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Not enough to support the puppies more docile and loving: For best results, you have to really kill all the other puppies | 0_0 |
A meta-analysis of the effects of elevated CO2 on 17 variables from 110 published studies reveals that elevated CO2 promoted root morphological development, root system expansion and carbon input to soils, implying that the sensitive responses of root morphology and function to elevated CO2 would increase long-term bel... | 3_3 |
Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), two organizations active in the area, use this womens collective to begin helping villages respond to the challenges associated with floods. With financial support from Norwegian Church Aid, these two organi... | 0_0 |
Among the CFACT activities was a press conference promoted as ?an opportunity for journalists to balance their coverage of COP16 by listening to all points of view.? Very few reporters, however, bothered to show up ? let alone balance their coverage. The event included talks from several ?skeptical? experts including L... | 0_0 |
Arctic Sea ice extent 30% or greater (DMI) | 1_1 |
Brian Slattery, Bryan Riley, and Nicolas D. Loris, "Sink the Jones Act: Restoring America's Competitive Advantage in Maritime-Related Industries," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2886, May 22, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/05/sink-the-jones-act-restoring-americas-competitive-advantage-in-mari... | 0_0 |
Minerals Council of Australia deputy chief Brendan Pearson accused Senator Brown of rank opportunism, unworthy of a serious political leader. | 0_0 |
I received a degree from the Military Medical Academy and I became a professional army physician with a diploma from the Charles University in Prague, I am a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Czech army, and during my tenure, I have spent years in some of the highest chairs of the army's medical services, always in pos... | 0_0 |
37 Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier, "Global NATO," Foreign Affairs (September/October 2005). On the issue of Global NATO, see also Jose-Maria Aznar, NATO: An Alliance for Freedom, 2005; Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, "Global NATO?" Clingendael Institute (October 2004). for a Russian/CSTO reaction, Mikhail Kokyeyev, "Russia-Nat... | 0_0 |
32 EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, "Enforcement Alert," January 1999, cited in Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 18. | 0_0 |
Uncertainty allows for the possibility of disaster. Something must be done even though that something might make things worse. | 0_0 |
In the case of Goulburn recording has changed to the Airport I can not find any old daily data at this BoM site. There is monthly data for Goulburn going back to 1860 but presumably the daily data has not been entered to disk not that the public are allowed to see anyway. | 0_0 |
We start with the looming off-year elections, the unexpected lack of tropical storms and a cash for kids scandal in Pennsylvania. We finish with the fall of a spam king and the swine that didn't squeal. >>Support CEI Like what you read? | 0_0 |
It also said the panel had purposely emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made "substantive findings" based on little proof. | 5_2 |
It is clear that we're not on track in the battle against climate change. Despite ongoing efforts to cut back greenhouse gases, we are still on a path for a temperature rise much greater than the 2C maximum that nations set for themselves in Cancun last year. | 0_0 |
2013 sixth-hottest year, confirms long-term warming: UN U.S. Dec/Jan Temperatures 3rd Coldest in 30 Years | 0_0 |
Today's conservatives have a rendezvous with destiny. The peculiar political challenge of our timerepairing our nation's finances and avoiding national bankruptcyrequires us to reform our welfare state. This forces us to confront the tensions outlined above, and to do so in a way that reassures rather than frightens th... | 0_0 |
And of course, the press loved this take, for now everything was right again in the world of global warming doom-and-gloom. For example, Reuters reporter Patricia Reaney wrote: | 5_2 |
The talk at the Energy Institute went reasonably well, although numbers were apparently down considerably on normal because the invitations had been sent out rather late in the day. I also suffered from some technical problems, which meant that I had to speak without notes. I think, however, that I gained as much in fl... | 0_0 |
The Cancun talks seek to produce decisions on establishing a "green fund" to help poorer nations rein in greenhouse gases and to adapt their economies and infrastructure to a changing climate; an agreement making it easier for developing nations to obtain patented green technology from advanced nations; and pinning dow... | 0_0 |
A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds another non-hockey-stick in Romania, with temperatures higher for hundreds of years during the mid-Holocene Climate Optimum, Roman Warm Period, and Medieval Warm Period in comparison to the end of the record in the mid-20th century. | 2_1 |
As the air's CO 2 concentration continues to increase, it will likely boost rates of net photosynthesis in nearly all plant species, including white clover and perennial ryegrass. These increases in photosynthesis, in turn, will likely lead to greater root production and enhanced exudation of organic compounds belowgro... | 3_3 |
Finding #1: "The model fails to simulate the asymmetry of the wintertime circulation anomalies over the WNP between El Nio and La Nia." Finding #2: "The simulated anomalous cyclone over the WNP (WNPAC) associated with La Nia is generally symmetric about the WNPAC associated with El Nio, rather than shifted westward as ... | 5_1 |
One way to do this is by injecting fine sulfur particles or other reflective aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect incoming radiation. Another way is to spray clouds with salt water to increase their reflectance. | 0_0 |
the results obtained from this study suggest that the tropical ocean does indeed influence the atmospheric patterns over Europe and the Mediterranean. | 0_0 |
Homeopathy is based on the principles of like-cures-like and ultra-dilutions. The first says substances that can cause symptoms can be used in diluted form to treat the same symptom in an illness, and the second says the more dilute a substance is, the more potent it is. | 0_0 |
Please explain why sea levels during the last interglacial were 31 feet higher than the present, and Greenland 8 degrees C warmer than the present, without anthropogenic forcing. What evidence suggests the current interglacial is any different? http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-paper-finds-sea-levels-rose.h... | 2_1 |
Now the UK Met Office is saying that such slowing for a decade or so has been seen in the past in observations and is simulated in climate models, where they are temporary events. There are no decade-long pauses in projected global surface temperatures in Figure 2, for scenarios A2, A1B or B2. Global surface temperatur... | 1_4 |
> >> >>analytical frameworks used in damage estimations. | 0_0 |
The president's speech seems to imply that "energy efficiency" is somehow free. That is, that it's easy to achieve reductions in energy use without causing a reduction in the benefits from energy use. Were that the case, one wonders why market forces do not lead to such outcomes themselves. In reality, energy efficienc... | 0_0 |
the 11 Patriots footballs measured by the officials at halftime did not all start the game at or near the same pressure | 0_0 |
Third, why rush? Kyoto apologists warn that we must take action now, lest the buildup of greenhouse gases wreak irreversible havoc on nature s delicate balances. Yet precisely because carbon dioxide emissions may linger in the atmosphere for a century or longer, it makes no practical difference in the long run whether ... | 4_2 |
Speaking of fuel poverty, nowhere are people living in more substandard conditions than Africa plagued by malaria and inadequate medical care, most don't have indoor plumbing and even fewer have electricity. Shellenberger and Nordhous accuse the environmental movement of offering "the global poor not what they wantchea... | 4_5 |
AGs Accuse White House, Public Interest Group of "Sweetheart Suit" | 0_0 |
Last week was good for environmentalists, and perhaps even for the environment. President Obama doubled down on his effort to increase the likelihood of the success of the 2015 UN climate change conference in Paris, claiming the U.S. has "a special responsibility to lead. That's what great nations do." He took the occa... | 0_0 |
As time progresses and paleoclimatic studies increase in both number and sophistication, ever more evidence is accumulating for the global reality of the solar-induced millennial-scale oscillation of climate that pervades both glacial and interglacial periods alike. In this specific instance, Desprat et al . report tha... | 2_1 |
ROCKEFELLER AND SNOWE DEMAND THAT EXXON MOBIL END FUNDING OF CAMPAIGN THAT DENIES GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE | 0_0 |
One might conclude that a lot of different and contradicting assumptions go into the simulations of Earths climate. There certainly is little agreement among modeling groups about how sunlight impacted the energy imbalance in the past or might impact it in the future. | 0_0 |
This is on par with the official opening video for the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen -- full of nightmare visions of a child caught in a global-warming-produced catastrophe - producing earthquakes, no less. (It's very well-produced, of course.) | 0_0 |
Mann's testimony was a mixture of ad hominem attacks, appeals to authority, and irrelevant points. He claimed that his critics had no professional expertise in paleoclimatology and didn't know what they were talking about. He did not attempt to refute the numerous paleoclimatological studies which Soon et al's article ... | 0_0 |
According to the Los Angeles Times (April 2, 2002), "The bill, AB 1058, by first-term Assemblywoman Fran Pavely (D-Agoura Hills), would require the state Air Resources Board to adopt regulations by 2005 that would reduce tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide from passenger cars and light trucks and other noncommercial m... | 0_0 |
Sulla Denuncia Contro George W Bush Per Crimini Di Guerra | 0_0 |
In subsequent months, however, 140 countries declared their endorsement of the accord, and 85 of them made specific pledges for reducing carbon emissions, or at least limited their growth, by 2020. | 0_0 |
Despite being treated like 17th century "witches," many scientists are reexamining the evidence and reversing their positionseven calling their previous views: "quite a big mistake." | 0_0 |
Re-read the first part of Kerrys explanation. Kerry is saying that even ifthe Democratic leadership does not hold avoteon cap-and-trade before the November elections,fearing the wrath of the electorate,the greenhouse gangmight stillenact cap-and-tradeafter the elections, when voters could no longer hold them accountabl... | 0_0 |
The abuses and intolerance are becoming broader, deeper, more frightening by the day: from Christendom to Islam and Climate Orthodoxy; from universities to the Congress, Vatican, EU and United Nations. | 0_0 |
The Hill reported today that President Obama has not wavered in his commitment to reducing carbon dioxide levels and fighting man-made climate change: | 0_0 |
In 2010, Foley wrote an essay Becoming a Climate Pragmatist . Foley is a very interesting voice on climate change. | 0_0 |
Severe weather is likely today and tomorrow with moderate risks both days. | 0_0 |
Any layman can learn and understand these principles - from which it is clear thatthere is no such thing as man-made Global Warming there never has been and nevercan be. Far from "greenhouse gases" leading to Global Warming, precisely theopposite is true without these gases we would all be fried to a cinder! | 2_3 |
Can anyone believe that a temperature effect by 2100 measured in ten-thousandths of a degree, or sea-level effects measured in thousandths of a centimeter, could yield over $100 billion in net economic benefits? How is that possible? | 4_2 |
First Cooler Heads Lecture On Global Warming | 0_0 |
REALITY IS DIFFERENT THAN THE HYPOTHESES/SUPPOSITIONS/ASSUMPTIONS | 0_0 |
A significant and rapid temperature increase was observed at all Greenland stations between 1920 and 1930. The average annual temperature rose between 2 and 4C in less than ten years. Since the change in anthropogenic production of greenhouses gases at that time was considerably lower than today, this rapid temperature... | 2_1 |
"I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don't represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is not going to save us. We're going to take this country back for the Lord. We're going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we're not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what yo... | 0_0 |
Faced with the embarrassing fact that sea level is not rising nearly as much as alarmist computer models predict, the University of Colorado?s NASA-funded Sea Level Research Group has announced it will begin adding a scientifically unjustified 0.3 millimeters per year to its Global Mean Sea Level Time Series. | 1_6 |
For those reasons, the natural selection doesn't apply to groups and cultures literally. It's just another interpretation of the single history that doesn't bring any new insights or predictive power. | 0_0 |
With a current of warm, moist air coming towards us, our temps have been above normal and with the humidity our low temps have been WAY above normal. Water vapor is very active in the infrared--in fact water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Such gases tend to warm us up at night--- they int... | 2_3 |
On January 7, 2005, Weaver asked Keith Briffa, one of the coauthors of Rutherford, Mann et al 2005, to act as a peer reviewer for Mann, Rutherford et al 2005. Because of his IPCC commitments, Briffa declined (suggesting Wigley), but neither Weaver nor Briffa seemed the least bit concerned about any potential impropriet... | 5_2 |
New industry research finds that side air bags significantly reduce driver deaths in SUV collisions. | 0_0 |
Daniel Yergin explains why technology continues to thwart doomsayers who claim the world will run out of oil | 4_5 |
Joe Bast Introduces Debate Team and Defines Debate Rules | 0_0 |
Columnist Timothy Carney warns that the massive bail-outs now flowing out of Washington will give the incoming Obama administration an opportunity to impose a regulatory agenda that otherwise would be impossible to promote. It's not so much that the government will be doing anything different than it has been doing und... | 0_0 |
We (unlike Al Gore) believe that the planetary emergency is not about the 5 billion people who are consuming oil, natural gas, and coal. It is about the 1.5 billion who do not have access to modern forms of energy and live in abject poverty. | 4_5 |
As can be seen, over the first 15-period, prior to 1998, there was a strong warming trend (+1.4 degrees per century). As a result, the experts said human CO2 was the cause. They then emphatically predicted that this warming trend would continue and even accelerate. But it didn't - instead it decelerated. | 1_4 |
Now, in a gesture that perfectly captures the fractious spirit of a polarised nation, comes the inevitable backlash: a political attack advert entitled "James Cameron ? Hypocrite". | 0_0 |
Will the Presidents Clean Power Plan save consumers money? | 0_0 |
This is just a single link: in a list of ATLAS' notes, the last one is | 0_0 |
Tonight's tips music features the most famous guitar riff in rock 'n' roll history, and a sound that was to become a musical template in the decades to follow: Here's Chuck Berry - who'll be 87 next month - playing and singing on the original recording of Johnny B. Goode . The comments thread is open, as always, for yo... | 0_0 |
Commenting on the proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants, Bonner R.Cohen, PhD, a CFACT Senior Policy Analyst, laid out the reasons why MATS has no basis whatever in science. | 0_0 |
Putting the president's fortune in Congress's hands not only makes for poor politics, it runs counter to the Framers' plans for the office. They saw Congress, not the presidency, as the main threat to the people's liberties. In a democracy, James Madison wrote in The Federalist, "the legislative authority, necessarily,... | 0_0 |
Other concerns include increased stress on water supplies and rising corn prices as a result of increased demand for the crop, which is fermented to produce biofuel. | 0_0 |
A 2007 Newsweek cover story on climate change skeptics reported, "In April 1998, a dozen people from the denial machineincluding the Marshall Institute, Fred Singer's group, and Exxonmet at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters. They proposed a $5 million campaign, according to a leaked eight-page ... | 0_0 |
In effect, EPA could insert itself (or your State environmental agency) into most local planning and zoning processes. I will write more about this in the future. It terrifies me. | 0_0 |
6. Perceptions of "dumping" untested food on unsuspecting Africans. We've "dumped" millions of tons of these "untested" crops on willing consumers all over the Western Hemispherebut only after they were tested for toxicity, digestibility, protein levels, pollen dispersal, genetic stability, and many other characteristi... | 0_0 |
lambda 0.04 0.09C per W/m2 | 0_0 |
Ethanol production is killing real people for no reason at all. | 0_0 |
So the B Climate cannot support trees, but Koppen uses a sub-classification letter to separate regions that support grasses BS (for steppe grasslands) from no vegetation at all, BW. A third letter separates h (hot) or k (cold). A desert is hot or cold defined by the lack of vegetation, not temperature. | 0_0 |
In relation to the recent posts falsifying CAGW on the basis of Planck's quantum theory , this essay by geophysicist Norm Kalmanovitch explains why The Effect of a Doubling of the Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere as Depicted by Quantum Physics | 2_3 |
In the simplest form of classification there are nine major climate zones (Figure 1). Zones 1, 3, 7 and 9 are singular with similar weather conditions all year influenced by one major control mechanism. The others, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are mixed weather conditions because they?re under different control mechanisms as the sea... | 0_0 |
The Conservative Review reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence those who disagree with them on climate change. | 0_0 |
Miranda Devine covers the ugly t weets that brought on the defamation suit from the Editor Chris Mitchell. Shes nailed it: the journalists have become activists. And theyre so far from being journalists, theyre actually proud of their partisan activism. | 0_0 |
A new reanalysis by two NASA scientists of the three standard ice-monitoring techniques slashes the estimated loss from East Antarctica, challenging the large, headline-grabbing losses reported lately for the continent as a whole. | 1_1 |
More than a dozen environmental groups that oppose hydrofracking sent a letter to Martens urging him not to approve the alternative technique without adequate environmental review. | 0_0 |
Former Harvard physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: NASAs Gavin Schmidt knew about this fact. That didnt prevent them from pushing virtually all mainstream media to publish the lie in the very title that NASA was declaring 2014 the warmest year. | 0_0 |
From the January 1 st issue of Vegetarian Times: | 0_0 |
Having said all that, my second reaction to Massachusetts , which I still have today, is that it is like being back in 1970, when Congress first enacted the CAA, all over again. Reflecting the mentality of that time (and the significant pollution problems this country had), the 1970 CAA mandated clean air in five years... | 0_0 |
At the same time it's apparent that the United States needs more high-skill immigrantsjob creators rather than job seekers. The death of Steve Jobs (whose father, it turns out, was an immigrant) reminds us that highly talented individuals can be huge national assets. | 0_0 |
There is an increasing body of papers in the scientific literature, such as Lindzen & Choi (2009), or Pinker et al. (2005), that state or imply that temperature feedbacks additional radiative forcings that occur merely because the initial warming, however caused, has occurred are either zero or net-negative, exercising... | 5_1 |
Its entire Washington DC office, barring one staffer, decamped, taking Heartlands biggest project, involving the insurance industry, with them. | 0_0 |
There was another 6.x in Indonesia a while back that Id not bothered to post about, but probably worth a mention here as its nearby. | 0_0 |
Ahem. I think Mr. Kerry might have gone off-script with those remarks, but I'm glad he did. It was a refreshing bit of honesty because the United States could indeed cut its emissions by 100 percent and make virtually no dent in global-warming levels. According to climate experts Paul Knappenberger and Patrick Michaels... | 4_2 |
The El Chichon eruption is interesting because one of the strongest El Nino events, some say the strongest ever, occurred just after it. These two events had an interesting interplay for it seems that the global temperature rise induced by the warm water of the El Nino was offset by the cooling effect of the stratosphe... | 0_0 |
2. Kevin Trenberth is a meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. | 0_0 |
An ever-green climate lie says: Sea levels are rising fast and will soon drown a city near you. We need money from rich countries to cope. Leaders in the Pacific nations should monitor the tide gauges which surround the Pacific Ocean from US west coast, Canada, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. They show no un... | 1_6 |
Some sentences betray the postmodern intellectual atmosphere of the environment in which Pinker works (Edward O. Wilson is one of the fellow Harvard authors whose ideas Pinker argues against). For example, the group selection theory is "nice because it is non-reductionist and ecumenical", Pinker reproduces a theme hear... | 0_0 |
The UN IPCC had to correct a report from the year 2007. The report had exaggerated the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, and even claimed that they could disappear completely by 2035. | 5_2 |
Going the extra mile to seek an agreeable solution actually helps gain the upper | 0_0 |
On March 31st at 8:30pm people around the world will shut off their lights for one hour as a symbolic gesture that they want "something" done about climate change. During that same hour many other people around the world will keep their lights on in appreciation of human ingenuity and in defiance of the philosophy that... | 0_0 |
The graphs are below. Frankly, even after the tampering, the warming rate is nothing like what it should have been if any of the IPCCs predictions had been true. My guess is that once theyve got their world government in Paris theyll stop tampering leave the temperature records alone. | 5_2 |
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