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He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it; he seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board; | 0_0 |
Correlating New York Sea Level To Global Temperature | 0_0 |
However, Im now fairly confident that cooling is more likely than warming over the next few years and as I looked to see when we might begin to see cooling, a rather ironic scenario occurred to me: | 1_2 |
No word yet on whether the "environmental activists, local health | 0_0 |
We are told by progressives that climate scientists are gods, and that you may not question their words so please do not attempt to interpret the images below. They are above your pay grade. | 0_0 |
Heartland has lost the plot. I would think that the plot is really about preserving freedom and libertarian values, as Vaclav Klaus states. If so, then Heartlands tactics are flat out ineffective. Its hard to imagine Cato reacting to all this in the way that Heartland has. Heartland has become caught up in fighting rel... | 0_0 |
The primary critics constitute an unlikely coalition: Dow, which spearheads a handful of companies likely to take a short term hit from higher industrial natural gas prices; and a cadre of anti-hydraulic fracturing liberals, who traditionally have opposed almost all measures that could lead to increased shale gas explo... | 0_0 |
There are variations of the myth that La Nia is the opposite of El Nio. One variation: the response of global surface temperatures to a La Nia is similar to an El Nio but of the opposite sign. Thats just as wrong as the original. The differences in the aftereffects of El Nio and La Nia are very obviousyou cant miss the... | 0_0 |
At the same fall meeting four years ago, Al Gore spoke to ten thousand assembled scientists. The scientists treated him like a rock star. Why would the scientists love Al Gore? His movie, An Inconvenient Truth , was full of scientific errors . But this is about not biting the hand that feeds you. When Al Gore spreads g... | 5_2 |
In our editorial of 17 August 2011 , we discussed the paper of Pandolfi et al . (2011a) that was published in Science on 22 July 2011, wherein we briefly reported the many ways in which they suggested Earth??s coral reefs might successfully respond to the dual challenge of projected rapid increases in temperature and o... | 3_2 |
Reality Check: December 2010 "Almost Certain" To Be Coldest Since Records Began | 0_0 |
The last of those is obviously the most serious. Michael Mann began receiving a large amount of attention after he published two papers in the late nineties, creating his ???hockey stick.?? A few years later, his work was criticized by the authors Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, leading to a controversy that would... | 5_1 |
A Billings Gazette article last week quoted University of Montana global warming activist Steve Running claiming major wildfires have quadrupled since 1986, but the facts show wildfires are actually declining. | 1_7 |
Even assuming the global warming crisis is not as spurious as the energy crisis, there are serious doubts that a nation of front loaders will use any less. energy. People always seem to find more uses for energy, notes energy analyst Herbert Inhaber, author of "Why Energy Conservation Fails!" | 0_0 |
Who said, We must tax, tax, tax, I insist! | 0_0 |
The result of this dishonest political tampering with the science was that the sum of the four items in the offending table was more than twice the IPCC's published total. Until I wrote to point out the error, no one had noticed. The IPCC, on receiving my letter, quietly corrected, moved and relabeled the erroneous tab... | 0_0 |
But the Malaysia story is of a piece with every part of Goldberg's deep look into what drives Obama, the man. The president confuses the reality of the world with his own prejudices about it: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chvez wasn't worth his attention because he was all talk. Saudi Arabia is only trying to use US power to ... | 0_0 |
An English judge previously ruled that Gore's book is partisan, biased, and contains many factual errors, even though he shared Gore's belief that man is causing global warming. | 5_2 |
In their attempts to disguise the fact that 2012 will likely turn out to be one of the colder years this century, NOAA have made the ludicrous, and frankly dishonest, claim that this year is set to be the hottest La Nina year on record. | 5_2 |
Thomas Friedman, whom I previously regarded as a climate hawk, seems to take on the pragmatist mantle with his piece on Take the Subway . Some excerpts: | 0_0 |
Thats typical of a La Nina, but (blasts) dont last very long; they come and they go, | 0_0 |
RSS is still using the old NOAA-15 satellite which has a decaying orbit, to which they are then applying a diurnal cycle drift correction based upon a climate model, which does not quite match reality. | 5_1 |
They may have axed the Science and Technology Category because too many skeptics kept winning it, but that only meant skeptical blogs won in other categories . The blogs you visit every day may not be just science blogs, but politics, education, entertainment, and topical blogs. They may also be New, Secret, Humorous, ... | 0_0 |
A new review paper from SPPI and CO2 Science finds " that as the air's CO2 content rises, grassland plants will likely exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis and biomass production that will not be diminished by any global warming that might occur concurrently. In fact, if the ambient air temperature does rise, the g... | 3_3 |
After applying this test, I find that using the method I prefer (averaging first, then fitting the trend), I the best estimate by the IPCC is rejected to a confidence of 95%. It is too high to be consistent with the weather data we have experienced. | 0_0 |
However, I??m far from convinced that the satellite records are revealed truth. It seems quite possible to me that quite different satellite trends could emerge if there were a couple of inter-satellite adjustment errors. I don??t know right now how one would estimate the potential magnitude of the adjustment errors, b... | 5_1 |
How much boodle can a rent seeker make these days? A recently leaked non-public report reveals that Exelon expects Waxman-Markey to generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the company. | 0_0 |
To that end, the elements, materials and beings found in nature should be used and ?abused? for the benefit of mankind ? we should not be forced to protect nature for nature?s sake. Deserts and meadows cannot feel hurt, assaulted or denigrated ? they are material things and it is impossible for them to have individual ... | 0_0 |
These angry picketers are the threat. They undermine Americas share of the Arctic Oceans estimated 30 percent of the worlds undiscovered natural gas and 13 percent of its oil reserves. That fuel could power the military as well as civilians. | 4_5 |
Examining the table, we see that the IPCC projections of 2C/century are rejected to the 95% confidence level using most the methods I tested. If we average the data, and then test, the trend is rejected to the 95% confidence level using both C-O and OLS. (Note however, that when the two methods disagree, C-O is more ac... | 0_0 |
Mr. Metrosexual has been out-fashioned. His toppling begs a different question: is society frivolizing itself to death? | 0_0 |
Obama's Sputter-nik moment: Cash for Education Clunkers: | 0_0 |
on Sunday, July 17th, 2011 at 5:01 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Initially it was assumed that constantly increasing atmospheric CO2 created constantly increasing temperature. Then it was determined that the first few parts per million achieved the greenhouse capacity of CO2. Eschenbach graphed the reality | 2_3 |
Also to the point is that temperatures have fallen since 1950 in the interior of the dominant East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the volume of which is either stable or growing slightly, as is the extent of peripheral Antarctic sea ice (NIPCC, Chapters 4 and 5). | 1_1 |
2. The largest volume of water stored in Australia was in Lake Argyle in Western Australia, with over 10 million ML of actual water storage, more than the other 9 largest water storages in Australia combined. | 0_0 |
So, carbon taxes will drive up energy costs, reduce employment, and cut income. | 4_1 |
Not surprising, Thursday morning will be coldest day of year for CONUS w/freezing line probability to Mexico. http://t.co/7AQgdjMJk6 Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) December 28, 2014 | 0_0 |
Thats why expending at least one-third more energy to capture, compress, transport and inject carbon dioxide rather than simply venting to atmosphere where it is a valuable resource for green plants and hence all aerobic life on earth is not worth it and never can be. | 3_3 |
But let us ignore that. Maybe the U.S. acting alone cannot do much, but cooperation at the international level would be meaningful. That is the advertised rationale for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has been holding meetings, traveling on jets and feasting at upscale restaurants for 25 years, t... | 4_2 |
A Disgrace to the Profession The Worlds Scientists own words on Mann and his Hockey Stick | 0_0 |
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney unveiled his new climate protection plan on May 6. The plan calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions within the state of Massachusetts to 1990 levels by 2010 and by an additional 10 percent by 2020. Containing 72 specific suggestions, the plan is supposed to reduce pollutio... | 0_0 |
Oo-er! Instead of a zero trend, we now have a terrifying increase in global temperature, at a rate equivalent to a shockingly sizzling er 1.24 C per century. That is below the 1.7 C/century near-term warming predicted in IPeCaCs 2013 Fifth Assessment Report. Well below the 2 C/century predicted in the 2007 Fourth Asses... | 5_1 |
Throughout his first year, Obama has placed the national security second to his ambitious plan to remake the American economy and society. | 0_0 |
17g. The ability of regional climate models to model sea level rise for the next 10 years | 0_0 |
Brisbane Times Brisbane News, Queensland News & World News | 0_0 |
Dr. John Christy of UAH said, "This was the coolest July since 1992, when global temperatures were cooled by dust thrown into the atmosphere by the Mount Pinatubo volcano." A color map of temperature anomalies will be available at http://climate.uah.edu. | 0_0 |
16i. The ability of global climate models to model extreme events for the next 10 years | 0_0 |
But the baseless bullying apparently works. People like Flannery and Hamilton use it against everyone who dares speak against the reigning cult. The term denier is not scientific, not good English, and not even appropriate name-calling, but every news outlet repeats it, as if it were a term of taxonomy. | 0_0 |
Jesse Hathaway, managing editor of Budget & Tax News, talks with Diane Goldstein, a former lieutenant commander with the Redondo Beach, California government police department. Goldstein is executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an international nonprofit organization of current and forme... | 0_0 |
Climate Change: Channeling King Canute, G-8 leaders agree to wreck the worlds economy, and ours, by pledging to prevent temperatures from rising more than 4 degrees by 2050. What if the Earth has other plans? | 4_1 |
Youd think that by now global warming would have made harsh winter weather a thing of the past. Alas, no. Our tomatoes, and the health and welfare benefits they bring, are still endangered. | 1_3 |
World Bank Appoints Andrew Steer as Special Envoy for Climate Change | 0_0 |
The original number contacted was 10,157 and of those, 69% decided they didnt want any part of it, but they were the original target population. When the figure of 75 believers is set against that number, we get a mere 0.73% of the scientists they contacted who agreed with their loaded questions. | 0_0 |
At the risk of getting egg on my face again (!), NSIDC figures show that Arctic sea ice extent has now grown for the last two days. | 1_1 |
There is no warming trend since the Industrial Revolution, in fact, the linear trend is negative. | 1_4 |
Bill DiPuccio served as a weather forecaster and lab instructor for the U.S. Navy, and a Meteorological/Radiosonde Technician for the National Weather Service. More recently, he was the head of the science department for Orthodox Christian Schools of Northeast Ohio. | 0_0 |
Perhaps in England, where Simpson resides, this trickled down version only manifests itself in the "spornosexual," with all its implications of being more couture and less college frat house. But a sweeping visual of America's sidewalks, cubicles, gyms, and watering holes indicates that the phenomenon has trickled down... | 0_0 |
Following the questions raised by Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick over the quality of the data employed by Dr. Michael Mann of the University of Virginia in compiling his now infamous "hockey stick" graph, Mann's interpretations of proxy temperature data are now coming under fire from within the community of paleoc... | 0_0 |
Yomiuri Shimbun noted that, "Observers said that Russia's attempt to gain a promise from Japan to buy Russia's emission credits before agreeing to sign the protocol is taking advantage of Japan's situation. Japan is not likely to meet its reduction targets by domestic means. It is believed that Russia intends to try to... | 0_0 |
Michael Kundu has no evidence or logical reason to back his claim. He exhorts everyone to use good sources (then uses Wikipedia), and make intelligent decisions to spot the propaganda, and gives nothing except logical errors. All he can offer is the typical, low base ad hominem attack. So on a science topic, he reasons... | 0_0 |
Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo of WeatherBell Analytics and editor of http://www.icecap.us says that, as the President addresses the nation on Tuesday, every State will have freezing temperatures and parts or all of 27 States will be below zero. | 1_3 |
If these ideas were right, we could observe megatons of stringy physics with finite-price colliders! | 0_0 |
History has repeated itself as the German government, famous for giving Firefox a leg up a few years ago, has told users to abandon Internet Explorer for something safer. | 0_0 |
When you see your workers comp rates, you may be tempted to self insure (we, for example, pay over $200,000 a year, and that is with a good experience mod). Be forewarned that in most states, this is very hard to do. There is just too much history of small companies failing to make required payments. You CAN do it in m... | 0_0 |
As a result of the changes in the lower troposphere, from calm with no clouds to increasing numbers of circulation cells with cumulus clouds, in the central and western Pacific the temperature actually starts dropping. This is happening despite the continuing increase in the amount of incoming solar energy (negative cl... | 3_1 |
The air is dry. Because of the lack of oxygen, many students constantly have headaches. Concentration is near zero. How is anyone supposed to get proper grades? | 0_0 |
Writing in the Wall Street Journal and on the web site of Anthony Watts, Matt Ridley reports he has seen a key prediction in the new documents the IPCC will reduce the most extreme projection of warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide somewhat, 30%, as compared with its 2007 projections. | 5_1 |
They also object to nuclear power stations because of their supposed danger, even though modern nuclear plants have an impeccable safety record. And they oppose coal-fired plants because of their alleged contribution to global warming. | 0_0 |
We do not expect lawyers to argue both for and against their clients, nor do we expect "balance" from political party leaders. However, although Gore reminds usin the film version of An Inconvenient Truththat he "used to be the next President of the United States," and concludes both the book and the movie with a call ... | 0_0 |
So far, neither side has been able to prove their case. That uncertainty even exists on this core issue is not appreciated by many scientists! | 0_0 |
EPA estimates that applying permit programs as written to greenhouse gases would increase the number of PSD applications from 280 to 81,000 (a 300-fold increase), and Title V permit applications from 14,700 to 6. | 0_0 |
NOTE: CMIP5-based sea surface temperature outputs had been available through the KNMI Climate Explorer. I was hoping to use it in this post. It, unfortunately, was removed from the KNMI Climate Explorer. Hopefully it will return in the near future so that I can include it in the next update, to serve as a preview of ho... | 5_1 |
Many factors must be influencing Antarctic climate, and there are bound to be many unknown influences. Known ones include: Orbital insolation, Greenhouse gases, Solar variability, Ice dynamics and aerosols. Also, the relation between the ice sheets and climate is not simple. | 0_0 |
1. Data from GISS Land Ocean , UHA MSU , NOAA , RSS , and HadCrut | 0_0 |
>I regularly mention in ENSO posts that there was little SST sampling in the eastern equatorial Pacific prior to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, that the reader needs to keep that in mind when viewing early NINO3.4 data. | 5_1 |
The environmental future, however, looks better. Past research on global warming was based on a long-term United Nations projection, issued in the early 1990's, of 11.6 billion people in 2200, far more people than we're ever likely to see. The new projections show the global population rising from just over six billion... | 0_0 |
To suggest that climate science money trickles down from government would be a gross understatement. Actually, it cascades from mountains on high, presided over by agencies and their federal and state minions we generally assume to be knowledgeable and objective. But often we might be wrong. This occurs when a particul... | 0_0 |
H.L. Mencken once wrote, ?Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an well-known solution to every human problem ? neat, plausible, and wrong.? Such is the economist?s explanation of climate change. | 0_0 |
New York State Geologist Supports Shale Gas Extraction | 0_0 |
Jan Brewer Jumps the Shark, Slides into Outright Prejudice | 0_0 |
The warm surface waters returning in the western basin from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere toward the end of the calendar year (November January) favor the demise of ongoing El Nio events. | 0_0 |
Recent work has concluded that there has been significant warming in the tropical upper troposphere using the thermal wind equation to diagnose temperature trends from observed winds; a result which diverges from all other observational data. In our paper we examine evidence for this conclusion from a variety of direct... | 2_3 |
High-speed rail crash sets reform in motion: | 0_0 |
Wind power is not reliable. No one can make the wind blow when the energy is needed in fact, wind farms produce, on average, less than 30% of their nameplate capacity, often at times of lower demand. | 4_4 |
A coalition of Green activists petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars and trucks under the Clean Air Act on October 20. The coalition claims that cars and light trucks in the U.S. are largely responsible for global warming, and threatened to file suit against the EPA to f... | 0_0 |
All those IPCC computer models that have been predicting global warming were wrong, are wrong, and will remain wrong for all time until the Earth actually begins to warm again. | 5_1 |
Canadian winter temperature departures from 1961-1990. Averages for the years 1998-2011 | 0_0 |
ABC Catalyst TV show warped view of SW West Australian rainfall | 0_0 |
Dan Weiss from the Center for American Progress seems to have more than a little trouble with this interview. I wonder why they didnt ask Joe Romm to be on? | 0_0 |
Public apathy on climate change is a cause for celebration, not concern | 0_0 |
And an extra bonus from the weather is not climate department January 29, 2010 at 39.9 degrees was ten degrees below normal and the second coldest on record. | 1_3 |
The authors report "there is a common perception in the media, and even government and management circles , that is due to an increase in tropical cyclone frequency and perhaps in intensity, probably as a result of global climate change." However, as they continue, "studies all over the world show that though there are... | 1_7 |
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Dramatically, Again, in 2013 | 0_0 |
Half a billion dollars gone, just like that, after a decade of no global warming. | 1_4 |
The Gillard governments decision to exclude firms that significantly contribute to the production of petrol ensures Australias scheme falls short of being completely economy-wide. | 0_0 |
At the end of part 1 on Curry's site, Tony makes reference to how Science Daily edited out key information from a study they reported on thus leaving their readers with an impression that previous sea levels were not higher. Interesting. Confirms why today's science journalists are no longer easily trusted. | 5_2 |
My final point here would be pretty simple: With the rather dramatic variation over very short geographical scales we would need far more than the slightly over 1000 thermometers used by GHCN to get any kind of accuracy in the global temperature picture. The GHCN data set is just not fine grained enough to avoid select... | 0_0 |
The Heartlander: May-June 2010 (full text PDF) | 0_0 |
Modern global warming is a fact; it has continued, with stops and starts, since about 1850, the end of the Little Ice Age. | 2_1 |
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