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1983: 50 companies controlled 90% of the media consumed by Americans | 0_0 |
So far the temperature is around 0 C so it melts rapidly. But that should change during the following days. For Tuesday, the temperature is forecast to go to -12 C . Brrr. Do you have deja vu? Yes, see 2007 . | 0_0 |
Quantification of long term tornado trends has been hampered by the fact that many more tornadoes are reported today than was the case in the past. NOAA summarise this well:- | 0_0 |
As a result of that press release, a Capital Weather Gang blog post by Andrew Freedman was dutifully dispatched as damage control, since we had inconveniently noted the continuing disagreement between climate models used to predict global warming and the satellite observations. | 5_1 |
Steve Runyun of Willow Alaska : Here in Willow, Alaska, we are mired in a cold snap entering its 13th day. After one of the coldest summers in Alaskan history, we are seeing a winter reminiscent of the 70s and 80s. Temps at our house have averaged -25*F, dipping into the low minus 30s and getting as high as -19, for a ... | 1_3 |
Mrner, N.-A. 2012. Sea Level Is Not Rising. SPPI Reprint Series , December 6, 2012. | 1_6 |
This Washington Post headline from earlier this month illustrates one of worrisome side-effects of authoritarian rule. Political freedom is denied the citizenry but the pressures to allow some form of dissent remain. Religious dissent often is treated more liberally and the eco-theocratic values of today are the domina... | 0_0 |
We know the US government uses sock-puppets, one fan of the Big Scare admitted to using spam bots to generate fake comments, and though I cant prove anything, there have been plenty of anonymous commenters here who returned with different names to write hate-filled messages with unsubstantiated insults. There was also ... | 5_2 |
The results show that increased carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels causes an inconsequential impact on world temperature. The most significant conclusion, however, is that increased moisture, the presumed cause of feedback, causes a decrease in the warming effect of CO2 (negative feedback). | 3_1 |
(They mention lots of other possible hurdles; I don't want to copy their paper here, however.) | 0_0 |
Repeatedly throughout the past couple of decades, we've been pummeled with dire predictions and told "time is short." In 1989, the UN predicted that "Global warming would destroy entire nations by 2000." In 2007, we were told: "Scientists believe we have less than 10 years to bring emissions under control to prevent a ... | 5_2 |
85) Ice-core data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before concentrations of atmospheric CO2 change. Thus, there appears to be little evidence for insisting that changes in concentrations of CO2 are the cause of past temperature and climate change. | 2_3 |
In conversations with colleagues who bemoan the President's seeming disinterest in assertive American leadership, I often remind them that he is very effectively broadcasting on the carrier frequency of American public opinion. The foreign policy of the Obama Administration is designed not to protect, advance, and sust... | 0_0 |
The Williams Lake Airport received 51 cm (20 inches), with the next highest being the Coquihalla Summit where they received 35 cm (14 inches), and Allison Pass which received 32 cm (13 inches). | 0_0 |
The effects on the Sun and on the Earth??s climate were not due to the Galactic cosmic rays themselves, but to the cosmic dust that these cosmic rays transported into the Solar System. Observations have shown that the Solar System is presently immersed in a dense cloud of cosmic dust, material that is normally kept at ... | 2_1 |
I have mentioned the effect of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) below . The Alaska Climate Research Center have just released their update to the Alaska data. Heres that information: | 0_0 |
If, for example, you are Laurence Tribe in 1984, Harvard professor of law, leftist pillar of the establishment, you can "write" your magnum opus by using the products of your student assistant, Ron Klain. | 0_0 |
Participants at the UN's Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador are exhorted on blue and white (the UN's colors) billboards to do their best for the world's cities. Our personal favorite read "Compact Cities." | 0_0 |
Although there was essentially no acclimation or down regulation of photosynthesis in this long-term study, no significant increase in soil carbon content was detected over the experiment's duration.?? However, as demonstrated in our Editorial of 5 Mar 2003 , it is sometimes necessary to conduct studies of biological r... | 3_3 |
Figure 2. Reproduction of Figure 10.20a from AR5 | 0_0 |
It is appropriate that the theme of this year's conference was Reconsidering the Science and Economics, as much has happened since Heartland's Third International Conference on Climate Change held in Washington, D.C. in June of last year. Among the happenings: It was in November of last year that emails and other docum... | 5_2 |
Last year was declared the warmest on record, but only by 0.05 degrees Celsius. Satellite temperature records, however, show that 2014 was at most the third warmest year on record 00 but it could be the sixth warmest as well. | 5_1 |
If, as the President seems to assume, all weather anomalies are due to global climate change,then how would he explain the extraordinary 7-year drought ofintense landfalling U.S. hurricanes? | 0_0 |
Not all the arguments in favor of such reconceptualizations of "national security" are necessarily disingenuous special pleading, of course. It might well be that traditional paradigms of "national security" sometimes neglect important issues that really do have dramatic security implications, and which will later with... | 0_0 |
DOJ seeks mandatory data retention requirement for ISPs: | 0_0 |
The following excerpt from his PNAS paper tells you everything you need to know about James Hansens paper: | 0_0 |
With figures of $2,000,000,000,000 being banded about as the cost, Ive got to wonder where Clinton and Obama might not understand the different between a billion ($1,000,000,000) and a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) after all it is very easy to mistake one for the other! The difference is that rather than a few dollars ... | 0_0 |
Yet the biggest challenges may be more technical than financial. | 0_0 |
So the three unimpeached studies in Figure 10.20a support a median TCR estimate of about 1.35C, and a top of the likely range for TCR of about 2.0C based on downgrading 595% ranges, following AR5. | 0_0 |
But let's suppose the rumour is true. If so, it would raise all kinds of profound policy questionsand also a question of crass politics. The Bush administration has, until now, taken a skeptical view toward climate change. What is the best way for an administration to change course like this? | 0_0 |
Figure 9 compares the approximated HadCRUT4 land plus sea surface temperature data to the 4 RCP-based hindcasts from 1901 to 2006. The end date of 2006 is dictated by the HADSST3 data, which still (as of now) has not been brought up to date by the Hadley Centre. The models appear as though they are capable of reproduci... | 5_1 |
"The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated." | 0_0 |
I have in the past, called for Dr. Hansens firing after his arrest episodes where he acts as an activist and protestor. I repeat that call today and will continue to do so. NASA administrator Bolden, fire Dr. James Hansen. He is an embarrassment to NASA, and an embarrassment to science. Show him the door. | 0_0 |
This is the second time Walker was forced to withdraw a subpoena in the climate fight. Walker had gone after the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute a few months ago for its ties to the oil company. The think tank responded with threats of sanctions and Walker withdrew. | 0_0 |
Poll shows public doesn't fear global warming | 0_0 |
from 1951 onwards, KNMI shifted from so-called climatological temperature measurements to synoptical measurements. However, the climatological measurements continued to 1970. For the 1951-1970 period these measurements may be considered as more reliable than the synoptical measurements. Therefore, in the homogenized se... | 0_0 |
Can require pressure change be explained by drier conditions in ice-age? | 0_0 |
The United States is also unhappy about the idea of U.S. airlines having to pay new taxes to European governments. | 0_0 |
In February 2012, Time's Bryan Walsh broke news that Chesapeake Energyone of the largest natural gas companies in North Americagave $26 million to the Sierra Club from 2007 to 2010. Walsh reports that the donations helped fund the Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign, the avowed purpose of which is to eliminate coal-fi... | 0_0 |
According to MarketWatch.com, the percentage of people who work in manufacturing is at a record low of 8.5%which compares to "20% in 1980, 30% in 1960 and a record 39% during World War Two." | 0_0 |
For months President Obama has been in the uncomfortable position of straddling a barbed-wire fencedoes he appease his ardent environmental supporters or advocate for economic growth that will help all of America? In his speech outlining his Climate Action Plan, he made his choice clear. He's abandoning what is best fo... | 0_0 |
The story here is mostly that base metals have stopped dropping. We had a quick swing trade up, but thats ended as metals took a dip. Prices are still below the SMA stack, which has gone flat but is not yet in a weave. That means the prior falling trend is still the one we follow. While its likely a bottom, or a bottom... | 0_0 |
Interestingly, neither seawater warming nor seawater acidification (caused by contact with CO 2 -enriched air) had either a positive or a negative effect of sea urchin fertilization, suggesting, as the five scientists concluded, that "sea urchin fertilization is robust to climate change stressors." References | 3_2 |
Immigration from the Third World will not provide a long-term solution, as fertility rates are declining there as well. The average fertility rate for Latin America was six children per woman in the 1960s; by 2005, it had dropped to 2.5. At that rate of decline, within a few decades, Latin American countries will likel... | 0_0 |
This is basically the regional breakdown of the U.S.-average relationship shown in the first plot above, which demonstrates that the increased frequency of strong tornadoes with cooler, not warmer, temperatures. This is no doubt an indirect effect, mirroring the more frequent intrusion of unseasonably cool air masses, ... | 0_0 |
The figure below is a portion of a screen capture from the Heat-Related Deaths section of the EPAs new Climate Change Indicators website . It is labeled Deaths Classified as Heat-Related in the United States, 19792010. | 0_0 |
So what is that? Met site is top right. Four piles at the base, is a large power grid pylon, can look bizarre from an aircraft (these are aerial photos, not satellite). | 0_0 |
That makes for expensive power. Experts have estimated that electricity from giant solar projects will cost at least twice as much as electricity from conventional sources. But neither the utilities that have contracted to buy the power nor state regulators have disclosed what the price will be, only that it will be pa... | 4_4 |
Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power. Crown. 496 Pages. $28. | 0_0 |
Americas natural gas boom has been a rare economic bright spot, and even President Obama likes to take credit for it. But as his term winds down, the Administration is waging a war of regulatory attrition to raise drilling costs and reduce its competitive advantage over wind and solar power. | 0_0 |
They scored one major success, in Colorado. There, ex-Governor Bill Ritter had made the New Energy Economy, the centerpiece of his administration. As such, he was receptive to fuel switching as a way to meet his Climate Action Plan, a non-binding mandate to reduce the states greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 2008 leve... | 0_0 |
ACESA considers the problem of leakage and proposes a number of measures in Title IV, Part 2, Section 412. In the next section, Section 413, the draft wisely concludes, "Congress finds that the purposes described in Section 412 can be most effectively addressed and achieved through agreements negotiated between the Uni... | 0_0 |
They accomplished this through a spectacular hockey stick of adjustments, which increases post 2000 temperatures by more than one degree, and decreases pre-2000 temperatures by as much as two degrees. | 5_1 |
Weaver Suggests Buddy Review for Mann et al 2005 | 0_0 |
In 2010, Sir Alex Ferguson had the topscorerin the BPL and didnt play him in his humiliatingChampionsLeague smack down by Barcelona. | 0_0 |
>> I am putting the finishing touches to my new scenario paper for Africa and | 0_0 |
In contrast, climate models all show RH staying constant, implying that specific humidity is forecast to increase with warming. So climate models show positive feedback and rising specific humidity with warming in the upper troposphere, but the data shows falling specific humidity and negative feedback. | 3_1 |
In the 1984 movie Red Dawn communists invaded Colorado, and the first thing they did was disarm the citizenry. Then a gang of patriots the Wolverines fought back against the communists and ran them out. | 0_0 |
Theyre thawing and filling up with water, Point Hope Mayor Steve Oomittuk said as he lifted a small wooden door to a cellar, surrounded by plastic sheets shielding the remaining snow cover from the sun. This spring, residents had to take some meat and blubber out and make room for it in their freezers at home. | 0_0 |
President Bill Clinton signed the agreement in 1997, but the Senate refused to ratify it, citing potential economic damage. In 2001, President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol. | 0_0 |
I was able to price shop policies online without creating an account, without giving up my social security number. The websites to do so worked and operated quickly | 0_0 |
One problem, McIntyre writes, is that Rahmstorfs and Manns results are not based onproxies for Atlantic current velocity, but on a network consisting of iffy proxy series which are statistically indistinguishable from white noise . McIntyre comments: Its hard to understand why anyone would seriously believe (let alone ... | 5_1 |
Oh, what a difference a year makes in Greenland melting | 0_0 |
The situation is rich with irony as well as uranium. While you can't mine yellowcake, it is perfectly legal in Virginia to process enriched uranium into usable nuclear fuel, which is somewhat dangerous to handle. A subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva operates a fuel fabrication facility in Lynchburg 50 miles f... | 0_0 |
But the thing for which I'd like to thank CEI most is its optimism. | 0_0 |
We see this as a bit of a surprise, and potentially significant on a policy level because previous interpretations suggested that global warming might actually help plant growth around the world, Running said. This is a pretty serious warning that warmer temperatures are not going to endlessly improve plant growth. | 0_0 |
National Journal reported last month that 19 of the 20 serious GOP Senate challengers declared that the science of climate change is either inconclusive or flat-out wrong. Many newly elected Republican House members take that position. It is a stance that defies the findings of our countrys National Academy of Sciences... | 0_0 |
Since we know that the Arctic was about 5C warmer during the Eemian/Sangamonian (MIS-5e) than it currently is and that there is no evidence of widespread permafrost melt above 60N, it??s a pretty good bet that the MIS-11 Arctic was 6-10C warmer than the Holocene Climatic Optimum. | 2_1 |
I wish I could disagree with him, but I can't find fault in what Mark Steyn is saying . Is it not mind-boggling that after the conservative Tea Party revolution in the Republican Party that the two leading contenders ending up being Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich? Related: The gents at Ricochet discuss the situation wit... | 0_0 |
It was minus 1.0 degrees in Gulmarg, two degrees below normal, while Pahalgam recorded minus 3.0 degrees today (Monday), three degree below normal. | 1_3 |
"Obama spouts brazen lies," says astrophysicist | 0_0 |
And now, during the past few months, EPA has been trying to use the prestigious National Academy of Sciences to cover-up and whitewash the agency's illegal experiments on humans. In secret, and with no public notice or opportunity to comment, the agencies held meetings and issued a draft report. | 0_0 |
The level of warmth during the peak of the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) in the second half of the 10th century, equaling or slightly exceeding the mid-20th century warming, is in agreement with the results from other more recent large-scale multi-proxy temperature reconstructions. | 2_1 |
Water quality has also skyrocketed. Along the river where I grew up in Wisconsin, a dozen pairs of bald eagles now nest where there were none when I was a kid, when you couldn't eat the fish or swim in the polluted water. The same thing happened across the USA. Other problems remain to be addressed. | 0_0 |
dH/dt = f T/lamda (1) | 0_0 |
On July 7, environmental activist Cedric C. Keith came to The Heartland Institute's Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois to discuss his new book The Dying Fish: A Sojourn to the Source. At this interesting event, Keith spoke about his incredible 4,000-mile walk through the wilds of the Appalac... | 0_0 |
Yes, but not as much as you would think, or hope. More of the physics is now known, but it is impossible (see this review ) to completely insert this new physical understanding into the models. Many of the models subroutines are based on parameterizations , which are educated, but not infallible, guesses of how certain... | 5_1 |
The 31-page summary for policymakers is based on a more technical 2,000-page analysis which will be issued at the same time. It also surprisingly reveals: IPCC scientists accept their forecast computers may have exaggerated the effect of increased carbon emissions on world temperatures and not taken enough notice of na... | 5_1 |
In past updates, in the following Hovmoller diagrams, Ive used the development of the 1997/98 El Nio as a reference for this years El Nio. That now seems to be overkill, because the feedbacks never kicked in this yearwhere all of the feedbacks freakishly aligned for the 1997/98 El Nio. The 1982/83 El Nio was a late blo... | 0_0 |
One of the most publicized faces of the alleged global warming crisis is that of the polar bear, which some say is going extinct because a loss of habitat. But according to a new report by the National Center for Policy Analysis, coastal stations in Greenland actually show a cooling trend, Russian stations also show no... | 3_2 |
Computer models as proof? Thats an adventurous claim. Even the IPCC reminds us that computer models only depict scenarios and can never be used as proof. Not a good start. | 5_1 |
In agriculture, they worry about how well plants will grow. They worry about this a lot. So they develop ways to track and predict plant growth. Well, one of THE most effective methods uses something called Degree Days (or sometimes Crop Heat Units or Growth Heat Units or) | 0_0 |
1) The missing ingredient for tornado formation is not a lack of warm moist air, but a lack of synoptic (large) scale wind shear . | 0_0 |
Its announced goal of imposing global limits on greenhouse gas emissions will not be mandatory and ?President Obama has effectively gutted any meaningful agreement among the major industrialized nations, by having granted to the planet?s largest CO2 producer, China, free license to build as many coal power plants as th... | 0_0 |
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) stated: "For nearly eight years, this Administration has tried to duck its obligation to address global warming pollution. A year ago, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases are covered under the Clean Air Act. Now, instead of action, we get more ... | 0_0 |
In his conclusion, Page says Often the signal for a climate direction change is a see-saw effect between Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. The Arctic is still reflecting the peak in the warming trend with low summer ice values. The first indication of a cooling event is however the increase in Antarctic sea ice which has a... | 1_1 |
To believe in it, one must be a person with an almost metaphysical faith in the existence of the original Garden of Eden (the Earth unspoiled by men), in the fall of man from the Garden, in the final days of the world coming because of men who have spoiled it through their economic activities based on their insatiable ... | 0_0 |
I was the first speaker, followed by Bill Eden, international representative of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada. St-Onge rounded out the trio. | 0_0 |
Lacher also discusses the second factor which is that deforestation rates are not fixed. He notes that most of the deforestation in the Amazon has taken place "along peripheral areas" of the basin and has not been in the heart of the rainforest. He contends there are not roads and other ways to get into the deeper inte... | 0_0 |
The response from windmill advocates in Denmark was similar: such studies threaten Danish industry by reducing the chances that the U.S. will serve as the hoped-for massive new market to make inefficient energy sources profitable for their foreign manufacturers (Danish Radio TV News, Thursday, February 25, 2010). | 0_0 |
Science: And that study has been debunked. The numerous attempts by meteorological agencies around the world to depress temperatures in the early 20 th century to make the centennial warming rate seem larger than it is have far outweighed any failure to measure temperature change in one tiny region of the planet. | 5_1 |
Abandoning all pretence of objectivity, Sen. John McCain (RAZ) used his tenuous connection to the climate change issue to hold a stacked hearing on the subject before the Senate Commerce Committee on March 3. | 0_0 |
"Al Qaeda and the Taliban haven't been able to bring down the CIA's Predator drones. But a new lawsuit alleging parts of their targeting software are pirated (and faulty) could." | 0_0 |
Johnston is not attempting to arrive at a scientific conclusion regarding the global warming hypothesis. Rather, he is cross examining the "established climate story" by asking "very tough questions, questions that force the expert to clarify the basis for his or her opinion, to explain her interpretation of the litera... | 5_1 |
?Our analysis also leads to a relatively low and tightly-constrained estimate of Transient Climate Response of 1.3?1.8 C, and relatively low projections of 21st-century warming under the Representative Concentration Pathways.? | 0_0 |
As a political organization, the Alliance rushed to invoke Article 5 within twenty-four hours of 9/11; as a military organization, NATO turned out to be as ill-prepared to do counterinsurgency in Afghanistan as the U.S. military in Iraq. It would be a mistake, however, to claim that NATO's credibility is at stake in Af... | 0_0 |
Clinton proposed several measures to be taken to address global warming. First, he promised a billion dollars in foreign aid over the next five years to help promote energy efficiency, better resource management and economic growth in developing countries. $150 million per year will be direct aid focused on technical a... | 0_0 |
By Robin KcKie, The Guardian, UK, Aug 9, 2015 | 0_0 |
There are still three weeks until the scheduled Java Oct Critical Patch Update, so it might be possible that the bug will be addressed by the company on 16 Oct 2012, he said. | 0_0 |
Amtrak, which loses money annually, is now embroiled in legal troubles. | 0_0 |
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