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This finding, as they astutely state, "may question the common belief that frequency and severity of such events closely relates to climate mean states," which conclusion essentially rebuffs the well-worn climate-alarmist claim that global warming will lead to more frequent and severe floods and droughts. The odds are ... | 1_7 |
As Lee describes it, "relative sea level has risen over the second half of the 20th century," and "so have Holderness cliff recession rates, from around 1.2 m/year in the early 1950s to around 1.5 m/year by 2000." However , as he continues, "there has been no significant acceleration in the rate of global sea-level ris... | 1_6 |
The statement Tamino seems to dispute is a statement of observed fact. The observed fact is that trend lines (Im assuming the author meant 2001-current as this decade) show that there has been cooling. This is not the same as saying that global warming has stopped, nor is it a statement that says this could be one of t... | 1_4 |
Killing people with concern? Biofuels led to nearly 200,000 deaths (est) in 2010. | 0_0 |
At the same time, as already discussed, many factors constrain the level of the price on GHG emissions. The price should, therefore, be a modest one, and it should replace regulatory mandates, not supplement them. In order to keep the proper focus on the global nature of the climate problem, the price should be linked ... | 0_0 |
Someone asked the Warden about inbreeding, and the lack of predators. He said that there wasa curious custom that the herd invariably followed. The Warden said that the herd has one King Bull at any one time. And whenever a calf is born, when it is about a week old, the calf is brought to be introduced to the King Bull... | 0_0 |
Strike four : 30 years ago ice was at its maximum for the century due to the ice age scare. Walt Meier at NSIDC has specifically warned not to use 1981 as typical. | 0_0 |
Even if there were 1 billion people on this planet who would support the global warming hysteria, it would be a fringe group of lunatics. But one billion is still a huge number. This guy must be completely ignorant about what is possible in the real world and what is not possible. A billion of distinct visitors is more... | 5_2 |
3. Jamaica - Agreement Regarding a Debt-for-Nature Swap to Prepay or Cancel Certain Debt Owed by the Government of Jamaica to the Government of the United States | 0_0 |
NSW Councils (e.g. Gosford, quoting the best international scientists including CSIRO and ANU) in 1995 was advising residents with water front properties that by 2015 (20 years-time) sea levels would rise by 6 metres. This is 300mm per year. Error to date is 17,647% | 0_0 |
Obamacare Not Only Raising My Rates, But Making The Process Much Harder | 0_0 |
It may be said that something like a Team B approach to climate change has already been done, in the form of the National Research Council's 2001 report, "Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions." This is the report whose finding that "the recent changes observed over the last several decades are like... | 0_0 |
1Marlo Lewis (mlewis@cei.org) is Vice President for Policy and Coalitions at CEI. He attended the COP-4 meeting in Buenos Aires. | 0_0 |
Government efforts to reduce demand have limits as well. Past federal fuel economy standards for cars and trucks have failed to deliver the predicted declines in energy use. Setting stringent new standards would only hurt consumers by forcing them into smaller, less safe vehicles. And, feasible alternatives to petroleu... | 0_0 |
Barry George was convicted and later freed over the murder of TV personality Jill Dando. Sean Hogdson was free today for the murder of Teresa De Simone in 1979. | 0_0 |
It is becoming abundantly clear that, while the summer of 2012/13 was extremely hot across Australia, summers in earlier years were even hotter. | 2_1 |
New Delhi: The Indian government has asked the country's airlines to refrain from submitting carbon emissions data to the European Union (EU) for a new tax that will become applicable from 1 January for flights to Europe, hardening its stand further against the imposition of the levy. | 0_0 |
* Atmospheric satellite temperature trend over oceans (RSS MSU-LT) = 0.2 F/decade | 0_0 |
Glaciers, develop when snowfall survives summer melt and layers accumulate. Gradually snow changes to ice from heat and pressure of additional layers. This creates two larger layers divided by the firn-ice transition. On top is the brittle layer where cracks (crevasses) form and below the plastic layer where ice flows ... | 0_0 |
ClimateGate is serious. When prominent climate scientists fudge results, refuse FOIA requests, take steps to restrict publication of dissident views, etc., it's serious business, especially when their global temperature records were used by policymakers to call for a transformation of modern economies. | 5_2 |
lThey recognise the global warming pause first reported by The Mail on Sunday last year is real and concede that their computer models did not predict it. But they cannot explain why world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase since 1997. | 1_4 |
Finally, the reduction in the alkalinity of ocean water attendant upon increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide is the subject of much speculation, but little systematic evidence (see chapter 10 here) thus far. Perhaps disaster looms; and perhaps an associated buffering effect of increasing carbonate sed... | 0_0 |
One of the points of contention between the citizens and the EPA over the disposal plan is lack of suitable emissions factors or estimates from burning. Emissions factors for open burning is likely not to exist. Emissions studies seem to have been limited to firing projectiles and crew exposure, especially in closed co... | 0_0 |
Finally, claims of impending biodiversity losses are now becoming fashionable again as the global warming scare wanes. A decade ago, I estimated high-yield farming had saved about 7 million square miles of wildlands from being plowed for more low-yield crops, about the land area of South America. Stanford University re... | 0_0 |
This restatement is particularly hard to justify as direct inspection of the temperature measurement points reveals growing urban heat biases, which should imply, if anything, adjustments up in the past and/or down in the present, exactly opposite of the GISS work. I have written a number of letters and inquiries askin... | 5_1 |
Petitioners appealed to the Supremes, who,on April 2, 2007, by 5-4, overturned the appellate courts decision.TheCourtheldthat GHGsare air pollutants within the meaning of the CAA, and gave EPA threeoptions: (1) issue a findingthat GHG-related air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welf... | 0_0 |
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 13 More Mixed Signals | 0_0 |
In a study of cyclic behaviour of the Sun, Russian scientists now predict 100 years of cooling. | 1_2 |
The Earth's atmosphere is approximately 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.9% Argon, 0.04% Carbon Dioxide, and the rest is water vapor and trace gases in very small amounts. They interact to provide an environment in which life, animal and vegetable, exists on Earth. | 0_0 |
I do not know if climate change is a real problem. Ive heard many convincing arguments from both sides of the debate, however I cannot help but feel weary about a movement which claims we will face the apocalypse if we dont abandon our prosperity and liberty, especially when we have seen that the people making these pr... | 0_0 |
Using statistical methods that separates direct and indirect effects, the researchers were able to discern how higher water temperature combined with ocean acidification affects not just individual species but also interactions between species in the ecosystem. | 0_0 |
Contents-wise this is an excellent book It is written with great honesty and courage, attacking many of the sacred tenets of weather modification and of climatic doomsday predictions. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics | 0_0 |
The essential point here is that America has, as President Obama said last week, established itself as the global leader in cutting carbon dioxide emissions. And that leadership is due to hydraulic fracturing and other technologies that have made clean-burning natural gas cheaper. | 0_0 |
It would be a huge sin for Ms Bug to admit that there could be a bug in her explanation and to consider this more sensible explanation at all, wouldn't it? | 0_0 |
230 years (230-250)deVries cycle with +/- 0.30C | 0_0 |
Well, except for the fact that landfalling hurricanes are at an all-time low. | 1_7 |
Environmentalists believe that greenhouse emissions will cause global warming. The most important such gas is carbon dioxideproduced by burning oil, coal, and natural gas. The U.S. delegation went to Kyoto pledging to cut these emissions to 1990 levels, but we soon yielded to environmental fanaticism by accepting an ev... | 4_1 |
By the way, I was shocked to see a new complex system of web pages at BarackObama.COM, Obama's personal website. It includes the full (black) list of "deniers" in the U.S. Congress. Each of them try e.g. this page on Jim Inhofe starts by a few preposterous proclamations such as "asthma in Oklahoma is caused by carbon d... | 0_0 |
where H.is the heat content of the land-ocean-atmosphere system. Equation (1) describes the change in the heat content where f is the radiative forcing at the tropopause, T is the change in surface temperature in response to a change in heat content, and lambda is the climate feedback parameter , also known as the clim... | 0_0 |
Global temperatures have largely plateaued during the past 15 years as natural variability including oceans absorbing more heat and volcanic activity have acted to stall warming at the planet??s surface. | 1_4 |
"Hawaii has held out longer than almost every other state when it comes to gambling expansion, but that resistance may soon be coming to an end. Hawaii lawmakers are planning on discussing gambling expansion after several years of failed attempts." | 0_0 |
We can discuss the need for more action on climate change. But in doing so, we must also recognize that the U.S. has been leading the world in reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. Between 2005 and 2013, according to the BP numbers, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell by 8.7 percent. For comparison, emissions in German... | 0_0 |
Writing in The Hill, Richard O. Faulk, an attorney and senior director for Energy Natural Resources and the Environment for the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University, noted that "The EPA's argument confidently hinges on convincing the courts that the Clean Air Act doesn't mean what it says. By its plain l... | 0_0 |
Could this be an innocent mistake? Does NRDC not know that laws and regulations already on the books have cut emissions since 1996 and will keep on doing so for decades to come? No way. | 0_0 |
Figure 4-42 presents the same data as Figure 4-41. The two graphs are the same, but the notes are different. Ive highlighted the evolutions of the 1997/98 and 2002/03 El Nio events in maroon in Figure 4-42 to show that the El Nio events do grow during the normal seasonal upswing in NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures. Ive... | 0_0 |
A second effort pertains to infrastructure. Again, these are efforts that should be taken both domestically and, as infrastructure is built in developing countries, internationally as well. Another government action that leads people to live in harm's way is the failure to build and price infrastructure so that it is b... | 0_0 |
Contact: John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., jddmdjd@web-access.net or Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@gmail.com | 0_0 |
FURTHER READING: DeLong recently wrote "Opening a Can of Worms: Government and Climate Change Data." He also discussed the failure of Congress and the administration to encourage biotech investment in "Bleeding Biotech," and "The Coming of the Fourth American Republic" after America's special interest state decays. Ken... | 0_0 |
Global warming activists have been giddy in their hyping of the satellite era record low Arctic sea ice extent while ignoring the satellite record sea ice expansion in the Antarctic. | 1_1 |
The Green movement of course needs scientific authority to sustain it. This is provided by Hans Schellnhubers WBGU, which in English stands for: Scientific Council of the German Government for Global Transformation . Global transformation by Germans? | 0_0 |
But the climate science community has allowed itself to be used on this issue, and as a result, politicians, activists, and the media have successfully portrayed the biased science as settled. | 5_2 |
First is a statement in Hansen et al. (2011) The Earths Energy Imbalance and Implications . James Hansen, as youll recall, is the former (retired) director of GISS. In that paper, they discussed a problem with the satellite-measured energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere and how the climate science community wor... | 0_0 |
Schwartz contends that climate model predictions of CO 2 -induced global warming "are limited at present by uncertainty in radiative forcing of climate change over the industrial period, which is dominated by uncertainty in forcing by aerosols," and that if this situation is not improved, "it is likely that in another ... | 5_1 |
Einar Vikingur, ?Carbon and Our Climate?, Quadrant, May 2010, p. 79;www.climatesceptics.com.au/documents/egv-climate-carbon.pdf. | 0_0 |
In the bowels of the document is a provision calling for "an international climate court of justice." | 0_0 |
Clearly the US annual temperatures over the last century have correlated far better with cycles in the sun and oceans than carbon dioxide. The correlation with carbon dioxide seems to have vanished or even reversed in the last decade. | 2_1 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what everyone should know about global warming. | 0_0 |
As DeGregori notes, in the United States today we have about the same amount of land under cultivation as we had in 1925, yet grain output is seven times greater, indicating technological advances increase sustainability. | 0_0 |
Coal production dropping by 60 percent and coal employment dropping by more than 40 percent by 2030, | 0_0 |
The NAS study, issued at the request of the Bush administration, details many dramatic-sounding scenarios by which the climate could be disrupted in the future. All of its scenarios, however, are dependent on controversial assumptions about the underlying science of global climate. | 5_1 |
Gore now claims "increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with man-made global warming' | 0_0 |
I dearly hope that we have finally reached the beginning of the end for CTBS and that I will live to see it become history, unlike some of my friends in 2016. But one never knows. | 0_0 |
The EPA has been assuming that the Court decision requires them to regulate CO2. Up until the last few weeks, the White House apparently accepted what EPA was telling them. That has now changed. They are aware that the Court did not require EPA to regulate CO2, but instead to consider whether CO2 should be regulated un... | 4_1 |
The EIA has just completed a new report at the request of House Committee on Science that would change the starting date from 2005 to 2000 to see if that would have any effect on the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. EIA looks at a range of scenarios from an increase of emissions of 24 percent over 1990 levels... | 0_0 |
But the anomaly vanished when the researchers considered a rival theory, which looks at the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth the same latitude during the summer months. Under this theory, sea levels could remain high for another two thousand years or so, even without greenhouse warming. | 2_1 |
Now this is quite a trick, because it involves comparing apples (proxy data) to oranges (instrumental data) and pretending that the composite forms a continuous record. | 5_1 |
I would be keen to post a piece that outlined the potential upside of global warming. Any offers? | 0_0 |
La Nina. Roll on the next El Nino! | 0_0 |
Phillips is alluding at the possibility that correlations between timeseries may arise just because a third factor is driving the trend in both timeseries. Is this possible in paleo-climatological applications? I think it is very well possible. For instance, a proxy indicator sensitive to rainfall, nutrients or other e... | 0_0 |
Today, this "top pick" has a 76.9% "probability of bankruptcy." And, it is our tax dollars that won't be paid back. | 0_0 |
We dont really know how clouds are formed. Water vapour impacts the climate more than any other gas. | 2_3 |
Once corals die, they turn "white" and have a bleached appearance. But other studies have shown corals are more resilient then previously estimated. One 13-year study of coral reefs showed "them spontaneously recovering," refuting the "often doomsday forecasts about the worldwide decline of the colorful marine habitat.... | 3_2 |
It announced that a fast spreading of the code has to be feared and has called on all users of Internet Explorer to use an alternative browser until the manufacturer has released a security update. | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on last year's climate pact with several Asian nations: | 0_0 |
on Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 3:38 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
So two points here: first, humans have a poor record of understanding risk in complex systems, full of interdependencies, feedback loops, and nonlinear responses. Perhaps humility and caution and consideration are warranted. Doing nothing about climate change, I would argue, is a one-way, all-or-nothing bet with huge p... | 0_0 |
The esteemed senators tried to hide this in an op-ed they wrote together for the San Francisco Chronicle on August 1 by saying that its cost would be "no more than 0.01 percent" of the gross national product. That sounds small, but it ignores how big the American economy is. The EIA put the annual cost of their measure... | 0_0 |
But this is not the job of the President, at least it has not been the job undertaken by great Presidents. Great Presidents lead the country; they listen to it, then they guide it in the direction leading to the accumulation of American power, greatness, influence and admiration. They explain what is required and why. ... | 0_0 |
Mike Hulme July 25, 2013 at 4:00 pm | 0_0 |
For those who want to gawk at the observations of the Southern Hemisphere heat content versus the models. Here is Fig 3 parts b, c, and d. Note how the observation lines almost all run entirely below the models. | 5_1 |
For example, we're told to change our wording used to describe the energy conservation law. Ms Marletto tells us about her wonderful new idea that clarifies what the conservation law is: | 0_0 |
/s/ Thomas (Tom) Wysmuller JSC, Meteorologist, 5 years | 0_0 |
Our planet warms and cools in predictable 200-year cycles corresponding to 200-year variations in the size and luminosity of the Sun, the scientists found. Previous global warmings ??? of which there have been many ??? have always been followed by deep cooling. | 2_1 |
Those interested in the forecasting method can download the computer model of forest growth, JABOWA, from website www.naturestudy.org and play around with it. The software is pretty easy to use, and you can grow your own forest, log it, test it against various global warming climate regimes, etc. It isn?t as sophistica... | 0_0 |
Oil producers continue to lobby for the lifting of the ban, as the light crude now being produced in the U.S. is difficult for domestic refiners to process with current equipment. If Congress can increase drilling access to federal lands, even more crude will flood into refineries with limited capacity. Reports indicat... | 0_0 |
Should we take Kofi Annans word for it that Darfur was the worlds first climate change conflict? After all, it was Kofi Annans think tank, The Global Humanitarian Forum, which produced the 2008 report, The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis , in which Anan claimed Today, millions of people are already suffering because of clim... | 0_0 |
The alarmists have reported over and over again, the Earth is dramatically heating up. Look close at what date was picked as the baseline for comparing temperatures. It is 1850, the end of a 500 year decline in the Earths temperatures the Little Ice Age. Skeptics say that a one or two degree increase in the planets tem... | 2_1 |
According to the scientists, global temperatures will fall another 0.15C by 2015, which corresponds to the climate of the early 1980s. | 1_4 |
moving, but was hampered by a cumbersome nomination and confirmation process | 0_0 |
This is one of those articles that, after your read it, your eyes are bugging out of your head. | 0_0 |
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) educational organization and does not take institutional positions on any issues. The views expressed here are those of the author. | 0_0 |
Spain facing compensation bill of billions over renewables cuts | 0_0 |
Anagnostopoulos, G. G., D. Koutsoyiannis, A. Christofides, A. Efstratiadis, and N. Mamassis, (2010). A comparison of local and aggregated climate model outputs with observed data, Hydrological Sciences Journal , 55: 7, 1094 1110 | 0_0 |
I don't expect these remaining emails to hold big surprises. Yet it's possible that the most important pieces are among them. Nobody on the planet has held the archive in plaintext since CG2. | 0_0 |
These findings are contradictory to the conclusions drawn by Emanuel and Webster et al. . They do not support the argument that global TC frequency, intensity and longevity have undergone increases in recent years. Utilizing global best track data, there has been no significant increasing trend in ACE and only a small ... | 1_7 |
Trailer for a radio programme on BBC Radio Wales this morning. | 0_0 |
A broker who had decades of experience in health care (rather than being a former Obama campaign worker with a few hours of training) walked me through the options and how they worked. | 0_0 |
There are doubtless members of Obama's own cabinet who have had less face time with him than Stephen Harper. | 0_0 |
Great. Even if a really tall human had a ladder over there, one that no one had noticed in 1963, what do you exactly want to achieve with this extra contrived assumption? There was no shot through the bodies that would be going in that direction. So what else than the complete stupidity or a form of religion that may b... | 0_0 |
IPCC Reports say little, but acknowledge lack of data and understanding. ?There are very limited direct measurements of actual evapotranspiration over global land areas. Over oceans, estimates of evaporation depend on bulk flux estimates that contain large errors.? The problem is this is the major mechanism of transfer... | 5_1 |
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