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In their latest drive-by piece Die Zeit takes dead aim at Marc Morano , the Heartland Institute, the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), Fritz Vahrenholtand other communicators of the skeptic message, and contrasts them to an innocent,tormented Michael Mann. Die Zeits message is clear: If you challenge cl...
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The scientists included in the Climategate emails from the University of East Anglia Include:
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assess regional benefits as well as dangers associated with the varying scenarios of future climate
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In the past, the mainstream press essentially ignored the anti-science temperature record fabrications, but no longer .
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Gavin Schmidt who is involved in compiling the temperature record kept by NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, a record which has repeatedly been found to have exaggerated and overstated recent warming.
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #192
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Chapter 3, by Robert C. Balling, Jr.Global Warming: Messy Models, Decent Data, and Pointless Policy
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The petition is short, simple, science-fiction-scale ambitious, and looks like it was written by a child from a kindergarten:
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Since, in the words of the authors, "atmospheric greenhouse forcing should cause roughly synchronous global temperature changes," their observations of "asynchronous coupling of Arctic and Antarctic temperatures as deduced from the Greenland and Antarctic ice-core records" would suggest that variations in the planet's ...
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in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years , the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country (Figure 2)
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The year 2001 could have been an eye-opener but the West, too traumatized by the Islamist attack on America, failed to notice an equally important, if less spectacular, development: the creation by China of a coalition, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, including Russia and Central Asia as members, Iran as a silen...
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They do not think it proper to commit these utterances to writing, although in all other matters and in their public and private accounts they make use of Greek characters. I believe that they have adopted the practice for two reasons- that they do not wish the rule to become common property, nor those who learn the ru...
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Anyway, back to the Antarctic. There are reports that the ice sheet is shrinking at a faster rate, based on research led by Eric Rignot, of the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Dr. Rignot attributed the shrinkage in the ice sheet to an upwelling of warm w...
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Researchers Maozheng Zhou and Steven Running published the work in Science on August 20, 2010. They used data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite to monitor plant growth and calculate the total amount of carbon plants store as they grow, a value called net primary pro...
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I'm struggling to say something polite about this. By way of an illustration, can you imagine the reaction if a scientist reported in the safety literature that there was a critical flaw in the design of a nuclear power station, but told policymakers that everything was fine? Do the committee really think it's fine to ...
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The past week has been insane. Among the things on my plate:
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Research shows that swaths of Australias Great Barrier Reef, damaged by the 1998 El Nio, have fully recovered, rebounding strong and healthy. So many questions arise. Do El Nios act to promote species diversity, seed corals to other locations, recharge the water chemistry, reduce overpopulation, etc.?
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Its that time of year again when we see headlines about 2007 being the m th warmest year on record over the past n years whether we are talking about the United States or the world as a whole. Reporters breathlessly reveal that the trend in temperatures is alarming and completely unprecedented over the eons of earth hi...
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To paraphrase Mandy Rice Davies , They would, wouldnt they. To demonstrate to yourself that the ABC is completely biased, in particular on climate change, all you need to do is go to the ABC web site here , get yourself a stiff drink (because believe me, youll need it) and watch the debate that followed the screening o...
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Big errors are introduced because readings taken from the cooling-water intake tubes of various ships record measure temperatures at different ocean depths. Varying amounts of conduction from different vessel infrastructures and daily sun conditions skew temperatures as well.
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While 350.org, Sierra Club and other groups were protesting Keystone, domestic firms were building new pipelines to handle the surge in crude production. Since 2010, the U.S. has added about 12,000 miles of new oil pipelines. That's more than 10 times the length of the contested section of Keystone XL, which was to spa...
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1. Geoff Sharp Are Uranus & amp; Neptune resposible for Solar grand minima and solar cycle modulation March 2010, at http://landscheid.auditblogs.com
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(BNA Daily Environment Report, June 27, 1997)
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Third, they will ask for your total payroll, usually in dollars, by state, for each of these job class codes. Most will take your word for it up front, but will audit you and your payroll records sometime during the year to ensure that the premiums are calculated on the right total. Some insurance companies, as well as...
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John Maynard Keynes once noted that "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." To whatever degree that is true, economists build upon the intellectual foundations that they find, and it sometimes is the case that too litt...
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Children and stupid adults, you will really have to become the world dictators and establish the world government before it will make sense to talk about the "public trust doctrine applied to the atmosphere". Be sure that once the threat that you want to overtake the world will become credible, you will become desirabl...
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The new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Gina McCarthy, ahead of a trip to China, told a liberal advocacy group in Washington that she has devoted her life to protecting the environment: "And I really see no greater issue and no more urgent threat to public health than climate change."
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Alaska is going to be the next Florida by the end of the century .
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Global Warming Blamed For Fall of Roman Empire AND Medieval Plague
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<3111> Watson/UEA:
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Fortunately, McKibben is wrong. Acting on his arguments against fracking would actually cause the United States to increase greatly its output of carbon dioxide, which would be the opposite of what environmentalists say they want.
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Ha ha! I know, Ben. Its. the paunches I cant get over!
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on why foreign aid is not an effective replacement for economic development:
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Until last month, when the lies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were revealed to the world by an anonymous hacker. Not since Aladdin has a thief saved his country; and this data thief may actually save the world from the proverbial fate worse than death. For the stolen data, now posted on public whistl...
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So, in other words, this chart is totally bogus. There is an essentially flat trend up to the 1998 switch in data definition and an essentially flat trend after 1998. There is a step-change upwards in 1998 due to the data redefinition. This makes this chart useless unless your purpose is to fool generally ignorant peop...
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Unless ACESA causes other nations to adopt GHG limits, it is focused on what is, in fact, the much smaller and shrinking part of the total problem. Effective GHG control depends far more on inducing controls abroad than it does on imposing them at home. When all greenhouse gases are considered and all sources, includin...
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While the model mean of the outgoing shortwave radiation increases at a rate of about +0.08 watts/m^2/decade from 1861 to 2005, some models show a sizeable increase and others show little to no trend. Only one model shows a decline during the hindcast, and its trend is relatively flat at about -0.01 watts/m^2/decade. T...
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In the second post in this series , we showed that the ocean heat content for the entire eastern tropical Pacific (24S-24N, 180-80W), for the depths of 0-700 meters, was cooler before the start of the current El Nio than it was in before the start of 1997 El Nio. (See the graph here .)
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The Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974 spawned 148 confirmed tornadoes across eastern North America and resulted in the second highest death toll (319) in the United States. Not only did it produce an exceptional number of tornadoes, but it was also an inordinately intense outbreak producing dozens of large, long-track ...
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Eme et al. exposed two species of tropical fish to significantly warmer water. Both species easily survived the hotter waters, indicating that tropical fish have a high toleration for temperature variation.
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Yes, it's the date of another major failed end of the world ;-)
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If we don't discuss the commutator but the separate (time-ordered) product, as seen in the Feynman propagator, it tells us about a correlation. How does it work? The point is that \[
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I would say before this decade ends because what is GOING to happen is the global temperature trend is going to be in a definitive down turn due to prolonged minimum solar conditions and the associated secondary effects.
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And, as for wet summers, none have been remotely as wet as the summer of 1912. Citizens of Norwich may well have heard about the disastrous floods of that year, when an incredible seven inches of rain fell in one day.
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Recent EPA interpretations have extended NSR to physical and operational changes that neither Congress nor EPA itself in past rulings intended to be subject to NSR's permitting requirements.
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The UK MET Office has released its updated long term averages for the 1980-2010 period. This contains some interesting items which well be analysing and commenting on. Of particular note are increases in rainfall, sunshine hours, and of course, temperature (0.52C compared to the 1961-1991 average). Notably, although th...
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Via Tom Nelson , this guy is certainly a fine example of enlightened scientific discourse:
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Note my graphic of Perth dam catchment rain steady over 35 years.
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estimate that the proposed standards would result in net economic benefits exceeding $100 billion, making this a highly beneficial rule.
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It came as no surprise, then, that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters this week, "One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming."
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Unreal. SEIU Local 25 and 12 Other Unions Receive Obamcare Waivers:
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Fen skating, once a popular sport on the fields of East Anglia, now takes place on indoor artificial rinks. Malcolm Robinson, of the Fenland Indoor Speed Skating Club in Peterborough, says they have not skated outside since 1997. "As a boy, I can remember being on ice most winters. Now it's few and far between," he sai...
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his campaign promises (closing Guantanamo) and the biggest priority of the
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The main result is the best estimate based on the multi-model ensemble is found inconsistent with observations at a significance of 5%. So, this test says we should treat the hypothesis that the best estimate of the trend based on averaging over models matches observations as false .
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Big honking climate science puzzle here - FORTRAN geek needed, apply within. Please - If you do not have the skills/background to contribute to the linked discussion, don't clutter their work with off-topic junk. Use this one for general comments. But I do encourage you read the thread, as something very curious happen...
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HEM's Macroeconomic Activity Module uses the IHS Global Insight model, which is used by government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations to forecast the effects of economic events and policy changes on notable economic indicators. The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this Backgrounder are entir...
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Debate. It's the hallmark of an open society. We may hold different points of view on a certain topic, but we can express those views freely, without fear of repercussions.
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(I usually say that tankeverfringens problem now is locked because there is something better way to verfra their thoughts to others n the Bertta about them, sr can just call it as you want verfra their thoughts to. Dremot we frmodligen never To be able to read the thoughts of others.)
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This provides ???ever more real-world evidence for the fact that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about the Earths current level of warmth,?? says meteorologist Anthony Watts.
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We have kept the Transport for London road network open throughout all this. We have about 90,000 tons of grit in stock, and the gritters were out all night to deal with this morning's rush. And yet we have to face the reality of the position across the country.
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The EU also is quietly rolling back its renewable agenda, which EU leaders now recognise has been raising energy prices across the Continent. At their summit in Brussels in May, leaders indicated that they intended to prioritise the issue of affordable energy over cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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I think that even Mann sympathizers should not accept this response. The claim that ???upside down?? data was used may be ???bizarre??, but it??s also true. You can see that the data was used upside down by comparing Mann??s own graph with the orientation of the original article, as we did last year. In the case of the...
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While risk-based insurance rates and increased environmental protection sound good in principle, they aren't always practical in the short term. Simply deregulating insurance rates tomorrow would force some people -- particularly senior citizens on fixed incomes -- to sell their houses at a loss. Coastal open space is ...
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TWTW has not confirmed the claim using independent sources. Assuming 113 tons to 1 acre-foot, and 1 tonne equals 2,240 lbs, not 2,000 lbs, this amount converts to 91,870 acre-feet of fresh water per day or 113,275 megaliters per day. See link under Other News That May Be of Interest.
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Since most research has found that a dollar spent on mitigation returns somewhere between $3 and $7 in long-term savings, investing in making properties more storm resistant will also save taxpayer money while facilitating a switch to risk-based insurance rates. The insurance-rate shift -- not the programs -- are most ...
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Elevated CO 2 enhanced crop nitrogen uptake by 2, 15 and 23% in the low, medium and high nitrogen treatments, respectively. With greater amounts of nitrogen uptake, CO 2 -enriched plants had more raw materials available to support enhanced biomass production, which led to total dry mass enhancements of 38-45%. Atmosphe...
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This was a rather startling thing to say, especially as his own programme did not conclude that the warmists are right and the sceptics wrong. In fact he appeared to be saying he would give up his freedom just in case the warmists are right.
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Of course, if natural multidecadal ocean oscillations can explain the 'pause,' why can't they also explain much of the cause of global warming during the 80's-90's? The authors also describe a potential mechanism that could be the natural driver of multidecadal ocean oscillations, finding "robust negative correlation b...
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I very much welcome the strong position taken by Briffa and coauthors against the use of radially deformed tree ring data.
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A REPORT warning of increasing heatwaves across western Sydney fails to account for wide variations in temperatures recorded in different parts of the city and over time.
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Robert Bryce writing in today's WSJ:
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FURTHER READING: Zycher also writes "The Fact-free Opposition to Keystone XL," "The Efficiency of a Carbon Tax: Broadly Accepted and Broadly Wrong," and "The Climate Change Climate Keeps Changing, but the Carbon Tax Is Eternal." Kenneth P. Green asks "Can Obama Punt Keystone into 2016?" Vaclav Smil presents "Obama's In...
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#1 Global warming is based on computer models of the atmosphere projecting temperatures out a hundred or more of years. Computer models are used to predict the daily weather as well. Can you tell us what your temperature at your home will be next month on the first Monday within 10 degreesCelcius Would you bet even one...
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See, for instance, Andrew Restuccia, "Obama: Nation Can't Drill its Way out of Soaring Gas Prices," The Hill, May 6, 2011, http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/159705-obama-more-drilling-is-not-the-solution (accessed June 17, 2016).
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If the common man needed more proof that normal news organs are intentionally hiding front-page events, this is it. Last week my family went to dinner at a local pizza joint, and I took the opportunity to bring them up-to-date regarding Climategate. From the next table over came a cry from one diner to their partner on...
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3) Haven?t Global Temperatures Risen Before? Yes. In the longer term, say hundreds to thousands of years, there is considerable indirect, proxy evidence (not from thermometers) of both warming and cooling. Since humankind can?t be responsible for these early events, this is evidence that nature can cause warming and co...
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Further, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, currently demonised, have in the past been many time higher while Earth was actually cooler than it is now.
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Mike Haseler, the study's author, explains: "rising GDP is an indication of a prosperous economy"which is why economic commentators cite GDP number when they say: "President Barack Obama may become the first president since Herbert Hoover not to serve during a year in which the growth in real GDP was at least 3 percent...
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Calling oil from horizontal wells unconventional is crucial for the peak oil folks, however, because if the oil from fracking were classified as conventional oil, the peak oil claims and the peak gas claims would sink of their own weight ...
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You know what the huge hideous rule says. Biofuel processes must produce 20 percent less CO2 than gasoline . TWENTY PERCENT LESS, are you listening to me!!! Guess what the reaction of a Minnesota democrat was to this hideous and burdensome requirement, (which adds giant cost to fuels).
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All along the public was told the reason for rising temperatures was a result of the increase in global carbon emissions. Yet carbon emissions continue to rise, while temperatures do not.
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"The top 400 charities showed donations declined by 11 percent last year- the worst decline in 20 years."Sandy Levinson's Challenge:
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Results of a study published this week in the journal Science show how fast animal and plant populations would need to move to keep up with recent climate change effects in the ocean and on land.
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This study seems to confirm what physicians, registered dietitians and healthcare associations such as the American Medical Association have been saying for decades, said Dr. Mark Haub, Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Kansas State University. Not only is it safe to consume caloric sweeteners at re...
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Through this initiative, labor and management set out to pursue more government funds for themselves as an explicit policy objective. As Kenneth Raske, the head of GNYHA, put it, "government the key to all our problems." Under Rivera's leadership, 1199 shifted its political efforts into overdrive. " the existing cultur...
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Bellingen News, sport and weather | The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun
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RCC Australia assumed coordination of the incident and issued a broadcast to icebreaking vessels in the area.
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Thermometers show a 60 year cycle US summer cooling and heating. Ten years of sharp cooling, followed by 50 years of gradual warming.The graph below shows two sharp cooling periods from 1895 to 1905, and again from 1950 to 1960. It also shows two warming periods from 1910 to 1950, and from 1960 to 2010.
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9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
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The AFL-CIO Sasses President Obama on Twitter:
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After 350 years, and amid a changing climate, Alpine pilgrims warm up to ice.
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. . . Apparently, increased total CO2 column amount is coupled with decreasing H2O column amount. As the result of the opposing trends in the two most important GHGs, in Fig. 2 the red curve shows no trend in the TIOD. In the last 61 years, the infrared absorbing capability of the atmosphere has not been changed; there...
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To put this figure in perspective, the single continent of North America currently has more recoverable oil than the entire world has used since Edwin Drake drilled the first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1800s. Much of the oil in the United States is concentrated in the Bakken Formation i...
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Many of your greatest engineers, scientists, and astronauts agree that Dr. Hansen has overstepped his bounds with his advocacy, as I repost below. Anthony
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I suggest Congress and government agencies lead by example and adopt this rule of no air conditioning immediately. In fact, I'm sure it must be somewhere in Speaker Pelosi's Greening the Capitol initiative. Questions should be asked on the floor as to why they're running the AC this week.
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4) No advanced nation or group from such a nation has a right to sanctimoniously demand that people from developing nations forgo their hopes for a better standard of living.
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As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, nutrient poor grasslands of Switzerland will likely exhibit increased biomass both above- and belowground. Although additional phosphorus fertilization would likely increase the absolute magnitude of this response, biomass should significantly increase on a percentage b...
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In the same year the US passed a bill prohibiting the Overseas Private Investment Corporation a federal agency responsible for underwriting American companies that invest in developing countries from investing in energy projects that involve fossil fuels.
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CEI: We live in the most prosperous country in the most prosperous time in the history of the world. Is being able to worry one of the luxuries we enjoy as a result?
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The team looked for signs of CO 2 fertilization in arid areas, Donohue said, because "satellites are very good at detecting changes in total leaf cover, and it is in warm, dry environments that the CO 2 effect is expected to most influence leaf cover." Leaf cover is the clue, he added, because "a leaf can extract more ...
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