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I can see weather each day, but Smithsonian scientists seem to have the unique ability to see climate change. I like the Smithsonian when it sticks to its purpose as a natural history museum. But, with the government dumping billions into climate change and each element of the government coming up with its own climate ... | 5_2 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on what Al Gore said about global warming and tornados in An Inconvenient Truth: | 0_0 |
Finally, a vestigial government-funded program actually worth cutting gets taken out as Denmarks new regime change is opting to excise Bjorn Lomborgs $1.6 million in funding for his Copenhagen Consensus Center. Its been very strange that particular researchers have received special treatment due to ideology. Were going... | 0_0 |
Even assuming it were true that Alar slightly increased cancer risk in laboratory rats no small assumption given the well-known limitations of laboratory animal studies in determining human cancer risk a human would have to consume 19,000 quarts of apple juice per day for life to get the same dose of Alar as the rats. | 0_0 |
Note: Writing in Nature Senevirnate (2012) argues with respect to global trends that, there is no necessary correlation between temperature changes and long-term drought variations, which should warn us against using any simplifications regarding their relationship.23 | 1_7 |
Ben Rhodes, a National Security Adviser in the Obama administration, bragged recently about the lies officials told to support a major foreign policy decisionthe nuclear agreement with Iran. That agreement permits Iran to possess nuclear weapons in about ten years. Rhodes publicly admitted that the Obama administration... | 0_0 |
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In a 2013 law review, I argue that environmental special interests have captured environmental policymaking during the Obama administration. Consider the Natural Resources Defense Council and the EPA. Green groups often are thought to be the David against industry's Goliath, but that's not true anymore. Far from being ... | 0_0 |
V.I. Lenin basically viewed all capitalists as rent seekers. Capitalists are so fixated on short-term gain, he mused, that they will "sell the rope" by which their enemies will hang them. This much is clear -- there is no honor among thieves. The more businesses depend on political predation, the easier it is for anti-... | 0_0 |
Under normal circumstances, you could expect that those people will at least try to lie to their readers and pretend that they're impartial and un-corrupt and that they could a priori reach conclusions of either sign; they could a priori agree or disagree with others. But the likes of Mr Boslough haven't even tried to ... | 0_0 |
Yet Hansen's not even close to being an objective scientist. He is openly ideological and rabidly partisan. His political pals and financial patrons are liberal Democrats -- Gore, John Kerry and left-wing groups funded by George Soros and Teresa Heinz. | 5_2 |
By Environmental Working Group, EcoWatch, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
CEI Today: SOTU reaction & analysis | 0_0 |
Why were so many thermometers believed to be overestimating temperatures in the first half of the 1900?? s? | 5_1 |
The claims that Epstein debunks are accompanied by the fundamental truths about fossil fuel use and science. His book, comprehensible to anyone whether they have any knowledge of science or not, should be on everyone's reading list. | 0_0 |
Study looks into the interaction of knowledge, risk perceptions and action as it relates to climate events | 0_0 |
Oil prices rising a week after SPR release: | 0_0 |
You can see the Stevenson screen is surrounded by astronomical science, such as the historic Dominion Observatory and the Carter Observatory to the west (off screen). But from a climate science perspective, it is also surrounded by asphalt, with a car park to the east. According to the Google Earth measurement tool, ve... | 0_0 |
The new koda Superb, an upper-class model, is increasingly reliably beating its proper German brother, Volkswagen Passat. In the U.K., the "advantage koda" has been obvious for years. But even in other countries, koda's victory became pretty much the rule. Two days ago, the Dutch Autoweek declared Superb as the winner,... | 0_0 |
As the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change observed years ago, researchers attempting to construct long-term (centuries to millennia) temperature records should "finish the dance" with the (proxy) data they started with. | 0_0 |
I have no particular comment to make about the model itself. WUWT has covered this issue well already. | 0_0 |
Now, amid the Christmas and New Year holiday, two million homes, schools and hospitals face fuel rationing. Some families could wait weeks before they can get their fuel oil tanks refilled, as more snow falls across Great Britain. | 0_0 |
Skeptical scientists have literally hundreds of samples. Unskeptical scientists have one tree in Yamal, and a few flawed bristlecones | 0_0 |
Veteran meteorologist and Weather Channel founder John Coleman has been following Hurricane Matthew and has a message for environmentalists linking the storm to global warming. | 0_0 |
For those of you who either missed that report, or may have since forgotten about it, you can find it here , as an issue refresher, in hopes that our readers may gain some insight into the types of information that was not included in the ACIA report. For those who are interested in additional examples of scientific ov... | 0_0 |
Page said on CNBC that the U.S. biofuel mandate needs to be addressed through existing policy tools. Otherwise, the spike in U.S. corn and soybean prices to record highs will ration demand in ways that will hurt food production too much. | 0_0 |
Mauna Loa does not represent the typical atmospheric CO2 on different global locations but is typical only for this volcano at a maritime location in about 4000 m altitude at that latitude. | 0_0 |
The GHE is supposed to increase lapse rates, but Earths lapse rate (6.5K/km) is lower than predicted (9.8K/km), so the greenhouse theory is wrong. | 2_3 |
In speaking about Cap and Trade, Monckton warned how any measure to curtail global warming would result in abject failure. Monckton then listed three current approaches that are doomed to failure because they would have no effect on climate change: Kerry-Lieberman Bill, EPA regulations, and an attempt to push a new tre... | 4_2 |
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the president wanted to help us get out of the mess. There will be times when | 0_0 |
PG&E;, Exelon, and Duke preen themselves as progressive companies who put principle (planetary rescue) ahead of profit. In reality, they seek political rents at the expense of the public interest in limited government, economic growth, and affordable energy. Waxman-Markey sets aside the biggest chunk of free emission p... | 0_0 |
This observation is just another example of the fact that great portions of the world, including most of the Arctic, most of the Antarctic and much of North America, are no warmer now than they were some 50 to 70 years ago . | 1_4 |
Mr Chu, I don't know what the second and third expert will tell you about your situation but I am telling you that you should try to medically treat your warmophobia, otherwise it can lead to serious problem for you and your country, whose secretary of energy you are going to become, in a couple of years. Many people w... | 0_0 |
Tropospheric water vapor has been on a long-term declining trend, and is the source of all stratospheric water vapor as noted by Dessler above. However, if tropospheric water vapor has declined, how could stratospheric water vapor increase 1980-2000 according to Solomon, or have a "long-term increase" according to the ... | 5_1 |
Delegates to the UN climate talks in Bonn entered their plenary session today holding indulgences absolving them of their carbon sins. Gaia the earth goddess, wearing her trademark green frock and crown of leaves welcomed the delegates and bestowed her indulgences. | 5_2 |
I have never been a climate change skeptic and until the release of emails from UEA/CRU I had paid little attention to the science surrounding it. | 5_2 |
The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression | 0_0 |
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They pretend otherwise, of course. Almost four years ago, when I wrote a 2500-word article in the Sunday Telegraph pointing out that the notion of a very large climate warming attributable to future increases in CO2 concentration was scientifically ill-founded, Monbiot wrote a scathing 1800-word response in the Daily K... | 0_0 |
This applies not only to the northern areas, but also the south. In the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions the average daily temperature is below normal by 4 degrees, reaching temperatures normally seen in October. | 1_3 |
The first part of Minster Combets address covered a number of scientific points, which we review in a parallel article . As for earlier audits that we have made of government statements on global warming, we find that the government is ill advised and has embarked on a political course of action that lacks sound scient... | 0_0 |
E. Corals in warm, tropical seas around the world are thriving as the ocean waters around them get warmer. | 3_2 |
Washington, D.C., January 4, 2007With the opening of the 110th Congress, the new majorities in the House and Senate are preparing to embark on an ambitious domestic policy agenda. A higher minimum wage, lower Medicare drug prices, changes to oil and gas royalties and subsidies for renewable energy are all on the front-... | 0_0 |
to abandon bias and extreme statements and to embrace debate | 0_0 |
As the graph's red plot depicts, global warming trends have been on a deceleration path for an extended period, indicating a strong likelihood that global warming by 2050 will be nowhere close to he current official predictions. | 1_4 |
While as process studies, there is merit in this research, but to transfer the results as skillful projections to policymakers is inappropriate and misleading. Now only is there no value added in regional downscaling of mult-decadal projections beyond what can be achieved by just interpolating downscale a global model ... | 5_1 |
As computer simulations have become more sophisticated, projections of rising sea levels have become much smaller. | 1_6 |
On August 23, 2006, Mr. Corcoran published an article in the National Post entitled Hockey sticks and hatchets: Inside the Globes 4,200-word hatchet job on climate skeptics. The article made a number of factual assertions about Dr. Weaver and noted, in 2004 , Dr. Weaver dismissed the original hockey-stick research debu... | 5_1 |
Now one can read convoluted explanations about how rising CO2 in the atmosphere can cause land surface heating which is then transported over the ocean and causes higher SST. But the interface between ocean and air is well described and measured. Not surprisingly it is the warmer ocean water sending heat into the atmos... | 2_1 |
Andrew Montford: I think there??s absolutely no doubt that there was no conspiracy. All the inquiries were deficient for their own reasons. So if I was running the country there would be a public inquiry into Climategate because the people who have been tasked with investigating it have failed to do so. | 5_2 |
Temperatures are above 0F (-18C) in the middle of the Urban Heat Island. | 0_0 |
The Pause in ???Earth??s Temperature?? appears in many of Earth??s observational records, with The Pause lasting for at least a decade, and in reasonable portion of the records, it appears to have begun with the strong 1998 El Nino. The questions now are how long will The Pause last and where will ???Earth??s Temperatu... | 1_4 |
So, based on that discussion, the modeled and observed satellite-era Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) data are shown in Figure 27, where the short-term AMO is determined by subtracting the data (and model outputs) for the rest of the global oceans from the North Atlantic data (and model outputs). And once again,... | 0_0 |
> >> University of East Anglia web site: | 0_0 |
Rahm Emanuel knows the White House well from his time there under Clinton, | 0_0 |
better diagnostics (e.g. betas) than his original method. So we will still not | 0_0 |
Although the NOAA report noted that in 2012, the Arctic continues to warm with sea ice reaching record lows, it also stated that the Antarctica sea ice reached a record high of 7.51 million square miles on Sept. 26, 2012. | 1_1 |
No "scalable" alternative fuels currently exist to replace fossil fuels. To avoid the economic, social, environmental, and human health catastrophes that would follow the elimination of hydrocarbons, we would need affordable, reliable options on a big enough scale to replace the fuels we rely on today. The divestment m... | 4_4 |
That's the most important statement so far in the decades-old climate debate: You're forcing us backward into poverty and ignorance for nothing, except to further your careers, funding and power. | 0_0 |
Clearly, the energy infrastructure involved would be massive and hugely expensive. Not only would there need to be an enormous increase in wind and solar farms, something like a quadrupling from current German levels, but there would also need to be maybe hundreds of plants built to produce, and a new grid built to dis... | 4_4 |
Another negative climate feedback: more CO2 = more plants = more aerosols = cooling | 3_1 |
Yesterday's blog was on the hype about heat waves--the claim that people will drop like flies from heat stress in U.S. cities unless urgent action is taken to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. | 0_0 |
TPA seems likely to pass the Senate, but passage in the House is uncertain. In 1993, Clinton pushed through the NAFTA agreement with Mexico with 234 votes in the House 132 from Republicans and 102 from Democrats. In 2002, the House passed trade promotion authority by just a 215-212 margin, with aye votes from 190 Repub... | 0_0 |
Empirical evidence shows that Earth is currently ???greening?? significantly due to additional CO2 and a modest warming. | 3_3 |
This year it is hot in Texas and cold in Vancouver, and they are blaming that on global warming. | 5_2 |
Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd. Many false ideas enjoyed consensus opinion at one time. Indeed, the "power of the paradigm" often shapes the thinking of scientists so strongly that they become unable to accurately summarize, le... | 0_0 |
BrightSources setback stands in stark contrast with this weeks ultra-successful IPO by Forum Energy Technologies , an oil-services provider. The company had hoped to sell 16 million shares, but demand far exceeded expectations, and almost 19 million shares were sold, at the high end of Forum Energys hoped-for price. Be... | 0_0 |
A crucial measure of our knowledge of feedbacks is climate sensitivitythat is, the warming induced by a hypothetical doubling of carbon-dioxide concentration. Today??s best estimate of the sensitivity (between 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit and 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) is no different, and no more certain, than it was 30 years ... | 5_1 |
In fact, it is almost certain that the wind-generated electricity cost more when the consumer payments, taxpayer subsidies, and the cost of the backup gas generation are added together. There is no doubt that it cost significantly more to generate electricity from wind than from natural gas . | 4_4 |
A former Transportation Security Administration agent who spent three years in jail for stealing from passenger luggage told ABC News that the practice was very commonplace. Pythias Brown, who worked at Newark International Airport, said he stole more than $800,000 worth of goods from luggage and security checkpoints. ... | 0_0 |
Their letter would be more convincing if they werent so dismissive of the costs involved. They cite unnamed recent studies that claim emission cuts could create 150,000 jobs in Michigan. I put more stock in the analysis by the Energy Information Administration of last years Lieberman-Warner bill (which is similar to th... | 4_1 |
For years, one of the problems I have had with the way CO2 cap and trade systems were structured was a fear that these systems would devolve into cronyism, with the companies best able to lobby the government getting allocations while less connected companies had to pay. It seems this is already occuring in California: | 4_2 |
One of the most lucrative segments of the global warming money tree is consulting: | 0_0 |
It is the Clinton administrationspast and futurethat provide the Competitive Enterprise Institute with a moral lodestonebecause every compass needle needs a butt end. And whatever direction the Clintons are pointingtoward regulatory interference, health care reform, Kyoto treaty, or inappropriate personal relationships... | 0_0 |
"For the second time since he became chairman in 2006, Ben S. Bernanke is leading the Federal Reserve into uncharted monetary territory."FDIC Head Sounds Alarm on Foreclosure Litigation: | 0_0 |
By the time you get to trend lengths of 30 or so years, the observed trend is threatening the lower limit of the 95% confidence range of climate model expectations. Such mounting evidence begins to start to make you wonder whether there is some fundamental problem between climate models and reality. | 5_1 |
JAXA sea ice area has dropped to 2008 levels: | 0_0 |
There are now elements in the environmental movement who are so worried about the state of the planet that they have lost all sense of proportion. This is alarming for those at the receiving end of their mindless wrath. It does not help to protect the environment either. Just like Boko Haram does not endear anyone to M... | 5_2 |
They found a pH range from ~8.0 to ~7.6 standard units and -aragonite ranges from ~3.7 to ~1.9. They found some species variations that couldnt really be assigned to pH differences and were similar to other reefs. In general, they found a healthy, thriving coral system. The negative seems to be increased macrobioerosio... | 3_2 |
During an interglacial period sea levels normally rise and ice melts, and the system inertia lasts thousands of years until the onset of the next ice age. During the last interglacial, sea levels were up to 43 feet higher and Greenland was 8C warmer with a much smaller ice cap ; there is no evidence this interglacial i... | 2_1 |
By the time the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 had federalized air pollution control, smoke had been conquered in most urban areas, and air quality was improving substantially in the most polluted areas -- particularly for the very pollutants perceived to be causing the worst problems.8 | 0_0 |
With these two guys leading, what could possibly go wrong? | 0_0 |
This theory was used to make predictions by at least 73 computer models. Thirty years of observations has proven every prediction wrong. Therefore their theory is wrong. That is how science works. | 5_1 |
Globally tropical storms show no correlation with our CO2 emissions. Their global energy levels are no different to what they were 40 years ago. | 1_7 |
"We may need to think well beyond this political pledge; What kind of society is sustainable over centuries? How about over thousands of years? Whatever the requirements, we have to make sure that America is the kind that can survive. Even with creeping government growth and paternalism, a handful of centuries is enoug... | 0_0 |
The Science Media Centre is best known to readers here for its press release about the Oxburgh inquiry, in which they managed to quote only scientists implicated in wrongdoing over Climategate. | 0_0 |
Many critics of the EPA's evaluation system point to flaws in the EPA's measurement process. "The test needs to include more fundamental engineering," said John H. Johnson, the co-author of a 2002 National Academy of Sciences report on fuel efficiency standards. He added, "They haven't been updated to encompass hybrids... | 0_0 |
Hereward Corley pointed out that the reference to Shaviv (2008) should have been Shaviv (2005). Nir Shaviv another genius of a mathematician had originally sent me the paper saying it was from 2008, but the version he sent was an undated pre-publication copy. Mr. Corley also kindly supplied half a dozen further papers ... | 3_1 |
The lowly concept of private property has to be ignored. What if the New Orleans levees had been owned by the people whose property they protected? Or what if just New Orleans taxpayers, instead of all of us taxpayers, had had to pay for those levees? There would have been no problem evacuating people from New Orleans.... | 0_0 |
Sure American food production causes a net increase in some air borne things. Thats called human activity. The 3rd world would like to saythanks. | 0_0 |
Ocean currents have taken the heat down to the deep sea , insists Sebastian Mernild of the Glaciology and Climate Change Laboratory Center for Scientific Studies in Chile. | 0_0 |
1980 vs 2008 1990 vs 2008 | 0_0 |
A refinery concluded that changes to the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) riser design to allow better catalyst-crude mixing would result in more gasoline being produced from the FCCU. While the change would not increase emissions at the FCCU, it would likely increase emissions from the gasoline loading dock and wo... | 0_0 |
To draw any conclusions about Arctic ice or temperatures, using data that begins at the coldest point of the cycle is utterly worthless and grossly misleading. But this is climate science we are talking about. | 5_1 |
While it might be overreaching to bundle certain dishonest players within various categories into a unified conspiracy theory, many of these organs of misinformation clearly do appear to be joined at a common colon. Either way, the end results are much the same. | 0_0 |
Imagine if the increase of 1 degree was real, I would say, good for usgood for the health of the planet, and the increase in carbon dioxide is improving the planet, greening what were previously not productive areas. | 3_3 |
"The eagles were not flying over the site," LaPre said. "I thought they'd be OK." | 0_0 |
"House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer has joined President Obama in conceding that he blundered by voting against an increase to the government's debt ceiling. " | 0_0 |
The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by climate sceptics as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming. | 1_4 |
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