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An article on the Asian Brown Cloud is here . An excerpt: This phenomenon also might help explain why carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures don't track very well, if at all.
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"But, Dad. That makes it sound like the Citizen Kane of crappy eco documentaries!"
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Rough road ahead for Obama, unions as compromises loom:
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By way of answering the question: "Why are the costs of wind and solar so much higher, and the benefits not much different from other low-carbon alternatives?" the Brookings study states: "The benefits of reduced emissions from wind and solar are limited because they operate at peak capacity only a fraction of the time...
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I have invited Gordon to address the discrepancy in our datasets and help me to identify where I have made a mistake or perhaps if his data is in error. Readers are welcomed to chime in.
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Those who instilled this remarkable "break in consciousness" were no different from those who touched off the other classic revolutions of modern times: writers, journalists, artists. As Alexis de Tocqueville observed, such men and women "help to create that general awareness of dissatisfaction, that solidified public ...
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By this gesture, I also want to unambiguously express my complete disagreement with the U.S. policies towards Russia, the EU member states, and all free and sovereign countries in the present as well as the past and especially with the consequences of these policies.
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When arguing for scenario (B)ullshit theyclaimthat CO2 emission trends have been reduced linear , but when it suits their needs they change thestoryto super exponential.
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By Lachlan Markeay, Washington Free Beacon, Aug 7, 2015
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The summary: Tevatron Higgs 404 error: file not found
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CO2 concentration, meanwhile, continues its upward trend. And it is this disconnect between rising CO2 concentration and stable near-surface temperatures that makes the present long hiatus in global warming more significant than the previous periods of a decade or more without warming over the 163 years of global mean ...
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Bradys expert witness, Edward Snyder, argued that it was improper to proceed with further comparison of variations, once the initial comparison had not yielded a statistically significant result:
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At issue is a sweeping so-called "planning rule" that would guide land-use decision on 198 million acres of federal forests and grasslands across the country. Released in February as a proposed rule, the plan has come under a barrage of criticism for emphasizing species preservation and climate change over the well-bei...
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As I reported in my FOXNews.com column of January 5, 2001 (see below):
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When confronted with themajor issues I havepresented, the Berkeley Earth, NASA and NOAA people demonstrate that their only interest is producing graphs showing warming while maintaining some appearance of plausible deniability.
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Thus, in answer to the question that headlined this Climate Science weblog, the Washington Post article, while it did include some diversity in its presentation, failed to adequately assess other sources of information that provide a different view. It is also interesting that since the hurricane season has had a slow ...
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Flashback: 1974 Tornado Outbreaks Blamed On Global Cooling
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The NCPA study, ???compares the worldwide benefits of U.S. reduction of CO 2 emissions with the worldwide costs.?? The benefits are ???the economic value of the avoided environmental damage that might arise from global warming,?? and the costs are the ???economic opportunities lost as a result of using less fossil fuel...
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As discussions about climate change continue, one critical factor about this phenomenon has remained largely unknown to the public: the important but enigmatic role of clouds in climate change. The role of clouds is important because at any given time about 70 percent of the Earth is covered by clouds. The role of clou...
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Its very hard to overlook the fact that, over the past decade, climate models are simulating way too much warming and are diverging rapidly from reality.
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Don't Bank Russia's Credits Just Yet
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3. Keep the record in front of you. Temperatures have plateaued, albeit at a high level, despite vast increases in emissions.
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In short, the country would be better served if NSR were changed to clarify and make more certain the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion and the method used to measure future emissions. Even better would be a move away from the costly and often counterproductive style of end-of-the-pipe regulation represented b...
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But this explanation goes only so far. The anger, disappointment, and disgust that the voters will shower on the Obama administration and the Democratic congressional leadership is unusually deep. The electorate is reacting at a much more visceral level.
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Further, to the extent that some illegal immigrants just trying to support their families are "ensnared" by drug cartels (whatever that means) it is because of their immigration status. Make them legal residents of the country, and no one has any particular leverage over them.
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Don't bring a drone to a anti-aircraft missile fight; Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering. Another photo shows the drones video camera smashed. The drone, dubbed Angel, was a Cinestar 8 octocopter estimated at $4,000. ...
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Details Revealed of Fisker's Waste and Mismanagement
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Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned eco...
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MOOSE: Whadda ya mean, it isnt right. I told you. That should be enough for you.
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This piece originally appeared in Wall Street Journal
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So much for land use. As far as our GHG emissions are concerned, there is evidence that they increase the temperature a little. But the warming effect of carbon dioxide is a reducing one, meaning that as its level increases, more and more CO2 is required to produce a unit of warming. More and more CO2 will not warm the...
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By 7:30 the group had swollen to around a hundredtoo many to fit inside the chapel of Maria Heimsuchung, or Mary of the Visitation, so a makeshift altar was erected outside.
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After one year of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, the growth rate of dominant canopy pine trees was about 24% greater than that of trees grown in ambient CO 2 , in spite of the likelihood of soil nutrient limitations and a severe summer drought (rainfall in August 1997 was about 90% below the 50-year average). In addition...
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The Great Pause may well come to an end by this winter. An el Nio event is underway and would normally peak during the northern-hemisphere winter. There is too little information to say how much temporary warming it will cause, though. The temperature spikes of the 1998, 2007, and 2010 el Nios are evident in Figs. 1-4.
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In crash tests released Tuesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of 2009 versions of the Smart fortwo, Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris could face significant leg and head injuries in severe front-end crashes with larger, mid-size vehicles.
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NASA has released its latest sea ice report . These are tough times for climate alarmists. The truth is: Theres a lot more sea ice out there this year than they ever imagined .
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The larger point is that the scientists on the panel are bright and honest with one blatant exception but they are not adept at thinking through the implications of political incentives. If science is to affect policymaking, an inherently political undertaking, research conducted or funded by government cannot be separ...
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She also indicated that the episode would showcase the potential for oil drilling in Alaskas Article National Wildlife Refuge. Youll also see us hunting at the edge of ANWR, Palin promised, where you can see the uninhabited lands that warehouse billions of barrels of American energy supplies underground just waiting fo...
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?It is a great honor to have been appointed to this new role? said Steer. ?Climate change is a major threat to poverty reduction, and a central development challenge for our generation. I look forward to working with external partners and colleagues at the World Bank to help advance international progress on low carbon...
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Second, the federal government should seek to identify and reduce barriers to the development and deployment of alternative technologies. Whatever the economic merits of the Cape Wind project, it is ridiculous that it could take over a decade for a project such as this to go through the state and federal permitting pro...
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If Abraham had had the courtesy to check either with me or by looking up Mr. Schulte's paper on the Web of Science database, to which his Bible College subscribes, he would have found that Mr. Schulte used this phrase because Naomi Oreskes, a science historian, had previously used the same phrase in researching climate...
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Finally, "The Kerry plan will establish the Energy Security and Conservation Trust Fund to invest in the hydrogen economy and other promising technologies, with clear targets for increasing the number of hydrogen powered cars and trucks on the nation's roads . Because of the importance of coal to our energy mix, the Ke...
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Less ice in the Arctic it is mans fault for burning fuels to stay alive.
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The klimatfrndring we have experienced since the late 1800s lter very vl explained by natural causes. Intraterrestrial natural causes may be, for example variations of hot and cold havsstrmmar, eruptions or a Modification of the earth's axis inclination. Outside the earth is there in the first place the sun that can ca...
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"Even relatively transparent forms of Western aid, such as anti-AIDS assistance, have sometimes backfired, resulting in increased child death rates and harm to countries' health-care systems through brain-drain from critical primary care areas. Foreign aid also has distorting macroeconomic effects even on the few count...
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(2) Regretted that discussion Particularly in climate research suffers from alltfr heavily politicized and wants to work for that open new communication channels. .
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His Holiness, the Green Pope (Al Gore) predicted that the Arctic see would be ice-free this year . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also gives a lot of attention to the unprecedented melting of the North Pole.
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As readers here know, the claims of statistical significance in the global temperature records are based on an assumption that the Earth's temperature can be approximated by the AR1 statistical model, an assumption that can apparently be readily shown to be incorrect. As Doug Keenan points out in an email, Slingo's fin...
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We believe the Canadian public and government decision-makers need and deserve to hear the whole story concerning this very complex issue. It was only 30 years ago that many of todays global-warming alarmists were telling us that the world was in the midst of a global-cooling catastrophe. But the science continued to e...
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Suzanne Goldenberg enjoys (if that's the right word) a certain reputation among BH readers and her latest offering will do nothing but enhance (if that 's the right word) her position in our estimation.
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Professor Bengtssons resignation shows that the alleged consensus on dangerous global warming involves suppressing dissent by academic bullying. He emphasises that there is no consensus about how fast and how far greenhouse warming will go, let alone what can be done in response.
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Someone who (of course) responded with full indignation was Lorentz Tovatt (Super Million blog). He seems to have misunderstood how much difference our choices really can do.
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Aid agencies should also consider forgone economic development. The U.N. and the World Bank want to redistribute trillions of dollars to create new "green" energy infrastructure, whereas in the free market these scarce resources would be allocated to create wealth. In a globalized world, inefficiencies of this magnitud...
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As table 1 shows, the largest components of indirect energy consumption are health care (27.5 percent) and food (23.7 percent), which together comprise about half of total indirect energy consumption. This is confirmation of similar findings published in the economic literature. Transportation by vehicles that consumer...
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PENNSYLVANIA 52% of electricity; 5th in coal use
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These distinguished senators believe there is a "third way" between pro-Kyoto and anti-Kyoto forces. For the global warming crowd, advance credits for emissions reductions might help abate "greenhouse gas" production while Kyoto is pending; for businesses, credits could reduce long-term compliance costs under a Kyoto-l...
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Most of all and here is the second point of agreement the center-right victories in Australia and in Norway two days later owe much to the unpopularity of center-left government policies.
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the Afghan side, President Karzai announced that by 2014 his government would no longer need nato.
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16d. The ability of global climate models to model temperature values for the next 50 years
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As I said to Andy Revkin (and he published on his blog), the additional decade of temperature data from 2000 onwards (even the AR4 estimates typically ignored the post-2000 years) can only work to reduce estimates of sensitivity, and that??s before we even consider the reduction in estimates of negative aerosol forcing...
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But it gets worse! On top of GHCN adjustments, GISS have substantially INCREASED the warming trend at Reykjavik for UHI, instead of REDUCING it. The Iceland Met confirm there have been no station changes etc that would justify this. But when I challenged Reto Ruedy, he was unable to explain it either.
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In dagslget is unclear what will be pieces of the text to be produced in Cancn, Mexico, in December and nobody knows what will happen with the current agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, that progressively in 2012
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We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilise these stories in support of our projects.
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Briffa and Osborn 1999 contain a number of sensible caveats about the Mann and other reconstructions, raising caution about the role of bristlecones ( the ???amplitude series relating to the first principal component of a group of high-elevation tree-ring chronologies in the western United States??) in the Mann reconst...
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* What does this mean? For two-thirds of the questions asked, scientific opinion is DEEPLY DIVIDED, and in half of those cases, most scientists DISAGREE with positions that are at the foundation of the alarmist case. There is certainly NO CONSENSUS on the science behind the global warming scare.
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Less Carbon, Higher Prices: How Californias Climate Policies Affect Lower-Income Residents
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The Israelis and the majority Fatah wing of the PLO now share a vital interest in the containment of Hamas.
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Europe, and especially Germany, is threatened by an industry exodus due to its higher energy costs that have been created by its move to increase Green energy. Germany's pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer is already making significant investment in its Chinese manufacturing operations, with expansion also taking p...
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Even eliminating carbon dioxide emissions entirely and assuming the highest sensitivity of world temperature to carbon dioxide levels (which happens to be the sensitivity that is furthest from that in recent research) would project a temperature moderation of less than 0.2 degree centigrade. Of course, eliminating CO2 ...
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Which is why today's Russia appears once again to be inching toward another perestroika moment. Although the market reforms of the 1990s and today's oil prices have combined to produce historically unprecedented prosperity for millions, the brazen corruption of the ruling elite, new-style censorship, and open disdain f...
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The climate police would do more for their cause if they spent more time persuading the public on the merits of climate risks and policy. Their resort to abusive government power suggests that they think they have a weak case.
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Richard Keen at the University of Colorado was the first to notice the changes. On December 5, he published this report comparing his own research into the climate of Alaska with the official version of the UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). He found no evidence of warming in Alaska over the past thr...
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When the models have been tested by looking backwards and trying to reproduce past climate which we know, they fail miserably. The observed 20th-century temperature increase was 0.6 C. However, the UN climate models predict a 20th-century increase of 1.6 C to 3.75C more than 2.5 to 6.3 times the observed rate of change...
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"President Obama, hip person that he is, will hold a town hall today in which he'll answer questions to him submitted on Twitter with an #AskObama hashtag. Obviously, the Republicans have been having some fun with this. Speaker of the House John Boehner asked Obama, "With 9.1% unemployment & 'shovel ready' jobs a bust,...
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The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, climate scientist, who has set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels. The purpose of the expedition is to discover and commun...
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The authors note that "the longevity and persistence of clonal plant populations are believed to enhance community stability and ecosystem resilience to climate change," citing Steinger et al . (1996), Grabherr and Nagy (2003), and Guisan and Thuiller (2005), while adding that "stability and resilience are thought to b...
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Greens Want Funds to Offset Summit Greenhouse Emissions
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Since the Earth hit 350 ppm, temperatures in Dublin have been falling faster than four degrees per century.
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The Obama Administration has been implementing an anti-energy agenda since coming to Washington. From day one, Obama and his ???dream ???green?? team?? have worked to increase the cost of traditional energy to reduce usage and try to make uneconomic consumer-rejected energy (wind, solar, ethanol, electric vehicles) mor...
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In a joint press conference NOAA and NASA have just released data for the global surface temperature for 2013. In summary they both show that the pause in global surface temperature that began in 1997, according to some estimates, continues. Statistically speaking there has been no trend in global temperatures over thi...
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They published 2 papers on the subject in the journal European Geophysical Union (EGU) , . According to the 2 scientists, climate is often cyclic. The first study appeared in February 2013 and it examined six of the longest existing thermometer data seriesrecorded in Europe, as well asone dataset from an Antarctic ice ...
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We need to be dealing with the debt, and jobs and energy security. Instead we got four more years of a messiah complex from someone who has no understanding of energy or business or America.
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> >> >Subject: Re: The Climatic Variability and Climate Change
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Antarctic sea ice extent at the end of July was the highest on record for that day, growing to 18.077 million sq km. The previous record of 17.783 was set in 2010, whilst the 1981-2010 average was 16.869.
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by 2050, mainly in developing countries. This could be prevented by
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Meanwhile, gallant scientists have passed away in 2016.
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I encourage you to help stop it by spreading the word about the famine threat.
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Google is now part of "Alphabet," Sundar Pichai steps up as CEO, Updated ArsTechnica "This is no mere rebranding. As Page writes, "Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rig...
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Today in her column, The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel explains the Obama EPA's censoring of an internal study that questioned the scientific foundation for the administration's climate change policies. The report, written by Alan Carlin, a senior analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Econom...
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This claim, by the way, is already falling apart. As Steven McIntyre explains, one of the examples Mann cites is a British panel that did not actually investigate Mann?its focus was on the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the epicenter of "Climategate"?and in its announcement of its results criticize...
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Don Easterbrook, writing on Watts Up With That , shows a graph of a Greenland ice core derived temperatures for the last 10,000 years, which shows that the majority of that period was warmer than today (2010 ranks about 9000th):
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We need to keep a close eye on this dangerous situation.
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The company collapsed at the end of August 2011 and filed for bankruptcy in early September. The Hill has reported previously on the administration decision not to attempt a last-ditch financial rescue.
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High-speed rail dead, development project continues:
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Wind turbines hurt more than birds. On June 16, a Michigan judge agreed with residents who live near the 56-turbine Lake Winds facility and who complained of health problems that began just after the turbines began operating. A lawsuit filed on April 1, 2013 argued that noise, vibrations, and flickering lights emanatin...
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But the public is being told otherwise by global-warming alarmists, who in recent years have tried to ramp up the fright factor of their message with claims that an increase in global temperatures will also result in a dramatic increase in heat-related deaths. This motive may have provided the impetus for recent report...
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Third, that other tide gauges, scattered around Australia as part of the national tidal network, mostly record rates of long-term rise between about 0.5mm and 2.5mm a year with no change in behaviour in the late 20th century that might reflect a human (global warming) influence.
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