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Thompson's colleague, Kurt Schrader (D-Oregon) went even further saying the agency is morphing into a hybrid of the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. "The original mission of the Forest Service has been lost," he told a congressional hearing, according to Greenwire. "The law requires species d... | 0_0 |
U.S. emissions Are declining: U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are declining both in absolute terms and as a percent of total global emissions. The major sources of new greenhouse gas emissions are from emerging markets including China, India and Brazil. These countries show no inclination to reduce their emissions, becau... | 4_2 |
Germany?s renewable energy levy, which subsidises green energy production, rose from ?14bn to ?20bn in just one year as a result of the fierce expansion of wind and solar power projects. Since the introduction of the levy in 2000, the electricity bill of German consumers has doubled. | 0_0 |
S. Fred Singer, former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service and University of Virginia professor emeritus commented about these sorry circumstances in the foreword of my book, stating in part: | 0_0 |
The real laugher, however, the place where you can see the gears stripping, involves the conventions about fracturing the rocks to allow more oil to come out, what we call fracking. The fracturing technology was developed about forty years ago, and has been used ever since, mostly for secondary recovery. And for all th... | 0_0 |
1) The carbon taxers/limiters have lost. Carbon-dioxide emissions have been the environmental issue of the past decade. Over that time period, Al Gore became a world-renowned figure for his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," for which he won an Oscar. In 2007, he, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch... | 0_0 |
The new news for me was the admission that the warming rate from 1979-present is in no way unprecedented. This is important as the lead argument (beyond black box the models say so justifications) for blaming anthropogenic factors for recent warming is that the rate of warming was somehow unprecedented. However, Jones ... | 2_1 |
It is a well-documented fact that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases the efficiency of plant growth. As we burn fossil fuels and increase the trace levels of atmospheric CO2, our agriculture flourishes and produces more food with less water. (See The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment, Drs. Craig ... | 3_3 |
U.S. federal policy on research misconduct defines plagiarism as follows: | 0_0 |
On June 26, wind energy proponentsincluding pages of signatories who benefit financially from the tax creditsent a letter to the top Congressional leaders urging them to "support the immediate passage of the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act." | 0_0 |
This is well illustrated by their failure to properly consider the null hypothesis that global temperatures will not rise appreciably because of CO2emissions from industrial activity. | 5_2 |
Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation. Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a ... | 2_3 |
Food prices are going up. Since the green revolution in the 1940s-1960s food prices have been going down, but now they are on an upward trend. There are two reasons for this, the first is grain-based ethanol and the second is that prosperity is catching up with more people in India and China. | 0_0 |
So what's a non-scientist citizen, without the time to study the scientific details, to do? How is the ordinary citizen to distinguish, as Andrew Coyne puts it, "between genuine authority and mere received wisdom? Conversely, how do we tell crankish imperviousness to evidence from legitimate skepticism?" Are we obligat... | 0_0 |
Climate Astrology: Blizzard blamed on global warming?! Is there any weather event that is inconsistent with global warming? Climate Depot Round up | 0_0 |
No, nearly every other nation has concluded it was a massive and very expensive fraud. That is why the forthcoming UN conference is going to implode. Policy makers are trying to extricate themselves from the useless solar and wind projects to which billions were committed. As soon as Obama is out of office and the Envi... | 5_2 |
Climate models only have validity if they are verified, but as Vincent Gray pointed out originally and more recently this has never been done with IPCC models. Verification involves the ability to replicate past climate conditions. Tweaking the model until it approximates those conditions is not verification. The conun... | 5_1 |
Tell him that you know he will feel much happier inside if he is doing something to make Australia and the world a better place, instead of going to work every day to make it a worse one. | 0_0 |
In a post titled: "How Obama's Clean Power Plan will fuel the solar industry's rapid growth," Forbes.com contributor Lyndsey Gilpin quotes Shayle Kann, senior vice president of GTM Research: "It could be a major catalyst for solar nationwide." Gilpin points out: "Apart from the Solar Investment Tax Credit, the federal ... | 0_0 |
The Energy Department's conclusions echo numerous comprehensive independent studies from across the ideological spectrum, including progressive analyses by the Hamilton Project led by Michael Levi, senior fellow and energy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations and research directed by Charles Ebinger at the Brooki... | 0_0 |
One thing that is fairly predictable, and sometimes devastating in Russia this year, tragic is flooding. Right now an emergency in many parts of Northern Europe. Local flooding is fairly possible to predict, and risk areas ought to be rather easy to identify by now. As every year, take precautions, and think twice befo... | 0_0 |
IPCC report downplays economic impacts of climate change, reviewer says | 0_0 |
The press release states that IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus, which is true. This consensus is created by having experts sift through solid research and write up summaries based on personal judgment. | 5_1 |
I'm not entirely comfortable sending the password around unsolicited, but haven't got better ideas at the moment. If you feel this makes you seemingly "complicit" in a way you don't like, don't take action. | 0_0 |
Bill McKibben of 350.org, which organized the recent Washington, D.C. rally against the pipeline (CFACT was there!) called Keystone XL "the most important issue for the environmental movement in a very long time." What about "the oil will be developed with or without the pipeline' does McKibben fail to understand? Real... | 0_0 |
By Staff Writers, GAO, Aug 4, 2015 | 0_0 |
The rest of the article is equally superficial. For example, there is lots of discussion of Arrhenius, but no mention of feedbacks. Does Robbins really not see that the difference between disaster and decades - centuries even - of gentle, beneficial warming is the feedbacks? What is gained by shouting "Arrhenius" at th... | 3_1 |
If you've paid any attention to the global warming debate, you've heard of James Hansen. | 0_0 |
Russia's relation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and its expectations, are of an altogether different nature. On the surface, to be sure, China and Russia appear to be the two main pillars of the SCO. Economically and militarily, the two countries' relation is, for the time being at least, one of genuine com... | 0_0 |
Then they impose their preferences, their personal preferences based on their ideology or worsesocial and political pressures. | 0_0 |
Meanwhile there 'who expects to be able to dance on the grave of that other prime minister, a famous historical figure still living and increasingly painted satanic traits, Margaret Thatcher. And really there is' a link between the two. | 0_0 |
So droughts in North America are coincident with solar insolation minima. We already know of the cause and effect relationship between solar cycle minima and East African rainfall. West African drought has been found to be linked to Atlantic sea surface temperatures 2 . | 2_1 |
A paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that sea surface temperatures of the NE Atlantic have cooledapproximately 3 C over the past 2,400 years from 400 B.C. to 2000 A.D. The authors findthat the peak temperature of the Medieval Warm Period was approximately 2.2C greater than the peak temperature of the l... | 2_1 |
I want to end with a frutsgelse as from the tminstone few of those who are reading it to have an opportunity to see whether it struck me nes me to g 50 years ahead in time. It will d both laugh for the climate hysteria over a few decades around the turn of the millennium rdde in the rich over the world, and one will ha... | 0_0 |
Just as bad, in the view of the President and his allies, Jacksonians don't have much respect for the educated and the credentialed. Like William F. Buckley, they would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the phonebook than by the Harvard faculty. They loathe the interfering busybodies of the progressive state... | 0_0 |
Their legs are good for a whole lot more than merely providing the raw materials for a delicious dish at a ritzy restaurant | 0_0 |
Ukraine Meanwhile, Ukraine is at risk of undoing the Orange Revolution. The party of Viktor Commie Yanukovich has received 33 percent of votes while Viktor Western Yushchenko's party has only received 13 percent or so. Fortunately, the former ally of Yushchenko and the former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is al... | 0_0 |
Dan Kish, senior vice president of the Institute for Energy Research, responded to the revelation saying: "In his testimony under oath, Beale, perhaps unwittingly, has laid bare the administration's end goal. The President's policies are not about carbon, they are not about coal, and they are not even about energy and ... | 0_0 |
S. Fred Singer: First, there would be very little public interest in funding climate science, were it not for an assertion by alarmists in the political and environmental communities that a human-caused ("anthropogenic") global warming crisis exists, which can be mostly attributed to carbon-dioxide emissions from burni... | 5_2 |
The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season did not meet the hyperactive expectations of the storm pontificators. This is good news, just like it was last year. With the breathless media coverage prior to the 2006 and 2007 seasons predicting a catastrophic swarm of hurricanes potentially enhanced by global warming a la Katrina,... | 1_7 |
E&E; Legal recently released documents obtained through FOIA from various state attorneys general offices that show communications among instrumental players in coordinating the March 29, 2016 press conference on combatting climate change. The emails allegedly show "The offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneid... | 0_0 |
Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts: | 0_0 |
Typical of the Obama approach, this pragmatism will place results ahead of market ideology and process concerns. It will also begin by making clear to the public in all three countries what it is that their governments are attempting to do, issue by issue. | 0_0 |
Jack Ward Thomas, President Clinton's forest service chief, noted a few years ago that court battles have tied the agency in a "Gordian knot" creating a "vicious cycle of increasing costs, time delays, and inability to carry out management actions." As a result, most national forests are a tinder box of old-growth tree... | 0_0 |
Introduction and Summary Prudent Investing in Regulation to Mitigate Climate Change Participation by All Major Greenhouse Gas-Emitting Nations in Climate Regulation U.S. Interests and Global Climate Regulation The Elements of Sound Regulatory Design for Climate Policy Assessing and Correcting the Kyoto Protocol's Flaws... | 0_0 |
Ever since the 1999 intervention in Kosovo, NATO has been eager to prove that it stands for more than "No Action, Talk Only." But the adoption by the Alliance of the Marge Simpson doctrine ("Are we gonna just stand there like the French, or are we gonna do something?") has proved to be no substitute for a new strategic... | 0_0 |
October 23, 2012 AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. | 0_0 |
Al Gore and his NASA scientific advisor James Hansen predicted sea levels would rise six metres by 2050 in 1988, a metre each decade (62 years-time), with the Florida Keys being one metre under water by the year 2000.. This is 96.8mm per year. Error to date is 5,693% | 0_0 |
Another lie claims that there is a consensus among climate scientists that a known man-made global warming crisis exists. Official statements to the contrary presented by more than 650 international climate-related experts who presented contrary official testimony recorded in a 2008 U.S. Senate minority report suggest ... | 5_2 |
President Obama has pledged to take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Mitt Romney calls the domestic gas a godsend. Energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, an early natural gas booster, contends its obvious that Washington should enact policies to encourage natural gas production and use throughout the econo... | 4_5 |
Peter Ferrara, Investor's Business Daily | 0_0 |
IN the past collusive lawsuits and the problem of Chevron jurisprudence have been a focus of JunkScience postings along with the problems of junk science and issues of scientific evidentiary admissibility. All of these abuses of judicial power violate the constitution when they allow judges to become law makers and giv... | 0_0 |
Now this isn't meant to be an indictment of the scientific process. I just want to point out that scientists are people too. And while the most objective people I've ever met are scientists, for the most part, people that speak out on the issue of global warming have greater motivations than just searching for how thin... | 0_0 |
Then in 2010 Sierra Club decided to end its relationship with Chesapeake Energy. | 0_0 |
Just received a heads up that CTV news will be airing a whistleblower segment tonight, involving a government reclocation contract. Correction- it airs on Thursday, May 12. | 0_0 |
At Pugh's website, a commenter ( Steve Goddard , unrelated to GISS) says the following: lewis, | 0_0 |
A paper published last month in the journal Climate Dynamics finds that "The Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) shows an increased trend during 19792009 , with a trend rate of 1.36 0.43% per decade. Ensemble empirical mode decomposition analysis shows that the rate of the increased trend has been accelerating in the past d... | 1_1 |
He has taken up several lucrative posts since leaving office three years ago. He has a 1 million deal to advise the ruling royal family of Kuwait and has been paid a 4.6 million advance for his memoirs. | 0_0 |
Like many true-believers, he is insufficiently trained in logic to know that absence of correlation between two datasets necessarily indicates absence of causation between them. The sharp fluctuations in global temperature in phase with the 60-year cycles of the ocean oscillations are not correlated with the monotonic ... | 2_1 |
And then there is the temperature "hiatus." Despite increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, there has been virtually no temperature increase since roughly 2002, despite the predictions of the climate models. No one knows why; the science is not settled, nor can it ever be, by definition. | 1_4 |
That failure on his part to check with me when he could not find the sources of my data was clearly deliberate. He didn't want to give me any advance notice that he was planning to launch a widely-disseminated attack on me, because otherwise I might have pointed out his errors to him in advance, and that would have mad... | 0_0 |
I personally believe that disclosure of any relevant content of the material is justified in the public interest, given the billions of pounds of public money spent on the climate scare maintained since the start of the Climategate email chain. Early in that chain, Michael Manns paleoclimatology work, including the inf... | 5_2 |
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, WUWT, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
Senior Statistician and Research ProgrammerCenter for Data Analysis | 0_0 |
Leading climate analysts are designing a set of new policy scenarios that will be used to frame future climate policy analyses. This new exercise seeks to improve the realism of the scenarios used in climate policy analysis. In recent decades, rational choice institutionalism (RCI) has increasingly influenced several s... | 0_0 |
A SNR ratio of 1 appears to be exactly the same as the VZ erik167 network that Ive experimented on. In any of these pseudoproxy neworks if youre adding equal amounts of white noise you can usually get your signal back using simple averages. From the above networks, they calculated RE, r2 and CE results: | 0_0 |
There were many in the established science community that embraced the Big Bang thinking that this disproved the existence of God, or at least Biblical prophesies. It is not an endorsement of Creationism to state the obvious. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy with between 200 and 400 billion other stars, many capable of ... | 0_0 |
In the assessment of global warming (and global cooling), this research further shows that unless the role of near surfacevapor trends are included, a quantitatively erroneous assessment will necessarily result. Thus, when a media report or scientific paper claims thata certain increase (or decrease) in temperatures ha... | 5_1 |
Bjorn Lomborg is another high-profile climate sceptic who changed his mind after reviewing the evidence. He now believes climate change is real, but that it wont be the calamity predicted by some. | 0_0 |
when a contentious issue comes up and takes the lead on walking out | 0_0 |
Distinguishing the Roles of Natural and Anthropogenically Forced Decadal Climate Variability: Implications for Prediction | 0_0 |
Dr Pachauri has repeatedly denied any conflict of interest between his work for the IPCC and his work for Teri. In a recent letter to The Sunday Telegraph, he said there was no question of either himself, the IPCC or Teri being influenced by associations with organisations. | 0_0 |
"The Court did not rule, though, on whether states could use state public nuisance laws to regulate such emissions in court. The Second Circuit was directed to consider this issue on remand." | 0_0 |
In 2011, Texas A&Ms Andrew Dessler announced that Texas was going to be hot and dry for the rest of the century based on a single data point. | 5_2 |
After heavy rain during the night, we rolled south from Edinburgh in sporadic showers through the land of the giant bird shredders I stopped to look at them. Id not been up close to one in a decade or so, and like my daughter, oh, my how theyve grown in that time. | 0_0 |
This is the key difference between politics and free enterprise. If politics were a product, it would have no customers. And yet, somehow, we end up spending a quarter of our gross domestic product on political goods and services that wouldn't get a single bid if they were for sale on E-bay. | 0_0 |
Al Gore certainly looks like a man who is running for President in An Inconvenient Truth, a shamelessly propagandistic documentary that has all the artistry and subtlety of a campaign ad. | 0_0 |
"Though CSR was labeled by free-market icon Milton Friedman as a "subversive doctrine,' much of the business community has embraced it, arguing that it is simply "good for our business.' Opponents of CSR have naturally argued the contrary, emphasizing the economic costs of following such a "misguided virtue' as CSR. Bu... | 0_0 |
From Arizona State University where I really don??t think they understand that warmer winters aren??t necessarily a product of ???climate change?? but are mostly weather pattern and ocean cycle pattern driven. Then there??s the recent study about waste heat where the researchers found: | 2_1 |
Llasat et al .'s work revealed "an increase of flood events for the periods 1580-1620, 1760-1800 and 1830-1870," and they report that "these periods are coherent with chronologies of maximum advance in several alpine glaciers." In addition, we calculate from their tabulated data that for the aggregate of the three rive... | 1_7 |
LNG exports could at most cost on average about $4 a month adding "as much as $50 to the annual electric bills for the poorest American households by the end of the decade," Levi write. "But the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program could help shield the most vulnerable as long as its financing is protected... | 0_0 |
They make a big deal out of the rifle being left in the car and the coroner (prior to doing any autopsies) saying the shooting was done with a rifle. Maybe its just hard to tell in the field and the guy guessed wrong when on camera. | 0_0 |
The satellite measurements show no temperature change between 1979 and 1997, but is then followed by a large sharp peak in 1998 because of the El Nino ocean event of that year, and since 2001 has shown a modest warm spell. | 1_4 |
The bankruptcy of battery maker A123 reflects poorly on Obama's efforts to pick winners and losers. | 0_0 |
AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE EXPERT CONDEMNS UN CLIMATE ALARM | 5_2 |
Unlike in politics or painting, when it comes to climate change, the opinions of laypersons are not relevant. | 0_0 |
Ordinarily, a presidential election might have sorted out matters, with the nominee taking the GOP on a newly defined course. But McCain's emergence only underscored the problem. On any given day during fall 2008, McCain could be found appealing to conservatives on taxes, terrorism, and the Supreme Court. Or he might b... | 0_0 |
Southeast Alaska is having their coldest summer on record, after their snowiest winter on record so MSNBC blames a landslide there on global warming. | 5_2 |
Other examples of this step change in a metric occurring at a data redefinition or change in measurement technique can be found in | 0_0 |
"The nearly $300 billion (over five-years) Farm Bill simply paid off every special interest. Farmers got their direct payments, their counter-cyclical payments, their price support loan amounts, their disaster funds, etc. Some producers who weren't subsidized before the fruit, vegetable, and nut producers got some gobs... | 0_0 |
EPA's AGW Regs cost Jobs | 4_1 |
Even polar bears are thriving so far, though this is mainly because of the cessation of hunting. None the less, its worth noting that the three years with the lowest polar bear cub survival in the western Hudson Bay (1974, 1984 and 1992) were the years when the sea ice was too thick for ringed seals to appear in good n... | 3_2 |
Americans for Prosperity had booked a meeting-room in a canal-side hotel, with a live satellite link-up to well-attended chapter meetings all over the United States. As their President was speaking, the Hitler-Jugend, part of a very large, lavishly-funded delegation of jack-trainered, eco-Fascist goons probably paid fo... | 0_0 |
subject: RE: The Climatic Variability and Climate Change Initiative for Africa | 0_0 |
At the rate the global oceans have warmed to 2000 meters during the ARGO era, Figure 8, no one should really be too concerned about the warming of those oceans, especially when the data suggests it warmed via natural processes. | 2_1 |
Is the IPCC Logically Challenged? Writing in American Thinker, SEPP Chairman Fred Singer recaps the major failures in science and in logic that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) employed in its five scientific Assessment Reports (AR) from 1990 to 2013. The scientific failures in the first three re... | 5_1 |
Youd need many times the energy of all fossil fuels ever burnt and those still in the ground to melt that giant ice cube. Still, Mother Nature did it without much fanfare and here comes the kicker without any change in the atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) level up front. That alone should tell you how mistaken the CO2-... | 2_1 |
CEI's Ryan Radia criticized New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his groundless antitrust case again Intel. Radia accuses Cuomo of "using his authority to make headlines at consumers' expense," and " innovation in the computer chip market." Read the full news release here.>>Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia's analysis o... | 0_0 |
One Response to The Royal Society: From Science to Fiction | 0_0 |
Vincent Vernuccio's op-ed in The TennesseanStoking Fears About No More Tears | 0_0 |
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