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A smoking gun. This particular one is a smoking gun of someone else than string theory, however.
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Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA:
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Gingrich and Terry L. Maple have something of a sequel in the works to their 2007 book, A Contract with The Earth, tentatively titled Environmental Entrepreneurs.
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In all three enforcement areas, current EPA policy has led to confusion and delay as EPA issues conflicting letters and decisions and state agencies, which are given NSR permitting authority in most states, attempt to interpret and apply those policies. One result is conflict between federal EPA and state agencies.
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No one can claim that the answer is that the Chinese and Indian governments have signaled their readiness to respond in kind to U.S. GHG curbs. To the contrary, they continue to insist that the developed countries must commit to pay them for any control costs that they incur. The Chinese and Indian governments' stateme...
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The media never seemed to report the real economic impact of the CFC ban. Replacing CFCs was not at all easy. There really are no suitable, safe, and affordable replacements for Halon fire control systems. Most propellants were not too difficult to replace (although many are flammable). One notable exception is the CFC...
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Fishermen and seafood-dependent communities in New England are battening down the hatches, fearing that an Obama administration move to create a giant Atlantic Marine Monument will spell the end to their way of life.
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Dr Pearman referred to 95 and 99 percentiles as measures of the proof of an hypothesis in the same breathe claiming that that there was more than 90 percent proof that global warming is a consequence of greenhouse gas emission. Yet this 90 percent figure, sometimes used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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Im positive that this window is what is causing the damage to my car, says Patron.
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EPA statistics regarding the six principal sources of air pollution in 199811 show:
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Court accuses EPA of filibustering on pesticide safety
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In southeastern Massachusetts on February 25, 2015. The U.S. Coast Guard warned mariners of severe ice conditions in coastal waterways and noted that its ice-breaking capabilities were limited by the thickness of the ice. Many navigational buoys and other markers were knocked off their locations or submerged by sea ice...
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I cannot reconcile Gordon's claim with the actual data on the US economy. The data on growth rates (from BEA and US Census , which Gordon has confirmed to me as the correct datasets to use) shows the following rates of change in per capita GDP growth at the break points identified by Gordon:
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The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over climate data continues to unfold.The latest revelation came on Sunday with the publication of a report by The Sunday Times of London that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Re...
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Global Warming Panel to Earths Rescue, on UNs Dime?
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In his comment, Brian Cox wrote lots of wrong things about locality in quantum mechanics and the Pauli principle but he also mentioned the lunar story:
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the nature of record temperatures:
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If I had one thing to do over again I would not have talked so much about green. Even though I believe in global warming and I believe in the science, it just took on a connotation that was too elitist; it was too precious and it let opponents think that if you had a green initiative, you didn't care about jobs. I'm a ...
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The probability models fit the old data well, but nobody can ever know how well they will fit future data. The result is that over reliance on hard data means that probabilities of extreme events are underestimated and mundane events overestimated. The simple way to state this is the system is built to engender overcon...
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of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
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After a poll released this week showed President Barack Obama only beating his Democratic primary opponent John Wolfe Jr. by seven points, 45 percent to 38 percent, in Arkansas's Fourth Congressional District, state Democrats moved to practically disenfranchise Arkansas voters. "elegates Wolfe might claim won't be reco...
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These ?scientists? have already reached their conclusion that global warming is real and progressing, despite the inconvenient truth that global temperatures have not risen over the past 15 years, even with increasing carbon dioxide emissions. ?Who pressed the pause button?? on global warming, asks The Economist.
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Although a few environmental activists have attempted to back away from these ludicrous and embarrassing statements, the predictability with which climate change was linked to a geological event shows the difficulty of taking climate change seriously. Climate change is a legitimate issue, but between the shabby way env...
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Wall Street Journal article A Reprieve From Climate Doom no reason not to disband the useless and harmful IPCC
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I would only add that policy makers should show due diligence and assess the source and quality of their data.
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So our long and wonderful hegira through the British cities and countryside is all over, and for me its back to pounding nails on Monday. The gorgeous ex-fiancee returns to being a Family Nurse Practitioner, and the summer is over for our college lady, shes jumping in her car and heading off to Uni today.
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the public the right message even if its a load of unsexy boring
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Low solar activity has already been linked to an increase in cold winters in Europe, with activity on the sun declining since 1985, Professor Mike Lockwood of the University of Reading said in findings published in April.
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U.S. students suffering from Internet addiction: study:
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That is why it is so important that Fred Singer has now publicly declared that CO2 does not affect Global temperature, and Pierre Latour has helped him along the way by providing an algebraic proof.
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When the Sun is approximately behind the Moon, it only illuminates the half of the Moon that we can't see anyway (because it has turned away from us) so the half of the Moon on our side remains dark; that's the new moon. However, when the Sun is located in the same direction from us as the Moon (however, the Sun is muc...
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date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:22:12 +0100
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What that would accomplish is to divert resources and talent from getting on with the serious work of developing alternative power sources.
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In contrast to the crazed, paranoid, lefty-loon rants of an obviously disturbed, anti-science journalist, what do actual scientists say about global warming....let's summarize with a favorite...
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A recent report by the California Air Resources Board claims that the state??s plan to reduce global warming emissions will save consumers $14 billion in fuel costs, thanks to increased fuel efficiency. But according to an article in the Orange County Register by policy analyst William Yeatman, the costs have been unde...
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???Coldest start to May for more than 70 years.?? In fact, temperatures could hit the lowest ever recorded for May.
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anticipation that by the time of the 4th Assessment Report we?ll have withdrawn
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Yeah, Im finding this about 10 days late. Somehow I think most folks are still just finding out
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The World's Population Reaches 7 Billion, But Don't Let the UN Scare YouUN is wrong on food shortages and climate change
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Red Cross Sees Global Warming Green
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Your editorial suggests that a moderate increase in CAFE would be a part of the "best of all worlds."
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America depends on abundant, reliable, affordable energy 85% of it hydrocarbons. Coal generates half of all US electricity, and up to 90% in its manufacturing heartland versus 1% from wind and solar. Newfound natural gas supplies promise a sea change in US energy supplies and electricity generation. However, oil still ...
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Looking at 1,000 years of temperature records, researchers found that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of just a decade can account for increases and dips in warming rates. Researchers said that variability could be caused by interactions between the ocean and atmosphere, or other natural fac...
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Nevertheless, there is a point hidden in Sen. Lieberman's testimony. The Kyoto Protocols so beloved by Sen. Lieberman call on America to reduce its carbon emissions below 1990 levels. Emissions from manufacturing industry actually did dip below those levels last yearthanks to the recession in America's manufacturing se...
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Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the final version of its contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. The WG2 report contains 1,731 pages of text, figures, boxes, footnotes and references, the first 832 ...
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In addition to her responsibilities as interim CEO and Director of Communications, Dr. Heidi Cullen serves as a research scientist and correspondent for Climate Central. Dr. Cullen currently reports on climate for PBS NewsHour, Time.com and The Weather Channel. Before joining Climate Central, Dr. Cullen served as The W...
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The picture below is my UHImeasurementlocation. On a still clear night, temperatures are typically 5-10F cooler near the fire station on the right, than they are at the Safeway parking lot across the intersection (traffic light is inside the red circle.)
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Now, the sensible and latent heat loss is a parasitic loss, which means a loss in a heat engine that costs efficiency. And as any engineer can testify, parasitic losses are proportional to temperature, and as the operating temperatures rise, parasitic losses rise faster and faster. In addition, the 100 W/m2 is the glob...
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They don't get it. We're glad Graham and his neighbors do.
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Bush EPA chief calls Senate GOP "sore losers' for opposing EPA nominee
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Over the last twoweeks, Arctic sea ice extent has taken a sharp turn towards the median, and is now nearly the highest in a decade for the date.
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The United States would gain little in trying to forestall climate change
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This is a really interesting post at WUWT by J. Storrs Hall . It reminds me of one of those powers of ten films. He looks at data from a Greenland ice core ( archived at NOAA here ) going back over 50,000 years. He begins looking at the last few hundred years, and then pulls back the view on larger and large time scale...
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> >> >>any suggestions:
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The provided documents conclude with emails citing late-night phone calls to get the story straight, and calling with "high importance" a meeting at 9:00 a.m., September 22, 2009, in the office of Ms. Zoi's chief operating officer, Steven Chalk. The meeting was called to "huddle up" face-to-face to put things straight.
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Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
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> >> >Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:14:36 +0100
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"Labor activists and supporters of high-speed rail are planning a rally in Milwaukee in favor of the imperiled project."
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The 20th century may not have been so extraordinarily hot after all, according to a climate study of the last thousand years, which confirms historical accounts of fig trees growing in Germany and early grape harvests in England during medieval times.
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This is Figure 11.25 from the IPCC AR5 (discussed previously on Implications for climate models of their growing disagreement with observations ). Ed Hawkins has added a blue line to show Cowtan and Ways global temperature analysis. While Cowtan and Way is slightly warmer than HadCRUT4 for the past decade, their analys...
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Beyond these issues of politics and semantics, the entire ethanol quandary illustrates a powerful point about the current climate for energy subsidies and innovationmoney tends to flow to politically popular but inefficient programs such as corn-based ethanol productionBut even if, on their own terms, they could addres...
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It affects Java 5, 6 and 7 while most of the previous problems with Java have effected its latest version 7.
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Al Gore Once Again Suggests "Fertility Management' To Fight Global Warming
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Although far more forthcoming thanpetitioners in Mass v. EPA , theANPR repeatedly downplays the economic risks of applying CAA regulatory provisions to CO 2 .
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"I want to use football as an engine to fight against global warming. I believe the role model of footballers is still very big worldwide. If somebody can get into the heads of the youth or the normal man in the street then it's the football players.
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Solicitor General Kagan urged against letting a small firm challenge a regulatory agency in court. Would a Justice Kagan do the same?
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key was the office's access to information the intelligence community collected about financial
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Since the 2005 hysterics from the experts, the US has experienced the quietest period on record for hurricanes.
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By Joe Schoffstall, Washington Free Beacon, Aug 6, 2015
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Conversely, a "game-changer" could have a beneficial effect encompassing a similar scope.
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80th Ontario municipality to pass a resolution opposing wind turbine development
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Ocean heat content differences, 1979-1997 average (NODC)= less than 0.1 C
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In analyzing responses by sub-groups, Doran found that climatologists who are active in research showed the strongest consensus on the causes of global warming, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role. Petroleum geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 and 64 percent respectively ...
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We taxpayers pay for these studies, payoffs and propaganda. And we will get stuck with the regulations, soaring prices and lost jobs that result. We have a right to review and analyze the data and claims. We have a right to be heard, in a fair and honest process that truly takes our concerns into account.
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Note, comparing truly global climate model simulations with a truly global observational data set (e.g. Cowtan and Way) is better than comparing with HadCRUT4 with missing data regions. Note, this is why Ed Hawkins previously compared ( fig ) the HadCRUT4 observations with climate model simulations where the missing re...
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UPDATE: The Reuters correspondent confused climate sensitivity with temperature projections. That means that this post is, well, just plain wrong. I should have spotted that. Sorry.
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Figure 4: Annual Arctic sea ice volume loss (thousands of cubic km) according to PIOMAS (blue) compared with the mean value 1980-2013 (black) and standard deviation (gray).
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Its like weather prediction for tomorrow; you only believe it when you get to tomorrow. Weather is very difficult to predict; climate involves weather plus all these other components of the climate system, ice, oceans, vegetation, soil etc . Why should we think we can do better with climate prediction than with weather...
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Well, here are the facts. The IPCC said in 1990, at page xii, Under the IPCC business-as-usual (Scenario A) emissions of greenhouse gases, the average rate of increase of global mean temperature during the next century is estimated to be about 0.2-0.5 C/decade. The observed warming rate from 1990-2013, according to Had...
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Meanwhile, as Dear notes, "South Korea is building four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates. The Russian company, Rosatom, is building power plants in Turkey, Belarus, Vietnam, and elsewhere. The China National Nuclear Corporation is scheduled to build over twenty nuclear power plants."
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CNN; Another animal rights group is shopping for drones it will use to watch for animal abuse -- and gun owners are setting their sights in anticipation.
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Celebrating Human Achievement, Taxing AIG Bonuses and Cap and Trade in the Senate
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The ideal1000-year cycle is varied by the 230-year cycle, which in turn gets varied by the 65-year oceanic cycle, which is depicted in Figure 1. Added to these cycles are the various typically non-cyclical events such as the ENSO, volcanic eruptions, etc. Figure 3 shows the temperature curve for the last 165 years alon...
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As one organisation after another jumps, or is pushed, into producing public assessments of the climate change issue, we see the same small group of activist-scientists in the background. We see them providing briefings to federal and state politicians. We see them as primary advisers to supposedly independent organisa...
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Most of all though, we know that even if climate change is not the primary factor behind the current tragedy this humanitarian disaster and the seemingly intractable geopolitical challenges, nationalist tendencies, and crushing grief it invokes is precisely the kind of disaster security analysts expect to see worsen in...
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The reasoning, apparently, is that the public on its own is too dumb to realize what a great thing CFLs are, given that their energy savings far outweigh their higher prices.
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2. There are photographed major problems with the microclimate exposure of a subset of surface observation sites ( see Davey, C.A., and R.A. Pielke Sr., 2005: Microclimate exposures of surface-based weather stations implications for the assessment of long-term temperature trends.
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Indeed, the language in the announcement back then "We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons" echoed some of Obama's favorite phraseology. But it was not to be, thanks to "failed leadership" from unnamed politicians. From the Bulletin's statement:
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Policy research in the Beltway offers numerous attractions, among them the opportunity to exchange views and engage in back-and-forth challenges with other experts, in settings both formal and informal. Such activities are more than merely fun: Intellectual atrophy is the inexorable result of living in an echo chamber,...
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Economic historians will have plenty of time to debate how the trading system got into this mess-and there will be lots of recriminations that will accompany this "conversation." But the short-term question is how to move on. The argument advanced here is that a decisive act to formally end the Round is the best soluti...
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Uncertainty behind climate projections could be cut in half by 2030, study shows
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Scott Armstrong of Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has issued a public $20,000 challenge to Al Gore on the accuracy of climate forecasting. link
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Dr. Moniz understands the clear environmental benefits associated the safe development and use of clean-burning American natural gas, a Marcellus Shale Coalition spokesman told The Washington Examiner.
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In a report last year, the European Commission warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must be prepared for an intensified "scramble for resources" as melting glaciers and sea ice open up previously inaccessible areas to exploitation. The report explicitly expressed concerns over "long term relations with Ru...
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At a minimum, the order sends a clear message to Colorado's largest investor owned utility, Xcel Energy, that the state's executive urges its compliance with the EPA's climate regulations and strongly encourages the governor-appointed Public Utilities Commission to approve Xcel's plans. At worst, it's a power grab.
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This is no mere rhetoric on the part of Obama and Kerry: they believe what they are saying, and that other policy goals should be subordinated to their goal of a carbonless future. For them, natural gas is at best a "bridge fuel" to take us to the day when the world relies completely on solar, wind and other non-fossil...
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Once upon a time, and for millennia before then, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were low and stable. Then came the industrial revolution and CO2 levels began to rise. The more man industrialized, the more that CO2 -- and the temperature -- rose. In the last half century, with industrialization at unprecedented...
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OUTGOING SHORTWAVE RADIATION (REFLECTED SUNLIGHT) AT TOA
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It's payback time for the UK's insane energy policy
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However, any such survey would be of no more scientific value than that of Cook. As the planet continues to fail to warm at anything like the rate that the usual suspects have so confidently but unwisely over-predicted, it will eventually become apparent to all that science was not, is not, and will never be done by me...
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