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Since 1860, human activity has greatly reduced the extent of fires. He and his colleagues commend the National Park Service for its recent work reintroducing fire into the giant sequoia groves. | 0_0 |
As one of the great women of science, Beth Whelan would be very proud of this volume created in her memory. | 0_0 |
In AR4 IPCC projects warming of 0.2C per decade for the next two decades in a variety of its climate change scenarios. That will take a lot more warming than weve seen in recent decades. And with the leveling off of the trend in recent years, even if an upward trend resumes, at present it seems highly unlikely that we ... | 1_4 |
The CFACT video of the Cancun attendees signing these farcical petitions has been posted all over the Internet, powerfully demonstrating the mindset of the green true believers who are demanding to control the planet. | 0_0 |
12 J. D. Mahlman, Uncertainties in projections of human-caused climate warming, Science 278, 1416 (1997). | 0_0 |
Furthermore, most people understand that fossil fuels have been necessary for the prosperity that we all enjoy (at least those under political systems allowing people to benefit from their labors). Energy which currently is dominated by fossil fuels, and will be for decades to come. | 4_5 |
A long-term study rebuts the Progressive Nitrogen Limitation Hypothesis, revealing that there is good real-world experimental evidence to suggest that the growth-enhancing effect of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment will not gradually wind down with the passage of time due to declining availability of soil nitrogen, in stron... | 3_3 |
Im not jonesing to visit that particular emotional place again, once was enough for any man. And on a cold night like tonight, Im glad Im not rolling out at four am. I fished the Bering Sea as well, and these days Im just as happy to see the bergy bits and watch the Bering ice on the Deadliest Catch TV show from the sa... | 0_0 |
In other words renewables recieve more than double the subsidy rate per unit of energy supplied as fossil fuels. When you consider that hydropower, which rarely requires or recieves subsidy, accounts for the vast share of global renewable energy production, the relative subsidy rate for wind, solar and other renewables... | 4_4 |
The late era Druidic schools that Julius Caesar commented about, undoubtedly, had a pedigree back to similar schools maintained during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages*. British historian, Isabel Hill Elder, commenting on the Druidic schools, writes: | 0_0 |
There are other satellites that measure the skin temperatures of the global oceans twice daily, and theyve been doing so since late in 1981. There are also ships and other buoys measuring sea surface temperatures around the global oceans. | 0_0 |
The discrepancy with the other data sources is larger than Hansen??s claimed 0.08 record. Is it a record temperature, or is it good old fashioned bad data? | 5_1 |
The Great Game at sea is only beginning. However fanciful they may be given the current international legal regime, Putin's claim in June 2007 to a chunk of the North Pole holding twice the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia gives an idea of the challenges ahead as global warming increases the areas available for offshore dr... | 0_0 |
Chernobyl was a tragic event, but nothing remotely close to the global catastrophe I imagined. About 50 people had died in Chernobyl, roughly the number of Americans that die every day in traffic accidents. I dont mean to be gruesome, but it was a setback for me. You cant write a novel about a global disaster in which ... | 0_0 |
It says, "While the higher oil prices have dampened economic growth, they do serve two useful purposes . They're another wake-up call that available crude-oil reserves are expected to decline by mid-21st century. And they're a reminder that the best incentive for switching to alternative energy sources or better conser... | 0_0 |
This new religion does not yet have any martyrs (although maybe Professor Phil Jones at the University of East Anglia comes close), but it has plenty of evangelists foremost amongst them being former Vice-President of the U.S.A. Al Gore and His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Great Britain. | 5_2 |
But RPS laws dont even reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. Installation of wind systems creates stop-and-go electrical utilities. Output from wind turbines is erratic, forcing back-up coal and natural gas plants to inefficiently ramp power up and down to maintain continuity of energy supply. Studies of utilities in Net... | 4_4 |
For Lieberman-Warner, the estimated household cost in 2020 was as much as $386 per household per year, rising to as much as $2,268 in 2050 (again in constant 2008 dollars). The difference is simple: in the analysis of Lieberman-Warner, the EPA "assumed the full cost of allowances are passed on to consumers," while its ... | 0_0 |
* Your loss of plentiful food to eat is just a side-effect of their climate policy (most agricultural production in the world today requires the use of hydrocarbon energy; beyond that enough food is currently being converted to biofuels to feed tens of millions of people each year.) | 4_1 |
If this email seems slightly disjointed it's probably my linguistic background and the problem of trying to address both the wider audience (I expect this will be partially reproduced sooner or later) and the email recipients (whom I haven't decided yet on). | 0_0 |
NASA has massively and repeatedly altered their own published data, to cool the past and warm the present. The animation below show their published 1981 surface temperatures in black, and subsequent 1999 and 2014 versions in red. This is consistent with an increase in propaganda, but not consistent withan increase in t... | 5_2 |
With that inconvenient truth, perhaps it is time to start looking at the climate-energy nexus in a different way: | 0_0 |
Infanticide advocate Pete Singer to speak. Said babies arent people until 1 month-old. | 0_0 |
Fifteen-year-long hiatus periods are common in both historical records and in computer models, the technical summary says. But scientists were caught out in one computer model, 111 of 114 estimates over-stated recent temperature rises. | 5_1 |
You believe that the atmosphere has continued to warm for the last 17+ years despite rapid growth of CO2. 97% of real climate scientists acknowledge that it hasn??t. They call it the ???pause?? or ???hiatus?? although there is no scientific evidence that warming will pick up again or when. | 1_4 |
While local volunteers provide most of the weary fire fighters, they are under the ultimate direction of salaried fire officers, who are public servants, wear white shirts, big hats, many medals, and appear on television, looking worried. Budget and big hats may be central to their thinking. Policy and budget are large... | 0_0 |
Am I the only one who noticed that the Kyoto Protocol (imposing artificial constraints on energy use to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide to reduce the 'greenhouse effect' to, supposedly, reduce the hypothetical rate of theoretical global warming) came into effect the same day the President's Tax Reform Commission he... | 0_0 |
While timing has some effect on the variability, in my opinion, it is a secondary issue, and does not explain the actual variability. | 0_0 |
The STOCK Act and the SECJohn Berlau's op-ed in National Review | 0_0 |
Update: Libertarians are making the case that the Constitution never gave Congress the power to restrict immigration . I could not agree more. However, I fear that will have zero impact on the precedent that will be inferred from all this. Because what matters is how the political community as a whole interprets a prec... | 0_0 |
Citing the potential for financial harm, the University of East Anglia last week denied a Freedom of Information request by Hockey Stick debunker Stephen McIntyre for the controversial Yamal temperature data. This is the third time he has been rebuffed by the University, which was scandalized by last years Climategate ... | 5_2 |
But Roger wants a naive estimate, and this is mine: Naive, but accounting for a feature that is strongly indicated by available: This is the statistically significant positive trend. | 0_0 |
Did the new president understand the importance of Congress, and plan | 0_0 |
Obama's climate action plan: a millstone around America's neck? | 4_1 |
"Rising corn seed sales helped Monsanto Co. boost its second-quarter profit by 15 percent compared to last year." | 0_0 |
From this article, we learn from the actual data that (a) sea level is generally rising, (b) the rate of rise decelerated during the 20th century, (c) the rate of sea level rise over the past two decades has been both positive and negative, (d) the rate of sea level rise has been quite small over the last few years, an... | 1_6 |
AB 32: Cost now, benefits later maybe | 0_0 |
All of us are firm skeptics of claims that humans are causing catastrophic global warming and climate change. We are not climate change deniers. We know Earths climate and weather are constantly in flux, undergoing recurrent fluctuations that range from flood and drought cycles to periods of low or intense hurricane an... | 2_1 |
Question 4 (for Pederson): You appear to be "certain" that the anthropogenic hypothesis has complete empirical support; for you the science is "settled" and beyond dispute, and there is no need to keep an open mind on the issue (I was present at your 15-minute talk before the online debate). Yet Mike Hulme, a leading I... | 0_0 |
Hulmes recent work) of this in the obs. But on the real crazy waether stuff | 0_0 |
This report of growing a food crop among solar cells just makes me breathless. What a special thing. | 0_0 |
1 42 U.S.C. 7470-7479 and 42 U.S.C. 7501-7515. Part C is the "Prevention of Significant Deterioration" or PSD program and Part D is the "Nonattainment New Source Review" or NSR program. This memo uses a layman's convention of referring simply to NSR, even though it might sometimes be more accurate to speak of PSD, NSR,... | 0_0 |
The four researchers report that the 84% increase in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration stimulated the growth of S. maritima by about 65% in all three salinity treatments, while the graphical representation of the halophyte's water use efficiency indicates that this important property of the plant was enhanced by appr... | 3_3 |
Kumar et al. reviewed precipitation records over the period from 1871 to 2005. In summary, there was no significant trend for rainfall across India during this period of "unprecedented" warming that the IPCC contends was wreaking rainfall havoc on India and the world. | 1_7 |
Via the Guardian . No commentary really necessary ( via Q&O ) | 0_0 |
Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors; Proposed Rule | 0_0 |
The prospects for even a small package are dismal. The United States, through its ambassador to the WTO, Michael Punke, stated in July that a "so-called Early Harvest package is not happening and is not going to happen." Punke urged WTO negotiators not to spend more time on this effort, but rather concentrate in the le... | 0_0 |
Of course, we should never judge a book by its cover. It would be unfair to claim that Jonathan Ashmore is wrong to claim that Lynass book isnt hysteria, just on the basis of the book cover. Though, having said that, the cover does quote the Sunday Times, who say I tell you now, is terrifying. We havent the time to rev... | 0_0 |
Sandra Day O'Connor Faulted By Critics on Ethics: | 0_0 |
Revolution Threatens to Falter: Is Germanys Green Energy Plan Failing? Germany has set higher targets for renewable energy usage than any other industrialized nation. Angela Merkels government plans to decommission its nuclear plants by 2022 and to obtain 80 percent of all energy from renewables by 2050. So far, though... | 4_2 |
Cows eating feed enriched with the garlic compound called Allicin release 40% less gas without interference to their normal digestive fermentation, according to the research." | 0_0 |
Union of Concerned Scientists, Choosing Our Future: Climate Change in California. | 0_0 |
So where do the 1934/1998/2010 warm years rank in the long-term list of warm years? Of the past 10,500 years, 9,100 were warmer than 1934/1998/2010. Thus, regardless of which year (1934, 1998, or 2010) turns out to be the warmest of the past century, that year will rank number 9,099 in the long-term list | 0_0 |
In discussing their findings, Darbah et al . state that they agree with those of Veteli et al . (2007), who "reported that elevated CO 2 ameliorated the negative effects of high temperature in three deciduous tree species," as well as those of Wayne et al . (1998), who "reported that elevated CO 2 ameliorated high temp... | 3_3 |
The result of this temperature decrease is to increase the difference between the global temperatures of the 1990s and the 2000s. Removing this volcanic dip reduces quite significantly the temperature increase seen over the 1990 2013 period. When the errors are taken into account it is not impressive. | 0_0 |
All I can determine from this article is that if you have a tame network, you usually get a decent reconstruction. Also note the apples and oranges comparison for the MBH method for the simple average, they use 12 pseudoproxies, while for MBH98 they use 104 pseudoproxies. Obviously 104 pseudoproxies will do better with... | 0_0 |
The doomsday scenario of depleted oil reserves gets postponed again. PROCESS writes that the price of oil is poised to fall below 70 dollars a barrel. The primary reason for the downward crude oil prices is the increasing number of global oil reserves that are resulting from improved drilling methods. The Roland Berger... | 4_5 |
However, people like Jose Barroso, Javier Solana, and Angela Merkel didn't do so well. Their speeches are made out of empty formalities. They were probably written by their aides and the propositions don't logically follow from each other: they speak "ptydepe" that drove Prof Klaus up the wall. | 0_0 |
A multidecadal (50-80 year timescale) pattern of North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere variability whose existence has been argued for based on statistical analyses of observational and proxy climate data, and coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCM) simulations. This pattern is believed to describe some of... | 0_0 |
Progressives simply make up nonsensical pieces of information, and then declare themselves to be superior based ontheir dishonesty and ignorance. | 0_0 |
The ethanol mandate encourages farmers to plow wildlife habitats and fallow fields to grow corn, releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide. Ethanol gets one-third less mileage per gallon than gasoline, so motorists get fewer miles per tank and per dollar. It produces ozone, attracts water and corrodes car and small ... | 4_4 |
It has been argued that the inhomogeneity of Antarctic climate change in space and time implies that recent Antarctic climate changes are due to a combination of strong multidecadal variability and anthropogenic effects, although when this opinion is tracked back to its origin it is more of a feeling than something bas... | 0_0 |
The almost total absence of such intense storms in the last two decades is notable. | 1_7 |
Rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels do not pose a significant threat to aquatic life. Many aquatic species have shown considerable tolerance to temperatures and CO2 values predicted for the next few centuries, and many have demonstrated a likelihood of positive responses in empirical studies. Any projected a... | 3_2 |
Organic farmers who produce less than one percent of the nation's agricultural output have long complained that the cultivation of biotech crops jeopardizes their own production because plants of the same species can cross-pollinate with one another. Organic farmers may not use the products of biotechnology, but uninte... | 0_0 |
He tries to present the topic in as apolitical a manner as possible (although he hasn't avoided the ideological ramifications of these ideas elsewhere). That's perhaps also why he connects the idea of group selection with the promotion of conservative values. However, I personally think that Pinker realizes that the do... | 0_0 |
9. Climate modelers discovered that the Earth is not warming nearly as fast as their models predicted. A multi-billion dollar effort is now underway to make the climate system warm even faster. | 5_1 |
Climate change is a big issue these daysyou may have heard a thing or two about it in the news mediabut it is a confused and increasingly chaotic scene, with many moving parts. I believe the trajectory of the issue is changing in real time right now, but I do not want to get bogged down too far in the details and lose ... | 0_0 |
The four Department of Forestry researchers from the University of Missouri suggest that as the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration continues to rise, aided by continued nitrogen deposition, it will likely "stimulate further increases in the rates of stand development and carbon storage," and that "some tree species histor... | 0_0 |
We've got two problems here. First, wind and solar don't cut our dependence of foreign oil. The two have no connection to one another. The wind and the sun can be harnessed and, as a result, do produce electricityalbeit inefficient, ineffective, and uneconomical electricity. Foreign oil that we import is for our transp... | 4_4 |
Now you can see why I repeatedly emphasized that part of the evidence that usually gets no emphasis: no cheating and patients like before. Incidentally, it might appear that I am discussing only medical trials and have lost sight of the original thread. I have not, which will become obvious in a moment. | 0_0 |
2 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, June 2002, p. 3 | 0_0 |
This means a select unelected elitist group of European white guys, would have the final say on global decision making. Clearly the green movement is well on its way to something of quite another color. Ackermann asks: | 0_0 |
2010 is the hottest year ever, which explains why US winter temperatures have been dropping at a rate of more than 30 degrees per century since 1998. | 1_3 |
The report also indicates that using a net present value calculation (discounting) the cumulative discounted impacts are larger in the early start cases. Using a 7 percent discount rate the EIA finds that impacts by 2020 will be nearly $1.3 trillion for the 2005 start and over $1.4 trillion for the early start. The rep... | 0_0 |
More photographs here of John andmy good friend Catherine amongst the rice. | 0_0 |
Oh, and in related news, Java has a critical hole in it, too so folks are being advised to turn off Java for a while | 0_0 |
If one accepts the IPCC radiative forcing values of anthropogenic radiative forcings of +1.6 (+0.6 to +2.4) Watts per meter squared and/or the solar radiative forcing of +0.12 (+0.06 to +0.30) Watts per meter squared as correct, what the Levitus et al data shows is that theglobal radiative feedback isnegative(and this ... | 3_1 |
Open access, however, is not only good for domestic markets. It includes empowering energy enterprises to capture opportunities abroad. Borders should not dictate whether or not an individual can sell a product. Nor should borders result in individuals paying artificially higher prices for goods in the form of tariffs.... | 0_0 |
The basic idea is to take the MIN-MAX average for the day, difference it from a base value for your crop, then sum up how many heat units you have as a running total. For each crop there is a total number that says Im Ripe Now and you must reach that number before you run out of growing season. As the total racks up, i... | 0_0 |
Surveys have shown that thousands of businesses are unaware they are supposed to be taking part, or even that the scheme exists at all. | 0_0 |
If the Atlantic alliance is to genuinely "go global," it will have to achieve a better balance between "toolbox" and "think tank" and to focus more than has been the case so far on increased strategic literacy, broader situational awareness, and state-of-the art strategic communication. | 0_0 |
Note further that the dreaded (and entirely arbitrary) +2.0 C warming is not achievable with CO 2 increases and this is easily calculated. 2.0/0.1 = 20 so we know we need 20W/m 2 to increase the surface temperature that much and 20/3.7 tells us we need to double atmospheric CO 2 5.4 times to achieve it. Quick calc then... | 3_1 |
2) Why Do Some Scientists Say It?s Cooling, while Others Say that Warming is Even Accelerating? Since there is so much year-to-year (and even decade-to-decade) variability in global average temperatures, whether it has warmed or cooled depends upon how far back you look in time. For instance, over the last 100 years, t... | 0_0 |
Otto et al. (2013) : There are two TCR estimates from this energy budget study included in Figure 10.20a. One estimate uses 20002009 data and has a median of 1.3C, with a 595% range of 0.92.0C. The other estimate uses 19702009 data and has a median of slightly over 1.35C, with a 595% range of 0.72.5C. Since mean forcin... | 0_0 |
We note that one of two co-authors of the above-cited NREL paper, which paper attests that "This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government," is on record in an E&E; News story announcing of the project, "DOE requested the analysis be performed." | 0_0 |
Read William Yeatman's On Point: EPA's Illegitimate Climate Rule | 0_0 |
The 2010 State of the Union address nicely summed up Obama's topsy-turvy approach to the presidency. He pressed for a new jobs bill, more domestic spending, and health care nationalization. He attributed his political setbacks not to broad opposition to his domestic ambitions but to "a deficit of trustdeep and corrosiv... | 0_0 |
The major objective of this study is to collect and assess information about the opinions and attitudes of professionals within the field of geosciences (earth sciences) regarding global climate change, and the climate "consensus" debate, as well as to understand the rationale the participants use when forming their op... | 0_0 |
The one thing which has become very clear, is that the GHE doesnt actually have a consistent explanation or description. We have seen it as the backradiation active heating mechanism, where radiation from a cold source adds serially with the radiation from the Sun in order to amplify the temperature generation; we have... | 2_3 |
this statement ? Chris Folland at least seems to think this is possible. | 0_0 |
Tony Blair is to lead a new international team to tackle the intractable problem of securing a global deal on climate change which would have the backing of China and America. | 0_0 |
Luckily for us all Dr Latour does not have that false modesty that afflicts so many Englishmen brought up in Public Schools to play cricket. His American lack of modesty is entirely refreshing I would have said music to my ears but that would be to mix metaphors. | 0_0 |
Some believe that Blair and others have little but optimism to support their view. Critics note, for example, that Egypt strove for months to produce a document setting forth the conditions by which Hamas could return on good terms to the Palestinian Authority. Alas, the "Egyptian Document" remains unsigned by the grou... | 0_0 |
The Met Office report includes a new study which shows that sea surface temperatures were higher than initially thought because of a change in the way the temperatures were measured after 2000. The new analysis significantly increases the warming scientists think was seen globally over the past decade. | 0_0 |
Although not many significant interactions of elevated CO 2 on tree growth were found, elevated CO 2 still increased whole plant and root biomass in all species studied from 19 to 56%, relative to control trees grown at ambient CO 2 . In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the number of root tips per plant ... | 3_3 |
Institute Founder To Testify Before House Subcommittee On Energy And Environment | 0_0 |
A similar thing happened from 1940 to 1980 during the post-Second-World-War industrial boom when carbon dioxide increased rapidly, but was accompanied by 40 years of global cooling. | 2_3 |
Of course, the chance of this is nil, as India and China unapologetically beckon to the world, "Send us your over-regulated, energy-starved manufacturing." A good name for this is "the 'yeah, but' way of saying No." | 0_0 |
Congress recognized that requiring all existing sources of emissions to install BACT or LAER equipment would be prohibitively expensive and disrupt supplies of energy and manufactured products. Moreover, retrofitting existing plants is often more expensive than incorporating BACT or LAER in new plants. For these reason... | 0_0 |
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