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First, Seattle in the Duwamish Valley. Big spike from a background level of roughly 10 (micrograms per cubic meter) to 60, getting well into the range of being unhealthy for sensitive groups. (click on this or subsequent figures to enlarge). | 0_0 |
I n the words of He et al . (2013), "understanding of climate variability under natural conditions could help improve projections of future climate change," while noting that the majority of temperature records from around the globe "show more or less similar patterns" that "can be roughly divided into a few warm and c... | 2_1 |
CEI Global Warming Lawsuit Draws Ire of Northeast State Attorneys General | 0_0 |
Here . Excerpt: OTTAWA (Reuters) - Leaders of Canada's Arctic Inuit people denounced U.S. environmentalists on Monday for pushing Washington to declare the polar bear a threatened species, saying the move was unnecessary and would hurt the local economy. | 3_2 |
If there was ever a reason for the U.S. to stop funding the U.N., this is it. | 0_0 |
Instead of real energy for real jobs and revenues, President Obama wants to redouble spending on green energy extracting billions of dollars from still productive sectors of our economy, and transferring the money to crony corporatists and campaign contributors, whose operations are exempted from endangered species and... | 4_1 |
A 2007 visit by the FSHP to this "dilapidated" hospital, built in the 1800s, was "reminiscent of a scene from some of the poorest countries in the world," the cable adds. | 0_0 |
Reality Check: Winter of 2008/09 Coldest Winter For A Decade | 0_0 |
The National Climate Centres Dr Andrew Watkins says a new El Nio could be on the way. | 0_0 |
Graph at left side shows temperature variations over the past 15,000 years, temperatures ~2C higher than the present during the early to mid Holocene. | 2_1 |
My purpose here is not to comment on the merits of the EPA's proposals. Rather, it is to point out that these current disputes could have been avoided as far back as 1970 by following one simple maxim: The EPA should regulate outputs, not inputs. That approach derives from the sensible rules governing private lawsuits ... | 0_0 |
Right now, only 0.5% of the U.S. electricity is extracted from solar energy ??? and this number stayed this low despite the recent hysterical growth of this weak energy source. The wind energy yields a significantly greater fraction of the U.S. power, one approaching 5 percent. | 4_4 |
But during the last few months the situation has altered substantially with temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific surging upwards. NOAA and Australian forecasters are now saying we are in an official El Nino and it appears it will become moderate or strong this year. | 0_0 |
We were told that the mild winters we experienced in Europe were due to global warming. Now, suddenly, we are getting hit with yet another nasty cold winter. | 1_3 |
Granting more authority to the states will speed up development, increase GDP growth, and lower consumer costs. Over the past five years, the 30% increase in domestic oil production has occurred overwhelmingly on private and state lands. The amount of federal land leased for mineral rights decreased 20% since 2008. Onl... | 0_0 |
a) If the surface layers and deep sea is verladdade compared with tillstnden corresponding chemical jmvikt from one course a lngsam tergng to jmvikt vein in the atmosphere, but it does not depend on the carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere but on the tillfrs from the oceans. | 0_0 |
Ice coverage on the Great Lakes reached 85.4 percent on Feb. 18, marking the second winter in a row that ice coverage has exceeded 80 percent. This figure has fluctuated up and down slightly since then and was at 88.8 percent as of Feb. 28. Of course, last year the Great Lakes went on to record their second highest tot... | 1_1 |
What are the prospects for a bipartisan approach to U.S. involvement in the major international initiatives? | 0_0 |
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Zachary Courser on how public perception has shaped the history of Wal-Mart. | 0_0 |
As a result, unsuspecting business and home owners continue to buy, build and rebuild in areas that are increasingly at risk from hurricanes, northeasters and "perfect storms" of natural and political events. And as the population density increases in this NY-NJ area, the ability to evacuate people plummets, especially... | 0_0 |
But if ice covered the earth all the way to the tropics during what is known as the Marinoan glaciation, how did the planet spring back from the brink of an ice apocalypse? Huiming Bao, Charles L. Jones Professor in Geology & Geophysics at LSU, might have some of the answers. | 0_0 |
The continent has a long history of rainfall fluctuations of varying lengths and intensities. The worst droughts were those of the 1910s, which affected east and west Africa alike . They were generally followed by increasing rainfall amounts, but negative trends were observed again from 1950 onwards culminating, in Wes... | 1_7 |
But that's not the main issue. The main issue in the suit is Mann's appeal to authority in the first place. He cites the various government investigations as reasons why, as the DC Superior Court put it, "to question intellect and reasoning is tantamount to a accusation of fraud." Mann's goal is to make it a legally pu... | 0_0 |
At the start of the analysis in 1984 the CO2 level was 344 ppmv, and at the end of 1997 it was 363 ppmv. If we take the IPCC value of 3.7 W/m2, this is a change in forcing of log(363/344,2) * 3.7 = 0.28 W/m2 per decade. If we assume the sensitivity determined in my analysis (0.08C per W/m2 for the NH), that gives us a ... | 0_0 |
James Edward Kamis is a Geologist and AAPG member of 41 years and who has always been fascinated by the connection between Geology and Climate. Years of research / observation have convinced him that the Earths Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is also an important driver of the Earths climate. | 0_0 |
It's not that this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion and become votaries of anger and loathing. Alas, intellectuals have always been prone to employ their learning and fine words to whip up resentment and demonize the competition. Bush hatred, however, is distinguished by the pride ... | 0_0 |
Not according to international law, by which the nations of the world have "common but differentiated responsibilities" to fix global warming. That's a diplomat's way of saying that 30 developed countriesout of 193 statesare responsible for global warming, because they have been emitting GHGs longer than the other 160 ... | 0_0 |
I cannot speak for The News Hour, but I do know that for me and most other journalists covering climate change, there came a time when scientists like Singer and Michaels no longer were credible. | 0_0 |
Maybe. More than anything, it brings to mind the joke that a New York Times headline on Armageddon would read: "World Ends, Women and Minorities Hit Hardest." | 0_0 |
Of course, it is possible that EPA simply doesn't have enough resources to meet its congressionally-directed responsibilities. I investigate this possibility in the study by reviewing EPA's priorities as set forth in the budgeting process. The evidence demonstrates that the EPA never has given priority to timely perfor... | 0_0 |
The actual implementation of the rules would not apply to cars and trucks made before the 2008 model year." Pavely argues that "We need to do our fair share as the fifth-biggest economy in the world," especially since President Bush has refused to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate for ratification. | 0_0 |
Conscience is not a passive barrier but an active force; though it can hold us back, it can also drive us on. Moreover, conscience comes not from without but from within: though culture can trim the fringes, the core cannot be changed. The reason things get worse so fast must somehow lie not in the weakness of conscien... | 0_0 |
But the point of PR isn't to talk about nonlinear operators; instead, the state-dependent operators are meant to be completely linear. But their precise form matrix elements vis-a-vis a basis someone gave you depends on the "situation". You may try to "beat" this state-dependence by defining operators that apply to all... | 0_0 |
These arguments have merit but must be measured against the reality of carbon growth. Consider China: Its carbon emissions increased by an average 8.6% a year between 2002 and 2012. Were China to continue at this pace for 27 years until it reaches today's U.S. GDP per capita, it would emit 99 gigatons of carbon in 2041... | 0_0 |
If the EPA proceeds with the regulation of heat-trapping gases, factories, small businesses and institutions would be subject to costly regulation... | 4_1 |
In a telephone interview, Smith summed up these facts by simply saying that "while we can talk about mature or relatively undisturbed rainforest, there is no such thing as virgin tropical rain forest any more." | 0_0 |
And furthermore, Hockey Schtick reports on a new paper that shows an ice sheet on the northern tip of Greenland has remained unchanged or grown slightly in the last few years: | 1_1 |
Romm Man Made CO2 Equals 36.5 Billion Nuclear Bombs Per Century | 0_0 |
Consider some of the ways in which environmental behaviors echo religious behaviors and thus provide meaningful rituals for Greens: | 0_0 |
It appears that Osborn had no valid answer to these questions as his answers were either unresponsive or evasive or attacks on me. First, here is Osborns answer as to why they didnt use the Shiyatov data: | 0_0 |
Adjusting facts to fit the theory: road to harmony or hypocrisy? | 0_0 |
The costs of regulations are factored into the products we buy everyday. As regulations become more and more burdensome on businesses, the more expensive our products become. From high tech electronics, such as smartphones, to grocery store purchases like deodorant, the cost of regulations are passed on to us, the cons... | 0_0 |
5. CFLs contain tiny amounts of mercury, and so EPA has a four-step program on how to clean up a broken CFL! First step: "Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more." I suspect EPA is overdoing it, but who am I to argue? | 0_0 |
Although considerably colder, Antarctica ice cores reveal a slight warming over the last 1,300 years. Yet the Vostok ice core indicates that over the last 5,000 years there were periods when temperatures were above present time, considerably (below chart). | 2_1 |
reconstruction??? It would help the cause to be able to refer to that | 0_0 |
Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels Benefit Sea Stars | 0_0 |
alters the cost-benefit balance in favor of competition; | 0_0 |
I hope that at least one more reader will find the required spare time to watch it. | 0_0 |
In his presentation to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Hans von Storch outlines a number of issues with the IPCC and suggests possible solutions. I thought these were pretty interesting, particularly the bit where he discusses dealing with dissent - I've added emphasis to the "ouch" bit. | 5_2 |
In natural sciences, knowledge is obtained by validating the content of one's mind according to the facts of reality. Truth then corresponds to reality. In philosophy the world is largely artificial, and truth is redefined to mean coherence among ideas much along the views of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Hence a dogm... | 0_0 |
?They are standing alone here, as ourselves and other independent forecasters are all predicting a colder-than-average winter. | 0_0 |
This leaves the single cold outlier. Its implied deflation (Non-Logo initialization) is about 0.76 psi a typical amount observed in Exponents deflation simulation. Ironically this illustrates a major problem in Exponents deflation simulations: if the12 Patriot balls had been deflated according to the Exponent simulatio... | 0_0 |
the unambiguous failure of the atmosphere to warm anything like as fast as predicted by the vast majority of climate models over the past 35 years" | 5_1 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Maribyrnong Weekly | 0_0 |
The Hadcrut3 average anomaly so far for 2013 is 0.388. This would rank 12th if it stayed this way. 1998 was the warmest at 0.548. The highest ever monthly anomaly was in February of 1998 when it reached 0.756. One has to go back to the 1940s to find the previous time that a Hadcrut3 record was not beaten in 10 years or... | 1_4 |
Therefore, because the factors were not correctly considered in the past, we can immediately conclude that the scary projections made by the IPCC for the 21st century were falsely calculated and are thus likely grotesquely exaggerated. | 5_1 |
A Perspective on Weather and Climate Science by S. Raghavan | 0_0 |
Yet the climate models used by the IPCC for their 5 th Assessment Report cannot simulate the additional warming of the North Atlantic, as shown in Figure 27. As a result, they have to more than double the warming rate for the rest of the global oceans. See Figure 28. | 5_1 |
The nonsense predictor mentioned above (number of available grid points) scores RE=46% (and CE=23%), which is more than any of the flavors ever approaches in the 100 random samples. And it is not unlikely that other nonsense predictors score even higher. On this background, the originally reported 51% of verification R... | 0_0 |
Figure 2.Projected changes in temperature and precipitation for the 2050s. Left: United Kingdom Hadley Center. Right: Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis. Source:Rosenzweig and Solecki, Climate Change and a Global City , 2001. | 0_0 |
Note that Imagining 10 dimensions is also a blog. | 0_0 |
Isis Solar is hoping to change that. Last month it hit the headlines by announcing that it is to start handing out the panels for free saving you the full 11,000- 15,000 the average PV solar panel system costs to install. And that's not all: Isis will fit them and maintain them for 25 years too. All you need to qualify... | 0_0 |
Given the remarkable similarity between my emulation and the actual 2006 regional chronology, one wonders whether CRU might have been better off merely producing the regional chronology. CRU purported to justify its refusal on the grounds that they had been working on the regional chronology since 2006 and were still w... | 0_0 |
?Notwithstanding the carefully orchestrated propaganda to the effect that nothing much will be decided at the UN climate conference here in Cancun, the decisions to be made here this week signal nothing less than the abdication of the West,? declared science-policy expert Lord Monckton after reading one of the draft do... | 0_0 |
Global Yinyang: Lack of snow proves warming as does prolific snow | 0_0 |
"Speeding along at 206 mph, dairy products salesman Ji Qiyuan said he appreciated the convenience of the high-speed train that was getting him to this booming manufacturing center in a half-hour." | 0_0 |
What unites these two groups according to HVS is that is that they see the scientific bestmda truth as the highest authority. There is no grskala, no opportunity for deviation from this truth. I interpret HVS's that he believes that the BDA these groups have avlgsnat themselves from the basic principle that scientific ... | 0_0 |
"The Sierra Club and its allies don't just want to outlaw the Keystone Pipeline (which would be in itself a horrible economic blow), they want to outlaw all fossil fuels." Epstein said. "Incredibly, they also want to shut down nuclear and hydroelectric power, which are the only sources of affordable, reliable energy th... | 4_4 |
I plan to write a few words about the insightful and entertaining colloquium by Frank Wilczek - once I have some time. | 0_0 |
The report is now entering a 45 day public comment period. You can be sure, Hansen, McKibben, Brune and the rest will see this as a 45 day propaganda period. They will deny the facts, deny reality and do anything to deny Americans and Canadians the many benefits that will flow through this pipeline. | 0_0 |
The NOAA Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO) Project website includes data for two temperature-related datasets for the equatorial Pacific. See their Upper Ocean Heat Content and ENSO webpage for descriptions of the datasets. The two datasets are Warm Water Volume (above the 20 deg C isotherm) and the Depth-Averaged Temper... | 0_0 |
Democrat in Missouri to Oppose Health Care Law: | 0_0 |
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Technology Director Clyde Wayne Crews and Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on how private solutions can provide the best cybersecurity. | 0_0 |
an unknown variable that climate scientists still do not understand | 0_0 |
Despite the fact that over half of the town's households participated, electricity use actually rose by 8 percent. Once people realized they could keep their lights on at lower cost, they kept them on longer. | 0_0 |
These scientists came to the same conclusions the global warming trend is done, and a cooling trend is about to kick in. | 1_2 |
Martin BODKER ENGHOFF & Henrik SVENSMARK: Effects of Cosmic Ray Decreases on Cloud Microphysics | 0_0 |
The moral of the story is that in American politics, change and rejuvenation are the nature of the beasteven a Republican elephant that's feeling weary these days. | 0_0 |
I am committed to furthering technological research to find other ways, other sources for ethanol. We're working on researchstrong research to figure out cellulosic ethanol that can be made from wood chips or stalks or switch grass. These materials are sometimes waste products that are just simply thrown away. | 0_0 |
Roughly 83% (biomass and hydro) of the ???renewable?? energy touted above isn??t favored by many present day environmentalists. Hydro-electric power production, while having low carbon dioxide emissions, upsets environmentalists for other reasons ??? so throw that out, noting that hydro was not included in California??... | 4_4 |
Casting serious doubt upon alarmist U.N.-IPCC projections that the Alps will be nearly glacier-free by 2100, Schlchter poses several challenging questions: Why did the glaciers retreat in the middle of the 19th century, although the large CO2 increase in the atmosphere came later? Why did the Earth tip in such a short ... | 2_1 |
A wind chill of minus-17 degrees greeted senior environmental officials from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and the South Pacific in Ottawa last Wednesday as they went behind closed doors for two days of talks to try to reignite burned-out negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Over the next week, m... | 0_0 |
Source: Cancun: Global Hysteria, Wealth Redistribution | 0_0 |
Were certainly not the only ones criticising the emphasis on catastrophe in science reporting. The Tyndall Centres Mike Hulme an eminent and high-profile climate scientist, and certainly no denier (although we wonder how long it will be before he is labelled as such) has been saying it loudly for a year or two. In his ... | 5_2 |
The three Chinese researchers concluded that because "both the number and the size of turion, the most important storage and reproductive organ, increased significantly" in the elevated CO 2 treatment, this phenomenon would enhance the "population-increasing rate of V. spinulosa ... in the next growth season and would ... | 3_3 |
Carl Sagans Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence comes to mind with regard to the Younger Dryas claims but I have to admit, based on the global warming consensus, that this fundamental principle of science seems to have been trumped by politics and media attention in the past. I do remember the long stru... | 0_0 |
A Cost/ Benefit Analysis of Reducing the Number of Additional Carbon Emitters aswell as Average Per Capita Carbon Emission | 0_0 |
While both sides agree that Hamas must be dealt with, however, the question of tactics remains touchy. Most of the Israeli leadership maintains that the Palestinians themselves must dislodge Hamas before any final settlement can be achieved. But the more reflective Palestinians suggest that Israel is once again asking ... | 0_0 |
Shova has another suggestion: Take us to your country if it gets bad here. Evan Sarkar prefers Canada: Theyve got more space. | 0_0 |
RealClearPolitics - Articles - Panel on Friday's Events in the House "The Wall Street Journal" had a poll a couple of weeks ago that Fred was lampooning me about, but it was correct, that Obama had a 65-35 lead on the energy issue. Last week--this week, the Quinnipiac organization came out in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Fl... | 0_0 |
"Europe and its children, the white-skinned cultures of the temperate zone, began to confront the tropical world more than five hundred years ago, driven by a craving for profits. Commercial capitalism spread worldwide from northwestern Europe, promoted by gunboats and colonial bureaucrats." (Lessons, Richard P. Tucker... | 0_0 |
The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak on April 11, 1965 involved 47 tornadoes (15 significant, 17 violent, 21 killers) hitting the Midwest. It was the second biggest outbreak on record. In the Midwest, 271 people were killed and 1,500 injured (1,200 in Indiana). It was the deadliest tornado outbreak in Indiana history with ... | 0_0 |
UN scientists said today they are '95 per cent' certain that climate change is man made, but still could not explain why the world has barely got any hotter in the last 15 years. | 1_4 |
Google's growth online reflected by expansion in Mountain View: | 0_0 |
An assumed radiative forcing of 4 W/m2 would thus lead to a warming of 4/15 C, which is less than 0.3 C, thus a factor 10 smaller than IPCC's most likely value of 3 C. | 3_1 |
During the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover damaged the economy, and impoverished the American people, with costly, artificial attempts to stimulate the economy through increased government spending, financed by heavy taxes like the Revenue Act of 1932. | 0_0 |
Empirical evidence shows that Earth is currently greening significantly due to additional CO2 and a modest warming. | 3_3 |
What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air ... | 3_3 |
Global warming and climate change are usually thought to mean that world sea levels will rise, perhaps disastrously. But according to US government boffins, in recent times (2010 and 2011, to be precise) phenomena driven by human carbon emissions have actually caused world sea levels to fall. | 1_6 |
His experience reveals how easily regulatory agencies can be corrupted by minority interest views using an alleged "crisis" of their own making to propel themselves into positions of even greater power and influence at great involuntary expense to the rest of us. | 0_0 |
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