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In April, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety sent written notices to 11 Internet service providers ordering them to block Minnesotans' access to 200 gambling websites. State officials are claiming that ISPs and network providers are subject to "common carrier" regulation, citing a 1961 federal law that restricts... | 0_0 |
A paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation and written by Professor Michael Kelly (University of Cambridge) shows that most of the ambitions to decarbonise the UK and global economy have not been put through an engineering reality test. | 0_0 |
Here is a series of essays on Common Core by Michelle Malkin, who has taken up the cause to defeat it. It is well funded and supported, including Gates money. Melinda Gates is the usual limosine liberal with a large opinion of her superiority. | 0_0 |
Mannes argument appears to rest entirely on his mistaken belief that science is What The Gods Declare it To Be. For Manne, the Gods are official climate scientists. Apparently, only those who are anointed by Government funding have access to The Truth and their declarations must be obeyed. Manne is so completely under ... | 0_0 |
Let me just mention one graph ??? the only "apparently non-trivial" argument against Pielke's assertions that I have seen anywhere in the hurricane of vitriol directed against his self-evident assertions. You see that the "number of natural catastrophes" has more than doubled over the last 30 years. But one must be car... | 1_7 |
That makes the idea that "these tariffs are going to generate rates of return that will beat high-street savings accounts by a mile", as suggested by Jeremy Leggett, the chief executive of solar energy supplier Solarcentury, in The Times, laughable. You can't possibly compare the two. With a high-street savings account... | 0_0 |
New findings indicate the rate of sea level rise over the past two decades in on the order of 1.7 0.8 mm/year, which is far less than that projected by climate alarmists Read More | 1_6 |
political masters; the disregard for the principle of civilian control of the | 0_0 |
Rapid melting of polar ice sheets may be due to short-lived natural events rather than climate change, scientists said. New research suggests more time is needed to predict the likely impact of global warming and ice loss on sea levels. ???John von Radowitz, AFP, 15 July 2013 | 2_1 |
Easterbrook argued the climate has actually been cooling in recent years, and that carbon dioxide does not contribute to global warming. He said his climate numbers were different from those used by other scientists because, he argues, federal agencies NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tamper... | 5_2 |
G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change | 0_0 |
EPA gets away with this by having activist groups posing as scientific bodies rubberstamp its pseudo-science. Since 2000, it has paid the American Lung Association more than $25 million, given its "independent" Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee members over $181 million, and let CASAC deny membership to industry ... | 0_0 |
But if the climate models are correct, Dr. McKitrick calculates, within a decade his formula would cause the tax to at least double and possibly sextuple with further increases on the way if the atmosphere kept heating. The prospect would give immediate pause to any investors trying to decide today what kind of cars, p... | 4_1 |
For the past six years, the Heartland Institute has sponsored International Climate Change Conferences, the last in Washington, D.C., June 30-July 1. Havent heard about them? Maybe thats because the mainstream media has gone out of its way to ignore them. The conferences, however, have contributed to the growing body o... | 5_2 |
This warming hiatus happened despite the loud and hysterical shrieking by the climate scientists on the public dole that current CO2 emissions would cause rapid, unequivocal, irrefutable accelerated warming. | 1_4 |
Henrik Svensmark (born 1958) is a physicist and professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Copenhagen, says Wikipedia.He is known for his theory on the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation . | 0_0 |
Although cap-and-trade backers claim it will cut greenhouse gas emissions, it may perversely increase them and also result in dirtier air, as well as harming forests and water supplies . It would enrich politically-connected corporations, and result in massive destruction of the worlds forests. By expanding ethanol sub... | 4_1 |
The truth is entirely different. First, I am never bored when I am present. What I actually said in my talk and Abraham knows this, because he spent eight months trying to take it apart was that "I'm boring that way I check things". And I had checked the climate-extremists' claims of catastrophe by consulting a paper b... | 0_0 |
The scheme is intended to create a financial incentive to cut energy use, and those organisations that record the biggest reductions will get bonuses, funded by penalties imposed on those with the worst record. | 0_0 |
The debate over Common Core has had the opposite effect Obama hoped for. The public learned the national government doesn't belong in the school curriculum business, and that activist groups on the left use schools to indoctrinate rather than educate their children. Parents are fleeing public schools for private school... | 0_0 |
Next, consider CO2 levels. With huge, green subsidies showing up on our electricity bills, you would be excused for believing that we have managed to cut CO2 substantially. You would be wrong. Global CO2 has risen relentlessly since 1950. In 1997 the Kyoto protocol put legally binding limits on rich-country emissions. ... | 4_2 |
Starting in 1979, the temperature of the lower atmosphere (from the surface up to roughly 8 km) has been measured by satellites (See Figure 2). Instruments (Microwave Sounding Units ) mounted on satellites take daily temperature readings by measuring the microwave radiation emitted by atmospheric oxygen molecules. The ... | 0_0 |
The report went on, "Sir David says that there is "plenty of evidence' to back up his warning. Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the main "green-house gas' causing climate change were already 50 per cent higher than at any time in the last 420,000 years. The last time they were at this level 379 parts per mill... | 0_0 |
Delingpole seems above such intimidation. He is the role model for everyone to follow: learn the stuff as if it is your right, or stop talking about it! And that goes double for the postmodern fake-news environment reporters out there who have never heard of the Navier Stokes equations! | 0_0 |
Last week the CEOs of Europes ten largest utilities finally cried uncle and called for a halt to wind and solar subsidies. Short of that, they want subsidies of their own. They want to be paid, in essence, not to produce power. Thanks to mandates to use electricity from wind and solar Europes energy costs increased 17%... | 4_1 |
That leaves 21 models, including BCC-CSM1-1, BCC-CSM1-1-M, CCSM4 (6 runs), CSIRO-MK3-6-0 (10 runs), FIO-ESM (3 runs), GFDL-CM3, GFDL-ESM2G, GISS-E2-H p1, GISS-E2-H p2, GISS-E2-H p3, GISS-E2-R p1, GISS-E2-R p2, GISS-E2-R p3, HadGEM2-AO, HadGEM2-ES (3 runs), MIROC5 (3 runs), MIROC-ESM, MIROC-ESM-CHEM, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-... | 0_0 |
As long as metals prices are this low, the miners will have shut in capacity. That means fewer orders for the giant trucks, cranes, and the tires that those use. Those stocks will likely be down for a while too. | 0_0 |
Comment: The EPAs Carbon PollutionRule proposes NSPS for CO2 from fossil fuelelectric generating units. The standard is 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh. The EPA estimates that most NGCC power plants already meet that standard, whereas the most efficient commercial coal power plants emit 1,800 lbs CO2/MWh (77 FR22417). | 0_0 |
Based on the flood of AGW rubbish coming out of Britain, one wonders if the UK's elites and ruling class have taken a blood oath to assure their country is viewed as the island of messianic idiots and imbeciles ; or, are they just attempting to enrich themselves by impoverishing their subjects? | 0_0 |
Maple acquired Ben Lomond mine, near Charters Towers, from French multinational Cogema earlier this year for a bargain $1 million, before Canberras decision last month to take over the Northern Territorys administration of uranium mining. | 0_0 |
CEI State of the Union Live Blog 2013 | 0_0 |
View a webcast with David Randall, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University. | 0_0 |
Recently we have all learned of the emails that emerged from the University of East Anglia, a scandal that has come to be known as Climategate. To me, it seems abundantly clear that the proponents of global warming have been cooking the science to produce the results they wanted. They've supressed data, colluded, stifl... | 5_2 |
AFL-CIO Breaks With Administration on Climate Change Treaty | 0_0 |
Sounds a bit like their tree-ring research. | 0_0 |
I believe that the climate is always changing and what we are currently observing is just natural fluctuation. Neutral | 2_1 |
The Goreacle will also be thrilled to learn that his global warming climate crisis ticks a lot of the requirements to be classified as a cult . | 5_2 |
Canadian enviro groups snub good-news climate study | 0_0 |
The impact of this slight emissions difference on the resulting future global temperature savings is not manifest until the third digit past the decimal point?in other words, thousandths of degrees C. Climatologically, in other words, the bills are identical. | 4_2 |
A Frozen Britain Turns The Heat Up On The Met Office | 0_0 |
Thus, if the 'simple basic physics' of radiative forcing from CO2 are correct, this forcing is overwhelmed by net-negative feedbacks, contraryto the net positive feedback predictions of climate models . Alternatively, the radiative forcing from CO2 may be greatly exaggerated. Either way, observations show that the net ... | 3_1 |
Fred L. Smith, Jr., Competitive Enterprise Institute | 0_0 |
In 2002, Esper et al. published in Science magazine a temperature record for the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1000 years that looked quite unlike the hockey stick. Both the Medieval Climate Optimum and the Little Ice Age were evident. In the March 23 edition of Eos, Esper and other colleagues examine why this shou... | 5_1 |
Since the mid-1980s, what I saw were articles like the one Anthony posted from 1986 were becoming more common. What I observed as professional reporter was that the ozone-layer press releases from NOAA and NCAR and other climate centers were beginning to use the same talking points in their different releases to news d... | 0_0 |
Because of the fact that "the relative stimulation of total plant biomass in response to elevated CO 2 levels was higher in salt-stressed plants than in non-stressed ones," Perez-Lopez et al . state that "barley plants subjected to elevated CO 2 levels will likely overcome mild saline conditions." And with the need to ... | 3_3 |
What can we conclude from all this? Obviously the models do not even come close to properly reproducing the reconstructed temperatures of the past. This brings us to a fork in the road, with each path leading to a completely different destination: 1) geologists would likely trust their temperatures and have doubts conc... | 5_1 |
Use less technology (cars, intensive agriculture). | 0_0 |
Dr Akasofu, experienced analyst with the International Arctic Research Center, points out that the temperature have been rising steadily at a trend rate of 0.5C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; it last froze over in 1804). On top of the ... | 2_1 |
Clouds around the world may be falling in response to rising global temperatures and having a cooling effect on global warming, according to analysis of satellite data by Auckland University scientists. | 3_1 |
According to Ed Miliband, (former Minister for Energy and Climate Change), who announced this "Feed-in Tariff' (FIT) system last week, anyone fitting a typical 2.5kW solar panel system to their existing home should earn 900 in the first year, plus a 140-a-year saving on their bills. | 0_0 |
Expedite the sunsetting of targeted tax credits for all energy sources and technologies. Special tax treatment serves the same purpose as a subsidy that favors one industry. Congress should not create any new tax credits for energy production, energy infrastructure, transportation production and consumption, or energy-... | 0_0 |
The talk included a lot of classic material about QCD, the spectrum of hadrons, pictures of jets from the LEP, pictures of workers from the LHC - our civilization's answer to the age of pyramids (which is moreover driven by curiosity instead of autocratic rule and vanity), bubbling animations involving the averave topo... | 0_0 |
In order to reach unanimous consent to bring last year's bill to the floor for a vote, the Republican leadership also promised Senators Joe Lieberman (D.-Conn.) and John McCain (R.-Az.) to allow an up-or-down vote on their legislation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Reports suggest that Lieberman and McCain inten... | 0_0 |
agreeing to write a research paper about the SLAPP phenomenon (strategic lawsuits against public participation) | 0_0 |
Uh? You mean, not only has the new IPCC report found less warming, but it finds less warming since pre-industrial times (ie around 1800) to 2100 than the last report said would happen from 1990 to 2100. | 0_0 |
A few weeks ago, I wrote that opposition to the Keystone was never about the Ogallala Aquifer. Polluting the water was a simply aconvenienttalking point that might play better with the American public than the true goal, which is to shut down the development of new sources of North American oil. I got a lot of comments... | 0_0 |
I had hoped, not very confidently, that the various Climategate inquiries would be severe. This would have been a first step towards restoring confidence in the scientific consensus. But no, the reports make things worse. At best they are mealy-mouthed apologies; at worst they are patently incompetent and even wilfully... | 5_2 |
The problems of assessing the costs and benefits of action under these circumstances are sometimes referred to as deep uncertainty whereby scientists do not know or cannot agree on key scientific models and the value of alternative outcomes. Analysts rely upon historical weather and climate data and climate models, but... | 5_1 |
Visit Heartland's #OurAmerica page to find other memes to share and | 0_0 |
Antarctic sea ice coverage at an all-time record high | 1_1 |
Jay Lehr, Ph.D. (jlehr@heartland.org) is science director for The Heartland Institute. | 0_0 |
Arctic sea ice extent is at a 10 year high, and very close to the 1981-2010 average. | 1_1 |
The "Definitions" section of the Clean Air Act says: | 0_0 |
First, California's mild climate aids dramatically in reducing consumption for heating and cooling of homes and businesses. | 0_0 |
People's Climate March Wants to Change the System, Not the Weather | 0_0 |
Obama Officials Spin Paris Treaty as Done Deal | 0_0 |
The scores are estimated from strongly autocorrelated (trended) time series in the instrumental period, along with a special partitioning into calibration and validation samples. This setting is characterized by a rather limited number of degrees of freedom. It is easy to see that calibrating a model in one end of a tr... | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, a group of Democratic lawmakers late Friday urged colleagues in both the House and Senate to support the inclusion of a one-year extension of the stimulus deadline in any tax-package agreement that makes it through this lame-duck session. Still, it was uncertain whether the extension for renewable energy pro... | 0_0 |
With unemployment at its highest levels in more than 25 years, the Obama Administration is trying to show that it is focused on jobs. Last week's White House "Jobs Summit" brought together business, labor, academic and environmental leaders to talk about how the government can foster job creation. Unfortunately, the su... | 0_0 |
5. Republic of Congo - Agreement for Cooperation in the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program | 0_0 |
Based on radiocarbon ages of marine shells and reworked terrestrial organic material incorporated into historical moraines, environmental conditions registered in lacustrine sediments, and submerged coastal features, it has been suggested that the Greenland Ice Sheet receded tens of kilometers within its present day ma... | 2_1 |
Is Australian ideas television actually a form of forced trolling? Damon Young .... airstrip melting away. Australias $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting away. | 0_0 |
The results of the analysis, summarized in Table VII-37, demonstrate that relative to the reference case, by 2100 global mean temperature is estimated to be reduced by 0.0026 to 0.0065 C, and sea-level rise is projected to be reduced by approximately 0.023 to 0.057 cm. | 0_0 |
Some scientists predict that the Sun is heading for a long slump in solar activity known as a Grand Solar Minimum. If this happens, it is possible that Britain could return to conditions similar to those 350 years ago when sunspots vanished during the Little Ice Age, when ice fairs were often held on the frozen Thames ... | 1_2 |
In the Yaris test, the institute said the mini car sustained damage to the door and front passenger area. The driver dummy showed signs of head injuries, a deep gash on the right knee and extensive forces to the neck and right leg. | 0_0 |
Koutsoyiannis, D., Efstratiadis, A., Mamassis, N. & Christofides, A. (2008) On the credibility of climate predictions. Hydrol. Sci. J. 53(4), 671684. changes | 0_0 |
The Clinton White House will brook no dissent in its efforts to get the Kyoto climate treaty ratified. Just ask Frederick Seitz. | 0_0 |
FURTHER READING: Zycher also writes "The Climate Change Climate Keeps Changing, but the Carbon Tax Is Eternal," "The Unbearable Lightness of the Climate Change Industrial Complex," and "The "Science' of Global Warming." Michael M. Rosen reveals "Greens' Irrational Fear Flies Again." Steven F. Hayward investigates ""Env... | 0_0 |
Arctic cold blast, freezing rain/snow expected for New Years Day | 1_3 |
Newsbusters discuss comments by former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman who says that the climate skeptics must be religious, so the climate wars represent a conflict between the "nice atheist alarmists" and "evil religious skeptics". | 5_2 |
Some research has shown that the effects of changes in the climate may be weak or even non-existent. This makes it easy to conclude that climate change will ultimately have less impact than previous warnings have predicted. But it could also be explained as direct and indirect effects cancelling each other out, as scie... | 0_0 |
Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Soil Microbial Organisms | 0_0 |
Let us ed from a case where the atmosphere contains 1 unit concentration of carbon dioxide, which in str jmvikt with ythavet, and in turn, the deep sea, both of which contains 10 units. We assume also that ythavet and deep sea ri jmvikt. | 0_0 |
Next, the increase in globally-averaged temperature for 2012 of about1 o F is quite small by comparison with the mid-20th century baseline. I was an official weather observer early in my atmospheric-science career (starting more than 35 years ago). I know from personal experience that temperature measurements, which we... | 5_1 |
Figure 21: Comparison of temperature with human emissions of carbon dioxide. Human emissions were negligible before 1850, so how could they have caused the global warming from 1700 to 1850? Source: Temperature as per Figure 17, emissions see text. ... | 2_1 |
Synopsis: It was significantly warmer in the past without human CO2 emissions. Source here . "The IPCC claims to find evidence in temperature records that the warming of the twentieth century was unprecedented and more rapid than during any previous period in the past 1,300 years...temperature record shows temperatures... | 2_1 |
During his 2013 inaugural address, President Obama told Americans that the United States "will respond to the threat of climate change" and will take the lead for other countries to follow suit. Even assuming the accuracy of climate change models, unilateral action by the U.S. is a costly symbolic gesture that would do... | 0_0 |
Cells c and d present some interesting information about many of the models. The model mean for the outgoing shortwave radiation (Cell c) increases during the hindcast, which indicates, from 1861 to the turn of the century, clouds and volcanic aerosols allowed less sunlight to pass through the TOA to the Earths surface... | 0_0 |
The 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall was widely remembered this past November, the 20th anniversary of one of the most momentous events in the history of human liberation. But as this year draws to a close, bear in mind that 2009 is the 20th anniversary of something even grander in the saga of Communism's collapse: the cul... | 0_0 |
Many Jacksonians, for example, are not evangelicals and not even Christian at all. While some are strongly anti-abortion, others believe that individual freedom makes abortion nobody's business but their own. Some stand strongly behind the drug war; many indulge in recreational drugs and some Jacksonians grow or manufa... | 0_0 |
Fear of a serious factual discussion: Climate alarmists pressure BBC to censorship of the public climate debate | 5_2 |
The science is in that we are experiencing climate change and we need to act to deal with it, Dr Emerson told The Australian. | 0_0 |
Green hypocrisy: Fighting climate change by slaughtering eagles, financed by taxpayers | 0_0 |
Sen. Kennedy, in an admirable statesman-like gesture, has underscored why that trend ought to be reversedand why his plan, to allow appointments only until an expedited election can occur, with the appointees declaring themselves non-candidates for the election should be universally applied. The way Massachusetts made ... | 0_0 |
Our lives have become safer, so we invent imaginary fears to replace those that we have conquered. How scary is that? | 0_0 |
1. An international team of 33 researchers found that, with warming, when species were rare in a local area, they had a higher survival rate than when they were common, resulting in enrichment for rare species and increasing diversity with age and size class in these complex ecosystems. | 3_2 |
The fact that natural gas is only given cursory mention, rather than being an integral part of Obama's National Climate Action Plan, exposes his true motiveswhich, I believe, are not really about carbon emission reductions, but rather furthering America's declining international status. Why else would he emphasize what... | 0_0 |
Arctic ice melt has dropped to almost zero. Comparing current ice vs. mid-September 2012, there is more than 100% more ice than at last years minimum. A rapid freeze between now and mid-September could make this number much larger. | 1_1 |
"Jennifer Haberkorn reports that President Obama's move to allow states flexibility in spending health care funds is the "most significant change" since the law was enacted, and a potential gesture toward critics." | 0_0 |
There is no question that this is nuclear energy's worst moment. Will we have the maturity to learn from this catastrophe and move forward, as we did after Apollo 1 and the two space shuttle disasters and the early failures of commercial jet aircraft design like the British Comet of the 1950s? Over the last decade opin... | 0_0 |
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