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You can dive deeper into this historic beer milestone by viewing the Brewers Association's interactive timeline of US breweries from 1873-2015. | 0_0 |
Case of high-speed rail grows only stronger: | 0_0 |
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Interior, and the Department of Labor are all promulgating stringent emission standards for new power plants that would effectively prohibit construction of new coal-fired electricity generating capacity unless it is equipped with carbon-capture technologya p... | 0_0 |
Earlier today, I was wondering if the motivation was to get more Hollywood glamour in their lives. The old world glamour of royalty, heavy crystal, and gowns must be getting old, but this is the political cynic in me speaking. | 0_0 |
Lubchenco said her agency already receives millions of requests each year for the type of information the proposed climate service would provide, and we fully expect requests for information to grow explosively. | 0_0 |
It is not in our national self-interest to try and bear the costs of global warming by ourselves. For a wealthy, cold, non-agrarian, stable country such as ours, it is unclear whether we even stand that much to lose from a rise in temperatures. There have been several studies that suggest the costs of mitigating climat... | 3_3 |
The UAH satellite-based global temperature dataset has reached 1/3 of a century in length, a milestone we marked with a press release in the last week (e.g. covered here ). | 0_0 |
The Environmental Protection Agency ?protects? us from ?toxic chemicals? by moving their goalposts. The EPA can multiply the ?no effect level? in rat tests by 100 or even 1000 to set the ?acceptable daily intake.? Thus, they can declare just about any chemical they choose too toxic for our children. | 0_0 |
The bar heights show how many models in Table 9.5 exhibit each level of TCR | 0_0 |
When updated to 2006, the trends in ice extent and area in the Antarctic remains slight but positive at 0.9 0.2 and 1.7 0.3% per decade. | 1_1 |
So why tout nuclear power now? Former Democratic National Committee chairman Ed Rendell told Sean Hannity last night that the nuclear line was a bone thrown to Republicans in the name of bipartisan outreach. Along with opening up limited areas offshore for oil and gas drilling, saying yes to nuclear power is a bid to a... | 0_0 |
How can climate scientists/modelers hope to simulate the patterns of warming on land when they cant simulate the warming patterns of the largest ocean on this planet? | 5_1 |
Despite official opposition, underground markets for consumer goods in Cuba continue to flourish. | 0_0 |
6 Alexander George, Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War, 1991. | 0_0 |
The Hooker 100 inch telescope was then showing farthest light sources to be moving at 25,000 miles per second. Dr Hubble, during his 1936 interview, stated that he was willing to abandon the expanding universe to mathematical cosmologistspending erection of the 200 inch Palomar telescopewhich may finally settle the que... | 0_0 |
Will courts overturn the CPP? That may well depend on whether judges decide the case on the merits oras in recent Obamacare rulingsconclude that presidential legacy policies are "too big to fail.' | 0_0 |
Rather than re-examining the climate data and concluding there really isnt an imminent catastrophe coming, the alarmists still continue to insist its real and are now coming togetherto produce positive visions in group therapy a sort of Alarmists Anonymous . The TAZ quotes psychologist Gerd Weling of the Transition Tow... | 5_2 |
Mr. Chairman, Kyoto apologists would have us believe that the "consensus of scientists" has spoken, that global warming poses a "mortal threat" to human life,7 and that we must therefore waste no time making preparations and plans to de-carbonize the U.S. and other national economies. In reality, the case for an intern... | 5_1 |
Meanwhile, the British government has cut funding for its Warm Front heating assistance program from $470 million this year to $172 million in 2011, Consumer Focus campaigner Jonathan Stearn angrily noted. And because the winds barely blow during the coldest weather, Britain's "shiny new green" turbines were able to su... | 0_0 |
15a. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of turbulence | 0_0 |
January 2008 Environment & Climate News: Special Edition! | 0_0 |
The fact is that America's immigrant "problem" is a prime example of government failure. Immigrants have historically been among the most hard-working and valued members of American society. Yet thanks to a variety of perverse incentives -- from welfare systems to incompetent immigration bureaucracies -- immigrants are... | 0_0 |
According to Al Gore in "Earth in the Balance," "Wherever rain forests are found, they are under siege. They are being burned to clear land for pasture; they are being clear-cut with chain saws for lumber; they are being flooded by hydroelectric dams to generate power." (Gore, PP. 117-118) | 0_0 |
The models all reckon the feedbacks amplify the warming, but three independent sources of empirical evidence suggests the opposite occurs, and that the feedbacks are negative (ie. they dampen). In that case the headline threat reads Half a Degree . | 3_1 |
Heres the ugly truth. Its simple, blunt, and bitter. Nothing is sustainable. Oh, like the sailors say, the wind is free. As is the sunshine. But everything else we mine or extract to make everything from shovels to cell phones will run out. The only question is, will it run out sooner, or later? Because nothing is sust... | 0_0 |
on Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 4:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
As legendary crime-fighting Police Chief William Bratton stated, tough immigration enforcement hurts local police "because immigrants living and working in our communities are afraid to have any contact with the police . . . can't prevent or solve crimes if victims or witnesses are unwilling to talk to us for fear of b... | 0_0 |
Switch to carbon-free energy sources as much as possible and adapt to changes already underway. | 0_0 |
A review of Steyns scathing new book about Michael Mann: A Disgrace To The Profession | 0_0 |
Thanks to that program, and you can make a list of items similar or shared between the biology and genetics of Soviet Lysenko and ideas to us contemporaneee about a global warming of anthropogenic origin (commonly referred to with the acronym AGW): | 0_0 |
any extra CO2 is already increasing the fertility and reducing water needs of all plant life and thus enhancing world food production. | 3_3 |
Polar bear habitat more Arctic sea ice in Canada this week than in early 1970s | 3_2 |
There must be something unique to the concerns of the white working class, then, that liberal progressivism rubs the wrong way. What might that be? | 0_0 |
Actually, yes. Both are outspoken public advocates of alarm, and Wielicki has gone so far as to retract results once they were shown to contradict alarm. | 0_0 |
How is it that the IPCC's numbers show a nice clear "hockey-stick" warming trend where other research shows the world getting colder? Prof. Phil Jones succinctly explains in one of the leaked emails: | 5_2 |
Just remember when you hear people complaining about cuts to government spending, that we can still afford to help Tanzanians make "climate change awareness" films. | 0_0 |
In 2006, As You Sow pressured Apple Computer via shareholder resolution about its supposedly "insensitive" recycling program. Though Apple CEO Steve Jobs disputed the allegations and the resolution was soundly defeated by Apple shareholders, the company nevertheless began kow-towing to environmental activists on the re... | 0_0 |
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. | 5_1 |
"This is just lobbying by science and press release all leading up to this big UN climate summit coming in December. | 0_0 |
If your engine needs to deliver energy output at a certain level, the ethanol biofuel mandate is actually diminishing the available energy output from the ethanol-type fuel. The reason is easy to understand: both bio-ethanol and bio-diesel are, energetically speaking, already partly combusted hydrocarbons. Therefore, t... | 4_4 |
A Comparison of the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver | 0_0 |
(Ill try to head off an argument: The title of Booth et al. (2012) Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability explains their findings. Refer to the discussion of Booth et al. (2012) under the heading of ON THE HADGEM2-ES AMO SIMULATION in the post here . The HADGEM2-ES... | 0_0 |
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in a less costly manner, America could assist China and India in developing shale gas from hydrofracturing and building natural gas-fired plants to reduce their reliance on coal. Or America could ship coal to China, because U.S. coal burns more cleanly. | 0_0 |
This article first appeared in the New York Post, December 5, 2013. | 0_0 |
5. "Time is pressing. Climate change has begun already." Climate change has existed for millennia, because climate is always changing. | 2_1 |
- New research findings on the sun, including records of changes in the sun's magnetism (and therefore its energy output) reaching back some 1,000 years, suggest a major natural influence on surface temperatures of the earth. | 2_1 |
Chambliss said he recently spent time with NSA officials and was assured that the programs Greenwald describes have been exaggerated. | 0_0 |
* Continuing scientific dispute exists over whether observations are confirming or disconfirming key short-run predictions of climate models ??? such as an increase in tropospheric water vapor and an increase in tropical tropospheric surface temperatures relative to tropical surface temperatures; | 5_1 |
Ideally, such a fund should be paid into by all developed and semi-developed countries on a fair basis, such as an equal fraction of GDP. If climate change is shown to be a non-threat, or a modest one, or some cheap ways of removing carbon from the air turn up, those monies could be returned to the tax-payers of the do... | 0_0 |
Peter Lang is a retired geologist and engineer with 40 years experience on a wide range of energy projects throughout the world, including managing energy R&D and providing policy advice for government and opposition. His experience includes: hydro, geothermal, nuclear, coal, oil, and gas plants and a wide range of ene... | 0_0 |
CO2-induced Greening of the Earth: Benefiting the Biosphere While Lifting the Poor out of Poverty | 0_0 |
Essential MTT for living r lskunnighet and barnaddlighet. And where it's just to note lskunnigheten has never been higher and barnaddligheten has never been lower. In short, we are not only more n ngonsin, but we mr also better n ngonsin. | 0_0 |
2012: 6 companies controlled 90% of the media consumed by Americans | 0_0 |
The global warming of this century is exactly in phase with the normal climatic pattern of cyclic warming and cooling and we have now switched from a warm phase to a cool phase right at the predicted time (see graph below). | 2_1 |
Whaling crews in this Arctic coast village store six feet of tail skin, blubber and bone underground from spring until fall. The tail freezes slowly while fermenting and taking on the flavor of the earth. | 0_0 |
It started in December 1911 and continued into late February 1912. February and March continued the unrelenting freeze. Both months were unusually cold, and March was the coldest on record for many states in the Midwest and Northeast. Parts of North Dakota saw their coldest March readings to date. Some cities saw their... | 1_3 |
Favoring hospitals and nursing homes tends to favor health-care providersincluding 1199 membersover patients. The goal of health-care policy should be to make people healthier, but the high price tag of New York's health-care system has never correlated with its performance. New York ranks 19th in the nation in the qua... | 0_0 |
The federal government is redoubling its efforts to reduce the uncertainties in our understanding of the global climate and develop a science-based policy, but with each new chapter in this debate it becomes increasingly clear that politicsfrom all sideswill continue to obscure the facts that should be driving the deba... | 0_0 |
And to make your cruise even more enjoyable, you only have traverse several thousand miles of ice, with Arctic ice extent the highest it has been in a decade | 1_1 |
Guadalajara looks to be something of an agenda-setting exercise with the new U. S. president. However, pre-summit discussions suggest several indicators of the road ahead. First, given the interconnections among the three North American economies, the leaders hope to coordinate national stimulus efforts so that they do... | 0_0 |
A second part of their problem involved a paper by Soon and Baliunas titled Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1,000 years (Climate Research, 23, 89110) that detailed worldwide evidence of existence of the MWP. The personal attacks on Soon and Baliunas are now exposed, particularly the role of John Ho... | 2_1 |
Almost everyone can see that more money offers not only more material things but greater opportunities: the ability to pursue another educational course for themselves or someone in their family, the chance to travel abroad, or the possibility of taking an extended break from work. Even committed greens are amazingly a... | 0_0 |
As far as England & Wales are concerned, there is nothing in the data which provides evidence that The increases in days of heavy rain and the greatest annual 5-days precipitation amounts suggest a tendency for an increasing likelihood for extreme heavy rainfall events . Even winter months show no such trend, as I show... | 1_7 |
As the amount of CO 2 in the atmosphere continues to rise, soybean plants will likely exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis, which will lead to greater synthesis of starch and other carbohydrates for supporting increased growth and development. In addition, if the atmospheric ozone level continues to rise, the risin... | 3_3 |
This plot shows data from the Climax, Colorado neutron monitor operated by the University of Chicago. The cosmic rays show an inverse relationship to the sunspot cycle because Suns magnetic field is stronger during sunspot maximum and shields the Earth from cosmic rays. | 0_0 |
activity over the last century give a CO2 initiated warming of 0.2 C and a solar influence of 0.54 C over this period, corresponding to a CO2 climate sensitivity of 0.6 C (doubling of CO2) and a solar sensitivity of 0.5 C (0.1 % increase of the solar constant). | 2_1 |
Unfortunately, many media representatives have been unable to depart from their long-loved climate catastrophe. Catastrophes are interesting for readers, viewers and audiences, and they boost ratings and circulation. How on earth would the otherwise empty pages and radio shows be filled if the catastrophe disappeared? ... | 5_2 |
According to the UN figures, measuring factories, power stations and the like, New Zealand supplies about 1.1% of human emissions; when you include forestry, farming and land use changes, we supply only about 0.3% of human emissions. By either measure, our contribution to alleged dangerous man-made global warming is mi... | 4_2 |
"Environmental pressure groups have also claimed that ANWR contains very little oil and natural gas," continued Ebell. "The U. S Geological Survey's best estimate is 10.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil. That is equivalent to about 30 years of imports from Saudi Arabia, one of our major foreign suppliers. And if the... | 0_0 |
Models get cloud feedback wrong, but *only* by 70W/m2 (thats 19 times larger than the CO2 effect) | 0_0 |
Daprile was beginning of 1997, when the coming to power of the feared political opponent, the Labor Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair, was celebrated by the pro-conservative British newspaper The Daily Telegraph with a cartoon of the award-winning cartoonist Matt, with a child He asked his astonished parents: Pope, b... | 0_0 |
Tomorrow, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the national security threats from melting Arctic ice. Greenwire (subscription required), the Online environmental news service, explains the rationale for the hearing: | 0_0 |
They find that when their proposed natural radiative warming effect of El Nino is included, the climate sensitivity to CO2 is reduced substantially to 1.3 deg. C. This is below the IPCC estimate of 1.5 deg. C to 4.5 deg. C. | 3_1 |
Putin's gift to America's energy independence | 0_0 |
Does this tattling make any sense? This is the climate fervor. Sense has nothing to do with it. The tattling is sleaze over sense, and soap opera over substance. But lets burrow into the internal logic of it, anyway, without implying any external coherence. | 0_0 |
The Daily Caller discusses with Myron Ebell the outcome of the approaching United Nations' global warming summit in Paris. | 0_0 |
how to make "clever" use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls "civil society," meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas. | 0_0 |
Friday, February 04, 2011 to Thursday, February 17, 2011 | 0_0 |
Some environmental elitists may say: Let them use solar panels. But the moral imperative of the 21st century is to liberate the master resource of energy from the politics of these reactionary enemies of democratizing progress, prosperity, and quality of life. | 0_0 |
Estimates are that there are 8-12 million illegal immigrants in the US (Brewer's hispano-phobic allies would put the number much higher). They are mostly all drug dealers and criminals? Really? | 0_0 |
The George Marshall Institute's report Climate Change Science: A Review of the Draft Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan was designed to provide insights into and recommendations for the U.S. climate science programs. | 0_0 |
Global Warming Why Carbon Dioxide Plays No Role | 2_3 |
Working-class Americans share classic American beliefs very strongly. They value economic growth because they believe they personally benefit from it. Unlike Continental Europeans, working-class voters do not envy the rich. They believe that Bill Gates has earned his billions, and while they do not believe they can bec... | 0_0 |
There are studies with different conclusions. Perhaps the most famous is the Seralini study, which purported to show that Roundup, the herbicide used with genetically modified crops, causes tumors in rats. First published in 2012, it was withdrawn later by the journal where it appeared, after near unanimous opprobrium ... | 0_0 |
You'll do more than pay lip service to saving the planet with your purchase of Lip Action. One dollar of each $3.49 sale of Kiss My Face's Lip Action line of lip balms supports the Alliance for Climate Protection , founded by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Al Gore. With eco-aware names like Berry Warm and Glacial Mint, the S... | 0_0 |
It is disingenuous to now use the climate scientists as a new population sample size. The response figure of 3,146 is the figure against which the 75 out of 77 should be compared and in this case we get not 97% but just 2.38%. | 0_0 |
I downloaded three lots of data raw, GCHNv3 and GISS Homogenised (GISS H), then replicated Mearns method of calculating temperature anomalies. Using 5 year moving averages, in C hart 1 I have mapped the trends in the three data sets. | 0_0 |
Rising demand in China and India will push coal past oil as the two Asian powerhouses will need to rely on the comparatively cheaper fuel to power their economies. Coal demand in the United States, Europe and the rest of Asia will hold steady. | 0_0 |
Another real-world observation that casts doubt on the Wilson theory actually comes from an island, Puerto Rico, where according to Lugo, human activity reduced the area of primary forest by 99%. "But because of extensive use of coffee shade trees in the coffee region and secondary forests, forest cover was never less ... | 0_0 |
"Global warming could cause dramatically hotter summers and a depleted snow pack in California, leading to a sharp increase in heat-related deaths and jeopardizing the water supply, according to a study released Monday . | 0_0 |
After a comprehensive examination of the peer-reviewed literature, the author concludes that there is a tendentious use of evidence by the IPCC, revealing "a systematic tendency of the climate establishment to engage in a variety of stylized rhetorical techniques that seem to oversell what is actually known about clima... | 5_2 |
Most research on the effects of ocean acidification are flawed according to a Nature article. But we still believe the evidence? From Nature, Crucial ocean-acidification models come up short | 5_1 |
Fred Baileys studies refute the fundamental assumption that the solar energy received on earth is sensibly constant and has no influence on variations in the earths climate. The opposite is true. It is the dominant cause of these variations. | 2_1 |
Despite the cold winter this year, the trend to milder and wetter winters is expected to continue, with snow and frost becoming less of a feature in the future. The famously cold winter of 1962/63 is now expected to occur about once every 1,000 years or more, compared with approximately every 100 to 200 years before 18... | 0_0 |
Entitled Orbital forcing of tree-ring data, the new study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change . View that article here: | 0_0 |
Since 1812, the CO2 concentration in northern hemispheric air has fluctuated exhibiting three high level maxima around 1825, 1857 and 1942 the latter showing more than 400 ppm. | 0_0 |
CNBC's Santelli rants about NY Times and other critics of congressional Constitution reading: | 0_0 |
In the context of climate change, our level of information about where specific harms will manifest is far, far lower than 70%, and our understanding of whether our mitigation efforts will negate any particular harm is virtually nil. Clearly, the focus on greenhouse gas mitigation, both domestically and internationally... | 0_0 |
We could not read every one, but tried to cover the most relevant topics such | 0_0 |
?We?re heading toward what occurred around the year 1800. It was called the Dalton Minimum of low sunspot activities,? he explained. ?We certainly are down to that in number of sunspots this year. That means the cooling will continue at least until 2030 and yet the government is preparing for warming, which is outrageo... | 1_2 |
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