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John is a third generation rice grower in the Wakool District. His grandfather began growing tomatoes, later they tried millet, tobacco and even cotton. | 0_0 |
And the infection obsessed think that its all because of nurses and doctors failing to wash their hands? Give me a break. We have bugs on our skin, in our respiratory and intestinal tract and nurses and doctors are causing us to get infections when we have catheters sticking in us from many directions? We are on ventil... | 0_0 |
Save the planet? Marchionnes bumpersticker should read: SUV the planet. | 0_0 |
This exercise produced an interesting result: Roughly half of the AMS experts believed there must be a significant human influence on the climate through the release of carbon dioxidewhile the other half had considerable doubt about the validity of climate models. | 0_0 |
These kind of explanations, by leading climate modelers, suggest that climate models do not in fact reflect understanding of the key physical climate processes well enough to generate projections of future climate that one could rely upon. It seems unlikely that climate model projections would be accorded much policy s... | 5_1 |
Some nice people are just too nice, which is the reason most societies are populated by sheep and need sheepdogs. Regular people are blinded by their own good intentions and delusional hopes in the face of violent bullies and intimidators. Churchill was right, though, when he said a scorpion or a viper cant be trusted,... | 0_0 |
Mikey's Model Puts Us In An Ice Age In 1960 | 0_0 |
Kremlin Aide Advises Putin to Kill Kyoto | 0_0 |
About 60 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should not intervene in Syrias civil war, while just 9 percent thought President Barack Obama should act . | 0_0 |
Smith goes so far as to state, "In spite of the development push that began in the 1960's, it seems unlikely that the area cleared today is any larger than it was in 1500 the area of forest is probably greater now than when the Europeans arrived." (Smith, pp.231-245) | 0_0 |
Another interesting point that the chart reveals is that the largest decadal temperature increase did not occur during the modern late 20th century, or 21st century for that matter. The biggest increase took place during the decade of the 1930s. | 2_1 |
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Last but not least, my act is meant as a sign of my support for the Czech president Milo Zeman and his effort to objectively analyze crucial internal and international political questions and his struggle "against everybody" to protect the sovereignty and identity of the Czech nation and its global security. | 0_0 |
Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces. | 1_7 |
The Medieval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark Ages, was a great time in human history it allowed humans around the world to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition. | 0_0 |
MasterResource was named for the fact that energy is the master resource , as termed by the late Julian Simon . American Products. American Power. elucidates the resource of resources on the demand side, which brings to bear the fact that abundant, affordable, reliable energy makes all the difference . This is where go... | 0_0 |
As for the weather, John Christy, the director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, says he cringes "when I hear overstated confidence from those who describe the projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next one hundred years, especially when I consider how difficult it is to... | 0_0 |
P a global scale speaks the most from this trend will continue during verskdlig future. It is indeed very possible that oil prices will continue to rise, but because the oil frmodligen will largely ersttas of natural gas, s will STATEMENT This jack may be less important than what most people think. | 0_0 |
(At the same time, as another paper makes clear, "some" U.N. peacekeepers come from countries "where the armed forces and police are seriously implicated in human rights violations," including sexual crimes. While such actions "cannot be tolerated," the paper makes clear the U.N. has no clear answers on how to police i... | 0_0 |
A post by Steven Goddard today shows how James Hansen's GISS data was tampered to create 0.35C artificial global warming. Since the total alleged global warming since 1850 is only 0.7C , this single tamper alone accounts for half of that trend. So, in a sense, the IPCC attribution statement is finally vindicated with 9... | 5_2 |
In contrast, L. pertusa was capable to acclimate to acidified conditions in long-term (six months) incubations, leading to even slightly enhanced rates of calcification . Net growth is sustained even in waters sub-saturated with respect to aragonite. Acclimation to seawater acidification did not cause a measurable incr... | 3_2 |
1. AFTER DECADES OF CLIMATE MODELING EFFORTS, WHY DOES THE CURRENT GENERATION OF CLIMATE MODELS SIMULATE GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURES MORE POORLY THAN THE PRIOR GENERATION? | 5_1 |
I have to say, however, that I am not sanguine about such a fund for several reasons. First, I doubt that it would be paid into fairly: based on their unwillingness to adopt binding emission reduction targets, and their demands for wealth transfer from the developed countries to the developing, I very much doubt that t... | 0_0 |
Yangtze River Flood , 1931.The summer flood along the Yangtze during July- August 1931 was the most severe, with over 51 million people affected (1/4 of Chinas population). 3.7 million people perished from this greatest disaster of the century due to disease, starvation or drowning. This flood was preceded by a prolong... | 0_0 |
A new World Bank study by scholars has this summary of the hysterical, Lord Stern AGW climate-impact "research": | 0_0 |
Working with a smaller group of nations through informal arrangements such as the Major Economies Forum to undertake appropriate steps that are cost-effective, verifiable, and effectual. | 0_0 |
Don't skip this one. Update - by pure coincidence, a few hours after posting this link, Drudge features this development . Which I believe, answers some of the questions posed by commentors. | 0_0 |
U.S. says Chinese businesses and banks are bypassing U.N. sanctions against Iran: | 0_0 |
John Fund lists several cases of significant voter fraud in the US, and wonders where the outrage of Democrats went; | 0_0 |
The GOP presidential field would also do well to remember energy boom times and the role one played in the rebound from Carters first term, then to consider the changes needed to roar out of this second Carter term the same way. The United States possesses the worlds largest combined oil, coal and gas resources; theref... | 4_1 |
Michael Barone on the changing demographic of urban America; | 0_0 |
Atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, Richard Lindzen, posted an article in the fall 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons characterizing global warming as an alarmist religion. Furthermore, he accuses alarmist orthodoxy of adjusting both data and theory to a... | 5_2 |
That will only "destroy the markets and together with them the chances for economic growth and prosperity in both developed and developing countries," he said. | 0_0 |
Closer to the present, some researchers believe that the 1980s were the hottest decade in 100 years and that some years in the 1990s may have been hotter still. However, the trend in surface temperature is one or two tenths of a degree occurring over a decade or two. Such a change is well within the range of the climat... | 2_1 |
Ad Hominem, My Sweet , a mini-play in one act. | 0_0 |
When populism exploded again with the 2008 financial collapse and TARP bailout, the next generation of Republican leaders led by Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan, the self-named Young Guns took the Gingrich playbook and ran with it, exploiting and fueling populist anger at the political establishment and the ... | 0_0 |
But most of what Pershing and Holdren say is spin. Both EPA's Power Plan and theprerequisite regulation imposing carbon dioxide emission standards on new coal power plants have immense legal flaws. If courts overturn those rules, Obama's emission-reduction "commitment" would ring hollow regardless of which party wins t... | 0_0 |
Yet another winter storm!Gov. Pat McCrory declares a state of emergency. | 0_0 |
The Clear Skies Initiative presumably would achieve these goals by using caps and emission trading, ending the costly and unpredictable permitting route required by the NSR program. For nonutility regulated emitters, not included in the Clear Skies Initiative, and for utilities pending adoption of the Initiative, the B... | 0_0 |
Pravda Suggests A Timeless Solution To The Global Warming Scare | 0_0 |
Two weeks ago, the Czech government decided to end all subsidies for new renewable energy projects at the end of this year. ?The reason for this law amendment is the rising financial burden for electricity consumers,? Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok said. ?It threatens the competitiveness of our industry and raises consumer... | 0_0 |
With 80% of the worlds oil shale, our potential sources of crude are three times the size of the recoverable oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. | 4_5 |
It doesn't appear that Grantham the investor is profiting from climate alarmism yet. "Global warming will be the most important investment issue for the foreseeable future," he writes. "But how to make money around this issue in the next few years is not yet clear to me." But Grantham the philanthropist is making big i... | 5_2 |
Existing parameterization of cloud amounts in GCMs are physically very crude. When empirical adjustments of parameters are made to achieve verisimilitude, the model may appear to be validated against the present climate. But such tuning by itself does not guarantee that the response of clouds to a change in CO2 concent... | 5_1 |
Climate changed in response to natural processes that are active also at present, including variations in solar activity and the galactic cosmic ray flux and ocean current oscillations. | 2_1 |
Sounds pretty definitive, doesn't it? But wait. Astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas of the Wilson Observatory (a real scientist) argued recently in the Wall Street Journal that there is a close correlation between warming and cooling trends and the pattern of sunspot activity. Baliunas tracked this correlation back to the 1... | 2_1 |
The final snkan for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is vergng to calcium carbonate, CaCO 3, through chemical reaction with various silicate rocks for finally through strmmande water ending up in the sea. This is a process on a time scale of millions of years. The efficiency of this process depends on the hydrological ... | 0_0 |
Quoting the authors, their results "show convincingly that the present drought is not unique and that drought has recurred on a centennial to interdecadal timescale during the last 1500 years." What it means | 1_7 |
Forbes continued: Its time to end the mollycoddling of wind and solar energy toys before this stupidity does irreversible damage to Australias electricity supply and costs. | 4_4 |
Speaking of Tamino, he presented a post about the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, see his post here , and I replied to it in my post Comments on Taminos AMO Post . In another of his posts , Tamino took exception to a comment I made that climate models cannot reproduce the multidecadal variations exhibited in the tem... | 5_1 |
In addition, the GOP-led House recently passed a bill that would prevent the EPA from using the metric in major energy rules. | 0_0 |
Pat Michaels of the University of Virginia shows this here: www.co2andclimate.org/wca/2004/wca 17bpf.html. | 0_0 |
Here is a succinct discussion by an emeritus prof of surgery U of Washington School of Medicine. Published by my favorite editor, Jane Orient MD, Internist and exec of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. | 0_0 |
There are many problems, but a couple suffice to show pre-selection and manipulation. Solar activity increased to 2000 and volcanic forcing, presumably from volcanic dust levels, are essentially unknown. If important, why wasnt volcanic forcing in the Natural portion of the diagrams? Their claim that only models with a... | 5_1 |
Film clip #2: The Coral Reefs Off the Coast of Australia Are Being Bleached and Destroyed Due to Global Warming | 0_0 |
For climate alarmists, climate change has become what logicians call a "non-falsifiable hypothesis." Every weather anomaly is said to be a sign of climate change. After the near-record January 1996 blizzard hit the northeastern U.S., Newsweek ran a cover story attributing the storm to climate change. A year later, when... | 5_2 |
In other words, it must stop trying to prove manmade carbon dioxide is the sole or primary factor in climate change and seek evidence-based answers to what drives climate change, what we might expect in the future, and how humans can better adapt to warmer, colder, wetter or drier futures. | 0_0 |
As for the radicals in elected office or in control of party organs, consider a small sampling of comments: | 0_0 |
JAXA AMSR-E Sea Ice Area click to enlarge | 0_0 |
Showbiz Sandbox 112: Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices: | 0_0 |
Over the course of what climate alarmists call a century of unprecedented global warming, and contrary to the implications of nearly all 2xCO 2 GCM experiments, there has been no net change in either South African rainfall variability or the mean value of the Southern African Rainfall Index. | 1_7 |
But once we measure something in a quantum world, you obtain the same "classical" information that you obtain by a measurement in a classical world that happens to have the same number of potential outcomes (the same spectrum). You may know something or not to know something; you may extract \(n\) bits from the measure... | 0_0 |
You'd think that NHTSA, an agency whose middle name is safety, would have brought this issue to the forefront of public attention. But instead NHTSA has repeatedly claimed that CAFE has no safety effect. In a 1992 court case brought by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Consumer Alert, a panel of federal appeals ... | 0_0 |
The economic value cited includes the total value for all tourism in the region when half of all tourists do not even visit the reef. For those who do, the reef component of the large majority is a one day, one time participation in a reef tour and the value of reef tours is similar to the value of commercial fishing. ... | 0_0 |
It was the same intellectual and moral quest for self-respect and pride that, beginning with a merciless moral scrutiny of the country's past and present, within a few short years hollowed out the mighty Soviet state, deprived it of legitimacy, and turned it into a burned-out shell that crumbled in August 1991. The tal... | 0_0 |
* The primary temperature records relied on by the IPCC and the EPA cover far too short a time to be a useful tool for policy making and are inadequately corrected for the urban heat island effect and other errors. One analysis of these records found errors of 1 -5 C (1.8 -9.0 F) for 1969 data in certain regions, when ... | 5_1 |
At first, it was funny to read about how kittens, redheads and the Loch Ness monster were allegedly affected by climate transmogrification (CT). (The term "climate change" really doesn't cut it for true activists, does it?) Eventually even the people at Number Watch stopped keeping track of the more than 800 items on t... | 5_2 |
What does a state get? A process in which the conclusion is pretty much determined from the outset. CCS arrives at "stakeholder" meetings with all the rules and voting procedures in place. They have a prepared list of dozens of options to be considered for recommendation by the governor-appointed stakeholder group. No ... | 0_0 |
A new study of tree-ring data has concluded that not only has our climate often been noticeably hotter than today, temperatures have actually been on a falling trend for the past 2,000 years. | 1_2 |
As Lamb identified, lack of data was and remains the most serious limitation. The situation is completely inadequate for temperature, supposedly the best measured variable. How can two major agencies HadCRUT and GISS produce such different results, | 5_1 |
As Anthony Watts says, Ding-dong, the stick is dead. Watts provides a nut-shell explanation of long and tortured history of the notorious global warming hockey stick, and its demise: | 5_1 |
"With an earlier start date," says the study, "the economy experiences a loss in gross domestic product beginning in 2000 as higher prices increase the prices of goods and services throughout the economy; however, the early start date smooths the transition of the economy to a longer run target." The study finds that t... | 0_0 |
In my absence, here is an open thread for any climate and energy news today. | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, energy consumers are not quite as happy. A report last June by investment bank UBS found that "CO2 is now the key driver of electricity prices in Continental Europe," with CO2 costs representing about 20 percent of the cost of energy. The energy companies are simply passing on the cost of the emissions p... | 0_0 |
As shown in my newstudy for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, there has been an unfortunate and bewildering array of unintended consequences that refute the ethical label for the framework: | 0_0 |
Although the Antarctic has a lot of missing data for 1938, (hence the grey), the temperature changes in the Arctic are quite clear, with most of the region about a degree colder in 1980 compared to 1938. So lets combine the two periods. | 0_0 |
A 3,000-year record from 52 of the worlds oldest trees shows that Californias western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to a new study led by University of Arizona researchers. | 0_0 |
As for revenue-neutrality, well, color me dubious. Governments are notorious for raiding dedicated funds whenever they face revenue shortfalls. Governor Jerry Brown recently raided Californias dedicated green fund raised through its cap-and-trade system. Technically, he borrowed $500 million from Californias Greenhouse... | 0_0 |
Good people everywhere need to rise up, speak out and fight back, if they still believe in individual rights, freedom of thought and expression, and honest, transparent, trustworthy, accountable government and religious institutions. Otherwise, these fundamental values will disappear and with them will go modern societ... | 0_0 |
The concept of equilibrium is a foreign one to academic climate experts. | 0_0 |
Market adjustments can substantially attenuate initial negative impacts. Nevertheless, equilibrium climate change damages remain substantial at the global level, particularly in developing countries. Accordingly, the distributional and scale implications of climate-related damages must be addressed by adequate policy-d... | 0_0 |
At the end of the first 100 days, it is worth asking questions like | 0_0 |
In contrast, the environmental executive agreements adopted by President G.W. Bush were small potatoes. None entailed commitments or risks affecting the nation as a whole. Moreover, all were clearly authorized by Congress, other treaties, or the President's inherent powers as commander-in-chief or chief executive repre... | 0_0 |
The 74 green lemmings in Parliament have given us certainty the certainty of capital flight and job losses. | 0_0 |
just trying to find if weve done anything wrong. I sent one of them loads of series | 0_0 |
There is something wrong with the math in the cost of a postage stamp comparison, which the USPS will fix by increasing the price of each stamp to $7.00. | 0_0 |
The authors write that "according to a range of modeled scenarios, many arid and semiarid regions across the world are likely to become warmer and drier over the next century due to human-induced climate change," citing the IPCC (2007) and Bates et al . (2008). And they note, in this regard, that the information report... | 0_0 |
Figure 10 is a map that shows how the data for the additional discussions were subdivided. Basically, this was done to isolate the North Atlantic from the additional ocean basins in the Rest-Of-The-World data. And the observed Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for those two subsets are shown in Figure 11. As illustrate... | 5_1 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Michelle Minton on the increasing number of people calling on Congress to reform laws on Internet gambling: | 0_0 |
The Virgin Islands probe all but collapsed in June after Attorney General Claude E. Walker agreed to drop a subpoena issued against Exxon, a month after he said he would withdraw subpoenas of the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute. Both Exxon and the institute had fought the subpoenas. | 0_0 |
Though as I mentioned, I don't believe in predictive modeling, that doesn't mean we can't tie up our camel. For that reason, as a third effort, I support re-directing government research and development spending away from greenhouse gas mitigation technologies and into geo-engineering, and carbon air-stripping technolo... | 0_0 |
As previously reported here , Obama has pledged that the United States will cut emissions by 26 percent by 2025, even though the largest emitter of CO2, China, will get a free pass until 2030, and will only comply if it chooses to abide by the new rules. | 4_2 |
Upsizing, however, would entail relaxing CAFE rather than tightening it -- a move that would be totally alien to this administration and to its environmentalist supporters. The Sierra Club, for example, claims that higher CAFE standards would be "the biggest single step to curbing global warming." In their 1992 campaig... | 0_0 |
What would a statistician and Wharton School forescasting expert know about models? Or a lawyer about EPA's proposed regulations? Sheesh. | 0_0 |
Last November a report by the Office of Inspector General that I requested confirmed that EPA, through its own actions, has been deliberately and systematically slowing the pace of permit evaluations for new plants in Appalachia. These findings were concerning enough that Inspector General did a follow up review and ag... | 0_0 |
As for the Republican presidential candidates, most are calling for construction of an ever-higher border fence and opposing anything with a whiff of amnesty. They're attacking Rick Perry because he opposes the fence in Texasit's hard to build one along a riverand backs in-state tuition for children of illegals in stat... | 0_0 |
Clearly, Obama will now have a far less compliant Congress, so there is every prospect he will use the international route to achieve his objectives. | 0_0 |
They accomplish this through a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering, which cools the past and warms the present. | 5_2 |
In the open letter to the defense minister and the Czech government | 0_0 |
The average temperature for each month, computed by averaging the temperature from each of 5 reliable data sources. 1 . This gives a one trend based on an average. Done this way, the uncertainty intervals on the mean trend include the uncertainty due to weather noise ; however, uncertainty due to measurement error , wh... | 0_0 |
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