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Because a few days ago, the Arctic team saw the carbon footprints of the local landlord, a male polar bear whose private territory they have violated, they may want to watch the video above to improve their mood. ;-) | 0_0 |
Would federal investment in renewable energy technologies make Kyoto feasible and affordable? Not even remotely, says Mills. Just to meet 30% of the expected growth in U.S. electricity demand over the next 20 years, wind and solar power would have to expand output 37,000-fold! No combination of tax preferences, outrigh... | 0_0 |
"For Gilly and many other Frenchmen and women, social benefits such as long vacations, state-subsidized health care and early retirement are more than just luxuries: They're seen as a birthright an essential part of the identity of today's France " | 0_0 |
The following is reported in a United Mine Workers of America/Bituminous Coal Operators Assn. climate change briefing paper, From Rio to Kyoto, 1997: "A 1996 U.S. EPA study concluded that massive life-style changes such as requiring new vehicles to achieve 63 mpg by 2010 and retrofitting existing homes with state-of-th... | 0_0 |
either the frequency of tropical or extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic are projected to appreciably change due to climate change, nor have there been indications of a change in their statistical behavior over this region in recent decades, Hoerling told environmental writer Andrew Revkin. | 1_7 |
Sure, there are corners of the Earth that have gotten colder, and some that haven't changed much. There are also some places that have warmed much more than the global average. Overall, though, all lines of evidence point in the same direction: warming. | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting I4U News | 0_0 |
Referring to the pleading submitted by the 300 petitioners, he responded that "This letter shows that hundreds of respected scientists and experts agree that NOAA's efforts to alter historical temperature data deserve serious scrutiny." | 0_0 |
El Nio: A warming of parts of the tropical Pacific indicates that an El Nio may be building. Although largely ignored by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), El Nios and the opposite La Nias apparently have a significant impact on global temperatures, hence global warming. Strong El Nios warm, La Ni... | 2_1 |
Studies involving 28 million weather balloons, thousands of satellite recordings, 3,000 ocean buoys, temperature recordings from 50 sites in the US and a 1,000 years of temperature proxies suggest that the Global Climate Models overestimate positive feedback and are based on poor assumptions. Observations suggest lower... | 3_1 |
A kind reader from Holland has sent me this short but informative extract from the German Manual of Global Climatic Geo-Engineering | 0_0 |
Please note that articles not linked easily or summarized here are reproduced in the Articles Section of the full TWTW that can be found on the web site under the date of the TWTW. | 0_0 |
Leaked United Nations report reveals the world's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years | 1_4 |
Second, a ???clean energy standard?? (CES), like the failed Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill,is just another way of?? skinning the cat ,??as President Obama put it. A CES is another way to ???bankrupt?? coal power plants and cause electricity rates to ??? necessarily skyrocket .?? Obama??s CES proposal aims at almost e... | 4_1 |
This is a stunning finding in and of itself, to be sure, but heres the Drinking the Kool-Aid part: These findings may provide further support for recent guideline revisions with even lower LDL goals and for developing effective treatments to raise HDL. | 0_0 |
An even better solution might be to build some new power plants, for example nuclear ones. | 4_5 |
Iain Murray, Senior Fellow, International Policy | 0_0 |
b) Asian women working full-time earned only about 3% less per week ($841) than the average full-time male worker ($871) in 2014. | 0_0 |
"Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks." | 0_0 |
One of the most interesting, if unsurprising, findings of the Prosperity Index is that higher-income countries have diminishing returns to life satisfaction (see figure 1). In crude terms, this means that if you live in one of the poorest nations on earth, an increase in income is vitally important to improved prosperi... | 0_0 |
COMPARISONS OF HOVMOLLER DIAGRAMS OF THIS YEAR (TO DATE) WITH 1982 | 0_0 |
Sam Karnick, Chris Monckton, provide some push back to warmer claims | 0_0 |
Voters made their preference clear: Republicans won more seats, and with bigger majorities, than anyone predicted. | 0_0 |
caused by factors (as food or a traumatic factor) or an agent (as a disease-producing organism) from outside the organism or system. | 0_0 |
On the military side, the importance of the maritime dimension begins with the fact that, for all the talk about airlift capabilities, 90 percent of military lift remains sealift. But what is more noteworthy about the post-Cold War period is the fact that the decline of "maritime domain awareness" within the Atlantic A... | 0_0 |
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump introduces his wife Melania during the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., July 18, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking | 0_0 |
The Zeit also tells the story of how Mann once received a letter containing white powder, how he got a threatening e-mail, and that today his life is no longer how it once was . The underlying message Die Zeit conveys here is that climate scientists are being hounded, tormented and persecuted by a ruthless, industry fu... | 0_0 |
Latour: I agree the K-T diagram shows what you say. I said CO 2 and you said atmosphere. Atmosphere is only 400 ppmv CO 2 , so they are different. My statement stands. I said if CO 2 absorbs incoming and emits in all directions, it would cool the surface. Since you did not take exception, I am glad we agree again. I su... | 2_3 |
One such study states: High-resolution records from Antarctic ice cores show that carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 80 to 100 parts per million by volume 600 +/- 400 years after the warming of the last three deglaciations. Despite strongly decreasing temperatures, high carbon dioxide concentrations can be sust... | 2_3 |
After the United Nations conference on global warming in Kyoto in early December 1997, the researchers went into the field again with another national survey, conducted between Dec. 20, 1997, and Feb. 13, 1998. The surveys, which enabled researchers to look at how opinions changed during a period of heightened attentio... | 0_0 |
By James Owen, National Geographic News, Jul 31, 2015 | 0_0 |
The eight Spanish researchers report that "no apparent pH-driven effects were observed in the skeletal growth rate, micro-density and porosity of both species compared to control conditions after six months of exposure," which results they say "are in accordance with two previous mid-term studies assessing the effects ... | 3_2 |
Cap and trade schemes around the world aren't working. | 0_0 |
Schwartz (2012) : This study derived TCR by zero-intercept regressions of changes, from the 18961901 mean, in observed global surface temperature on corresponding changes in forcing, up to 2009, based on forcing histories used in historical model simulations. The mean change in forcing up to 1990 (pre the Mount Pinatub... | 0_0 |
About 1.3 billion people in the world have no electricity, Lewis said, so energy should be made more plentiful and available. | 0_0 |
Recently, Felix began crying when his mom went to pack his lunch in a resealable plastic bag. When asked what the trouble was, Felix told his parents that his kindergarten class had had a draw for a stuffed toy, but that he had been excluded from the contest because his teacher had found a plastic sandwich bag in his l... | 0_0 |
CHURCHVILLE, VA?The cable network MSNBC is warning that the world food chain ?has been stretched to the limit? by rising world demand and a series of crop failures in several countries. The TV network?s warning is premature. The U.S., in fact, could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative actio... | 0_0 |
New Material Posted on the CO2 Science Web site 8 January 14 January 2015 | 0_0 |
Earlier this week, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee,released a 123 page document containing McCarthys responses to hundreds of questionson a wide range of issues.In todays post, I comment on McCarthys responses to Sen. Vitters questions about fuel switching. I... | 0_0 |
In the month after the EPA environmental quality report was issued, controversy about the Soon-Baliunas study grew, with climate change activists mounting an extraordinary campaign to discredit their work and pressure the journal that published it to rescind its endorsement of the work. The newly appointed editor in ch... | 0_0 |
And Lino Graglia is a great man indeed, and recognized as one of the con law experts of all time. | 0_0 |
On the lack of warming over the last 15 years, Brnnimann admits that they were unusual, blaming it on the unexpected lack of strong El Nino events in the tropical Pacific . Yet he claims that this and the unusually cold European wintersover the last few years do not refute the CO2 greenhouse gas effect .However Brnnima... | 1_4 |
Corals have survived such warmth and worse many times in the past, including the Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, Holocene Optimum, as well as throughout numerous similar periods during a number of prior interglacial periods; and there is no reason to believe they cannot do it again, if the need arises. | 3_2 |
The U.S. is the worlds most endowed energy country, followed by Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China. At current consumption rates, we have hundreds of years of domestic oil and gas, and thousands of years of coal. | 4_5 |
Meteorologically this is sheer absurdity. For more than 100 years we have known that the atmospheric circulation is subject to unpredictable cyclic fluctuations. Simply said: the atmospheric pressure gradient between the Azores and Iceland changes chaotically over the years, which in Europe leads to a series of warmer ... | 2_1 |
The First Amendment shields Americans engaged in corporate lobbying and making donations, and even groups that misinform the public about important issues are afforded this protection. In Pfizer v. Giles (1994), a federal appeals court ruled that the maker of an asbestos product could not be held liable for joining and... | 0_0 |
Whereas estimates of "future actual" emissions are based on mechanical analysis of the modification being made and actual emission records, the "potential to emit" is based on hypothetical projections of the modification's impact on a plant's overall efficiency, reliability, and output. A modification that reduces emis... | 0_0 |
USFS surveys provided more damning evidence that would lead to rejecting the CBDs lawsuits. The benchmark for wildlife abundance and distribution in California had been Joseph Grinnells surveys from the early 1900s. Contrary to global warming theory, the USFS survey found many new active pika colonies several hundred m... | 0_0 |
Milloy got wind of what was going on. He and four other experts sought and received an unprecedented opportunity to testify before the NAS on August 24. Their presentations and other information used in this article can be found here, here and here. Will their efforts bring change? Time will tell. | 0_0 |
Goodbye Dear Old Friend, We'll Always Miss You | 0_0 |
Even the New York Times seems to view this effort as constitutionally dubious. "Many legal experts have questioned whether the actions and statements by Exxon Mobil can be construed as criminal and outside the protections of the First Amendment," wrote John Schwartz of the Times. | 5_2 |
I have always fulfilled my duties as well as I could and as my strengths allowed me, in agreement with my opinion that similar activities can't be done at a "50% capacity"... | 0_0 |
In fact, German CO2 emissions have been rising for two years in a row as coal is experiencing a renaissance. But CO2 emissions in the EU as a whole are likely to rise because of increased coal burning at power stations. The revelation has embarrassed the German government and dumbfounded the public, which cannot unders... | 0_0 |
elected. He responded by pointing to his new comprehensive policy guidebook, | 0_0 |
Here Id like to point out another curiosity: while the dewpoint temperature has increased in step with air temperature at 12Z (around 6 a.m.), it has increased much less so at other times of the day, and even decreased slightly at 21Z (around 3 p.m.), during the period 1973-2012: | 0_0 |
According tothe Director of the German Marine Museum in Stralsund, Harald Benke, inthis n-tv report here : | 0_0 |
Much like other anti-Semites, he would claim that he wasn't one he was just an anti-Zionist, everyone was told. Good try but my suspicion isn't quite gone (although I made a different conclusion 5 years ago). | 0_0 |
Since 2008, in the western part of Texas, fully 10 percent of the time wind operators paid the electrical grid to take their electricity. | 4_4 |
Here is an interesting interview of Barron while he was director of NCAR, on climate modeling. I tried to find any congressional testimony on climate change, I spotted one in 2001 . As far as I can tell, Barron has not been very visible in the public or scientific debate on climate change over the past decade. | 0_0 |
The more-than-reasonable underlying assumption for the next 50 to 100 years is that technology progress will continue, even accelerate as it has over the past century. But exactly what technologies lurk below the radar screen, soon to emerge? What will flower and dominate new products and services? Hindsight will make ... | 0_0 |
In a synthesis of long term ecological monitoring data across old growth Amazonia, Phillips et al (2008) find that from approximately 1988 to 2000 not only that the biomass of these tropical forests increased but that they have become more dynamic, that is, they have more stems, faster recruitment, faster mortality, fa... | 3_3 |
No one has worked more tirelessly to create this impression than Hillary Clinton. The woman behind the party s colossal embarrassment in 1994 became a spokesperson for a series of inoffensive health-care causes, like cosponsoring legislation with Sen. Bill Frist on standardizing medical records, or writing opeds with N... | 0_0 |
But given what is going on now, the past 5 days, plus the forecasted upcoming 16, with another record cold air mass coming this weekend into the areas ( another because we had one this past weekend) that was in the heart of the NOAA Hot July area, this should be one of the greatest, if not THE NUMBER ONE GREATEST, July... | 0_0 |
The Greens are hardly worthy of the title political party, just a rag-tag bunch of Marxist environmental fruitcakes. | 0_0 |
At the same time, the GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellites, the most accurate method of measurement we have, showed sea level actually falling from 20032009. | 1_6 |
The Center for American Progress claimed , climate change may have affected the snowstorm may have made it more likely, may have made it worse than it would have been without so much greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. | 0_0 |
People who know people at the IPCC have their yet-to-be-published work taken into account, but researchers without these sorts of connections are out of luck. | 0_0 |
Another interesting post from William M. Briggs is here . | 0_0 |
Well be discussing and illustrating the input values and the climate-model-created values of the components at the top of the atmosphere, and their difference, known as the Energy Imbalance. | 0_0 |
This result indicates why one can not use tree rings for any periods warmer than the calibration perioda situation which is difficult to know a priori . The same issue could affect certain other types of temperature proxies (besides tree rings) as well. | 5_1 |
Models also failed to replicate the 60-year and 200-year cycles in monsoon rainfall linked to solar cycles that are reflected in studies of ocean sediments from the Arabian Sea. | 0_0 |
Question 3 (for Pederson): The 2007 IPCC report states that evidence of warming in the 21st century is "unequivocal." On the other hand, Phil Jones, former head of the Climatic Research Unit and a strong supporter of the AGW hypothesis, admitted in a Feb. 13 interview with the BBC that there has been no "statistically ... | 0_0 |
HAYDEN: Hey! Theres no need to hit me. I heard you. If P, then Q. Q. Therefore P. | 0_0 |
Just to get sub-Saharan electricity consumption up to the levels of South Africa or Bulgaria would mean adding about 1,000 gigawatts of capacity, the installation of which would cost at least 1 trillion. Yet the greens want Africans to hold back on the cheapest form of power: fossil fuels. In 2013 Ed Davey, the energy ... | 0_0 |
As Steve Goddard has interestingly pointed out recently using RSS data going back to 1990 the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991 had a very important effect on global temperatures. | 0_0 |
The IPCC has framed the climate change problem in the context of anthropogenic forcing, and national funding has followed suit. There has been far too little emphasis on understanding the sun and solar-climate interactions, I see a few signs that this situation is improving. | 0_0 |
132. At the same time, Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its respectability ? by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia? | 0_0 |
In the 1970s (I am not saying, for the whole decade) there was a consensus about global cooling. How is such a conclusion reached? By asking the right question. | 5_1 |
Europe has already tried this experiment and found it to be economically devastating. In April, the European Parliament voted against saving the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)Europe's flagship environmental program. Roger Helmer, a member of the European Parliament, explained that propping up the ETS would "make energy... | 4_1 |
Would anyone promoting such a film ever not expect Al Gore and MoveOn.org to try to exploit it to score political points? And yet, according to groups opposed to media ownership rule liberalization, controversial content will nearly always be trampled under the boot of the boss's politics. | 0_0 |
The Presidentalludes to the great clean energy race that America supposedly cannot afford to lose. But as my colleague William Yeatman points out, the race is itself a creature of mandate and subsidy. China subsidizes its solar panel manufacturers, for example, becauseU.S. states establish Soviet-style production quota... | 0_0 |
In what sense is 400 parts a million a milestone and what does the word add, save opinion, to the intro? By whom are these conditions 'expected to return in time' and who says the consequences will be 'devastating'? By whom is catastrophic warming 'thought to be unstoppable' at 2 degrees (and does this mean that at 1.9... | 0_0 |
That all federal "enforcement activities" in Texas "must be conducted under the auspices of the county sheriff with jurisdiction in that county." (That would leave the FBI, air marshals, immigration officials, DEA personnel, and so on subordinate to the Texas versions of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.) | 0_0 |
President Obama recently demonstrated his willingness to ignore public opinion and force a health care bill through Congress while his party's majorities are still strong. It would be a mistake to do this on climate. The process must be reformed, public confidence restored and every link in our climate chain proved bey... | 0_0 |
In The Age of Disruption, Customer Love Is More Important Than Ever TechCrunch "Innovation has a funny way of wreaking havoc on markets where once-dominant industries are suddenly forced to compete for business. Very often, however, these companies have taken customers for granted, having controlled the market for so l... | 0_0 |
A 2007 University of Michigan study claimed organic farming could produce all the food the world will need, by getting nitrogen from green manure crops. Unfortunately the study overestimated the nitrogen such green manure crops could contribute by at least three-fold. Across the developing world, crop plants remain sta... | 0_0 |
The upward spikes show the impacts of volcanic aerosols on the outgoing shortwave radiation. | 0_0 |
A key problem in determining changes and influences of water vapor concentrations in the Earths atmosphere is that they are extremely variable. Differences range by orders of magnitude in various places. Instead, alarmists sweep the problem to one side by simply calling it a CO 2 feedback amplification effect, always a... | 3_1 |
The natural sciences have terms for that kind of hypothesis. ?Unfalsifiable? is one of them. ?Unscientific? is another. An idea may be true, but if it is incapable of being ?falsified? or proven wrong, then whatever else that idea is, it certainly isn?t science. | 0_0 |
Professor Ray Bates gave a paper in Moscow in summer 2015 in which he concluded, based on the analysis by Lindzen & Choi (2009, 2011) (Fig. T10), that temperature feedbacks are net-negative. Accordingly, he supports the conclusion both by Lindzen & Choi (1990) (Fig. T10) and by Spencer & Braswell (2010, 2011) that clim... | 3_1 |
As the system GAINS energy (and warms) from forcing, it LOSES energy from feedbacks: e.g., changes in clouds, water vapor, and most importantly the extra loss of IR energy directly to space from warmer temperatures (which is usually not considered a feedback per se, but it is THE main climate stabilizing influence, and... | 0_0 |
Basically, Tabitha rolled the entire Green movement debate into a very neat, easy-to-understand package. | 0_0 |
In a paper recently published in the journal New Phytologist, Girardin et al. (2013) write that many people have supposed think Al Gore, for one that "global wildfire activity resulting from human-caused climatic change is a threat to communities living at wildland-urban interfaces world-wide and to the equilibrium of ... | 0_0 |
When Tony Blair was reelected British Prime Minister last Thursday, he was entitled to a celebratory glass of champagne. Despite all the sound and fury over the Iraq war, the British people returned him to office with a majority with which any Prime Minister would be happy. He has successfully ridden out the foreign po... | 0_0 |
A very good letter from the American Meteorological Society on Grijalvas witch hunt | 0_0 |
BREAKING: Steven McIntyre reports that 649 Berkeley stations lack information on latitude and longitude, including 145 BOGUS stations. 453 stations lack not only latitude and longitude, but even a name. Many such stations are located in the country , but a large fraction are located in United States. Steve says: Im pon... | 5_1 |
My local Wendys has a sign up saying tomatoes are scarce and will be offered only by request, and this is in California. So, this article by Marlo Lewis about sandwich shops in DC illustrates a nationwide effect. Anthony | 0_0 |
News outlets quickly pounced on the story, including the UK Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Washington Times, E&E; News' Climatewire, and Fox News (see excerpts below). | 0_0 |
"Even where a semblance of stability is achieved," the paper by Ban's peace-building support office argues, the achievement of peace may involve more than "adopting a constitution or holding elections." It adds that "more fundamental change may be needed in a country's institutions and political culture as well as in p... | 0_0 |
It is ironic that only genetically engineered varieties, which are more precisely crafted than "conventional" ones and whose development and environmental impacts are carefully scrutinized by the USDA and EPA, are subject to the extra burden of compulsory EISes. Indeed, the asymmetrical burden exists only because the U... | 0_0 |
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