference 3 We must look back to February 1994 to find a colder month. Global temperatures peaked in February 1998 at 0.75C and with Februa... | 1_2 |
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