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In a paper Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation , Shakun et al .( Nature 2012) contend that rising temperature at the end of the last Pleistocene glaciation were preceded by increasing atmospheric CO2. In his usual masterful fashion, Willis Eschenbach has dug ... | 5_1 |
The trend difference means, that from 1979 to 2008 the CO2-rise per year compared to the global temperatures has fallen 0,5 ppm/year, or the other way around: It now takes approx. +0,15 K global temperature anomaly more to achieve the same level of CO2 rise/year as it did in 1979. | 2_3 |
less self-serving than the role traditional great powers have played. U.S. | 0_0 |
There is a clear pattern of repeated death threats and hate speech from very high profile people attacking sceptics. Plus individuals have received hate mail just for being sceptics. In January 2013 David Bellamy revealed that the: | 5_2 |
On a completely different issue, I've heard that there's a rumor going around Aspen that the Tevatron will be announcing discovery of gluon + b b + Higgs, which would then require large tan( beta ), which would fit the MSSM. I guess we'll find out in a couple of weeks. At 5:50 pm, this rumor was confirmed to me in a pr... | 0_0 |
Government suffers first setback as arbitration court says it is competent to judge claims | 0_0 |
However reality and comon sense are absent when climate panicmongering is afoot. So Jersey run off is due to climate change even though there has been no warming for 18 years? And Sierra shows no trend to increased rainfall at all? | 1_4 |
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has learned of a UN plan recently put in place to hide official correspondence on non-governmental communication accounts, which a federal inspector general has already confirmed are subject to FOIA requests. This "cloud" serves as a dead-drop of sorts for discussions by U.S. ... | 0_0 |
In 2007, Chesapeake Energy discontinued the "Face It: Coal Is Filthy" campaign, due to Congressional pressure. | 0_0 |
But that is not enough to generate the climate crisis the IPCCs founding document orders it to demonstrate: so the IPCC assumes the existence of several temperature feedbacks additional forcings f n demonimated in Watts per square meter per Kelvin of the direct warming that triggered them. The IPCC also imagines that t... | 5_2 |
"In his final days as Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger bestowed a goodbye gift to the High Speed Rail Authority (HSRA), he used a line item veto to remove most performance requirements for the HSRA to obtain budget funding. Bottom line what Schwarzenegger is proposing is to skip the planning and go straight to doing." | 0_0 |
Not content to report the weather, the Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen has become a global warming pundit, recently appearing on Larry King Live, where she seemed to say (incorrectly) that melting sea ice contributes to sea level rise. | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Bombala Times | 0_0 |
terrified that it might fall into the hands of the Rat-People. They | 0_0 |
Bill Gray was also a famous climate realist who passed away in April. He was a professor at Colorado State University who was a world renowned expert in hurricanes. Of course it was not possible to dwell on the physics of hurricanes if it got in the way of CTBS. Naturally the baloney storm called for more destructive a... | 0_0 |
To sum up, the IPCCs anthropogenically-forced CMIP5 climate models can broadly explain observed air temperature trends on land but fall woefully short of explaining observed SST trends in the oceans, where over 99% of the heat in the atmosphere and oceans is stored. Others may disagree, but I think this invalidates the... | 5_1 |
His Linderholm, associate professor of physical geography at Gteborgs University, says that large and rapid svngningar climate is nothing unusual. He has underskt rsringar from trees which remained buried in the mud on the bottom of the Swedish fjllsjarna and compared them with trees from Tibet, writes Gteborgs-Posten. | 0_0 |
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: "San Bernardino halts pension fund payments" | 0_0 |
It turns out that the belief in a sensitive climate is not because of the observational evidence, but in spite of it. You can start to learn more about the evidence for low climate sensitivity (negative feedbacks) here . | 3_1 |
House Global Warming Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) was outraged that a renegade freelance lobbyist had sent a dozen phony letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against cap-and-trade legislation. | 0_0 |
We live on an ocean-covered planet, yet somehow the hows, the whens, the wheres, and the extents of the warming (and cooling) of the surfaces of our oceans seem to have eluded climate modelers. For the past few years, we have been presenting how poorly the climate models (used by the IPCC) simulate sea surface temperat... | 5_1 |
Snow accumulated to a depth of more than one meter in places ??? Pyrnes-Atlantiques in Haute-Garonne (Aspe Osseau). Above 1800 meters, snow thickness reached 1.50 meters and 3.10 meters at Gavarnie station located 1850 meters. | 1_3 |
Since Virginia is already a nuclear-friendly state that properly manages the risks of nuclear power, what sense does it make for the state to ban the safest step in the nuclear fuel cycle? | 0_0 |
However, those other countries have for the most part massively increased their emissions from 1990 levels, wiping out the big nations' reductions. If the EU does not meet its collective target, as seems almost certain, then under Article 4 of the Kyoto Protocol itself, each individual country becomes responsible for a... | 0_0 |
Only, until now, very little has materialized $18 million to be precise. Most of the money coughed up by industrialized nations has gone to large economies like China and India to finance mitigation in the form of energy efficiency (translation: slightly less polluting coal-fired power stations than before). | 0_0 |
As you can see (if you click image for the closeup) the boatyard to the SW is completely dry. Mudflats are around the station every direction except SE. | 0_0 |
The mismatch between rising greenhouse-gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now. It does not mean global warming is a delusion. Flat though they are, temperatures in the first decade of the 21st century remain almost 1C above their level in the first decade of t... | 1_4 |
have retreated a lot in the last 20 years yet the MSU2LT data would suggest | 0_0 |
There was, in fact, a fairly rapid decrease in Arctic sea ice extent sea ice extent over the last few years.But thelosses werealmost entirely recovered in an unprecedented ice build-up of Arctic sea ice in the last months of 2007 and the first months of 2008 | 1_1 |
Several readers have asked me to respond to recent comments about me at Real Climate : briefly, Osborn has made one misrepresentation after another and made statements with seemingly complete indifference as to whether he has any basis for making the claims. | 0_0 |
1) the relationship between air pollution levels and human health/mortality | 0_0 |
But here Obama made a troubling transition. The next sentence out of the president's mouth was: "But the bulk of our efforts must focus on unleashing a new, clean-energy economy that will begin to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, will cut our carbon pollution by about 80 percent by 2050, and create millions of new... | 0_0 |
I wanted to add realclimate.org to the graph but these days Alexa doesnt bother to hold graphical stats for them anymore. Their rank in the US is currently 73,088 a whisker behind the Talkshop which is currently at 70,588. :) :) | 0_0 |
"It is not because treatment is not financed; it is because of different legal systems." In a statement the hospital said it was "not prepared to risk astronomical damages or a massive increase in premiums." Seeburger emphasised that the restrictions only affected people not domiciled in Switzerland. | 0_0 |
So some geological shifting can happen (has happened many times) and the global sea level can be modulated by 10 m or 33 feet? The entire freeze / thaw cycle can be shifted by salinity changes? Oh Dear! Talk about your climate change! | 2_1 |
The global warming debate has been cast by Green activists as a moral battle between greed and profit versus saving the planet. The dynamics of the debate are slowly changing, however, as businesses are beginning to pay lip service to the claim that the production of goods and services is destroying the planet. Busines... | 0_0 |
Even if you have no scientific background whatsoever this is clearly wrong. Any observed increase in temperature at these stations must surely be due to the local, man-made heat sources rather than any purported change in the climate. It is extraordinary that these stations have found their way into the IPCC's temperat... | 5_1 |
Of course, you wont be told any of this by the BBC, Joe Romm or the rest of the Team. | 0_0 |
And policies in these new and old forests are harming humans and wildlife. Bans on cutting down most "old-growth" or mature trees results an abundance of big trees with leaves that deer can't reach. The trees also block sunlight for other vegetation that deer could eat. This necessitates deer "eat out" more often, head... | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 at 10:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
In this case all the latest web browsers with the latest Java SE software will have to do the same thing. | 0_0 |
U.S. Climate Scientists "Adjusting" Surface Temps To Make Global Warming Theory "Work" Are Not Alone | 5_2 |
He fills the false journalistic need for balance on the topic | 0_0 |
The shutdown ofthe seven reactors, which were deemed completely safe just a few months earlier, and so were granted extended operating times,will now result in much more coal-burning, which of course will increase Germanys CO2 emissions by a staggering 4% . | 4_5 |
We can also ignore the second. It's a free country and anyone who wants to reduce their CO2 emissions is welcome to do so. But you don't need regulation for that. In fact it is a contradiction in terms to seek new regulations that would "impose" voluntary controls. When the push for voluntary action comes from industry... | 0_0 |
The assumption that temperature feedbacks would double or triple direct man-made greenhouse warming is the largest error made by the complex climate models. Feedbacks may well reduce warming, not amplify it. | 5_1 |
At present the worldwide burden of human ill-health from climate change is relatively small compared with effects of other stressors and is not well quantified. | 0_0 |
Mitch McConnell Wins Praise In Unlikely Corners Back Home | 0_0 |
And if the proposed actions offer the potential of sizeable wealth transfers to political allies? That is far more than mere icing on the cake. Whatever the weakness of the evidence on greenhouse gases (GHG) and climate effects, the real goal of carbon policy is a regional redistribution of wealth, a reality that expla... | 0_0 |
New EPA rules to devastate coal industry: | 0_0 |
For any objective reader and citizen of the world, this sort of bullying ought to inform everyone that science and its practice are now no longer free and willing. In fact, we are constantly being terrorized and threatened by the research funding gravy trains and large resources needed for science to progress and prosp... | 5_2 |
The best way to implement this idea is to provide some empirical tests. It would be nice if, say, Mayor Bloomberg's foundation kicked in $10 million as a prize for the next New York City election in 2013 to see what impact that had on turnout in New York. Or perhaps a small state or a city could try its own version of ... | 0_0 |
He said he would like to see scientists settle the question of what would happen to sea-level rises and the polar icecaps as a result of climate change. | 0_0 |
Jones (2005) examined the geological (and other) aspects of coastal erosion in the region. He concluded: | 0_0 |
Of course, 1980 might not be a representative place to start. What we really need to look at are the trends leading up to that year. So what do the GISS records tell us for the period leading up to 1980? | 0_0 |
The hypothesis of man-made global warming has existed since the 1880s. It was an obscure scientific hypothesis that burning fossil fuels would increase CO2in the air to enhance the greenhouse effect and thus cause global warming. Before the 1980s this hypothesis was usually regarded as a curiosity because the nineteent... | 5_1 |
Rachel Marsden, Human Events , 24 July 2011 | 0_0 |
Next, volcanoes. The IPCC says that the effect of volcanoes over the period was to cut down the amount of sunshine hitting the surface, reducing the total downwelling radiation. | 0_0 |
During high temperatures, heat-sensitive pika will seek refuge beneath the cooler talus. However Stewart argues such behavior reduces critical foraging time and thus possibly reduces winter survival. Perhaps. During extreme warm days, pika are known to become crepuscular, restricting their foraging to the twilight hour... | 0_0 |
To understand why temperatures have gone up in the last couple of decades, you need to understand why they went down in the first place. And to understand that, you also need to understand the great ocean cycles, the PDO and AMO. | 0_0 |
Statement from Pachauri: everything that we look at and take into acount in our assessments has to carry the credibility of peer-reveiwed publications, we dont settle for anything less than that. | 0_0 |
By Colin Fernandez, Daily Mail, UK, Aug 6, 2015 | 0_0 |
way he uses the quotation ignores the entire point of the article. For | 0_0 |
The UK researchers determined that "the majority of the largest and most widespread recorded floods in Great Britain have occurred during cool, moist periods," and that "comparison of the British Holocene palaeoflood series ... with climate reconstructions from tree-ring patterns of subfossil bog oaks in northwest Euro... | 1_7 |
Environmental protection has come a long way since the early 1970s. Pollution is much reduced, and care for the environment is widely shared and supported at least in Europe. Sensible policies and respectable pressure groups are the best way forward to solve the remaining environmental problems. Green radicals risk thr... | 0_0 |
Here's an interesting presentation by Dr. R. Steve Nerem, who is well quoted in the article: "Why has an acceleration of sea level rise not been observed during the altimeter era?" R. Steven Nerem (University of Colorado) Here's the link: http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/fileadmin/documents/OSTST/2011/oral/02 Thursday/Spl... | 0_0 |
GDP loss of $146 billion in 2030 | 0_0 |
NORTH DAKOTA 85% of electricity; 9th in coal production | 0_0 |
455 km (285 miles) NNW of Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, Japan | 0_0 |
There are no computer models that can be created to prove GW beyond any doubt. The earth, the atmosphere, the ocean, other planets, etc. are far too complicated for any scientist to create a computer model that takes in all aspects of our universe. | 5_1 |
In concluding the report of their research, the five Portuguese scientists say they "can state that although C. siliqua seedlings exhibit clear signs of oxidative stress under drought and high temperature, they retain a remarkable ability to quickly restore normal physiological activity upon rehydration, which let us b... | 3_2 |
The comparison in Figure 3 shows that observations particularly since 2005 are on the low end of the envelope that contains 90% of the climate model simulations. Extrapolation of the current flat trend would place the observations outside of the 90% envelope within a few years. While the observations remain within the ... | 5_1 |
For example, Babcock et al., found that the time to initial detection of direct effects on target species was 5.13 1.9 years . Note that this was the time to initial detection, not the even longer time required to reach a doubling of population. When compared to the much greater effects claimed for the GBR over two yea... | 0_0 |
One key problem is the sheer difficulty in building new power plants in America today. Politically powerful green lobby groups object to the building of any new plant that does not use some form of renewable energy, yet renewable energy cannot meet demand for power on its own. They also object to nuclear power stations... | 4_4 |
Pummeled by Obama policies that have helped send regular gasoline prices skyrocketing from $1.85 a gallon when he took office to $4.00 today many motorists will welcome any perceived bargain gas. E15 will likely reduce their obvious pump pain by several cents a gallon, thus persuading people to fill up their cars, truc... | 4_1 |
So whats the basic thing that were actually trying to conserve in regards to solar input and terrestrial output? The real physical quantity we want to conserve is energy , not flux. Energy is a fundamental unit of physics, while flux always depends upon the particular, real-time, local situation. So if we assume that, ... | 0_0 |
The accelerated warming interpretation by the IPCC shown in Figure 1 was based on the comparison of the global warming rate of the recent warming period with the global warming rates of longer periods that consist of this warming period and previous cooling-followed-by-warming periods. As the global warming rate for th... | 5_2 |
While EV promoters may argue the environmental merits of their favored vehicles, they cannot argue the industry's lousy economics. Those troublesome numbers are the reason why Shai Agassi, founder of an electric-car company called Better Place, is now out of a job. In July 2008, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times du... | 0_0 |
Curiously, Paul Voosens October 2011 article Provoked scientists try to explain lag in global warming includes quotes from a handful of well-known climate scientistsincluding Kevin Trenberth. Voosen had this to say about Trenberths opinion of ARGO: | 1_4 |
adverse reputational consequences for the individual scientists involved in this work and the University itself if disclosure had been effected. | 0_0 |
In 2006 less CO2 was added to the atmosphere than in 1983. In 1980 more CO2 was added to the atmosphere than in 2004. Why is that? Im sure that the worlds human population has increased its output of CO2 significantly since the 1980s. Where did it go? Why does the growth rate change from year to year? Biology? Algae in... | 5_1 |
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect on climate above 50 parts per million (ppm). | 2_3 |
The Washington Times: Internet sales taxes attack states' rights | 0_0 |
"Farmer John Tos proposed three alternate options for the California high-speed rail line at a community forum Thursday." | 0_0 |
Lest that seem overly skeptical, let me read the opening paragraph for a brand new book by the National Academy of Science, titled: Completing the Forecast: Characterizing and Communicating Uncertainty for Better Decisions Using Weather and Climate Forecasts: | 0_0 |
Time magazine suggested that the reason the winter is so cold is because the Arctic reflects sunlight. Except the Arctic doesnt get much sunlight during winter. Oops. | 0_0 |
"Reckless" and "mindless" are certainly some of the terms that occurred to me after watching Gore's slide show. Some glaciers are receding, but others (omitted from his slides) are advancing. No one knows what causes glaciers to advance and retreatthe physics are complex and much more is involved than simply air temper... | 0_0 |
As you can see, rather than increasing, the rate of sea level rise has dropped in recent years. And while it may well start to rise again, it is certainly not accelerating as the AGW hypothesis requires. | 1_6 |
L.A. Police Union Urges Members to "Stand in Solidarity' With SEIU and MoveOn.org: | 0_0 |
It's a go! The frequency of freeze overs has historically been around once every 20 years. Now, in the last decade, we have seen two ..." | 0_0 |
"The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development." | 0_0 |
In Hurricane Sandy's aftermath with millions freezing hungry in dark devastation Mayor Bloomberg sidetracked police and sanitation workers for the NYC Marathon, until public outrage forced him to reconsider. While federal emergency teams struggled to get water, food and gasoline to victims, companies, religious groups,... | 0_0 |
The situation has come to a head recently with the debate over the new regulations proposed by the Obama Administration's EPA to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from coal-powered plants. The new EPA action requires a regulatory catch-up that could well shut down a large fraction of the existing facilities, many of wh... | 0_0 |
Nearly half the people who say they believe in global warming base that on personal observations of the weather. Climate researchers say thats reaching the correct conclusion for reasons that arent quite right. | 0_0 |
Converting millimeters into inches, in 2005, the net contribution of Greenland ice mass changes to sea level rise is about 0.009 inches. This rate of ice mass loss translates into about 1 inch of sea level rise per century. Therefore, CEI's message is correct: When both sides of the story are presented, the case for al... | 1_6 |
Fayyad's internal reforms and endorsement of international nonviolence play well with many Israelis. Many cite him as the sort of Palestinian who will be necessary to the development of good bilateral relations. A number of Israeli officials have even compared him to Israel's own founding father, David Ben Gurion, who ... | 0_0 |
Let's look at the concerns Africans raise about biotech: | 0_0 |
Thus T is the global average surface temperature and T is a departure from that temperature in response to a radiative forcing f. It appears in Equation (1) as a thermodynamic proxy for the thermodynamic state of the earth system. As such, it must be tightly coupled to that thermodynamic state. Specifically, changes in... | 0_0 |
It has been 27,658 days since the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the US struck. CO2 was well below the safe level of 350 ppm at the time. | 1_7 |
Third, the aim of "Earth-system stability" is scientifically absurdundefined, unnatural, and unachievable. Natural systemsespecially coupled non-linear chaotic fluid-dynamic systems like Earth's climateare not, never have been, and never will be stable. Nobody knows what "Earth-system stability" would look like. Climat... | 2_1 |
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