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A Keystone Copout vs. Capstone Climate Legacy Conundrum | 0_0 |
Theres likely to be less winter rainfall across much of the country too, with the bureau saying much of the continent only has a 30 to 45 per cent chance of exceeding average rainfall. | 0_0 |
The climate in the northern regions has never been milder since the last Ice Age than it was about 6000-7000 years ago. We still dont know whether the Arctic Ocean was completely ice free, but there was more open water in the area north of Greenland than there is today, says Astrid Lys, a geologist and researcher at th... | 2_1 |
/s/ Jack Knight JSC, Chief, Advanced Operations and Development Division, MOD, 40 years | 0_0 |
Segment 3 is the debunking of the many claims of impending climate catastrophes Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth". | 0_0 |
How could this be global warming, but 34 years ago, that was an Ice Age coming? | 1_2 |
But it does appear that serious legislators of both parties are moving toward the kind of reform proposed last year by a bipartisan panel assembled by the Brookings Institution and Duke University's Kenan Institute. | 0_0 |
There have been three recent studies producing projections for tropical cyclone changes in the Australian region. Two suggest that there will be no significant change in tropical cyclone numbers off the east coast of Australia to the middle of the 21st century. The third study, based on the CSIRO simulations, shows a s... | 1_7 |
There have been computerized bridge games available for about forty years. They have never been completely satisfactory from the standpoint of the serious player. Defensive play has always been particularly poor in these games. But what is most remarkable is that the quality of these computerized bridge games has not i... | 0_0 |
/s/ Dr. Phillip K. Chapman JSC, Scientist astronaut, 5 years | 0_0 |
In Wales, a third of all children live in low-income households, and a quarter of all households were in "fuel poverty" forced to spend at least 10% of their income on heating. Many parents had to choose between keeping their children warm and providing them with nourishing meals, welfare workers said. Many Welsh child... | 0_0 |
But the onus is especially heavy on the majority. It is the majority, especially in the House, that has the power to shape debate and either to open up or shut down the process to ideas, amendments and involvement by rank-and-file Members in both parties. It is the majority that has to rise above the cheap shots, irres... | 0_0 |
<5131> Shukla/IGES: | 0_0 |
Thompson et al base their claim of a 1945 discontinuity in the Global SST dataset on the fact that, after they eliminated the effects of ENSO and COWL, there was no corresponding volcanic eruption to cause the drop in temperature. This assumes the volcano records and the SST records for the NINO regions are correct. It... | 0_0 |
Board directors quit, conference speakers cancelled at short-notice, and associates of long standing demanded Heartland remove their names from its website. The list of conference sponsors shrank by nearly half from 2010, and many of those listed sponsors are just websites operating on the rightwing fringe. | 0_0 |
A clean power backlash in Oz as energy firms have had enough of damaging regulation and grandstanding. | 0_0 |
Climate Craziness of the Week: sea life must swim faster to survive climate change | 0_0 |
Arhenius estimated that a doubling of CO2 would cause a temperature rise of 5 degrees Celsius, recent values from IPCC place this value (the Climate sensitivity) at between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees. | 3_1 |
" greenhouse critics like Arizona's own, Dr. Robert Balling "should continue to be heard, but they should not counterbalance the overwhelming consensus of scientific opinion." | 0_0 |
The failure of Kyoto's mandatory targets and timetables is nowhere more apparent, yet nowhere less acknowledged, than in the European Union. In Spain, to take the most extreme example, emissions have increased 53%, closely tracking economic growth of just over 50%. For comparison, the U. S. economy has grown roughly 3%... | 0_0 |
Although logic may seem to point to a particular solution, we must beware of the paths of false logic. Also, there may be ethical objections to some seemingly logical solutions. For example bulldozing all native vegetation might abolish bushfire, but would not be a good idea from many other points of view. Even aesthet... | 0_0 |
Here we see what looks like a clear effect of increasing UHI, due to city growth as well as airport growth. This station has been moved nearly as much, but more importantly its been located in an area that doesn??t have pockets of micro-climate. | 5_1 |
Recently, the University of Delaware took a stand to protect free speech for scientists when it refused to grant Mr. Grijalva's request for information about funding for its scientists. The university stated that it "chooses not to act in a manner that is inconsistent with its governing principles and contractual commi... | 0_0 |
Local copepod diversity, especially in extra-tropical regions, is likely to increase with climate change as their large-scale distributions respond to climate warming. | 0_0 |
Over 40 groups and individuals have filed petitions with South Dakota's Public Utility Commission to broaden the approval process to matters that were not considered in 2010. Those groups include the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Boettcher Organics and the Sierra Club, as well as a number of indep... | 0_0 |
Jones says that UK climate organisations are coordinating themselves to resist FoI. They got advice from the Information Commissioner ( 1219239172 ) | 5_2 |
Gingrich formally announced he was running for president in 2012 on Wednesday. | 0_0 |
The bill's stress on adaptation, and on the science needed to unleash action in this area, is commendable. Geoengineering may greatly extend the capacity to adapt to climate change. Research into its potential and its possible risks should be part of a well-designed effort on adaptation. | 0_0 |
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S is largely a result of a poor economy, a rise in the use (and affordable availability) of natural gas, and on-going improvements of the U.S. energy efficiency that were begun long before the Obama Administration. | 4_2 |
Your criticism merely inverts the simplistic assumption it objects to. While those who prosecuted the War on Terror and later action in the region cant be held to account for the actions of ISIS, they can be held to account for creating the power vacuum and chaos that allowed them to take control of territory Not to me... | 0_0 |
Gore Win a Sad Day for Nobel Legacy | 0_0 |
The activists are heading to Brazil with an extensive wish list that attacks liberal democracy and free markets. They want to "transform" world society regulating and rolling back developed world prosperity restricting progress and making poverty and disease permanent fixtures in the developing world and, ironically, h... | 0_0 |
These statements might fit well on a formal logic exam, but they are not real arguments, and they only encourage more of the overheated rhetoric that prevents a serious debate on climate change. | 0_0 |
I would be remiss is my review of the climate stories of 2011 if I failed to mention the release of another round of Climategate emails. The so-called Climategate 2.0 emails further many of the storylines that ran throughout the original Climategate releases back in November 2009?rampant gatekeeping, data hoarding, and... | 5_2 |
Give it time. Being sceptical will soon be the new cool. | 0_0 |
Note:Erikson and Lazarus assume that an additional 830,000 bpd would increase CO2e emissions by110 million metric tons, not 181 million, as in Chip??s calculation.So inErikson and Lazarus??s worst case, the KXL wouldcontribute about0.006Cof warming by century??s end. If the recent papers on climate sensitivity are corr... | 4_2 |
Russian Science Director Refutes Warming Claims | 0_0 |
Another major sponsor, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, won the Corporate Social Responsibility Award in 2004. | 0_0 |
This is a preliminary report. Sea surface temperature data for the weekcentered on WednesdayFebruary 6, 2013 will not be available until Monday February 11. Ill be happy to update this post then. | 0_0 |
Glassman: What you're saying is that solar activity is causing global warming? | 0_0 |
GISP Greenland Ice Core Data shows that it has been warmer than today for almost all of the past 10,000 years. | 2_1 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Great Lakes Advocate | 0_0 |
> >> loss). I would treat all such estimates very skeptically. We | 0_0 |
fact that the Atmosphere Ocean General Circulation Models are not able to explain the post-1970 temperature increase by natural forcing was interpreted as proof that it was caused by humans. It is more logical to admit that the models are not yet good enough to capture natural climate variability (how much or how littl... | 5_1 |
Australia also did not receive its much-wanted concessions for exports of soft commodities such as wheat, rice and sugar, while Chinese state-owned enterprises did not receive an exemption from scrutiny by Australia's watchful Foreign Investment Review Board for investments of A$1.08 billion (S$1.22 billion) or below. | 0_0 |
Writing to a Soviet magazine in 1987, a Russian reader called what he saw around him a "radical break in consciousness." We know that he was right because Russia's is the first great revolution whose course was charted in public opinion polls almost from the beginning. Already at the end of 1989, the first representati... | 0_0 |
Access to capital and credit enable new markets to spring up where none existed before. Entrepreneurial activity is unleashed. Consider one of Prahalad's case studies of Nirmal, a small Indian firm that sold detergent products designed for rural village uses, such as in rivers. The products came in small packages at lo... | 0_0 |
?Forecasts like this are never simple but the data system is really useful and has made successful forecasts for other parts of the world.? | 0_0 |
More than 7,000 homes in the Williams Lake area lost power due to the heavy snowfall, said BC Hydro community relations co-ordinator Dave Mosure. | 0_0 |
Additionally, in the post here , we presented and discussed how the NCAR CCSM4 climate model was not capable of simulating the observed warming pattern of the Pacific Ocean for the past 31 years. See Figure 10, which presents modeled and observed sea surface temperature trends for the Pacific Ocean since November 1981 ... | 5_1 |
Newt Gingrich, "We Can Have Green Conservatism, and We Should," Human Events, April 23, 2007. Available at http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.26036/pub detail.asp. | 0_0 |
It is becoming increasingly clear that absorption of heat in deep oceans is part of the explanation. | 0_0 |
The influence of CO2 is so small that it's at a noise level. | 2_3 |
The IPCC then presents a series of similar graphs on page 930 in their Figure 10.21, and continues with their misrepresentation of climate model capabilities. On page 927, under the heading of 10.9.2 Whole Climate System, they write (my boldface), again using the emerging anthropogenic and natural signals and alternati... | 5_2 |
Fenton Communications is the infamous, left-wing public relations group that orchestrated actress Meryl Streep, CBS' 60 Minutes and the Natural Resources Defense Council to bring about the entirely bogus 1989 scare involving the apple-ripening chemical Alar. | 0_0 |
Postscript: As Kriegeskorte observed, the specific impact of an erroneous method on a practical data set is hard to predict. In our case, it does not mean that a given reconstruction is necessarily an ???artifact?? of red noise, since a biased procedure will produce a Stick from an actual Stick signal. (If the ???signa... | 5_1 |
We are meeting one month before the Climate Change Copenhagen Summit and several weeks before the U.S. Senate hearing regarding the cap-and-trade scheme. For these reasons, today??s meeting can??t be an academic conference, even though the topic still needs academic discussion. There is no consensus ??? neither in scie... | 5_1 |
At the 5:40 mark, BR television on 3 June 2012 asks how the gross Himalaya error found its way into the IPCC report. The answer is delivered by Professor Hans von Storch at the 6:05 mark: | 0_0 |
If you are curious you will probably enjoy and learn much from a new 81-page report by Craig D. Idso on global warming and coral reefs . | 0_0 |
How to get most countries to participate is the $64,000 question that no one can really answer. It may simply require waiting for some of them to get rich enough to be willing to spend their own money on this problem. | 0_0 |
There are many solid data indicators that are illuminating, publicly available, and standardized across countries. And these data can help us broaden measures of well-being far beyond GDP. | 0_0 |
on Thursday, June 27th, 2013 at 5:05 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Next, Nuccitelli attacks Roy Spencer for having said it was entirely possible that summer sea-ice melt was no worse now than it had been in the 1920s and 1930s, when explorers had reported unprecedented warming and loss of sea ice in the Arctic. | 0_0 |
We shouldn't be completely surprised by his defense of population control. This has long been part of his left-wing environmentalist agenda. As Myron Ebell, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's director of global warming and international environmental policy, told Mr. Bastasch, "Gore's eco-imperialism is uncomfortab... | 0_0 |
The prophecies of doom have led to enormous misallocations of resources and done untold psychological damage. With a bright, promising world before them, many children now fear the future. Today scant scientific evidence but new | 0_0 |
ownership of a powerful symbol can give rise to demagoguery and self-delusion. President Bush overplayed the national defense card in pursuit of an ideological vision that backfired with terrible consequences in Iraq. In turn, a scientific-technological elite unchecked by healthy skepticism and political pluralism may ... | 0_0 |
Nelson : The station at the Vicarage 1907-1919 was very much sheltered, practically under a hedge overgrown by large trees, so readings were taken over by the Cawthron Institute. These were not very good at first but were approved in 1928, before the station moved out to Appleby in 1931. | 0_0 |
Thousands of climate scientists in a variety of discrete disciplines have been exploring the issue for decades. They have reached a consensual conclusion whose existence is easily demonstrated. | 0_0 |
There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution. | 5_1 |
When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects. | 0_0 |
The revelation came shortly after Friends of the Earth revealed that new figures showed that UK carbon emissions soared during 2003. The environmental organization issued a press release February 26 claiming, "Approximately 4.5 million tonnes of carbon (MtC) more were emitted from burning fossil fuels last year than in... | 0_0 |
So if you are an outside observer here, not sure who to believe, whats the dead give away clue? | 0_0 |
It seems that for decades European politiciansand more recently many of their partners from all over the worldhave tried to orient their decisions on a guideline they perceived as expressing a scientific view, while scientistswho did introduce the 2 target into the climate debatetreat that guideline as a political issu... | 0_0 |
Landsea's frustration is not an isolated experience. MIT physicist Richard Lindzen, another past IPCC author who is not participating in the fourth report, has written: "My experiences over the past 16 years have led me to the discouraging conclusion that we are dealing with the almost insoluble interaction of an iron ... | 5_2 |
The EU has set great store by its Emissions Trading Scheme, which it thinks will help meet the targets. Unfortunately, again under the terms of the Protocol, such schemes become inapplicable if the first period targets are breached. The EU violators will be forced to make real, deep cuts in emissions rather than relyin... | 0_0 |
In short, Congress has imposed a law that costs you more at the pump, has scant geopolitical value, and is worse for air quality and carbon-dioxide emissions than gasoline. And that's the truth. | 0_0 |
Labour Minister Margaret Beckett freslog from five years ago to Climatedeniers would frbjudas to use the internet. Criticism of the official climate science would be outlawed in the same way as possession of child pornography. | 0_0 |
They knew about Solyndrawhich took over five hundred million dollars and then folded. Thanks in large part to my expos, many now know about Abengoa and the Solana solar projectwhich took billions of taxpayer dollars and is now functioning and producing electricity but does so by breaking immigration and labor laws, giv... | 0_0 |
President Obama has derided U.S, energy use: "The U.S. uses far more electricity than its North American neighbors combined," but the U.S. also does more with our energy. Comparing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and energy consumption numbers for the U.S. and Canada, for example, both use a similar volume of energy b... | 0_0 |
The case for very low discount rates (declining discount rates) is derived from Martin Weitzman's 1998 article on discounting the far-distant future | 0_0 |
Well, it was not quite as bad as Beijing during the winter, but air quality really degraded around the Northwest last night as massive amounts of fireworks were deployed. | 0_0 |
The five researchers report that the chemistry of the sediments employed in their study "created a microhabitat that supported the growth and development of a benthic foraminiferal community even at highly elevated p CO 2 ," such that the "growth and mortality of living A. aomoriensis were unaffected." | 3_2 |
[UPDATE: The underlying claim of these two papers is that although there have been no large eruptionsin the 21st century, it is the weaker eruptionsthat are causing the plateau in temperature. These are eruptionswith a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of four. Some commenters below still think that the eruptions of VEI... | 1_4 |
JC note: I made an attempt to keep this review Gleick-free and Mann-free. | 0_0 |
This seemingly innocent move of a few hundred meters at the same elevation from one responsible scientific observation location to another resulted in a measurement discontinuity estimated by KNMI as approximately 1 deg C. Hans Erren has a similar estimate. Both estimates are obtained by comparing the De Bilt series ov... | 0_0 |
Johanna any, and I mean any, attempt to explain barbarous and murderous behaviour by others on Western democracies is just a variant of the middle-class guilt that alleges that we are destroying the planet by having healthy and wealthy lives | 0_0 |
A new study in the September 2002 issue of the Journal of Climate takes another look at the discrepancy in temperature trends between the surface, measured by ground-based thermometers, and the atmosphere (more specifically the troposphere), measured by satellite-borne instruments, and concludes that we don't know why ... | 5_1 |
"His freedom to speak protects my freedom to call him a bigot," Rowling continued. "His freedom guarantees mine. Unless we take that absolute position, without caveats or apologies, we have set foot upon a road with only one destination. If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that th... | 0_0 |
From a historical perspective, an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 400 ppm is actually almost scraping the bottom of the barrel. Over the Earths history, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have ranged from 180 ppm to 7000 ppm, see Figure 1 below. On that scale we are in fact today barely above the Earths record lows. | 2_3 |
So, Kyoto seems destined to expire. Happily, the geoengineering approach is emerging as a substitute for or supplement to carbon reduction. | 0_0 |
CEI FOIA Reveals Clinton Email Security NDA | 0_0 |
"Walker's subpoenas are a flagrant violation of the First Amendment, and the clear conclusion to draw following his withdrawal of the ExxonMobil subpoena is that these subpoenas were a baseless fishing expedition from the beginning," said CEI President Kent Lassman in a statement. | 0_0 |
Yet another essay in the same book says that in regard to making use of the rainforest, development is a "manifest destiny" of modern times and that "the idea of progress is deeply rooted in Western thought and has been widely incorporated in the beliefs of many in Third World We must create alternatives to the worldvi... | 0_0 |
If the instrumentalization of Islam constitutes the geographical axis of China's grand strategy, the functional axis is or ought to be of equal interest to NATO, since it consists in the artful combination of space power, sea power, and soft power. | 0_0 |
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Aug 14, 2015 | 0_0 |
Globally, poverty remains the leading cause of preventable disease and premature death. A key factor hindering poverty eradication, as well as a major source of indoor air pollution, which kills an estimated 3.5 million people per year, is energy poverty. Even today, more than one billion people have no access to elect... | 0_0 |
Some of the damage done by last year's budget deal has been rectified. Congress has recalled $25 million from the nearly $200 million that was allocated last year. If it truly wants to prevent taxpayers from being forced to subsidize the agenda of international Green pressure groups, it will stop funding the GEF altoge... | 0_0 |
Obama: "We produce more natural gas than ever before and nearly everyone's energy bill is lower because of it." | 0_0 |
Fourthly, the backgrounder claims that global warming is causing both droughts and floods. Regardless of whether this is the case, deaths from droughts have declined by 99.9% since the 1920s, and 99% from floods since the 1930s. In fact, since the 1920s, average annual deaths from all extreme weather events have droppe... | 1_7 |
The Age reported the GG as passionate about the climate change issue. He listed a raft of alternative energy options to be explored with interestingly nuclear power being one of those options. Setting the tone for the conference the GG said As a concerned layman, I would suggest the Australian public, to become fully e... | 0_0 |
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