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Inadequacies of modeling the Hadley Cell, a major mechanism in producing global weather and climate, are enough to invalidate the models and cause the failed predictions. The IPCC claim that, Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed incre... | 5_1 |
But in the following comment Ian Castles argues that most experts would consider the IPCCs more alarming predictions to be exaggerated, and that the Panel has failed to consider possibilities that would result in much slower growth in carbon dioxide concentrations. | 5_2 |
Sure enough, his latest characteristically malevolent hatchet-job is entitled Roy Spencers Catholic Online Climate Myths . It appears next to a sidebar headed Most-Used Climate Myths. You will also find plenty of other alleged Myths at Cook The Books website, including Monckton Myths. | 0_0 |
The classification of oil from fracking as unconventional oil shows clearly the ludicrous nature of the dividing line when we are discussing peak oil. Regarding the putative peak, why is oil from a horizontal well unconventional and oil from a vertical well conventional? It is all gotten by technology, and none of it i... | 0_0 |
It appears that Katharine Hayhoe still does not get it. When the Director of the Texas Techs Climate Science Centre was interviewed on local TV , she had this to say: | 0_0 |
* This survey, like the previous one, provides us with a fascinating ANATOMY OF A SCIENTIFIC DELUSION. When asked, majorities of climate scientists say they do not believe the scientific claims that underlie the theory and predictions of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, yet large majorities of those same scie... | 5_2 |
4. "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make," Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. "The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." | 0_0 |
due to the reasons I elaborate upon on the attached 3-page letter which is an attachment to this document, I urge you deprive me of the badges of honor from the military operations of the Army of the Czech Republic performed under the NATO umbrella. | 0_0 |
"All the carbon emissions reductions throughout the world are effectively canceled out by China's increase." | 4_2 |
The resource is called the science br be used sparingly. Society br ensure that scientifically proven knowledge is used to inform decision making. Decisions br be the result of a careful vgning of options and social values as. | 0_0 |
"The presently available palaeotemperature proxy data records do not support the assumption that late 20th century temperatures exceeded those of the MWP in most regions.....Previous conclusions (e.g., IPCC, 2007) in the opposite direction have either been based on too few proxy records or been based on instrumental te... | 2_1 |
The issue here is not where you stand on any one of these particular issues, but who gets to decide them: us, or the rest of the world "voting" in our decision making. This is the core issue of American sovereignty and the threat to it represented by the Obama worldview. | 0_0 |
If you nominated or seconded this blog for an award, thank you. If you want to vote for me, click the button below. | 0_0 |
The Arctic ice cap grows each winter as the sun sets for several months and shrinks each summer as the sun rises higher in the northern sky. Each year the Arctic sea ice reaches its annual minimum extent in September. It hit a new record low in 2012. This summers low ice extent continued the downward trend seen over th... | 1_1 |
9. James Gustave Speth, Red Sky at Morning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 7. | 0_0 |
Sunspot history suggests recent climate change not due to solar trends | 0_0 |
After Obama spent the day yesterday bragging about how he won, I got this E-mail from the White House titled No Winners : | 0_0 |
The absurd hand-wringing and washed-out arguments relating to water shortage are challenged by a new film produced by WORLDwrite . Here is a trailer from the film, which puts the mealy-mouthed effluent from the panic-mongering misanthropists into context. | 0_0 |
climates, especially at regional scales. We conclude by discussing the value of | 0_0 |
> >> >- the 2nd sentence is ambiguous; rainfall varies by +-40% You I | 0_0 |
The uncertainty in the science makes it difficult for policy-makers to see how much investment is justified, and what kind, says van Scheltinga. Were only beginning to understand how the delta works but we know enough to do a bit better, says Goodbred. | 0_0 |
Plant modifications that resolve production bottlenecks and allow for higher rates of utilization of other plant components or units are discouraged when NSR is interpreted to include the extended or aggregate effects of each modification, even when the intended modification reduces emissions, improves plant safety, or... | 0_0 |
The most meaningful lesson from the unusually cold and snowy recent winters is that global warming is so minor as to be barely noticeable. When temperatures rise merely a fraction of one degree, the polar ice caps wont melt, the oceanic conveyor belt will not shut down, alligators will not take up residence in Montana,... | 0_0 |
He's not arguing that climate science is a waste of time; rather, he sees value in studying the climate so we can better adapt to change whether it's toward warmer or colder climate conditions; | 0_0 |
The tornado count excluding EF-0 was 412 last year, making it the 12th lowest year since 1970. (Although tornado records go back to 1950, many tornado experts, such as McCarthy & Schaeffer, regard the data prior to 1970 as unreliable). | 1_7 |
statement. Since that day I have tried to include it whenever I can. | 0_0 |
So, about as far as I'm willing to go in predicting the future is to trust in Newton's observation that objects in motion tend to remain in motion, and so, I'd guess we can expect similar changes for the next decade as we saw for this last one, which would be about 3 tenths of a degree Fahrenheit. Now, if that were to ... | 0_0 |
The original Czech version of the book: Modr, nikoli zelen planeta. Co je ohro?eno: klima nebo svoboda?, Doko?n, Prague, 2007. The English version: Blue Planet in Green Shackles. What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C., 2008. The book has until now been published in 16 ... | 0_0 |
Add to that the fact that more than 2/3rds of the worlds stations (most rural) have dropped out and or are often missing monthly data, 69% of the first nearly 600 US stations evaluated by Anthony Watts surface stations.org are poor or very poorly sited with only 4% meeting official standards and no changes were made fo... | 5_1 |
Figure 2 High Resolution Bathymetry of Southern Lake Michigan (GLRP) | 0_0 |
Before they mature and can fly locusts proceed through various stages and can be attacked most easily when they are "hoppers' the stage before flight. Once locusts mature and can swarm, only crop-duster-style spraying of massive amounts of insecticide can stop them, which is expensive too much for these poor nations. C... | 0_0 |
Expand free trade for energy sources. Owners of energy resources should be allowed to seek the best options for selling their products and assets. In a similar vein, consumers should be free to choose the supplier that offers the best combination of price, quality, and convenience. Freedom to trade is one of the great ... | 0_0 |
The five researchers report that (1) "the simulated relationship between changed annual rainfall amounts and the number of rain days or their intensity varies strongly from one model to another," that (2) "the climate models' simulations do not show any consensus in the trends of the annual rainfall amount over the Wes... | 5_1 |
The authors write that the response of low-level clouds has long been identified as "a key source of uncertainty for model cloud feedbacks under climate change," citing the work of Bony and Dufresne (2005), Webb et al . (2006), Wyant et al . (2006) and Medeiros et al . (2008). And they state that "the ability of climat... | 5_1 |
This is not borne out by the known major aberrant events, however. They show that the Earth system is quite tolerant to large swings in atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. Furthermore, even when perturbed by sizable injections of greenhouse gases, be it CO 2 or the more potent CH 4 , the climate recovers fairly rapidly (a... | 3_1 |
Climate guru puts "global warming' on ice | 0_0 |
El Nio events, using NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) are in phase with the seasonal cycle in the eastern tropical Pacific, the cold tongue region, for the evolution and secondary decay portions of the events. The seasonal peak and decay of the El Nio are in phase with the late year cycle in the western... | 0_0 |
Heres a short editorial by Dr. Pat Michaels, former Virginia State Climatologist: | 0_0 |
Oh, and whom do we have to thank for funding this study? The postscript tells us it was supported by NASA through contract 1206715 administered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What is NASA doing funding a study into the benefits of reducing the population? Who knows? | 0_0 |
Although the architects of the Paris Treaty expect much of the climate finance to come from private funds, little of that would be raised without substantial seed money from "public coffers." There is virtually no chance President Trump would ask Congress to shell out tens of billions to the Green Climate Fund. | 0_0 |
But Dr. Jones went even further recently. He said in The Independent newspaper that the changes in 2003 could not be accounted for by natural climate variability, and can be attributed to global warming caused by human actions. "The temperatures recorded in Europe were out of all proportion to the previous record," he ... | 5_2 |
There's a rumour circulating in Washington that President Bush will use his State of the Union address next month to announce a new initiative on global climate change. | 0_0 |
Internationally, no third party institutions exist to enforce agreements, and nations differ widely in their interest in restricting GHG emissions. Therefore, high transaction costs will attend efforts to reach and maintain broad GHG controls. So far, those transaction costs have blocked agreement, and there seems litt... | 0_0 |
As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which according to the position papers, anyway continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of "global go... | 0_0 |
5) UK Government Begins To Shift Freeze Blame Onto Science Community BBC News, 19 December 2010 | 0_0 |
Today's Rimland is a 400-mile wide amphibious area. In contrast to 1904, the Heartland today is an empty shell, and not just because of Russia's demographic decline. In China, the population is deserting the Heartland and moving to the coast. Worldwide, today's Rimland is both leaner and meaner than a century ago; no l... | 0_0 |
Now that sound will only be a folk memory. As space shuttle Atlantis touches down for the last time, it closes out an era that began with John Kennedy's dedicating America to going to the moon and stretched through Alan Shepherd, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong to Christa McAuliffe and Mark Kelly. | 0_0 |
In other words, the craze for "renewables" is driven by religious zeal, not science or economics. Capturing, converting and transmitting energy from any source requires an infrastructure which involves construction, maintenance and eventual replacement, all of which require land disturbance, raw materials extraction an... | 5_2 |
Judge OKs extra releases for Reagan shooter, Hinckley: | 0_0 |
The heaviest snow yesterday hit northeastern Asia, which is suffering its worst winter weather for 60 years. More than 25 centimetres (10in) of snow covered Seoul, the South Korean capital the heaviest fall since records began in 1937. | 1_3 |
There are emerging bipartisan coalitions on prison and NSA reforms | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs John Berlau on how this reform will help struggling markets: | 0_0 |
The six Co-chairs of the three IPCC Working Groups and the IPCC Chair or his nominee, serving as a Science Board, would set the priorities for the selection of scholars and would make the final selection of scholars. This Science Board will be aware of the current science landscape, of the Gaps bothering the science an... | 0_0 |
In my hypothetical production forecast, I projected Green River oil shale production to reach 15 million BOPD by 2096. Am I being overly optimistic in projecting more than 15 million barrels per day (BOPD) of production from oil shales by 2100? Shell estimates that they could be producing 500,000 barrels per day from t... | 4_5 |
There are no discernible trends in rainfall patterns. The average UK precipitation for 2002-11 is 1150mm p.a., and compares to the long term 1971-2000 average of 1126mm. There has been little change either in seasonal or geographical distribution. | 0_0 |
4. Chart of the Day IV Police Officer Deaths by Gunfire (above). According to data from the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) there were 31 US police officers killed by gunfire in the line of duty last year (this figure of 31 officers excludes the 4 K9 deaths and 4 Puerto Rican officers reported on the ODMP website). E... | 0_0 |
The possibility is based on the idea that global warming will cause a freshening of the waters in the North Atlantic, so causing the Gulf Stream to weaken or even shut down. This would mean warmer waters would not be present in the North Atlantic, causing a drastic lowering of temperatures in the areas that rely on the... | 0_0 |
As politicians, consumers, and manufacturers fret over the price of oil, there's good news on the energy front: Natural gas production is booming from "huge shale beds found throughout North America," reports The New York Times. The improving technology of underground horizontal drilling and fracturing has opened up tr... | 4_5 |
With winds like that, expect to see complete devastation as it makes landfall. That of course will be hyped into an AGW caused storm, just like Katrina. Al Gore and Bill McKibben are already testing lies language on Twitter. Bear in mind that we have a very short historical record of Typhoon strength, and any claims th... | 1_7 |
Klaus said that was a "mistaken assumption" and it was impossible to prevent future crises through regulatory interventions and similar actions by governments. | 0_0 |
Clearly, observed temperature trends are predicting a future temp that resembles the IPCC projection if CO2 was held constant - the actual trends are multiple times below the "runaway" and "accelerating" global warming that Obama and the IPCC still push. | 5_2 |
* Confidence in climate models based on their ability to causally relate 20th century temperature trends to trends in CO2 may well be misplaced, because such models do not agree on the sensitivity of global climate to increases in CO2 and are able to explain 20th century temperature trends only by making arbitrary and ... | 5_1 |
The Czech media began to discuss an increasingly urgent issue recently raised by the prestigious Automotive News Europe magazine (ANE): the VW-owned Czech subsidiary, koda, is doing much better than the other brands in the corporation. | 0_0 |
Elsners conclusions seem to be heavily influenced by the EF-5 tornadoes in 2011. | 0_0 |
Christopher Horner, Senior Fellow, Environmental Policy | 0_0 |
Global demand for oil is rising, as is its global price, as energy-hungry economies such as China, India and Brazil scour the earth for oil they know will be the energy of the present for some time to come. | 4_5 |
<4923> Stott/MetO: | 0_0 |
CEI: Now that you're in the business of electoral politics, what do you make of John McCain's vote against the tax cut? | 0_0 |
While science can inform policymakers, it can't determine policy. Policymakers must do cost/benefit analysis, taking into account tradeoffs, such as balancing risks from climate change against those from poverty, and as Hans von Storch points out, "judgments of the value of costs versus benefits is a highly subjective,... | 0_0 |
But one source from a major advocacy group said Wednesday that another option is for the Senate to pass a pared back energy measure now and then go to conference during a lame-duck session with the House-passed climate bill that includes greenhouse gas limits across multiple sectors of the economy. At that point, the s... | 0_0 |
Global Government: The Third Ring in the Climate Change Circus | 0_0 |
Environmental organizations are the enemies of energy in America and worldwide. Without its provision third world nations cannot develop and the ability to provide the energy America needs is put in jeopardy. | 0_0 |
So when governments subsidise generation of energy, such as wind, wave and tidal so that the producer gets far more than the actual price of energy, as determined by the free market for energy, what this added cost represents is a higher energy usage in producing that energy source than economic energy sources. | 4_2 |
Recouping cost of wind turbine may take more than a lifetime (Consumer Reports confirms micro-wind diseconomies) | 4_4 |
Congress should respect Mississippi's "right to develop" vis- -vis the rest of the country. Mississippi's per capita income is just below $25,000, which is almost $9,000 less than the average American. That's 49th in the nation. | 0_0 |
Those who are interested in mathematical aspects of string theory and the newest twists and turns in topological string theory in particular should look at the KITP weblogs , especially | 0_0 |
John Cook, of Skeptical Science fame, has an article in The Age, in which he is very rude about Bob Carter : | 0_0 |
It was the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuba during the entire month of February. | 0_0 |
Download the very readable 4.2Mb paper ???Testing an astronomically-based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models?? | 2_1 |
34 Indur M. Goklany, supra note 8, p. 37. | 0_0 |
Windows users rejoice the .wwf document format that just wont print is now available for use on PC. | 0_0 |
A second figure in the article (our Figure 2) caught our eye as well showing the drought reconstructions along a transect from New Mexico to Alberta. We have examined all six reconstructions, and we cannot find anything unusual going on in terms of drought frequency, duration, or variability. Every reconstruction shows... | 1_7 |
Early arrival of spring is a sure sign of global warming. | 0_0 |
The good news is the tax credits, which were included in the 2009 stimulus bill with support from President Barack Obama, only apply to the first 200,000 electric vehicles sold by each manufacturer. | 0_0 |
The weekly round-up will not be published today, due to a laptop that will. not. boot. | 0_0 |
Climate Depot, with the AGW of: are strongly disliked Marc Morano, has a very interesting genomgng of many so-called Tipping points as it warned from the clean. Fr apparently British Met Office just gone out with NNU a warning. We have 10 years on us to change VRT behavior, or else. | 0_0 |
19. Is there a clear policy on climate change and CO2 emissions which makes sense based on our current knowledge? | 0_0 |
Unfortunately for them, front loaders remain unpopular with consumers. Today, they comprise less than 5 percent of the American market, and, despite heavy green hype over the last several years, DOE estimates that sales will increase only slightly. So, if most people don't want front-loading washing machines, what can ... | 0_0 |
And weve already seen the future of this in the U.S., which recently raised the social cost of carbon (SCC) estimate from $22/ton to $36/ton, which would have to be, almost certainly, the basis by which the initial tax rate would be set. The SCC was originally set at $21/ton in 2010, and its up to $36/ton only 3 years ... | 0_0 |
By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 10, 2015 | 0_0 |
early statements because I expressed my opinion in several talks, mainly in | 0_0 |
It's a BBC news story, so it can't be stupid | 0_0 |
No wonder LOST supporters discourage full disclosure. Bernard Oxman of the University of Miami acknowledged that the text ``is amply endowed with indeterminate principles, mind-numbing cross-references, institutional redundancies, exasperating opacity and inelegant drafting.'' | 0_0 |
"Be assured, ye faithful CBC masses, that there is no similarity whatsoever between this misguided and disoriented Taliban, that, but for the tragic coincidence that internationally revered Canadian Peacebringers crossed its path, would have detonated harmlessly in an explosion of chick peas and goat meat - and those b... | 0_0 |
Idso pointed out that there is a huge body of literature on the biological impacts of rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels that the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ignores. He emphatically stated that atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant. In fact, increased levels of CO2 reduce the negative effects... | 3_3 |
Hantemirovs objection to my calculation was expressed in a threaded comment ) to my May 15, 2012, in which Hantemirov complained very angrily about my post as follows: | 0_0 |
So let's examine just how false and misleading are the ad campaigns produced by MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environment Ohio, and the American Lung Association. Each advertisement equates abused children (including toddlers smoking, babies coughing, and even an infant being fed a... | 0_0 |
But even here in the U.S., which is Tornado Central for the world, 99 out of 100 thunderstorms do NOT produce tornadoes. Why is this? | 0_0 |
You may recall that CAIR was implicated in funding and supporting terrorist organizations, but it is stupid to think that Islamists are peaceful people. Islam is about conquest, then and now. | 0_0 |
Fortunately, I'd had major plumbing problems at my home that morning. I am not happy that I had to leave two plumbers in my house when I headed off to speak at the Keystone meeting, but dealing with the problems prevented me from reading the pages of research I'd printed out on John Podesta and his views on the Keyston... | 0_0 |
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