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The ambitious move may have been encouraged by a rapid increase in solar power installation in recent months after the government unified grid feed-in tariffs for solar projects for the first time in July, and offered a higher price for projects that would be put into operation before the year end. | 0_0 |
Burton Richter is a Nobel Prizewinning scientist who has served on many US and international review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of the knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science, discusses current energy demand and supply patterns, and the energy options... | 0_0 |
And after nearly 30 years in operation, it is unclear what Heartland stands for when it comes to climate change beyond resistance to putting any kind of restraint on business. | 0_0 |
Notice the spike in the '07 El Nino, then the fall after; the spike in the '09-'10 El Nino, the fall after. The overall trend though is unmistakably down. But another round of heat hysteria is certainly on the way. Problem is, as I said, it will mean a cold winter for the US for one, and a bigger drop after. But how mu... | 1_2 |
"The certainty among many scientists that humans are the main cause of climate change, including global warming, is not based on the replication of observable events. It is based on just two things, the theoretical effect of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly carbon dioxide, and the predictions of com... | 5_1 |
The press release also says that the precautionary principle should be utmost on our minds. The kind of society that will result from applying the precautionary principle is a stagnant society with constant conflicts over scarce resources. How does that promote peace and the security of mankind? | 0_0 |
The BBC is a bubble. Its broadcasting departments are bubbles. The scientific establishment is a bubble. Perspectives from without the bubble are met with ire much like Robertss and Nurses: challenges to the authority and the claims of the establishment are met with derision, the critics belittled as anti-science. Like... | 5_2 |
Let us suppose, ad argumentum, that the main reason for sea-level change is temperature change, and that Grinsteds sea-level reconstruction is plausible. In that event, the small sea-level response to the large temperature change between the medieval warm period and the little ice age suggests the possibility that even... | 1_6 |
More importantly, the comments provide furtherdocumentation in the public recordas to major issues with regulating CO2 and several other well-mixed greenhouse gases as pollutants. Of particular relevance to my expertise, the EPA Findings are not scientifically robust; e.g. see | 0_0 |
Several satellites measure the global sea level elevation. The European satellite, Evisat, provided possibly the best available data. It showed falling sea level since its launch in 2002, and for the last two years the decline was 5mm/yr. Unfortunately. Evisat broke down on April 8 th 2012. | 1_6 |
I know that trust and distrust are feelings that last. So, for this reason, I prefer to include a variety of respected data sets in my analysis and report on as many results as possible. That way, when the temperatures do warm, and my updated plots and trends show the renewed warming, I think my audience will trust my ... | 0_0 |
?If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive? you?ve got to go back about 100 years,? he says. | 0_0 |
After carefully studying the book, I came to the conclusion that I need to be even tougher and more merciless with my opinions than I have been until now. While for most people ? including me ? the bible of the current hysteria around global warming is Al Gore?s book ?An Inconvenient Truth?, for Nigel Lawson it is Nico... | 0_0 |
Ending this lethal energy deprivation will require abundant, reliable, affordable energy on unprecedented scales, and more than 80% of it will have to come from fossil fuels. Coal now provides 40% of the world's electricity, and much more than that in some countries. That is unlikely to change anytime soon. | 0_0 |
Rising Sea Level Forecasts: Fact or Fiction? | 0_0 |
15c. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of green-house gases emitted from anthropogenic sources | 0_0 |
In a 1983 study into vegetal species by Kimbal (1983) published in Carbon Dioxide Fertilizing Effects on Plant Biomass production and Water-Use Efficiency showed that, A doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations increased biomass production by an average of 33% in the vegetal species. | 3_3 |
Due to the damaging effects green energy has had on Germany's grid, the government plans to cap the total amount of wind energy at 40 to 45 percent of national capacity, according to a report published last month by the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. By 2019, Germany will get rid of 6,000 megawatts of wind power ca... | 0_0 |
Other colors besides brown are more expensive. And the 2nd generation Zune (above) costs USD 250, with 80 GB of disk space. | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Berlau on why Rush Limbaugh would be a better choice: | 0_0 |
The Long War promises to be a thinking man's war. As a full-fledged Alliance, NATO possesses the kind of staying power that mere ad hoc coalitions cannot deliver; but NATO still has to come to terms with the fact that thinking power will matter more than fighting power. If NATO is to avoid the twofold danger of the SCO... | 0_0 |
Lets also be quite clear that science does not work by way of consensus. Science does not progress by appeal to authority; in fact, major scientific advances usually come from outside the consensus; one can cite many classic examples, from Galileo to Einstein. In other words, the very notion of a scientific consensus i... | 0_0 |
Its also obvious from the ANPR that EPArelishes the prospect of dominatingfederal fuel economyregulation (GHG emission standardsbeing de-facto mpg standards ) andis hot toestablish New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for CO 2 emissions from power plants and refineries. | 0_0 |
We all have heard many times that summer sea ice minimums have declined in the northern hemisphere over the last 30 years. As mentioned above, this causes more sunlight to reach the dark ocean water, and results in a warming of the water. What is not so widely discussed is that southern hemisphere sea ice has been incr... | 1_1 |
Remarkably, the death of young men is never recorded as a notch against GDP, but the building of bombs that are dropped in far off lands is alwayscounted as a plus for an economy. | 0_0 |
Throughout the four-year study, seedlings grown in elevated CO 2 displayed photosynthetic rates that were 60-130% greater than rates exhibited by seedlings grown in ambient air during the warmer summer months. During the colder winter months, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment continued to boost seedling photosynthetic rates ... | 3_3 |
What about the probable ~1 C, unnaturally 7.7 sigma, increase in global air temperature between the Little Ice Age, 1650, and 1900? Humans couldn??t have done it. Climate gremlins, maybe? | 2_1 |
Die Welt writes that global warming is currently advancing considerably more slowly than assumed a few years ago and has stalled over the last 15 years and that scientists are unable to explain why . | 1_4 |
The seven scientists report that the elevated CO 2 treatment increased the above- and below-ground biomass of Zhonghuang 13 by 18.3 and 11.1%, respectively, while it increased the above- and below-ground biomass of Zhonghuang 35 by 15.6 and 20.0%, respectively. They additionally note that the high-CO 2 treatment also b... | 3_3 |
Mark Killion, IHSs head of world industry services, said, however, that the findings from the latest data were far from bleak for US manufacturing. The US has a huge productivity advantage in that it produced only slightly less than Chinas manufacturing output in 2010 but with 11.5m workers compared to the 100m employe... | 0_0 |
Marlo Lewis, Jr.Vice President for Policy & Coalitions | 0_0 |
Listening to the environmentalists, one might get the impression that the Clinton Administration completely backtracked on its commitment to sign a treaty in Kyoto, Japan. Statements by the administration following the Earth Summit, suggest otherwise: | 0_0 |
If an agency concludes that its action will have no significant impacts, it issues a relatively brief Environmental Assessment that explains the basis for that decision. But if significant effects are likely, the agency must prepare a comprehensive and voluminous Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that details every ... | 0_0 |
According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy dataset, the global proved reserves of oil have increased steadily since the dataset began in 1980. Similarly, global oil production has increased steadily since the dataset begins in 1965, with an approximately linear increase since the early 1980s. | 4_5 |
More recently, the Environmental Working Group has found that corn ethanol produces more carbon dioxide than would Keystone XL presuming, of course, that the beleaguered pipeline ever gets built. | 0_0 |
Of course, the warmists early on coined the term deniers, associated sceptics with death trains, accused them of genocide, threatened them with war crimes tribunals and produced a video showing even children being blown to pieces if they doubted dangerous man-made climate change. | 5_2 |
Nevertheless, insisting that "climate chaos" was real, former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson wailed that her agency would need at least 240,000 new EPA employees (each making some $100,000 per year, plus benefits) that she said would be needed just to administer new CO2 regulations and control nearly everything America... | 0_0 |
CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group founded in 1984, is dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information, please contact Richard Morrison, Associate Director of Media Relations, at (202) 331-1010. | 0_0 |
The most important recent scientific work concerns the Global Climate Models (GCM). Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas in that it absorbs outgoing radiation on particular wavelengths, with a resultant warming effect. However, looking at carbon dioxide alone, any effect would be quite small. To get to the predictions of... | 3_1 |
Global warming could end sooner then once thought in 40,000 years time | 0_0 |
As this deadline approaches, our elected officials should determine how best to confront and resist EPA's latest power grab. They should remember that the jobs, economic well-being, health and very lives of millions of minority and blue-collar families hang in the balance. | 0_0 |
However, even Soon's critics agree that studies such as his, which bring together a variety of measures to flesh out climate history, are rapidly coming of age. Over the past eight to 10 years what's called multi-proxy mapping has become more common, says Malcolm Hughes of the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree... | 0_0 |
Coal-reliant states currently pay 8 to 9 cents per kilowatt-hour. Their rates will likely go well beyond the 15 to 17 cents per kilowatt-hour that families, hospitals, factories, schools, and businesses now pay in "green energy" states such as California and Connecticut. They could skyrocket to the 36 to 40 cents that ... | 4_4 |
There is no way current climbers and mountain guides can give anecdotal evidence back to the 1900s, so what they claim is complete nonsense. | 0_0 |
This year, the recent 12 Month period temperature is -3.3 F cooler than for example 1911 . And if we compare with 1935 it is ??? 3.6 F cooler. | 1_3 |
Ontario sets record for daily wind production pays to export it. | 0_0 |
No matter what Zichal might say, climate policy will always be political, because so much money is at stake. What's troubling about the Obama administration's approach to carbon-dioxide issues, however, isn't the presence of politics. It's the absence of math. | 0_0 |
Perhaps just as significant is the fact that DMI only count ice concentration of 30% and over, unlike NSIDC and others that use 15%. This would suggest that the thicker, more concentrated ice is becoming more predominant. | 1_1 |
The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages. | 1_1 |
Still, Im not sure yet so as in politics, I reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks. | 0_0 |
Carbon-dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels increased 0.7 percent in the United States from 2000 to 2006, far below the worldwide increase of 21.6 percent. | 0_0 |
The warming trend since 1990, when the IPCC wrote its first report is equivalent to 1.1 C per century. The IPCC had predicted two and a half times as much. | 5_2 |
So many good intentions were packed into the encyclical, how could the Lama go wrong? | 0_0 |
Nonetheless, as Christy points out, thetropical troposphere isthe portion of the atmosphere where models project a highly consistent and significant warming response to rising CO2 concentrations. If the models do not show a discernible human influence in the tropical troposphere, how can they show that more than half t... | 5_1 |
Wind chills were as cold as minus 20 in parts of western Montana. By Wednesday morning, wind chills could drop to minus 35 in some spots. | 0_0 |
If the purpose of this statute were in part to address global warming by requiring preconstruction permits for facilities that emit greenhouse gases, as EPA?s reading suggests, why would the statute target the construction of facilities only in areas that are in compliance with the NAAQS ? and not elsewhere in the Unit... | 0_0 |
The amount of data that would need to be maintained and managed is boggling. And the security would be a headache and a half. (Just think how handy it would be to track all your competitors car movements, or your ex-wifes, or your employees. Just think how many people would like to track you too? Hackers would come, an... | 0_0 |
Atmospheric circulation over the interior has remained in a similar state for at least the past 200 years. | 0_0 |
I found this paper change was 1.7 days over 50 years. There are cyclic changes in temperature. The beginning year in this study was 1954, a relatively cool year for the twentieth century. If the study had begun 20 years earlier, the change would have been smaller, see here . The earth has been slowly warming since the ... | 2_1 |
Last week, I wrote about how the EPA was warring with industry, one can only assume in an attempt to destroy jobs. As that war continues, I thought it might be helpful to put some actual numbers in front of our readers so they can get the clearest picture possible about just how many jobs are being lost in the name of ... | 0_0 |
The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased..the hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused or will cause dangerous global warming is not supported by the evidence. | 1_7 |
War on coal? Forget about it! Its a war on natural gas | 0_0 |
Scientist A gets paid by Person B to say something scientific, C. If A does not believe in C, then A is dishonest. There is a commandment about bearing false witness, so this is as basic a sin as there is. Person B is complicit. The larger the payment, the worse it appears. But what if Scientist A believes in C, then t... | 0_0 |
The majority of the Mandurah to Fremantle sector does not appear to be susceptible to coastal erosion over the next century, despite the fact that the Tamala Limestone is preserved below sea level across the majority of the area. This is due to the fact that this sector has been the primary depositional province for th... | 0_0 |
The American Interest; The global solar industry is in shambles. Consumers can find Chinese panels for relatively cheap (though of questionable quality), but every step of the production chain is being propped up by government subsidies. American panel makers are folding, but so too are Chinese manufacturers, and Beiji... | 0_0 |
Half the models follow a wetter trend, and half a drier trend. | 0_0 |
He doesn?t want to ?transform? America. He wants to destroy it. | 0_0 |
Climate "Consensus" Opiate, The 97% Solution | 0_0 |
Unlike other oil companies, which have good records of safety and avoiding spills when it comes to oil drilling, BP has a bad record, earning it the label of "serial environmental criminal" from critics. The Obama administration granted BP a waiver of environmental regulations in April 2009, yet it blocked Louisiana fr... | 0_0 |
So to say there is a consensus about some global warming is true; to say there is a consensus about dangerous global warming is false. | 5_1 |
Sea level has been rising at 0.0 mm per year in California, leading to the complete collapse of the real estate market. | 1_6 |
Dr. Roy Spencer from The University of Alabama at Huntsville presented a special seminar at CU Boulder in the CIRES Auditorium today Theabstract and pdfof hispresentation are available below. | 0_0 |
Bauman et al. published a peer-reviewed study regarding corals in the southern Persian Gulf area, which found corals to be hardy and resilient to extreme temperature fluctuations. Their research confirms what other coral studies have found: | 3_2 |
During the cool PDO mode, ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are cool. This was typical of the global cooling from 1945 to 1977. During the warm PDO, ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are warm. This was typical of the global warming from 1977 to 1998. The abrupt shift of the Pacific from ... | 2_1 |
Read here . Recently, NASA's James Hansen rounded up some exceptionally gullible and dim-witted teenagers to do legal battle for him in court . Hansen speculates that human CO2 increases will raise global temperatures so much that positive feedbacks occur causing a runaway global warming "tipping point." | 5_2 |
The Romney vision, by contrast, actually works. Bain Capital investments brought us Staples, The Sports Authority, Steel Dynamics and many other success stories. More recently, on the energy front, America's private sector ingenuity, sweat and perseverance launched new technologies and discoveries that abruptly ended t... | 0_0 |
So, to me, just looking at the Degree Day map explains a great deal about our Global Warming. Weve moved the thermometers to where the people are located, down in the valleys, and put them at the airports where solar heating works really really well on black tarmac. But go out in the country and its not so hot and as i... | 0_0 |
It is hard to be too confident about the temperature record from 1850, to mention an example. I am not sure whether it's almost correct or almost completely wrong. But the agreement between the different datasets that treat the homogenization and other issues differently NASA's GISS, NOAA's NCDC, the Japanese global da... | 0_0 |
One more interesting note - this story started out as a post on the Baltimore Sun's environment blog. When Drudge linked to it, the result was the now familiar Drudge-a-lanche of mostly like-minded readers. It seems that those readers left so many comments calling the protesters idiots that the Sun felt the need to add... | 0_0 |
Sign of the times: In today's St Paul Pioneer Press , yesterday's global warming scare propaganda rates only a paragraph on page 16A, after the octuplet mom and before layoffs at Billy Graham One of the authors, Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow ... | 0_0 |
2 There is obviously a lot more to say on this subject, but well leave it for another time. | 0_0 |
Figure 5 presents in absolute terms the TOA outgoing shortwave radiation of the 21 individual CMIP5-archived models with historic and RCP6.0 forcings. The thing that stands out most is the wide range of model-manufactured values. Based on the 1996-2015 averages, theres about a 10 watts/m^2 span from the model with the ... | 0_0 |
UPDATE: The Australian groupthink machine (otherwise known as the ABC) desperately tries to find an alarmist story to keep Durban relevant and the Cause alive despite all the collapsing wreckage of climate hysteria strewn around them. | 5_2 |
Indur Goklany examinesthe World Health Organisations recent report on climate change and findsthat its estimates of future mortality from global warming are grossly exaggerated. Full paper (PDF) | 0_0 |
"We are, in effect, bulldozing the Gardens of Eden." Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, p. 144 | 0_0 |
David Bier: Real reform for legal immigration means making it easier particularly for short-term workers, and the only way that will happen is if Obama stands up to unions. But is he really willing to do that? Not so far. Unions want regulated immigration, not free market immigration. | 0_0 |
The five researchers report that changes associated with both management, its absence, and the 1998 ENSO were found, but they say that the changes were generally small and that ecological measures indicated stability or improvements over the period of their study. In fact, they state that northern Tanzania reefs have e... | 3_2 |
Joe DAleo shows the relationship between these ocean cycles and US temperatures. | 0_0 |
This would explain why sea ice around Antarctica has been growing, reaching the greatest-ever recorded extent in 2010, it suggested. | 1_1 |
Abundant CO2 also increases the biomass, numbers and total surface area of lateral roots and fine-roots, enabling plants to absorb more water and soil nutrients, and obtain sufficient phosphorus even when it is in short supply in soils. Carbon dioxide also stimulates nitrogen fixation, helping plants to form stronger s... | 3_3 |
The global warming pause was first identified by sceptics such as Mike Haseler (aka Scottish Sceptic) as early as 2005 but is first recorded in the climategate submissions of 2009. The pause was used to refer to the lack of predicted warming in the available temperature datasets. For example, by mid 2015, the satellite... | 1_4 |
According to a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ice melting in the Arctic Ocean will cause a large decline in winter rain and snowpack in California, resulting in future water shortages. These results were based solely on the output of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's climate model. Unfor... | 5_1 |
Todays post is at Pajamas Media: The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It? | 0_0 |
The benefits of the rainforest First and foremost, tropical rainforests "are home to a vast biological array of living organisms and support more plant and animal species per unit area, as well as overall, than any other ecosystem on earth." Current estimates of the total number of living species on the planet range fr... | 0_0 |
There is one linear chaotic climate state, however, that all can predictably count on. Don't expect any good news so long as many billions of taxpayer dollars reward agenda-driven political science fear mongering. | 0_0 |
The IPCC-projected rise of up to 1m by the end of this century would require an average rate of up to 12mm/yr for the rest of this century, some four times the current rate, and an order of magnitude larger than implied by the 20 th century acceleration of 0.01mm/yr found in some studies. What drives the projected sea ... | 1_6 |
"I have over 400 players now who are members of Global United Football Club, the likes of Pavel Nedved, Zinedine Zidane, George Weah and Lothar Matthus." | 0_0 |
Dirty Facts Behind Obamas Clean Power Plan | 0_0 |
TRD is no accurate thermometers, but we have indications on that it was very large svngningar during the same periods, says Hans Linderholm. | 0_0 |
That will hammer everything we make, grow, ship, eat and do. It will impair our livelihoods, living standards, liberties and life spans. And these destructive rules are being imposed by callous, imperious, unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucrats who are circumventing our laws and Constitution; disregarding the cle... | 0_0 |
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