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Ever since I compelled the Daily Apparatchik to publish a letter from me correcting Monbiot's invincible ignorance of elementary planetary physics and undergrad math, Monbiot has seized every chance to have a go at me whenever one of his climate-extremist Comrades asserted that I'd gotten something wrong. | 0_0 |
In an important paper published in the first volume of the new Nature Geoscience journal, Ciais et al . (2008) analyzed national forest inventory data and timber harvest statistics of the EU-15 countries excluding Luxembourg, plus Norway and Switzerland, for the period AD 1950-2000. This work revealed that over this ha... | 3_3 |
But in Cancun, there was a problem. Japan?s climate delegation steadfastly refused to renew its commitments, complaining that China, India, and the United States ? some of the world?s largest ?emitters? ? were not participating. ?It does not make sense to set a second commitment period,? Japanese Environment Vice-Minis... | 4_2 |
I bring this last issue up, not to come to any conclusion about Moscow or the validity of the adjustments, but to emphasize the fragmented and complex nature of most long-term temperature records. The fact that we can take a 100-year trend of the Moscow data doesn??t mean that there is any meaning in that trend. The ef... | 5_1 |
Rolling just about every U.N. mantra into one, the paper declares that "nothing is more crucial to preventing run-away climate change than lifting billions out of poverty, protecting our planet and fostering long-term peace and prosperity for all." | 0_0 |
I dont know about you, but when organizations with the sort of backing that the OPT has start referring to things like reducing the number of additional carbon emitters I find it quite sinister. | 0_0 |
And the good news reported by Pan et al. that the terrestrial carbon sink continues to expand, is also not particularly shocking. After all, we have known (and reported here at World Climate Report ) for some time that the percentage of anthropogenic CO2 emitted each year that actually stays in the atmosphere has remai... | 3_3 |
Finance Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) announces new efforts to repeal federal restrictions on gambling online. | 0_0 |
4) The rate of warming is not at all unusual or unprecedented during the 20th century , during the Holocene, and during prior, warmer interglacials. | 2_1 |
Throughout the six thousand years of recorded human government, there have been countless millions of lies told by public figures large and small. Some never get discovered and the lie passes down through history as recorded truth; others get discovered only too late, like Hitler's famous Big Lies which were very convi... | 0_0 |
5.5 C wheat, barley, rye, oats, flaxseed, lettuce, asparagus | 0_0 |
The global warming movements downward spiral accelerated in the past year after thousands of documents from climate researchers were leaked, revealing manipulation, suppression and possible fraudulent rigging of data to show the world approaching meltdown. In fact, its the global warming movement thats been melting dow... | 5_2 |
The IPCC was awarded Jointly, with Mr. Al Gore, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and as part of this award the IPCC received an Amount of 885,000 CHF as its share of the award money. | 0_0 |
I have read and savoured every column you have published at Unleashed, and I have read the hateful comments that, even with an ABC moderator to vet them, still make it up on the site. The worst charge is that they simply do not take me seriously, which diminishes me in my humanity. I must confess that, after the latest... | 0_0 |
Nicolas D. Loris, "Department of Energy Budget Cuts: Time to End the Hidden Green Stimulus," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2668, March 23, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/department-of-energy-budget-cuts-time-to-end-the-hidden-green-stimulus. | 0_0 |
If Congress would simply let real free markets work, instead of mandating pseudo markets, much of this crime and corruption would end. Instead, it perpetuates perverse incentives, perks, and money trains which promote what could be the Environmentalist-Industrialist-Governmentalist Complex's motto: "We don't tolerate c... | 0_0 |
idea of looking at the implications of climate change for what he termed | 0_0 |
All the models assume that the climate system normalises to an equilibrium state, the state modelled. As the natural processes of the climate system are non-linear and non-ergodic, small variations may result in large changes. There are negative and positive feedback loops. There is randomness in the system. As a resul... | 5_1 |
According to NDTV, the German government has told the Great Unwashed that they should temporarily stop using Microsofts Internet Explorer following the discovery of a yet-to-be repaired bug in the web browser that the software maker said makes PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers. | 0_0 |
Ollier, C.D. 2010. Glaciers science and nonsense. Geoscientist , 20, 1621. | 0_0 |
To make their calculations orderly, demographers have typically worked on the assumption that the "total fertility rate"the number of children born per womanwould eventually average out to 2.1. Why 2.1? At that rate the population stabilizes over time: a couple has two children, the parents eventually die, and their ch... | 0_0 |
?Fitting of Global Temperature Change from 1850 to 2009 Using Random Walk Model,? Guangxi Sciences, Vol. 17, No. 2, May 2010, pp. 148-150. | 0_0 |
But Medicaid is one of the primary sources of funding for the hospitals employing workers from 1199SEIU, the powerful hospital and nursing-home employees' union. The union responded to Paterson's proposal with an ad blitz extraordinary in its cost$1 million per week, for a month of television and radio spotsand vicious... | 0_0 |
The False Claims Act was invoked because payments for drugs were made by the government, but in many instances those drugs were prescribed off-label (outside the indications approved by the FDA). Such off-label prescribing was encouraged by Daiichi through its sales representativesoften via the PODs. Because prescripti... | 0_0 |
A mere 200 years ago, the vast majority of humans were poor, sick and malnourished. Life expectancy in 1810 was less than 40 years, and even royal families lived under sanitation, disease, and housing standards inferior to what American welfare families enjoy today. Then a veritable revolution occurred. | 0_0 |
Another vital component of 1199's extraordinary influence is its vaunted ground operation, including get-out-the-vote efforts that don't technically count as a campaign contribution. The union claims that 100,000 of its members in New York City are registered Democrats. That sum happens to be almost exactly the margin ... | 0_0 |
Of course, even though the headline talks of ???climate change, and even though temperatures haven??t risen in more than 17 years, the article itself still wails about global warming. | 1_4 |
The bones of the crocodile, the hippopotamus and other tropical fauna in Pleistocene deposits beneath London show that previous interglacials have been warmer than the one we are currently experiencing. What we see is a general cooling trend from the end of the Pliocene to the present day on which is superimposed a wav... | 2_1 |
"On Tuesday, lead counsel Carlo Piana wrote on his blog that the Court of Milan has upheld its earlier decision to order Google to filter out libellous search suggestions. These are the suggestions that pop up in Google's search input bar, proposing what the user might be wanting to search for." | 0_0 |
But even that 31GW of Renewable Energy production is not really as useful as one would wish, because of its intermittency and non-dispatchability. | 4_4 |
65years (60-65)Ocean cycles with +/- 0.25C | 0_0 |
> >> >- Ed Clay and Charlie Benson at ODI | 0_0 |
The core articles of faith of the Greens are the sanctity of ?nature?, and the depravity of mankind. Their hatred of mankind is revealed time and time again in their oft-expressed desire to see new plagues wipe out the greater part of the world?s peoples. The creation of more and more ?wilderness?, from which humans ar... | 0_0 |
Figure 1. Blue line shows the anomaly in total downwelling surface radiation, longwave plus shortwave, in the CERES dataset, March 2000 to September 2012. Red line shows the trend in the downwelling radiation, which is 0.01 W/m2 per decade. Gray area shows the 95% confidence interval of the trend. Black line shows the ... | 0_0 |
Fourth, the Tailoring Rule and the future streamlined permitting procedures, even if upheld by courts, would do nothing to shield the U.S. economy from the compliance burdens and market impacts of a NAAQS rulemaking for CO2 and other GHGs. The next section explores this key issue. | 4_1 |
The continent has enough natural resources to bring peace, health, and prosperity to nearly everyone. And yet 90% of Africans still lack electricity and basic necessities, while corrupt leaders who could help transform our nations embezzle billions and leave parents and children starving and poor. | 0_0 |
Dvali also argues that any charge that leads to no long-range force must only be conserved modulo | 0_0 |
But -18 degrees C is NOT the input! It is only the output. The input from the Sun is NOT freezing cold. Only the output of the Earth has a Wattage of 240 W/m2and an associated temperature of -18 degrees C. The solar input is actually really hot, maximizing at up to +121 degrees C: ouch hot! | 0_0 |
Now, lets consider the absolute values of the radiative imbalance shown in Figure 13. The model mean shows an average energy imbalance of 0.79 watts/m^2 for the base period of 1996-2015, and Earths energy imbalance (based on the model mean) was about 0.10 for the first 20 years of 1861-1880 (the pre-industrial values).... | 0_0 |
Climate science must dremot be careful frmedla only those of forskarsamhllet real erknda facts and then comprehensively describe both hypotheses and mothypoteser about what may happen in the future. It is through the public democratic debate and decision-making processes that society from these doubtful utgngspunkter t... | 0_0 |
But in the case of the JFK assassination, there is simply no evidence that there were numerous shooters and/or that there was any organization or group of people who would want to increase the probability of the success by a backup plan or a spare shooter. In fact, it's very likely that if there had been several shoote... | 0_0 |
The response to this question was 75 specialists out of 77, so here we have our massive 97%. | 0_0 |
???Our modeling shows that natural climate cycles explain at least part of the ocean warming we??ve seen since the 1950s,?? said Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAH??s Earth System Science Center and the new study??s lead author. ???But we also found that because the globe has had more frequent La Ni... | 2_1 |
A July 2014 e-mail from Judd Legum, an editor at ThinkProgress, to billionaire Democratic climate activist (and former coal-mine investor) Tom Steyer exposes the climate-change McCarthyism that the Left and its myriad allies in the liberal media use to discredit or silence anyone who doesn't adhere to the orthodoxy of ... | 5_2 |
Marchionne has not only resurrected the gas-guzzling Viper (which was doomed in 2008), he has doubled down on making SUVs, a model scorned by Obama and his environmental base. The result is Chrysler returning to profitability not by selling tin cans (the 500, with profit margins of less than $1,000 a copy, disappointed... | 0_0 |
It is only in the past 50 years that the continent has a first person instrumental record. Looking back a few hundred years further much important information about the climate of Antarctica has come from a network of recently available shallow firn cores. This data reveals that significant regional climate changes has... | 0_0 |
As to the "correlation" between the industrial era and this increase in rise rate, well, the rate increase appears to begin around 1880, well before the rise in industrial emissions. It would not be before increases in land-use change that would contribute to erosion. | 0_0 |
What are the political consequences of this great change in the tide of affairs? In former times a king who persisted in ruinous policies was eventually forced to save his throne and the monarchy itself, by abandoning the adviser who was most identified with the policy, conducting a trial, and then executing the former... | 0_0 |
The UK government has unsurprisingly been trying to alarm us all with scares ranging from rising sea levels, floods and droughts to extinctions of species, higher insurance costs and tropical diseases. Would it be too much to expect that they check the facts first? | 0_0 |
These green dictators refuse to debate any of this.Indeed, they do not want anyone to talk about it. | 0_0 |
The data as suggested above are the Reynolds OI.v2 satellite-enhanced sea surface temperature anomalies, which are available through the NOAA NOMADS website here . | 0_0 |
"A war of words grew this week between China and Japanese rolling stock manufacturers, reigniting a battle over whether Chinese state-owned firms stole high-speed rail technology and are now attempting to market it themselves overseas." | 0_0 |
When I speak of "climate" I am referring to data gathered not just about decades, but centuries of the Earth's cycles of warming and cooling. When I speak of "weather", the closest any of us get to it other than today's, are local predictions no longer than a few days' time at best. The weather is in a constant state o... | 0_0 |
Naturally, the forcible disconnection of actions from consequences has led to a series of catastrophes and misadventures bumbled intrusions in Iraq and Afghanistan while failing to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, a ghastly housing bubble and crash of financial markets followed by a nagging recession, horrifyingly irr... | 0_0 |
What a gross travesty of the truth, and such appalling reporting, but these are the messages fed to acquiescent politicians who do not bother to check the facts, and criticise those who do. How low has science sunk, that scientists will dispense this sort of disinformation to promote their own agenda? | 0_0 |
"Part of that dirty work would involve liberating carbon dioxide from its label as pollution by the main stream media and carbon opportunists like Al Gore and large Wall Street investment firms. Part of the dirty work would be exposing hypocrites like film maker James Cameron and billionaire Ted Turner who want you to ... | 0_0 |
The five following graphs illustrate the lack of global warming in US and Canada. | 0_0 |
Om Cancun: Lyckligtvis s kommer ingen att ta ngon strre notis om klimatmtet i Cancn i nsta vecka, dr en kraftigt reducerad grupp av delegater kommer att g igenom ritualen. Den illusoriska drmmen om att kunna bekmpa klimatfrndring r dd. Barak Obamas cap-and-trad-plan r dd. Chicagobrsen fr koldioxid r dd. Den europeiska ... | 0_0 |
"These studies underscore the fact that efforts to try to pin claims of attribution of recent events to greenhouse gas emissions are empirically groundless, even if symbolically and emotionally satisfying. We are going to have to proceed into the future without knowing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions on extre... | 0_0 |
first 100 days? It is very unlikely that any president will have the hugely | 0_0 |
"Beating up on oil companies has always been low-hanging fruit for politicians when gasoline prices are high. And as the country is headed into the summer driving season, gas prices are certain to go higher, giving Democrats the opportunity to play that card." | 0_0 |
BBC , NBC News Blogs , more Google News (even later) | 0_0 |
We're proud of Graham Beduze and the Cajun navy and marines. | 0_0 |
"A judge ruled this week that the Service Employees International Union improperly coerced workers caught in the middle of SEIU's high-stakes turf battle with a breakaway union in California, potentially invalidating a 2010 election involving 43,500 employees." | 0_0 |
Global warming isnt happening - temperatures have gone nowhere for 20 years. Yet we continue to spend billions fixing a non-existent problem. | 1_4 |
The title of the book, ?An Appeal to Reason?, is well-chosen and indicates what the book is about. Its subtitle, ?A Cool Look at Global Warming,? is equally important. I am really glad that the Czech translation comes out less than a year after the original publication. My book, ?Blue Planet in Green Shackles,? was lau... | 0_0 |
"After months of negotiations, members of the 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers will be going on strike." | 0_0 |
"Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it. Yet this does not mean that global warming will cause enough damage to the Earth and humanity to require drastic cuts in energy use,... | 0_0 |
The trees is open for our own lsares klimatmnen. And all that you are and we possibly forgotten away, or did not have time, to inform people about | 0_0 |
"Violeta Aylward, an agency nurse working for the NHS, was caught on camera turning off the ventilator keeping quadriplegic Jamie Merrett alive." | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Camden Haven Courier | 0_0 |
Speedy comments: Imagine what fun Brian and John would have had in the last few months if theyd been off the leash??? Maybe something like this, but only better... | 0_0 |
California High Speed Rail Governor's Veto may be Illegal: | 0_0 |
Political observers debate the implications of the virtual world known as "Second Life." | 0_0 |
Fig. 2. Re-analysis of the satellite-based feedback parameter estimates of Forster and Gregory (2006) showing that they are consistent with negative feedback rather than positive feedback (low climate sensitivity rather than high climate sensitivity). | 3_1 |
Similarly, the 1994 federal appeals court decision cited above (Pfizer v. Giles) found that the mere pendency of a lawsuit against a company for belonging to, and contributing to, a trade association contravened the First Amendment because the lawsuit chilled participation in and contributions to that association. Acco... | 0_0 |
Do Russians hate their grandchildren, or have they been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh? | 0_0 |
we discuss this climate metric. A subsection of the text, reproduced from that paper states, | 0_0 |
Tony Blair is set to earn millions of pounds advising an American businessman on how to make money from tackling climate change. | 0_0 |
But developing countries, primarily India and China, have made it quite clear that they have no appetite to slow economic growth or curb use of conventional fuels to control emissions. For this reason, Canada, Japan, and Russia refused to sign onto a new agreement committing them to emissions reductions unless major de... | 4_2 |
We now know but sought to confirm whether all such records CEI seeks would be on Mrs. Clinton's private email server. After receiving no cooperation from the State Department on its key threshold request, CEI was forced to sue. CEI's first step was to seek documents relating to the email and record keeping and security... | 0_0 |
Methinks the good doctor needs to stop worrying which team he is on and look at the paper. Even more importantly than the infilling, proper characterization of autocorrelation powerfully affects the screening of Enzyte accredited series, as this post demonstrates . | 0_0 |
Yet for many of the officials in the Obama administration, the fatal flaw in the SPP is that it often emphasizes process over results. Twenty working groups of officials from the three governments met privately, often in telephone conference calls that frustrated calls for transparency, allowed various conspiracy monge... | 0_0 |
Civil rights lawyer and community organizer from Chicago plans to "completely revamp how we use energy" For us to say we are just going to completely revamp how we use energy in a way that deals with climate change , deals with national security and drives our economy, that's going to be my number one priority when I g... | 0_0 |
Figure 17: The best and latest temperature picture. The current global warming trend started around 1670 to 1700, some 310 years ago. The current temperature is probably less than the medieval peakthe land thermometer data from 1850 to 1980 exaggerates temperature increases, though no one knows by how much. Sources: Se... | 2_1 |
* Biofuels are better for the environment. Nonsense. We are already plowing an area bigger than Iowa to grow corn for ethanol millions of acres that could be food crops or wildlife habitat. The energy per acre is minuscule compared to what we get from oil and gas drilling, with or without fracking. To meet the latest b... | 0_0 |
Such attempted reductions in other countries have proved incredibly expensive, while barely reducing emissions. But damn the stubbornly weak economy, says President Obama, full speed ahead! | 0_0 |
"Despite Newsom's opposition, the law may still end up on the books. The board passed it on an 8-3 vote Tuesday, the minimum needed to override a veto. An override vote has not been scheduled." | 0_0 |
China's plans for its own orbiting space station in 2016 and a manned moon landing by 2025 are driven as much by a desire for strategic, even military leverage as by a thirst for science. Likewise, Russia understands that the path to regaining its superpower status points into space, which is why it continues to pour m... | 0_0 |
Compare their beliefs with those of Senator Paul. He proposes dramatically cutting major entitlement programs. He proposes eliminating foreign aid. He champions fossil-fuel production. He is, in the Pew typology, a typical Libertarian. He has little in common with the Post-Moderns he seeks to attract. | 0_0 |
These actions are necessitated by the constant push to prove their hypothesis. As Richard Lindzen said years ago, the consensus was reached before the research had even begun. From the beginning, evidence has constantly emerged, and almost all of it contradicts the assumptions made and reinforces a null hypothesis, whi... | 5_1 |
What I think is absurd, what I disagree with very strongly, is the idea that climate is predictable, that we can do things 100 years in advance knowing what's going to happen. That's just not that's just not the way it is. | 0_0 |
Sweden has invented a watering can that you pee in, then use to water your garden with . Why wasteful Swedes cant just step outside to pee on their plants without using a plastic can is unclear. | 0_0 |
Junk science traditionally has been pretty much of an in-your-face phenomenon. Activist-generated scary headlines that are followed by a hysterical rush to adopt new laws and regulations is standard fare. | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, a distinguished ecologist called Jim Steele found fault with her conclusion: there had been more local extinctions in the southern part of the butterflys range due to urban development than in the north, so only the statistical averages moved north, not the butterflies. There was no correlated local chan... | 3_2 |
A shiny new satellite suggests that a cooling period of up to 23 years could be coming. | 1_2 |
George Stephanopholus An Impartial Newscaster For Over 20 Years | 0_0 |
when averaging over the entire contiguous U.S., there is no overall trend in flood magnitudes | 1_7 |
When news editors assigned stories on the climate back then it was usually spurred by press releases out of places like NCAR, NWS, NOAA, etc., which usually featured a talk, lecture, or findings that were sent to the media. Global warming, in the mid-to-late 1980s was not the AGW ideological era that it is today. | 0_0 |
In drawing general conclusions from their many diverse findings, the authors state that "red maple typically germinates better and grows larger with increasing atmospheric CO 2 ." They also state that "genetic variation in CO 2 responses and the rapid increase in global CO 2 concentration suggest the potential for adap... | 3_3 |
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