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After four years of this aggressive barrage of rules designed to kill coal, many in the heartland, states that rely most heavily on coal, are not amused. | 0_0 |
And when one examines the last 17-years, the satellite global temperature trend becomes slightly less than zero (i.e. global cooling). As a prominent climate alarmist scientist determined recently in a peer reviewed paper: | 1_4 |
In 2005, they would tell us that every season would bring its ever increasing number of hurricanes. The number of Katrinas would skyrocket and they would eventually kill everyone. However, a sequence of average and below-the-average hurricane seasons has led the climate cultists to change their preferred doomsday scena... | 1_7 |
"Right now in a caf in Beirut an educated man, a chemist by trade, schooled in the ways of the West, is reading an article about how the US will only spend $15 billion on AIDS and probably won't reduce its carbon emissions to 1817 levels, and he throws down the paper in disgust: bastards! I must join Al Qaeda, move to ... | 0_0 |
Globalwarming.org: Say It Isn't So! Exxon Supports a Carbon Tax | 0_0 |
If it benefits a political agenda to find a culprit that needs to be tamed and controlledguess whatthe results are ordained. | 0_0 |
As of this writing, environmental nonprofits are funding two green advertising campaigns with a national scope. One, titled "Red Carriage," is paid for by the American Lung Association. The other, "What if Polluter Lobbyists in Washington Were Replaced with Asthmatic Children," is a joint production by the Sierra Club ... | 0_0 |
instrumental rather than solar in origin is a bit controversial. Similarly IPCC | 0_0 |
Of course, it couldnt possibly be anything else but CO2 causing this , right? | 0_0 |
The oil and gas industry is in the crosshairs of the administrations eco-agenda, even if Shell gets its Arctic drilling permit. | 0_0 |
Since it is apparently acceptable practice for Science magazine to accompany an article extolling the evils of anthropogenic climate change (and the need to take action) with an picture of a polar bear (or two) stranded on an ice floe (even though polar bears were not mentioned in the article), perhaps well accompany a... | 5_2 |
Famed hurricane forecaster Dr. William Gray has issued his hurricane season forecast for 2012 and predicts below-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall. | 1_7 |
Even if some savings are managed to be squeezed out by the presence of wind, it is important to remember that the effect of such for an electricity system will be very small to negligible. This will be true regardless of how much wind is installed. The costs to realize these small gains, again if somehow they can be re... | 4_4 |
CEI reminds OSTP that this practice was described as "creat non-governmental accounts for official business" and "using the nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications" in a recent analogous situation involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff. CEI expects similar congressional and medi... | 0_0 |
Mr. Bush won despite 1,000 American deaths in Iraq, an economy that is generating new jobs at a tepid pace, a faltering performance in the presidential debates and the nearly unanimous opposition of the media. It was a triumph, and Europeans needs to recognize that its effects will probably endure. The Republican party... | 0_0 |
In conclusion, all five GSTA datasets analyzed here show an average GSTA over the past 35 years of between 0.01C to 0.42C above their respective baseline period temperature, depending data set (1). The land-based data sets report in all most all cases monthly GSTA that are higher than the satellite based GSTAs (1). In ... | 0_0 |
have less of a cooling effect than previously estimated, the climate models need to be re-worked. The models incorporate a high cooling effect to counter-balance their high warming effect for CO2.] | 5_1 |
$30,000 for minor fender and door damage | 0_0 |
Thats what makes the major outbreaks of West Nile virus in the U.S. this summer so scary. So far, nearly 700 cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), including 26 deaths the biggest nationwide outbreak since 2004. The situation is particularly bad in and around Dallas, where the virus has kill... | 0_0 |
The key question here is clearly what fraction of the observed impacts of climate change that the IPCC identifies is human-caused and how much natural. Lets see if we can put some probabilities on this. | 0_0 |
The authors conclude that "the combination of higher root yields at elevated CO 2 combined with a decrease in root decomposition will lead to a longer residence time of C in the soil and probably to a higher C storage." These facts, they say, "should be taken into account in models predicting the fate of C under differ... | 3_3 |
Well, perhaps such people exist; prigs and bullies can be found on almost any side of any dispute. But at their best, religion and environmentalism interconnect in a much more positive way. Both invite people to think far beyond the particular physical space and moment in time which they happen to occupy. Both encourag... | 0_0 |
At its most tightly coupled, T is the radiative temperature of the Earth. However, the outgoing longwave radiation is proportional to T**4. A 1C increase in the polar latitudes in the winter, for example, would have much less of an effect on the change of longwave emission than a 1C increase in the tropics. The spatial... | 0_0 |
One consequence of the nations non-attainment with NAAQS for GHGs is that EPA would have to regulate major stationary CO 2 sourcesunder the Non-Attainment New Source Review (NNSR) pre-construction permitting program, which is more stringent than PSD. The NNSR cutoff for regulation as a major source is 100 TYP, not 250 ... | 0_0 |
At any rate, the LFCS called Mr Boslough has bashed the "contrarians" and especially Judith Curry, a renegade, who was given an exemption and she could explain the detailed reasons why LFCS named Michael Mann is an... Apologies, this whole sentence had to be completely omitted because there's no way to be more than 3% ... | 0_0 |
This derivation of (t) does not assume any given equilibrium between ingress and egress; the only hypothesis made is that the absorption grows with due to fertilization of the air by CO 2 : more food, bigger plants and quicker growth, more leafs and so on; see on notice n2 in the footnotes the references of some observ... | 3_3 |
Four years ago, the UK Climate Change Act was passed, committing the UK to huge economic upheaval and a cost, on the governments own figures, of 18 billion a year. | 0_0 |
Clive Hamilton who breaks tenets of science, good manners, and any semblance of reason spins up a preposterous claim that The Australian is attacking science, and strangely the national masthead almost seems to be hurt by it. | 0_0 |
Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming | 0_0 |
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Greenhouse Gases | 0_0 |
ExxonMobil took a different course. In 2005, then-CEO Lee Raymond, said: "What all these people are thinking about doing, we did 20 years agoand spent $1 billion, in dollars of that day, to find out that none of these were economic." "In the late 1970s, as oil prices skyrocketed, Exxon diversified into an array of foss... | 0_0 |
If McKitrick et al shows that the IPCC global computer models cant model the present and therefore the future, Professor Demetrius Koutsoyiannis and his team show those models cant even model the past | 5_1 |
"Specifically, in scenario A CO2 increases as observed by Keeling for the interval 1958-1981 and subsequently with a 1.5%/yr growth of the annual increment." | 0_0 |
Setting out to update that analysis, Zhao and Running expected to see similar results as global average temperatures have continued to climb. Instead, they found that the impact of regional drought overwhelmed the positive influence of a longer growing season, driving down global plant productivity between 2000 and 200... | 0_0 |
Let's begin with the case that libertarian Republicans make, a tale that often starts with blue-state governors. They remind us that states well outside the reach of GOP presidential candidates have in the last decade elected pro-choice Republicans as governors. Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Pataki,... | 0_0 |
Methods 1 & 2 have identical (alpha) errors. So, I consider the method with the minimum error superior, as it is gives the least, overall, number of errors. This is why I average over all instruments. Method 3 is deficient as method to test the IPCC hypothesis, and merely gives some sense of the uncertainty due to meas... | 0_0 |
Accelerating sea levels swamping the world's coastal regions is the "bread & butter" fear of global warmista scientists - tide gauge station empirical evidence however does not support the CAGW predictions (hysteria) | 1_6 |
Do these people ever get tired of being complete morons? | 0_0 |
Great news from Van Jones: America is not broke: | 0_0 |
Eventually, other astronomers recalculate the asteroid?s path and find serious mistakes in the original work. They conclude that the likelihood of an impact any time in the next few centuries is minuscule. By this time, however, the ?stop asteroid impact? movement is highly popular among opinion leaders, and internatio... | 0_0 |
If I need my car repaired, I do not take it to a dentist. If I am seeking advice about the climate I check out what climatologists and meteorologists are saying, at least those who have not sold their souls to the global warming/climate change hoax. | 0_0 |
Steve, Im horrified by your slipshod work. You did not define what you compare, what dataset used in each case, how data were processed, and what was the reason for that, what limitation there are, what kind of additional information you need to know. Why didnt you ask me for all the details? You even arent ashamed of ... | 0_0 |
Yet the inefficient, intermittent, and uneconomical "clean technologies" are not what made America "strong and free." America became a superpower on the basis of energy that was abundant, available, and affordable. Now, in the cause of climate change, we want to deny developing countries the same benefits we've had? | 4_5 |
Barely twelve months after its Meteorological Office said the 2009-10 winter was the coldest in three decades, Britain endured its coldest December-January since 1683. Because the United Kingdom's ultra green energy policies have driven heating costs into the stratosphere, British pensioners rode buses or spent all day... | 1_3 |
Regardless of your position on any policy issue, the right to voice your opinion is a unique and fundamental element of American democracy. But today, Americans' right to free speech is under attack by government officials. | 0_0 |
This lack of accountability and transparency strikes at the heart of China's credibility in any global climate change agenda. Wen would not want foreign experts reporting to political masters in America and Europe that Beijing's capacity for compelling local officials and locally managed, state-controlled enterprises s... | 0_0 |
A novelty from the ocean's depths is that some species seem to benefit from more carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans, just tvrtemot previously emerged. | 0_0 |
As a precursor to a potentially very costly competition, Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative indeed was crucial but it was far from heralding a military defeat, given that the Kremlin knew very well that effective deployment of space-based defenses was decades away. Similarly, though the 1980 peaceful anti-c... | 0_0 |
Markey has actually called for the construction of new pipelines to bring gas from Pennsylvania but its falling on deaf ears in the natural gas industry, which has been the focus of his relentless attacks for years. Such are the real-life consequences of anti-shale gas politics. | 4_5 |
Today the door has been pushed back somewhat, with a new paper in Energy Economics by a multinational team of authors led by Zuzana Irsova of Charles University in Prague (there is a preprint here ). She and her colleagues have been looking into published estimates of the social cost of carbon and find good evidence of... | 5_2 |
On Monday, newly arrived government ministers begin applying political weight to talks being held in Cancun, as the 193-nation U.N. climate conference moves into its decisive final week. | 0_0 |
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
EPAs Punitive, Fraudulent Clean Power Plan | 0_0 |
Dear Steve, the satellite record measures a different quantity than the weather-station-based global mean temperature, so there is no good reason to think that their graphs and trends should agree. In other words, the disagreement between these two different types of datasets doesnt imply that there is a mistake in eit... | 0_0 |
The NSR policy changes recommended by EPA, if put into practice, would not compromise air quality. We are skeptical that NSR has had a major positive effect on air quality since 1977, so predictions that EPA's proposed reforms would result in substantial increases in emissions41 strike us as partisan rhetoric, not anal... | 0_0 |
How the Center for American Progress campaigned to suppress speech | 0_0 |
You can say that again! Climatologists are no Einsteins . But it wasnt me that said it, it was a successor of Einstein himself at Princeton University, Freeman Dyson. | 0_0 |
Evidence abounds that the Administration is pursuing a strategy of implementation without ratification. During the Kyoto conference, Vice President Gore said: "Whether there is an agreement in Kyoto or not, the United States is prepared, under President Clinton's leadership, to unilaterally take steps that we believe s... | 0_0 |
By spring 2011, we should see a large increase in multi-year ice. The remaining blue ice in the map above will become green multi-year ice. The only things which could prevent this now would be an asteroid impact or strong winds which blow the ice out into the North Atlantic over the winter. | 0_0 |
This approach is a more robust and inclusive approach than by relying on the global models as the tool to use for planning. The costs of using the global models as the assessment tool should be redirected to these other assessment approaches given by #1 through #3. | 5_1 |
Paul Chesser of North Carolina's John Locke Foundation has a useful article in today's Washington Times about how one advocacy group, funded by leftist foundations, is taking over state policy decision-making on global warming: | 0_0 |
Scientists predicted summer sea ice would shrink, but they underestimated the trend. Now in late summer, much of the Arctic Ocean is open water; summer ice covers about half what it did 30 years ago. | 0_0 |
Prohibiting the EPA and other agencies from regulating greenhouse gas emissions and prohibiting the EPA and other agencies from using any funds to promulgate or enforce any regulation intended to mitigate global warming unless it is expressly authorized to do so by Congress. | 0_0 |
Over the last three decades, five IPCC assessment reports, dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused almost entirely on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for dangerous global warming, climate change, climate disruption, and alm... | 5_2 |
Proclaiming that the study affirms the reality of catastrophic global warming will only further confuse the issue. As with other reports on climate issues, most notably the United Nations' Third Assessment Report, the qualifications and uncertainties in which scientists couch their claims go unnoticed or ignored when t... | 0_0 |
As a reminder, the outgoing shortwave radiation represents a portion of the incoming sunlight thats reflected back to space, primarily by clouds and volcanic aerosols. Where incident shortwave radiation is basically an input, outgoing shortwave radiation is a model-calculated value. | 0_0 |
Think about what Curry vs. Mann would accomplish. As Curry admits, ?I have at least as good a case against Michael Mann for defamation as he has against Steyn.? So this would put Mann is a bind: if he wins against Steyn, he establishes a precedent for his own loss to Curry. If no one can criticize him under the Bill Mu... | 0_0 |
This example is from Victoria, not New South Wales, but sea level must have roughly the same rises and falls all over the world. So the whole world should be alarmed, not just New South Wales. Indeed the IPCC and CSIRO try to alarm the world with stories of drowning of low islands, like Tuvalu. But detailed mapping has... | 1_6 |
Oh, and it's all taking off! Greg Laden weighs in here . Briggs reports that he has posted a comment on it (it hasn't appeared yet though). Oooh! | 0_0 |
And we can see the direct impact of that as a big jump in OLR OUTGOING IR. CO2 be damned. | 2_3 |
Corporate managers should not allow themselves to be bullied and extorted by a small group of manipulative, ill-willed, and know-nothing activists. CEOs owe it to their shareholders, employees and customers to stand up to eco-intimidation. They should insist that environmental controversies be resolved with the actual ... | 0_0 |
We know from Climategate emails that CRU were reading CA posts at the time. Further, the contemporary responses of Briffa and Melvin first conceded that I had raised a number of valid points that require further investigation and then, in their second much more detailed response shortly before Climategate, Briffa and M... | 0_0 |
DR. SPENCER: Well, I think that this has got to contribute to it. Although I couldn't find where they explicitly mention this. That the cloud forcing has gone way down. I don't know why they didn't mention that, because the graph indicates it. This value here of one on this scale is where the cloud forcing equals the C... | 0_0 |
In 20th- and 21st-century simulations, antarctic sea ice cover is projected to decrease more slowly than in the Arctic (Figures 10.13 c,d and 10.14 ), particularly in the vicinity of the Ross Sea where most models predict a local minimum in surface warming. This is commensurate with the region with the greatest reducti... | 0_0 |
To me, the most significant thing that the Climategate emails show is that the deck is stacked against the publication of research results that are critical of the established scientific consensus and that the skids are greased for papers that run in support. It is little wonder why the literature is as one-sided as it... | 5_2 |
I pay more and this is going to prevent global warming? Yeah right. Wrong bill at the wrong time for all of the wrong reasons. | 4_2 |
Previous efforts at flood defence in Bangladesh have not solved the problems. In 1990, the first flood action plan called for barriers to be built along main rivers: in less than 10 years, some 3,500 kilometres of embankments sprang up. In 2000, the countrys focus shifted towards constructing more storm shelters and im... | 0_0 |
"What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably." | 0_0 |
Bruce Walker, frequent contributor to American Thinker discusses the problem we have put up at Junk Science many times, Federal Judges who usurp the Constitution by their pretense that they shall decide what the constitution means. | 0_0 |
SM: Our A-Number-One issue is taxes. But we also stand for smaller government, and reducing regulation is certainly part of smaller government. I'll give you just one example of an issue that we're very interested in getting involved in, and that's this really insidious movement in Washington and California to regulate... | 0_0 |
The most interesting thing about the documents Chris obtained from Treasury are the bits that are redacted (see above). For example, a paragraph headed Overview says: "t will raise energy prices and impose annual costs on the order of ." Perhaps the folks in the FOIA Compliance Office at Treasury didn't get the January... | 0_0 |
One of Ronald Reagan's favorite quotes was Victor Hugo's observation that "no army can stop an idea whose time has come." And the idea Reagan had in mind was a less-interventionist government creating "a climate in which the entrepreneurial genius of the private sector can do what it does best ? namely, create new weal... | 0_0 |
The Heartland Institute recognized the 10th anniversary of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, when internationally renowned scientist, speaker, author and Heartland Institute Science Director Dr. Jay Lehr debated six of the film's claims with Dr. Scott Denning, atmospheric science professor ... | 0_0 |
One ``sensitive nerve ending" is LOST's authority over land-based pollution. Article 207 of the treaty mandates: ``States shall adopt laws and regulations to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment from land-based sources.'' States also ``shall take other measures as may be necessary to prevent,... | 0_0 |
The Team. Phil Jones, head of the CRU; Peter Thorne of the UK Met Office (the national weather service, originally the Meteorological Office) was joined by Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis section head of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Tom Wigley, also of NCAR; and the litigious Penn State U... | 0_0 |
Electricity from existing coal plants costs $38 per megawatt-hour; from new wind facilities, $106. | 0_0 |
For the Obamians themselves, Iran was a challenge they anticipated during the 2008 campaign and recognized as a test of their approach. And since judgments of the | 0_0 |
A little doggerel never hurt anybody. Thus, I have no compunction dedicating this poem to Anne Ehrlich , who has taken up her fathers burden of telling the world that it is nearly finished. | 0_0 |
Mr. Weaver, after all, has been a major IPCC science insider for years. He is Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, mastermind of one of the most sophisticated climate modelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reports. | 0_0 |
Thanks to the Chief Toxicologist for Texas, Dr. Mike Honeycutt, for tipping me off. | 0_0 |
Perhaps the most common assaults on growth relate to the environment. From a green perspective, the drive to accumulate more stuff strips the planet of scarce resources and poisons it with waste. Overconsumption is said to fill our homes with needless goods and even swell our bodies with cheap but unhealthy food. The A... | 0_0 |
CCLPs report directed its sharpest criticism at the programs high costs and limited emissions reductions. According to the report, the program by 2008 had reduced the nations carbon dioxide emissions by only 0.015 percent, at an average social abatement cost of $257 Australian to $301 Australian per ton of reduced carb... | 4_2 |
In 40 years the house at 48 Oceanside Drive has been rebuilt 9 times by National Flood Insurance . The Globe says thats sea level rise, even damage from the blizzard of 78. Sea level rise is the popular alarmist scare, but even the Globe ought to realize the term can be overused. Build on the seashore and you should ex... | 5_2 |
Unfortunately, the Sarkozy team postulates variables for which no country currently collects data because data are simply not measurable. We should stick with what can be measured robustly and include subjective personal and social evaluations with care. But we should not embrace speculative valuations of our environme... | 0_0 |
Does Global Warming Cause Severe Cold Spells? Court Orders Release of Concealed Records | 0_0 |
Coldest winter in at least 25 years in the US | 0_0 |
"Next week, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2, a measure to repeal Obamacare in its entirety. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a report stating that repealing the health care law would increase the deficit by $145 billion between 2012 and 2019." | 0_0 |
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America's rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate. | 0_0 |
The buyer's remorse felt by so many in the party establishment including the pathetic #NeverTrump movement went nowhere. Only a handful of significant Republican officeholders, led by Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, emphatically rejected Trump. Other conservative figures, including the columnists George F. Will, Charles Kraut... | 0_0 |
V. Klaus, D. T? ska, ?Ke kritice pou? vn konceptu solidarity a diskriminace v intertemporln anal ze tzv. globln ch problm?? (To the Critique of Using the Concepts of Solidarity and Discrimination in the Intertemporal Analysis of so called Global Problems), Politick ekonomie, No. 6, 2007. Document in Czech language is a... | 0_0 |
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