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That average rates of environmental change in the oceans and on land are similar is not such a surprise, says Henry Gholz, program director in NSFs Division of Environmental Biology. | 0_0 |
If radiative transfer is the only process occurring in a planetary atmosphere, the surface temperatures of the planets would be determined solely by the net radiation at the top of the atmosphere. Thus, the equatorial regions would be warmest and the poles would be extremely cold. Whereas this is the case on Mars and t... | 0_0 |
China has become the worlds top manufacturing country by output, returning the country to the position it occupied in the early 19th century and ending the USs 110-year run as the largest goods producer. | 0_0 |
Across on the Queensland coast the Bellenden Kerr range is an ecological island a refuge of a species assemblage from a cooler and moister Australia of 20 million years ago. A two degree rise would see the wet tropics ecosystem start to disappear with animals needing move upslope to beat the heat. With a 3.5 degree ris... | 0_0 |
Double Standard: Warmist climate scientist fails to disclose conflict of interest funds from green billionaire | 5_2 |
A check of the underlying geological explanation for the formation of the SCB is classical geological speculation with no real data. The belief is that easily eroded Devonian shale overlay a more resistant Silurian dolomite (the same or a similar formation to the one that forms Niagara Falls). The glacial front scooped... | 0_0 |
The science literature is always alive and well, and we are fairly certain you have not seen this classic in many places before visiting us at World Climate Report . The elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ) has an interesting story to tell us about the Hockey Stick and the global temperatures over the past few thousand y... | 5_1 |
Professor Richard Ebeling is a leading authority on Austrian School economics and the freedom philosophy. He currently teaches at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. This essay was originally published at EpicTimes . | 0_0 |
The board points out that the only factor that humans can affect is the composition of the atmosphere. But the Earth has always been affected by the amount of energy coming from the sun that reaches the planet. And for several million years changes in the Earths orbit called Milankovitch cycles have caused cycles of gl... | 2_1 |
So, what next for the trougher? How long will his greencrap (TM David Cameron) interests sustain him? His portfolio has been looking a little grubby snce he leaned too far over the pigswill and fell in. Something of a toxic asset to any greenco still hoping to secure govt subsidy I would have thought. | 0_0 |
As a RC myself, it is not yet clear to me if the Vatican takes that view, or restricts the sin to the actual sexual intercourse between consenting adults of the same gender. Officially, they say thelatter is true. However, this would clearly contradict Matthew 5:27-28 : | 0_0 |
According to the researchers, the importance of their study is elevated by the large amount of previous work on the same interval and thus the extensive availability of supporting data and samples. Yet despite all this past research, the team was able to make a fundamental discovery about the global conditions in the a... | 0_0 |
Read More: Talks between climate Professors John Christy and Kerry Emanuel. Pehr Bjrnbom, Climate Enlightenment 2014-04-11. | 0_0 |
Warmists propose that colder Northern Hemisphere winters since 1988 are due to global warming | 0_0 |
Move Polar thermometers onto airports, often military bases, and they warm up. Add a bunch of thermometers at tropical airports and you measure an increasing average of temperatures. | 5_1 |
In short, Congress never authorized the crediting scheme EPA now plans to implement. The CEIP makes the final CPP unlawful in a whole new way. | 0_0 |
Sedjo, Roger. "Forests: Conflicting Signals," The True State of the Planet. New York: The Free Press (Division of Simon and Schuster, Inc.), 1995. (ed. Bailey, Ronald) | 0_0 |
This combination of factors reflects the view that while prosperity necessarily implies wealth, genuine prosperity is based on more than money alone for individual citizens and for individual countries. It also reflects an understanding that a growing economy is necessary, but not sufficient, for national prosperity an... | 0_0 |
28 out of 44 chapters (two-thirds) included at least one individual affiliated with the WWF | 0_0 |
In their guidance establishing what could be considered Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for regulating GHGs in the permitting process, EPA stated that fuel-switching from coal to natural gas would not and could not be considered BACT: Since NSPS are traditionally interpreted to set the BACT floor for permittin... | 0_0 |
For those wanting a closer look at the more recent wiggles and trends, the second graph starts in 1998, which was the start year used by von Storch et al (2013) Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming? They, of course, found that the CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) and CMIP5 (IPCC AR5) models could NOT expl... | 1_4 |
Except for the fact that every climatologist knows the earths temperature varies by 3 degrees C. From the ice core data it happens quite often. (Our current warming is 0.4. ) | 2_1 |
Mammoth Mountain - Long Valley Super Volcano | 0_0 |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Statistics Division. Coffee bean data downloaded on Feb. 27, 2013. | 0_0 |
As you can see from the data, the low tide was about 1.08 meter at 5:15PM local time. | 0_0 |
Current weather extremes across the Prairies are because of the cooling since 2000. The researchers are going to Chile, Argentina and Colombia. Why? These regions simply experience the same patterns associated with the Southern Hemisphere version of the Polar Front. | 1_4 |
There was also loss of livestock and similar levels of snowfall, Bunkers said. | 0_0 |
Suppose a company wasnt happy with their financial reports, so they subtracted money from past earnings and added them to present earnings. What would happen to the people in charge? | 0_0 |
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the impulse to elevate scientific disagreement to the level of criminality: | 0_0 |
Assume that human greenhouse-gas emissions are causing dangerous changes in the Earth's climate. What should we do about it? Public debate on climate change has focused almost solely on requiring large reductions in fossil-fuel energy consumption. Enter the journal Nature with a new feature article on another potential... | 0_0 |
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Twenty years is a short time for an organization seeking to redeem the American Dream, but we've had a great start. At 20, CEI still operates in a target-rich environment. There are massive battles still to be waged and won. With your help, CEI will keep on fighting creatively and enthusiastically. | 0_0 |
The research showing the effects of carbon on marine organisms was published in the journal Geology in 2009. The study, led by Ries and co-authored with Anne L. Cohen and Daniel C. McCorkle, and found that crabs, lobsters and shrimp grew bigger more rapidly as carbon pollution increased. Chesapeake blue crabs grew near... | 3_3 |
According to aerial surveys released by the Government of Nunavat this month, their numbers are at least 66% higher than expected. This region, which straddles Nunavat and Manitoba, is critical because its considered to be a bellwether for how well polar bears are faring elsewhere in the Arctic. | 3_2 |
The pressure on David Cameron to row back on subsidies for the sector, which are among the most generous in the world, has increased as austerity bites. Last year the number of fuel poor households, those where more than 10% of income goes on energy bills, was revealed to have hit 5.5m in 2009. The increase came after ... | 4_1 |
But as the authors point out, this will only happen if the government allows leasing, drilling, and production on federal lands and does not restrict oil and gas exploration on state and private lands. | 0_0 |
Of course, not everbody sees it that way. In a recent letter urging Senators to vote against the Murkowski resolution, former EPA Administrator Russell Train contends that Congress did intend for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act. His argument may be summarized as follows: | 0_0 |
He was asked about survival of corals in the warm Eocene. He said that corals would not go extinct in a warmer world, but suggested that they would survive as individuals and not form attractive reefs. | 3_2 |
Tel: +44 1344 85 6653 | 0_0 |
As I showed in a recent report for the Manhattan Institute, the Renewable Fuel Standard now imposes about $10 billion annually in additional fuel costs on motorists over and above what they would have paid for gasoline alone. Since 1982, when measured on an energy-equivalent basis (ethanol contains two-thirds as much h... | 0_0 |
For now, the Great Game at sea affects the Pacific more than the Atlantic, and as such has not directly affected NATO. But it certainly affects NATO's new global partners (Australia and Japan, Korea and New Zealand), who all happen to be maritime powers in the Pacific, and this is something that NATO will have to facto... | 0_0 |
Let me re-state my view on these temperature series again: personally I have no doubt that temperatures are warmer today than in the 19th century. Are they warmer than the 11th century? I dont know. Is it warmer now than the 1930s? Probably, but the size of the difference seems to depend to an alarming extent on adjust... | 5_1 |
Speaking to an audience of government officials, business leaders and NGOs in Jakarta, the Nobel laureate cited devastating floods in Australia and Pakistan and last years drought in Russia as evidence that unchecked global warming threatened famine, poverty and wide-scale destruction | 0_0 |
Campaigns of misleading and harmful innuendo stifle science. Proposals that governments should require "full disclosure" would, if implemented, simply feed those who wish to suppress research that challenges their beliefs. As we know from experimental studies (e.g., see the recent book "More Than You Wanted to Know"), ... | 0_0 |
Hyperbole aside, Hansen cannot credibly claim to have been censored on global warming. He first sounded the climate alarm in 1988 congressional testimony and has since been quite outspoken on the topic. He gives more speeches than the agency's head, according to NASA. | 0_0 |
Facts : It has been 9 years since the last Category 3 hurricane (Wilma, 2005). Thats the longest periodby farin records that extend back to 1900. There have been no hurricanes during the Obama administration (Sandy was not technically a hurricane when it came onshore). | 1_7 |
The authors also refer to sodium data from Siple Dome ice cores that have been reported by Karl Kreutz, director of UMaines stable isotope laboratory. Changes in sodium appear to be associated with air pressure changes over the South Pacific. | 0_0 |
Our ability to forecast future system dynamics is severely constrained unless we can account for spatial nonlinearities, threshold behavior, and cascading effects . Even then, skillful predictions may not be possible .although we can identify vulnerabilities of systems to thresholds. Research will need to adopt approac... | 0_0 |
According to NOAA, July 2012, the hottest month in Nebraska in recent years was still not as hot as either July 1934 or 1936. Comparison with 1934, for instance shows: | 2_1 |
More fundamentally, the Administration's estimate assumes that the supply of emission credits will be adequate to meet the demand. What if the actual demand outstrips the potential supply? To shed light on this and related matters, CEI invited Robert Reinstein, President of Reinstein Associates International, Inc., to ... | 0_0 |
Clinton announced that he would convene a White House Conference on Climate Change, "to convince the American people and Congress that the climate change problem is real and imminent . . . to lay the scientific facts before our people to understand that we must act, and to lay the economic facts there so that they will... | 0_0 |
I am very thankful to all the support that I have received this week, from the Denizens, people on twitter, and email from colleagues. | 0_0 |
Wind cannot be relied upon to provide firm generation at full capacity coincident with peak demand. Wind might be capable of contributing to the peak demand requirements of the system at some times. However, this will rarely happen, and when it does it will be for brief periods. In these circumstances, the expectation ... | 4_4 |
candidate Bill Clinton. I asked him how he would approach his first 100 days if | 0_0 |
1974 was the record year for violent tornadoes year prior to 2011. It was also the peak year of the global cooling panic. | 1_7 |
There is only one true measure of a models value: whether or not it works. That it is theoretically sound, or that it uses pleasantly arcane and inaccessible mathematics, or that it matches our desires, or that only PhDs can understand it are all very nice things, but they are none of them necessary. Many complex model... | 5_1 |
HEM is identical to the EIA's NEMS with the exception of the Commercial Demand Module. Unlike NEMS, this module does not make projections regarding commercial floor-space data of pertinent commercial buildings. Other than that, however, HEM is identical to NEMS. | 0_0 |
The Science and Public Policy Institute has published an analysis of the leaked climategate emails. This 149-page document takes the emails in chronological order and shows, with comments on each message, how science was perverted. | 5_2 |
There is no sign of any acceleration in sea level rise. What is noticeable is that sea levels fell sharply between 2005 and 2007, making the subsequent recovery greater. Since 2010 sea level has actually fallen by 58mm! Indeed, sea levels in 2013, (the latest available data) were actually lower than in 2005. | 1_6 |
Study and debate on Probiotic for colic. Italian Study said it was good for colic in babies. | 0_0 |
An investor at the conference applauded Hearn's strong words. "The industry has been too quiet on this issue," he said. "It was about time someone stood up and really spoke out on Kyoto. We all want to help the environment, but this isn't going to help anyone" (Financial Post, September 12, 2002). | 0_0 |
Theres a lot more activity at the proposed Woolworths site than Ive seen in many regions beforethe burrow activity at Maleny is just phenomenal, he said. | 0_0 |
Forestland in the eastern half of the United States is increasing at a rate of one million acres a year. | 0_0 |
New Book Brings Balance To Environmental Education | 0_0 |
So much for the Greater Middle East, then. When all is said and done, globalization has not so much led to the "spiritualization of borders" (as the flute-players would have it) as to the partial "virtualization of geopolitics." The Great Game and the Long War are global and generational, but the geopolitics of oil, of... | 0_0 |
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She advocates the political position of the Administration in forcing reductions in carbon dioxide emission (CO2) by stating "The United States has pledged reductions of 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025..." Of course, there is no such pledge by the American people and its representatives in Congress. The Administrat... | 4_1 |
Most of the sources tell us about the catastrophes that will cripple Asia, Australia, and any other random piece of the globe. You have seen this stuff 1,000 times in the past so you may imagine what they have to offer. | 0_0 |
Figure 1 Modelled versus observed decadal global surface temperature trend 19792013 | 0_0 |
Greenland : The historical context shows that warming and cooling by several degrees is not without precedent. Recent warming is less than the 1930s. The statement of warming since the 1980s gives the false impression that this is unprecedented. | 2_1 |
Humidity acts as a blanket. Water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas the is very active in the infrared part of the spectrum. It absorbs IR radiation emitted by the surface and re-emits IR radiation back to the ground...thus contributing to warming at the surface. | 2_3 |
But this isnt about one ambitious politician smearing another ambitious politician. This is about the President of the United States a non-scientist making a grossly dishonest mischaracterization and analogy at the expense of expert scientists and then encouraging our nations best and brightest to shout down those scie... | 5_2 |
I have previously mentioned that ISH surface data shows U.S. warming since 1973 (primarily a winter phenomenon, due to unusually cold winters in the 1970s), and a curious decrease in surface wind speed . | 0_0 |
But scientists use a very different methodology. Climate science is made out of thousands of distinct technical questions. The answers to many of them are completely unknown and mostly uncorrelated to each other. There's no "big-picture" way to answer all of them as long as people are doing science. So as long as one s... | 0_0 |
Other researchers disagree with Soon's conclusion that the Middle Ages may have been warmer than the 20th century, noting that reconstructing the climate record is a matter of interpretation. | 0_0 |
Shouldn't EPA officials be prosecuted for imposing unnecessary regulations that cost billions of dollars, kill thousands of jobs, shut down electricity generation, reduce living standards, raise prices for food and construction projects, and actually lower health, welfare and life spans for numerous people? | 0_0 |
A paper published today in Atmospheric Science Letters effectively rules out volcanoes as the main cause of the 'pause' in global warming over the past 17 years. According to the authors, " We deduce a global mean cooling of around 0.02 to 0.03K over the period 20082012. Thus while these eruptions do cause a cooling of... | 1_4 |
The melt season in Greenland normally starts in mid-April, but this year is nearly a month late. | 1_1 |
Testimony before the Committee on Small Business, Hearing on the Kyoto Protocol | 0_0 |
Unfortunately for the climate science consensus experts, this latest release of NOAA temperature data confirms that they are essentially clueless when it comes to predicting regional and global temperature changes. Likewise, it also confirms that one of the scientists' favorite concepts - that human CO2 emissions are s... | 5_1 |
From the National Science Foundation , more nuttiness from the reef alarmist Ove Hugh-Goldbergs sea-buddy John Bruno, who I encountered in Brisbane last year . | 5_2 |
As Britain suffered through its coldest December in a century, families were forced to choose between keeping homes warm and feeding their children nourishing meals thanks to climate policies that have forced extensive reliance on wind power and deliberately driven energy prices skyward. | 4_1 |
They're wrong about their numbers (many climate scientists disagree with them), but surely they believe it. If so, why worry? If they enjoy an "overwhelming majority," why urge the president to prosecute the tiny fringe that opposes them? | 5_1 |
THE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS-DRIVEN GLOBAL WARMING | 2_3 |
Moderate progressives take the contrary view. Justice can be secure only if it is secure in the hearts and minds of the people, they believe. They place more faith in, and pay more deference to, voters' desires, not because they don't believe in progressive aspirations, but because they believe those goals can best be ... | 0_0 |
Urban heat islands and irrigated agriculture can inject false warming biases into instrumental data that are absent from proxy data taken from remote forests or sediment cores at the bottom of lakes, for example. Improper placement of temperature sensing equipment near local heat sources (e.g. air conditioning vents, a... | 5_1 |
Should we be alarmed about that? No. People experience far more dramatic climate change when they retire and move from Albany to Miami, or Chicago to Phoenix. | 0_0 |
The scientific method demands that theories be tested by empirical observation. By that test, the models are wrong. They therefore provide no rational basis to forecast dangerous human-induced global warming, and therefore no rational basis for efforts to reduce warming by restricting the use of fossil fuels or any oth... | 5_1 |
Chicken Little says, "We've got big problems, we need a big government to solve them." I say, "We've got big problems, and government is the biggest." | 0_0 |
The current temperature in Westminster, MD is 56.9 degrees. The previous cold record for the date was 57.02 degrees. | 1_3 |
In Praise of CO2: "Earth is the Greenest its been in Decades, Perhaps in Centuries' Written by Marc Morano | 3_3 |
In an interview with ClimateWire ($) on 5th July, reported the same day by The Hill, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing said foreign diplomats and ministers ask him "at every turn" how a Trump presidency might affect the Paris Climate Treaty. Citing new technologies, appliance efficiency standards,... | 0_0 |
The Met Office, using data generated by a 33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past years. The new figures, which show a 60 per cent to 80 per cent chance of warmer-than-average temperatures this winter, were ridiculed ... | 5_1 |
Winter weather advisory West Glacier area of Montana | 0_0 |
Are we to believe that this is in contrast to Senators Rockefeller and Snowe? Rockefeller betrays his own clear interest in the same editorial: | 0_0 |
The flaw, which allows a zero day attack to be carried out on machines using IE9, surfaced over the weekend. | 0_0 |
Scientists reconstructed the 3,000-year history of fire by dating fire scars on ancient giant sequoia trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum, in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park . Individual giant sequoias can live more than 3,000 years. | 0_0 |
But as Gerlich and Tscheuschner observe, the science of climate change is fraught with uncertainties and unknowns that make a mockery of the predictive powers of laboratory computer models: | 5_1 |
Is it improper to label the people responsible for this costly, miserable catastrophe as "eco-thugs"? And should we worry that the latest no-real-energy "energy security" proposal from the White House is telling us that President Obama has become America's "Eco-thug in Chief," who will continue to peddle fraudulent sci... | 5_2 |
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