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Policies that operate from the four pillars of economic freedomrule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency, and open marketswill do more than stimulate economic growth and innovation. They will expand access to energy and improve the environment. The United States has shown what can happen with open access t... | 0_0 |
The study found that a threefold increase in the number of nuclear reactors worldwide (including increasing the number of American reactors from 100 to 300) could reduce incremental carbon emissions by up to 25 percent. The report recommended granting a limited production tax-credit to 'first movers' (private sector in... | 0_0 |
This one does 2 minutes on a single person. High res and slow advance; there are a lot of detail matches, even things like neck and eye wrinkles and tooth shape / positions (made harder by different exposure of tooth length with different smile depths). | 0_0 |
PS Do you want to get involved in IPCC this time? Im the CLA of the atmospheric obs. | 0_0 |
Climate models, unfortunately, are still unable to provide skillful predictions of changes in regional climate statistics on multi-decadal time scales at the detail desired by the impacts communities. Even on the global scale, the annual, global-averaged radiative forcing predicted by the models is significantly greate... | 5_1 |
I??ve plotted the actual differences between the two series below (for whatever that??s worth) together with a 50-year smooth. I wouldn??t characterize this plot as showing a discrepancy arising in the 19th century and then leveling off in the 20th century. On the right, I??ve limited the plot to the period of the actu... | 5_1 |
The absence of both tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling since 1996 is remarkable consideringthat more than 31% of all industrial CO2 emissions since 1750 occurred during the past 18 years. | 1_4 |
Life in a Cold and Dark Place: Can It Long Be Maintained in a Warming World? (9 Jul 2013) | 0_0 |
With such discrepancies as these existing among real-world reconstructions of the effects of mean global temperature on the ratio of El Ni?os to La Ni?as, it would appear that we don't even have the means for determining which of the similarly-divergent scenarios of current state-of-the-art climate model simulations is... | 5_1 |
I happened by chance into a conversation with a program officer for one of the major liberal foundations in New York a few months ago, and asked, "So what do you think of Shellenberger and Nordhaus?" He responded: "They're a couple of a*******!" Pause. "But they're very smart." | 0_0 |
"We have a program in this country of federal fuel economy standards for new cars. It's nickname is CAFE, and one consequence of CAFE has been to downsize the fleet of passenger cars, because one of the easiest ways to make a vehicle more fuel-efficient is to make it smaller and lighter, which gives you perhaps better ... | 0_0 |
Solar influence on climate on shaky ground if we dont even know solar input | 0_0 |
If the GFZ research is correct, a new solar minimum could have a direct impact on Earths climate cooling our planet drastically, and knocking the predictions of global-warming alarmists out of whack. | 1_2 |
Now this is interesting. As readers here know, there are almost no temperature stations in the Arctic and the gaps are therefore infilled by extrapolation. | 0_0 |
Chapter 1, by Nicholas EberstadtPopulation, Food, and Income: Global Trends in the Twentieth Century | 0_0 |
RECOMMENDED CORRECTION: These previous national U.S. assessments, as well as those for normalised Cuban hurricane losses (Pielke et al., 2003), did not show any significant upward trend in losses over time, and this remains the case following the remarkable hurricane losses of 2004 and 2005. | 1_7 |
In his hit-and-run speech, delivered hours before leaving the country, President Obama issued a directive for the EPA, instructing them to begin drafting new rules governing emissions from power plants. Current EPA regulations are already closing coal-fueled power plants at an alarming ratewhich New Mexico Public Regul... | 4_1 |
To gather samples from the Giant Forest trees, the researchers were allowed to collect cross-sections of downed logs and standing dead trees, he said. It turned out to be a gargantuan undertaking that required many people and many field seasons. | 0_0 |
"At the very least, if the Bush Administration plan is truly voluntary, it's unnecessary. Loan holders and servicers have plenty of incentive to do that themselves. No one sitting in a central office can hope to set the right mortgage terms for millions of borrowers, lenders, and investors." | 0_0 |
The rise of 1199 from a small union of pharmacists and drugstore clerks to the political force that it is today should be seen as part of the decades-long shift in organized labor's power base from private industry to government. In 1932, when 1199 was founded, the dominant labor unions represented workers in manufactu... | 0_0 |
CFACT is a UNFCCC accredited NGO and the veteran of numerous UN conferences. CFACT is your "go to' source for news and information for those seeking to balance coverage with reporting which challenges climate and sustainability orthodoxy. CFACT is available to all media. Call to schedule an interview. | 0_0 |
Coming Next Week: Property Rights in 21st-Century America | 0_0 |
79) Since the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in actual fact very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to control the sun). | 2_1 |
I've long drawn that same line, about where legitimate climate "science" stops, and climate panic-mongering begins, and it's at that point where you start predicting the future. | 0_0 |
he Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm. | 5_2 |
2) His apocalyptic predictions are all based on climate models, which have consistently failed to match up with real world observations. | 5_1 |
Entine believes opinion leaders across the developed world have finally accepted the technology. I've visited with other astute observers of agriculture and technology who make the same observation. According to them, what we are seeing is nothing more than the kind of ruckus that surrounds any new technology, and we a... | 0_0 |
Vocal actors within policy and practice contend that environmental variability and shocks, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, drive civil wars in Africa. Recently, a widely publicized scientific article appears to substantiate this claim. This paper investigates the empirical foundation for the claimed relations... | 0_0 |
What does that mean? Well, they (Paltridge, Arking and Pook) pulled out old weather balloon observations and had another look at them. They discovered that over 35 years, instead of rising, the humidity in the high atmosphere has been falling. We should not underestimate the significance of this discovery because, if t... | 3_1 |
A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research illustrates the ' travesty 'of relying on climate computer model projections, finding 19 different models had 'no model consensus' and a 'large spread' ' with both large positive and negative anomalies' in projections of future Australian tropical climate. ... | 5_1 |
Climate Audit On Rahmstorf/Mann: "Dreck" "Reputable Science Community Should Cringe With Embarrassment"! | 0_0 |
What a different nation America could be were it not for Obama's deliberate attack on the coal industry in particular and other fossil fuels, oil and natural gas. In the name of reducing emissions, Obama deliberately ignores the increasing use of coal in Europe and nations that include China, Japan, and India. | 4_2 |
The lesson I take from the overpopulation scare is to be wary when media, university and corporate elites warn that we must change our ways or face disaster 50 years hence, and when they insist, as Al Gore does and Friedman seems to, that the time for argument is over. In our two-party democracy it never is. And should... | 0_0 |
Dr. Michael Coffman explains that island biogeography was first postulated in 1967 and " is a set of theories of how population and genetic dynamics are affected when stressed on isolated islands in the South Pacific .It postulates that, like isolated islands separated by oceans, forested ecosystems that are separated ... | 0_0 |
This is not merely shatteringly unfair. It is unconstitutional. Yet that is what the Australian Government, conspiring with the administration in New South Wales, has done to Peter Spencer, a farmer who was told his land could no longer be worked because it was a "carbon sink", and who is now on hunger-strike halfway u... | 0_0 |
Media Claim Cold and Snow Prove Global Warming | 0_0 |
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, | 0_0 |
It is of course huge crap that such errors go through the entire IPCC. I thought they all worked to check everything a thousand times. Personally I was always skeptical about this melt warning. Ice at 7000 or 8000 meters elevation, why would it melt? Its way too cold. At most it could sublimate if it stopped snowing. B... | 0_0 |
13) If Not Humans, What could Have Caused Recent Warming? This is one of my areas of research. I believe that natural changes in the amount of sunlight being absorbed by the Earth ? due to natural changes in cloud cover ? are responsible for most of the warming. Whether that is the specific mechanism or not, I advance ... | 2_1 |
David Suzuki: "It's time that climate-change deniers were exposed' | 0_0 |
Two of catastrophic climate change's staunchest supporters have been out on the stump promoting their causewith conflicting statements. | 5_2 |
CEI: Like 90 percent marginal rates? | 0_0 |
Opponents accuse Mr. Obama of attempting to bypass the Senate's constitutional role in treaty making. Responding to such criticism, presidential climate advisor Brian Deese claims Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush "joined important international environmental agreements by using executive agreements," the Was... | 0_0 |
And you know why? Because they say its too expensive. NoIm not making this up! Pressure groups led by the Sierra Club have filed a barrage of lawsuits to revoke approval of a $4.3 billion clean coal power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi that will demonstrate commercial CO 2 removal technology to help save the plane... | 4_4 |
It quickly refroze in a few days even before the flurry of news stories hyping it stopped. | 0_0 |
Global Warming's "hockey-stick" graph, believed to be one of the leading indicators of global warming, is now being called "rubbish." Scientists have shown that the graph's underlying equation would generate the same result for any series of random numbers. | 5_1 |
On January 22, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the deposition transcript of former senior EPA official John Beale. After defrauding the agency of nearly $900,000 and spending weeks and months away from his office by claiming he was on assignment for the CIA, the transcript contained a bombs... | 0_0 |
On the contrary, famous people like politicians are probably much more likely to be shot simply because many more people know them and either hate them or consider them to be symbols of something they hate. The Earth is a large place and it's often difficult even for the best agent to perfectly protect such a politicia... | 0_0 |
For those models with multiple runs, the ensemble members are averaged before being presented in this post and before being included in the multi-model mean. | 0_0 |
The Paris conference gathered several hundred representatives from national and local government, thinktanks and civil society with the declared aim of gingering up a programme, called "draft zero," that is being hammered out for Rio. | 0_0 |
EPAs recent experiments that unethically expose human subjects to substances that the EPA has declared to be lethal, in a search for evidence of harm, is basically an admission that corrupted, unreliable epidemiology is being misused as a false portfolio of evidence of air pollution toxicity, he writes. | 0_0 |
At some point, U.S. continental warming will resume, but the extended decade-long plus global coolingtrend persists, contradicting the experts. None of the IPCC climate models, nor "consensus" experts predicted this cooling, let alone a minus 9.4 degree trend for the continental U.S. This trend has persisted since the ... | 1_2 |
But there are some notable exceptions. The BBC chose an interesting title, Dissent among scientists over key climate impact report . But The Sydney Morning Herald has the most upbeat article. | 0_0 |
Steve McIntyre picks up my critique on the electrical grid disruption chart ( here and here ) and takes it further. Apparently, this report (which I guess I should be calling the Climate Change Synthesis Report or CCSP) set rules for itself that all the work in the report had to be from peer-reviewed literature. McInty... | 0_0 |
. much of the temperature variability during 20002010 was due to ENSO , we conclude that ENSO-relatedtemperature variations are partly radiatively forced. We hypothesize that changes in the coupled ocean-atmosphere circulation during the El Nio and La Nia phases of ENSO cause differing changes in cloud cover, which the... | 2_1 |
remaining 26 miles and 285 yards. Conversely, a runner could set the world | 0_0 |
Some natural scientists say that bushfire history is anecdote; or mythology; that little is known about Aboriginal burning; or even that such burning is impossible; and that frequent, mild fires destroy biodiversity (however that slippery word may be defined). They say that history is unreliable, and only natural scien... | 0_0 |
Anyone who has taken historical geology, a freshman course, knows that the temperatures and sea levels have fluctuated drastically hundreds of times in the Earth??s history. We are just in another cycle. Just as we have day/night, winter/summer, why would anyone presume that we do not have longer cycles of fluctuation ... | 2_1 |
1) CCS, or Carbon Capture & Storage, will not be available by 2030 in any commercially viable sense. We cannot know this for certain one way or the other. However, it is clearly not sensible to base the countrys energy strategy on unproven technology. | 4_4 |
In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Li et al . write that the dwarf bamboo plants could adjust their "physiology and morphology to enable the capture of more light, to increase water use efficiency and improve nutritional conditions." However, they also indicate that elevated temperature had just the opposite e... | 3_3 |
For this particular plant, as well as many other species that have been similarly tested (see Growth Response to Very High CO 2 Concentrations in our Subject Index), several-fold increases in the air's CO 2 concentration pose no problem at all to their growth and development. In fact, the more CO 2 there is in the air,... | 3_3 |
Mayewski founded the International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) and is the co-author of The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change, published in 2002 with Frank White. The United States ITASE office is located at UMaine. Antarctic locations used in the paper include: Law Dome, a 4... | 0_0 |
(3) A substantial increase in food prices especially for very poor people in many parts of the world | 0_0 |
The Readfearn reasoning amounts to saying that Newman is either wrong because he is an old white guy (let??s be ageist, sexist and rascist eh?), or he is wrong because he cited Roy Spencer who is wrong because he??s a Christian. Thus and verily, ergo, ergot and a truffle too, climate sensitivity on Planet Earth is 3.3 ... | 5_2 |
Richard Harris from NPR believed that ClimateGate reporting ?was not a product of journalism, but activism?crafted by people with a desired objective.? | 0_0 |
All the while, at the behest of environmental groups, Commonwealth and State governments, whether Coalition or Labour, have continued in the past decade or two to enact regulation and legislation that undermines food production. | 0_0 |
The Bush administration is working with Democrats, reliable multinationalists such as Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), and apparently newcomers looking to make a name such as Corker to push LOST thru to the floor. It currently waits approval by the Foreign Relations Committee. Further hearings, as Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is l... | 0_0 |
Hybrid sales waned as gasoline prices ebbed in 2011, declining to 2.2 percent of the market from 2.4 percent a year earlier, according to the research firm LMC Automotive. Meanwhile, sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in each fell short of expectations. | 0_0 |
Two organizations emerged in short succession from the 1941 Atlantic Charter: the United Nations in 1945 and, when the UN proved ineffective in a Cold War context, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. For the next 50 years, NATO's role in waging and winning the Cold War was as central as that of the UN was m... | 0_0 |
The following now-familiar plot of ocean heat content change for the surface 700 meter depth layer is the result of a layer average temperature increase of about 0.17 deg. C over the 55 year record: | 0_0 |
I find the author to be right on target when he remarks that ?if the UK wishes to back its leadership claim in the global climate change debate, its target should be in terms not of greenhouse gas production, but of greenhouse gas consumption? (p. 57). With this, the author says that it?s no great achievement to outsou... | 0_0 |
Within 3/4 of a mile from the shores of Cape Vincent there already is an operational 86 turbine wind power plant on Wolfe Island, Canada. The Wolfe Island post construction bat mortality report determined that an estimated 1720 bats are killed per turbine per year. Cape Vincent can expect the same numbers because of si... | 4_4 |
So they turn to changes in orbital forcings, cloud effects, or other, unidentified feedbacks. Liu et al. also consider other, less probable forcings, casting about for a good reason for the models to be so wrong. In the end they return to Earth's orbit and those pesky feedbacks. | 0_0 |
Since Al Gores climate movie An Inconvenient Truth was launched in January 2005, global cooling has occurred at the equivalent of 10F (5.5C) per century. If this rapid cooling were to continue, the Earth would be in an Ice Age by 2100. | 1_2 |
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better to buy if of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage... | 0_0 |
In my previous role as an investment manager, we also used computers to predict probability of profits and losses. Just as these models failed to predict the global financial meltdown we are currently experiencing, the carbonistas computer generated models have not been able to predict or explain the climate we have ex... | 5_1 |
He described how an energy boom in places like Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota is revitalizing growth in those areas, but how environmental extremists and the Obama administration are pursuing policies to de-develop the U.S. and eventually eliminate all fossil-fuel use. | 0_0 |
Khim et al . (2002) likewise analyzed a sediment core removed from the eastern Bransfield Basin just off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, including grain size, total organic carbon content, magnetic susceptibility, biogenic silica content, 210 Pb geochronology, and radiocarbon ( 14 C) age, all of which data... | 2_1 |
How Large Has The Global Warming Impact Been On The Amazon For The Last 7 Decades? Try Zilch Versus Idiotic Predictions | 0_0 |
Radiation only moves 10 meters before being absorbed by CO2. Moving heat around is not increasing it. The planet is cooled by radiation which goes around greenhouse gases. It doesn't matter what the wavelength is; the heat leaves at a variety of wavelengths until the amount of heat leaving equals the amount entering, w... | 2_3 |
Rogelj et al. (2012) : This study does not actually provide an observationally-based estimate for TCR. It explicitly sets out to generate a PDF for ECS that simply reflects the AR4 likely range and best estimate; in fact it reflects a slightly higher range. Moreover, the paper and its Supplementary Information do not e... | 0_0 |
In some cases this has made for lively, provocative cinema, as when Morgan Spurlock subjected himself to a McDonald's-only diet for the fast-food expose Super Size Me. But mostly the trend has transformed documentaries into hectoring screeds, the defining example being Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. The brainwashing ... | 0_0 |
Smaller cars, however, are less crashworthy than similarly equipped large cars in practically every type of accident. According to a 1989 Harvard- Brookings study, CAFE-induced downsizing has increased car occupant fatalities by between 14% and 27%; that translates to between 2,000 and 4,000 extra deaths a year. | 0_0 |
Today I present a clear example of the use of the National Academy of Sciences to promote a particular set of policy actions, where climate science,as percievedby the authors of the PNAS,is used as the reasoning. | 5_2 |
How African poverty is considered to be less of an issue than alleged dangerous climate change, shows which planet Mr. Juniper inhabits. In any event, "the discussions on climate change have gone very well," said Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, referring to talks held in the absence of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair... | 0_0 |
Suppose the outcome of applying a sophisticated probability algorithm gave us the estimate of 0.72 for equation #3. Does writing this number more precisely help if you suppose you are the doctor who has to prescribe either D or P? Assume that no cheating took place in the old trial, then drug D is better if the patient... | 0_0 |
The glacial-interglacial temperature data from the past 400,000 years shows each of the previous four interglacials significantly warmer than at present. In fact, a careful analysis of the ice cores from East Antarctica, published as a letter in Nature, shows that maximum temperatures from previous interglacials were a... | 2_1 |
29 This is the position EPA argued in its enforcement action against the Tennessee Valley Authority in September 2000. | 0_0 |
Fourth, California's high residential property prices tilt the housing market towards smaller homes and apartments and encourage more people to live in the same household. | 0_0 |
Paul Homewood assisted me in re-analyzing the data by showing how to adjust a GSTA data set to the same baseline/reference period, for which I am very thankful. In addition, it needs to be restated here that this is not an exercise to determine which dataset is better than the other, it is merely assessing how (well) e... | 0_0 |
So now the greens want to emphasize getting back to the "grassroots," which, the story explains, means principally lobbying against new power plants before state public utility commissions. Of course, the last time EDF embarked on a "grassroots" program, they got caught "astroturfing"they paid people to phone elected o... | 0_0 |
The most prominent of these are the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). | 0_0 |
The models attempt to simulate a three-dimensional atmosphere, but there is virtually no data above the surface. The modelers think we are foolish enough to believe the argument that more layers in the model will solve the problem, but it doesn??t matter if you have no data. | 5_1 |
In any given second, the Earth absorbs 1.22 x 1017Joules of light energy from the Sun. This is calculated with the Stefan-Boltzmann equation for the Sun, factored for the distance to the Earth and the Earths cross-sectional area, and its albedo. | 0_0 |
The authors write that "climate change is likely to produce more extreme precipitation events," citing Allan and Soden (2008); and they say that "for the Mediterranean basin, several studies indicate a possible amplification of precipitation extremes associated with a decrease of precipitation totals (Gao et al ., 2006... | 5_2 |
NOAA data shows that major (category 3-5) hurricanes hit the US about half as often as they did eighty years ago. They used to hit the US about once per year, but now hit about once every other year. The last one to hit the US was hurricane Wilma in 2005. | 1_7 |
However, Pederson refused to answer the second part of my question on Jones's comment about possible cooling. | 0_0 |
CEI convinced the Bush Administration not to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant. We could all breath a bit easier after that. | 0_0 |
So with this historical peak in climate heating CO2 air pollution, why have not actual earth temperatures risen accordingly? | 1_4 |
I'm still in the process of reading your articles about corals and CO2, but I long ago understood that the record of paleoclimate history demonstrates that very high atmospheric CO2 and temperature levels have occured in the past and it did not result in coral extinctions. | 2_1 |
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