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CO2 is the "Big Kahuna". Even if CH4 has 20X the greenhouse effect of CO2. 1800 ppb is 0.46% of 390 ppm 20 X 0.46% = 9.2%. At most, CH4 accounts for only about 10% of the greenhouse effect of CO2 in Earth's current atmosphere. | 0_0 |
The trends mirror the feeling among Americans that the overall state of the environment is improving. According to an April 2005 PRI Harris Interactive poll, 56 percent of respondents revealed they are optimistic about the state of the environment and future progress on environmental quality. | 0_0 |
Here in Tanzania we have also been happy to welcome the UK Met Office, working alongside the Tanzanian Meteorological Agency to provide advice and guidance on future plans. We were delighted to welcome two UKMO staff emembers David Robinson and Tim Donovan. | 0_0 |
However, I will say that the mandarins like the idea of nosocomial (hospital acquired) infections as a way to blame hospitals for infections and they set up their research so that any infection can be blamed on the hospital and its staff. | 0_0 |
It's not as if those in the Northeast have not experienced bone-chilling cold or that it is predicted to extend from the Midwest down into our southern States. There may possibly be a snow storm that will require the National Football League to reschedule the Sunday, February 2nd, Superbowl at the MetLife stadium in Ea... | 0_0 |
Recognition of this interest has already produced significant cooperation in such matters as intelligence, the apprehension of suspected terrorists, and the training and equipping of Palestinian security forces. | 0_0 |
The result of the error is that I have underestimated the sensitivity slightly, while everything else remains the same. Instead of the sensitivities for the SH and the NH being 0.04C per W/m2 and 0.08C per W/m2 respectively in the both the current calculations, the correct sensitivities for this fat-tailed analysis sho... | 0_0 |
After OSTP persisted in keeping these records secret, CEI sued it in federal court in October 2014, one of many FOIA lawsuits against the Obama administration. (The Huffington Post says that the "White House denies more FOIA requests than ever" these days. Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson says she has never s... | 0_0 |
Shows the part that disproves Al Gore false assumption on the relationship between CO2 and temperature. | 2_3 |
MOOSE: I got something to tell you, and I dont want no argument about it. You ready? Listen good, cause I aint gonna repeat it, and you better have itor else. Got me? Here it is. If P, then Q. Q. Therefore P. Now say it back. | 0_0 |
A Swedish industry association said the country may have to start importing waste from other countries to keep its power plant incinerators in operation. | 0_0 |
Oh, I miss the days when you got a radiology report that said, "fracture right 3rd rib, no pneumothorax". Because of frivolous lawsuits radiologists have learned to be vague, noncommittal and to pass the buck of possible litigation. So now you get a 2 page report that says "linear lucency in right 3rd rib, clinical cor... | 0_0 |
Because of this mismatch of private and social costs, agents maximizing private net benefits will overuse the atmosphere's GHG disposal capacity. Cumulatively, emission levels exceed those at which the additional risk of climate change would just balance the value of the gases' disposal. And investments in carbon "sink... | 0_0 |
Most important, it would reduce warming even if certain countries who shall remain nameless did not agree to reduce their emissions. | 0_0 |
Coral atolls have proven over thousands of years that, if left alone, they can go up and down with any sea level rise. And if we follow some simple conservation practices, they can continue to do so and to support atoll residents. But they cannot survive an unlimited population increase, or unrestricted fishing, or ove... | 3_2 |
The World's Population Reaches 7 Billion, But Don't Let the UN Scare You | 0_0 |
Richard Lindzen of klimatknsligheten, iris hypothesis and the politicization of Climate Change: The facts | 0_0 |
A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Liu et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change ??? it??s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is ???abnormal??, indeed the current wa... | 2_1 |
For ease of use and immunity from political meddling, the carbon tax is the clear winner. Taxes can be applied early in the fuel distribution process, which makes the logistical task much easier. That sort of upstream application would make attempts at political interference much more transparent, as well. So what abou... | 0_0 |
So how do they create this fraud? They constantly cool the past and warm the present. All temperatures before 1967 have been cooled since their 2001 version, and all post-1967 years have been warmed. Based on the 1992 to 1998 inflation rate, it seems likely that 2014 is being inflated by several tenths of a degree rela... | 5_2 |
Press Release No:2010/505/ WASHINGTON, June 25, 2010 World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick today announced the appointment of Andrew Steer as Special Envoy for Climate Change, a new position created to ensure focused leadership and representation of the World Bank in the international discussions around climate chang... | 0_0 |
As for drought, there is no long-term trend in U.S. soil moisture such as might be correlated with the increase in atmospheric GHG concentrations. | 0_0 |
We held our local UKIP branch AGM last night where I was elected as vice chair and webcomms officer. Im looking foward to working more closely with my committee colleagues Craig Sweaton (chair & media comms), Anne Murgatroyd (secretary) and Phil Banks (treasurer). The mainstream media is mis-portraying what UKIP stand ... | 0_0 |
In todays The-Scientist pity-me piece , Michael Mann goes out of his way to assert is an accidental public figure. Why? | 0_0 |
The British government is looking into cutting subsidies, feed-in tariffs and other incentives for solar projects, to prevent the boom-and-bust seen in Spain and predicted for the Czech Republic. Wind turbines, small hydroelectric plants and biomass projects are also on the block, as the government attempts to revive t... | 4_4 |
Does the Wada groundwater correction make any difference? Look at figure 4 and notice that around 1985 the groundwater depletion correction overtakes the reservoir correction. Before 1985 the combination of the two corrections yield a sea level rise rate that is greater than the plain Church and White data, but after t... | 1_6 |
The widely used number of 3.1 mm/year is a complete joke. | 1_6 |
* Americans like an "all-of-the-above" approach to energy development, including continuing to develop nuclear energy. Most prefer that the U.S. emphasize conservation over production to solve the nation's energy problems. | 0_0 |
When he first became Governor of California, Arnold created high expectations with his talk of "blowing up the boxes" of government bureaucracy. Unfortunately, California's regulatory bureaucracy remains intact. And with his foolhardy greenhouse activism, the Governator has handed his constituents yet another raw deal. | 0_0 |
More pertinently, Mrs Metcalfe claims that some communities in Scotland are being driven to a state of civil war: Wind farms are splitting communities and dividing friends. Some land-owners are being so generously rewarded for selling or leasing their land to developers that they are turning a blind-eye to whats really... | 0_0 |
The study is significant because plants soak up carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. As growth slows, the amount of carbon plants take up slows as well, leaving more carbon in the atmosphere to contribute to climate change. It is also a warning that a warming climate could bring a decrease in food and biofuel produ... | 0_0 |
But what if this supposed natural ocean fluctuation, which is supposedly cooling the surface, was reversed? | 1_4 |
Cockburn, Alexander and Hecht, Susanna. The Fate of the Forest. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990. | 0_0 |
Now, by way of comparison, how much radiative forcing does James Hansen (GISS) estimate the climate system has undergone during the same period of time? The following plot shows the various forcings Hansen has assumed: | 0_0 |
John also provided earlier surface data compiled by NASA-GISS and the Hadley Centre/University of East Anglia (Hadley-CRU). The close agreement between those trend results does not indicate independent confirmation. This shouldn't be at all surprising when we consider that they use mostly the same raw data. | 0_0 |
seen in the 20th century, except perhaps for the Sahel. So in certain ways the | 0_0 |
For more on Google, The Invention of Alphabet is the Ultimate Larry Page Move Fast Company | 0_0 |
The Vatican City would be an expression of the US itself, without international interference problems; the only principle which would increase and that the Presidents are responsible for what they do, and what they leave; many of the crimes would be out in the sunlight because it's better to be honest in front of the V... | 0_0 |
Well, with two years of said "no-call" legislation under the nation's belt, it seems that it isn't having the intended effect; | 0_0 |
The result should be adjusted to allow for the finding in Michaels & McKitrick (2007) that urban heat island effects and other extraneous influences over the past 30 years have led to overestimation of the warming rate over land by as much as double. On the assumption that this bias may have existed since 1850, the tru... | 5_1 |
But there is a better more efficient system for taxing carbon emissions, and with the exquisite sensitivity of being directly connected to the exact amount emitted, Governments could just tax... fuel (and its not like they havent thought of that already). | 0_0 |
Expedition vessel hired by global warming scientists | 0_0 |
No wonder President Ray and the Nuclear Engineering deans have given new meaning to "payback," while DeFazio smirks in silence in the congressional office that he seems convinced should be his for life. | 0_0 |
This method calculates daily accumulation of GDDs as the average daily temperature (degrees F) minus 50. The modification refers to the limits imposed on the daily maximum and minimum temperatures allowed in the calculation. Daily maximums greater than 86 degrees F are set equal to 86 in the calculation of the daily av... | 0_0 |
> >> >At 21:55 22/03/99 -0500, you wrote: | 0_0 |
Clearly, the greater weight of real-world evidence in this controversy resides with Simms et al . and the many other researchers who have identified and dated a Little Ice Age in various parts of Antarctica that coincides in time with the Little Ice Age of the Northern Hemisphere. And that dating of the Little Ice Age,... | 2_1 |
Although it may surprise many politicians, a few economic laws remain immutable. One of the most obvious and the most often ignored dictates that a price held below what supply and demand would prescribe will produce shortages, such as we see now causing rolling blackouts. | 0_0 |
The truth is that Gore's desires for a huge concert on the Mall were actually thwarted not by Republicans, but by a very talented group of Irish Riverdance cloggers, Vietnamese folk artists, and African-American gospel singers. They were performing as scheduled at the acclaimed annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and ... | 0_0 |
The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph , have raised fresh questions about the quality of the information contained in the report, which was published in 2007. | 0_0 |
Figure 2 presents the October sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) from 1938 to 2012 for Sandys entire storm track. Working back in time, sea surface temperatures in 2007, 2005 and 1939 were warmer than they were in 2012, while in 2002, 1957, 1952 and 1941 sea surface temperatures were comparable to those in 2012. ... | 1_7 |
The more modern CAG value uses the CDs to build the state value (this is a factor if stations are distributed unevenly within the state), it incorporates the late-arriving (in 1934) stations, several QA tests, etc. | 0_0 |
Before you wrecked the climate, Indio and Brawley, CA recorded 117 and 116 degree temperatures on May 3/4 1947. | 1_7 |
Some science has a bad relationship with the public: in particular, climate science and many life sciences. Whether due to misinformation or misunderstanding, controversy or contested results, politicisation or fear - or all of these - such scientific "hot potatoes" are dangerous because non-experts must engage with, t... | 0_0 |
There is no evidence in the temperature record to support this claim. The three worst heatwaves in Texas history all occurred before 1935. | 1_7 |
De Soto estimates that up to $10 trillion of capital worldwide is locked away unused because of inadequate titling systems. A recent study by the Peru-based Institute for Liberal Democracy (ILD), which De Soto heads, estimated Egyptian workers' real estate holdings to be worth around $360 billion, "eight times more tha... | 0_0 |
The unvalidated IPCC (including CSIRO)computer climate models that project significant human-caused warming in the future are faulty, with many known inadequacies; not surprisingly, therefore, these models have proved to be incorrect when compared with real-world temperature data; | 5_1 |
Amstrup diligently followed up his earlier study on the apparent survival of South Beaufort Bears using radio-collared bears over a 12-year period. It turned out that his high-end apparent survival estimate of 94% was still too low. If only natural deaths were used, polar bears had a 99.6 % biological survival rate. 4 ... | 3_2 |
But when one looks at the details objectively, it is not so obvious that water vapor feedback in the context of long-term climate change is positive. Remember, its not the difference between warmer tropical air masses and cooler high-latitude air masses that will determine water vapor feedback?? its how those air masse... | 3_1 |
A whopping 45 studies have examined the effects of CO2 enrichment on the garden tomato (lycopersicon eculentum). On average, garden tomatoes gain 32. | 3_3 |
because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex," | 0_0 |
A Guide to Global Warming Questions and Answers on Climate Change | 0_0 |
North Carolina Takes Center Stage in Sea Level Debate | 0_0 |
So the nonzero Feynman propagator at space-like separations isn't a consequence of some "action at a distance"; instead, it is a result of a mutual contact of the two "regions" in the past. In the same way, the nonzero value of the quantum field isn't a prerequisite of a nonlocal behavior, either. Assume that \(x^0\lt ... | 0_0 |
Currently the weather pattern dominating Central Europe is bringing unusually cold air over the continent, and early this morning regions in a number of countries were hit by ground surface frost. | 1_3 |
President Obama, supported by the Environmental Protection Agency, is seeking to deprive America of the use of its enormous reserves of coal in coal-fired plants that produce the electricity on which the economy and all life in America depends. | 4_5 |
Heres Junk Science on Judicial arrogance and misconduct and why the constitution should be inviolable, particularly against the whims of modern law school grads and their faculties. | 0_0 |
Antarctica's climate has never been stable, and there have many significant changes in the past few thousand years, indeed the past few hundred as well. Proxy indicators from ice cores show abrupt alterations in atmospheric circulation and temperature. One of the most dramatic changes was the intensification of the cir... | 0_0 |
While the environmental extremists and utility and oil companies benefit, the public will get harmed by a massive energy tax that will cut jobs, reduce personal income, and have a disproportionate impact on the poor. | 4_1 |
Outflow (water usage) has greatly increased over the last few decades due to massive population increases in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Southern California not to mention the large and ever increasing amount of water being used by the biofuels industry. (It has been estimated by the University of Twente in The Netherlands ... | 0_0 |
Third, the satellites that measure the worlds temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, that 1998 was the warmest recent year, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the last year (to the temperature of 1980). | 1_4 |
It is possible that the green alarmists may be correct that this recent drought and famine is exacerbated by man's emissions of greenhouse gases. But what is certain is that these same alarmists pushed a treaty which is causing death. | 5_2 |
With respect to global warming it seems to be a paradox that this year sea ice in the Southern Ocean has reached the highest extent in the last decades. It was only in the mid 1970s that a similar sea ice extent had been observed . | 1_1 |
Note: Original graphs had instrumental temperatures superimposed on top of proxy reconstruction during 20th century period. The instrumental data was removed and a reconstruction of the proxy reconstruction was done in order to make them visible - our re-do is close enough for NASA/GISS government work. ;-) | 0_0 |
"Matthew has already set a number of records and global warming is giving it a boost," Joe Romm, ThinkProgress' climate editor, wrote. | 0_0 |
Intriguing Habitats, and Careful Discussions of Climate Change | 0_0 |
Over the years, businesses and individuals have "bought into" this high-rate system by embracing these grants of special tax relief. The result is an economically destructive, intrusive tax regime, plus a tremendous transfer of power to the federal government. As the Kemp Commission on tax reform found, "The history of... | 0_0 |
The four researchers' reconstructed record of intense hurricanes revealed that the frequency of these "high-magnitude" events "peaked near 6 storms per century between 2800 and 2300 years ago." Thereafter, it suggests that they were "relatively rare" with "about 0-3 storms per century occurring between 1900 and 1600 ye... | 1_7 |
Electric cars are expected to need a replacement battery. Once the emissions from producing the second battery are added in, the total CO 2 from producing an electric car rises. Disposal alsodoubles the emissions because of the energy consumed in recovering and recycling metals in the battery. | 4_4 |
The blaze, which can be seen and smelled from miles away, involves a large pile of wood chippings | 0_0 |
Musk's claim is highly misleading. True, the International Energy Agency in 2014 estimated that total global subsidies for motor vehicle fuels were $550 billion annually. However, most of that goes to keeping fuel prices low in countries with nationalized oil companies like Saudi Arabia, which recently raised gasoline ... | 0_0 |
A recent review of sea level change is provided by Morner (2012), including analysis of satellite data. He writes that the raw data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON sea-level satellites, which operated from 1993-2000, show a slight uptrend in sea level, but if the distorting effects of the Great El Nio Southern Oscillation of 1... | 1_6 |
IPCC Fourth Report (2007), Summary for Policy Makers, p.7-8. Sea levels will rise by 59cm by the year 2100 (93 years-times). This is 6.3mm per year. Error to date is 373% | 0_0 |
But because the ABC is about 20 years behind in the real news on Global Warming, Clark and Dawe work with the disadvantage of being ABC viewers, and so when the Liberal Party disintegrated over the Emissions Trading Schememost everyone on the ABC had no idea why it was happening. This is a real handicap for comedians, ... | 0_0 |
Nighttime marine air temp (NMAT) differences (Hadley Center)= approx. zero | 0_0 |
In 1904, Mackinder had made the grandiose pronouncement: "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; who rules the World Island commands the World." The Cold War was to prove Mackinder wrong and Spykman right: For 50 years, the Soviet Heartland did rule Eastern Euro... | 0_0 |
The EPA's October 16 deadline will be upon us before you know it. Take a few minutes now to send them your comments. Pick any of the above suggestions, customize them as you please, and send them on to the EPA. For America to grow, we need energy that is effective, efficient, and economical, rather than that which is t... | 0_0 |
The paper has been put on hold, while an issue with the data processing and methods that we have identified is checked. The paper has not been withdrawn nor has it been retracted . | 0_0 |
Needless to say, the most famous concept named after him is a characteristic class now known as the Pontryagin class. (Although the Pontryagin duality for the Fourier transform on locally compact groups is also deep.) If you search through Google Scholar for papers mentioning both "string theory" and "Pontryagin class"... | 0_0 |
We must drill safely, use fuel more efficiently in vehicles and power plants, and get more from every underground reservoir. And we could do so, if government would allow it. | 0_0 |
Ball told WND the deception of the IPCC and its allies can be seen in how the reports are released, with the policy statement drawing headlines while the scientific information comes later and is largely ignored. | 0_0 |
We think even the famous footballer David Beckham, probably the former idol-hero-turned-villain less dangerous world. He hailed when young showed his talent at Manchester United, idolized in every sense of the word when I start 'to wear a sarong to mo' of male skirt to go out with Posh Spice of the Spice Girls pop diva... | 0_0 |
Gingrich Tears a Strip Off of John King & CNN | 0_0 |
3- Years go by. McIntyre is still stymied trying to get access to the original source data so that he can replicate the Mann 1998 conclusion. In 2008 Mann publishes another paper in bolstering his tree ring claim due to all of the controversy surrounding it. A Mann co-author and source of tree ring data (Professor Keit... | 0_0 |
WEST VIRGINIA 2nd in coal production; more than 80,000 jobs | 0_0 |
Once outcasts on the fringe of the scientific community, these individuals braved the ridicule of the self-appointed "enlightened" members of society to dismantle systematically the hockey sticks and other frauds crafted by leftists over the years. | 5_2 |
As forests regenerate in future atmospheres of greater CO 2 concentration, the increases in root growth and mycorrhizal root colonization that result from elevated CO 2 will likely enable seedlings and juvenile trees to acquire greater amounts of soil nutrients more effectively than they presently do. This enhanced acq... | 3_3 |
What it means The final geocenter-corrected result of Baur et al . is most heartening, as Chambers et al . (2012) indicate that "sea level has been rising on average by 1.7 mm/year over the last 110 years," as is also suggested by the analyses of Church and White (2006) and Holgate (2007). Concomitantly, the air's CO 2... | 1_6 |
If these conditions are not met, the projected benefits of carbon pricing would not be achieved. | 0_0 |
"In the 1990s most Americans believed environmental quality was declining," said Dr. Hayward. "But now, with a decade of compiled research in the Index, we've found that it is nearly impossible to paint a grim, doom-and-gloom picture anymore. The facts speak for themselves, and the facts are hugely encouraging." | 0_0 |
In that sense, the secretive session in Alpbach was not only a planning session, but also the equivalent of a half-time locker room huddle. | 0_0 |
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