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Eilperins story is certainly is in the running. Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction obviously was aimed at the heartstrings: Assuming the current rate of ice shrinkage and accompanying weight loss in the Hudson Bay region, bears there could become so thin by 2012 they may no longer be able to reproduceOnce the... | 0_0 |
The national security challenges arising from these climate impacts include: "threats to stability of countries, heightened social and political tensions, adverse effects on food prices and availability, increased risks to human health, negative impacts on investment and economic competitiveness, and (get this) potenti... | 0_0 |
The statement that In March a team of climate scientists at Kiel University predicted that natural variation would mask the 0.3C warming predicted by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change over the next decade is scientifically incorrect.Heating cannot be masked. | 5_1 |
From Digital Diatribes of a Random Idiot The best measured temperature trend site on the web. Completely unbiased! | 0_0 |
That should worry all Americans, because California energy policy is an unmitigated disaster. California's expensive energy has driven industries out of the state. According to the Energy Information Agency, California has some of the highest electricity prices in the country, due in part to the laughably misnamed "der... | 0_0 |
The foundation arguments on which this entire nonsense-structure is built are very simple. First, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide control the sun?s energy flow to and from the Earth and thus control global temperatures in particular and global climate generally. Second, anthropogenic emissions of carbon di... | 0_0 |
All the evidence points in the same direction there has been no warming in or around Antarctica since 1979. On the contrary, if there is any trend, it is to a cooler climate. | 1_1 |
Today, we'll sign off with a brief round-up of Global Warming Oops Moments, failures and some of the movement's most persistent foolishness. This would be funnier, if it didn't cost you so much, and enrich so many schemers. | 0_0 |
As demonstrated here, and in numerous additional reviews of other experiments posted on our website (found under the topics ??? and sub-topics ??? of Ocean Acidification and Ocean Acidification and Warming in our Subject Index ), for many species, ocean acidification will be a non-problem ?? and maybe even a blessing! | 3_2 |
National Climate Assessment Report: Alarmists Offer Untrue, Unrelenting Doom and Gloom | 5_2 |
Judge Scolds White House for Bad Faith in Global Warming Case | 0_0 |
The ideology driving the sceptics is most obvious in the exchanges over the impact on future generations. US Tea Party activists and their bombastic British representative, Niall Ferguson now delivering the Reith lectures like to terrify their audiences with how much public debt today's generation is leaving its childr... | 0_0 |
The graph above plots the ten year running mean of the number of category five hurricanes making landfall . As you can see, the peak occurred during the 1930s and it has been relatively level since. There were four category five hurricanes which made landfall between 1924 and 1935, but only two during the past decade. ... | 1_7 |
Unfortunately, while HeiQ came to EPA to have its product registered, other nanosilver manufacturers have not. The unregulated and untested use of nanosilver in such products as food storage containers and hair dryers continues to grow, despite potential dangerous health effects. | 0_0 |
In the tropics right now, "the large part of wood harvested comes from plantations." Brazil is adding almost 500,000 thousand acres of forest plantation each year, and although these "account for only 2 percent of its forests, they provide 60 percent of the wood harvested." According to Roger Sedjo, "The world's curren... | 0_0 |
Instead, forecasters expect hot and dry high pressure systems, comparable with patterns which delivered the 2003 and 2006 scorchers. | 0_0 |
In Weingarts view, climate science has abused its position in goingfar beyond policy advising. They now insistthatthe rest of the world dance to its tune. Weingart cites examples of humans alreadybeing forced to alter their behaviour: carbon trading, changing light bulbs, basing purchasing decisions on climate impact, ... | 4_1 |
The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. The Royal Navy lost 13 ships and 1500 seamen. Up to 15000 people died overall. | 1_7 |
CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group founded in 1984, is dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information, please contact the media relations department at pr@cei.org or 202-331-1010. | 0_0 |
A recent open-access paper in GRL by Chylek et al, here , throws further light on the behaviour of three of the models used by Shindell. The authors conclude from an inverse structural analysis that the CanESM2, GFDL-CM3and HadGEM-ES models all strongly overestimate GHG warming and compensate by a very strongly overest... | 5_1 |
That was vindication for a man who was termed a civil heretic in a New York Times Magazine article on his contrarian views. Dyson embraces that label, with its implication that what he opposes is a religious movement. So does his fellow Princeton physicist and fellow skeptic, William Happer. | 0_0 |
But the whole disappearing sea ice threatens polar bears survival story is in reality a farce. | 3_2 |
The eight researchers, all from Portugal, report that the growth of the mussels, measured as relative increases in shell size and body weight during the 84 days of the experiment, "did not differ among treatments." In fact, they say that a tendency for faster shell growth under elevated CO 2 was apparent, "at least dur... | 3_2 |
Because the two experiments yielded nearly identical results, we will focus our discussion on experiment two, since it was of greater duration.?? Elevated CO 2 apparently reduced rates of transpiration in all seedlings shortly after the start of the experiment.?? After 30 days of differential CO 2 exposure, seedlings g... | 3_3 |
In Vanishing Ice Most Likely All Natural (transcipt here) I argued that Greenlands glaciers would soon stabilize and sea ice in the Barents Sea would soon recover based on trends in the transport of warm Atlantic water into the Arctic. Although a one-year recovery is much too short a period from which to derive reliabl... | 1_1 |
If you are wondering, what about cooling of the atmosphere in contact with the ground?, well just make the soil layer deeperit turns out that 0.2 meters of soil is equivalent in bulk heat capacity to about 200 m of atmosphere. | 0_0 |
The report comes with a statement by the OPT which recommends that climate change negotiators recognize that population restraint is a vital part of tackling global warming and says, in part: | 0_0 |
Excuse me? What "journalistic balance"? If the NewsHour"s ultimate explanation is that they did avoid such a "distorted form of journalistic balance' for years, did they first check the veracity of accusations against skeptics? | 0_0 |
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has estimated the potential savings from a nationwide 25% renewable electricity standard, a goal included in the Waxman-Markey energy bill that narrowly passed the House last year. Best-case scenario: about 306 million tons less CO2 by 2030. Given that the agency expects... | 4_2 |
Julian Morris discusses the economic impact of various changes of the climate rationally, as an economist. He compares the wealth of the future generations in poor nations with the riches of the present generation in rich nations: the first group will be wealthier. He argues that they will have enough resources to adap... | 4_2 |
But regardless of the cause, if you believe all of this, then enhanced greenhouse gases are inconsequential compared to the tremendous increase in solar energy hitting the surface. Apparently few want to admit to this. | 2_1 |
A recent paper published by the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestial Physics (74) 2012 87-93 and authored by Souza Echer et al. suggests that solar cycles, to a substantial extent, drive global temperatures, and that likely through amplification mechanisms. | 2_1 |
Comparing measured values for cloudy sky to the calculated values for clear sky, the researchers found that, on average, puffy fair-weather clouds cool down the earth's surface by several percent on a summer day. Although clouds cool overall, two components that the researchers looked at from direct and scattered sunli... | 0_0 |
Some legislators thought the situation called for more bureaucracy and requiring Cajun navy and marines to obtain certificates and pay a fee before permitting them to help would be just the ticket. | 0_0 |
???At this time, we believe the scientific understanding of the global climate is inadequate to justify drastic control policies and needs to be better developed to support limiting greenhouse gas emissions ??? limitations that would damage the economic well-being of most of the world??s population. | 4_1 |
I could see the light turning on in Tabitha?s head as she slowly said, ?It?s almost like they have another agenda behind this Green movement stuff?. | 0_0 |
They certainly are, writes Lewis Page in the Register . If it is the case that actually the climate has often been warmer without any significant CO2 emissions having taken place suggesting that CO2 emissions simply arent that important the case for huge efforts to cut those emissions largely disappears. | 2_1 |
How can a scientific conclusions that emerge from "processes of deliberation and discussion rather than from pure observation, experimentation and falsification" be considered "settled" and "certain"? And do you agree or disagree with Hulme that climate scientists should not suggest "that matters are settled"? | 5_1 |
H/t to Pat for the correction of George Pells status: current Archbishop it is. | 0_0 |
In 1999, NASA showed US temperatures falling. That didnt meet their funding requirements , so they simply altered the data to make the cooling disappear, and turned it into warming. Straight out of Orwell. | 5_2 |
Not only is EPA continuing to stall the permitting process, they are trying to stop permits that have already been granted. In January 2011 EPA took the drastic and unprecedented step of revoking a lawfully issued mining permit that the Bush Army Corps of Engineers had granted to the Spruce Mine project in Appalachia. ... | 0_0 |
MACD Not only is it red on top but it has crossed the zero line to a negative value. Gold Bear Market is what its saying. While we had a counter trend rally in October (DMI and MACD both blue on top) thats ended. | 0_0 |
Be all that as it may, the next IPCC report is now being produced. It will attempt to reflect what the various committees and advisors believe to be the scientific consensus on various matters including sea levels. But it appears that there simply isn't any scientific consensus on the Antarctic and Greenland melt rates... | 5_1 |
But count on Maurice to come back Strong when there's a good opportunity to cash in on fossil-fueled climate alarm, reentering through the Green curtains of the anti-carbon scam stage as chairman of the China Carbon Corporation, and vice chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). | 0_0 |
The state regulates the public utilities. The state certifies the public utilities. Their performance in this operation I believe is germane to their regulatory status, he continued. If the state believes they were not diligent and aggressive in their activities to restore power, they could be subject to monetary penal... | 0_0 |
12. " that Germany has to decrease its emissions until 2020 by 40%." No, Germany doesn't have to do that, cannot do that, and won't do that. | 0_0 |
So what does this really mean? What impact will such a ruling have depending upon whichever way it goes? I have asked my good friend Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., to discuss the implications regarding whether petitioners win or lose. | 0_0 |
Since the 1970s, the south-western corner of Western Australia has suffered a dramatic decline in their winter rainfall, so rapid and so extreme that its like, somewhere, a giant tap is being turned off. | 0_0 |
I'd say they're about 90% talk, and about 10% actions that barely nibble at the edges of greenhouse gas emission growth. Even at that, the costs of nibbling are revealing themselves to be as high as critics said they'd be, and more of the talk is turning to back-peddling, rather than pouring on more money. | 0_0 |
Surely the responsibility for using the most comprehensive available data rests with CRU and the journal reviewers. If they neglect to do so, they deserve criticism. It is ludicrous for Osborn to attack me because they were negligent. | 0_0 |
So EPA needed additional studies, to back up its expansive, bogus epidemiological assertions. The new studies, JunkScience.com director Steve Milloy discovered, involved human test subjects. They raised numerous new legal, ethical and scientific problems. | 0_0 |
Its time for skeptics to smile again, the regular round-up of all things warm, toasty and positively hoaxy is here. | 0_0 |
Among many examples, see Union of Concerned Scientists. 2004 Climate Change: Choosing Our Future, http://www.climatechoices.org/data/. | 0_0 |
Note: NOAA/ OGP survey of Global Impacts caused by the 1997-1998 ENSO warm event was $ 25.0-33.0 billion | 0_0 |
Suppressed Critical Knowledge. Phil Jones wrote, "I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working on the IPCC 5th Assessment Report would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants ... | 5_2 |
Finally, America's mayor didn't make it through the primaries. You know, your humble correspondent probably isn't the most canonical guy who would have picked Giuliani but I would find him highly natural in the office, anyway. He's still a symbol of the mainstream America's leader who has everything that seemed necessa... | 0_0 |
Today, counting the E.U. as a single entity, perhaps fifteen to twenty nations around the world are major sources of GHG discharges. Agreement is already difficult, but the real test lies in the future. Economic growth will swell the number of major sources. Eventually, participation has to be nearly universal, or coun... | 0_0 |
The province of Alberta, Canada will propose a greenhouse gas reduction plan as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol, according to its Environment Minister, Lorne Taylor. The plan will resemble the one proposed by President George W. Bush, in that it will rely on financial incentives to develop technologies that would ... | 0_0 |
On Thursday, September 15, The Heartland Institute will celebrate its 32nd anniversary with a reception and dinner at The Cotillion, a fine banquet hall in Palatine, Illinois. Our keynote speaker will be political satirist and author P.J. O'Rourke, who will deliver an incisive and funny address about the 2016 election ... | 0_0 |
Will the Supreme Court Review EPA?s Greenhouse Gas Regulations? Part II | 0_0 |
It often is stated that water vapor is the chief greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere. For example, it has been asserted that about 98% of the natural greenhouse effect is due to water vapour and stratiform clouds with CO2 contributing less than 2% | 2_3 |
Actually, ENSO is an integral part of the sea surface temperature record. As such, the effects of ENSO cannot be removed from the surface temperature record. ENSO represents a natural coupled ocean-atmosphere process, not some outside factor. The events that initiate an El Nio are weather related, making El Nio basical... | 0_0 |
Yesterday, the high temperature in New York, 59 degrees Fahrenheit, tied the record set in 1911 for the coldest August high ever and was 23 degrees below the normal high: The New York Sun The record cold high of 64 degrees Fahrenheit for August 21st, set in 1999, had to be edited, too. The new record is 5 degrees coole... | 1_3 |
There are also exciting opportunities that could arise for the public recording and utilization of such capital through the distributed public-ledger system known as the blockchain, best known for its role in the development of bitcoin. Development of the blockchain for property recording and titling would significantl... | 0_0 |
Americans belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes, according to a new university poll. | 0_0 |
In order to trsta their carbon faithful readers p Washington University's Zhang also says that when it gets warmer NNU's will probably trend seekers multitude of sea ice in Antarctica to be broken. The scheme will sledes to terstllas says Zhang, and politicians can continue to their climate policy threaten the safe frv... | 0_0 |
2) To my quick scan, more of the stations are cooler. It would be best to do some sort of statistical plot of the data, but right now, this is hot off the presses. More importantly, from personal knowledge of the locations, those stations that are more suburban and a bit closer to the original environment are the cool ... | 5_1 |
Soon, Denmark produced a study ("Wind Energy: The Case of Denmark ") through the think-tank CEPOS. This paper also revealed tremendous costs, and that Obama's claim about Denmark's "renewables" experience was also steeped in mythology. | 0_0 |
In summary cyclic Earth eccentricity causes Earth cooling and warming, not the availability of excess Greenhouse gases. | 2_1 |
NOAA Says U.S. Cooling Over Last 15 Years: -3.2 F/Century Rate, As of August 2011 | 1_4 |
These three points are that (1) "rapid evolution is common," that (2) "genetic divergence occurs along a variety of gradients, including those affected by global change," and that (3) "genetic divergence in a variety of species can impact ongoing species interactions, community structure, biodiversity and ecosystem fun... | 3_2 |
A prominent paper examining the issue was published in 2011 by Dr. Benjamin Santer and a long list of colleagues including some of the bigger names in climate science. These researchers set out to see just how unusual the rather low warming rate in the lower atmosphere is when compared with climate model expectations o... | 0_0 |
Oil, Climate Change, and Security: A Bipartisan Approach | 0_0 |
Europe-wide Next 3 Days Accumulated Snow | 0_0 |
Willie Soon is a solar physicist and climate scientist based in Cambridge, Mass. Lord Monckton is a former expert reviewer for the Fifth Assessment Report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013) of the U.N.?s climate panel. | 0_0 |
The real moral of this story is that scientists are merely human. They can be as short-sighted and as political and as dishonorable as the rest of us. | 0_0 |
Judge Issues Mixed Ruling on Cape Wind | 0_0 |
As you can see, that 56 F high is closer to the normal low of 51 F than to the normal high of 68 F. Were looking at 10 15 F below normal, depending on location. And a good 31 F below the record. Record heat we dont have But I notice that were trending toward that record low of 45 F set during the last cold phase of the... | 1_3 |
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is, in theory, a measure of the damage done to future economies from the emission of another ton of CO2 for the year in which the CO2 is emitted. In concept, the CO2 emitted adds a warming effect to the atmosphere for the year in which it was emitted as well as subsequent years (to varyi... | 0_0 |
Surely it could not be anything to do with the Govt ship Aurora Australis being icebound ? (see yesterday post below) A sort of counter story. | 0_0 |
Tuesday's headlines gave Mitt Romney a golden opportunity to attack President Obama and his "green" energy agenda during the second presidential debate. A123 Systems, the electric-car-battery maker that got a $249 million grant from the Department of Energy in 2009, filed for bankruptcy in a Delaware court. | 0_0 |
One casualty of the massive expansion of wind power will have to be Longannet coal fired power station which I imagine will close before 2020. The plan is, after all, to get rid of fossil fuel powered generation even although coal is likely to be the cheapest form of power production for many decades. | 4_5 |
The paper is behind a pay wall but there is a comprehensive summary here. | 0_0 |
And you need to educate yourself to avoid being afflicted by various government policies intended to advance the hoax. To start with, do not vote for any politician who talks of global warming/climate change or uses the term "sustainability." | 0_0 |
Mikey Manns c limate of doom in 2036 model puts us in a full blown ice age in 1960 | 0_0 |
Fonte provides several case studies of the global-governance philosophy at work, including international efforts to direct U.S. domestic policy; transmogrifying the laws of war to constrain U.S. options and practices; the International Criminal Court (ICC); isolating and delegitimizing Israel; and international migrati... | 0_0 |
Needless to say, investors would lose out as companies would have to divert resources to compliance with these mandates, on top of the horrific regulations from corporate "reforms" such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. One consequence would be that this would simply accelerate the trend of companies leaving or staying... | 0_0 |
Many critics have complained that the biggest problem with the IPCC Third Assessment Report, which was completed under Watson's chairmanship, is advocacy and not science. | 5_2 |
And as I mentioned at the outset, if climate sensitivity is low, then the warming effect of more CO2 (as well as the cooling effect of any geoengineering fixes to the problem) will have little effect on global temperatures, anyway. | 3_1 |
This lag is one of the reasons that we have recommended ocean heat content changes as a more appropriate climate metric for global warming and cooling, as there are no lags involved; just an accounting for the Joules of heat in the climate system, as discussed in | 0_0 |
Read here . Actual real world research of peer reviewed literature finds that island atolls continue to gain shore line - "reef islands exhibit a degree of physical resilience." Virtual climate model predictions are incorrect. | 3_2 |
12. How much will the earth's temperature rise if the amount of human-made CO2 in the atmosphere continues to increase in the next 100 years? | 0_0 |
It turns out that there is a much more fundamental and unambiguous check of the role of feedbacks in enhancing greenhouse warming that also shows that all models are greatly exaggerating climate sensitivity. Here, it must be noted that the greenhouse effect operates by inhibiting the cooling of the climate by reducing ... | 3_1 |
Now that we've answered the first question, let's focus on the second and what lies ahead for the GOP. But first, some historical perspective. | 0_0 |
Thats it: 2.77 mm (about a tenth of an inch) per year for the last 150 years. No acceleration ofthe sea-level-rise-ratehas accompanied increasing atmospheric CO2 levels. To get three feet in the next 40 years the sea level must rise an average of about 23 mm per year between now and 2050. That is a sea-level-rise-rate ... | 1_6 |
Indeed. Just last October Professor Muller released a study claiming that he had checked out the concerns raised by sceptics, including the risk of data selection bias and, temperatures really were rising . | 0_0 |
It's more likely than not at during 2012 or at the beginning of 2013, we will actually see an RSS climate record that will display a cooling trend during the most recent 15 years ??? partly because of the expected 2011/2012 La Nia, partly because the warm 1998 year will emerge at the beginning of the 15-year interval. ... | 1_4 |
To cut a long story short, the 95% certainty of Working Group I boils down to climate models and 98% of them didnt predict the pause in surface temperature trends (von Storch 2013) . Even under the most generous interpretation, models are proven failures, 100% right except for rain, drought, storms, humidity and everyt... | 5_1 |
A growing body of evidence clearly shows that hydroclimatic variability | 0_0 |
The term carbon pollution is a pejorative term that displays ignorance by those who use it. In reality, the public debate is about the magnitude of the warming effect exercised by human carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide from whatever source is an environmental benefice that sustains most of the ecosystems on pla... | 3_3 |
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