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This suggests that in the ice ages, the 8C lower temperature could be explained by a 30% drop in pressure. That is equivalent today of an altitude rise of 3200m. For us living in Scotland where our highest mountain (Ben Nevis) is around 1300m that sounds high. | 0_0 |
Don't miss this Climate Skeptic post. Excerpt: This is a project my son did for Science Fair to measure the urban heat island effect in Phoenix. The project could also be called "Disproving the IPCC is so easy, a child could do it." The IPCC claims that the urban heat island effect has a negligible impact, even on surf... | 5_1 |
"I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon," - UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan: This week, an article in the Sept.4 issue of The Weekly Standard drops a bombshell; | 0_0 |
CFACT will be there: exposing, debunking and offering constructive solutions. | 0_0 |
Yes, I did write that. The trouble for Holman's argument is that the | 0_0 |
AGU 2014: Quantifying the Mismatch between Climate Projections and Observations | 5_1 |
The Nordic scientists say "the increase in SOC with temperature and precipitation is interpreted as an indirect effect of higher net primary production."?? More specifically, they say that, in Europe, "increasing site productivity has been reported in both nemoral forests and in boreal forests at higher latitudes (Erik... | 3_3 |
There is good reason for this cooling climate consternation. As David Whitehouse at the Global Warming Policy Foundation points out : If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change. Whitehouse notes that there has been n... | 1_4 |
Environmentalist Lawrence Solomon wrote in the Financial Post, Now an increasing number of scientists are swinging back to the thinking of the 1960s and 1970s. The global cooling hypothesis may have been right after all, they say Earth may be entering a new Little Ice Age. | 1_2 |
Pundits and scholars had seen the establishment play along with Glenn Beckstyle radicalism and conspiracy-mongering before, only to engineer a nomination for a "regular" Republican leader. They assumed history would repeat itself, with a Bush, Rubio, Kasich, or Walker. We did not. | 0_0 |
Example: The climate scientists at the British Met Office. They have always issued false alarms, and today we can even say systematic false alarms. Of all the annual forecasts on global temperature made this century, 14 in total, the scientists have wound up landing above the actual value 13 times. Paul Hudson, climate... | 5_2 |
With average data looking like that, even Bond would be proud. Individual series often looked like this realistic piece of RegEMd jewelry. Imagine the pride you would feel presenting this piece of augmented data to your professor in college. | 0_0 |
Similar motivation was the debate about the rights of future generations, excellently summarized recently by O. M. Hartwich, ?The Rights of the Future,? Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2009; www.oliver-marc-hartwich.com/publications/the-rights-of-the-future. I agree with him that ?the very idea that there are some resources th... | 0_0 |
Now we are giddy with confidence. We slip and slide down the mountain. A hundred yards from the road the zipper on one sleeping bag breaks. When we reach the car, though, my feet are warm and dry. | 0_0 |
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the worlds weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earths climate seems to be cooling down. | 1_2 |
Its wrong for a tax-paid scientist writing in a tax-supported publication to smear another scientist. Seeing such tactics used against a scientist of Seitzs caliber is clearly a warning to others who would consider opposing officially sanctioned science. Genuine science will suffer from this attempt to suppress dissent... | 5_2 |
Cutting our emissions by 10% or more below 1990 levels would require huge reductions of industrial and transportation energy use, extensive residential energy conservation programs, and elimination of coal use. Coal represents 30% of domestic energy production, and provides more than half of total U.S. electricity. The... | 0_0 |
Error 2. CAP and George Will have it wrong. Will wrote that it hasn??t warmed in ???more than a decade,?? while Brad Johnson claims that ???global warming is continuing.?? According to data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, compiled by NASA??s Dr. Roy Spenser, there has been no statistical warming of lower ... | 1_4 |
Facebook paid PR firm to smear Google: | 0_0 |
3 Third, the climate models predict a particular pattern of atmospheric warming during periods of global warming. In particular, the most prominent change they predict is a warming in the tropics about 10 km up, the so-called hotspot. But we have been measuring atmospheric temperatures by weather balloons since the 196... | 2_3 |
National Assessment on Climate Change makes a poor first impression | 0_0 |
Skeptical Science can accuratelystate that the climate system is warmer today than it was several decades ago. However, the weblog is in error in stating thatthe most recent satellite data show that the earth as a whole is warming. There has not been warming significantly, if at all, since 2003, as most everyone on all... | 1_4 |
Victorias Civil and Administrative Tribunal has scuppered the building of six coastal homes due to the threat of increasing storm severity and rising sea levels caused by climate change, in the first decision of its kind in Australia. In a ruling with implications for coastal developments, VCAT deputy president Helen G... | 0_0 |
John Fonte deserves our thanks and praise for wading through the morass of globalista writings, conference papers and speeches, U.N. resolutions and reports, and the panoply of studies written over decades while many in the United States proceeded blithely on their way, unaware of the mounting challenges to "Philadelph... | 0_0 |
* Americans have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today. Sixty-four percent in Gallup's March 2012 poll are dissatisfied. Like Japan in the late 1980s and early '90s, China is now seen as the economic powerhouse. | 0_0 |
It's peak North Atlantic hurricane season again and much is being made of a supposedly increased hurricane threat due to man-made global warming. | 1_7 |
And so who knows how many people have been persuaded by their local priest or bishop to become atheists! | 0_0 |
The difference between the poles and the equator - 80 C - corresponds to roughly 10,000 kilometers. Divide it by 16 and you will obtain 5 C and 600 km. | 0_0 |
They ridiculed the Board and demanded it drop its revised standards and ban facts which question the man-made global warming narrative from the classroom. | 0_0 |
Perhaps the Governor is not skilled in math. Perhaps long division escapes him. Take the number of downed lines, flooded switches, blown transformers. Take the total hours to repair. Divide by the staff hours available per day ( there are only so many licensed and approved linemen and electricians who are also members ... | 0_0 |
Whether she can be prevailed upon or not, Professor Curry?s case highlights the importance of this battle and the need to make sure that free speech is not just for members of the global warming establishment, but also for the rest of us. | 0_0 |
With this confirmation, one could assume that all warming since 1850 was due to human CO2 emissions, but then the logical conclusion is cast in concrete science - CO2's impact is shrinking towards zero, as observed, and likely will have even a smaller global warming impact in the future. | 2_3 |
Even though it may seem that there is a whole range of institutions both here and overseas which bring together and support those who openly express doubts about the currently prevailing dogma of man-made global warming and who dare to criticize it, it apparently is still not enough. We are subject to a heavily biased ... | 5_2 |
Analysis of 20 years of satellite data has revealed the total amount of vegetation globally has increased by almost the equivalent of 4 billion tonnes of carbon since 2003. This is despite ongoing large-scale deforestation in the tropics. , we found unexpectedly large vegetation increases in the savannahs of southern A... | 3_3 |
My preferred comments about the similar questions are different. I say that to establish that two black hole interiors are connected by a wormhole, one has to see that these two black hole interiors contain "the same objects". But one may only measure the properties of the objects, e.g. spins of the electrons, and they... | 0_0 |
Here is another way he can show the Chinese that when he has a goal he intends to pursue it, and if they try to thwart him, they will pay a high price indeed. | 0_0 |
A similar abuse of the laws of physics is to be found in the arguments of creationists. Evolution cannot be true, they say, because it contradicts the law of entropy. Like them, environmentalists are resorting to the same tactic of hiding a political argument behind the authority of science. (Although of course, the cr... | 5_2 |
The $15 Billion Failure to Store Nuclear Waste | 0_0 |
"Wikipropganda," by Lawrence Solomon, National Review Online, July 8, 2008: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/224785/wikipropaganda-lawrence-solomon | 0_0 |
Dr. Nigel Smith, a professor of geography at the University of Florida is a leading expert on the issue of the Brazilian rainforest and in his landmark paper, "Human-Induced Landscape Changes in Amazonia and Implications for Development," he begins by saying "One of the most persistent myths about Amazonia is that it h... | 0_0 |
<0445> Torok/CSIRO: | 0_0 |
With increased national Doppler radar coverage, increasing population, and greater attention to tornado reporting, there has been an increase in the number of tornado reports over the past several decades . This can create a misleading appearance of an increasing trend in tornado frequency. To better understand the var... | 1_7 |
McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. | 0_0 |
2 Rest assured, the concept of man over nature does not imply the domination and spoliation of nature by man. It simply means the removal of scarcity that is a product of capitalismor so the Marxists say. You could easily incorporate the reduction of capitalist waste and its effect on global climate change into the lib... | 0_0 |
There are already 170,000 miles of pipeline in America, moving oil and natural gas to fuel our cars and trucks, warm our homes and apartments, and, in the case of oil, to be turned in the zillion uses of plastic and other products such as asphalt to pave our streets and highways. | 4_5 |
NAM, along with another powerful industry group, the American Chemistry Council, endorsed the DOE findings, even though most of its members, particularly chemical companies, could see modest natural gas price rises, a marginal cost in manufacturing processes. | 0_0 |
Because politicians get to play with other peoples money, hope continually triumphs over experience, andthey neverlearn what three MIT scholars learned from the Carter administrations energy programs : | 0_0 |
But that funding is only available to those who toe the consensus line that human activity is causing dangerous amounts of global warming. Telling the world that mankinds big climate break came when global temperatures were several degrees higher than today would needlessly put a paleoanthropologists academic and telev... | 5_2 |
Magnitude 6.1 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 0_0 |
Reporter Scott Pelley prompted chief federal firefighter Tom Boatner with the statement, "You know, there are a lot of people who don't believe in climate change." | 0_0 |
So far, the only email on which RC has seen fit to comment is one from CRU director Phil Jones dated Nov. 16, 1999, 13:31. It's gotten a lot of buzz on the Internet, because it appears to advocate the use of a "trick" to "hide" a "decline" in global temperatures. | 0_0 |
Average Radiative Imbalance from increasing ocean heat content: 0.2 W m-2 | 0_0 |
Availability of data The committee report that CRU was bound by confidentiality agreements (32) and was therefore unable to release its station data. They do not discuss how CRU was able to make the data available to sympathetic scientists like Peter Webster. | 0_0 |
The issue of where Sahel climate is going is contentious, Some models predict a wetter future; others, a drier one. They cannot all be right. | 5_1 |
UPDATE: The ABC are running scared from real debate again. My polite comment with links to the original Composta article, and links to my analysis of Lewandowsky is another ABC Reject. (My comment was essentially the words between - and - above.) | 0_0 |
Diplomats from the world's major greenhouse-gas emitters met recently at the State Department to discuss a potential U.N. agreement to fight global warming. Commenting on a lack of attention paid by the Bush administration to the urgent need to address global warming, U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern sa... | 0_0 |
Replication can also reveal whether researchers have properly disclosed their data. For example, in preparing my testimony for Mrs. Boxer's 2008 U.S. Senate hearings on polar bear populations, I requested data from government-funded research that led to a dire forecast. My request was refused. | 0_0 |
This is one of those statements that are technically true, but totally obtuse at the same time. Issuing formal get-out-of-jail-free cards to 5 million people is unprecedented. Think of it this way: Imagine a Republican President who is opposed to the minimum wage. The Executive branch is tasked with enforcing that law,... | 0_0 |
After many, many years of trying, the goal has yet to be reached Read More | 0_0 |
The difficulty for them is to maintain their own minority status while insisting in public that the skeptics ? are very few. (page 68) | 0_0 |
Haigh claims that the evidence about cloud formation being induced by cosmic rays points to a weak mechanism, then simply ignores the report??s admission of substantial evidence that some such mechanism must be at work: | 2_1 |
As the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere continues to increase, rice plants will likely display higher rates of photosynthesis, regardless of nitrogen availability. This phenomenon should enhance carbohydrate production in rice and allow plants to attain greater size, weight, and yield. And the greater the availa... | 3_3 |
One factor is a form of loyalty to colleagues. Another, bearing in mind the singular nature of the funding source, is the need to eat. But mostly it gets back to the uncertainty of the science. The typical climate researcher is reluctant to go public with contrary opinion not backed by something very close to real proo... | 5_1 |
Airlines that fail to cover emissions with allowances face a penalty of Eur100 for each mt of CO2 not covered. | 0_0 |
Nearly 28,000 people died in Britain last winter, most of them pensioners who could not afford adequate heat. Charities say this is the highest winter death rate in northern Europe, worse even than much colder nations like Finland and Sweden. And this winter has already seen the coldest December night for Wales in 169 ... | 1_3 |
"In the words of the authors, they "examined the distribution of flood peaks for the eastern United States using annual maximum flood peak records from 572 U.S. Geological Survey stream gaging stations with at least 75 years of observations.".....Of even greater interest to the climate change debate, however, were thei... | 1_7 |
To put it in other terms, our own government has engaged in lying to Americans, and the result has been the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars on something that was not happening and is not happening. | 0_0 |
In Australia, the maximum electricity demand occurs at about 6.30 pm in mid-winter in the big southern cities. However, the maximum solar power is generated at noon in mid-summer in clear northern deserts. If the nightly solar curfew is to be supplied by solar power, this necessitates a vast area of collectors to provi... | 4_4 |
Global Warming's New Clothes Written by Rosslyn Smith | 0_0 |
Read that again: never seen more snow fall in a 24-hour period. | 0_0 |
The NSW Farmers Association says its shocked the states planning minister has labelled the lobby group as almost irrelevant to consultation on coal seam gas development, saying the government has not listened to them. | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell on the folly of | 0_0 |
Finding himself unable to defend the proposition that approval of Keystone XL would have any measurable effect on temperatures even in the extreme case, the marginal GHG emissions from the pipeline would raise temperatures by something on the order of one ten-thousandth of a degree Sachs attempts to change the subject ... | 0_0 |
Bill Gates attacks traditional capitalism as not doing enough to help people in the poorest countries of the world. | 0_0 |
H. Leighton Steward, chairman of the non-profit Plants Need CO2, noted that many of the former NASA scientists harbored doubts about the significance of the C02-climate change theory and have concerns over NASAs advocacy on the issue. While making presentations in late 2011 to many of the signatories of the letter, Ste... | 0_0 |
These are hyper-partisan times, but both parties in Congress can agree that they don't like being pushed around by the President. In the Senate, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) has joined with Democratic colleagues Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas), Ben Nelson (Nebraska), and Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) to sponsor le... | 0_0 |
Lost in the debate is the fact that polar bear numbers have dramatically increased over the past forty years a fact even liberal environmental activists are forced to concede. According to Canadian scientists, 11 of the 13 bear populations are stable, with some increasing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now estimat... | 3_2 |
Even the clause guaranteeing ``protection of intellectual property rights'' is of little value, since governments routinely use compulsory licensing to override foreign patents (just ask the pharmaceutical industry). | 0_0 |
NASA??s blatantly, bogus temperatures (lies?) are an attempt to scare the public into thinking the ice sheets of Greenland are quickly melting away because of unprecedented ???high?? temperatures, including those maximum high temperatures forecasted for the ice sheet this week: an average of a -35F (yes, minus) for the... | 1_1 |
Our rain shadow is most evident when the winds along the coast are westerly (from the west), because of their interactions with the Olympics. | 0_0 |
"Moments before he was to stand trial for bilking The Meadows Racetrack and Casino out of nearly a half-million dollars in fraudulent jackpots, a Swissvale man was arrested Monday by federal authorities, who say he actually may have stolen as much as $1.4 million from casinos in the U.S. and abroad." | 0_0 |
Obama: "We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas,": | 0_0 |
Failure to take due account of relevant published work which documented the above lapses, while disregarding IPCC criteria for inclusion in the assessment process; | 5_2 |
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports about two major hurricanes, on average, make landfall somewhere along the Gulf or Atlantic coast every three years. The year with the most is 2005, when four major hurricanes made landfalls in the United States (Dennis, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma), with Wilma se... | 1_7 |
But hasn't Mr. Bush been hypocritical? It's true that, during the first term, he let expediency in domestic politics influence decisions in international economics. I'm thinking of the steel tariffs he imposed in March 2002 and lifted two years later. Don't expect that sort of cynicism in the second termsince Mr. Bush ... | 0_0 |
Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental PolicyThomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies | 0_0 |
No, it wasn't a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by "Climategate", I'm referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent inter... | 5_2 |
on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 6:51 pm and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
So what's going to happen next? There's no current ban on exports of natural gas. Supplies are exported to a limited number of countries with which the US has a free trade agreement. However, regulations passed when the country faced a severe shortage and high prices still require the government to determine whether an... | 0_0 |
Obviously this was a bit of a problem for the Scare Campaign. Much of the amplifying feedback created in the models also creates the hot-spot, so without any evidence that the hot-spot is occurring, there goes the disaster (and the urgent need for funding and junkets). | 2_3 |
German Utility Criticizes EU Emissions Plan | 0_0 |
Undoubtedly this result would have taken place without the CAA, given the higher cost of running inefficient older plants. But the CAA's heavier controls on new plants increased the relative price of energy produced from new sources, giving existing coal companies a strong incentive to keep their older plants in servic... | 0_0 |
We were told that Austin is growing by 100 to 150 people per day. Per day! | 0_0 |
Bjorn Lomborg's ongoing publicity campaign for his new film makes it obvious that the fight against the delusion of dangerous man-made global warming remains an uphill struggle. | 5_2 |
There are wonks on our side, believe it or not, who support penalizing hospitals for return admissions. I would say it is another example of finger pointing that is finding misconduct when there may be perfectly good reasons for why people have return hospitalizations. | 0_0 |
The headline at Science Daily is that wildfires and other burns lead to climate change. The paper itself asks: As such, particle burn-off of clouds may be a major underrecognized source of global warming. For me what matters are the deaths in the here and now: | 0_0 |
Puls: That is one of the worst myths used for generating climate hysteria. Polar bears dont eat ice, they eat seals. Polar bears go hungry if we shoot their food supply of seals. The polar bear population has increased with moderately rising temperatures, from 5000 50 years ago to 25,000 today . | 3_2 |
The advertisement doesn't identify what Washington is doing to "weaken the Clean Air Act," so it's impossible to know what legislation or regulation the American Lung Association intends to protect. But it is demonstrably false that "more pollution means more childhood asthma attacks," which is the fundamental claim ma... | 0_0 |
So the Colorado legislature expressed its intention to tap the brakes on the EPA's climate plan, and now Hickenlooper wants to put the pedal to the metal in order to accelerate past federal targets. In effect, the governor is acting in contravention to the stated intent of the people of Colorado's elected representativ... | 0_0 |
every so often. The most recent example is today, in an article by Charles Holman of The Washington Monthly, | 0_0 |
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