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Moreover, the people who EPA claims are most at risk, most susceptible to getting horribly sick and even dying, from exposure to these particulates were precisely the same people recruited by EPA and its EPA-funded research teams: the elderly, asthmatics, diabetics, people with heart disease, children. And to top it of... | 0_0 |
Walker is part of a group of 17 state attorneys general who said they would use their prosecutorial powers as law enforcement officials to go after those that have sought to cover up the evidence of climate change that is placing the public at risk. | 0_0 |
A book that raised hackles and experienced personal attacks from the environmentalists was Bjorn Lomborg?s The Skeptical Environmentalist. UN IPCC chief, Rajendra Pachauri, compared him to Hitler. It is typical of Pachauri?s lack of understanding and undiplomatic reactions, but he wasn?t alone. Almost everyone, includi... | 5_2 |
Lake Powell Water Levels as a Proxy for Western Snowfall | 0_0 |
FactCheck: A more recent study in Science, published in February, reports that Greenland's glaciers accelerated their movement to the sea between 1996 and 2000. It concluded, "As more glaciers accelerate farther north, the contribution of Greenland to sea-level rise will continue to increase." | 0_0 |
In addition to Proposition 65, As You Sow uses the federal securities laws to accomplish its agenda. As You Sow buys small amounts of stock in a number of companies in order to file shareholder resolutions that pressure corporate managements. Though these nuisance resolutions are always soundly defeated by shareholders... | 0_0 |
The two graphs below show what temperatures used to look like in the US and Iceland, before they were tampered with at GISS. The 1930s was the hottest decade, and temperatures were declining. This disprovedHansenstheories, so he had to get rid of the graphs. | 5_2 |
Fourth, some may be tempted simply to pretend to believe that a mix of Chinese or Indian "no-regrets" policies constitutes serious action on GHG controls. (No-regrets policies are those that would be rational to adopt even in the absence of concerns about climate change.) China and India, for reasons unrelated to clima... | 0_0 |
A review of those articles shows that the vast majority of them were written by Romm. In reply to Romm's increasingly shrill attacks, Pielke was civil, even gentlemanly. In 2010, Pielke challenged Romm to a public debate in Romm's hometown, at a date and venue of his choosing offering to contribute up to $10,000 to the... | 5_2 |
So, Schmidt and Sherwood is an interesting read, but I'm not sure that the poor policymaker will draw much comfort from it. | 0_0 |
The latest effort came last week when the Environmental Protection Agency issued its new rule to slash emissions of methane, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling. The industry will be required to cut methane emissions by 40% to 45% over the next decade from 2012 levels. The rule spares existing wells that make no change... | 0_0 |
May, 2009 shows the greatest ice extent in the AMSR-E record, which seems to contradict Hadow??s highly publicised remarks about Arctic ice health. | 1_1 |
Global warming theory proponents have ,resorted to the politics of fear to drive their point home. They argue that man-made greenhouse gases are already causing the world's glaciers to melt, causing sea levels to rise and threatening humanity with a multitude of economic and environmental calamities. A recent Smithsoni... | 5_2 |
In the last post was an explanation of the difference between energy and energy flux. Energy is generally a simple static scalar quantity, while flux refers to an instantaneous expenditure of energy. | 0_0 |
Pierre Latour goes on to discuss back radiation and repeats the fundamental 2 nd Law of Thermodynamics with the words Heat does not flow from cold matter to hot matter, heating hot further; only from hot to cold. | 0_0 |
Making energy cleaner in the present context means banning (rapidly phasing out) the carbon-based fuels that currently supply 82% of U.S. and world energy consumption, and are projected ??? absent additional market-rigging interventions ??? to supply 80% of U.S. energy in 2040. | 4_1 |
Most troubling, under CAA 110(a)(2)(D), sources in one state are prohibited from contributing to NAAQS non-attainment in another state. Given the long residence time of GHGs in the atmosphere, an argument could be made that almost any quantity of emissions anywherecontributes to NAAQS non-attainment everywhere. Hence, ... | 0_0 |
/s/ Dr. Lubert Leger JSC, Asst. Chief Materials Division, Engr. Directorate, 30 years | 0_0 |
However, Ostlund said incinerating the garbage may be a better plan than leaving it in a landfill. | 0_0 |
The emails which are now public reveal that Mr Holland??s requests under the Freedom of Information Act were not dealt with as they should have been under the legislation. Section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act makes it an offence for public authorities to act so as to prevent intentionally the disclosure of requ... | 5_2 |
Chlorofluorocarbons were primarily used as refrigerants, propellants, and in fire control systems. They were uniquely well-suited to these applications. CFCs are non-toxic, chemically inert, non-corrosive, non-flammable and roughly four times heavier than air. Their physical characteristics makes them ideal refrigerant... | 0_0 |
new un sanctions resolution several months later. Indeed, the inconvenient fact for | 0_0 |
"Two U.N. studies and even Myers agree closely in their estimates of the Brazilian deforestation rate between 0.0025 and 0.004 percent per year even Lovejoy's "low" assumption would be perhaps 10 times too high." | 0_0 |
Those interested in additional information should find the following items useful. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce provides an excellent literature summary on global warming and air pollution in its detailed review of EPA's endangerment proposal and TSD. Joel Schwartz's book, No Way Back, explains why air pollution will c... | 0_0 |
In my post last week, Greenland Glaciers Melting Faster? , I suggested that there was no evidence that sea levels at Reykjavik have been rising at a faster rate in the last decade than before. | 1_6 |
Instead, the evidence now points to the IPCC and its Climategate scientists conspiring to mislead. Thankfully, the vast majority of the world's scientists do not believe in the IPCC's climate political-science proclamations and thus continue performing/producing empirical research to determine the science truth. | 5_2 |
To show how uncivil this crowd can get, Happer e-mailed me an article about an Australian professor who proposes quite seriously the death penalty for heretics such as Dyson. As did Galileo, they can get a reprieve if they recant. | 0_0 |
This images indicates Yellowstone earthquake from the past week. One of the most intense siesmic "swarms" in the national park's history has been shaking the north end of Yellowstone Lake. Since Dec. 26, 900 quakes, 111 measuring magnitude 2.0 to 3.9, have been recorded. Image by the U.S. Geological Survey. | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, global sea ice area is normal. | 1_1 |
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, this concludes my testimony. I would be happy to try to answer any question that you or other Members of the Committee may have. | 0_0 |
Elser writes, for example, that "Hietz et al . (2011) gathered data in tropical rainforests of Panama and Thailand," and he says the results indicate that "increasing levels of nitrogen deposition in the tropics have alleviated forest nitrogen limitation." And as a result, this phenomenon has allowed the aerial fertili... | 3_3 |
Not long ago some climate scientists announced winters with snow would be a thing of the past in Europe. Global warming, they said, would be especially noticeablein the wintertime. But then in the late 2000s and early 2010s, a string of harsh winters gripped the old continent and the trend in Germany went downhill: col... | 1_3 |
Continuing, Trenberth states that ???confidence in model results for changes in extremes is tempered by the large scatter among the extremes in modeling today??s climate, especially in the tropics and subtropics (Kharin et al ., 2007), which relates to poor depiction of transient tropical disturbances, including easter... | 5_1 |
The union puts that power to a host of political uses, starting with state-level lobbying, which consumes by far the largest portion of its political budget. State filings show that 1199 and its affiliate, the Healthcare Education Project, have spent $30.7 million over the last decade, a sum that surpasses even the lob... | 0_0 |
Once this global network has declared an issue to be of paramount importance climate change being the most prominent current example it can team up with elements of the global business community, eager to take advantage of whatever regulations, subsidies, and other measures are adopted to promote the latest fad. The re... | 5_2 |
"But, Dad. That sounds to me like a bear doing what bears will always do. Eating easily available stuff in preference to less available stuff. It's hardly a sign of imminent climate doom." | 0_0 |
The sizable government largesse helped forge a pragmatic bond between top Dow officials and Markey, an outspoken campaigner for climate change initiatives and against shale gas development. They haven't always been on the same page. For example, Markey has opposed a chemical security measure, which Dow has backed. But ... | 0_0 |
6. De-bottlenecking. EPA proposes to clarify that, when calculating actual emissions associated with a modification, emitters generally will need to look only at the unit undergoing the change. Emissions from units "upstream" or "downstream" of the unit being changed would be considered only when the permitted emission... | 0_0 |
This essay is available here in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. | 0_0 |
Now its necessary to scrutinize the figure very carefully. Looking across the wavelength scale at the bottom, H 2 O absorbs strongly in the 3-micron region, and again between 5 and 7 microns; then it absorbs to some degree beyond about 12 microns. CO 2 has absorption bands centered around 2.5 microns, 4.3 microns, and ... | 2_3 |
In fact, he implicitly called for an eventual ban on virtually all forms of energy. The only forms of power generation Gore supported as truly green were wind, solar, and geothermal energy???which today produce a meager and extremely expensive 2% of our nations electricity. | 4_4 |
Cheap gas makes it difficult for rival forms of fuel to compete, said Sam Brothwell, a senior utility analyst with Bloomberg Industries, in a telephone interview. Historically, gas-fired generators have been the least expensive to build, offset by a higher fuel cost, Brothwell said. With gas falling below $3, it makes ... | 4_5 |
Writing recently inJournal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr Richard S. Lindzen, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said of those with political agendas who found it useful to employ science, This immediately involves a distortion of science at a very basic le... | 0_0 |
The United States produces well over 5 billion tons of CO2 alone every year. At $160 per ton, this means that the total cost is $800,000,000,000 each year, which is more than the gross domestic product of every state except California. To say the least, this seems unlikely. | 0_0 |
Again, the solid red lines are the observations of cloud radiative effect. CM2 looks ???decent?? for the net effect, but it only gets a decent estimate because it underestimates the short wave radiation (by up to 70W / m2) and overestimates the longwave radiation. HadGem is ???less awful??. | 5_1 |
It's true that, unlike the era of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, the new age of space offers plenty of room for commercial ventures, whether it's by Elon Musk's SpaceX or Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and whether the aim is to launch satellites or to send tourists into space. The days when only a government agency... | 0_0 |
About one-half of Blunder is a non-technical description of our new peer reviewed and soon-to-be-published research which supports the opinion that a majority of Americans already hold: that warming in recent decades is mostly due to a natural cycle in the climate system not to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide... | 2_1 |
only yield well under a dollar (present value) in benefits. So give up | 0_0 |
"The idea that the Constitution grants only limited and enumerated powers and leaves the remainder to the states is foreign to those who believe that the national government should or even could address voters' every concern. But contrary to the view widely shared by the political class, Washingtonin particular, Congre... | 0_0 |
The EPA could issue GHG performance standards for existing (as distinct from new or modified) coal power plants, as well as GHG performance standards for other industrial categories (refineries, cement production facilities, steel mills, paper mills, etc.). | 0_0 |
Consumers have experienced the Prius and had a look at the future Chevy Volt and other EV??s, but inconveniently are rejecting these choices in favor of affordable vehicles . Big ones. | 4_4 |
If you doubt this will happen, look at the wind and solar industries, which have used the same argument to extend their subsidies successfully half a dozen times, most recently in December. | 0_0 |
As I forecast a couple of months ago, CET figures just released confirm that 2012 was the second coldest for sixteen years, second only to 2010. The provisional figure is 9.70C, which is 0.27C colder than the 1981-2010 average. | 1_4 |
Maybebut only via serious venues like PBS's the NewsHour and The New York Times. | 0_0 |
Manns reply to this (his "review") depends on Mann et al 2005 (J Clim 2005 available at his website) and Mann et al 2006 unpublished. (Isnt amazing how often the Teams supposed refutation of a point is in the still unpublished article?) | 0_0 |
Delingpoles article (not written by him) was incorrect in many aspects. Certainly more dams should have been built even if they might have put pressure on the rare lesser spotted tadpole in the catchment area. The Greens of course and local landowners put an end to that and will continue to do so as long as the Greens ... | 0_0 |
Although some of the stuff in the analysis is unanswered the most important trend is per capita figures for comparison. | 0_0 |
Yeatman: In 2008, candidate Obama promised 5,000,000 green jobs. $90 billion stimulus later, he's talking about "tens of thousands of jobs"? | 0_0 |
Safety. Right now most of the oil from Canadas oil sands and North Dakotas Bakken shale deposits moves by railroad and truck fuel tanks, often through populated areas. Truck and rail accidents have forced towns to evacuate and even killed 50 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Corporate executives and federal regulators ar... | 4_5 |
Simply put, white corals were physiologically healthy when compared to dark and light-brown colonies, which would lead to the "potential overestimation of coral bleaching" by nearly twice as much . One reason for this overestimation is that traditional coral monitoring is unable to detect between white and bleached (de... | 3_2 |
Judge Rules "I Heart Boobies' Bracelets Are OK For Students to Wear: | 0_0 |
"Sens. Cruz and Rubio have slightly different understandings of climate science, but their policy positions are very close," said Ebell. "Cruz and Rubio have both said that they will overturn the EPA's greenhouse gas rules. | 0_0 |
In other words, if you are a scientist funded by global warming research money, you make up whatever lie best suits your current funding requirements. | 5_2 |
Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices | 0_0 |
New report: Obesity promotes global warming | 0_0 |
The most worrisome aspect of environmental lies is that they are used to justify governmental policies. | 0_0 |
Kevin Long, a long-range weather forecaster based in Bendigo, Victoria, went on to explain that he believes we are at the beginning of another mega-drought in the Basin because of the solar minimum and phase of the current lunar cycle. | 2_1 |
15b. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of surface albedo | 0_0 |
(1) Barbale (1970) and Madsen (1971, 1975) found that a tripling of the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration produced modest increases in the vitamin C concentration of tomato fruit, while Kimball and Mitchell (1981) found that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment enhanced the vitamin A content of tomatoes, | 3_3 |
Heres his analysis (sic) where he struggles for the word satire: | 0_0 |
it is easily argued that betting the monsoon on the ability of models to accurately capture such subtleties would require a foolhardy level of trust, a remarkable lack of concern for hundreds of millions of livelihoods or a startling desperation in the face of the alternative. | 0_0 |
So you can see that degree days matter and that if you get it wrong you have Big Problems. | 0_0 |
Now this shall describe proposals for how solcykeler arise. It is d not just about the 11-riga -Schwabe cycle and 22-year-old variation in solflcksintensiteten. It has been observed longer periods, eg 88 years Gleissberg and 208 r de Vries. This is a problem in astrophysics who apparently lively discussion in recent ye... | 0_0 |
Despite predictions that the temperature on the globe should rise with a huge speed, nothing has really happened the last 10-15 years, says the August 7 print edition of the Danish Jyllands-Posten , the famous daily that published the Muhammad caricatures . | 1_4 |
What about the claim that researchers must hold smog-precursor emissions constant to isolate the global warming impact on future ozone concentrations? EPA offers the same rationale on p. 78 of the Technical Support Document (TSD) for its proposed finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare ... | 0_0 |
The following will probably just demonstrate my total ignorance of networking protocols, but I am not sure why IPv6 couldn't be written in a way that the extra bytes would just be ignored by IPv4 systems. It could be assumed that all IPv4 addresses of the form www.xxx.yyy.zzz map to www.xxx.yyy.zzz.000.000 in IPv6, but... | 0_0 |
\] He thinks that it's an argument in favor of his original statement that by playing with a diamond, he instantly changes the energies of all electrons in the Universe because such a change is demanded by the Pauli exclusion principle. However, the Feynman propagator proves nothing of the sort. Instead, the nonzero va... | 0_0 |
The Heartland affair has shown not merely that some climate alarmists (namely Gleick) will stoop to outright deception, and most of his peers will close ranks to defend him in a sort of Green Wall of Silence. Perhaps more disturbing, it reveals that these people really have no idea how their opponents on the climate is... | 5_2 |
The IPCC and other climate institutes have done their work. For 20 years temperatures have remained steady with a slight downward trend. The IPCC and the PIK Potsdam Institute can now be disbanded. | 1_4 |
The Hansen Model: Another very simple disproof of Anthropogenic Global Warming. | 0_0 |
There??s some very very curious relationships between Rutherford et al. and MM03. Rutherford et al. was submitted to Journal of Climate on July 23, 2003, at around the same time as MM03. As outlined below, I??ll bet dollars to doughnuts that the file "pcproxy.txt", the file at Mann??s FTP site (in Rutherford??s subdire... | 5_1 |
Pursuit of Climate Truth Comes at High Cost | 0_0 |
During the Medieval Warm Period extensive fires burned through parts of the Giant Forest at intervals of about 3 to 10 years, he said. Any individual tree was probably in a fire about every 10 to 15 years. | 0_0 |
"How much would it cost to download the same amount of data as you get bundled with your home broadband on a mobile roaming tariff? About the same price as a three-bedroom house in Surrey. " | 0_0 |
"An assessment conducted in the light of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the principles of vector algebra of the key greenhouse theory concept of "atmospheric backradiation' suggests that it is simply a mirage. The only "Backradiation Phenomenon' that needs explaining is how this physical nonsense maintains its pl... | 0_0 |
None of this would be necessary. View Larger Map I must go away now and give my poor head a rest. Even Steyn got suckered by this one. | 0_0 |
CRU still wants scientists to trust its conclusions on which even more climatology is based although it now admits that during an office move, it discarded computer tapes and paper records containing years of original weather-station observations. This is like telling an IRS auditor, Just read my tax return; I chucked ... | 5_1 |
According to the radiative convective equilibrium concept, the equation for determining global average surface temperature of the planet is | 0_0 |
We must do everything we can and more to cut down very drastically on our "carbon emissions', as we are now legally committed to do by the Climate Change Act at a cost of 18 billion a year. | 0_0 |
Current climate models tend to underestimate the occurrence of the clouds ICECAPS researchers found, limiting those models?? ability to predict cloud response to Arctic climate change and possible feedback like spiking rates of ice melt. | 5_1 |
Sure, energy will become really expensive if (i) you prohibit the production of economical forms of energy, such as domestic oil and gas; (ii) you force us to purchase very expensive and unreliable energy from wind; (iii) you jack up the price of the legacy energy output of coal and gas plants with carbon taxes; (iv) y... | 4_1 |
forcing Senators to go on record for for against sensible climate policy | 0_0 |
systematic damage from long-term climatic/environmental change Such a | 0_0 |
A new study suggests that increasing the use of biofuels like ethanol in the name of combating global warming may actually make the situation worse. | 0_0 |
The population bomb and its resource-scarcity corollaries have a quaint ring now, like bellbottoms, gas lines, Jimmy Carter's grin, and other totems of 1970s sensibility. It is this kind of ecoapocalypticism that Bjrn Lomborg called "The Litany": | 0_0 |
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner Rebecca Phyland has been educating the south-west about climate change and now shes taking her message to the world. | 5_2 |
The great cat catastrophe of 2023 is by no means the only instance of risible fear-mongering found in the book. It would seem that there is no limit to the horrors that global warming will spawn, including a resurgence of bubonic plague (p. 30) and the creation of viral and retroviral agents never before seen (p. 25). ... | 0_0 |
Hmm. Worked in what sense, John? Added costs to every business in New Zealand? Check. Raised electricity prices for every Kiwi in the land? Double Check-a-rooney. Made everything that they buy in the shops more expensive? TripleCheck-a-doodle-doo. | 0_0 |
In any event, Gummer is being disingenuous as the whole global warming scare was based on 17 years of warming. I dont recall him suggesting at the time that we wait another 13 years before jumping to conclusions. | 5_2 |
Emperor penguins at risk of extinction, scientists warn | Environment | The Guardian | 0_0 |
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