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That's not just a problem facing contemporary Democrats. It has historic roots. The Democratic Party has always been a collection of out-people, who are seen by themselves and others as not typically American. In the 19th century, that meant white Southerners and Catholic immigrants. Today, it means the Obama core grou... | 0_0 |
warrants a closer examination than the partisan debates give it. | 0_0 |
Pachauri has said IPCC reports are written by the world?s top scientists when, in fact, many of those involved are 20-something grad students, green activists, and people appointed with an eye to filling ?diversity? quotas. | 5_2 |
Meanwhile, thanks to Obama, we have to rely on the Russians just to get our people to the ISS. | 0_0 |
Explanation: The hotspot in the models is due to a thickening of the water vapor blanket during global warming, as more water evaporates and the blanket of warm moist air displaces cold dry air above. This thickening causes 2/3 of the warming in the models. But in reality there is no hotspot, so the models exaggerate t... | 2_3 |
Methane has long been a target of the green lobby because it is viewed as an especially potent contributor to global warming. Yet the EPAs own research shows methane emissions from drilling have been declining rapidly. | 0_0 |
Fox News reports on emails CEI found in their FOIA lawsuit against George Mason University professors that reveals their petition to the government to prosecute climate change skeptics. | 0_0 |
When paleoclimatologists met in 1972 to discuss how and when the present warm climate would end, termination seemed imminent and it was expected that rapid cooling would lead to the coming ice age. | 1_2 |
Where Ts is surface temperature (C), Tgb is earths grey body temperature which I treat just as a constant as given in the paper (154.3C), and Ps is surface pressure of around 100,000 pascals. | 0_0 |
Climate divisions werent in use then, so the circa 1934 is likely a straight up average of available stations at "press time" | 0_0 |
Were really through the looking glass now. And the good old ABC gleefully publishes this kind of stuff. | 0_0 |
Table 5-9 from the NRC report, Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use . | 0_0 |
Mr. Porritt remarked that, while economic growth has been faster in the UK than any other European country, "this is accompanied by much greater inequality in income, and a long-hours, high-pressure employment culture more characteristic of American society." The report calls on the UK government "to use taxation to af... | 0_0 |
Recent extreme weather cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming to speak of. It is as simple as that. | 1_7 |
One of the greatest achievements of the postmodern mind is the theory that one can control the weather with taxes. Yes, I know! It sounds so crazy that you just want it to work. I recall weather control schemes like cloud seeding, and of course there are more elaborate ideas in Star Trek, but controlling weather with p... | 0_0 |
But for those bugged by nitpicking flexings of government muscle, the most irritating provision may well be the bill's banning of incandescent bulbs. | 0_0 |
Its also nice to see that Conspiracy Theorist can apply to a person of color too. ;-) | 0_0 |
The latest warming trend, which appears to have ended in 1998, is the result of the end of the Little Ice Age, which extended from roughly the 16th century to the 19th. During that period, Muir Glacier in Alaska filled Glacier Bay. In fact, when the first Russian explorers arrived in Alaska in the 1740s, there was no G... | 2_1 |
Mark Boslough is ironically employed as a scientist in New Mexico. His most significant contribution to the mankind occurred in 1998 when he spread a fake article claiming that the Alabama school board redefined \(\pi\) to be equal to the Biblical value \(3.0\). | 0_0 |
Let me assume that the reader has some basic traces of morality so he or she understands why science can't be controlled by the same ideology or the same motivation. So let's talk about the "criticism" that the "contrarians" don't have a unified "consensus science" to replace the LFCSes' "consensus science". What are t... | 0_0 |
Sachs again offers no actual evidence in support of his assertions. | 0_0 |
The question for citizens and their elected representatives is whether even today's models are accurate enough to guide public policy making. Seeking an informed discussion of this topic, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, on behalf of the Cooler Heads Coalition, invited climatologists Robert Davis of the University... | 0_0 |
Right now, the solar cycle is in a valley--the deepest of the past century. In 2008 and 2009, the sun setmodern agerecords for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind, and low solar irradiance. The sun has gone more than two years without a significant solar flare. Take a look at the widget above right - zero sunspots-for ... | 2_1 |
However, Monaghan et al. note that there is evidence of conflicting trends in ice sheet thickness across Antarctica: the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been thinning over the past decade, while the East Antarctic Ice Sheet became thicker over the period 1992 through 2003 (Davis et al. 2005). Previous work attributed the ... | 1_1 |
142. Plaintiff?s wrongful interference with Defendant Steyn?s constitutionally protected rights of free speech and public expression and his engagement and use of the courts as an instrument of the government to carry out that wrongful interference violates the First Amendment and constitutes a constitutional tort for ... | 0_0 |
Car Emissions, one of the largest contributors to air pollution, will be reduced by more than 80 percent over the next 25 years, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. According to an April PRI Harris Interactive poll, 74 percent of respondents revealed their belief that cars are less polluting now than they... | 0_0 |
Check, I agreeover the long term and slowly, just as greenhouse gas theory holds. But the atmosphere is not continuing to warm right now. | 1_4 |
Those observations ran counter to the Obama EPA's crash efforts to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gasses through a public health and welfare Endangerment Finding under the Clean Air Act premised upon climate change mitigation. | 0_0 |
12 See, e.g., Tilman Ludke, Jihad Made in Germany: Ottoman and German Propaganda and Intelligence Operations during the First World War, 2006; Selcuk Esenbel, "Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900-1945," American Historical Review (October 2004). Alexander... | 0_0 |
1. Met Office 2009 Forecast: Trend To Milder Winters To Continue, Snow And Frost Becoming Less Of A Feature | 0_0 |
It has been thought that an increase in carbon dioxide will lead to global warming. While carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing over the past 100 years, there is no evidence that it is causing an increase in global temperatures. | 2_3 |
In light of the fact that Quinn and Ponte indicate that ???over the last century, the rate of sea level rise has been only 1.7 0.5 mm/year, based on tide gauge reconstructions (Church and White, 2006),?? it seems a bit strange that one would ever question that result on the basis of a GRACE-derived assessment, with its... | 5_1 |
A Wall Street Journal editorial on March 30 asserted that It is not about environmental and regulatory hurdles. It is about a deal that Nevada Senator Harry Reid, the former Senate Majority Leader, cut with President Obama to keep Yucca Mountain from ever opening for use. In return, Reid blocked nearly all amendments t... | 0_0 |
cost of $985,000/job to install solar panels at the Denver Federal Center. (Project #41) | 0_0 |
In return, organisations might complain publicly just a bit about government. But mostly these organisations keep sending their representatives off to meetings and their leaders happily sit down with Ministers who feed them soothing words. | 0_0 |
For Washington we could clearly make either a warming or a cooling trend by simply choosing where we put the thermometers. | 0_0 |
By Rick Moran, American Thinker, Aug 5, 2015 | 0_0 |
One good way is to look just at ocean surface temperature trends. That's 70% of the Earth's surface, with no urban heat islands! According to the Hadley Centre, this increased warming amounts to +0.2 F/decade. So yes, it's still rising, but not as much. What does that mean for the trends just over land? It indicates th... | 0_0 |
Washington sea level data. Click image to start animation in new window. | 0_0 |
This elephant has had to be ignored at all costs. What, the globe isnt warming from manmade CO2 as fast as we predicted? Then it must be manmade aerosols cooling things off. Or the warming is causing the deep ocean to heat up by hundredths or thousandths of a degree. Any reason except reduced climate sensitivity, becau... | 3_1 |
"The biosphere is changing, and changing rapidly," according to Fung. And "currently," she notes, "it is a sink for a quarter of the anthropogenic CO 2 emissions." But will it continue? Only time will tell. But as things stand today, she remarks that "surely, the biosphere must be enjoying the warming." | 3_2 |
Global warming is occurring for the 1,001st time in the human history and for the 1,000,001st time in the history of the planet. In the same way, we are witnessing the 1,001st global cooling in the human history and the 1,000,001st global cooling in the Earth's history. I consider the global warming theory to be a prop... | 2_1 |
Severe and damaging tornadoes are mainly a U. S. phenomena. The U. S. is the Tornado Capital of the World and has more tornadoes annually than any country on the globe. Two notable outbreaks include: Super Tornado Outbreak of 1974 (315 deaths) and the Tri State Tornado of 1925 (695 deaths). | 0_0 |
So the deleted line the environmentalists focused on, "climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment," was both meaningless and dangerous. It is on one level a simple truismclimate change does change other things. However, when the clear implication is that the consequences are negative (t... | 0_0 |
The New Left was characterized as much by its impatience as by its lofty ambitions. Its advocates saw the non-attainment of their goals as a moral crime. As such, those who stood in the way of those goals were not merely adversaries, they were enemies: selfish, unlettered, in need of enlightenment. This sentiment is th... | 0_0 |
According to the BGS, potential UK offshore reserves of shale gas could exceed one thousand Tcf; about five to ten times the figure for onshore. Even if, as some conservative observers maintain, only 10 to 20 percent is ultimately recoverable, that would propel the UK to become entirely self-sufficient in shale-sourced... | 4_5 |
The adjustments immediately after 1945 are expected to be as large as those made to the pre-war data (~0.3 C), and smaller adjustments are likely to be required in SSTs through at least the mid-1960s, by which time the observing fleet was relatively diverse and less susceptible to changes in the data supply from a sing... | 0_0 |
What makes the Foster and Rahmstorf work particularly encouraging for lukewarmers is that the authors find that for periods of 30 years or so, the removal of natural variability makes little difference on the magnitude of the observed trend in the lower atmosphere. | 0_0 |
The message of Carbon Morality?The power industry has lost its moral stature, and American society is on the verge of doing something awful to it. | 0_0 |
11. Botswana - Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Tropical Forest Conservation Fund and a Tropical Forest Conservation Board | 0_0 |
His third tenet is to strengthen and enforce the international order. He is absolutely correct when he asserts that respecting international law is not a sign of weakness, but he is absolutely wrong in implying that a failure to sign the United Nations Convention on Law of the Seas somehow emboldens China in the South ... | 0_0 |
With the world still recovering from the 2008 recession, and Europe possibly on the brink of another globally-destabilizing recession, there is not much appetite for a new Kyoto Protocol. Japan, Canada , and Russia will not sign. Europe will not sign unless America and China also sign, which is highly unlikely. | 0_0 |
In the episode, clouds of smug from "Toyonda Pious" sales in South Park, George Clooney's acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards, and San Francisco's pretensions as a progressive city all coverge, creating a "perfect smug storm" that threatens to destroy everything in its path. The citizens of South Park scrap th... | 0_0 |
The 'Green Jobs' Fallacy of Al Gore | 0_0 |
When I asked Deke Arndt of NOAA how they calculated the temperatures for 1934, he seemed as confused as me! | 0_0 |
But there's one major problem: while President Obama poses in front of pipelines in Oklahoma, pretending to be a friend of oil and natural gas, he has given marching orders to his administration to do everything possible to end hydraulic fracturing. Remember, as I mentioned earlier, Armendariz was the one who was caugh... | 0_0 |
The point being that despite large increases in outflow, the lake level has been rapidly recovering. This could be due to only one explanation lots and lots of snow in the Rocky Mountains during the last five years. | 0_0 |
How much of this improvement can be attributed to the NSR program? Obviously not emission reductions or air quality improvements prior to 1977 or for continuing trends that began before NSR was adopted. Factors that may be more important than regulation include electrification and other technological changes, a shift o... | 0_0 |
Environmentalists are fighting to defeat Washington state ballot initiative 732 (I-732), which imposes a $25 per metric ton of carbon dioxide tax on fossil fuels consumed in Washington. If the voters approve the initiative, Washington would become the first state in the nation to impose a tax on carbon dioxide emission... | 0_0 |
"Clinton repeatedly called Kyoto a "work in progress,' and not ready to submit for Senate consideration until it included "meaningful participation by key developing countries,' notably China and India, but also South Korea, Brazil, and Mexico," said Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis. "Those co... | 0_0 |
Washington, D.C. will be one of those cities, but as Bastasch reported, "Environmentalists and liberal groups are urging Obama to use the speech to reaffirm his commitment to fighting global warming. "President Obama should rank the battle against climate change as one of his top priorities in his State of the Union sp... | 0_0 |
He has boasted that his organization is utterly transparent ? but an InterAcademy Council committee that took a close look at the IPCC last year concluded otherwise ? before recommending that Pachauri should step down. | 0_0 |
Increased Atlantic hurricane landfalls from a new form of El Nino? | 0_0 |
Summers is correct that FDRs pre-war New Deal economic strategy failed, but he is incorrect that world war boosted the economy. As Higgs shows in his book, the private sector did not recover until after the war. The war period wasjust another government manipulated period wheresome statistics may have looked good becau... | 0_0 |
The Australian APEC Study Center and The Frontiers of Freedom Institute will be holding an international conference, "Countdown to Kyoto," in Canberra, Australia, August 19-21. | 0_0 |
Helen Chivers, Met Office forecaster, insisted the temperature map takes into account the influence of climate factors such as El Nino and La Nina ? five-yearly climatic patterns that affect the weather ? but admits this is only a ?start point? for a seasonal forecast. She said: ?The map shows probabilities of temperat... | 0_0 |
And a quick aside: there is no such thing as a ???global temperature??, knowing as fact that such a conjuredup parameter is based on just a few thousand weather stations spread across a tiny portion of the earths29% land, with none at the Poles, none in the oceans and some stations being treated as giving thetemperatur... | 5_1 |
By all accounts, NRDC's political contributions have paid off in the form of access at the highest levels of executive environmental policymaking. Many NRDC officials were tapped by Obama to serve as political appointees at the EPA. At the Department of Energy, NRDC helps craft efficiency standards through direct "nego... | 0_0 |
He confirmed that the firm gave Teri $9.5?million (6.1?million) between 2006 and 2009 for planting 8,000 hectares of jatropha, a type of bush, as part of a bio-diesel research project. | 0_0 |
Featured Podcast: Jay Lehr: Make America Healthy Again with Exercise and Global Warming! | 0_0 |
"Now, you are going to listen to the insane, irrational, and creepy things I have to say. If you don't like them, and if you disagree with me, I am going to kill you. Only then can you be free and happy because I will kill you to save you, as you will just die anyway". | 0_0 |
Figure 5: Heat content south of the polar Atlantic until June 2014 (Diagram from Climate Explorer) | 0_0 |
American Products. American Power. (new website on petroleum's consumer bounty) | 0_0 |
But averages deceive, Gholz says, and this study shows that rates of change are at times greater in the oceans than on landand as complex as the currents themselves. | 0_0 |
Its lengthy, but gives the view of a person who was there on the ground, covering climate science and global warming in the late 1980s years before the AGW mania took off. | 0_0 |
4. Global temperatures appear to be rising, irrespective of any human influence, as Earth continues to emerge from the Little Ice Age. If the temperature increase during the past 130 years reflects recovery from the Little Ice Age, it is not unreasonable to expect the temperature to rise another 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsiu... | 2_1 |
How did CEI respond? CEI decided to fight this attack. We objected to the attorney general's offensive and unlawful action as being aimed at silencing CEI and intimidating its supporters. Using DC's anti-SLAPP law, which protects the public's right to engage in advocacy on issues of public interest from attacks by abus... | 0_0 |
???Just at the beginning of the new solar grand minimum, ultimately proving that solar radiations drive the climate,?? Guimaraes points out. | 2_1 |
I am a conservationist. I believe in wise stewardship in harvesting and conserving natural resources and in good management of the beauty of the landscape. | 0_0 |
As Rockefeller University researcher Jesse Ausubel points out, it would take one thousand square miles of prime Iowa farmland to produce as much electricity from biomass as from a single nuclear power plant. And cellulosic ethanol is not the solution. In May 2006, John Deutch, a chemistry professor at the Massachusetts... | 0_0 |
On this blog, over the last couple of months, I have presented a pretty clear set of facts showing that, with the possible exception of some rural border regions beset by drug gangs, the vast majority of Arizona has experienced rapidly falling crime rates, in fact crime rates falling much faster than in the rest of the... | 0_0 |
The simple solution: stop burning food for fuel, drill for more oil, work on alternate energy system that actually might work, like thorium based nuclear power. | 4_5 |
Hao et al . additionally found that the concentrations of a number of beneficial oils in the soybean seeds were increased by an average of 2.8% in response to the 135-ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration. However, they also discovered that the total protein concentration in the seeds was reduced by 3.3% in the ... | 3_3 |
Theaveragefor all 194 stations (including ones which are now defunct) is higher at 0.8 mm/year. This indicates that sea level rise rates are slowing this century, and are much lower than the wildly bogus claims of 3.1 mm from the University of Colorado and elsewhere. | 1_6 |
Last week, scientists from the United States Commerce Departments National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a study of temperature readings for the contiguous 48 states over the last century showed there had been no significant change in average temperature over that period. Dr. (Phil) Jones said in a t... | 1_4 |
Former Vice President Al Gore was at his peak when the film "An Inconvenient Truth" made its initial Hollywood splash. Faith in man-made global warming had never been more widespread, with liberal academics and media subjecting to ridicule any who dared question the "settled science." Only a fool could deny that elevat... | 0_0 |
Guinness officials could not be reached for immediate verification of the record, as they are currently on assignment investigating a claim for "Worlds Biggest Asshole". | 0_0 |
Peiser reported back that there had been no Wikipedia change. Solomon tried again, and again the correction disappeared. | 0_0 |
Alpine Flora Dynamics in a Warming World (15 Mar 2011) Alpine flora appears to be more adaptive and responsive to climate change than generally believed ... Read More | 3_2 |
Another $10 million of Australian taxpayer dollars that could be far better spent on schools and hospitals is heading down the gurgler in pointless research into the enormous health risks of changing weather patterns, reports The Canberra Times : | 0_0 |
"Rather than fight the addition of games resembling slot machines in video lottery establishments across the state, the organization representing casinos in Deadwood may explore ways to expand and enhance their own games, the group's president said Wednesday." | 0_0 |
Image by Dianna Ingram / Bergman Group | 0_0 |
Third, Soon testified that, "There is no convincing evidence from each of the individual climate proxies to suggest that higher temperatures occurred in the 20th century than in the Medieval Warm Period. Nor is there any convincing evidence to suggest that either the rate of increase or the duration of warming during t... | 2_1 |
The shower of particles produced when Earth's atmosphere is struck by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (the most energetic particles known in the universe). Source: Simon Swordy/University of Chicago, NASA | 0_0 |
Variations in surface air temperature estimated from a variety of sources including temperature-sensitive tree growth, indices and written records and accounts of various kinds, largely from western Europe and eastern North America. Of note is a possible protracted global warming through the Medieval period, when surfa... | 2_1 |
However much power is lost, whether 81 gigawatts or something else, the electric grid is highly local. Even subtracting a small plant could have much larger effects for regions, such as blackouts. The older and less efficient coal plants that are slated for closure are often the crucial nodes that connect the hubs and ... | 4_5 |
I doubt that the warming effect is more than trivial, because it appears to be overwhelmed by other forces so often that there is no good correlation anywhere with co2 and temperature. | 2_3 |
The issue here is not where you stand on any one of these particular issues, but who gets to decide them. | 0_0 |
Computer models are not reliable because garbage in yields garbage out. Facts are often cherry-picked and can be tweaked to create the results that the computer modeler is looking for. | 5_1 |
Lutz Pfannenstiel is a German player who was at one time a goalkeeper at the club. He is now a football talent scout. | 0_0 |
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