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We can see that the administration again largely accepted the liberal-progressive view of the world. Legislative attention was focused on financial regulation, a bill that was superficially popular but which clearly was not a priority for any segment of the electorate. Little serious attention was paid to the deficit, ... | 0_0 |
The Hillarys to Yanchep sector does not appear to be susceptible to erosion over the next century as Tamala Limestone is preserved above sea level along the majority of the coast, and the beaches are well sheltered by three lines of offshore reefs. | 0_0 |
It has allowed climate-crisis rhetoric to be used publicly as scientifically samples truth, with only the occasional grumbling. | 0_0 |
The study adds to the major problems with wind, as compared with traditional sources of reliable power. Wind power: 1) is capital intensive major costs are up-front; 2) is erratic, requiring a dependable alternative when it fails (why not build a dependable alternative instead); 3) significantly increases infrastructur... | 4_4 |
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity responded to the latest climate report in a comparable, direct manner. Laura Sheehan, a Senior Vice President of the ACCCE, said, "Instead of flying his cabinet members around the world, President Obama and his deputies should take time to visit communities impacted by ... | 0_0 |
Belief in global warming soars as mercury rises | 0_0 |
I??m thinking that the ???coldest December on record?? in Siberia could be significant. Not just one day, mind you, but the entire month so far. | 1_3 |
Just a few steps later and a Google of Broadness Salt Marsh and I had the picture and all the information required to see that this weather station is a dud. Note the banking, brick power building with ventilation equipment and the weather station. | 0_0 |
Crane reminds us of once-progressive Amazon, its headquarters once picketed by folks protesting its use of ordinary power. It takes a lot of sensitivity to see a crisis in an item that I couldnt find on Dow-Jones Factiva. Big, but it doesnt come close to what Crane sees coming. The carbon divestiture campaign isnt big ... | 0_0 |
If the U.S. is to expand nuclear power's role in a time of energy insecurity and climate change worries, we will have to confront the hysterical antinuclear pronouncements that have been the currency of environmentalists for nearly 30 years. The Old Dominion could be a good place for a new start. | 0_0 |
The water level in the worlds oceans had been rising steadily over quite some time. Ever since the last ice ages great ice masses in the northern hemisphere started to melt in earnest, some 15,000 years ago, all that melt-water flowed into the oceans and resulted in a rapid rise of 100+ m. Beginning some 7,000 years ag... | 1_6 |
"It is surprising to see large parts of the scientific community including academies of sciences embracing a hypothesis of global warming from atmospheric CO2, without any convincing scientific support. It appears that the mere mentioning of Stefan-Boltzmann's Radiation Law has been enough to annihilate any further dem... | 0_0 |
It has been determined that during pile driving work for offshore windparks when the foundation is anchored to the seabed extremely intense shock waves are produced under water. | 0_0 |
It is also a tragedy, as the recurring appearance in history of a certain kind of rigid, unloving and definitely uncharitable attitude of self-righteousness among the Christians, leaves the nagging doubt: is there something intrinsically un-Christian in Christianity itself? | 0_0 |
CRUs Failure to Use or Disclose the Shiyatov Dataset | 0_0 |
Im quite confident that most "classical" spurious regressions will have high RE statistics. I think that one can prove that this particular statistic has negligible power against common unrelated trends. We showed examples of spurious RE statistics in MM05a and Reply to Huybers, but both sets of examples were framed in... | 0_0 |
Google backs climate-change weather insurance startup: | 0_0 |
That startling headline is followed by the sub-headline: Defying all predictions, the globe may be on the road towards a new little ice age with much colder winters. | 1_2 |
A paper in press for the journal Tellus finds the "best estimate" of climate sensitivity to CO2 is about 33% less than estimated by the IPCC. According to the authors, the best estimate of transient climatesensitivityis 1.5C for a doubling of CO2 levels, and equilibrium climate sensitivity about 2C. The paper finds a l... | 3_1 |
And neither do I. Certainly, I think we should live as lightly as possible on this marvelous planet. And yes, use rates and R/P ratios are an issue. But nothing is sustainable. So lets set the phrase sustainable development on the shelf of meaningless curiosities, go back to concentrating on feeding the children we alr... | 0_0 |
It is also informative to put this in the context of the lesser, but opposite, tendency of increasing sea ice coverage around Antarctica over the same period. | 1_1 |
Millions of workers will lose their jobs, leaving more families destitute and welfare-dependent. Many will have to choose between buying food and gasoline, paying the rent or mortgage, visiting doctors, giving to charities, or saving for retirement. Those still working will pay for everyone else. | 0_0 |
But talus area is the more critical variable, and the average summer temperature is highly questionable. Larger talus areas sustain more pika territories, and provide protection for dispersing young looking for vacancies. With more adjacent territories, there are more young pika who can immediately occupy any abandoned... | 0_0 |
The Durban gathering is another effort to combat global warming by reducing carbon consumption, an approach that could dampen economic activity just when there is risk of a new European recession. | 4_1 |
You can see in the JAXA graph above that the 2007 divergence occurred in late July after Arctic insolation was already shutting down, essentially nullifying the Arctic albedo feedback argument. The Arctic minimum comes too late in the summer to have a significant impact on the radiation budget, due to the very low angl... | 3_1 |
"Our review of the program at the outset of the McGreevey administration has led me to conclude that the program has failed," said Campbell in an August 13 letter to the U.S. EPA. "The program's ostensible clean air benefits were limited by the failure to include safeguards to ensure that the program would in fact redu... | 0_0 |
There also exist serious doubts whether the expedition can get to the North Pole at all. See Steve Goddard's text . After 40 days, they have only made 240 kilometers. April 30th is the last day to recover the people safely from the North Pole region so they have roughly 20 days for the remaining 685.61 kilometers (as o... | 0_0 |
All in all, the notion of ?post-normal science? seems like a complete contradiction in terms or a perversion of the standard definition of science as commonly understood. It appears to be an elaborate and dishonest attempt to pass off the preferences of a single group as some kind of pseudo-science. There?s a much simp... | 0_0 |
The reason: "USAID officials said that a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, | 0_0 |
The UN economists clearly see a new "indirect" green-tax regime as a way around the acrimonious international impasse and the tardy response in meeting national pledges. The taxes they suggest include new carbon levies, international air fare taxes, auctioning the right to pollute and cross-border financial deals, as w... | 0_0 |
NOAA and the other ground based data centers would have more credibility if one of the changes resulting in a reduction of the warming trend and not an exaggeration which has been the case each time. | 5_1 |
The University of Colorado used to have this error map on their sea level web site, which showed that most of their fake 3 mm/year sea level rise is due to error. | 1_6 |
Hans Labohm is an economist and co-author of Man-Made Global Warming: Unravelling a Dogma. He is a former professor at the Dutch Institute of International Relations and guest teacher at the Netherlands Institute for Defense Studies. He has been an IPCC reviewer and served in many international roles, including Deputy ... | 0_0 |
The Buddhas of Bamiyan were blown up by the Taliban in 2001. In 2014, Greenpeace activists damaged the Nazca Lines. Greenpeace has often broken the law, but their actions have always been directed against those who harm the environment. They appealed to a moral authority higher than the legal ones. Nazca, however, was ... | 0_0 |
Last night climatologist Gareth Jones tweeted that there had been two dozen papers on the pause this year. In response, I wondered how many would have been published if David Whitehouse hadn't have written his groundbreaking report on the subject. This prompted Doug McNeall to comment "About two dozen", a sentiment tha... | 1_4 |
Britain's position is at odds with the previous Conservative government's pledge to phase out coal power by 2025. Various exemptions in EU's existing pollution requirement currently enable more than half of Europe's coal power plants to exceed limits for various pollutants. Poland and the Czech Republic rely heavily on... | 0_0 |
The number of stations gives a clue in Chart 2 . | 0_0 |
Of course, I have to say--as a warm weather person, I think we've had a bit too much planet healing lately! | 0_0 |
power has served as a foundation for a stable and relatively peaceful and | 0_0 |
Indeed, Mann?s recent New York Times op-ed begins with a blanket defamation of anyone who has ever questioned his global warming orthodoxy, people he describes as a ?a fringe minority? which ?clings to an irrational rejection of well-established science,? promoting a ?virulent strain of anti-science.? | 0_0 |
Its an anti-science position. The surveys he quotes are ones like Anderegg , and Doran and Zimmerman . The latter was a two minute survey sent to 10,257 scientists, but the figure of 97% of climate scientists only came from 75 of those people. Comments from scientists outside the 75 are scathing at times. The former st... | 5_1 |
Research of Hundreds More Scientists Shows the Natural 1,500-Year Climate Cycle | 2_1 |
None of these things are consistent with hottest year ever. NASA has known for decades that satellite data is more accurate, and their current willful ignorance of their own satellite temperatures, indicates that they are engaged in propaganda, not science. | 5_1 |
This entire report assumes global warming to exist, assumes it is man-made, and assumes its future levels are as large or larger than those projected in the last IPCC report. The first four or five pages merely restate this finding with no new evidence. The majority of the report then takes this assumption, cranks it t... | 5_2 |
A leading group of economists advising UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a raft of new green taxes to raise the US$100 billion a year committed by the 110 participant nations who signed December's Copenhagen Accord. The call won't come as music to the ears of taxpayers globally and particularly Canadian t... | 0_0 |
Most people would invariably say yes if you ask whether they want a more prosperous life for themselves and their families. But ask them about the consequences of rising prosperity for society as a whole, and doubts will quickly start to creep in. | 0_0 |
But Obamas EPA will propose endangerment on both health and welfare grounds. This inevitably will encourage litigation to establish primary as well as secondary NAAQS for GHGs, with all the economic peril that entails. | 0_0 |
In their comprehensive analysis of the Kyoto Protocol and climate policy, Richard B. Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener examine the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases. They summarize the current state of information regarding the extent of global warming th... | 0_0 |
This document proposes regulations to implement Executive Order13658, Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors, which was signed by President Barack Obama on February 12, 2014. | 0_0 |
Regarding metrics used in the validation step in the reconstruction exercise, two issues have been raised (McIntyre and McKitrick 2003, 2005a,b). One is that the choice of significance level for the reduction of error (RE) validation statistic is not appropriate. The other is that different statistics, specifically the... | 0_0 |
Figure 2. Anchorage (urban) and Matanuska (rural) temperature stations. | 0_0 |
North Africa : Ground Zero For Global Warming | 0_0 |
The draft plan is being overseen by Harris Sherman, undersecretary of agriculture for natural resources and the environment. Sherman insists that the planning rule takes timber sales into consideration, but his background and close ties to environmental groups raise serious questions. Before joining the Obama administr... | 0_0 |
What is striking about the trailer is that, even in just a few moments, it exposes the absurd thinking behind cynicism towards development and its possibilities, and its disregard for the abilities and lives of those living in the developing world. These problems are much bigger problems than scarcity. In fact, they ac... | 0_0 |
It's also worth noting that most computer climate models predict that, once warming from greenhouse gas emissions starts, it continues at a constant rate, not an accelerating rate. | 0_0 |
international leadership, the working level implementation of the sanctions has | 0_0 |
In order to demonstrate that the increase in temperatures since the mid 1950s is not due to random fluctuations, it is necessary to do valid statistical analysis of the temperatures. The BEST team has not done such. | 5_1 |
In rural coastal areas, Goodbred adds, one solution might be to return to the kind of low, flexible embankments that people in this region built before the 1960s. Locals could raise them in the dry season to keep salty water away, and cut them down in the wet season to allow sediment in. Tidal water must, from time to ... | 0_0 |
07-27 07-28 New 07-29 07-30 07-31 08-01 08-02 | 0_0 |
At the very least, Congress should take the time to review the most onerous rules. Over-delegation allows Congress to shift blame to the agencies for excessive or unpopular regulations. But the people's elected representatives should perform their rightful duty and approve all new laws, not just 285. In this age of tri... | 0_0 |
Two British-born Pakistanis were among eight gunmen seized by Indian commandos who stormed buildings to free hostages, Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Mumbai, reportedly said. | 0_0 |
"Any significant changes in the abundance, distribution, or existence of sea ice will have effects on the number and behavior of these animals and their prey," according to FWS. "This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for desig... | 0_0 |
THE EAST PACIFIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS-DRIVEN GLOBAL WARMING | 0_0 |
Recent attempts to openly attack prominent scientists have crossed a line, raising this destruction to new heights, making real scientists think twice about working on climate. The attacks are carried out with a particularly pungent red herring that makes it nearly impossible to keep the hounds from distraction. | 0_0 |
His string of failed predictions were supported by the British Met offices sixty six million dollar (AU) computer modeling. They both incorrectly predicted 2009 would be one of the five warmest years ever. The world has just experienced two of the coldest and snowiest winters in decades. | 1_3 |
I dont think theres any cause for alarm as far as fall blizzards of that severity go, said Laura Edwards, a climate field specialist at SDSUs Aberdeen Extension office. | 0_0 |
Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures. | 0_0 |
The Central Great Plains drought during May-August of 2012 resulted mostly from natural variations in weather, the report said. | 1_7 |
No fixed plans have been formulated for how Britain can meet decarbonisation targets, either by Miliband when he pushed through the Climate Change Act as Energy Secretary, or by the current Government. And I am quite sure that Miliband has no such plans now either. Instead, DECC have laid out a number of scenarios, a s... | 0_0 |
This claim is already hotly disputed. US climate expert Professor Judith Curry said last night: In fact, the uncertainty is getting bigger. Its now clear the models are way too sensitive to carbon dioxide. I cannot see any basis for the IPCC increasing its confidence level. | 5_1 |
Over the last 15 years, we've been told that human CO2 emissions would cause global warming to accelerate to new dangerous levels, and this "unequivocal" warming would generate fantastic, catastrophic climate change disasters - the IPCC's climate models told us this, and truth be told, they were absolutely and spectacu... | 5_1 |
The state attorneys general of Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts filed their own lawsuit in June against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the agency is required under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. "CEI was highly critical of the AGs lawsuit seeking to tighten regulator... | 0_0 |
The German Association of Energy Consumers estimates that up to 800,000 Germans have had their power cut off because they couldn?t pay the country?s rising electricity bills; among them, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported last October, are 200,000 long-term unemployed. | 0_0 |
Professor Nils-Axel Morner, head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University and past president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, delivered an amusing and enthusiastic presentation examining sea level change. He pointed out that what has been predicted by ... | 1_6 |
Shrub Proliferation Throughout Low Arctic Ecosystems (9 Jul 2013) | 0_0 |
"Youngsters can get drunk for half the price of a bar of chocolate, a worrying new study has found." | 0_0 |
The graph below plots the number of years between major hurricane strikes in the US. They occur half as often now as they did in the 1940s. | 1_7 |
These contradictions and mysteries mark NIWAs latest attempt to hoodwink the public over the national temperature record. | 5_2 |
Our goal is to quantify the consequences of the child bearing decisions of an individual. The appeal of our weighting scheme is that it provides an accounting of the extent to which a parents genetic material propagates through subsequent generations, and it allows the emissions of any individual to be unambiguously tr... | 0_0 |
The Kyoto advocates point to warmer ocean temperatures, but they ought to read their own favorite newspaper, the New York Times, which reported yesterday: | 0_0 |
middle of his calibration, when we?re throwing out all post-1960 data ?cos the | 0_0 |
The same problems impact on Health. Another example: a day long gone, for who knows what reason, Blair and his government have decided that family doctors should always make an appointment within a few hours, under pain of severe penalty, instead allocate their time to be here in a few days depending on the severity of... | 0_0 |
In this particular part of the world, longer-lasting floods and droughts of equal or greater magnitude than those of modern times occurred repeatedly prior to 1800.?? Hence, one must search elsewhere for evidence that would support climate-alarmist claims of more frequent and/or severe floods and droughts occurring in ... | 1_7 |
* The report consists of 120 graphs (the numbering system includes, e.g., 11a and 11b, so the exact number is different from the 73 that identifies the last table) and contains no interpretation or discussion of the results. Discussion of the results apparently appears (or will appear) in an article in Environmental Sc... | 0_0 |
Obama's Clean Power Plan: Solar companies win, taxpayers lose | 0_0 |
Less publicized is that it could affect us all. The disappearing ice itself is accelerating global warming. | 0_0 |
"Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said the NSW Law Reform Commission would conduct a review to close a legal loophole." | 0_0 |
Fran wasn't going to let me off that easily. "No you don't," she said. "You got us into this, and you're going to keep going." | 0_0 |
The Indian Ocean Sea Level data is shown in Figure 3. Based on the smoothed data, the Indian Ocean Sea Level remained flat from early 2007 to early 2008, then rose again since then. Also note the multiple swings in sea level during 1996 and 1997, leading up to the El Nino of 1997/98. | 1_6 |
(1) Contrary to what the Editor Charlene M. Anderson writes in the opening column, the Earths climate is not being recorded as undergoing a steady warming. There has been no warming in the past 10 years. Previous decades have seen warming and cooling episodes. If we are undergoing a warming, its definitely not steady | 1_4 |
"Attempting a police omniscience seen in only about 20 U.S. cities, the Ogden Police Department is gearing up for a "real time crime center" to be operational soon after its Crime Blimp launches." | 0_0 |
Newborn reef fish can cope with changed water conditions if their parents have already adjusted | 3_2 |
The extreme snow event in New Zealand that is forecast this weekend is noteworthy in the context of climatology since, according to the IPCC-type predictions, such events should be becoming less common. The forecasts for this event are quite serious. The newsagency TVNZ just released the article | 1_3 |
The satellites reveal the inconvenient truth that there has been no global warming for approaching two decades. | 1_4 |
To prioritize the EU and UN policies with respect to more urgent environmental challenges, such as air and water pollution, waste management, etc. | 0_0 |
But turnabout is fair play. In the same State of the Union speech in which Bush advocated approval of trade treaties with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea -- which union-friendly Democrats have stalled claiming the need for such provisions -- Bush offered on climate change policy to "let us complete an international a... | 0_0 |
Despite relatively little centennial variability, Briffas reconstruction had a noticeable decline in the late 20th century, despite warmer temperatures. In these early articles , the decline was not hidden. | 5_2 |
There's never a real "third way," though. Early credits create a new class of stakeholders in a Kyoto-like regime, divide the business community between "winners" and "losers" in the emissions reduction game, and alter the political dynamic in favor, of Kyoto. | 0_0 |
Summary of Sea Level Predictions by N.J. Ford | 0_0 |
Professor Mike Lockwood, a space environment physicist at Reading University UK has studied ice cores going back tens of thousands of years. He thinks there?s a very good chance that the Sun is heading for an extremely quiet period. Speaking to the BBC he said that it was | 0_0 |
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