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Homeowners who care about their own property should do what they can to reinforce it against hurricanes: roof tie-downs, storm-resistant windows and deep-rooted plantings pay for themselves through improved safety, increased property values and lower insurance rates. | 0_0 |
The true global average temperature is that measured from outer space, and this has a value of -18 degrees C. We do not actually know what the average surface temperature is because we simply dont have thermometers placed on the actual ground surface. If we did, climate science would see the Sun heating the surface to ... | 0_0 |
Public emails subject to open scrutiny and broad dissemination: These only need to be sent by, or delivered to, at least one email address that is a public, government institution funded by taxpayers. An example in Great Britain would be the University of East Anglia, where Phil Jones was once director of the CRU. Anot... | 0_0 |
Working with two species of oak ( Quercus velutina Lam. and Quercus coccinea Muench.) and one of pine ( Pinus echinata Mill.) in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, USA, the authors cross-dated a large number of increment cores and aligned the ring-width data by pith date for accurate age-constant assessments of growth ov... | 0_0 |
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Plumbers and Pipefitters, whose presidents joined Mr. Obama on Tuesday, are desperate to get more work and members, because the Labor Department lists their pension plans as in "critical" status - meaning that they have less than 65% of assets needed to fulfil... | 0_0 |
Move over David Crane. Enter Alex Epstein, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels .Might Crane debate Epsteinand soon? Thats an event that I would be sure to watch, and you should too. | 0_0 |
However any account of their role would make the book much longer, and perhaps less accessible. He is clearly aware of these forces, as he describes incidents impossible without them. Moreover he speaks to it directly through the following: | 0_0 |
Apart from ecology, lawyers have their own philosophy, called jurisprudence. Like Ambrose Bierce, some medieval Scottish lawyers may not be recognised as philosophers, but showed perspicacity in taking the Latin verb reptare (to crawl or creep) and forming the legal terms subreption and obreption. These mean, respectiv... | 0_0 |
5. U.S. oil demand may be relatively flat, but it's not going away. Opponents of the pipeline claim that there's no need to build the Keystone XL, because U.S. oil demand is sluggish. That's true, but the U.S. will continue to need lots of oil for decades to come. Here's the latest prediction from EIA: "U.S. consumptio... | 0_0 |
There is a very interesting passage on that Durrington Walls link above. Ill quote it here, but its probably better read in the context of the original article: | 0_0 |
The first sentence here, citing unspecified ???empirical relationships?? between cosmogenic isotopes (a proxy for solar activity) and ???some aspects of the climate system?? is the only reference in the entire report to the massive evidence for a solar driver of climate. Not a word about the magnitude of the correlatio... | 2_1 |
Switzerland covers coal, oil and natural gas. The report is littered with similar caveats for other countries. | 0_0 |
on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 2:49 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
WikiLeaks Exposes Podesta-Steyer Climate McCarthyism | 0_0 |
Climate models are the basis for much of the gloom and doom predictions of warming. The problem is that the models are terrible even at hindcasting , which somewhat detracts from their predictive credibility. | 5_1 |
Photosynthetic rates of sub-ambiently-grown seedlings measured 12 to 22 days after transfer to 350 ppm CO 2 tended to be greater than those displayed by control plants raised exclusively at 350 ppm CO 2 , while seedlings grown at 800 ppm CO 2 and transferred to 350 ppm CO 2 exhibited photosynthetic rates that tended to... | 3_3 |
"Berresford "Berry" Bingham, the political director of SEIU Local 1021, was found dead in his West Oakland home and investigators are treating the death as a homicide, police said." | 0_0 |
Good heavens! Since 1997 the planet (or at least the U.S. portion of it) has been cooling! Just like Murphy said in his column. And this cooling is not just a 2009 phenomenon. | 1_4 |
Climate science has transformed itself from a research backwater a few decades ago into one of the greatest public-good scientific cash cows ever devised. In Australia, for instance, there is a separate federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency specifically devoted to implementing (buying?) the social ... | 5_2 |
Politicians and administrators as well as the public have to evaluate the impact on society of the various phenomena and take decisions in the face of uncertainties. Apparently scientific but incorrect or sensational information is often fed to them. The meteorologist has therefore a responsibility in bringing a correc... | 0_0 |
Elizabeth May on the hidden talents of Stephen Mesmer-Harper : Murray Dobbin: "Do you think Harper has deliberately set out to discourage people from voting?" Elizabeth May: "Absolutely. People thought that Harper had become more popular between the 2006 and 2008 elections but not so: 170,000 fewer people voted for a C... | 0_0 |
The frosting on environmentalists' cake came when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced it would divest shares in companies producing fossil fuels. It could not be determined whether John D. Rockefeller, the fund's founder who also founded the modern petroleum industry, is spinning in his grave or, as his heirs conte... | 0_0 |
German scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have released their latest international survey of climate scientists. The data is reported here: | 0_0 |
British consumers were forced to use eco-friendly water heaters by the last Labour government. Unfortunately, the boilers work poorly or not at all in cold weather : | 0_0 |
Sometime late in the next century, our heirs will discover whether global warming produces dramatic changes such as the disappearance of coastlines and an upsurge in tropical diseases. The task facing us now is how best to address the possibility of human-induced climate damage on a global scale. | 0_0 |
One proviso, is that we must use this estimate over similar periods, but as the post cooling scare is less than 30 years and the pause is now longer than 18 years, we are using similar length periods. | 1_4 |
Subsequent polls, for example those by Hans von Storch in Germany, have given similar resultswhile polls conducted by activists have consistently shown strong support for AGW. A classic case is a survey of the abstracts of nearly 1000 papers, by science historian Naomi Oreskes (UC San Diego); published in 2004 Science ... | 0_0 |
Obama used the Hawaiian monument creation to talk about how global warming could wipe out natural landmarks. | 0_0 |
"You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people". | 0_0 |
Obama's "New" Doctrine: What Americans Want, but Not What They Need | 0_0 |
"It became so easy, I got complacent," Brown said. Almost 400 TSA officers have been fired for stealing from passengers over the past decade. | 0_0 |
Problems with surface measurements are notorious. Recording stations are sparse, even nonexistent in vital global locations, most particularly throughout the Southern Hemisphere and in remote polar regions. After 1970 the number of reporting stations dropped suddenly and drastically. (Stations at airports have seemed t... | 5_1 |
Figure 1 presents maps of the modeled and observed warming and cooling rates of the surfaces of the global oceans for the period of 1982 to 2013. The color-coded contour levels are presented in deg C/year. The model mean is presented in the left-hand map and the observed warming rates are presented in the right-hand on... | 5_1 |
More on patient safety part 3hospital acquired infections | 0_0 |
If Hansen was a reasonable concerned citizen he would immediately disavow this book and discourage all who call for similar illegal potentially dangerous action. Likewise, the climate change topic is owned by NASA and the IPCC???where are their moderating responses? Silence is tacit approval. Are they really happy to i... | 4_1 |
As this most recent video of Region 1 Administrator Spalding confirms, there are plenty of green generals like Armendariz going into battle for the Obama EPA. We have several more videos of EPA officials making similar statements, but I will talk about those at a later date, because today I would like to focus my remar... | 0_0 |
Email management boffins, and more or less anybody that has ever fathomed the extremely-complex (or not) world of how to archive messages using MS Outlook or any other email package , are urgently sought at world-famous UEAs CRU and at the Nature Publishing Group, following a plea for help by a computer-challenged clim... | 0_0 |
15. The Climate-gate scandal revealed that a scientific team had tampered with their own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors. | 5_2 |
Glikson then digs deeply into the handbag of IPCC quick-fix-glue and resorts to the ritual lines about how the IPCC has looked at every possible cause and ruled all the rest out. Its known as argument from ignorance: we cant think of anything else it could be. Never mind that they are searching for answers with the sam... | 5_1 |
"Climate sensitivity estimated from the is 1.1 0.4 C ...compared with the IPCC central value of 3 C." | 3_1 |
I agree with their conclusion in the very narrow language in which it is expressed language in which each word matters: | 0_0 |
Okay. I thought I'd give you the IPCC's estimate. As most of you probably know, this is the UN-sponsored, intergovernmental panel on climate change, the official, international word on what the future of global warming is. And their first official report came out in 1990. I'm a member of this group, this 2,500 scientis... | 0_0 |
In the middle of the greatest world economic crisis since the 1930's, the bill would have committed the families of Canada to the following: "The Government of Canada shall ensure that Canadian greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, subject to the ultimate objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate... | 0_0 |
Instead, the onus should be on the developers to prove the positive. No wind farm developer has ever had to explain the benefits of wind. Evidence tells us that wind power performance shows not only no reduction in CO 2 and other harmful emissions, but the very reverse. But Alex Salmond is driving an aggressive green a... | 4_4 |
Apparently it was quite a day in Lochmaben. The ice had been checked by the local council and was 7-8 inches, and solid. However, someone phoned the police to say there were lots of people on the ice and they didn't think it was safe. Anne tells the story, "Six police officers arrived but they couldn't go on ice to war... | 0_0 |
But Gore's prediction of a 20 ft sea-level rise is, as his movie makes quite clear, based on ice-melt alone. Abraham says Gore was right to worry about a very large rise in sea level because the IPCC specifically excludes ice-melt from its calculations, saying it cannot yet be quantified. No, the IPCC specifically incl... | 0_0 |
The vote represents a significant victory for student rights and for science. The scientific method demands consideration of all data, without regard for the impact this may have on a cherished theory. Open minds and free debate are essential to science and climate science is no exception. | 0_0 |
Already an unnecessarily expensive abatement policy, it has been turned into a vehicle for funding the most expensive forms of abatement at a cost running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, paid by all electricity users, she said. | 4_1 |
But the reports mind-numbing length hasnt stopped people from interpreting it the way they think it should be interpreted. And because no one bothered to read the fine print everyone thinks the IPCC is saying that the adverse impacts of human-caused climate change are already being felt: | 0_0 |
The experiment also taught us the importance of investigating climate change using several different approaches, in order to fully understand its effects and to predict future impacts, says Christian Alsterberg. | 0_0 |
Rising Outgoing Long-wave radiation with more than 3.7 W/m^2 per C SST cannot be the effect of rising CO2 or of the increase of other greenhouse gases. Rising OLR/SST with 8.6 W/m^2K means that the atmosphere has become more transparent to IR radiation in the past 60 years. The greenhouse effect has become less. | 2_3 |
I needed a little information Santer trends (already collated): | 0_0 |
Judith Curry wrote a revealing summary of reflections on the fifth anniversary of Climategate. It references an early Curry commentary on Steve Mcintyres site titled, On the credibility of climate research. In that article Curry provides examples of Ivory Tower thinking. | 5_2 |
If you missed it Sunday, the Audi Super Bowl ad is on Youtube, and it's a hoot. The ad promotes the Audi A3 TDI clean diesel. The main selling point, surprisingly, is not that this car, which won a "Green Car of the Year" award, is good for the planet, but that if you drive it, you won't be hassled, bullied, and jailed... | 0_0 |
The EPA could finally act on petitions pending from the Bush administration to set GHG emission standards for marine vessels, aircraft, and non-road vehicles. | 0_0 |
Basically rgbatduke argued that model methods to create spectra for chemical elements such as carbon had limitations; that there was a history of improvement of models; the average of such successive models was meaningless; they did not succeed without some computational judgment; and even then, they were not as good a... | 5_1 |
41 For example, see Earthjustice et al., "Smokestack Rollback: How the Bush administration's Clean Air Act proposals will increase toxic refinery pollution and jeopardize public health," February 2002. | 0_0 |
In the ongoing debates about the nature of the global warming threat there has been a lot of attention paid to some core scientific issues such as natual variabilty, the validity of climate models, the quality of atmospheric temperture data, the connection between climate and extreme weather, and so forth. ... (read mo... | 0_0 |
Climatologist Dr. Eduardo Zorita, one of the authors of the recent paper rejecting the climate models at a confidence level >98% over the past 15 years , has a new post in which he states that the model vs. real-world discrepancy is even greater during the winter months , with only 0.2% of 6,104 climate model runs proj... | 5_1 |
The headline aims p that today I best Christmas lunch with the editors on the world today. Otherwise is the world like himself, Besides a ovntad kldknpp. Slowly but safe spreads Climategate in the Swedish media. Today's editorial in DN, signed Rikard Westerberg, is a frsiktig ppning from DN's side. | 0_0 |
Alice Bell has posted an interesting collection of articles on what she terms 'new' climate change controversies. They seem fairly well established sceptic topics to me - perhaps she has been reading the wrong sort of blogs. But it did make me think that the Road the Paris is looking rather sceptical in its approach. M... | 0_0 |
The report concludes, "In the absence of a mandatory carbon cap, none of the base case scenarios examined in this study achieves a reduction in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 2035 relative to current levels." And it emphasizes, "This is true even in the scenario with the most optimistic assumptions about the future c... | 0_0 |
Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue reported last week that the 5-year running sum for tropical cyclones globally hit a 45-year low. Maue wrote that in the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s and the frequency of tropical... | 1_7 |
The study notes that "People in some groups are especially vulnerable to energy cost increases, such as older people living on fixed incomes." Eleven percent of California's population is made of people 65 or older, many of whom live on fixed incomes. "A larger share of their income would have to go for higher energy a... | 0_0 |
But while excess hospital capacity weakens the ability of the system as a whole to make people healthier, many hospital workers' jobs depend on it. It is this threat to 1199's interests that provides the backstory for one of the stranger episodes of the last mayoral campaign. During his quest for the Democratic nominat... | 0_0 |
Here too, the wild, dangerous sea-level rise was mostly associated with the rise of Hitler and World War II, less so with CO2. Indeed in Newcastle, the seas are still not rising as fast as they were in 1942. | 1_6 |
Almost the entire Tube system was running yesterday and we would have done even better if it had not been for a suicide on the Northern Line, and the temporary stoppage that these tragedies entail. Of London's 700 bus services, only 50 were on diversion, mainly in the hillier areas. On Saturday, we managed to keep the ... | 0_0 |
Indeed, Mann's recent New York Times op-ed begins with a blanket defamation of anyone who has ever questioned his global warming orthodoxy, people he describes as a "a fringe minority" which "clings to an irrational rejection of well-established science," promoting a "virulent strain of anti-science." | 5_2 |
The video of the recent lecture given by Nobel Laureate physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever at the 2012 meeting of Nobel Laureates is now available online . In the highly recommended lecture, Dr. Giaever explains why global warming is a "pseudoscience" that begins with an emotionally-appealing hypothesis, and "then only looks f... | 5_2 |
Cunningham also worked as a staffer for Sheldon Silver, the former longtime speaker of the state assembly, and she's the ex-wife of current attorney general Eric Schneiderman. She advised Christine Quinn in her campaign for mayor and Andrew Cuomo in his gubernatorial campaign, even as some of her colleagues lent their ... | 0_0 |
Scientists are experts in science. Judges are experts in interpreting the law and doctors are skilled at keeping us healthy-provided we take their advice. But parliaments composed of elected politicians are the experts at public policy making, and neither expressly or impliedly should they ever surrender that role to o... | 0_0 |
Maybe. It's hard to imagine how the Court can review a rule that leads to "absurd results" and "administrative impossibility" without examining its opinion in Mass v. EPA that an Endangerment Finding under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act won't lead to "extreme" or "counterintuitive" measures, but only to a cost-constr... | 0_0 |
In January 2012 we again warned of ethanol's environmental threat. We wrote about how the "increased biofuel cultivation hurt the environment through increased use of pesticides, farmland expansion and agricultural runoff polluting our rivers and coastal waters." | 4_4 |
I won't give a blow-by-blow of everyone's comments (you can watch the whole thing on Google Video if you like, shaky camera work and all), except to say that the standout comments of the evening came from Andy Revkin. He drew an excellent difference between reporting on the science (a new study on hurricanes just came ... | 0_0 |
Long term, continuous and uncorrupted temperature records are difficult to find. One such record does exist at an agricultural experiment station, known as Rothamsted Experimental Station, in southeastern England. The station has been taking temperature readings every day at 9 a.m. since 1878 using thermometers very si... | 5_1 |
So the climate-establishment and their willing minions crave censorship and why wouldnt they, theyre practical people. They know that if skeptical writers were allowed to publicize their opinions along side the professors who keep spouting logical errors and baseless insults, then the grand facade of the carbon scare w... | 0_0 |
The report manages to stay away from endorsing the wackiest evaluation ideas, but it still gives them plenty of oxygen. Take its "threshold" hypothesis that "sustainability is already far behind us, and we have already entered a phase of decline." There is also no criticism or qualification of the apparently "well-know... | 0_0 |
(g) The billboard, which cost $200, generated more than $5 million in earned media so far, and that figure doesnt include television, radio, and tens of millions of page visits and online commentaries. Was the MSM coverage overwhelmingly negative? Of course. How could it be otherwise? There has been no positive coverag... | 0_0 |
SD: Deadwood casino group may seek changes in law: | 0_0 |
Pilmer claims that the warm periods (such as the Medieval Warm period and the Roman Period) had were times of plenty. Southern Italy had rain all the year round in the 2nd century AD (now only winter rain). North Africa, Central America and Central Asia were warmer and wetter. (p.59) This was a time of population incre... | 2_1 |
CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free markets and limited government. For more information, contact Emily McGee at 202-331-1010. | 0_0 |
This year, the Jan-Mar temperature is -2.17 F cooler than for example 1907 . And if we compare this years Jan-Mar temperature with 1921 it is -4.17 F cooler. | 1_3 |
"International Monetary Fund (IMF) President Dominique Strauss-Kahn has warned that hundreds of thousands of people will face starvation if food prices keep rising." | 0_0 |
Mr Bowen said: I am surprised that they have cited an article from a climbing magazine, but there is no reason why anecdotal evidence from climbers should be disregarded as they are spending a great deal of time in places that other people rarely go and so notice the changes. | 0_0 |
> >> >- also CSERGE here at UEA and UCL have done some interesting work on | 0_0 |
Record Antarctic Ice Extent Throws Cold Water On Global Warming Scare ... Antarctic polar ice extent has set another new record, defying alarmist global warming claims. Surpassing the greatest month-of-April ice extent in recorded history, the new record throws cold water on alarmist claims that the Antarctic ice cap h... | 1_1 |
It finds that the gap between rhetoric and reality is dangerously wide, on the basis of some of the simplest premises of engineering and technology. | 0_0 |
The function of climate change I suggest, is not as a lower-case environmental phenomenon to be solved?It really is not about stopping climate chaos. Instead, we need to see how we can use the idea of climate change ? the matrix of ecological functions, power relationships, cultural discourses and materials flows that ... | 0_0 |
They failed to note that Truman was a serious reader of history and had, in supposedly backward Independence, Mo., studied piano under a teacher who had studied under Ignacy Paderewski. | 0_0 |
I then selected Ordnance survey mapping and confirmed that this was indeed a place with a micro climate as the banks are clearly marked on the OS map. But it gave one other vital piece information, the location is Broadness Salt Marsh. | 0_0 |
Strap yourselves in, folks, its gonna be one hell of a ride. | 0_0 |
The terms ?ecocide? and ?climate denial? of course bring to mind the Holocaust and those revisionist cranks who question its veracity. Environmentalists constantly conjure up Holocaust imagery ? on the one hand to stress that climate change is an indisputable evil, and on the other hand to shut down debate on the matte... | 5_2 |
A cosmic ray, especially a high energy one from deep space, can cause an entire family tree of smaller particles and ionization trails. See this animation below created by the Cosmus group at the University of Chicago. | 0_0 |
It is only now that many hundreds of lives have been lost in the Mediterranean Sea as people flee the chaos unleashed in the region in no small part by such incautious intervention, that Miliband wants to make it an election issue. | 0_0 |
Such statements are of course why sceptics such as James Delingpole and Lord Monckton have become all the fiercer in their criticism of climate change activists in recent years, seeing in climate change activism a threat not just to prosperity but to liberty. | 0_0 |
Now, Olav Kjorven, the UN's Assistant Secretary General, is proposing new goals for "The World's Richest Billion People." (Read: everyone in the First World.) Should these new goals fare any better? | 0_0 |
The flaw in the UN reasoning is clear, however. The alarmists claim the global warming since 1976 has been too rapid to be caused by natural forces, and therefore must be man-made. However, the earths Industrial Revolution went global after 1945releasing the first big flush of CO2 emissions. That burst of greenhouse ga... | 2_3 |
The House of Representatives passes the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), which would withhold funding from schools and public libraries that refuse to block social networking websites. | 0_0 |
The unprecedented warming is plainly visible in satellite data which shows an increase of 0.00 degrees since the start of the year 2000. | 1_4 |
How well do current state-of-the-art climate models perform in this regard? The four researchers who conducted this study state that ?until the full range of deep convective processes in the tropics is more realistically represented in climate models, they cannot be used to predict the changes of extreme precipitation ... | 5_1 |
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