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A new study by Canadian scientists once again debunks the notion polar bears are currently being harmed by global warming. Researchers with Canada's Lakehead University found "no evidence" polar bears are currently threatened by warming. | 3_2 |
Link to book: The Global Warming Scam and the Climate Change Superscam | 5_2 |
I don??t think so. The solar activity measured in sunspot number obviously correlates well with the TSI and it correlated quite well with the surface temperature anomalies throughout most of the record up until the end of the 1970s too. We can see it prima facie: | 2_1 |
Emission Credits: The Supply & Demand Gap | 0_0 |
Some scientists have reported that we are perhaps headed towards a mini ice age. Back in 2011 US solar physicists announced that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earthfar from facing a global warming problemis actually headed into a mini ice age. The announcem... | 1_2 |
Clermont in central Queensland had record-low temperatures on Friday, July 11, but broke records again on Saturday morning July 12, with the temperature dropping down to minus 4.5 degrees Celsius. | 1_3 |
The map is misleading because each station dot is proportionally about 200km across but still the change is dramatic. Gaps are so great they make analysis meaningless, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) does it anyway. As DAleo and Watts explain, | 5_1 |
This new data clearly reveals that both the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age cooling were significant climate events across the entire northern portion of the globe. In the majority of regions, modern temperatures are yet to reach the level and extent of the MWP. | 2_1 |
Ray Evans is Secretary of the Lavoisier Group, which was formed in Australia in 2000 to promote debate on the science of climate change. | 0_0 |
America has barely begun to tap its vast shale gas and conventional natural gas deposits. It has not yet touched its methane hydrates. Together, these deposits will likely last a century or more. In addition, other countries are racing to develop their own conventional, shale and hydrate deposits while still others wil... | 4_5 |
The EPA projected that America's Climate Security Act could, by 2050, lower GDP by up to 6.9 percent, increase average gasoline prices by $1.40 per gallon, and raise electricity prices by 26 percent. | 4_1 |
Bottom line: Until climate models can simulate the observed warming spatial patterns, and the observed multidecadal variations in sea surface temperatures, they have no hope of being able to simulate climate on continental land masses. | 5_1 |
Despite billions being spent on research to prove that the 'CO2-causes-global-warming' hypothesis has merit, the actual global temperature observations, as shown in the adjacent chart, confirm the spectacular prediction failure of CO2-based climate models. | 5_1 |
5. Chart of the Day V Wages by Race and Gender (above). The data displayed above on weekly earnings for full-time workers in 2014 by race and gender are from the Women in the Labor Force: A Databook that was released last month by the BLS. Since reports like this from the BLS contain detailed data for both male and fem... | 0_0 |
De Bilt metadata is discussed here which includes some interesting pictures (see also pictures at other Dutch sites). In the late 19th century, the station was at Utrecht, not De Bilt, moving in 1898 from Utrecht to the De Bilt pagoda hut, shown in the picture (top left below). In 1950, the station was moved again, thi... | 0_0 |
Better air-quality report bad news for green fundraising. | 0_0 |
Second, the United States needs to adopt the same positive approach rather than continuing to insist that no second round of mandatory emissions reductions can be agreed unless China, India, and the other major developing nations also agree to some level of mandatory reductions. I think that Senator John Kerry was corr... | 0_0 |
US CAP member PG&E; pulled out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week citing "irreconcilable differences" over climate change policy. Today's Bloomberg.Com reports that US CAP member Exelon has announced it will not renew its membership in the Chamber, and that US CAP member Duke Energy will not renew its membership... | 0_0 |
Olavi K rner also passed in March. He was a patient soft-spoken even-tempered scientist from the Estonian Astrophysical Observatory near Tartu, whom I greatly respected. | 0_0 |
AccuWeather.com: Global Warming News, Science, Myths, Articles Scientists from the University of Quebec at Montreal looked at pollen within the sediment ice cores dating back almost a million years and they indicate that Greenland was much greener than it is today with several warm periods over the million-year span. | 2_1 |
if CO2 plays this role it is surprising that climatic proxies indicate that Antarctica seems to have warmed prior to the Northern Hemisphere, yet glacial cycles follow in phase with Northern insolation | 2_3 |
Observed global average temperatures (GAT) are, in fact, below IPCCs 2007 Assessment Reports lowestand most confidenttemperature predictions . The new view in the leaked AR5 shows a complete reversal of the AR4 view, which still touted catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming. | 1_4 |
I first used the R scripts provided by CA to download the data at CA for the aws and surface data. I placed them side by side with the 63 AWS data sets on the left and the surface stations on the right being careful to align the data by time. Then I used R and excel to process the graphs into the correct sized and orie... | 0_0 |
PRINCETON, NJ -- Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a de... | 0_0 |
Dr. Held discusses the difference between Arctic temperatures and sea ice (receding) and Antarctic temperatures and sea ice (advancing). He believes that the Arctic and Antarctic are very different and will not behave the same. But, none of the models show Antarctic ice advancing, which is what is happening. He claims ... | 1_1 |
Since the nighttime temperatures are rising three times as fast as the daytime temperatures (Karl et al., 1993), it implies a non-climatic signal in the nighttime data equal to about one half of the total warming. It implies the reported global warming of 0.6 C in the twentieth century should be reduced to about 0.3 C. | 5_1 |
Hollywood likes to remake classic movies from a generation ago, like Planet of the Apes, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Ladykillers. Why, it might be asked, has there never beenand never will there bea remake of Soylent Green? For readers who have forgotten or not seen the movie, Soylent Green was the 1973 sci-fi/ho... | 0_0 |
Sorry, I dont find that convincing in the slightest. All three have been shown to have errors. All that shows is that their errors roughly match, which is meaningless. We need to throw all of these adjusted datasets in the trash can and start over. | 0_0 |
Recent events suggest that we should listen more attentively to the Europeans. | 0_0 |
I started to develop my own method to explore this utterly strange world, Bao said. Now, it seems that our LSU group is the one offering the strongest supporting evidence for a Snowball Earth back 635 million years ago. I certainly did not see this coming. The finding we published in 2008 demonstrates, again, that new ... | 0_0 |
over the next 8 years a third of our coal-fired capacity, two-thirds of our oil-fired capacity, and nearly three-quarters of our nuclear capacity will be closed down either through age or the impact of the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. Absent a massive and immediate programme of building new power stations... | 0_0 |
As an amusing postscript: After the event, having interrupted me at least twice, and figuratively telling me to shut up by refusing to engage on the relevant empirical question, Ms. Macfarlane then accused me of being "rude." And so it is clear that a "rude" individual is anyone who challenges her assumptions. Wow agai... | 0_0 |
JJN, Nickle, was higher at the top and is now lower at the bottom. It is a more volatile, so faster to react, ticker. It may well move to positive trend first, and watching for it to cross over JJC copper might be an interesting indicator. | 0_0 |
The Sea Surface Temperature anomalies of the East Pacific Ocean, or approximately 33% of the surface area of the global oceans, have shown little to no long-term warming since 1982 based on the linear trend. And between upward shifts, the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for the rest of the world (67% of the global oc... | 1_4 |
That's a lose-lose-lose for everyone except for the special interests and their influential backers in Congress. | 0_0 |
It used to be that warm winters and cool summers proved global warming. Now it is the other way around. | 5_1 |
The IPCC scientists and global warming alarmists predicted that increasing CO2 emissions would lead to a catastrophic permafrost tipping point, unleashing gigatons of methane gas - they were wrong | 5_2 |
The Australian National Universitys Dr Will Steffen warned of surprises in the climate system where abrupt climate change may occur in just a few years. Such surprises appear to already exist in the paleo-climate records. | 0_0 |
Eco-Imperialism On the international level, the Bush Administration has made overtures to help those in developing countries secure better lives. This was done ostensibly in Afghanistan and Iraq with their liberation, providing relief to the victims of the tsunami in Asia, as well as the ongoing commitment to tackle th... | 0_0 |
Wilkins runway construction and maintenance Australian Antarctic ... | 0_0 |
And then I do not see how leugenetica can ever have applications not monstrous in the human | 0_0 |
Stott and Forest (2007) : This TCR estimate is based on the analysis in Stott et al. (2006), an AR4 study from which all four of the unlabelled grey dashed-line PDFs in Figure 10.20a are sourced. It used a detection-and-attribution regression method applied to 20th century temperature observations to scale TCR values, ... | 0_0 |
Wednesday Marc Morano, founder of CFACT's Climate Depot, released a 321 page report listing over 1,000 scientists who dissent over man-made global warming which Morano termed a "consensus buster." | 5_1 |
Sea level appears to have risen about 8 inches since 1880. Have people moved? Have storm surges been more damaging? We saw with Sandy that timing is importantthe storm hit at high tide and that didnt help. But was it made even worse by the sea level rise due to global warming? | 1_6 |
Although only the bottom of his face is shown in the ads, Mr. Berry said he was immediately concerned about the effect this depiction could have on his career as an actor. | 0_0 |
To put things into even starker perspective, consider that from August 1954 through August 1955, the East Coast saw three different storms make landfall Carol, Hazel and Diane that in 2012 each would have caused about twice as much damage as Sandy. | 1_7 |
A group of Geesthacht coastal researchers, together with engineers from the University of Siegen, has recently carried out an analysis of the rise in sea levels in the German Bight. All reliable water level measurements were evaluated for the first time, in order to determine how the mean sea level of the German Bight ... | 1_6 |
I guess they should have asked about their chances for snow in the nation??s 4th-largest city on December 4th . Of course this is not evidence that discredits global warming trends. After all, it??s only a local event, and localized phenomena are only capable of proving global warming , not disproving it. | 1_3 |
I know plenty of people who havent been to church much but know their good lipid numbers and bad lipid numbers and such. | 0_0 |
There is little to indicate any upturn in global manufacturing, and global inflation vs deflation fears look more or less in balance (thus the precious metals being flat / down). | 0_0 |
Lilleys study demonstrates that the benefits of curbing emissions now and henceforth will not be five times the cost of action, as Stern claims. It is achieved by verbal virtuosity combined with statistical sophistry. In fact, even on Sterns figures, the cumulative costs of reducing greenhouse gases will exceed the ben... | 4_1 |
A member of the UK parliament, MP Peter Lilley, has written a scathing rebuttal study to the 2006 Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change which has been used a a basis for UK government to move forward with climate policy. The number of errors and distortions he has uncovered is quite extraordinary and brings t... | 5_2 |
Ever since the litigation began, and since the Obama Administration took office in January, it was generally assumed around Washington that the threat of regulating greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act was a purely political tactic to put pressure on Congress to pass a more comprehensive but flexible approach to ... | 0_0 |
Not all gases in the atmosphere absorb outgoing infrared radiation. Nitrogen and oxygen, which make up most of the earth's atmosphere, have no blocking effect. The gases that absorb the infrared radiation and create the greenhouse effect are mainly water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Water vapor an... | 0_0 |
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, October 30, 2006; available online at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ + www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/stern review report.htm | 0_0 |
Salby's paper is due to be published soon, and I have yet to see his charts, so I am certainly not endorsing his view here. Till now I had thought the attribution of CO2 increases to fossil fuel emissions was a firmly settled aspect of climate science. But I once thought that about the hockey stick graph and the attrib... | 5_1 |
Canadians remember our brave soldiers who have died every November 11th. Americans remember their fallen on the last Monday of May, in what they call Memorial Day . A year ago at this time I was fortunate enough to be over in Hawaii. I made a point of driving up to the magnificent and sacred Punchbowl National Cemetery... | 0_0 |
rmit program. Thus, when EPA's Tailpipe Rule took effect on January 2, 2011, "major" greenhouse emitters became subject to PSD and Title V regulation. This leads straight to the extreme and counter-intuitive measures the Court assumed would not occur. Here's why. | 0_0 |
Just the opposite is demanded in the dead of winter when there is no sun and when the wind dies down. During the week, energy demand soars and their is often not enough supply to meet the demand. And because many power companies are finding it unprofitable to run conventional systems part-time, many are simply mothball... | 4_4 |
Two recent climate science papers deal a savage blow to the climate alarmists' dogma that human caused greenhouse gas emissions will result in dangerous climate change. One paper suggests that the projected warming was not masked by sulfate aerosols, and the second paper argues that less of the recent warming was due t... | 5_1 |
And, Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Philip Moeller said: "The country is undergoing an unprecedented energy shift in a very short time frame." And added: "Grid operators in the Midwest are struggling to gauge whether they will have sufficient capacity to handle peak weather during the next 5 years." While these... | 0_0 |
To provide an even greater margin of protection, farmers wishing to plant Roundup Ready alfalfa had even volunteered to implement their own planting restrictions that would put the onus on commodity growers to extend buffer zones up to a mile from non-genetically engineered seed breeders. Predictably, the organic indus... | 0_0 |
Despite the fact that so little of the stimulus has yet been spent, House leadership already wants more. This week, powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Michigan Representative Sandy Levin (D) is pushing a bill that would extend Stimulus green energy tax incentives, to the tune of $20 billion. So it... | 0_0 |
But when a womans kids are hungry, she wont see the logic of not feeding them to avoid compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.. She wont understand that logic at all. | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 10:04 pm and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
This Friday, Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) demonstrated exactly this contempt for the most basic fact of the market when he responded to a CEI press release that opposed a bill to reduce immigration. Mehlman scoffs at the notion that "without massive infusions of foreign STEM work... | 0_0 |
But wait! Just when you thought life couldn't get more dangerous, and thank the lord for EPA, the agency changed its rules and health advisories though not its regulations for permissible particulate levels. | 0_0 |
???Since (today??s) temperatures aren??t higher than earlier temperatures, it doesn??t look like ???global warming,'?? Christy said, ???but more like a problem we still wrestle with: unpredictable natural variability.?? Christy said no one knows what causes these natural shifts in climate. | 2_1 |
Listen to environmentalists speak about the rainforest and you get the idea that it is an ancient and natural paradise, untouched and unspoiled by human hands until recent times. The first point in a "visions of the rainforest" essay in a Sierra Club book flatly states, "The rainforests are fragile, nonrenewable resour... | 0_0 |
Environment Magazine: "Back When it Snowed': "Losing Winter: As Climate Change Takes Hold, Our Coldest Season is the first Casualty' | 0_0 |
For many years, environmental activists have pushed for bans, moratoria, or other restrictions on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), alleging the process is a threat to public health and the environment. But in recent months, increasing numbers of environmentalists have distanced themselves from the ban fracking agenda. ... | 4_5 |
"All new therapies carry risks, and sometimes those risks cannot be discovered until after clinical testing. If we set a goal of zero unexpected risks, then the only way to meet that goal is through zero new therapies. As the results of this latest survey indicate, from a public health standpoint that could well be the... | 0_0 |
This year's wildfire season may end up being even quieter than 2013. On the same day Running's claim was quoted in the Billings Gazette article, the Washington Times reported only 38,000 wildfires have occurred so far this year. The 2014 wildfire season will almost certainly be one of the three quietest since 1984, and... | 0_0 |
No crisis should go to waste, an eternal truth highlighted in bold by a purported climate change apocalypse that is now the target of actions newly proposed by President Obama. This so-called "crisis" will flood not various coastlines, but instead the front pages, replacing other, less flattering political headlines fo... | 0_0 |
IPCC Warning on Climate Risk: Worst is Yet to Come | 0_0 |
First, the actual story seems so straightforward that I wouldn't normally spend much time with it. The best movie of the incident was captured by the amateur Abraham Zapruder. There were probably exactly 3 shots and The Zapruder film shows everything you need: | 0_0 |
We are constantly told about the risks of what climate change might bring in the distant future. In response, governments have adopted a series of policy measures that have been largely ineffective but have brought with them a bewildering array of unintended consequences. | 4_2 |
My warning to you is that research that is politically motivated always lands where it wants to land. | 0_0 |
GLOBE International has just issued a report on climate change legislation around the world. Rather dull stuff. | 0_0 |
Dr. Sally Satel summarizes ACSH's efforts to provide sound science on the effects of tobacco smoking in the face of corporations' efforts to disguise its horrendous impacts. | 0_0 |
Central Europeans right now are scratching their heads, wondering how on Earth they are still shoveling snow past Easter. March in Germany, according to the German Weather Service DWD , was the 6th coldest since measurements began in 1881. Britain has just seen its coldest March in 100 years. In fact over the last few ... | 1_3 |
According to IPCC models, if everyone in Wyoming traded in their pickup truck for a hybrid, it would slow global warming by about 0.00000001 degrees. | 4_2 |
So, it is now almost certain we will see this scam blow up in the run up to US presidential election with a massacre of the Democrats and any other climate extremists caught into the crossfire will just be collateral damage! | 0_0 |
MOOSE: Dont give me any of that fallacy malarkey. You just do what I tell you and youll get through this. | 0_0 |
41 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? | 0_0 |
The industry has every incentive to capture methane emissions because its also a valuable energy source that can be used to produce electricity and heat. The more methane that drillers capture, the better the return on their investment. The industry has already unleashed an array of technologies to prevent leakage from... | 0_0 |
The timelineof these actions iscritical. In June 2010, the Senate voted on Sen. Murkowskis resolution ( S.J.Res.26 ) to overturn the EPAs Endangerment Rule, the prerequisite for all EPA global warming regulations. The resolution fell short by four votes (47-53). In April 2011, the Senate voted on Sen. Inhofes legislati... | 0_0 |
The constitutional and legal issues make the parallel less than perfect, but the principle remains the same. Indeed, I'd wager that the costs of illegal immigrationeconomic, social, and environmentalon Arizona dwarf the costs on California from global warming, at least so far. | 0_0 |
There has been a rise in temperature of a full degree since 1976. Note, though, how temperatures have flatlined in the last decade. | 1_4 |
on Saturday, November 24th, 2012 at 3:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Christopher Monckton has already spoken about the draft treaty with its message of setting up a new form of global governance, but without any mention of voting. He spoke again yesterday to Alex Jones and pointed out that in a sense Copenhagen succeeded , despite what everyone is saying. After all, it was never really ... | 5_2 |
Proponents of Internet sales taxes are asking the lame-duck Congress to bless their state tax cartel as part of a larger tax reform package by passing the Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179) and its companion in the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). These aren't your average tax increases, but grim bluepri... | 0_0 |
Not that these studio meteorologists were making the elementary mistake of confounding weather with climate, for this is a distinction familiar now even to kindergartners. | 0_0 |
Jonathan H. Adler Competitive Enterprise Institute | 0_0 |
Water vapor feedback exactly fits the feedback alteration of the input shown in the feedback schematic. The greenhouse-gas (ghg) atmospheric heat from CO2 produced water vapor can also heat the atmosphere by its own ghg effect. But its production removes more heat from the atmosphere than its added ghg effect can repla... | 3_1 |
However, it seems to me that Schmidts May 11 post additionally implied that little credence could be given to my emulation of the 2006 CRU regional chronology, which Schmidt described as an insta-reconstruction and said that I had thrown together. The next graphic compares my insta-reconstruction with information provi... | 0_0 |
THE DATA FOR THE EARLIER WARMING PERIOD REVEALS THE CURRENT ARCTIC AMPIFICATION IS NOT UNUSUAL | 2_1 |
Within six days after planting, photosynthetic rates of second leaves of CO 2 -enriched plants were 37% greater than those of second leaves of ambiently-grown plants. This CO 2 -induced photosynthetic enhancement slowly declined over the growing season, stabilizing around 15% for the time period between 23 and 60 days ... | 3_3 |
This is all part of the 60 year patterns in the weather cycles, and can be explained as such. Now that the outer planet synod conjunctions of the Earth with Neptune and Uranus are moving into the fall and early winter, we can expect them to produce the increased snowfall events and cold polar blasts being seen in both ... | 2_1 |
The nexus between religion and global warming is an interesting one. The dogma associated with global warming was discussed in a number of my previous posts: | 5_2 |
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