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"... Found little or no evidence for on-going positive sea level acceleration for the tide gauges located in the North Sea in between 1870 and the late 1980's of the sort suggested for the 20 th century Itself by climate models. " | 1_6 |
President Obama has picked Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to run the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection--but he's managed to bypass a Senate vote on her nomination through a technicality. | 0_0 |
Not anymore. The ozone hole closing is counter-acting the warming affect. But this study is still using models, read here . The models depend on the temperature increasing. What if the temperature doesnt follow the rules? And it has not over the last decade plus. | 1_4 |
1. A winning short-term strategy for politicians in developed countries is to talk tough on climate change but do relatively little. The appearance of doing something can go a long way toward assuaging the concerns of most citizens while helping to neutralize pressures from environmental groups. | 0_0 |
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the aerosols that were supposed to have prevented warming taking off at the predicted rates in the past? And now their influence is slight? | 5_1 |
The adjacent chart plots the scientific empirical evidence - the globe naturally cycles through periods of extreme cooling and warming. And as the evidence reveals, the Obama/Kerry climate-porn duo exist during a period of cooling, not the extreme accelerating global warming that they claim. | 2_1 |
Pupils and teachers being used as human guinea pigs to test the green experiment. Despite all the complaints, authorities have taken no action and are playing down the problems. According to teacher and administrator Andrea Eisenbltter: | 0_0 |
Chaos artificial reservoir correction to sea level . This correction to Church and Whites sea level dataleads t0a (supposed)larger sea level rise during the 20th century. But this correction has some critical flaws. | 5_1 |
But I suppose thats just not good politics. Better to curse someone else for the darkness than to light a candle | 0_0 |
Canadian Forest Company Seeks Millions from Greenpeace in U.S. Courts | 0_0 |
Now, I know that Curry doesn't want to win against Mann. She doesn't want to set the precedent that thin-skinned scientists can run around bullying their critics. So she should sue with the goal of making a settlement: that she will drop Curry vs. Mann?if he drops Mann vs. Steyn. It's a kind of mutually assured destruc... | 0_0 |
Yet Taylor also points out that there are few environmental benefits accruing from such government orders. The Energy Information Administration has calculated that 80 percent of renewable energy needed to comply with such mandates will come from biomass fed into existing coal-fired plants. A recent survey by Thomas Su... | 4_1 |
Barking madness in the New York Times: Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events; story illustrated with a photo of snow on the palm trees of Jerusalem | 5_2 |
Putin disagrees, but hopes Obama goes on thinking as he does. | 0_0 |
Rothbard warns that ?Global warming campaigners see this presidency and the Paris U.N. Summit as the best chance they are likely to see to take control of American energy. The ramifications are disastrous for American freedom and prosperity.? | 4_1 |
Bear in mind that a proportion of those comments is orchestrated and for all we know there are only a handful of people with multiple electronic personas each, who are paid to create disproportionate noise. | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on CNN on the debate over SUV safety: | 0_0 |
These historic changes in land level-dramatic or gradual- will have been taken into account in academic studies (although there is not unanimity over the rate of change). However all these factors demonstrate that accurate sea level reconstruction is problematic. | 5_1 |
Figure 1:Sine wave characteristic of the 60/65-year ocean cycle(Source: Bob Tisdale atWUWT). | 0_0 |
Baliunas: Yes, the correlation is very strong. For the temperature records going back on Earth, we can reconstruct the Northern Hemisphere about 250 years or so. And the ups and downs of temperature match almost exactly the ups and downs and change in magnetism, and so, the energy output of the sun. . . . | 2_1 |
Once again, we have another example of climate-alarmist (IPCC) contentions widely missing the mark when it comes to predicting which temperature extreme - hot or cold - produces both more frequent and more intense precipitation events, as well as the flooding that accompanies them. | 5_1 |
The Wall Street Journal editorial's concluding comment is spot on: "In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. Congress and other investigative bodies." | 0_0 |
To some extent, her policies were motivated by politics: with a candidate running to her left, she banked left. But she isn t the only one to favor government solutions. Sen. Barack Obama supports mandates too (if not quite as expansively) and a major expansion of government. | 0_0 |
First, congrats to many millions of people who can remain in this country, a status they should have always have had. We can argue whether anyone who makes his or her way over the border should be able to vote or draw benefits, but there is no doubt in my mind that they should be able to live anywhere they can pay the ... | 0_0 |
Residents of Pretoria, named after an early war hero of the white Afrikaners who later invented apartheid, won a battle last year to keep the capital city's name on the map, albeit as part of a broader metropolitan area called Tshwane. Next year those towns celebrating British royalty and other figures will be under sc... | 0_0 |
Synthetic bovine growth hormone (also known as rbST) is widely administered to dairy cows to increase milk production. According to the Food and Drug Administration but contrary to the Stonyfield ad rbST is safe to humans and cows. Milk from cows given rbST contains no more bovine growth hormone than milk from cows not... | 0_0 |
The Science and Public Policy Institute has been asked to comment on the apparent inconsistency between the news that July 2012 was the warmest July since 1895 in the contiguous United States and the news that the Meteorological Office in the UK has cut its global warming forecast for the coming years. The present pape... | 0_0 |
Even under the worst case scenario warming, when the usual method of comparing the cost and benefit of policy is used, it is more cost effective to deal with any problems that occur than to pay to try to stop them. | 4_2 |
The climate change causes war argument is the nexus of the two main preoccupations of risk- and security-obsessed politics, also known as the politics of fear. The surprising outcome of the politics of fear is that it produces more of what its agents claim to eliminate. The Bush-Blair doctrine of eliminating the risk o... | 0_0 |
Well start with the energy imbalance in anomaly form. We presented the outgoing shortwave radiation (Figure 6) and outgoing longwave radiation (Figure 9) as anomalies to show the differences between the individual models. But for the energy imbalance, Figure 11, theyre presented as anomalies to show how similar the cur... | 0_0 |
Dr. MANN: This very unprecedented warmth of the 20th century had ahad ahad a very close relationship with the increase in greenhouse gases during the past century. | 0_0 |
133. As with his previous legal threats and actions, Plaintiff has brought this lawsuit for the purpose of wrongfully interfering with critics? statutorily protected right of advocacy on an issue of great public interest and constitutionally protected free-speech rights. | 0_0 |
Newt Gingrich: Even if he's not a presidential contender, the former House speaker is still the best political ideas man in the business. As such, he's a powerful draw on the speech and lecture circuitand a force for other Republicans to reckon with. | 0_0 |
Many people have urged me to sue Mann; I can?t be bothered and I don?t have money to throw away on such stuff?. Further, I would like to stand up for Michael Mann?s right to make insulting and defamatory tweets, statements in op-eds, etc. As an American, I am pretty attached to the right to free speech. | 0_0 |
Also, there are controversial studies linking cosmic ray fluxes to cloudiness and climate change on Earth. That link may be tested in the years ahead. | 2_1 |
The host of the interview starts by telling the audience that climate scientists have come under pressure because the average temperature indeed has not risen in 15 years . Kirchhof: | 1_4 |
"The agency estimates a 20 percent increase in global nuclear generation until the end of 2020, followed by a decrease, resulting in global nuclear generation in 2030 that will be only 12 percent higher than in 2002. Nuclear power's share of global electricity generation is projected at 12 percent in 2030, compared wit... | 0_0 |
When the winds are from the west, air rises on the western side of the Olympics (producing heavy rain) and descends on the eastern slopes (causing drying). | 0_0 |
An isolated observation? From a 2007 PDF file, "ExxonMobil's Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science" at the Union of Concerned Scientists' site: | 0_0 |
So Global Warming causes droughts up until a week ago. No doubt they are working on a paper that proves that Global Warming can cause a flood now and then. A peer reviewed article in Nature will appear soon. Data freely available on request except of course to anyone who has dealings with CA. Thats the way science is d... | 5_2 |
Snowcover hangs toughwith warm Gulf of Mexicospells spring trouble | 0_0 |
I'm starting to think that not occupying schoolyards with pitchforks and burning tires is a failed parent-teacher night. | 0_0 |
In relation to the wider world, however, most people's support for economic growth and its resulting prosperity is likely to be heavily qualified. Indeed, it is remarkable how many lines of attack against prosperity exist. | 0_0 |
"Even if only a few of the proposed projects are built, hundreds of square miles of wild land will be scraped clear. Several thousand miles of power transmission corridors will be created. | 0_0 |
Implying that it might not be, the eight researchers note that "broadleaf deciduous stands are characterized by higher leaf moisture loading and lower flammability and rate of wildfire ignition and initiation than needleleaf evergreen stands," citing the work of Paatalo (1998), Campbell and Flannigan (2000) and Hely et... | 0_0 |
TIME Magazine June 1974: Another Ice Age? Follow The Money | 0_0 |
US climate expert Professor Judith Curry said last night: In fact, the uncertainty is getting bigger. Its now clear the models are way too sensitive to carbon dioxide. I cannot see any basis for the IPCC increasing its confidence level. | 5_1 |
This is a defense commonly employed against FOIA requests when seeking to withhold certain communications with, for example, paid consultants. | 0_0 |
This makes "arguments in support of intelligent design sound rigorous by comparison". | 0_0 |
Next, Monckton discusses the Stefan-Boltzmann equation and the huge range of temperature changes published in the literature for a doubling of CO2. Moncktons own calculation, based on IPCC 2007, is 1.6C for a doubling of CO2, but the IPCC says 3C. He points out that Svante Arrhenius calculated a 4C to 8C temperature ch... | 3_1 |
Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in todays climate Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important greenhouse gases and the increase of its abundance in the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning is the main cause of future global warming. In past times, during the transition between an... | 2_3 |
Dem AG Backs Down in Exxon Climate Fight | 0_0 |
UK likely to miss its emissions reduction targets. | 0_0 |
HAYDEN: Okay, Moose. We can go. But I have to see mother first. | 0_0 |
The major enforcement mechanisms that have emerged in international discussions are carbon tariffs and related trade sanctions on non-adhering exporters in international trade.The use of trade policy to enforce GHG mitigation agreements, however, could strain the international trading structure that has been so globall... | 0_0 |
To the extent that the world did implement some kind of internationally harmonized carbon tax regime, as my friend and colleague Ben Zycher at AEI has argued, it would almost certainly result in a tax set too high, and undermined by offsetting competitive behavior (auto industry subsidies, for example) among different ... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the implications of the G8 communiqu. | 0_0 |
The primary weakness of ACESA is its GHG reduction program. The U.S. should, indeed, put a modest price on GHG emissions, but ACESA's abatement costs are likely to be far too high. Its regulatory mandates can only increase the net costs, and ACESA's goals are at odds with the strategic logic of the GHG control problem,... | 0_0 |
The WTO's able and indefatigable Director General, Pascal Lamy, has acknowledge that after a decade of intense deliberations, Doha Round negotiations are in "paralysis." Rather than picking over the bones of Doha, the December Ministerial should be devoted to clearing the decks and then beginning the complicated proces... | 0_0 |
The skepticism is up from an already high 48 percent of pastors in 2008 who somewhat or strongly disagreed with the strong scientific consensus on manmade global warming. | 0_0 |
Following on from the no snow by 2050 story earlier today , the ABC gleefully reports more doom and gloom on the state of the alpine catchments. Perhaps they thought nobody would check: | 0_0 |
Housing. Housing turns out to be a relative bargain in terms of indirect energy consumption, accounting for less than 10 percent of all indirect energy consumption (see table 6). This includes the use of not only the physical structure of the dwelling, but items like home furnishings, furniture, china, glassware, table... | 0_0 |
But temperatures may also fall in the future so this is not a definition of anything. | 0_0 |
It is more likely that the cost of climate action will end up costing upwards of twice as much as climate inaction in this century areasonable estimate could be 2.8% of GDP towards the end of the century. | 4_1 |
Carlo Stagnaro of Istituto Bruno Leoni reports: | 0_0 |
NASA is constantly cooling the past and warming the present in order to make it appear that Hansens theories arent the miserable failure which they actually are. | 5_2 |
Using data collected between 1976 and 2008, the authors conclude that a longer growing season has boosted marmots?? individual size, overall strength and general population. The average weight of fully grown marmots jumped from 6.82 pounds in the early years of the study to 7.56 pounds in the later half of the study. | 3_2 |
On April 1, the California Senate's Environmental Quality Committee approved a bill that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from car tailpipes on a 5 to 2 party-line vote, with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans against. The bill passed the California Assembly on January 31. | 0_0 |
As the cost of government measures to combat climate change hit households and businesses, a new study published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation casts grave doubts on the validity of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change which the government relies on to justify its policies. | 0_0 |
The Minoan Warming period had temperatures that possibly exceeded current temperatures by 1C, in spite of lower CO2 levels. | 2_1 |
accordingly? Smart presidents don't wait until they are hit upside the head with | 0_0 |
Bloomberg's Low Carbon Footprint Plan | 0_0 |
Date: April 28, 2010 Time: 7:00 pm Central DST | 0_0 |
Consistency across indicators is important to finishing high in the rankings; there is much lower variance on subindices for top performers than for worse performers. In fact, the worst performers often do well in one or two subindices, rather than fail in all of them. The top fourteen countries have consistently high ... | 0_0 |
Mad as it may sound, Danish researchers have announced a theory that may not only explain why people all over the world are getting fatter and fatter, but also warn of the serious consequences for life on Earth of continued pollution of the atmosphere by CO2 emissions. In itself, the theory is quite simple: CO2 contrib... | 0_0 |
The Australian Daily Telegraph for instance writes that, "as he waited for a helicopter to winch him out, team leader Professor Chris Turney was clinging to credibility like the black knight in Monty Python. "It's so warm it's actually raining!' he tweeted yesterday." | 0_0 |
It is also important to understand that the equilibrium average surface temperature calculated by radiative forcing is not a measurable climate variable. It has no existence outside of the equilibrium Earth that resides only in the universe of computerized climate fiction found inside these radiative forcing models. . | 5_1 |
This piece originally appeared in National Review Online | 0_0 |
Ten years later, it is clear that just as NATO enlargement to the East has sent Russia into the arms of China, Western energetico-military forays in Central Asia have led China, in turn, to increase its activities in the backyards of Europe (Africa) and America (from Cuba to Panama and Venezuela). America's fixation on... | 0_0 |
They pointed out, without too much ado, the innocent fact that since the beginning of the observations in 1979, the year 2013 has seen the greatest increase of the Arctic sea ice area relatively to the previous year's summer minimum. | 1_1 |
However, when I signed the letter, I was unaware of the seriousness of the allegations of abuse. I was feeling sick at that time and was not properly informed. I was misled by not being provided with sufficient information to make an appropriate decision. I wish to retract that letter. The implication that I personally... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on the regulatory barriers to fighting diseases like West Nile: | 0_0 |
an appeal for other nations to shoulder greater international responsibilities, | 0_0 |
CO 2 -induced increases in plant biomass ranged from 13 to 100%, depending on root temperature and nitrogen amount and source, with the greatest responses being recorded in the nitrate-fed plants. What it means | 3_3 |
That does not mean going back to an Eisenhower-era or even Nixon-era GOP, when centrists were key forces; it means a very conservative party by any reasonable measure. As such, we sympathize with Republicans like David Frum who have been harshly critical of the party's course but refuse to leave it, believing their pre... | 0_0 |
Why do I hear nothing about the effects of all of the-environmental-agency-mandated "cooling towers" dumping heated water vapor into the atmosphere? They must have some effect on the Earth's temperature. The water vapor adds heat to the atmosphere, equal to at least the power generated by the power station, and forms c... | 0_0 |
The environmental movement suffers its biggest defeat since Climategate | 0_0 |
???Multivariate regression methods are insensitive to the sign of predictors??. Mann et al seem to be saying their methods are invariant to the data??s orientation ??? perhaps to linear translation? ??? anyway it means the data can??t be upside-down. Now if the mathematical interpretation placed on the data by their me... | 5_1 |
CEI filed with the D.C. Superior Court a copy of an order issued last week by a federal judge in Texas, in Exxon's challenge to the Mass. AG's subpoena to Exxon. | 0_0 |
Noting its final due date in June, that refusal would impose a Federal Implementation Plan on states "that risks even greater harm," said Hill. "But the problem for the EPA is that the federal government lacks the legal authority under either the Constitution or the Clean Air Act to enforce most of the regulation's "bu... | 0_0 |
A quote from Mark Twain: . . . peoples beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass f... | 0_0 |
Date: May 1, 2010 Time: 10:00 am Central DST | 0_0 |
The Great Lino speaks in an essay for a Con Law colloquium for the Law Journal of the Federalist Society: | 0_0 |
From the new National Academy of Sciences report on climate modeling: | 0_0 |
Butterflies are often mentioned as being particularly sensitive to climate change. Yet a recent one-day record for butterfly diversity in northwestern Connecticut suggests current climate is more hospitable than ever. | 3_2 |
2. Some alternate techniques that determine CO 2 concentration over time contradict the slow changing ice record, but this may in fact be due to 1). This could mean present levels are not quite so extremely high or unusually fast changing as thought. | 5_1 |
A 2009 article in MacLife magazine acknowledges that, while "solar-powered gadgets have become de rigueur in our attempts to shrink our carbon footprint," there is a rarely discussed "dark side" to solar energy. Many solar panels are made with cadmium, a highly toxic carcinogen, and when these panels are decommissioned... | 4_1 |
And the shale revolution has yet to go global. When it does, oil and gas in tight rock formations will give the world ample supplies of hydrocarbons for decades, if not centuries. Lurking in the wings for later technological breakthroughs is methane hydrate, a seafloor source of gas that exceeds in quantity all the wor... | 4_5 |
If air temperature is holding steady and air quality improving, it is hard to understand how, per White House senior advisor Brian Deese: "This is not just a future threat this is a present threat." | 0_0 |
Arizona will be entering the new year ahead on rainfall for the first time since 2010 as well as above-average temperatures, according to the National Weather Service. | 0_0 |
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