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In Article # 1, SEPP Chairman Fred Singer discusses some of the issues regarding sea level rise and why it is difficult to be precise. In summary, unless solid observational evidence is offered otherwise, there is no reason to assume that 21 st century sea level rise will be greater than 20 th century sea level rise na... | 1_6 |
These facts infer that the acceleration is not regional in nature as would be expected if related to regional atmospheric or ocean warming. Geological surface maps of the Svalbard islands show a highly faulted and folded terrain created by geological forces associated with the nearby world-class rift system. | 0_0 |
It was warmer in the Middle ages* and medieval climate change in Greenland was much faster. | 2_1 |
iied has a blog post on adaptation in Bangladesh Reality check: climate change and the poor . Excerpts: | 0_0 |
Republicans the First to Introduce Mercury Reduction Legislation | 0_0 |
He had a deep calming voice that always carried a stabilizing message of rationality and realism. I'll miss that. We both wondered in our many email dialogues about the strange phenomenon where CTBS induces anti-science authoritarian bullies to pretend to represent science. He never complained about his lot in this, al... | 0_0 |
Pelejero et al . report "there is no notable trend toward lower ?? 11 B values" over the 300-year period investigated. Instead, they say that "the dominant feature of the coral ?? 11 B record is a clear interdecadal oscillation of pH, with ?? 11 B values ranging between 23 and 25 per mil (7.9 and 8.2 pH units)," which ... | 3_2 |
Germany and the Netherlands were gripped by near-record lows this past winter. People suffered frostbite and some froze to death in Poland and Russia. | 0_0 |
"The phenomenon of "atmospheric backradiation' is presently advanced as an explanation of thermal conditions on Earth, and as the basis of some statements about climate change. However, scientific evaluation in strict accord with the laws of physics and mathematics suggests that "atmospheric backradiation' is physical ... | 0_0 |
Hansen's claims challenged: See Hansen takedown & "The ten worst floods in history' | 0_0 |
I don't go to the movies. Normally, that would be sufficient reason to ignore the topic. However. I'm finding myself becoming quite irritated with the breathless media reports about the premature/accidental/clandestine release of every new book in the series. I mean, are they really this goddamned stupid? May 6, 2003 ; | 0_0 |
A court document issued Wednesday evening says Claude Walker, attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, has agreed to withdraw his subpoena demanding documents and emails from the oil company related to its discussion of the risks posed by climate change. | 0_0 |
Haley Barbour: The Mississippi governor earned high marks for his handling of Hurricane Katrina. The thickest accent either side of the Mississippi doesn't hurt in a party that likes its presidential nominees to come from the Sunbelt/Dixie. | 0_0 |
Plus then there??s the error problem. For example we saw this summer that Honolulu set new record highs, but they turned out to be in error . The kicker is that NOAA let the records stand anyway! The problem is that a number of climate stations are at airports. Watch this NWS employee say on record that these airport w... | 5_1 |
But is Haiyans destruction the result of man-made global warming? Most likely not. The U.N.s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes 2012 report on managing the risks of extreme events reported, Low confidence in any observed long-term (40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity, and noted that the... | 1_7 |
Why is this important? Under a UN timetable, nations have an informal deadline to submit national plans for limiting greenhouse gas emissions of March 31, 2015. This is the date set by UN bureaucrats to give them time for a thumbs up or down review before the big Paris summit. | 0_0 |
In the United States, the oil and gas industry does get approximately $4 billion per year in federal handouts. These payments should be eliminated. | 0_0 |
Trenberth pointed to a study published in March by the Journal of Geophysical Research that showed that for more than 70 percent of the land researchers had surveyed worldwide, the number of warm nights each year had increased and the number of cold nights had declined, between 1951 and 2003. The researchers, led by Ha... | 0_0 |
Ice Ages and Sea Level Watts Up With That? According to these calculations, the Earth is at the beginning of a 20,000 year plunge into the next ice age. Re: Now They Tell Us - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online I was at an investing conference where one of the panelists basically said: all this talk... | 1_2 |
Rudolf Kipp at the skepticalwebsite Science Skeptical here writes about one of the incredible (but very real)absurdities of Germanys EEG renewable energy feed-in act, which forces power companies to buy all green power that gets produced, whether needed or not, and even power that doesnt get produced. | 4_2 |
The effects of weak solar activity have been notable. The United Kingdom just suffered through a winter with temperatures 5 to 10 degrees C below normal, and German meteorologists report that 2013 has been the coldest year in 208 years. (1) | 1_3 |
Even Christina Figueres, DeBoers successor at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, could proclaim victory. She wants to keep the planets temperature from rising more than the internationally agreed maximum of two degrees Celsius. That goal has arguably been reached already. There has been no detectable increa... | 1_4 |
The hottest days measured in Sheffield were 1976 and 1990, when a record of 34.3 was set. in contrast, the highest temperature in the last decade was 31.4C. | 1_7 |
The emissions-reduction commitments by developed countries in the Cancun pledges cannot effectively curb climate change, nor does it reflect their historical ethical responsibility, which still accounts for greater than half of the total climate change impacts by 2005, despite the rapid growth in emissions from the dev... | 4_2 |
How can a young man without even a Masters degree become an IPCC lead author? Good question. . . Rather than recruiting real experts like Reiter the IPCC enlisted young, inexperienced, non-experts instead. | 0_0 |
But whereare carbon tax proponents, particularly conservatives, wrong about carbon taxes? The answer provides a much longer list. | 0_0 |
All that probability can do for you in cases like this is to clean up the estimates of how much better D might be than P in new groups of patients. As long as no cheating took place and the patients were balanced, the textbook methods will give you reasonable answers. But suppose the disease the drugs treat is not as s... | 0_0 |
This observation, of course, is a crisis for CAGW alarmism and therefore must be solved by a computer model. The authors simply create a hydrological model programmed to say that the reason why sea levels have decelerated is because it must be raining more over land due to ENSO and therefore the land ate the 31% decrea... | 1_6 |
For instance, the Media Access Project, citing that other big-media bogeyman Clear Channel, argued that loosening up media ownership rules would allow the radio company to "select music based on whether artists pay Clear Channel promotional fees or"here comes the kicker; italics added "whether Clear Channel agrees with... | 0_0 |
Texans might be elated at their good fortune; however, the IER study points out that individual consumers "still lose from the existence of the wind subsidies." It states: "It's not as if the IRS takes the population of Texas and divides $394 million among them, evenly. Rather, the wind subsidies are concentrated in th... | 0_0 |
In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations. | 1_2 |
Kosciusko-Morizet said the new agency was a key to the success of the "Rio+20" conference, designed to assess the two decades that have elapsed since the Rio Summit which nailed the environment to the political agenda. | 0_0 |
There have been computer programs available for about thirty years that provide ECG interpretations. Our hospital purchased one of them when they first became available. The thinking was that this would replace the interpretations that my partners and I had been supplying before. But the diagnoses provided by the compu... | 0_0 |
?If cities can develop in height rather than in width that would be much more preferable and environmentally not as harmful?, Fragkias said. | 0_0 |
Another useful website, featuring a 17-expert online debate discussing the credibility of the IPCC report, can be found at http://www.law.pace.edu/env/energy/ | 0_0 |
An upward shift in global surface temperatures would definitely help the models for a few years, but, because the global surface temperatures warmed in a step, the hiatus period that followed would again cause a continued divergence between the models and the real world. See Figure 3 for a model-data comparison startin... | 5_1 |
the ISSI workshop. All this leaves the IPCC almost entirely dependent on CO2 | 0_0 |
?How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement: ?Global warming is affecting weather in the United States?? | 0_0 |
The IPCC concedes for the first time that a 15 year-long period of no significant warming occurred since 1998 despite a 7% rise in carbon dioxide (CO2). It also acknowledges that on a longer (more climatic) time scale the rate of global warming has decelerated since 1951, despite an accompanying 80 ppm or 26% increase ... | 1_4 |
Remove impediments to liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Currently, companies must obtain approval from both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy (DOE) before exporting natural gas. A facility is automatically authorized if the recipient country has a free trade agreement (FTA) with t... | 0_0 |
As I like to say, taking measurements of the climate system is much easier than figuring out what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect. Generally speaking, it?s not the warming that is in dispute?it?s the cause of the warming. | 0_0 |
Pachauri's flights stretch to the moon (and back) | 0_0 |
The CO2 data come from the Physics Institute of the University of Bern, from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, and from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the USA. | 0_0 |
As a result, conventional oil is not from the conventional method of dipping it up in a bucket from a seep, but by the decidedly unconventional and at that time unheard of method of drilling a hole in the earth to get it to come out ... | 0_0 |
In a nutshell, why would any alleged ?environmentalist? or ?progressive? want to allow something as clean as a U.S. company to move to an unregulated, unchecked, ?dirty? place overseas? | 0_0 |
The results of this study, plus those of the prior studies that provide input for it, suggest that continued increases in the air's CO 2 content and temperature imply nothing but good for the world's semiarid grassland ecosystems. References | 3_3 |
Perhaps most important is solar activity as measured (inversely) by the cosmic ray flux (which many think is mechanism by which solar activity drives climate). Here cycle 22 is THE most intense in the 60 year record, stronger even than cycle 19, the sunspot number king. From the Astronomical Society of Australia : | 2_1 |
From July 2011 to the present, the American Lung Association has been running an ad in several media markets that features a red carriage at various Washington, D.C. monuments, from which a baby is heard suffering respiratory distress. The voiceover of the ad states, | 0_0 |
Gray also reminds Chris Country Seas defection from the IPCC in January 2005. It was after Trenberth suddenly denied his conclusions that hurricanes are not depended p seekers CO2 content, and in a press conference tillknnagivit opposite. It upprrande in this context that Landsea was responsible huvudfrfattare to this ... | 0_0 |
But then, just like the global cooling of the ??70s, the warming stopped and was replaced by (wait for it!) more cooling. ???Despite the original forecasts, major climate research centers now accept that there has been a ???pause?? in global warming since 1997,?? the UK??s Daily Telegraph reported just last September. | 1_4 |
No less serious is the failure of politicians to tell us the truth about the promises that they have made that cannot be honored. Careful studies put the cost of government promises for pensions and future healthcare benefits at more than $100 trillion. There is no way that anything close to that amount will be availab... | 0_0 |
This snowy winter will extend over three months and spread into the flatlands. And it is going to be bitter cold. For Germany the fourth colder-than-normal winter in a row lies ahead. The fourth below normal winter in a row would be a small sensation. | 1_3 |
Since Hansens article in September, were starting to hear the phrase warmest in 12000 years- google warmest 12000 years and youll see recent coverage. This immediately raises the question of the Holocene Optimum a period from about 8000 to 5200 BP in which there is undisputed evidence of significant NH warmth. The Team... | 0_0 |
Click this link for survey results (refresh the results page to update numbers). | 0_0 |
It certainly raises the cost of doing business when your arch-enemies or a very vocal segment knows what you are up to in every little detail, said Marc Morano, who runs the contrarian website Climate Depot and spoke at the conference. | 0_0 |
How much of the observed increase in sea levels is natural versus anthropogenic is something that no one knows, notwithstanding Ms. Macfarlane's confident assertions of a "scientific consensus." (The evidence is clear that the anthropogenic temperature effect is not zero.) An example: The University of Colorado data sh... | 0_0 |
The authors of an intriguing research report, which was recently published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , write that "for cold-water corals, which are already living at low levels of carbonate saturation, the shoaling of the saturation horizon as carbonate saturation states decrease has the potential to cause dra... | 3_2 |
They are trying to put out a fire in a smouldering pile of wood chippings at R Plevin and Sons in Whams Road, which caught fire at 8.10am on Monday morning. | 0_0 |
The result is a green industry that??s allowed to do not-so-green things. It kills protected species with impunity and conceals the environmental consequences of sprawling wind farms.?? | 4_1 |
It's a phone-in item for programme guest Prof. Brian Cox. | 0_0 |
Kroeker et al . report that "although high CO 2 significantly reduced mussel growth at 14??C, this effect gradually lessened with successive warming to 20??C, illustrating how moderate warming can mediate the effects of OA through temperature's effects on both physiology and seawater geochemistry." In addition, they fo... | 3_2 |
The six scientists say that the coldest period of the LIA occurred "between 1660 and 1760, an interval that broadly corresponds with the Maunder Minimum in solar activity," which they say "is also consistent with the timing of the coldest northern hemisphere temperatures during the last millennium," citing Jones and Ma... | 2_1 |
Both the sunspot index and northern Pacific temperatures (which are known to drive global temperature trends) are now predicting a 25- to 30-year cooling. Pacific Rim tree rings say there have been 10 of these 50- to 60-year cycles since 1623, and recent history indicates the Pacific Decadal Oscillation accurately mirr... | 2_1 |
The Warmist position is fixed because it was achieved by corruption of the science and the scientific method. Science advances through proposing a hypothesis. Scientists then function as skeptics and challenge the assumptions on which they are based. The hypothesis became fact through the design of the Intergovernmenta... | 5_2 |
Carbon emission cutbacks by China and other developing countries, the document says, will be dependent on the adequate finance and technology support provided by developed country parties to any new climate accord. | 0_0 |
The family has found that the climate and heavy clay soils suit rice. | 0_0 |
CEI Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp is a co-director of Empower America. | 0_0 |
Where no one place stands out, but there is just what looks like a lot of smaller to medium stuff all over the place. | 0_0 |
2). Any calibration of proxy data is impossible if the target is decadal (and longer) temperature variations. The first reason consists of the general nonstationarity climate, in particular during the period used for a calibration. This reason is discussed in the Band C paper. The second reason consists of more or less... | 5_1 |
The alarming rise in global temperatures from about 1980 to 2000 gave much concern around possible serious future climate changes, global warming, that could result from the increasing levels of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. However, as shown in the strong rise in global tempera... | 1_4 |
Do volcanic eruptions coincide with low sunspot activity? | 0_0 |
In November, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO dropped to its lowest level since 1961 at -2.33. The 1961 level was -2.69. PDO is an after effect of the ENSO signal and reflects a spatial pattern of the amount of cooler water in the north Pacific. Negative levels are accompanied by muchcooler weather in the Norther... | 1_2 |
Climate alarmists continue to claim that global warming will lead to more extreme (both high- and low-volume) river flows, characteristic of more extreme drought and flood conditions. However, river flow records in southern South America, according to the authors, "extend for only a few decades, hampering the detection... | 5_1 |
Our attempts at domestic emissions savings will have only minimal direct climate impact, but instead they will serve as an example for the developing world of what, or what not, to do. So if Kerry and Lieberman were interested in directly tackling the climate change issue, they would be working with China?s National Pe... | 4_2 |
Basically, Dolinar et al. acknowledge that a large source of the uncertainties in outgoing longwave and shortwave radiation in GCMs is clouds. | 0_0 |
Earlier this year, a group of 13 GOP lawmakers released a report, which called for an ESA overhaul, though CBS News called the changes "unlikely given the pervasive partisan divide in Washington, DC." CBS continues: "The political hurdles to overhaul are considerable. The ESA enjoys fervent support among many environme... | 0_0 |
For all of those reasons ? the statutory text, the absurdity principle, the statutory context as demonstrated by related statutory provisions, the overarching objectives of the statute, the major unintended consequences of a broader interpretation ? the Prevention of Significant Deterioration statute as a whole overwhe... | 0_0 |
Bringing Democracy Back to the WorkplaceVincent Vernuccio and Rep. Phil Gingrey's op-ed in The Washington Times | 0_0 |
The ambitious rules hope to remake the nations electricity system by closing hundreds of heavily polluting coal plants while rapidly expanding the use of natural gas plants, wind and solar power. Officials at electric utilities say that as they make that transition taking the nations largest but dirtiest source of elec... | 4_4 |
The over all 15 levels - with different registration periods - average Relative sea-rise (RSLR) for the German Bight is from 1843 to 2008 about 32 cm, the secular increase in the 20th century around 20 cm. The GIA-corrected values (see also Chapter 3) obtained for the above mentioned periods ASLR one of about 22 or 13 ... | 1_6 |
First up, today's decision that if cops have some reason to think valuable evidence is being destroyed, they can bust down your door without a warrant. Toilet flush? Must be getting rid of drugs. Can be seen in the window at the computer? Must be deleting child porn. Silence? Must be destroying evidence really quietly. | 0_0 |
The answer to many if not most of the problems outlined in the U.N. papers is, as the opening session paper puts it: "multilateralism is instrumental to the success of our response to global challenges." | 0_0 |
Water vapor, thanks to the sheer quantity of it in the atmosphere, is the most important of the greenhouse gases, accounting for 65-85% of the natural greenhouse effect without which the Earth would be an ice planet. Since 71% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, evaporation, convection, advection, subsidence, a... | 0_0 |
In my column last week at The Breakthrough Institute on Robert Gordon's analysis of US per capita economic growth, I identified what I believe to be an error in his calculation of post-1950 growth rates. Such an error matters because Gordon's recent discussion paper has been called the summers most talked about working... | 0_0 |
The findings are based on in-depth statistical analyses of observed data from 1850 up to the present time, Professor Lu's cosmic-ray-driven electron-reaction (CRE) theory of ozone depletion and his previous research into Antarctic ozone depletion and global surface temperatures. | 2_1 |
To contradict the myth about La Nia, the sea surface temperatures for the Rest-of-the-World do NOT cool proportionately during the two La Nia events that followed the two very strong El Nio events of 1986/87/88 and 1997/98. They warmed in response to those two El Nio events, but they failed to cool in response the La N... | 0_0 |
Junk Science: Al Gore's documentary on climate disaster has been ruled a work of fiction by a British judge. In legal terms, his global warming hysteria has been assuming facts not in evidence.The judge ruled that the film could be shown to British students, but only on the condition it be accompanied by new guidance n... | 5_2 |
7. We should be getting as much oil as we can from as close to home as we can. But we can no longer rely on Mexico. Pemex, the country's national oil company, is not investing enough money in new drilling projects even though its most important field, Cantarell, is declining rapidly. Nor can Pemex count on getting more... | 0_0 |
The CBO report roughly coincided with the announcement by Toyota Motor Co., the world's biggest automaker, that it would effectively quit making all-electric cars and instead focus on the hybrid-electric market. As Toyota vice chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada bluntly explained: "The current capabilities of electric vehicles... | 0_0 |
If you hesitate too much, he and his IPCC comrades may come to your house, flatten it, and burn it with your kids. | 0_0 |
Somehow we have to leave the thinking OK, climate change is extremely | 0_0 |
Last year about this time, the media was abuzz about a Super El Nino that would hit over the past winter (2014-2015). Dramatic predictions were made for drought in the Pacific Northwest and heavy rains over southern California. | 0_0 |
In a report with wide-reaching political implications, U.S. EPAs inspector general has found that the scientific assessment backing U.S. EPAs finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous did not go through sufficient peer review for a document of its importance. . . | 5_1 |
"We suggest that the qualitative projections for dramatic reductions in population numbers and range are overly pessimistic given the response of polar bears, climate, and sea ice to the present," scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks wrote in a study published in Janu... | 0_0 |
NIPCC: "Flood frequency and severity in many areas of the world were higher historically during the Little Ice Age and other cool eras than during the twentieth century. Climate change ranks well below other contributors, such as dikes and levee construction, to increased flooding." | 1_7 |
A credit scheme would be a zero-sum game where one company's gain is another's loss. Every credit awarded in the voluntary early action period is one that won't be available during the mandatory period. Companies that don't or can't "volunteer" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions now will be penalized later under the ma... | 0_0 |
2. Regression analyses do not support the idea that regional heat waves are increasing with time. | 0_0 |
the global mean temperature dropped to 2.725 K by now (outside the urban heat islands such as stars, plus minus the fractions of the degree from the image above), confirming worries about global cooling ;-) | 1_2 |
Back in the early '70s, chemists at the University of California began studying CFCs in the atmosphere. They theorized that eventually, CFCs could migrate to the upper atmosphere. After fifty to a hundred years, they could be broken down by UV radiation, releasing a reactive chlorine atom which could catalyze the degra... | 0_0 |
How exactly wouldcap-and-traders pull it off?Samuelsohn summarizes thestrategy as explained byan unnamed spokesman for a major advocacy group: | 0_0 |
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