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Connolley is a software engineer and sometime-climatologist who used to work for the British Antarctic Survey. He also once ran for office representing England's Green Party. | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming and Energy Policy Myron Ebell on how Americans feel about the price of gas. | 0_0 |
For all their caterwauling about fossil fuels, environmental groups have resisted the expansion of the use of nuclear power that emits no so-called ?greenhouse gas? emissions. The Friends of the Earth recently declared that ?The quickest way to end our costly fossil fuel dependency is through energy efficiency and rene... | 0_0 |
stuff going on is natural variability. In addition to the 4 hurricanes hitting | 0_0 |
And that is because they couldn't use Dieldrin, an insecticide banned by the UN Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Dieldrin was sprayed across the path of the approaching hoppers and its persistence meant that a single spray of a thin barrier strip was enough to wipe out vast swathes of hoppe... | 0_0 |
Such measures include subjecting tens of thousands of previously unregulated buildings and facilities to Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting requirements, and establishing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for greenhouse gases that even outright de-industrialization wo... | 0_0 |
Auto Cafe Standards: Unsafe and Unwise at Any Level | 0_0 |
Countering his views, founding member of the Tyndall Centre professor Andrew Watkinson told delegates that 10 years was too short a period to identify weather trends and this explained the stabilisation in temperature. | 0_0 |
The waves of the tsunami had hardly receded before environmental alarmists linked the tragedy to . . . global warming ! One newspaper, the Independent , quoted a British environmental activist saying that "here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate-change predictions." On New Year... | 5_2 |
Mann accepts that some of the measurements he used do not directly represent temperature change. His argument is that, for instance, coral records showing rainfall records in the Pacific are proxies for El Nino cycles and so for changes in ocean temperature. Jacoby is not convinced?? | 5_1 |
Jack Spencer, "Capability, Not Politics, Should Drive DOD Energy Research," Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 3299, June 22, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/06/capability-not-politics-should-drive-dod-energy-research. | 0_0 |
(5) When dissenting opinions are excluded from the relevant peer-reviewed literature not because of weak evidence or bad arguments but as part of a strategy to marginalize dissent. | 0_0 |
The AP article points out Obama had little to do with the fracking boom, except to be slow to regulate fracking. | 0_0 |
He challenged DeFazio, who initially figured he would have a cakewalk against this political neophyte. But Robinson raised $1.3 million from over 5,000 individual donors (against DeFazio's $1.5 million from special interests, MoveOn.org and other contributors), gave numerous speeches and ran a highly effective campaign... | 0_0 |
Maumbury Rings in Dorset (later reused as a Roman amphitheatre and then a Civil War fort). | 0_0 |
High/Low: Is There Now Reasonable Agreement on the Costs and Benefits of Waxman-Markey? | 0_0 |
From Andrew Bolt at Australia??s Herald Sun below, some sharp evidence in a new paper that the ???coral bleaching?? scare of the Great Barrier Reef is unfounded and mostly made up. | 3_2 |
Tragedies happen, and my daughter and her family are happy just to be alive. Their losses and those of hundreds of thousands of other innocents deserve mourning, prayer and respect. | 0_0 |
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. | 0_0 |
Thus, the photo-op still happened. The Washington Independent reported that, "espite steady, driving rain," the Lafayette Park protest was "more than twice as large as the February 27 protests at the same site." Well over 1,000 people attended (however, the event ended early when some rogue protester lobbed a few tea b... | 0_0 |
McChrystal amplified his views through press leaks and public remarks, | 0_0 |
A new study suggests that some coral reefs could be protected from bleaching by a natural ocean thermostat that regulates sea surface temperatures in the western pacific warm pool. | 3_2 |
Cosmic rays are energetic particles that originate in space and our sun and collide with particles as they zip through our atmosphere. While they come from all directions in space, and the origination of many of these cosmic rays is unknown, they has recently been shown that a larger percentage emanate from specific de... | 0_0 |
Why would such an ambitious conclusion follow from such a seemingly innocent bump on the road? We need just a little bit of patience to understand this point. | 0_0 |
Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported. | 0_0 |
> >> >>I hope that all is well with you. | 0_0 |
The last time global surface temperatures warmed at this low a rate for a 203-month period was the late 1970s, or about 1980. Also note that the sharp decline is similar to the drop in the 1940s, and, again, as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. | 1_4 |
In the recent blog post Climate indices to watch at RealClimate , contributor Rasmus Benestad writes (my boldface): | 0_0 |
"The North County Gazette, a regional paper covering upstate New York, offers its articles online with a sort of an honor system instead of a standard paywall. OK, but instead of a straight-up honor system or "tip jar" (you read stuff, then drop a micropayment in the bucket), they are totally aggro and threatening abou... | 0_0 |
"corn-based" ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years. Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%. | 0_0 |
Carrington's response is essentially to argue that "everyone says so", | 0_0 |
Should NATO care? When you put together the territorialization of the seas and the nationalization of oil companies, the Great Game at sea becomes worth examining (e.g., the 2006 decision of the Cuban regime to hire Chinese NOCs for offshore drilling 45 miles off the coast of Florida). China's interest in Cuba, Panama,... | 0_0 |
To some this will be seen as more evidence of man-made global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels. To others it is more evidence of natural climate variability the route was open during previous warm periods when man was not burning fossil fuels. | 2_1 |
The four researchers report that "no model" - that's right, no model - "reproduces the process of Antarctic bottom water formation accurately." Rather, "instead of forming dense water on the continental shelf and allowing it to spill off," they indicate that "models present extensive areas of deep convection, thus lead... | 5_1 |
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is witnessing record growth, say scientists from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laband the British Antarctic Survey. | 1_1 |
The bottom line of those two quotes: ocean heat content data before the ARGO floats are of very limited value, and ocean heat content data based on ARGO floats are so riddled with problems they too are questionable. | 5_1 |
The fundamentally intractable GCM resolution problem is nicely illustrated by a thunderstorm weather system moving across Arizona. 110??110 cells are the finest resolution computationally feasible in CMIP5. Useless for resolving convection processes. | 5_1 |
This lag would indeed kill the causal relationship between cosmic rays and clouds if the cosmic rays were the only effect influencing the clouds. However, there are other effects, too. Only crazy people would like to argue that there only exists one cause of climate change and Nir Shaviv is not one of these crazy peopl... | 2_1 |
The United Nations will officially warn that growing crops to make "green" biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices. A leaked draft of a UN report condemns the widespread use of biofuels made from crops as a replacement for petrol and diesel. It says that biofuels, rather than combating the effects of gl... | 4_4 |
Figure 8 . Climate models predict a hot spot of enhanced warming rate in the tropics, 8 km to 13 km altitude. Radiosonde data shows the hot spot does not exist. Red indicates the fastest warming rate. Source: http://joannenova.com.au | 2_3 |
Introduce a new fast scheme for determining solar radiation at surface | 0_0 |
How high was this monster? The radar suggested about 40,000 ft, very high for our neck of the woods (see figure) | 0_0 |
In his administration's first months, President Obama doubled the U.S. military presence from 34,000 to 68,000 troops. Even after these increases, though, he saw the need later that year for | 0_0 |
We know that climate models cannot simulate the sea surface temperature anomalies of the past 31 years. See here . So why should we have any confidence in a climate model-based study of hurricanes that depends on flawed simulations of sea surface temperatures? We shouldnt. Also, tropical cyclones are strongly impacted ... | 5_1 |
Anyway, to get back to the cherry-picking and selection bias issue, the study is pretty clear that it thinks that "more spending" is a failed strategy for improving public education | 0_0 |
The second wrong messagein the articlewas that the warming between 1970 and 2010 was due to global warming when it has clearly been shown by climate scientists, includingthe Met Office,that natural planetary cycles ENSO(stronger ElNinos)were behind the recent warm phase. | 2_1 |
Such failed projections should come as no great surprise. As the IPCC's own 2001 Assessment Report concludes: "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible." | 5_1 |
Over the past ten years the world has invested more than $600 billion in wind power and $700 billion in solar power. Yet the total contribution those two technologies are now making to the world primary energy supply is still less than 2 per cent. Ouch. | 4_4 |
Figure 2: Global temperature over the last 3200 years shows a distinct 1000-year cycle along with the 230-year cycle. | 2_1 |
He was preceded earlier in the month on this topic by former Republican congressman Sherwood Boehlert, in a Washington Post Op-ed, attacking the climate stance of the GOP in Congress. He is an honorary board member of Republicans for Environmental Protection, (REP), an organisation that seems to be a cheerleader for th... | 0_0 |
What are the major international efforts to stopping global warming? | 0_0 |
The best advice I can give Europeans is: Live with it! President Bush is no fluke, and there's no wishing him away. The good news is that Mr. Bush isn't devious or unpredictable. He's entirely open and obvious. A major theme of his campaign was that he does what he says. | 0_0 |
Robert Endlich, the meteorologist, reported: "One item after another struck me as being completely at odds with measurements. For instance, Hansen claimed Earth's energy balance is out of balance, and we are warming rapidly, but recent global surface temperatures of land and water have not increased and, in fact, many ... | 1_4 |
But Western policies that perpetuate aid rather than trade do cause direct harm, however worthy the original intentions. And this is also true for the environmental policy that banned the only viable form of protection against the locusts which have caused such devastation. The desert locust, which changes color as it ... | 0_0 |
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"Cloud Telecomputers, a software innovator in business applications and IP telephony, today announced that it will be exhibiting Glass, its unique Android-based platform for desktop business smartphones, at AstriCon 2010 in National Harbor, Maryland from October 26-28." | 0_0 |
10. Paraguay - Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Tropical Forest Conservation Fund and a Tropical Forest Conservation Board | 0_0 |
Thats true. The picture above shows how low the islands are to the surface of the sea. Theres no question theyre vulnerable to sea level rise, as they have been for several hundreds or thousands of years, since their ancestors arrived there. But what does the Australian expert not tell us? He doesnt say that it will ta... | 3_2 |
The experts concluded that the recent increase in impacts from tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) has largely been caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions. | 1_7 |
Recent innovations have enabled the development of microfinance access to small amounts of credit for specific purposes. Today, microfinance institutions all over the developing world provide small loans, access to savings, and microinsurance to families or small businesses. | 0_0 |
"While Americans struggle to pay higher gas prices, the Senate left for its August recess after refusing to take votes on two outstanding bills passed by the House of Representatives that would significantly increase domestic oil and natural gas production. Instead, the Senate pretended to do something by voting to ope... | 0_0 |
No doubt these scientists genuinely believe in their own perception of the climate change story. But why do mainstream scientists go along with the inevitable overstatement associated with the activism business? | 5_2 |
the 1960s by changes in the atmospheric circulation. The warming prior to 1940 | 0_0 |
a three-month-long intensive policy review. The review was spurred by the | 0_0 |
Expedition vessel hired by group of global-warming scientists. | 0_0 |
Howard Shelanski, the top White House regulatory official, said in a blog post late Friday afternoon that the administration was making new changes to the estimate, and would launch a public comment period ?in response to public and stakeholder interest.? | 0_0 |
In 1985, ice cores extracted from Greenland revealed temperatures and CO2 levels going back 150,000 years. Temperature and CO2 seemed locked together. It was a turning pointthe greenhouse effect captured attention. But, in 1999 it became clear that carbon dioxide rose and fell after temperatures did. By 2003, we had be... | 2_3 |
A strong high pressure system with a central pressure of 1035 mb has developed over the Arctic north of Alaska, and will bring clear skies and warm southerly winds to northeast Siberia and the Arctic during the coming week, accelerating Arctic sea ice loss. Widespread areas of northeastern Siberia are expected to see a... | 0_0 |
"The world is experiencing a rapidly rising frequency of extreme climate-related events such as heat waves." | 0_0 |
Expanding natural gas use has also reduced carbon dioxide emissions, which should encourage people who still worry about "dangerous manmade climate change." | 0_0 |
What these andseveral similar (though less blatant) examples in the ANPR reveal is that EPA cannot regulate CO 2 under the CAA and avoidthe risk of severe economicdamagewithout assuming legislative powers andeffectively amending the Act. Mass v. EPA has set the stage for a constitutional crisis, because EPAmay have to ... | 0_0 |
Yet, critics of Exxon's approach, in 2008, feared "that the company's reluctance to explore alternative energy will prove to be bad business judgment in the long run." | 0_0 |
Prominent among them was John Fonte, then at the American Enterprise Institute, now at the Hudson Institute. His latest effort, Sovereignty or Submission, has as its subtitle the sobering question: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others? That is, indeed, the question. | 0_0 |
In its publication, "Keeping Tropical Forests Alive," the World Resources Institute says, "Every year, at least 27 million acres of tropical forests are lost an area the size of Pennsylvania, Ohio or Virginia. That's almost 74,000 acres a day 3,000 acres an hour." (Which by the way also equals 50 acres per minute, or j... | 0_0 |
It was clear from Fayyad's answer to my first questionhow he intends to use the power that comes with international celebritythat he sees the task of leading his people out of four decades of occupation as paramount: "People respond to the occupation and the adversity under the occupation in two ways: one is to react w... | 0_0 |
The climate models used in this post are from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 (CMIP5) archive . The source of the model outputs is the KNMI Climate Explorer , specifically from the Radiation variables on the Monthly CMIP5 scenario runs webpage. The TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation (incoming downward ... | 0_0 |
Another remarkable proposal came from media baron Ted Turner. Like the climate delegation from China, Turner urged planetary overlords at a luncheon in Cancun to adopt a global one-child policy modeled after the brutal communist Chinese system. ?If we?re going to be here 5,000 years from now, we?re not going to do it w... | 0_0 |
The bulk of the emission p 395 Gtons sedan1750 has ended up in the atmosphere with 24010 and 15530 in vrldshavet with Gtons. | 0_0 |
The brown Zune 30 GB is #1 bestseller in electronics at amazon.com, ahead of all iPods. It is not so shocking because this particular color only costs USD 134, much less than the price of much weaker iPods. I am simply amazed how they can produce it for this ridiculously low amount of money. | 0_0 |
3. The IPCC's climate-model alarmism regarding dangerous, accelerating sea levels due to human CO2 emissions is without empirical merit - summarily, an IPCC fantasy. | 5_2 |
Does anyone else detect any indication of media bias here? Maybe it?s just me. | 0_0 |
Report from the Heartland Institute Climate Change Conference | 0_0 |
Tenth International Conference on Climate Change a Smashing Success | 0_0 |
They appear to think they own the university, and "academic freedom" means they are entitled to deny academic degrees to children of parents whose politics differ from their own. As more alumni join this effort, however, and the university's reputation becomes increasingly radioactive, OSU appears to be wavering. Perha... | 0_0 |
"Corporations," said Ridenour, "will be tempted to pay tribute to environmental groups knowing full well that they are the final arbiters of who does and does not deserve emissions credits." Crony Capitalism can be downloaded from http://users.erols.com/npap/crony.html. | 0_0 |
Suffice it to say that Climategate is just the tip of the iceberg of misbehaving mainstream climate scientists whose personal agendas and lack of humility have misled not only themselves but many others. We all deserve better. | 5_2 |
Contrasting evidence of past temperature variations at Law Dome, Antarctica has been derived from ice core isotope measurements and from the inversion of a subsurface temperature profile (Dahl-Jensen et al., 1999; Goosse et al., 2004; Jones and Mann, 2004). The borehole analysis indicates colder intervals at around 125... | 5_1 |
Just a little honesty there, too. Just one off-the-cuff suggestion (volcanoes, which have not been particularly active globally in the past decade), but no fewer than three possible modeling errors are suggested. | 5_1 |
Is flooding becoming more common in Europe as a result of global warming? Well not according to a recent study in the publication New Scientist, which examined this issue and found such claims to be awash in hype. According to scientists at the University of Leipzig in Germany and Reading University in the U.K., the hi... | 1_7 |
In terms of severity and geographic extent, the 2000-4 drought in the West exceeded such legendary events as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. While that drought saw intervening years of normal rainfall, the years of the turn-of-the-century drought were consecutive. More seriously still, long-term climate records from tree-r... | 1_7 |
More to the point, unilateral action will not mitigate climate change. The U.S. is only a small fraction of total emissions. Even if all of the Annex I countries of the Kyoto Protocol agreed to binding constraints, they would account for less than half of the world?s total emissions, and a far smaller fraction of the e... | 4_2 |
They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this? | 2_1 |
Heading back to the EPA's Description of Likelihood Table (above) we find that instead of "very likely," probably the most apropos descriptor is found a couple of lines down, the one that encompasses a 33 to 66% probabilityor "about as likely as not." | 0_0 |
The miners? union accepts, and at times supports, the primary reason for EPA carbon-dioxide regulations; namely, fears of dangerous man-made climate change. | 0_0 |
If you strip away the ex-socialist workers party policy threads that infiltrated the Greens platform and look at what they want for the natural environment, it can make appealing reading. | 0_0 |
It is well known thatnighttimesurface temperatures have risen over the last century. This is primarily due to the Urban Heat Island effect. Asphalt, heaters, air conditioners, irrigation they all keepnighttimetemperatures up. | 5_1 |
Sherman next admitted that yes, the stations showed a slight end-to-end drop over the time theyve run. That was nice to see. But he then argued the very brief temperature uptick in 2011-2012 means the long-term temperature trend may end up oscillating while remaining rather flat rather than being one of long-term cooli... | 1_4 |
Lewis Deane on October 5, 2013 at 1:35 am | 0_0 |
"Interestingly," as Appelhans et al . conclude, "the enhanced vulnerability of mussels seems to be neutralized by the decreased consumption of the predators under high acidification." And they say that "these results illustrate that different stress effects on interacting species may not only enhance but also buffer co... | 3_2 |
In his earlier movies, Emmerich recognized the need for conflict in a story: In Independence Day there were aliens to fight; in Godzilla a giant lizard; in The Patriot, redcoats. Who are the heroes of The Day After Tomorrow up against? An angry Mother Nature revolting to point out the folly of men (to paraphrase Blue O... | 0_0 |
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