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Yet none of the dozen or so companies financed or controlled by Khosla over the last decade has produced commercially viable ethanol. Some failed or, hamstrung by unproven technology and insufficient capital, remain behind schedule. Others bet on new technologies. | 4_4 |
Arroyo to meet with Gore before flying to China - Latest Philippine News Outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will meet former US Vice President Al Gore when he visits the country on June 8 for a lecture on global warming and climate change. When to declare palms dead | HeraldTribune.com A:As the cold weather cam... | 0_0 |
What this means, is that the observed rate of global temperature change has been quite slow during this time, and while perhaps not totally unprecedented in the realm of model projections, at the very least, it is starting to become pretty unusual. | 1_4 |
John Christie pointed out that the models with the highest climate sensitivity are also the ones which are the worst at predicting future temperatures. | 5_1 |
Analysis of the suns varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCCs speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected. | 1_2 |
The Energy Department has too much arbitrary power to decide where a company may export natural gas. Congress should remove the department from the natural-gas-permitting process. | 0_0 |
Let It Grow, Let It Grow, Let It Grow | 0_0 |
The National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest and Calaveras Big Trees State Park provided funding. | 0_0 |
The ideas is that because there are Platypuses there should be no supermarket. Indeed according to ABC Online : | 0_0 |
In the Turkish strait in 1996, the nine pro-Chechen gunmen who hijacked a Turkish ferry and held 255 passengers hostage for three days had first considered the possibility of sabotaging one of the two suspension bridges with explosives to bring down the bridge and close shipping traffic. The worst case scenario, now th... | 0_0 |
An additional irony of Japan's disaster is that had we not abandoned nuclear power 30 years ago, we might have begun deploying new-generation nuclear designs, such as small modular thorium reactors or light pressurized water reactors that either can't melt down or have passive redundancy features that do not depend on ... | 0_0 |
As the petition states, there is no convincing evidence that carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases are causing a catastrophic heating of the Earths atmosphere and disruption of the Earths climate. To date, more than 17,000 scientists have signed on. | 2_3 |
Chapter 10, by Indur M. GoklanyRicher is Cleaner: Long Term Trends in Global Air Quality | 0_0 |
Image Credit: Dianna Ingram/Bergman Group; Photo by Maddrat/Shutterstock | 0_0 |
In concluding their discussion of their findings, Allen et al . remark that "undisturbed arid shrublands may not fix comparatively large amounts of carbon, but they may sequester a large fraction of that carbon." Noting that "carbon allocated to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi forms a large part of the macroaggregate stru... | 3_1 |
In these several studies, the authors all conclude that both summer and winter temperatures over much of the Medieval Warm Period throughout many parts of Finland were significantly warmer than they are currently. In this part of the world, therefore, the climate-alarmist claim that current temperatures are unprecedent... | 2_1 |
Jonathan Adler, a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, looks at free-market approaches to dealing with climate change in The Atlantic: | 0_0 |
"In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District, for example, an abbey of Benedictine monks is currently challenging the constitutionality of a Louisiana state law that restricts the sale of 'funeral merchandise' to licensed funeral establishments. (The monks would like to sell handmade wooden coffins directly to ... | 0_0 |
On top of that, there is diffusion which is much faster. When you donate a million of tons of Nature's most vital nutrient, carbon dioxide, to the atmosphere in Denver, this amount of gas will be distributed almost uniformly over the whole surface of the Earth within weeks or earlier. | 0_0 |
No carbon tax. Despite the hopes of many environmentalists and academics, the U.S. will not implement a carbon tax in 2015. Neither House Speaker John Boehner nor Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell support the tax. This is good news for the economy, because a carbon tax would raise the cost of goods produced in the... | 0_0 |
Other times this vague company of scientists becomes "SCIENCE," as when we're told "what science says is required to avoid catastrophic climate change." "Science says" is an inherently weasely claim. "Science," after all, is an abstract noun. It can't say anything. Whenever you see that locution used to imply a consens... | 0_0 |
What is clear, on the other hand, is that government is an engine of wealth redistribution. Policies making some energy sources more expensive inexorably will create such redistribution because states and regions differ in the proportions of their energy use derived from alternative technologies. In particular, the pre... | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, Europe's obsession with climate change and fossil fuel eradication has caused it to spend $882 billion on wind and solar power since 2005. Over 800,000 Germans have had their electricity cut off, because they could not afford to pay their soaring electricity bills; millions of British families have been driv... | 4_1 |
By Thomas Pyle, WSJ, Aug 9, 2015 | 0_0 |
Solomon found the Wikipedia site actually accused Dr. Singer of believing in Martian extraterrestrial beings. Singer told Solomon that was nonsense, but that he'd been unable to correct it on the Wikipedia site. Every time he put in the correction, it was immediately reversed by "Tabletop." | 0_0 |
Bear in mind, if the models correctly simulate the trend in the earth??s GMST, we??d expect to find 5% of the simulated trends inconsistent at p=5%. In contrast, using the test applied in section 5.1.1 of Santer17 we find roughly 1/3rd of all 38 model runs result in trends that are inconsistent with the observed trend ... | 5_1 |
Hansen forecast peak ice loss for the Weddell Sea. Instead, it has seen peak ice gain and is at an all time record this year. Another inverted Hansen prediction. | 1_1 |
6) Christopher Booker: Chris Huhne Has A Blueprint For A Green, Cold, Dark Britain The Sunday Telegraph, 19 December 2010 | 0_0 |
> >> >>current climatic variability in Africa. Much relevant | 0_0 |
Then I will follow up with observations which run counter to his (and his co-authors) claim that an increase in ocean surface wind-driven mixing has caused the recent lack of global warming. | 1_4 |
Lest anyone see a greenhouse fingerprint in the larger number of hurricanes since 1975, 16 were remants of tropical storms. In contrast, only one remnant is identified for 1950-1974 and none is identified for 1900-1949. No doubt New York experienced many hurricane remnants that were not identified as such before the ad... | 1_7 |
The basis for these preposterous machinations can be laid at the door of generations of empire-building USDA bureaucrats. Genetically engineered crop varieties have been a huge boon to farmers, consumers, and the natural environment because they produce higher yields with lower inputs and reduced environmental effects.... | 0_0 |
There has been global warming for 300 years, but we could have influenced just 20 years of warming the 1980s and 90s and even then only in theory. For even if the IPCC were correct in its wildly-exaggerated estimate that CO2 caused 0.8 Watts per square meter of radiative forcing, a fall in cloud cover during these two ... | 2_1 |
In the end, every unit of wind electricity produced requires at least two units of gas fired electricity to create a theoretical hybrid dispatchable resource. So a 10% wind mandate essentially becomes a 20% gas mandate which in turn can be seen as a 30% anti-coal and nuclear mandate. Since existing base load electricit... | 4_4 |
CEI is awaiting a ruling from the D.C. Superior Court on its sanctions motion against AG Walker. | 0_0 |
We find that the proxies do not predict temperature significantly better than random series generated independently of temperature. Furthermore, various model specifications that perform similarly at predicting temperature produce extremely different historical backcasts. Finally, the proxies seem unable to forecast th... | 5_1 |
Physicist Daniel Sweger refutes thecatastrophicAGW hypothesis in his paper The Climate Engine , showing that CO2 has a negligible effect upon climate and that water vapor acts as a negative feedback to global warming. Dr. Sweger uses data from 3 locales to show an inverse relationship between humidity and temperature. ... | 2_3 |
On August 24 the Australian BoM had pretty much no idea that any unusual wetness was headed their way. Toss a coin, 50:50, yes or no. Spring 2010 was going to be average, except in SW Western Australia where they claimed a wetter than normal spring is favoured. What follows were 100 year floods, or at least above avera... | 0_0 |
on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 5:33 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The strong effect of cloud processes on climate model sensitivities to greenhouse gases was emphasized further through a now-classic set of General Circulation Model (GCM) experiments, carried out by Senior and Mitchell (1993). They produced global average surface temperature changes (due to doubled atmospheric CO2 con... | 5_1 |
Climate Variance No Crisis, Says Senate Committee Chair | 0_0 |
During the frantic final two days of negotiations at Copenhagen over the weekend, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton set a clever trap for Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao. Having just announced that the US would establish and contribute to a $100bn international fund by 2020 to help poor nations cope with the challenge of cl... | 0_0 |
Political activist David Suzuki on a cross-country tour urging Canadians and politicians to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions may want to look in his own backyard before lecturing Canadians on how theyre destroying the Earth. With all the alternative-energy modes of transportation out there, Suzuki and his en... | 0_0 |
5) Isnt the Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Evidence of Warming? Warming, yesmanmade warming, no. Arctic sea ice naturally melts back every summer, but that meltback was observed to reach a peak in 2007. But we have relatively accurate, satellite-based measurements of Arctic (and Antarctic) sea ice only since 1979. It is ent... | 1_1 |
In his May 11 article , Schmidt sneered at this insta-reconstruction and stated that he could guarantee that Briffas eventual reconstruction would have different results than my emulation: | 0_0 |
The reality as shown by the numbers is far different. Coal, oil, and natural gas continue to supply about 87 percent of all global energy because those sources are able to provide the vast amounts of energy the world needs at prices consumers can afford. And for developing countries in particular, coal remains the fuel... | 4_5 |
The authors are Mayewski, Kirk A. Maasch, Eric Meyerson, Sharon Sneed, Susan Kaspari, Daniel Dixon, and Erich Osterberg, all from UMaine; Yping Yan of the China Meterological Association; Shichang Kang of UMaine and the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Vin Morgan, Tas van Ommen and Mark Curran of the Antarctic Climate ... | 0_0 |
Conservatives have a tendency to agree with the first proposition, while progressives have a tendency to agree with the second. But for progressives there is a second, pragmatic question to answer: Should necessityin the form of voter opinion and economic factorssignificantly constrain the pursuit of justice? Progressi... | 0_0 |
The bottom line is that humans do influence climate, but the issue is hardly as black and white as many special interest groups claim and assertions about "scientific consensus' are greatly overblown. While Governor Perry may have used political hyperbole in stating his position, he is right in being skeptical about cl... | 0_0 |
The IPCC believes that water vapor increases with temperature, acting as a positive feedback, further increasing temperature. But this is not happening. Global weather balloon data shows that water vapor has been decreasing over time, not increasing. | 3_1 |
Heat waves like those that have scorched Europe and the United States in recent weeks are becoming more frequent because of global warming, say scientists who have studied decades of weather records and computer models of past, present and future climate. | 0_0 |
Two distinctly different forms of tropical Pacific Ocean warming are shown to have substantially different impacts on the frequency and tracks of North Atlantic tropical cyclones. The eastern Pacific warming (EPW) is identical to that of the conventional El Nio, whereas the central Pacific warming (CPW) has maximum tem... | 0_0 |
makes no sense to cripple a struggling economy in order to prevent damage that | 0_0 |
on Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
It seems clear that the first mutant born blond and somewhere in central Sweden and southern Finland. Among the curiosities': Galicia (northwest of the Iberian Peninsula) where we see that the Celts there really were (as in Britain, in Wales, in the southwest English); the sharp jump between Lombardy and Veneto (in spi... | 0_0 |
Tisdale: The Warming of the Global Oceans Are Manmade Greenhouse Gases Important or Impotent? | 0_0 |
The problem is, reports like those from ACIA and WWF have one intended conclusion: Climate change is bad (especially for polar bears). Thus, any observed associations between polar bears and climate change are typically ignored if they dont show the intended patterns. That is precisely the case in this instance. | 0_0 |
Comment: RIA Novosti, August 25, 2006: Khabibullo Abdusamatov said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland could start in 2012-2105 and reach its peak in 205... | 1_2 |
The Washington Post Sunday edition devotes a page to the discussion of what impact the current cold snap and immense amount of snow (a record in the nation's capital) has and should have on the global warming debate generally and legislation specifically. Most of the space goes to the liberal but often thoughtful Dana ... | 0_0 |
Brannon, I., 2004-2005, What is a life worth? Regulation , Winter, 61-63, | 0_0 |
I??ve commented before on the lack of independence between authors in the supposedly "independent" multiproxy studies: Mann et al , Jones et al , Mann and Jones , Crowley and Lowery , Briffa et al . I??ve mentioned in passing that the proxies themselves are not independent, but not provided lists to show the extent of ... | 5_1 |
All the climate models consistently predict a hot-spot in the upper troposphere which is just as consistently missing in real-world observations. This shows the lack of skill of the models and allows us to dismiss them as reliable indicators of future climate. | 5_1 |
This article originally appeared in the Washington Times on April 9, 2010. | 0_0 |
However a headline of 0.73% of climate scientists think that humans are affecting the climate doesnt quite have the same ring as 97% does it? This CNN posting was typical of the Press coverage at the time: | 0_0 |
And while there is a drought in Russia, Canada has problems from too much water: | 0_0 |
If f is net-negative, sensitivity falls still further. Monckton of Brenchley, 2015 (click Most Read Articles at www.scibull.com ) suggest that the thermostasis of the climate over the past 810,000 years and the incompatibility of high net-positive feedback with the Bode system-gain relation indicate a net-negative feed... | 3_1 |
By Bailey, et al, The Global Food Security programme, UK, February, 2015 | 0_0 |
Kyoto's Goal = Kick the U.S. | 0_0 |
Finally, global sea ice area is close to 1 million sq km above the 1979-2008 mean. It is indeed remarkable just how normal global sea ice has been throughout this year, bobbing up and down around the mean. | 1_1 |
Hurricane strength is said to be increasing. This can likely be attributed to increasing satellite coverage and resolution, which tends over time to more accurately capture the hours when a storm is at maximum strength. A study that corrects for storm detection ability over time (Vecchi and Knutson 2011) finds no trend... | 1_7 |
the important thing is to make sure they?re loosing the PR battle. That?s what | 0_0 |
Looking at the currencies, we see the Euro Double Short rising. Earlier we saw that the Euro Double Short tends to move in opposition to gold (at least recently). IMHO, some large traders or hedge funds are moving out of gold and Euros and into something else. It is also likely that sales of the GLD ETF are putting dow... | 0_0 |
THE worlds peak scientific body on climate change will almost inevitably make an increase in its predictions of sea-level rises due to global warming in its next landmark report in 2014, the vice-chair of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says. | 5_2 |
And if you look at a 30-hour window, Hawaii experienced a whopping 45,000 lightning strikes. Once again, residents were out with cameras and smart phones. | 0_0 |
"Absent such willingness on the part of the EU, we will be compelled to take appropriate action," Mrs Clinton said. The EU had become "increasingly isolated" on the issue, she said. | 0_0 |
According to the computer simulations of climate, three major features of the greenhouse fingerprint are: | 0_0 |
the urbanization effect has been removed as well as possible by statistical | 0_0 |
By Paul C. Chip Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels, Cato, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
In January 2015, I was in Kampala's Mulago Hospital caring for my friend and mentor, Cyril Boynes (photo), who was dying from a stroke and kidney failure. The doctors and nurses tried to save him, but they had old, broken equipment and constantly battled electricity failures. Many times, the power went out, the lights ... | 0_0 |
But the many pro-German Progressives were appalled when Woodrow Wilson led America into World War I and by Wilson's brutal suppression of civil liberties. | 0_0 |
Pocklington raised serious questions about Dr. Wallace Broecker's "conveyor belt" theory. Broecker projects that global warming would increase rainfall and river water discharge into the North Atlantic. This would lower the density of oceanic surface water in the North Atlantic. This water would not sink, and so would ... | 0_0 |
The purple line indicates is my uncertainty in the best curve that describes the data. It does not yet describe the noise or variability not explained by the trend. Even the most naive person can see there is a lot of noise around the best fit trend. I estimate the noise around my fit from the residuals from the straig... | 0_0 |
"The ban comes after 16 students having been hospitalized with at least half of dozen involving the drink known by the nicknames "liquid cocaine" and "blackout in a can," reports CBS 2 HD's Kathryn Brown." | 0_0 |
As was only too predictable, the overall theme of Mr Huhne's message was that "climate change is the greatest global challenge we face'. | 0_0 |
As you can see, there has been an unprecedented increase in visits recently. According to my PCA analysis, and by checking the tea-leaves at the bottom of my cup, I have been able to determine that this is due to a strong upsurge in scepticism regarding the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hype-othesis. The way this correl... | 0_0 |
If American fixation on Central Asia is questionable, European fixation on the Palestinian question as the panacea of the Greater Middle East is downright irrational. As Edward Luttwak pointed out recently: "Yes, it would be nice if Israelis and Palestinians could settle their differences, but it would do little or not... | 0_0 |
I note that weve seen the pattern of periodic climate catastrophes many times in the ancient records, so this is just more of the same old natural cycles and periodic Bond Event type collapses. That the populations moved north and north west is telling and suggestive of who these folks were, given that we know who show... | 2_1 |
Poland is racing to develop shale gas, using hydraulic fracturing methods developed by American companies to unlock trillions of cubic feet of methane for its homes and factories. Exploratory drilling is also underway, or about to begin, in Britain, Germany and other countries, as engineers evaluate the extent and econ... | 0_0 |
Heartland's Horace Cooper on The O'Reilly Factor | 0_0 |
Adding to the reasons the RFS deserves an F on its report card, ethanol gets 30% less mileage than gasoline, so motorists pay the same or more per tank but can drive fewer miles. It collects water, gunks up fuel lines, corrodes engine parts, and wreaks havoc on lawn mowers and other small engines. | 4_4 |
So glacier retreat is a symptom of Global Warming, unless the glacier is advancing, then THAT is a symptom of Global Warming. | 5_1 |
Additionally, the researchers found that sunlight scattered by clouds the reason why beachgoers can get sunburned on overcast days is an important component of cloud contributions to the earth's energy balance. Capturing such contributions will increase the accuracy of climate models, the team from the Department of En... | 0_0 |
on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 1:18 am and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
* Historic vulnerability to episodes of drought, including two years with zero precipitation 1870-71. | 0_0 |
positioned to take advantage of alternative energy manufacturing | 0_0 |
Some 30 states will have to slash their power plant CO2 emissions by more than 32% and at least 12 will have to implement 40-48% reductions. That is a tall order, since all those states now get 50-96% of their electricity from coal, and all of them depend on coal plus natural gas for nearly all their electric power. Im... | 4_1 |
What complicates policymaking even further is that what motivates public perceptions and thus decision makers the most are weather events. Hurricane Sandy. A snowy winter. We end up blaming these on the only thing we thing we think we understand increasing CO2 should cause some change, so it must be responsible for all... | 0_0 |
During the past few hours (Saturday AM), a warm front has passed through our area (sorry skiers), bringin warm air and a shift to westerly flow. To illustrate this, here is the forecast heights, winds, and temperatures (shaded) at 850 hPa (about 5000 ft) for 4 PM Saturday (today). The wind are parallel to the height li... | 0_0 |
Second, because of the models are biased toward the Northern Hemisphere in an attempt to recreate the higher warming rates there, the climate models almost triple the observed warming rate of the surfaces of the Southern Hemisphere oceans. See Figure 3. | 5_1 |
So, this explains why the People's Climate March was dominated by crazies and political leftists. The mainstream media mostly avoided coverage of the event. Maybe they realized how embarrassing the march would be for the more rational elements of the environmental movement. | 5_2 |
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