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Well, as discussed in an essay by Stephen Jay Gould on the cultivation of flowers, we must follow two basic principles if you want to practice uneugenetica serious (capable of improving a species, and not just some representatives): | 0_0 |
This, however, does not constitute proof of global warming-enhanced, landfalling hurricane activity. | 0_0 |
Tamsin's first post is about the travails of coming up with a blog name that wasn't going to bring down the wrath of one side or other of the global warming debate. I think All Models are Wrong is fine, although I couldn't help but be reminded of this . :-) | 0_0 |
4) Where records are available back to 1934, they show that temperatures in both 1934 and 1936 were considerably higher for the month as a whole than 2011. This is true for average maximum, average mean and high maximum. | 2_1 |
Potential, not actual crop failure led to a policy decision, which pushed up prices. Here are those prices, from Index Mundi . | 0_0 |
Earths climate be insensitive to well-measured increases in greenhouse gases at the same time that it is excessively sensitive to poorly known solar brightness change | 0_0 |
Moreover producing ethanol from corn by fermentation also produces more carbon dioxide during the fermentation process. And then the dilute ethanol produced by fermentation (about 12%) has to be concentrated using a distillation process which requires more energy and more emissions. Burning ethanol rather than petrol t... | 4_4 |
This may allow corals and their symbiotic algae a better chance to adapt and survive.?? | 3_2 |
Since the Keystone pipeline crosses the U.S. border, the State Department under Kerry's authority will (at least officially) have final say on permitting. And it's not as if the project is being rushed through without careful attention to environmental safeguards. After a 5-year wait, Keystone XL has met 57 specific pi... | 0_0 |
20 Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 10. Detroit Edison's plan to replace its turbine blades with a more energy-efficient design was eventually approved without triggering NSR. | 0_0 |
Film clip #1: Solar Radiation in the Form of Light Waves Passes Through the Atmosphere | 0_0 |
That's exactly the 17th Century time warp scenario that played out last week on the Senate floor as Chief Inquisitor Sheldon Whitehouse (D, RI) and 18 fellow jurists intoned judgments against dozens of organizations for sins of "denial blocking action on climate." Most of those sinful deniers are nonprofit conservative... | 0_0 |
Most of the time we hear how competitive and cheap renewable energy is. But as soon as the subsidies are cut, the truth comes out. | 4_4 |
It has meanwhile spread that global warming paused for 16 years. Contrary to the IPCC's forecasts are stagnating temperatures, it is simply no longer getting warmer. How could this happen? The researchers devised a variety of hypotheses. The most widely used model says here that the surface temperatures of the Earth st... | 1_4 |
Paper finds a decrease of IR radiation from greenhouse gases over past 14 years, contradicts expected increase ??? cloudiness blamed for difference. | 2_3 |
Please buy a copy . Credit/Debit Card through PayPal. You do NOT need to open a PayPal account . Simply scroll down to the Dont Have a PayPal Account purchase option. Its only US$8.00 | 0_0 |
A PSD source is major if it is in one of 28 listed categories and has a potential to emit 100 tons per year (TPY) of a CAA-regulated air pollutant, or if it is any other type of establishment and has a potential to emit 250 TPY. | 0_0 |
If that 110-month IPCC overshoot were to continue for 100 years, the IPCC?s prediction would exceed the measured trend by almost 1.5 C . Though the IPCC projects that the world should have warmed by 0.12 C (1.33 C /century) since 2005, the mean of the RSS and UAH satellite datasets shows cooling of 0.01 C (0.15 C /cent... | 0_0 |
According to the Met Office, last years drought was not unusual by historical standards, and was not as intense as the drought of 1975/76. | 1_7 |
There are two versions one shorter, a second longer with more detail. | 0_0 |
It was especially disappointing that no one else on the panel thought that the Holocaust denial comparison was worth commenting on, because it has emboldened the rise to an even nastier and more offensive rhetorical trick. Not only have climate skeptics been referred to "deniers" in order to generate the (frequently) u... | 0_0 |
Their land only temperature record has been tampered with for decades, and now shows twice as much 1880-1980 warming as it did in 1981. | 5_2 |
However, after the Climategate dossier proved the existence of a Yamal-Urals regional chronology, the principal issue was the failure to use the Yamal-Urals regional chronology in Briffa et al 2008 or to otherwise report it (not a beauty contest between Yamal and Polar Urals). As noted above, CRU had noted their use of... | 5_2 |
EPA understood that it would be absurd to require pre-construction permits because of emissions of any airborne compound, including emissions of airborne compounds that have not been deemed harmful and regulated under the Clean Air Act. To avoid rendering the Prevention of Significant Deterioration statute an absurdity... | 0_0 |
"I don't see any significant changes in the GOP candidates' positions on climate change," said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. "I have no idea what Donald Trump may do on climate and energy policy if elected president, since he says a lot of things... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on how the L.A. City Council is out of control: | 0_0 |
Schwarzenegger of undermining recent legislation on greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_0 |
In The Wall Street Journal this week, Arnold Schwarzenegger urged lawmakers to take climate change dangers more seriously. | 0_0 |
John: Of course. Its about as useful as tits on a bull right now Brian. Yep. Disband the department, resign from parliament and then I think Ill renovate the en-suite and put in a home entertainment room. | 0_0 |
But, then, the IPCC itself said, in its 2001 report: ???In climate research and modelling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.??(6) | 5_1 |
The paper before that Lu (2010, Phys. Rep.) has now come in for a real spanking from Groo and Mller (2011) in Do cosmic-ray-driven electron-induced reactions impact stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change?. From the abstract: | 2_1 |
data series. Mike Mann refuses to talk to these people and I can understand why. They are | 0_0 |
There is evidence from these records of rapid warming ~11,500 calendar years ago. Central Greenland temperatures increased by ~7 deg C in a few decades (Dansgaard et al; 1989; Johnsen et al 1992; Grootes et al 1993). There are indications of an even more rapid change in the precipitation pattern (Alley et al 1993) and ... | 2_1 |
Clever, but perhaps not clever enough. As Machievelli infamously advised princes long ago,one shouldnot say to someone whom onewants to kill, Give me your gun, I want to kill you with it, but merely Give me your gun, for once you have the gun in hand, you can satisfy your desire. | 0_0 |
He said scientists at the conference had advanced other explanations, such as the relationship between solar activity and solar energy hitting the Earth to explain climate change. | 2_1 |
More seriously, let us academically ask: Would life and a prosperous economy be possible in the year 2108 if the temperature were 5 C higher than today? Well, we happen to be familiar with different temperatures. Look at the average annual temperatures over the globe: | 0_0 |
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/save not the planet but this boy#63033 If someone with influence over him or his family is reading this, please step in. I'm not saying this is another case of " climate change delusion ", but I see here a man in the grip of an irrational, relig... | 0_0 |
The electric Reliability Organization (ERO), established with statutory authority after the widespread blackouts of 2003, has issued its first report. It makes for grim reading. The nation's electric power infrastructure is on the brink of collapse. | 0_0 |
1) NOAA do not take TOBS adjustments into account when calculating state temperatures (although they do when working out national figures). This is due to change next year when the new GrDD system (Gridded) is introduced. Therefore TOBS cannot be the reason for the difference between the USHCN records and NOAAs. (And o... | 0_0 |
But wait a minute. Given the usual progress of science, won?t forecasting methods in the future always be better than in the past? What this suggests is that today the primary uses of, and interest in, such forecasts are political, not scientific ? that scientists as well as politicians are using forecasts for politica... | 0_0 |
There are two other graphs spanning over five hundred million years by R. A. Berner and C. R. Scotese which show that there is no correlation at all between CO2 and temperature. These well publicized graphs were conveniently omitted from this section. | 2_3 |
The second implication is an odd one, and quite important. Consider the fact that their temperature change hindcast (in degrees) is simply 0.3 times the forcing change (in watts per meter squared). But that is also a statement of the climate sensitivity, 0.3 degrees per W/m2. Converting this to degrees of warming for a... | 3_1 |
Art Horn isn't joking, at a Press Conference in August 2010, at the Bonn Climate Change negotiations, the Bolivian Ambassador, Pablo Solon, said: | 0_0 |
Threats to U.S. sovereignty are both imminent and long-term. They have varying characteristics, and they are often not necessarily immediately obvious as threats. One element that runs through many of them, however, is the concept of international "norming," the idea that America should base its policies on the global ... | 0_0 |
across as pretty certain to me (and, more importantly, to my mum Mrs | 0_0 |
It is clear that Miliband has not thought through this policy, simply preferring to spout meaningless sound bites. Unfortunately, the UK will have to pay for the consequences. | 0_0 |
As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to rise, it is likely that sorghum will require less water than it currently uses to produce equivalent, or even greater, grain yields. In addition, with lower total water requirements for this crop, its production in areas that are subjected to drought and low levels of ... | 3_3 |
The authors report that experiments have shown that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment positively influences several external quality characteristics of chrysanthemums. Specifically, it increases stem length, number of lateral branches, number of flowers and size of flowers. What it means | 3_3 |
I am not absolutely convinced, however, that carbon dioxide is the culprit. I think that remains to be proved. Carbon dioxide is complicated, and I believe that there could be other both human induced and natural causes for global warming. | 2_3 |
Jones, A. 2005. Potential coastal erosion of the Swan coastal plain. Ch. 7 in Natural Hazard Risk in Perth, W.A. Geoscience Australia. | 0_0 |
New Study: EPA Regulations Hurt Poor the Most | 4_1 |
But what if the warming was caused by fewer clouds, rather than the fewer clouds being caused by warming? In other words, what if previous researchers have simply mixed up cause and effect when estimating cloud feedback? | 5_1 |
Within the green movement, Peter Gleick is a renowned environmental scientist specializing in the negative impact of global warming. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, co-founded the Pacific Institute, served as chairman of a task force on scientific ethics and integrity in the American Geophysical Uni... | 5_2 |
Hint to green wastrels in the Energy Department and elsewhere: when even the New York Times thinks the green madness has gone too far, it has. Putting green lipstick on a pig doesnt turn that pig into Ralph Nader.There may be a dumber mass movement in the country than the fuzzy minded sentimentalists of the great green... | 0_0 |
Thousands of climate dignitaries representing almost every national government on Earth flew to Cancun, Mexico, for the great event. Security precautions were extensive: Battleships could be seen from the beach while thousands of soldiers and police lined the jam-packed roads. It was time for the 16th ?Conference of th... | 0_0 |
Schlegel et al . opine that their results suggest that (1) "some individuals will exhibit enhanced fertilization success in acidified oceans, supporting the concept of 'winners' and 'losers' of climate change at an individual level." And they say that if these differences are heritable, it is likely that (2) "ocean aci... | 3_2 |
" essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. | 2_3 |
But it's on the regulatory front that the duplicity, exaggeration, fabrication and betrayal of our public trust are really outrageous and used to amass more power and control over our energy, economy, job creation and living standards, close down companies and industries that regulators detest, and advance crony corpor... | 0_0 |
Some may be tempted to attribute Vilsack's missteps to inadvertent bumbling by his advisers within the Agriculture Department. But a likelier explanation is the malevolent influence of USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, who boasts a long and unsavory history of pro-organic, anti-biotechnology advocacy and actions... | 0_0 |
Heres a similar plot for annual CRU NH 1850-2008, showing more texture in the differences between the various autocorrelation models. Zero trend (under fracdiff autocorrelation) is not precluded at a 95% level. However, these graphs show more clearly than the bare statistic that this is a two-edged sword: double the ob... | 0_0 |
But what about the drought? The 1936 drought was at least as bad as the 2012 drought. | 1_7 |
The Arctic sea ice has probably reached its greatest extent for this year. It usually occurs at the end of March last year it was March 21st. There have been some reports that this years maximum extent was the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, and it certainly looks low hovering around 13 million km2 for... | 1_1 |
Can the presence of CO2 be shown in a lab to increase absorption of incoming radiation? | 0_0 |
It is summer in the southern hemisphere and yet there is still signifiicantly above normal amounts of sea ice present as the passengers and crew of one tour ship discovered. The icebreakers Xue Long and Aurora Australis , and a French research vessel Astrolabe are cruising towards the Akademik Shokalskiy at full thrott... | 0_0 |
Probably no single issue damages the reputation of the climate science community more than the refusal to show the data that supports their work, even under an FOI request. The public believes that scientists who purport to be concerned about the future of the planet should not place their own financial interests, incl... | 5_2 |
served as CEO to Al Gore's: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/zoi-goes-to-dc.php | 0_0 |
I have previously written that plastic bags can kill marine turtles particularly Leatherbacks, click here . | 0_0 |
According to David Collins, professor of physical geography at the University of Salford, European glaciers melted more this year than at any time in his professional experience. In the long run "when the glaciers disappear, there will be no meltwater at all, and it will reduce as the glaciers get smaller and survive o... | 0_0 |
Worn out after playing on the beach during his last trip to North Wales in May 2006. | 0_0 |
The monsoon 2010 was also predicted to be a normal monsoon by most climate models. In reality, the monsoon rains were deficient in June 2010 by 16% but later in July and early August heavy rains in the northwest led to massive flooding in Pakistan (August 2010) and also in thenearby Indian States of Punjab & Rajasthan.... | 5_1 |
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 12 July 2014 Update The Feedbacks Need to Kick in Soon | 0_0 |
It's time to show the world that America's leadership in this vital area of science and national security hasn't crashed and burned. | 0_0 |
Summer cyclone chewing up Canadas Arctic sea ice | CTV News | 0_0 |
The climate models can explain neither the past nor the present. It is far from obvious that policymakers should have faith in their predictions about the future. | 5_1 |
This new scientific finding helps explain why the climate models have been such miserable failures regarding global warming predictions, as noted by these charts: | 5_1 |
The theory of ???Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming?? (CAGW) is based on a string of inferences that begins with the assumptions that carbon dioxide is a ???greenhouse gas?? and that we are slowly driving up the atmospheric concentration by burning fossil fuels. It is therefore claimed as self-evident that the G... | 5_1 |
Since the 1990s, Dow Chemical, America's largest chemical company, has tried to brand itself as forward thinking on energy and environmental issues. It reduced the carbon footprint of its manufacturing processesa win-win situation that actually saved the company money while gathering plaudits from activists. | 0_0 |
What if warming was set on fast forward, rather than pause? What if surface warming was progressing faster than 95% of the climate models had predicted, rather than slower than 95% of the models? How would the global warming establishment be playing it? | 0_0 |
So what I have documented is a collection of observations and analyses that together is telling a story of relatively modest climate changes to come. Not that temperatures won?t rise at all over the course of this century, but rather than our climate becoming extremely toasty, it looks like we?ll have to settle (thankf... | 3_1 |
The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party's 2016 platform, approved at the party convention in July, calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change. | 0_0 |
"The financial crisis has disrupted the consumption of gasoline, which will have an effect on prices. However, we expect the prices that Georgian gasoline station owners receive at the pump to be in line with changes in consumers' incomes and the prices of substitutes and complements. We will not tolerate consumers tak... | 0_0 |
Recently, Sierra Club members were told that they, ?supporters, partners, and allies have worked tirelessly to retire 150 coal-fired power plants since January 2010?a significant number in the campaign to move the country beyond dirty and outdated fossil fuels.? | 0_0 |
Record snowfall takes Canadian city by surprise | 0_0 |
More than 20 years ago, climate scientists began to sound the alarm over the possibility that global temperatures were rising due to human activities, such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. In 1988, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program created the Intergovernm... | 0_0 |
Brown and Black coal provide electricity in Australia at less than 4c /KWhr, while Solar costs nearly 20c. Figures thanks to Alan Moran: Submission to the Renewable Energy Target Review Panel, IPA, 2014 | 4_4 |
It may seem like arcane bureaucratese, but an ???endangerment?? finding is actually a big deal that would hurt virtually every facet of the American economy. Under the Clean Air Act, an endangerment finding serves as a tripwire for a regulatory chain-reaction that would subject small businesses, farms, and any building... | 4_1 |
Britain ends liberalised power prices: Gerard Wynn | 0_0 |
I would also like to emphasize Lawson?s much needed criticism of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for its claim that the solution for China and India would be ?investment in attractive public transport facilities and non-motorized forms of transport? (p. 68). For me, non-motorized forms of transport... | 0_0 |
Download PDF Climate Change and Public Policy | 0_0 |
a partnership of major donors interested in solving the worlds energy problems. Our mission is to advance energy efficiency and renewable energynew technologies that are essential components of a clean energy future. | 0_0 |
First, we see in ALL regions a negative correlation between temperature and the total number of strong to violent tornadoes in the U.S. | 1_7 |
""Card check' circumvents a secret ballot election because it requires only that a majority of employees sign cards showing that they support union representation. Employees are often urged to sign cards publicly and in the presence of union organizers, which exposes them to high-pressure tactics that the secret ballot... | 0_0 |
The American Enterprise Institute is sponsoring a conference, The Greening of Global Warming, featuring Robert Mendelsohn of Yale University. Mendelsohn claims that global warming will not be as harmful as previously claimed. The conference will be held on July 26 at 1150 17th Street, NW, 12th floor, Washington, D.C. R... | 0_0 |
Yes, Hansen actually made these forecasts (degrees C) in the year 1988 . We should be baking already, and Manhattan should be drowning . | 5_2 |
In addition, I give my greatest appreciation and thanks to those people who I was lucky enough to actually meet and spend time with. These included Benny Peiser; Tim Daw; Nick Luke; the Old Seadog; the Bishop Andrew Montford; Christopher Monckton; Matt, Anya, and Matthew Ridley; Sir Humphry and Katharine Wakefield; Ric... | 0_0 |
Climate sensitivity is large in the vicinity of tipping points but moderate otherwise. A variable sensitivity as must be the case in such a finely balanced system as the Earths climate. While this is necessarily a simplified approach to a new mathematics of climate sensitivity it is nonetheless a vastly more sophistica... | 3_1 |
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) and Journal of Climate among others posthumously gave Saltzman the ultimate accolade, "father of modern climate theory" on the publication of his ground breaking "Theory of Climate' (2002). | 0_0 |
As best we can determine from the Chinese scientists' graph, over the period of time depicted - when climate alarmists claim the world warmed at a rate that was unprecedented over the past millennium or two, and when the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration rose to values not seen for millions of years - the two "fatal thre... | 3_2 |
Rather than expand government, public policy should end preferential subsidies for politically favored energies, depoliticize access to public-land resources, and privatize such assets as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Multi-billion-dollar energy programs at the U.S. Department of Energy can be eliminated. Such polic... | 4_2 |
It's official: Federal inmates now have more rights than truck drivers . | 0_0 |
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