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She told the conference about the need to plan for seas with changing currents, more frequent storms, and higher tides which will demand more robust boats, bigger wharves and stronger breakwaters. | 0_0 |
U.S. and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to panic about environmental changes, leaked documents show. | 1_4 |
Working Group I , remember, was supposed to tell us the scientific case for man-made global warming. If our emissions arent driving the climate towards a catastrophe, then we dont need to analyze what happens during the catastrophe we probably wont get. This applies equally to War, Pestilence, Famine, Drought, Floods, ... | 0_0 |
"We have also found that climate proxy record shows cyclic variations similar to stretching/shortening Schwabe/Hale solar cycles in time, suggesting that both Schwabe and Hale solar cycles are playing important role in climate change. In this paper, we review the nature of Schwabe and Hale cycles of solar activity and ... | 2_1 |
From 2005-2007, Chesapeake Energy secretly funds the "Face It: Coal Is Filthy Campaign," which featured a controversial image of a girl with a coal-smudged face. The ads were an effort to win market share for the gas industry from the coal industry. | 0_0 |
both a professor and a primatologist (and a primate). His book , called "Games Primates Play," is devoted | 0_0 |
Critics accuse GMO of being unhealthy, increasing chemical pollution, threatening other species, causing dangerous side effects, and harming the environment. But as plant molecular biologist Robert Goldberg of UCLA points out, "In spite of hundreds of millions of genetic experiments involving every type of organism on ... | 0_0 |
Has there been recent warming? Yes, the global climate has definitely warmed since the Little Ice Age (about 1400-1700 AD), and it will likely continue to warm for another 200-300 years, in fits and starts, towards a max temp roughly matching that of the Medieval Warm Period. That time followed a colder period before t... | 2_1 |
The current demonization of Russia in some American quarters is thus incomprehensible, unless one keeps in mind the particular conceit of democracies at war that Kennan, following Tocqueville, pointed out long ago: "There is nothing in nature more egocentrical than the embattled democracy. It soon becomes the victim of... | 0_0 |
Since the beginning of 2015, the SPC has issued only four tornado watches and no severe thunderstorm watches, which is less than 10 percent of the typical number of 52 tornado watches issued by mid-March. The approximately 20 tornadoes reported since January 1 is well below the 10-year average of 130 for that time peri... | 1_7 |
There is a warming of the surface by infra-red active gases, the so-called greenhouse gases, but that effect was maximized at lower concentrations of those gases than we now have.Increases in those gases now cause small decreases in surface and general tropospheric temperatures.This is because the mean free length for ... | 2_3 |
But I really really wanted to get a ground level view to absolute ascertain the placement of the Stevenson Screen. Lots of web searches turn up nothing. I found pictures of the observatories, pictures of the Krupp gun , pictures of the skyline, but no pictures of the nearby weather station. After all, other than myself... | 0_0 |
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will be holding a six-part series beginning July 1 titled, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast." The event is free, no tickets needed. For information call (202) 357-2700. | 0_0 |
James D. Johnston is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington. He retired in 1994 as General Motors vice president for industry-government relations. | 0_0 |
Curry discusses major issues regarding the treatment of uncertainty, including that the often used Bayesian statistical methods, which have difficulty in dealing with true uncertainty, are subjective, and may lead to biased results. | 5_1 |
Since we live on land, we often think of manmade global warming as a land surface air temperature concern. But | 0_0 |
2. While laboratory values for Henrys coefficients require approximating thermodynamic equilibrium, Henrys Law does not predict thermodynamic equilibrium, and its coefficients must therefore be used advisedly. Neither climate, the ocean, the surface layer, nor Earths primary heat source, the Sun, is ever in thermodynam... | 5_1 |
Attempts to resolve the arguments are plagued with problems, a lot of which are inherently insoluble. There are many aspects of the behaviour of the natural climate system and of human society that are unpredictable in principle, let alone in practice. But perhaps the biggest of the underlying problems, and it is commo... | 5_1 |
Rising CO2 levels are not causing an increase in extreme hot weather temperatures in South America - another of those irrefutable "global warming" science facts | 2_3 |
Dr David Reiner, Course Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and author of the report, said: "There is a real engagement among the British public on questions of energy and environment, particularly over climate change. There is a willingness to support government... | 0_0 |
Three parents, including Robyn Terry, complained to the district. The Terrys' 12-year-old son attended Beadle Middle School last year. Mrs. Terry said that the materials used in his class portrayed global warming as fact when scientists disagree. | 0_0 |
Weather experts: Cattle-killing blizzard not climate change | 0_0 |
Finally, and probably most important, is the demise of believing in social progress. For a long time, economic growth was closely linked to the more general idea of progress, including scientific and cultural advances. A more prosperous society was also seen as having the potential to be more humane. But as social pess... | 0_0 |
And what a way feasible? It depends. That the war in Iraq in 2003 was built on nothing I do not think there can be no doubt; and abuse and torture are certainly not happened while I was in command. If Bush were a private citizen whatever, the situation would already be in the hands of judges and lawyers to establish th... | 0_0 |
That, and there??s no tropospheric hot spot (which would also expand the atmosphere) as expected from warming, from: | 2_3 |
The only Kjorven goal that might work is #4: "Reduce average animal protein intake among rich people by 20 percent." I'm not sure eating somewhat less meat would hurt us rich people. But livestock eat huge amounts of stuff humans can't digestgrass from the huge natural grasslands, cottonseed hulls, citrus rinds, rice s... | 0_0 |
Al Gore's blog entry today claims that due to 'deniers' we are losing 'green jobs' to China, by pointing to a NYT.com article about a US company that was able to find venture capital in China . He neglects to mention the looming global warming catastrophe. Hefails to mention the inconvenient truth that solar panels hav... | 4_4 |
Looking for acceleration in sea level data can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. The average global sea level rise rate for the 20th century was about 1.8 mm per year. But the fluctuations from year to year or even month to month at any particular site or region can be hundreds of times greater than the yearl... | 1_6 |
If the above is confirmed, it may be the first step towards making the world we experience as vanishing and irrelevant as a ghost in the desert at midday. | 0_0 |
Bismarck once said that the whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of one Pomeranian grenadier. I riff on that when I say that the rainforests, or blue whales or any other green grail isn't worth the bones of a single human being. Humans first. | 0_0 |
"Popular anonymous photo-sharing message board 4Chan.org is experiencing downtime at this very moment. The cause of the outage? A DDOS, or distributed denial of service attack something 4Channers are all to familiar with but not in the way you would think." | 0_0 |
The wired.com article concluded, "The inflated EPA numbers have been a public relations conundrum for Honda and Toyota, which are caught between hyped expectations and detracting from one of the cars' main selling points better mileage." | 0_0 |
Svalgaards ppt file is less easy to interpret in stand alone form, with little text, but I reproduce his conclusions here: | 0_0 |
Professor Mike Lockwood says that even in a warming world we could have one or two centuries of frigid winters to come here in the UK. He even says it with a straight face. | 0_0 |
Use of Word "Sustainable" Reaches Unsustainable Levels. | 0_0 |
Another issue is the position of gas power plants within the current capacity market mechanism. The present strategy is to pay gas power plants, and others, to provide standby capacity. Some of this can be supplied by mothballed plants, but it is also hoped that it will encourage new plants to be built. Any hint that a... | 0_0 |
Establishing market pricing of all infrastructures would quickly steer people away from climatically fragile areas, dramatically reducing the costs of dealing with climate variability. | 0_0 |
Data and Station Information for NEW YORK ( THE BATTERY) | 0_0 |
Reciting his boilerplate clean-energy language in the State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama managed to say one thing that stood out. He called for "building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country." | 0_0 |
plotf1(Working=Model,info=Info,v0=santer$trend) | 0_0 |
If we run this model, we can adjust the feedback parameter until we get the kinds of radiative imbalances inferred from the ocean heat content changes. The following shows what seemed to provide a reasonable match: | 0_0 |
Seattle, with roughly 37 inches a year in annual precipitation, is far drier than the Washington coast, even places away from any terrain. For example, Westport, on the central Washington coast, gets about 74 inches....about twice a much as Seattle. The Long Beach Peninsula gets 81 inches. | 0_0 |
For a 300-year time horizon, the simplest split of equally likely one-percent and seven-percent discount rates would be 150 years at 1 percent and 150 years at 7 percent. Discounting $1,000 for 150 years at one percent gives a present value of $224.79. Discounting this value for the remaining 150 years (for a total of ... | 0_0 |
The Doran U of Illinois Survey was reported to state: | 0_0 |
I might suggest that you are assuming that people asked the questions Gavin says they asked, and that Gavins answer to their questions is adequate because Gavin tells us his answer is adequate. | 0_0 |
Mammoth Lakes / Long Valley Volcano | 0_0 |
Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been. | 1_2 |
Here are the results using the regular exponential decay calculations | 0_0 |
To explain the added warming in the North Atlantic, I refer to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, but I use the paleoclimatological reconstruction as a graphic instead of the normal detrended North Atlantic SST anomalies since the 1800s. More on this in a subsequent post. | 2_1 |
By Marlowe Hood, Paris (AFP), Aug 10, 2015 | 0_0 |
And while they are doing the right thing, they should sign the Rivers Need Estuaries petition of the Australian Environment Foundation www.listentous.org.au . | 0_0 |
202-331-2279 / iosorio@cei.org | 0_0 |
The misconception that famous men may only be "challenged" by famous challengers helps. Let me articulate a related, more religious point: Many people probably feel that death and sacrifice should always have a meaning and it must always be possible to find a fair, comparably large "revenge" for any crime (Oswald's dea... | 0_0 |
As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that the photosynthetic rates of soybeans will also rise, leading to significant increases in seed yield. In addition, if plant breeders utilize the highly CO 2 -responsive ancestral cultivar identified in this study in their breeding programs, it is possible that soyb... | 3_3 |
All this comes with the caveat that inasmuch as most experts accept that seas were rising by 3mm a year in the 1990?? s, the raw satellite data showed next to nothing until it was adjusted. Hence the rate changes discussed in this paper could be an artefact of those adjustments. Sea levels might not have slowed their r... | 5_1 |
Strike six : Utah has been receiving record snowfall in recent years, and winter temperatures have been plummeting | 0_0 |
In Cobb County, Georgia, hundreds shivered outside to apply for heating assistance from a welfare agency that may not have enough money for every family that needs help. Along the Canadian border, in St. Lawrence County, New York, over 8,000 households were approved for heating aid by cash-strapped local, county and st... | 0_0 |
Low-flow toilets cause a stink in SF: | 0_0 |
Those who think oil production is about to precipitously decline see their views confirmed by companies which, like Shell, have downgraded their reserve estimates. | 0_0 |
In the Tasmanian climate, the future scenario for 2070 which is warmer and drier suggested a ... 70 to 100 per cent increase in area burnt, he said. | 0_0 |
Abraham went on and on about how a graph shouldn't have been labeled with the name of an institution such as "scienceandpublicpolicy.org" unless it was that institution that had compiled the graph. That, of course, as he could have discovered if he had bothered or, rather, dared to check, was indeed the institution tha... | 0_0 |
Appointments that can last for two years, with many being made by governors of the opposite party of the departing Senator, with most appointees seeking the seat in the forthcoming election, and with often embarrassing politicking (and occasionally bribery) surrounding the appointment process, have many wrongheaded and... | 0_0 |
CEI's FOIA request details how the UN informed participants that it was motivated by embarrassing releases of earlier discussions ("ClimateGate" key among them) and, to circumvent the problem that national government transparency laws posed, the group itself. | 5_2 |
Texas and Surrounding 41 F Degree Days Deviation Map | 0_0 |
"He looks at me and now his jaw drops. Then I feel something click in this 17-year old brain." | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, China, India, Germany, Poland and other countries are building some 1,200 new coal-fired power plants, and numerous gas plants, to spur economic growth, preserve jobs and lift people out of poverty. So the sacrifices Mr. Obama is imposing will do nothing to reduce global CO2 levels, which the evidence increa... | 4_2 |
12,500 years ago: The Younger Dryas. After only 1,500 years of recovery from the Ice Age , the Earth suddenly shifts back into a new, short-lived ice age . The dramatic cooling seems to have occurred within 100 years or less. Another 1,000 years or so of ice age follow before another sudden shift back to climate warmin... | 2_1 |
This claim was questioned by many scientists and commentators on all sides of the global warming debate. (See, e.g., Jason Samenow, Scientists: Don't make "extreme cold" centerpiece of global warming argument, Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2014 (linking to objection by five well-known climate scientists in the Feb. 14, 201... | 0_0 |
In Standing with Giants, 14 scientists pay tribute to Whelan by providing sound science on topics on which Whelan devoted her life. I am proud to be among those scientists. | 0_0 |
Colorado gaming regulators to review tax loophole for casinos: | 0_0 |
Since satellites began monitoring surface temperatures in the last thirty years, there has been no statistical increase in warming. The IPCC predicts a 2C rise by 2100, or as little as .3 and 4.8 at the most. | 1_4 |
Spalding's statement that "if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem" reminds us a lot of President Obama's own statement about coal in 2008 when he wasn't so afraid to explain his real intentions. Remember he said, "if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrup... | 0_0 |
clearly, some tuning or very good luck involved. I doubt the | 0_0 |
Al Gore blogged, Bollywood rocked and maybe John DeLorean was a genius. | 0_0 |
Below is what I wrote in the comment section below Souweines piece. The response to my dousing of rain on their parade brought predictably lame counter-comments which have added amusement to my weekend. Anyway, on to what I wrote: | 0_0 |
The father of the "green revolution," Norman Borlaug, saved perhaps a billion lives across the globe with his high-yield agricultural techniques using artificially engineered plant varieties and inorganic fertilizers. In India, the yield of wheat per acre went from 800 pounds in 1963 to 6,000 pounds today. As a result,... | 0_0 |
A reader of this web-log was carefully following the dire predictions and sent in the following summary: | 0_0 |
A Chinese ice breaker steamed in to the rescue, but found the ice too thick to reach the trapped warmists who are now hoping an Australian ice breaker might be able to get through. | 0_0 |
The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system. | 0_0 |
Lake Powell will hit 3660 feet elevation this weekend. It has been rising at a rate of 60,000 mm/year. | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 6:03 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
2) The global hydrological cycle is not taken correctly into account in the models (too small). | 5_1 |
models, then much of the 19th to mid 20th century warming can be explained from | 0_0 |
And as this allegedly apolitical group of scientists took the world stage they smiled while standing hand in hand with the politicians. They expressed joy as they politicians peddled what can only be described as socialist global wealth redistribution, combined with the voluntary destruction of our capitalist world eco... | 0_0 |
Figure 3 shows the observed and modeled sea surface temperature trends for the Pacific Ocean (longitudes of 125E-90W) on a zonal-mean basis. At and near the equator, observed sea surface temperatures cooled since January 1982. And the highest observed warming in both hemispheres occurred at the mid-latitudes in the Pac... | 0_0 |
New version of the False alarm is to read and download | 0_0 |
Thats why the Productivity Commission highlighted in its Carbon Emission Policies in Key Economies report last May that most countries have adopted sector-specific policies. | 0_0 |
To be good citizens, some companies are voluntarily buying electricity from expensive wind and solar sources. Shareholders accept this profit-reducing activity, believing this contributes to slowing man-made global warming. But according to the International Energy Agency, wind and solar supply less than one percent of... | 4_2 |
Broken deals, bitter words and a state shuts down: | 0_0 |
Co-ordinating policies, working out differences in regulation and inspection standards to improve North American competitiveness, and forming common, continental positions to take to global forums: these were the tasks that the SPP was designed to facilitate. There were notable successes. The co-operative effort by Mex... | 0_0 |
Bates, B.C., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Wu, S. and Palutikof, J.P. (Eds.) 2008. Climate Change and Water. Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland. | 0_0 |
In October 1999, a gaggle of environmental groups led by the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) petitioned EPA to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissionsfrom new motor vehicles under CAA Sec. 202. | 0_0 |
But in the last several weeks, we have stumbled upon clear and convincing observational evidence of particularly strong negative feedback (low climate sensitivity) from our latest and best satellite instruments. That evidence includes our development of two new methods for extracting the feedback signal from either obs... | 3_1 |
In fact, I repeat, global temperature hasnt risen at all in 15 years . How come? Natural factors stopped playing a role, remember? | 1_4 |
"Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing). | 1_7 |
Steyn is trying crowdfunding, would be interesting to see how he is doing. | 0_0 |
How can LOST bind Russia but not America? One advocate recently sent an e-mail which ended up in my hands worrying about the consequent difficulty in allaying fears of LOST being ``some kind of green Trojan Horse.'' | 0_0 |
While I have emphasized that the CO2-temperature relationship is mostly caused by the influence of temperature on the gas concentrations (as seen through the 800-year lag in the Vostok data ), let us assume that this whole relationship is caused by the greenhouse effect. And let us calculate the climate sensitivity - w... | 2_3 |
This has gotten a fair amount of play around the Internet, but it's crazy enough to re-link in case you have not seen it. A proposal in Australia to earn carbon credits by shooting wild camels . Because when living, breathing creatures are dead, the environment is protected. Take that to its logical conclusion. All tha... | 0_0 |
A strain of anti-humanism has always run through population paranoia, a notion that human beings are a problem rather than a resource. But as Jonathan Last documents in his new book What to Expect When No One's Expecting, it is not overpopulation that threatens the well-being of the human race, it is under-population. ... | 0_0 |
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