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As for recent deforestation, there are currently three main factors: "(1) agricultural and livestock expansion (human population growth leads to expanded needs for crop and grazing lands); (2) increased demand for commercial forest products (national economic development and international trade stimulate mainly timber ... | 0_0 |
A short piece entitled "Frigid Southern Hemisphere Winter: A Preview Of A Cold Winter Coming In The Northern Hemisphere?" is here . (It looks like the winter in question is June through August, 2007). An excerpt: Santiago, Chilean capital, had its coldest winter since the Little Ice Age. The last time it was so cold th... | 1_3 |
4. Nuclear energy must be part of the long term response. It is a clean energy source, has the capacity to provide base load power as an alternative to fossil fuel, and modern nuclear power stations have a sophisticated level of safety. | 4_5 |
This means fossil fuel use and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will continue to climb and U.S., EU, Canadian, and Australian sacrifices will have no effect on stabilizing atmospheric CO2 levels, much less controlling Earth's ever-changing climate or weather, again assuming CO2 does determine climate. | 0_0 |
others a more modest operation targeted against terrorist forces. The military | 0_0 |
The House-Senate conference committee on the energy bill is scheduled to start taking up the big issues this week, and Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has said that he plans to finish negotiations on the compromise bill September 27. | 0_0 |
# coef logLik cil95 ciu95 cil90 ciu90 ci95 | 0_0 |
History confirms adaptation to cold is a bigger challenge and that is where the temperatures are heading. Global temperature and sunspot activity are related through variations in cosmic radiation reaching the earth and changing cloud cover. More sunspots relate to warmer temperatures and fewer to colder. Currently sun... | 1_2 |
Bloomberg reports that the reason for the August 3 drop75.70% from its high on September 3, 2014, is that the "company's plan to shore up capital failed to reassure investors that it can stop burning cash." Reuters adds: "(S)ome analysts are concerned the company is over committing to cash-intensive projects in countri... | 0_0 |
In concluding their report, Uthicke et al . write that they found support for the likelihood that "increased land runoff since the start of land clearing and agriculture in the catchment of the Whitsunday Region of the GBR has left a signature in the foraminiferal assemblages of inner and intermediate areas of the stud... | 3_2 |
As a result, storms like Sandy or the Long Island Express send monstrous volumes of water up ever more confined corridors. With nowhere else to go, the surges rise higher, travel faster and pack more power. It's elementary physics which governors, mayors, planners and developers ignore at their peril. | 0_0 |
"For over a decade, the FDA has treated the Internet as just another form of print advertising. Internet ads have had to comply with rules that simply don't make sense in the Internet Age, where the amount of text available in a banner ad or sponsored link is strictly limited, but the required information can be "one c... | 0_0 |
The SPPI takes a different approach to this issue, looking at The Positive Externalities of CO2. Excerpt: | 0_0 |
Since temperatures have not been rising for over a decade, projections of increasing temperatures from increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) are not valid. There is no logical reason to accept assertions that projections from models that failed to predict the pause or plateau in temperatures are capable of projecting future ... | 1_4 |
You and I are one of those tens of millions. So the immediate question: With this newfound power, how long before it mutates beyond original scope, and websites that are critical of the government begin to be shut down, or simply IP throttled out of meaningful existence? | 0_0 |
Irrespective of whatever mechanisms may have been involved in eliciting the responses observed, Bunce logically concludes that "the parallel responses of translocation and nitrate reduction for both the temperature and CO 2 treatments make it unlikely that the response of respiration to one variable was an artifact whi... | 3_3 |
Perhaps the good Doc thinks I need to take his matlab class ;) | 0_0 |
/s/ Richard McFarland JSC, Mgr. Motion Simulators, 28 years | 0_0 |
As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, winter wheat seed production will likely increase without exhibiting any changes in seed viability. And if air temperatures also rise, seed viability may actually increase . | 3_3 |
(Siddons, Hertzberg and Schhreuder, "A Greenhouse Effect on the Moon?") | 0_0 |
Prof. Tom V. Segalstad is Head of the Geological Museum within the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo (Norway) and a Scientific Advisor to CFACT Europe. He was an official Expert Reviewer to the IPCC Third Assessment. | 0_0 |
The plants will do fine. After all, they will enjoy the extra CO2 (plant food) and the daily effluence of bilge (fertilizer) from scaremonger AGW propagandists. | 3_3 |
It began, The Heartland Institute, a conservative group funded by Exxon Mobil and Charles Koch Whoa! Mr. Chairman, we rise to question why the Center for American Progress would engage in an outright lie? Answer: Thats what progressives do because they are immune to the truth. | 5_2 |
Unlike Copenhagen, which was deluged with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and high-level Cabinet officials, heads of state and top officials mostly stayed away from Cancun. UN bigwigs even downplayed the significance of the talks, dampening hopes of any major deal being reached. In comparison to the 2009 confab, where mor... | 0_0 |
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. | 0_0 |
Is the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty negotiated in December 1997, any closer to being ratified by the world's industrial nations today than it was a year ago? Not really, despite a fortnight of diplomatic palaver at the recent UN climate conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Still, reports of the treaty's ... | 0_0 |
By Tom Stacy and George Taylor, Institute for Energy Research, June, 2015 | 0_0 |
If the government charged a fee for each emission of carbon, that fee would be built into the prices of products and lifestyles. When making everyday decisions, people would naturally look at the prices they face and, in effect, take into account the global impact of their choices. In economics jargon, a price on carbo... | 0_0 |
"This is the latest example of EPA politics running roughshod over the scientific evidence," concluded Georgia. | 5_2 |
Heavy snow fell with high intensity in the region of Korcs, the thickness of which has reached 10 cm (4 inches), while Dardh reaches 20 cm (8 inches). | 1_3 |
The coupled ocean-atmosphere processes of El Nio and La Nia, the largest contributors to natural variations in global temperature and precipitation on annual, multiyear, and decadal timescales. (Recall that the 1997/98 El Nio was determined to be the cause of extreme weather around the globe. For years we heard that ev... | 1_7 |
Global warming theory posits that greenhouse gases emissions and temperature are closely linked. When one increases, says this theory, so will the other. But that isnt how the real world has behaved. | 2_3 |
Then there is the law of conservation of energy, which means that we can change the form of energy, but not destroy it. So one is left to wonder if theyve properly modeled the change from kinetic energy (heat) to potential energy (altitude) and the heat flows into evaporation and condensation. Perhaps we can give the c... | 5_1 |
The conference opened with a speech by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who called for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by 2002. He told the delegates that the industrialized nations must set an example for developing countries. Michael Zammit Cutajar, executive secretary of the convention, applauded Schroeder's ... | 0_0 |
The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperature of 0.7 C (about 1.2 F) during the twentieth century. Consequently, this record should not be cited as evidence of any trend in temperature that may have occurred across the U.S. during the past century. Since the U.S. record is thought t... | 5_1 |
Larry, only time will tell. The Court's grant of "certiorari" to reassess the lower court's ruling could simply mean that some of the Justices want to end litigation attempting to roll back or limit the regulatory consequences of the Supreme Court's earlier finding in Massachusetts v. EPA that the agency could determin... | 0_0 |
Your host Richard Morrison sits down this week with special guest co-hosts Michelle Minton and William Yeatman for LibertyWeek 37 (regular co-host Cord Blomquist is on the road). We start off with a profile of visionary physicist and global warming skeptic Freeman Dyson, then spend some time WILBing around to improve o... | 0_0 |
The panel is to release a report on Friday in Paris forecasting global temperatures rising by 2 to 4.5 Celsius (3.6 to 8.1 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by 2100, with a "best estimate" of a 3C (5.4 F) rise. | 0_0 |
Now let's compare these 2 numbers for the period 1955-2010: | 0_0 |
?So if the Obama administration and all these environmentalists really care about the environment and want a cleaner planet,? she said, ?and if they really believe emissions and exhausts from our factories are what?s causing global warming?why would they encourage even one of our oil or mining companies to move oversea... | 0_0 |
Beneficiaries of Obama's policies bankroll inauguration | 0_0 |
In the last decade, the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent, and for the first time in this century. ships making for Iceland ports have been impeded by drifting ice. | 1_1 |
And things do not look much better for ethanol made from cellulose crops, such as switch grass. Kreider and Curtiss estimate that switch grass would require between 146 and 149 gallons of water per gallon of ethanol produced from cellulose depending on the scale of production. Thus, meeting the Bush administration's ta... | 0_0 |
If my name were Ken Cuccinelli I would want to chase down one or two grant and funding sources; with proof of collusion a case for fraud holds water. That's treble damages and Virginia's taxpayers will be sitting $1.5 million better off plus expenses. | 0_0 |
Trees are growing at an accelerated rate due to global warming, scientists conclude in a new peer-reviewed study. The study documents faster tree growth in recent decades and concludes longer growing seasons and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are stimulating the benefits.A team of European forestry scientists... | 3_3 |
But that doesn't stop an enviro-predator like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from writing on the Huffingtonpost website: "Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle E... | 0_0 |
It is a unique pattern of changing climate whose detection would suggest that recent warming is caused by greenhouse gases from human activities, as opposed to natural processes. | 0_0 |
(Note: 1 Mega electron Volt = 1.60217646 10 -13 joules) | 0_0 |
The ultimate First World roadblock: Africa spends virtually no money on developing new high-yield seedsbut thanks to Europe it already has a complete set of environmental regulatory hurdles ready to block biotech crops on the grounds of unproven risks to "food and environmental safety." The regulators seem to ignore th... | 0_0 |
Losing Green Jobs September 19, 2010 by Al Gore | 0_0 |
"Limousines, the very symbol of wealth and excess, are usually the domain of corporate executives and the rich. But the number of limos owned by Uncle Sam increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according to an analysis of records by iWatch News." | 0_0 |
===> The greatest warming (acceleration) trends ever recorded took place during the 1870s; the largest cooling trends occurred during the late 1870s and early 1880s. | 2_1 |
WEFA, Inc. has released its analysis of the cost of complying with Kyoto. U.S. citizens in the year 2010 would see job losses, lower incomes and price increases across the board. Food prices would increase 11 percent, medicine 14 percent, and housing 7 percent. Real income for a household of four would drop by $2,700 i... | 4_1 |
A member of Russia's Duma, Vladimir Grachev, told the BBC (March 22, 2002) that, "The Kyoto Protocol for industrial gas emission cuts has turned into "a smoke screen' for diktat in international trade and it no longer promotes improvement of the ecological situation in the world." | 0_0 |
Surface temperatures will continue to increase Lower stratospheric temperature will remain at about current levels Total ozone will increase, exceeding 1980 levels as soon as 2025 | 0_0 |
Canada Says it Will Ratify, Oil Chiefs Attack | 0_0 |
The security dimension of the U.S.-India partnership is also critical as reflected in the death of American citizens in the deadly Mumbai attacks of November 2008. The two countries have military-to-military ties, deepening arms sales and a common desire to defend the domains of cyber and outer space. Counter-terrorism... | 0_0 |
After 2.5 years of atmospheric CO 2 exposure, seedlings fumigated with air containing 700 ppm CO 2 exhibited rates of net photosynthesis that were 128 and 31% greater than those of control seedlings growing on soils containing high and low nitrogen contents, respectively. Neither elevated CO 2 nor soil nitrogen content... | 3_3 |
Donald Trump plans to "roll back progress" on climate change, energy and the environment, activists, regulators and their media allies assert. The claim depends on one's definition of "progress." | 0_0 |
"Thick spring ice near shore drives seals to give birth elsewhere because they cannot maintain their breathing holes in the ice," Crockford wrote on her blog. "This leaves mothers emerging from onshore dens with newborn cubs with nothing to eat at a time when they desperately need food: cubs die quickly, mothers more s... | 0_0 |
There were no surface observations under that storm. But we can see the total precipitation for the entire thunderstorm period (based on radar) in the following figure. Keep in mind that radar-based precipitation totals are rough estimates and that the north Cascades blocked a lot of the radar echo. Clearly, the easter... | 0_0 |
And we did. My experience at the Council gave CEI its basic structure: an emphasis on regulation, an activist approach that would bridge the gap between the think tank and political worlds, and a soup-to-nuts organization modeled explicitly on the aggressive environmental groups I'd encountered. As much as I rejected t... | 0_0 |
Back in April, a new scheme was launched whereby the government(?), via the utility companies, pays cash to anyone generating energy from a small-scale renewable scheme at a set level for a long period (25 years in the case of solar). (and just where does the government get its money from?) | 0_0 |
Based on real-world knowledge of how earth's plant life responds to increases in air temperature and atmospheric CO 2 concentration (or the best approximations of it available at the time), this study predicts dramatic increases in biospheric prowess , as recent historical trends of these two parameters continue into t... | 3_3 |
President Obama and other world leaders are in Paris for talks to limit climate-altering emissions. | 0_0 |
We went out into the night, where on every public building and in every city square there are lurid green banners and vast, costly, wasteful, electricity-guzzling displays, accompanied by the hilariously improbable slogans that are the hallmark of totalitarianism everywhere ? for instance, the mawkishly messianic ?Brad... | 0_0 |
After his wife died in 1988, Robinson raised and home-schooled his six children all of whom became remarkable scholars, collaborating on research and a popular DVD series on math and science for home-schooled students and their parents. Five of the children have BS degrees in chemistry; one a degree in mathematics. Two... | 0_0 |
The claimed melt areas of Antarctica (Larsen, WAIS) have excess sea ice, indicating the water and air is persistently colder than normal and nearor below the freezing point. | 1_1 |
No doubt that is why, although the models predicted that global warming would accelerate during the first decade of the 21st century, so far this century there has been no recorded global warming at all. | 1_4 |
* Floating surface buoys ("drifters"), record temperatures within a meter below the actual sea surface. The temperature data is collected by satellite, and should show a post-noon maximum. | 0_0 |
Dr. Hoerling has published research suggesting that the 2010 Russian heat wave was largely a consequence of natural climate variability , and a forthcoming study he carried out on the Texas drought of 2011 also says natural factors were the main cause. | 1_7 |
So cosmic rays are ionizing and increase clouds, and clouds have an albedo effect. Clouds are water so they have circulatory effects created by temperatures. Thunderstorms, for example are big venting events. | 0_0 |
MOOSE: What truth? All I hear are insults. You think by makin me look bad in front of Spunky, here, that well forget you dont have an argument. Noting but distractions. | 0_0 |
> >> Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 1603 507784 | 0_0 |
I agree that transparency is ???crucial?? to the IPCC process. As discussed elsewhere, IPCC has opposed transparency in favour of confidentiality, with the situation getting worse with the furtive adoption of the Jones-Stocker amendment. In addition, it would be easy enough to add back the reviewer name when the review... | 5_2 |
Also, in a circuit, when the feedbacks reach a threshold value the current suddenly changes direction and goes around the circuit the other way. A positive current instantaneously becomes a negative current. In process engineers jargon, the current flicks from the positive to the negative rail. But in the climate risin... | 0_0 |
Global warming has recently become both a symbol and a prototype of the tension between the truth and propaganda. One politically correct truth has taken over and it is not easy to oppose it although a significant number of people, including top scientists, see the climate change issues, its reasons, and its impact ver... | 5_2 |
The bottom line is that the President is giving the American people what they want to hear. They want to hear that we are exceptional and great, and that this status is a birthright and does not require cross-generational devotion of effort to sustain. They want to hear that we are world leaders without having to consi... | 0_0 |
"Regulatory compliance costs rival estimated 2008 individual income taxes of $1.2 trillion, and they dwarf corporate income taxes of $345 billion," said Wayne Crews, author of the annual report, Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. The new and updated 2009 report is due out thi... | 0_0 |
U.S. high school students, who are currently being bombarded with a steady stream of radical environmentalists' lies, should read this book. | 0_0 |
The blue and red are warmer and the green and tan are cooler. Uncolored is the same as the 30 year average. | 0_0 |
First I tried everything I could with stats until the RegEm program began converging. Ive been able to use the Automatic Weather Station data (AWS) combined with the surface stations to recreate an AWS reconstruction. Without the actual implementation code or appropriately detailed descriptions Im forced to guess at ac... | 0_0 |
is expensive and yet it is not effective in cutting CO2 emissions. If it were not for the renewables targets set by the Renewables Directive, wind-power would not even be entertained as a cost-effective way of generating electricity or cutting emissions. The renewables targets should be renegotiated with the EU. | 4_4 |
Arctic ice shrinks annually when Earth is too warm, but Siberian and Canadian snowfall increases, increasing Northern Hemisphere solar reflectivity, causing Earth to cool and ice to grow again. A plausible mechanism for these regular 40,000-year ice age cycles has been related to the shallowness of the Barents Sea sout... | 1_2 |
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While shuttering coal-fueled power plants, the Climate Action Plan calls for more "clean energy" which will "cut our dependence on foreign oil." He's directing the Department of Interior to "green light" wind and solar projects on public lands and wants Congress to "invest in the clean-energy companies." | 0_0 |
However, this conclusion indicates that there exist two things that are worse than global warming and science, namely senility and gullibility. | 0_0 |
With an energy input of 1.22 x 1017Joules over a hemisphere in one second from the Sun, and an energy output from the Earth of 1.22 x 1017Joules from the entire globe, i.e. both hemispheres, it is not physically correct to equate these energy values in terms of flux. These values are true and totally correct in terms o... | 0_0 |
Additionally, areas can be developed for particular purposes that can benefit people while reducing impact on more primary forests. In one case, a company has developed a eucalyptus tree that when grown in the rainforest, grows quickly, has a minimum of side branches (which reduces the amount of room it needs), matures... | 0_0 |
The new snowfall brought the depth of accumulated snow to 65 centimetres (26 inches), setting an all-time record for April. | 1_3 |
Your SUV has overheated the planet, and caused one of the coldest years on record in the US. | 1_3 |
Today, we can still see the clouds of smoke, and smell them. | 0_0 |
During the last 2 billion years the Earth??s climate has alternated between a frigid ???Ice House??, like today??s world, and a steaming ???Hot House??, like the world of the dinosaurs. | 2_1 |
Still, the IER study is the first of its kind to compare the cost of electricity from existing sources with that of new sources. Previous studies only compared the cost of electricity from new sources. That is, if a new facility is being constructed, what technology can produce electricity over the life of the plant at... | 0_0 |
Particularly for the past decade, climate models have been running too hot, predicting more warming than has been observed (refer to the figure on page 6 of my testimony http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/comparing-cmip5-observations/ . | 5_1 |
NSIDC ignores satellite data from before 1979, which allows them to pretend that Arctic ice is decreasing linearly due to man-made CO2. | 0_0 |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ready to unleash its first wave of carbon-dioxide regulations. Some members of Congress want to tax hydrocarbon use and carbon-dioxide emissions. Moreover, United Nations climate alarmists are trying to devise a new treaty to regulate energy use at the international lev... | 4_1 |
(This essay will form, when re-written more intelligently, part of Chapter 15, the final Chapter, of my book. Which is coming.soon? The material below is not easy nor brief, folks. But it is very important.) | 0_0 |
Chantrill, very able writer at American Thinker and prolific, shows how Piketty is just plain ignorant of the value of time in markets, why discounting and interest are part of any sensible discussion of free markets. Why the market rewards service and product and people rise to wealth by providing something of value. | 0_0 |
melt being due to recent warming (let alone man-made warming)? | 0_0 |
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