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Once again, Democrats refused to permit the Republicans' intended witness to testify. They knew Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, would rubbish Gore's Doomsday scenarios. So Gore was allowed to mislead Congress and promote his unfounded assertion that humanity faces ...
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So if their explanation is right, the bump near \(2\TeV\) will be growing it may already be growing now: the first Run II results will be announced on EPS-HEP in Vienna, a meeting that starts tomorrow (follow the conference website )! Only about 1 inverse femtobarn of \(13\TeV\) data has been accumulated in 2015 so far...
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That Real Climate (RC)should feelspecial solicitude for the Hockey Stick is no accident, comrade. Two of the five principals at RC ??? Michael Mann and Raymond Bradley ??? were among the three researchers (Mann, Bradley, andMalcolm Hughes) who authored the Hockey Stick.
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I cant see anything objectionable in this sentence. I did indeed do the stated calculation (see here .) The calculation involving the Hantemirov data was not the same calculation as the emulation of CRUs regional chronology that Id calculated about 10 days earlier (see here ) on May 6, 2012. Although Schmidt whinged ab...
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the world and a number of op-ed pieces appeared. Some were awful. Most have had
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that impacts produces risk that needs careful and urgent attention.
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???The global temperature savings of the Kerry-Lieberman bill is astoundingly small0.043C (0.077F) by 2050 and 0.111C (0.200F) by 2100. In other words, by centurys end, reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% will only result in global temperatures being one-fifth of one degree Fahrenheit less than they would oth...
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Creator creature, Father son, Life life,
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Oracle is setting up the bunting for its JavaOne 2012 conference in San Francisco, just as researchers from the Polish insecurity outfit Security Explorations found another critical hole in the companys Java software.
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THE story of Americas shale-gas revolution offers hope in hard times. The ground was laid in the late 1990s, when a now-fabled Texan oilman, George Mitchell, developed an affordable way to extract natural gas locked up in shale rock and other geological formations. It involves blasting them with water, sand and chemica...
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Australias antarctic runway melting | Southern Weekly
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If an era as warm or warmer than today did indeed exist 500 to 1,000 years ago, before man had invented the CO2-emitting internal combustion engine, then it weakens their claim that any warming occurring now is due to human activity. The reality of such a period is a strong sign that climate change is both natural and ...
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"Policy makers need to catch up with the industry," Harold York, an analyst of the refining sector at Woods Mackenzie, said. He projects that easing the crude oil restrictions "would lead to $70 billion in investment spending in the U.S. oil sector and further economic stimulus."
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I think the urban-related warming should be smaller than this, but I can?t
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By Benjamin Zycher, AEI, Aug 5, 2015
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India and China talk the Al Gore talk of climate Armageddon and the necessity for urgent action -- yet their emissions keep going up and they refuse to adopt emission caps or carbon taxes. The world's two most populous countries with the biggest "emerging" economies act on the premise that global warming policies are m...
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The Journal is the official, peer-reviewed publication of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties, founded in 1943 to preserve private medicine and the patient-physician relationship.
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have a national health insurance program. We don't have toxic waste clogging the
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Freeman Dyson has followed the same path as myself, going from true believer in 1979 to skeptic in 2015.
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The key part of the equation is the number right before x. Thats whats called the slope of the function. The slope is 0.0048 C per year. This works out to about half-a-degree (0.5 C) Celsius per century . For reference purposes , the IPCC forecasted 1.8 to 4.0 C per century over the next 100 years, depending on their v...
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NATO military planners and civilian policymakers continue to think in terms of nation-states and regional "areas of operation," whereas, as the navy community knows full well, maritime threats are more often than not nonstate and transregional in nature. But terrorist networks are genuinely transnational: the Sri Lanka...
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Tissue and Lewis continue saying that "glacial plants were severely carbon limited over a very long time period, until atmospheric CO2 began rising during the glacial-interglacial transition." In fact, they indicate that "controlled environment studies with modern plants grown in glacial CO2" have shown "significant ca...
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In a book I recommend to everyone, "Climate for the Layman" by Anthony Bright-Paul, he draws on the best well-known science about the Earth noting that "Since there is no such thing as a temperature of the whole Earth all talk of global warming is simply illogical, ill thought out, and needs to be discarded for the sak...
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His playing days may be over but Pfannenstiel's passion for environmental issues is now taking his career into even more unpredictable directions.
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It sure doesnt look like the dominance of La Nia events during the hiatus period has caused any ocean heat uptake in the Pacific over the past 11 years. Subsurface ocean warming occurred only in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Now, consider that manmade greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide are said to be wel...
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Making the ignorance and arrogance of the Administration all the more absurd are the repeated claims that the plan will save the consumers money as if major urban black-outs can be labeled as money saving opportunities. See links under The Administrations New Plan and The Administrations New Plan Independent Analysis.
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on Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 6:20 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
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To distract the industry with more CAFE would hamper that effort, further reduce occupant protection and accomplish nothing of substance.
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But that isnt what the IPCC is saying. A single sentence on page 4 of the Summary for Policymakers puts the IPCCs conclusions in a different perspective:
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Obama's Green Car Program Under Scrutiny Watch Video
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Australian target set at 26% reduction by 2030 billions spent to reduce global CO2 emissions by 0.01%
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Because of this failure and the fact that the IPCC Mean Annual Global Temperature anomaly has not changed for the past 17 years, they have decided to treat it on a decadal basis instead, as follows:
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There has been little or no sea level rise in Vancouver over the last century.
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Bizarre Huffington Post Claim: We all need to come out on Climate Change
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STILL A LOT OF UNKNOWNS CONCERNING DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY
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Since when was the ability to manage the agenda of the G-20 (go ahead, try and name its members) a litmus test of strength? Yet here we see another almost incredible disconnect between reality and Obama-world. Russia, which is indeed setting the agenda in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe, is doing so without break...
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Global Warming Causes Extreme Legislative Fury
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?If we take all the science that we know relating to how the Sun emits heat and light and how that heat and light powers our climate system, and we look at the climate system globally, the difference that it makes even going back into Maunder Minimum conditions is very small.
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Of course, realizing these benefits requires producing more, ending the export ban, and building more pipelines, natural gas liquefaction plants, and shipping facilities. That can and should be expedited.
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Figure 6. The remarkable non-linearity of global temperature change since 1890, showing the two periods of global warming that coincided remarkably with the two positive phases of the naturally-occurring Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the period.
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It is safe to say that the overall impact of such polls has been minimal, compared to the political consequences of UN-IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) reports that led to (mostly failed) attempts at international action, like the Kyoto Protocol (1997-2012). One should mention here the Oregon Petition ...
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Some numbers are needed now: By definition 10,000 ppm is 1%, therefore 100 % equals 1million parts per million( 110+6) . Another way to put it is if there are 1 million soldiers in the army and only one has a gun ,he better have a lot of bullets if he is going to defend the country. The atmosphere is supposed to contai...
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These results are extraordinarily significant because they show that the global net effect of climatic warming on the productivity of terrestrial vegetation need not be positive as was documented for the 1980s and 1990s, said Diane Wickland, of NASA Headquarters and manager of NASAs Terrestrial Ecology research program...
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As Newt Gingrich and others have pointed out, Republican candidates need to find policy approaches that embrace environmental values but that secure those values with policy approaches compatible with fiscal responsibility, limited government, free markets, and personal responsibility. Two such policy options are a gre...
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Auto makers are upset about this development because now they must mount a lobbying effort against higher CAFE standards when they are making efforts to appear green (Wall Street Journal, July 16, 1999).
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Welcome to 2008: Across the country, Democrats are talking again about health care. From New Jersey to Minnesota to Colorado, they are proposing an aggressive agenda that promises to insure more Americans by employing mandates and price controls.
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Counter to the alarmist claims that AGW is causing the California drought, Obama's National Climate Assessment Report shows precipitation has increased throughout over 90% of California relative to the 1901-1960 mean. In addition, less than 5% of the contiguous US shows and increase in drought and most regions show eit...
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Many thanks to Luke Walker for alerting me to the story of Goyders Line.
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White House uses Twitter to bully critics:
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The finding could help explain the slowdown in temperature rises this century that climate sceptics have seized on as evidence climate change has stopped, even though 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have happened since 2000.
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But a strange thing happened in 2006 the lake level stopped declining and instead started increasing rapidly. As you can see in the table below from lakepowell.water-data.com, since 2005 the lake elevation has increased by more than 60 feet above the 2005 low of 3562 ft. As of January 29, at 3622 ft. the lake is within...
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The Earth had passed through warming and cooling cycles for billions of years before humans even existed, yet we are told that the generation of carbon dioxide through the use of machinery in manufacturing, transportation or any other use is causing the build-up of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere. We are told to g...
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[ERROR UPDATE: The headings (NH and SH) were switched in the two blocks of text in the center of the post. I have fixed them.
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If you tag one with a satellite tag in Monterey bay, it will shoot straight across to Indonesia, Professor Crowder explained.
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I haven't done a study of the levels each year, but if my memory serves me correctly these levels were higher than most previous years....something confirmed by an air quality scientist at Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Why?
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Another notable aspect of these negotiations in recent years has been their insulation from reality. It has often seemed that the negotiators have been determined to produce another piece of paper without taking any notice of whether the commitments made in previous pieces of paper are being fulfilled or even paid any ...
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No, I don't believe that is necessarily true. While many global warming crisis skeptics and limited government advocates continue to be terribly disappointed that the Court has declined to review either the Endangerment Rule or subsequent Tailpipe Rule, the case could still rekindle public and policymaker support for l...
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A climate criminal eagerly anticipates something which they say is catastrophic
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Three different TSI measurement composites (since 1980) provide diffrences in absolute scale, temporal structure, solar minimum levels, long-term trends.
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Christie Pulls New Jersey Out of Climate Pact
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How Wikipedia's green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
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YouTube - Undue Panic Over Global Warming FoxBusinessNetwork May 28, 2010 Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", argues we need to be smart about global warming and not rush into making policies out of panic and fear.
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"Without a fundamental transformation of the development model and substantial adjustment of the industrial structure, China will find it impossible to achieve the 2020 emissions reduction goal," said the Chinese Academy of Sciences study.
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on repairing a financial system that was in much worse shape than ours is today,
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Is that conflicted picture "pablum"? Whatever value judgment one puts on it, it is the reality of climate change science today. And given the persistence of these vast uncertainties in the science, the most counterproductive approach to the problem we could take is to ignore or even disguise those uncertainties. The ch...
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Practical Action has built multipurpose flood shelters in the north that lend full-scale protection to livestock and people, and have had huge successes growing pumpkins on sandbars; the United Nations Development Programme is trialing disaster-proof villages, ringed entirely by dykes, with houses mounted on concrete l...
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And Morano is the mastermind behind it all, Die Zeit wants its readers to believe.
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The Board voted 6-2 in favor of amending the standards to, as the Charleston Daily Mail reports, "allow students to use scientific models to form their own conclusions on the debated topic."
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A new report, "Climate Change Energy Power and National Power" by three retired U.S. Navy admirals reviews the Obama administration's 2010 "National Security Strategy" has just been published by the Heartland Institute. The authors warn that "The U.S. government is defaulting on its responsibility to develop and execut...
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The Pinatubo eruption threw more sunlight-reflecting aerosols into the stratosphere since the Krakatoa outburst in 1883. Its millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide reduced incident sunlight and had a maximum of 0.4 deg C cooling effect on global temperatures and an influence that lasted for several years.
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Klimamanifest video, Part 1 of 10. In 2009 Schellnhuber claimed that the Himalayan melt by 2035 was very easy to calculate.
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Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says that climate models used by government agencies to create policies ?have failed miserably.? Spencer analyzed 90 climate models against surface temperature and satellite temperature data, and found that more than 95 percent of the models ?have over-forecast the warming trend si...
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Clinton's proposal had cunningly undermined Beijing's leadership over the developing bloc of countries. In anger, Chinese officials responded that such demands were an insult to China and would be a violation of Chinese sovereignty and national interests. Wen had been outflanked and was angry, even leaving the conferen...
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Inauguration money is of particular interest because the committee can use the money however it pleases. If Obama's PIC has money left over, it can use that money for grassroots political activity supporting Obama's agenda or nearly anything.
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The USA may be doing better than the EuroZone, but were more of a Not Dead Yet! than a growing well.
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Climate Optimum (CO), at 8 to 5 ka. Following the CO, temperatures cool to a minimum of 0.5 K colder than the present at around 2 ka. The record implies that the medieval period around 1000 A.D. was 1 K warmer than present in Greenland. Get copy here
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Jones said temperature records may fractionally underestimate warming because of gaps in measurements in the Arctic for 1961-90, the benchmark years for judging change, and problems in verifying ocean temperatures. The world is probably a little warmer than we are measuring, he said. Read more here of Jones spinning mo...
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By giving them access to proper investment capital and affordable financial institutions, microfinance providers help small- and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries to grow. Often, these businesses are so small that they can neither afford the interest rates on bank loans nor come up with the capital they ...
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It is true that Syria suffered a drought in 2007-8, which can clearly be seen in the chart. And no doubt the internal displacement that is attributed to this drought changed conditions that would be significant later on. But is it enough to say that climate change was a factor in the conflict which developed several ye...
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majority of Iran's enriched uranium from the country in exchange for civilian nuclear fuel.
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/s/ Larry Bell JSC, Mgr. Crew Systems Div., Engineering Directorate, 32 years
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This suggests a second threshold question: when did the United States last experience per-capita CO2 emissions of only 2.4 tons? From the limited historical data available, it appears that this was about 1875. In 1875, the nation's GDP (in 2008 dollars) was $147 billion, per-capita income (in 2008 dollars) was $3,300, ...
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There is an obvious sense of panic in the rhetoric of climatecampaigners right now. This panic arises not simply from the fact thatthe global economic crisis is derailing expensive climate action plans,but from the deeper problem that the scientific case for catastrophicglobal warming is slowly unraveling.
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The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearl...
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In addition, this instrument, a spectral radiometer at DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility located on the southern Great Plains in Oklahoma, allowed the team to calculate what the brightness would be if the day sported a cloudless, blue sky. The spectral measurements taken by the radiomete...
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on the fight between public health officials and environmental activists over West Nile prevention:
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Figure 2 presents the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies off the New England coast, starting with the week centered on Wednesday January 3, 1990 and ending with the week of January 30, 2013. The base years for anomalies are the standard climatology of 1971-2000 from the NOAA NOMADS website. The horizontal red lin...
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What is really going on, says the BBC, is that the jet stream, which determines the rate of progress of weather systems, is in an unusual position and is pushing the weather systems out of their normal paths. "Instead of moving eastwards across the north Atlantic, picking up relatively little water because of the low t...
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The EU's Emissions Trading System: Trouble in Paradise
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Were stuck in our own experiment, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. We came to Antarctica to study how one of the biggest icebergs in the world has altered the system by trapping ice. We are now ourselves trapped by ice surrounding our ship.
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TOM BROKAW, anchor: NBC NEWS IN DEPTH tonight, does it seem its been warmer than usual where you live? Well, its not your imagination. Scientists have figured out ways to trace climate changes over hundreds of years now, and their findings are out tonight. The world, in fact, is getting warmer. Our IN DEPTH report now ...
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Temperatures have certainly increased since 1779, and the 30-Year trend shows a small uptick in the last decade or so, as we might have expected. But the interesting thing is that the really significant increase occurred in the late 19thC and early 20thC.
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Obama's looming skein of regulations is being promoted just one week after BP issued its latest Statistical Review of World Energy, which provides yet more proof of two indisputable facts: Even without more regulations from the White House or the EPA, the U.S. continues to lead the world in reducing carbon-dioxide emis...
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The difficulty with early period records is further illustrated by NIWAs Eleven-station Series. Although a representative sample would include at least six from the South Island, NIWA was unable to cobble together three until 1944 and had to wait until mid-1948 for a fourth. Then it was another six years until data fro...
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Compared to Singapore's 1.1 TFR, or Germany's 1.36, the U.S.'s 2.0 (an average of varying rates ranging from 1.93 to 2.18) looks pretty good. But, in Last analysis, the negative trends do not bode well for the future. The large numbers of Hispanic immigrants reached 50.5 million in 2010, compared to 22.3 million in 199...
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The data become relatively sparse prior to 1600, and are subject to uncertainties related to spatial completeness and interpretation making the results somewhat equivocal, e.g., less than 90 percent confidence. Achieving greater certainty as to the magnitude of climate variations before that time will require more exte...
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The Obama administration estimates six lobster boats and 20 other fishing vessels still operate in the newly-protected area. Officials will allow recreational fishing to continue, but commercial fishing and seabed mining will be banned.
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In a region where the sway and cunning of both are closely watched and compared, it has been a good week for the Chinese leader and a poor one for the American.
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Al Gore's latest outlandish outburst
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