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Gore is hot -- will the Peace Prize follow the Oscar? | 0_0 |
The first and second email batches contained conversations among "scientists" who appear to have dishonored a once respectable discipline, documenting that their claims of a "man-made global warming crisis" look exactly like deliberate contrivances for academic career gain, research funding and positions of political p... | 5_2 |
Looks like I picked a good time to live in Saskatchewan, where the words "global economic collapse" translate to "12 month hunting season". Meanwhile... (I know, I know. Lots of new boats. So, it's probably nothing.) | 0_0 |
Although long-term fertilization of nine years decreased plant diversity, it increased plant productivity; and this phenomenon caused an increase in arthropod species richness by significantly increasing the numbers of parasite and predator species. Short-term fertilization also increased plant productivity, but withou... | 3_3 |
FCCC Tel.: (49-228) 815-1000 | 0_0 |
John F. Kennedy spent his first year as president trying Keynesian economics, seeking economic growth through increased government spending. That didn't work, so he advanced supply-side tax cuts that led to an economic boom. Hillary Clinton has her own school of economics, to the left of Keynes, where tax rate cuts ine... | 0_0 |
Indeed, as CEI and several of its free-market brethren explained in a recent amicus brief and in coalition letters to President Bush and Senator Dianne Feinstein, EPA regulation of CO2 from new cars and trucks under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act could compel the agency to regulate CO2 emissions from potentially hund... | 0_0 |
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming | 0_0 |
WARNING #2: This is not a one-off situation. This is NOT a "movie' that's Orwellian speak. This is a full-blown climate change ad campaign sponsored by numerous large corporations. | 0_0 |
Next, the Hayhoe chapter is of concern in light of Gingrichs green wobbling this week . | 0_0 |
We combine satellite data with ocean measurements to depths of 1,800 m, and show that between January 2001 and December 2010, Earth has been steadily accumulating energy at a rate of 0. 50 +/0.43 Watts per meter squared(uncertainties at the 90% confidence level). We conclude that energy storage is continuing to increa... | 0_0 |
We think, ovviamentemente, Diana, destined not to be the queen of a new King Charles but to quickly become a symbol of life rich, glamorous and style, only to be transformed in a few years into an object of continual attacks on comic books and magazines , always hungry for compromising photos included gems like "Diana ... | 0_0 |
According to the supposition of anthropogenic global warming, the end result of those three components is the warming of the global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years with all of its yearly variations. See Figure 2. It assumes there is an anthropogenic component thats responsible for all of the lo... | 0_0 |
That was the powerful message CFACT spokesmen and I delivered last week in Dallas to a standing-room-only crowd of state legislators and other policy experts from across the nation. | 0_0 |
If Back Radiation actually reached and heated the Earth as Trenberth shows, then Parabolic Mirror Solar Ovens would produce heating Day and Night! | 2_3 |
According to The Associated Press, the U.S. and India have backed down a bit on their objections, while China continues to put up resistance. | 0_0 |
The New Left and today's liberal progressives, then, interpret America's political history very differently from the way conservatives and moderate progressives do. They see the victory of Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972 as catastrophic. As much as conservatives see Nixon as a liberal because of his imposition of wage a... | 0_0 |
But before declaring victory, it is worth noting Richard Blacks expectation that governments will be pressing for different conclusions because money is at stake. The good news about the leaked document is that efforts to alter the text will be noticed. Based on Blacks report, it seems that the IPCC has at long last do... | 0_0 |
One factor that is hard for Washington to influence is the market price of oil, which is set by global supply and demand. Strikes in oil-producing Venezuela and uncertainty surrounding Iraq increased the price per barrel of crude by 50 percent since Jan. 1. Unfortunately, episodes of instability in oil-producing region... | 0_0 |
The Russian crew stayed aboard the trapped ship. | 0_0 |
AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. The Wilkins runway ... | 0_0 |
According to the klimamanifest site, the above video was inspired by comments Schellnhuber had made on German public television on May 27, 2013, where he once again warned of a planet warming by 4C by the end of the century. | 0_0 |
The lawmakers accuse firms like ExxonMobil of working "to undermine mainstream scientific research" by donating to the think tanks. It all comes under a grand conspiracy theory dubbed #WebOfDenial. | 0_0 |
The delayed oscillator mechanism of ENSO, Chapter 4.9, must also be considered when discussing the end of ENSO events. | 0_0 |
"Anti-Lobbyist' Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus "Green Jobs' | 5_2 |
A relatively new product called FireIce smothers fires, by taking heat and oxygen away from combustible materials. Dropped directly onto a fire from airplanes, it penetrates through smoke, fire, and treetops down to burning timber and trees and brush in a fire's path. It can also be carried to blazes in standard fire a... | 0_0 |
One of the favorite boogeyman arguments used in climate alarmism is that climate has been stable for thousands of years, and that our recent industrialized era emissions will result in climate tipping point. However, this study in the Proceeding of the National Academies of Science suggest that climate disruption cause... | 2_1 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on the liberating effects of car ownership. | 0_0 |
A new and broader climate deal is out of reach for now and instead nations need to focus on how to replace the ailing Kyoto Protocol before 2020, Britains minister of state for energy and climate change said on Monday. The view is recognition that agreement on a pact that commits all major greenhouse gas polluters to c... | 0_0 |
Moreover, the purpose of the scare was fundraising for environmental activists. The head of Fenton subsequently acknowledged that the scare "was designed so that revenue would flow back to the NRDC from the public." | 0_0 |
He said that all you can do is disable Java Plugin in the web browser and wait for the patches from Oracle. | 0_0 |
The world is unlikely to agree to carbon pricing. It cannot succeed unless it is global but global carbon pricing is unlikely to get implemented, let alone sustained for the time required to deliver the projected benefits. | 0_0 |
I have some doubts whether the dual AdS-like description of condensed matter physics and related problems may ever be considered an "ultimate reliable description". But string theory surely gives us a new perspectives from which one may look at various physical situations and Subir Sachdev is among those who are exploi... | 0_0 |
Top 10 Things You Didnt Know About Wind Power | 0_0 |
Weather Bureau Blows Budget on New SuperComputers | 0_0 |
Electricity provider Constellation Energy seeks permission to build a new nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. | 0_0 |
Dr. Robinson is well known for the Oregon Petition Project, which says "there is no convincing scientific evidence" that humans are causing "catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere" or disruption of its climate. It urges Congress to reject the Kyoto global warming agreement and has been signed by more than 32,00... | 5_1 |
Jim Hansen calls Cap and Trade the "Temple of Doom" | 0_0 |
Under some conditions, drilling wells in offshore waters can reduce the amount of oil released from natural seeps by reducing the pressure in the oil traps. | 4_5 |
This comes at the heels of last months reports from Britain where long-range forecasters warned of below average temperatures from October through February, along with lots of whites stuff, which just a few years ago was said would be rare and exciting in the future because of global warming. | 1_3 |
Here are two web references to support the above evidence of global cooling in North America: http://wattsupwiththat.com and http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs . | 1_2 |
In North Redfield, when it finally stopped at around 9:45 Friday morning, Carol Yerdon had measured 72 inches (185 cm) of snow that had fallen out of the sky for an impressive snow base of 41 inches. | 1_3 |
The new coal power standards proposed by the previous Labor government and supported by the Coalition would have capped emissions from new coal-fired power plants at 0.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide for every megawatt hour of electricity generated. They would also have required new plants to be ready to install clean coal ... | 0_0 |
Korner, C. 2003. Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany. | 0_0 |
The data in this paper suggest that future increases in the air's CO 2 concentration will enhance photosynthesis and biomass production in many C 4 grass species, regardless of their photosynthetic sub-type. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment should enhance C 4 grass water-use efficiency, perhaps allowing C 4 gra... | 3_3 |
Our newfound ability to extract hydrocarbons from shale has also been a net win in the effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Again, the numbers tell the tale. In August, U.S. natural gas production hit nearly 91 billion cubic feet per day. That's an increase of about 27 billion cubic feet per day since August 2006. T... | 4_5 |
Putting it all of the above togetherand throwing in some other minor damages estimates for good measure and greater shock value (e.g., number of people run over by trains transporting coal, excess mental retardation from mercury emissions, etc.)Epstein et al. arrive at low, best estimate, and high values for the annul ... | 0_0 |
And so it was in Soviet Russia. The lines to newspaper kiosks sometimes crowds around the block that formed at six in the morning, with each daily run often sold out in two hours and the skyrocketing subscriptions to the leading liberal newspapers and magazines testify to the devastating power of the most celebrated es... | 0_0 |
Executive Director Craig Rucker is an expert writing about the UN Conference on Climate Change for the National Journal's Copenhagen Insider. | 0_0 |
The NIPCC also destroys the false IPCC claims that computer models prove recent global warming is due to human CO2 emissions, and can forecast future global temperatures, climates and events. In reality, the models greatly exaggerate climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide levels; assume all warming since the industrial ... | 5_1 |
EPA's new automobile mileage standards alone will result in thousands of additional serious injuries and deaths every year, as cars are further downsized to meet its arbitrary 54.5 mpg requirements. Its anti-coal and anti-fracking rules will severely impact electricity generation, reliability and prices; factory, offic... | 4_1 |
All this is little more than blatant scare mongering, and FOE was calling on its members and others who received its email to "Call on President Obama to ensure that all Americans are protected from climate disasters." | 0_0 |
We dont know if its weather or climate. But we have seen a trend in the ice conditions in the last four or five years, said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The pups cant swim for very long. They need stable ice. If the ice deteriorates underneath them, they drown. | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, Einstein worked under the strictest security to develop the refining methods and the first sustained nuclear reaction using Uranium at the University of Chicago. His correspondence with the Robert Oppenheimer who headed actual weapons team are still classified. It is doubtless that Einstein had many involvem... | 0_0 |
200-300% ofnormalprecipitationearns Georgia the exceptionaldrought prize from the climate buffoons in Washington. | 0_0 |
Gaertner also maintains in his book that certain activists appear to care more about imposing their solutions to hypothetical environmental threats, such as global warming, than the very real problems being fostered through implementation of their agenda (such as increased energy and food prices on the poor). Such appr... | 0_0 |
Today's conventional wisdom holds that the political organs of government must correct the fundamental design mistakes that they previously created. That conclusion rests on the belief that the United States Constitution places no strong constraint on Congress or the states. That result is surely correct under the low ... | 0_0 |
"And if they continue with and expand President Obama's climate agenda, we'll negative growth," said Ebell. | 0_0 |
Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than previously thought, according to new research. Satellite data reported in a new paper shows that sea ice volumes in the spring months have been stable over the four years from 2010 to 2014 and that Autumn sea ice volumes in 2013 and 2014 were significantly up on prior years. --... | 1_1 |
Aside from the ludicrous hyperbole, the choice of example is an incidence of the Inigo Montoya effect ("You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"). Dunkirk was actually an example of government knowing when it couldn't cope. The evacuation of the Allied forces from Northern France was o... | 0_0 |
In contrast, a doubling of CO2, which is supposed to occur late in the next century, has a radiative forcing about one percent of normal. Now there are different kinds of radiant forcings. This was turning the sun off. This cooling effect due to Pinotuba was basically shading the sunlight. Increasing concentrations of ... | 0_0 |
Speaking of elections, Ontario Wind Turbines Slice Liberal Politicians | 0_0 |
More immediately, the theme of close cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security officials is echoed by senior figures on both sides. United by a common enemy (i.e., Hamas), the two longtime adversaries appear to be building a de facto alliance even before the old epithets go out of style. My military intellig... | 0_0 |
We already know that stronger tornadoes were more common in the period upto the mid 1970s, but Roy comes up with the reasons why this should be so. | 0_0 |
Will this create a groundswell of new support from American voters?: Obama's climate swindle wins coveted endorsement from Fidel Castro HAVANA Barack Obama's call for action on climate change and his admission that rich nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from an unusual source U... | 5_2 |
Figure 3. HadCRUT4 GLB (black) versus CMIP5 ensemble average (red). Note the lengthy hiatus from the 1940s to 1980. Also note the divergence between models and observations in the 21st century. | 5_1 |
The atmospheric humidity levels that NOAA researchers publish continue to trend lower than climate model predictions - however, the mythical runaway global warming that catastrophic global warming (CAGW) alarmists promulgate requires atmospheric humidity to increase | 5_1 |
The United Mine Workers of America is encouraging its members to speak out against the Obama administration?s proposed regulations on carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, population growth is already solving itself, and much more rapidly than the UN admits. The Deutsch Bank says human numbers will stabilize and start shrinking in the near futurepeaking at 8.7 billion about 2055, and falling to 8 billion by 2100. By contrast, the UN recently raised its projected population gro... | 0_0 |
NASA states that significant heating does not occur in the Atlantic Ocean, or for that matter in any other ocean. This is extremely telling because global man-made atmospheric warming occurswell globally. So all of this supposedly hidden warmed atmospheric energy has to be somehow captured, concentrated, and then trans... | 0_0 |
San Francisco mayor vetoes happy meal ban: | 0_0 |
IER is an educational non-profit under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; AEA is an advocacy non-profit under Section 501(c)(4) of the code. I am founder and CEO of IER. | 0_0 |
Why is this significant? Well, because its a reclaimed open-pit coal mine. I was impressed. | 0_0 |
In my last post I wrote about natural, non-scientific indicators for winter forecasting, which are often more accurate than models. The Telegraph piece is just another one to add to that list. So far I havent seen many signs that the coming winter will be warm, except that is for the worn out warnings propagated by the... | 5_1 |
So far, so good, but as we know that temperature of the earth can and does vary independently of CO2 concentrations, how do you know that the rise was due to CO2 alone? And if it wasnt, then in fact you may have overshot or undershot by more than the 0.5 degrees. If you overshot, your modelling was completely unsuccess... | 0_0 |
Sunday was a beautiful day in Washington. The temperature hit the high 60s and I wore shorts. I dreamed it was spring. | 0_0 |
Additionally, despite the claim that "the report is about measurement rather than policies," it gives the impression that some of the authors want to use the data to change our behavior. It says at one point: "some members of the Commission believe that the crisis provides heightened urgency to these reforms." It then ... | 0_0 |
Ls press release from Freningen Swedish Landscape Protection | 0_0 |
"Biofuels such as biodiesel from soy beans can create up to four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to an EU document released under freedom of information laws...Chief among those fears is that biofuel production soaks up grain from global commodity markets, forcing up food ... | 4_4 |
With the case law on GHG regulation hopelessly botched by the Supreme Court, only Congress can rein in the EPA and only if there is a change of management in the White House and the Senate in November. | 0_0 |
Many of the frightening scenarios about global warming come from large computer calculations, general circulation models, that try to mimic the behavior of the earths climate as more CO2 is added to the atmosphere. It is true that climate models use increasingly capable and increasingly expensive computers. But their p... | 5_1 |
The Obama Administration still hasn't gotten the message voters sent Washington on November 2. | 0_0 |
11c. The state of theoretical understanding of climate change phenomena | 0_0 |
Since his inauguration in January, Obama has been on the road for nearly a week every month. Domestic policy advisers, pointing to the president's daunting domestic agendastimulating the economy, sorting out banks and auto companies, enacting climate change legislation, remaking the U. S. health-care sector, and tackli... | 0_0 |
Second, many proponents of U.S. GHG controls have proposed to allow the U.S. government to clap trade sanctions on countries that fail to cap their GHG discharges. ACESA also follows this strategy, albeit somewhat hesitantly. There are better grounds for the bill's hesitancy than there are for believing that trade sanc... | 0_0 |
Also note, we previously calculated the adiabatic lapse rate and temperature distribution in a theoretical Earth atmosphere of 100% Nitrogen, a non-greenhouse gas, and found the adiabatic lapse rate and troposphere temperature distribution almost the same as our Earth, surface temperature warmer on the theoretical 100%... | 2_3 |
Given Mr Watts had the article ready for submission for peer-review, why didnt he just get on, and get it published? | 0_0 |
Growth skepticism presents a flawed but powerful assault on prosperity. It is enormously influential across the developed world, including among America's political leaders. It must be examined and understood if it is to be effectively challengedespecially as we are threatened with a new age of austerity. | 0_0 |
This is what the UN's 2030 Agenda is all about. It lays out goals and targets on agriculture, natural resources, the climate, eradication of poverty, etc., urging that all these issues be dealt with in a "sustainable" fashion. Yet nowhere in the document is the term sustainable ever defined; just as we are never told i... | 0_0 |
Seven percent (7%) attribute global warming to some other reason, and nine percent (9%) are unsure in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. | 0_0 |
Moreover, high expectations about the rate of future innovation should imply smaller GHG cutbacks in the program's early years. The more one believes that innovation will lower future control costsand without dramatically lower costs the bill's 2050 target is wholly fancifulthe larger the share of the total GHG cutback... | 0_0 |
Repeating a familiar administration talking point, Pershing stated that the 195 governments that negotiated the Paris treaty believe climate change is a "big problem," so "no matter who is president, it's going to be part of what they have to deal with." | 0_0 |
It should be paid for by those who want it, not by captive taxpayers or electricity consumers. | 0_0 |
Forecasters keep eye on looming "Solar Max': | 0_0 |
Alexis de Tocqueville InstitutionAmericans for Tax ReformAmerican Policy CenterAssociation of Concerned TaxpayersCenter for Security PolicyCitizens for a Sound EconomyCommittee for a Constructive TomorrowCompetitive Enterprise InstituteConsumer AlertDefenders of Property RightsFrontiers of FreedomGeorge C. Marshall Ins... | 0_0 |
The University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group is coming to their rescue. The NASA-funded group claims glacial melt is removing weight that had been pressing down on land masses, which in turn is causing land mass to rise. This welcome news mitigates sea-level rise from melting glacial ice and shows another of the... | 0_0 |
The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and... | 0_0 |
At the time, environmentalists supported ethanol, because they labored under the mistaken notion that it is a "green fuel," which results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions thought to cause climate change. | 0_0 |
A paper published to day in Quaternary Science Reviews finds another non-hockey-stick from a tree-ring temperature reconstruction over the past 6,100 years in North Siberia. The authors find, " The recent warming is not unprecedented in the Siberian north. Similar climatic conditions to the present warming were recorde... | 2_1 |
This year has been the quietest Atlantic hurricane season for decades. No Category 3 or stronger storm has made landfall in the US since Katrina in 2005 the longest hurricane 'drought' on record. | 1_7 |
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