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Trenberth et al. (2014) Earths Energy Imbalance is one of a series of papers that present and discuss the imbalance in Earths energy budget. They begin their introduction with: | 0_0 |
Has the recent warming period lasted longer than the early period? No doubt about it. Is that any reason to be concerned? No. The mid-to-late 20 th Century cooling period lasted for 46 years. Who cares? | 2_1 |
Alexander said she has always maintained that by definition, more vulnerable households are not able to respond as effectively to a natural disaster as those households whose livelihoods are more secure, that is, their capacity for response is influenced by their weakened ability to guard against risk. | 0_0 |
We can see above that Alaska and Siberia were plenty warm in January, 1926. We can also see below that the current Arctic warming is most pronounced during winter. The belief that recent Arctic warming is somehow different than the 1920s warming does not seem to have a very sound basis. | 2_1 |
As for average summertime maximum temperature in Missouri's third climate division since 1896: the correlation is one toward cooling, not warming, during the summer. That applies for the rest of the state as well. | 1_4 |
Concerning these benefits, atmospheric CO 2 is the building block of plant life. It is used by earths plants in the process of photosynthesis to construct their tissues and grow. And as has been conclusively demonstrated in numerous scientific studies, the more CO 2 we put into the air, the better plants grow. Among ot... | 3_3 |
In early 2013, a Heritage paper looked at the economic impacts of a carbon tax that was included as a side case in the EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2012. That analysis noted the following impacts of a $25 per ton tax on carbon dioxide: | 0_0 |
increased government funding of energy-related technology research and development | 0_0 |
???While the consequences of the various impact mechanisms could have made the surface ocean more acidic, our results do not point to enough ocean acidification to cause global extinctions. Out of several factors we considered in our model simulation, only one (sulphuric acid) could have made the surface ocean severely... | 3_2 |
sped up and slowed suggests the glaciers have been melting all along. And thats correct. The epoch we are now in is called an interglacial. And what happens during interglacials? Glaciers melt. That??s precisely what they??ve been doing since the last ice age ended many millennia ago. The author of the NYT article even... | 2_1 |
A related issue is the question whether the shooters or the originators of the plots must be famous people. The conspiracy theorists generally believe that the answer has to be Yes. But it's another fact that there are many more ordinary people even ordinary people with some access to guns who might want to kill a poli... | 0_0 |
"Non-falsifiable Hypothesis': AGW "looks like its own self-contained and self-referential lunatic asylum finding positive proof of climate change in every weather surprise' | 5_2 |
The main stumbling block that has kept this vision from becoming a reality can be summarized in a word: JUDGMENT. Good medical practice is a time intensive, hands on, one-on-one business where judgment is often the critical factor that is supplied by the physician. Good judgment comes from a combination of knowledge an... | 0_0 |
And that very low number by many studies is exaggerated. Several groups have concluded that due to heavy processing burden corn biofuel produces more CO2 than gasoline. | 4_4 |
Meteorologist Aaron Reynolds said some areas will receive up to two feet (61 cm) of snow and in some areas even three feet (91 cm) of snow. | 1_3 |
22. How convinced are you that climate change poses a very serious and dangerous threat to humanity? | 0_0 |
The study also warns that technologies that offer only modest reductions in greenhouse gases, like natural gas and carbon capture and storage, cant substantially reduce climate risk in the next 100 years. | 4_4 |
Japan's Environment Ministry is encouraging its citizens to go to bed an hour earlier at night, and get up an hour earlier in the morning. | 0_0 |
The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world Wikipedia in the wholesale rewriting of this history. | 0_0 |
Additionally, the IPCC claims that only the rise in anthropogenic greenhouse gases can explain the warming over the past 30 years. Satellite-based sea surface temperature disagrees with the IPCCs claims. Most, if not all, of the rise in global sea surface temperature is shown to be the result of a natural process calle... | 2_1 |
AMSA News (@AMSA News) December 25, 2013 | 0_0 |
The climate alarmists, says Carlin, have now been making their apocalyptic predictions for almost thirty years and it is now possible to compare their predictions with actual physical observations. Suffice to say all the predictions of a significantly higher temperaturethe warminghave been wrong. | 5_2 |
Trial lawyers and pressure groups cannot get this authority soon enough, given that this means LOST governs, for example, how much coal we can burn -- it has even already been used to block construction of a planned nuclear power plant in Europe, which only emits water vapor. As such it represents attainment of the env... | 0_0 |
And, the government scientist who sounded the alarm that Al Gore picked up on is in trouble for ???making up?? much of the issue from siting 3 drowned polar bears then extrapolating a population decline from that single observation: | 5_1 |
All of the environmental kvetching about "not getting our message out" and being outgunned by the relatively tiny climate skeptic community is a museum quality example of Winston Churchill's definition of a fanatic as someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. Of course, one thing the failure of ... | 0_0 |
He went on to explain how Europe would bear the brunt of the change he believes is afoot. | 0_0 |
Bloomfield Hills, MI Weather Forecast from Weather Underground | 0_0 |
Even if Congress legislates carbon taxes, nothing suggests that EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will refrain from imposing EPA's anti-hydrocarbon rules on top of them or that the White House and Senate will reject any new U.N. treaty. There is no hint that the Interior Department will cease using the Endangered Speci... | 0_0 |
Many Americans are already smoking the equivalent of a pack a day. | 0_0 |
Green shows the 56%increase in Arctic sea ice extent since the same date in 2012. Red shows ice loss | 1_1 |
A paper published today in the journal Climate of the Past used radiocarbon dating to determine the age of trees uncovered in 2003 by retreat of a major glacier located in Southern Patagonia. The authors conclude that the glacier was smaller than the present during the Medieval Warming Period, and that the trees were c... | 2_1 |
Pachauri's Dirty Memoir: So Hot It's Radioactive? | 0_0 |
The average sea level rise rate for all 157 NOAA tide gauges active this century, is just below 0.7 mm/year. | 0_0 |
Moreover, the information has always meant the same thing "in" classical physics or quantum mechanics. Information is independent. The concept of information exists independently of particular theories in physics. However, particular theories in physics differ in what they say about the form that information can take a... | 0_0 |
NCDC says that this past summer was the hottest in US history, but the raw data shows that afternoon temperatures were 18th hottest since 1895, and that temperatures have been declining since the 1920s. The summer of 1936 had maximum temperatures almost two degrees warmer than the summer of 2012. The ten hottest summer... | 2_1 |
66. Critics of CRU have suggested that Professor Jones's use of the words "hide the decline" is evidence that he was part of a conspiracy to hide evidence that did not fit his view that recent global warming is predominantly caused by human activity. That he has published papersincluding a paper in Naturedealing with t... | 5_2 |
By Paul Homewood Before anybody gets carried away with claims of record rainfall that we keep hearing about in the UK, lets consider the facts. In the UK as a whole , January was only tie 17th wettest month since 1910, with 183.8mm. Relatively speaking, last month was wetter in England & Wales, but even there it was on... | 1_7 |
Proponents of anthropogenic global warming, including bloggers and climate scientists, have done a wonderful job of convincing the public that there are three basic components to the warming of global sea surface temperatures. They include: | 0_0 |
The oceans are outgassing CO2 due to the slight warming trend since the end of the Mini Ice Age (c. 1850's). The exact cause of this trend IS NOT known and remains the subject of much scientific debate! There is evidence that there is a gap of many centuries between planet-wide temperature swings and atmospheric CO2 co... | 2_3 |
This isn't the place for a treatise on climate change science and health impacts. But even a cursory survey of the research literature should make everyone queasy about using the claim of human-induced climate change as the pretext for forcing a drastic reorganization of human economies. | 0_0 |
We must demand debate on every aspect of climate and energy issues and honesty, transparency, and accountability in all regulatory processes. There is no room for fraud and deceit. | 0_0 |
Gina McCarthys Responses to Sen. Vitters Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch* | 0_0 |
Santa Barbara Rejects Global Warming 'Blue Line' | 0_0 |
Sedjo leads us to at least part of the solution when he affirms, "countries that have achieved economic development almost always had an early period in which forestlands were rapidly converted to productive agricultural lands. Thus conversion is not necessarily undesirable. Forested areas provided the agricultural lan... | 0_0 |
Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate programs | 0_0 |
About the deal with China, Inhofe said: "This deal is a non-binding charade. The American people spoke against the President's climate policies in this last election. They want affordable energy and more economic opportunity, both which are being diminished by overbearing EPA mandates. As we enter a new Congress, I wil... | 0_0 |
10 C maize (including sweet corn), sorghum, rice, soybeans, tomato, Black cutworm, European Corn Borer, standard baseline for insect and mite pests of woody plants | 0_0 |
Can??t Cook see what happened about 240,000 years ago? Temperatures were warmer than today. Did humans cause that period of ???global warming??? | 2_1 |
"Hide the lies" generated lawsuits between climate science "believers" (what kind of real science requires belief?) and skeptics of "dangerous man-made planetary warming" along with ridiculous conspiracy theories such as "Big Oil hired evil hackers in a plot to discredit angelic climate scientists." | 0_0 |
Here is a temperature reconstructon from the famous Vostock Ice core. | 0_0 |
And now for the 2nd question: Does the massive cold air outbreak blanketing much of the U.S. disprove global warming? | 1_3 |
In the 1970s, EPA Administrator Russell Train tried this dodge, claiming that EPA did not have to set NAAQS for lead emissions, because he had no plan to produce a criteria document for lead. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trains interpretation,finding that it would make EPAs mandatory duties under the NA... | 0_0 |
Global warming has been described as the greatest threat facing mankind, but the policies designed to address global warming actually pose a much greater threat. The international and domestic policies to ration carbon-based energy would doand are doing little to slow carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, but would have enor... | 4_1 |
More pertinently,observes the Institute for Energy Research ,per unit of energy produced, subsidies for renewable energy vastly exceed those for fossil fuels. In the electric sector, for example,???solar is being subsidized by over 1200 times more than coal and oil and natural gas electricity production, and wind is be... | 4_2 |
Why is Water Vapour, the Most Important Greenhouse Gas, Ignored? | 2_3 |
Interestingly, the final draft of AR5 WG1 dropped the statement in the second draft that TCR had a most likely value near 1.8C, in line with CMIP5 models, and marginally reduced the likely range from 1.22.6C to 1.02.5C, at the same time as making the above claim. | 0_0 |
In a century, it is possible (even likely) that some of the very precepts of physics could change, yielding who knows what outcomes. Circa 1910 we saw the dawn of the modern physics of relativity, quantum and nuclear energy that defined a century's modern physical science. The notion that we're at the end of new scienc... | 0_0 |
"The story was headlined, "Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted.' The first sentence did not agree with the headline: "Sea levels are predicted to rise twice as fast as was forecast by the United Nations only two years ago ' That is, the soothsayers have read their chicken entrails again and decided that their ... | 1_6 |
Read the full article at New York Post. | 0_0 |
Reality Check: Winter Of 2009/10 Coldest Winter For Over 30 Years | 1_3 |
"Four. . . three . . . two . . . one. We have ignition . . . and lift-off." | 0_0 |
But, no, thats not accepted since, you know, house insulation works by conduction, not by radiation. Sigh. | 0_0 |
The Obama administration is willing to take this risk. Is North Dakota's Senate delegation willing to join him? | 0_0 |
Its only hopeful message is that it's not too late to implement Kyoto-style climate policies! | 0_0 |
On February 20, Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first speech, as Secretary, at the University of Virginia where he offered a glimpse of how he sees tackling climate change as part of his jobas is "reducing nuclear threat," "fighting corruption in Nigeria," and breaking "the cycle of poverty, poor nutrition and h... | 0_0 |
Lower and Middle Tropospheric temperatures show slow warming overlaid with the El Nio/La Nia Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, including four comparatively large El Nio events. Tropospheric temperatures appear to have flattened since the large El Nio in 1998 and offer no indication that Earth is experiencing rapid or ... | 1_4 |
The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, which produced one of the models used in the Assessment, acknowledged at the time it was selected that its model's data were not useful for the purpose the administration is using it. Specifically, Hadley stated this on its website, "In areas where coasts and mount... | 5_1 |
James notes an item questioning how this could happen; | 0_0 |
Related developments in the colonies... from Ottawa gas bar to Pirate King . What a country! | 0_0 |
The single most dominant theme in Sino-U.S. relations of the past year or more has been the emergence of a more "assertive China." This article assesses whether, to what extent, and in what manner Beijing is becoming more assertive in several major areas of relevance to the United States. These are: first, in defining ... | 0_0 |
If you've been living without an internet connection, here's a quick overview of l'affaire Climategate. On November 17, someone posted to the internet a vast archive of materials that had been hacked or leaked from the CRU, including numerous emails, documents, computer code, and data. While all of the information has ... | 0_0 |
In short, Professor Davis's data do not buttress the case for alarm but rather call it into question. | 0_0 |
Animation 3 is an update of the cross sections of temperature anomalies at depth along the equator. | 0_0 |
John Christy emphasized that all of the 100+ climate models have over-predicted warming in the tropical troposphere, by at least a factor of 2, and this was supposed to be the most obvious manifestation of global warming as predicted by climate models. | 5_1 |
The videos centre around interviews between David Whitehouse, and Jennifer Francis and Roger Pielke Jr. | 0_0 |
In fact, much of the SUVs' recent popularity stems from CAFE itself. CAFE's restrictions took their greatest toll on large cars and station wagons. As economist Paul Godek pointed out in a study published last fall, light trucks were the only real alternative for consumers concerned about safety and seating capacity. I... | 0_0 |
Almost seven years have passed since Florida was hit by a hurricane, the longest such period on record. Florida averages almost one hurricane per year. During the 1870s, Florida was hit by 12 hurricanes. | 1_7 |
Hans von Storch, Armineh Barkhordarian, Klaus Hasselmann and Eduardo Zorita (2013) Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming? Academia | 0_0 |
18 April 2015 ??? Eleven inches (25 cm) of snow had fallen on mid-mountain by 9 a.m., said Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman Jeff Hanle. The snow continued for at least 90 minutes after that. | 1_3 |
Sizewell B has a capacity of 1.2GW, and the new Hinkley Point C (still awaiting for EU authorisation for subsidies) will have 3.2GW. | 0_0 |
Bill O'Reilly's nightly show on the Fox News Channel is viewed by at least 3.5 million people every night. So it was a treat to see Heartland Senior Fellow Horace Cooper as the program's first guest Wednesday night! O'Reilly asked Cooper to talk about violence in America's urban black communities, and why the policies ... | 0_0 |
CO2 warming I am convinced that theoretically rising CO2 should lead to higher temperatures, but I have yet to see ANY evidence proving this theoretical connection (but see below). | 2_3 |
Although the film conveniently ignores the fact that Cameron pays to off-set his personal carbon emissions, its aggressive tone will concern many of Hollywood's liberal elite, who preach green living while driving Porsches and clocking up the air miles in first class. In its first two days, the attack ad clocked-up 120... | 0_0 |
As Arrhenius predicted, both carbon dioxide levels and temperatures increased from 19001999. However, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased much more quickly than he expected, but the Earth hasn't warmed as much as he thought it would. (Graphs by Robert Simmon, based on data from NOAA and the Goddard Institute... | 2_3 |
It seems you are unaware that the IR absorbtion of CO2 in the atmosphere is constrained to only two narrow bands with almost all being in the 15 micron band. These bands are so near to saturation that they only increase their absorbtion by band broadening. | 2_3 |
The Younger Dryas Impact proponents would be well-served by promoting an exploration of the SCB as a starting point while looking for other anomalies further north in the deeper Chippewa Basin and in other Great Lakes. If a smoking gun does exist for their theory, it probably lies under these waters. | 0_0 |
President Barack Obama has announced his intention to apply California's fuel efficiency regulation to all 50 states. You might think that the Constitution reserves such lawmaking to Congress. After all, there is a robust interstate trade in automobiles and in 2007 Congress revised the Department of Transportation's Co... | 0_0 |
Guess it makes sense to avoid the penalties and the bad publicitykinda like the government doctoring the economic reports and the news to get a better spin. Right? | 0_0 |
Is it possible penalizing hospitals for return admissions would just encourage them to dump the difficult cases that are bound to bounce back? | 0_0 |
There are many casualties in this sad story of greed and hubris. The big victim is the scientific method. This was pointed out in great detail by John P Costella of the Virginia-based Science and Public Policy Institute. Science is based on three fundamental pillars. The first is fallibility. The fact that you can be w... | 0_0 |
Add to all of this a 40-year old statute that makes it virtually impossible for American companies to export crude oil, and it will be a long while before America becomes what it might become the world's largest exporter of LNG, and a major exporter of crude oil. Good news for America's petrochemical industry, for Amer... | 0_0 |
This means, of course, that instead of the increase of 16.8 W/m2 in downwelling radiation that we calculated above, we need 25% more downwelling radiation to account for the parasitic losses from the surface. (As I said, the true percentage of parasitic losses would be more than that, likely much more, but well use a q... | 0_0 |
All the while, the Obama administration is crippling Americas future economic growth with these regulations while our economic competitors forge ahead at making energy prices predictable, cheap and attractive for doing business. | 4_1 |
Another deception is that Cook just made up the Lindzen graph. It does not represent any prediction ever made by Lindzen. Cook made the bogus graph by simply removing CO2 from Hansens temperature model. Naturally this produced a flat line since Hansens failed model is programmed to only respond to CO2. | 5_2 |
projected regional climate change based on models that do not even describe and | 5_1 |
Mastering the Problem of Environmental Quality: an interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer | 0_0 |
If you graph the intensity or number of hurricanes; the temperature fluctuations; the total number of extreme temperature events; or many other things that depend on non-uniformity and non-constancy of the quantities describing the atmosphere, you will see that theres been no significant global trend in either of them ... | 1_7 |
Among the findings: In a large cohort of patients hospitalized with CAD, almost half have admission LDL levels <100 mg/dL. More than half the patients have admission HDL levels <40 mg/dL, whereas <10% have HDL=60 mg/dL." | 0_0 |
At that rate, it would take 667 years and cost $100 trillion to hypothetically avert just 1 degree Centigrade of global warming. | 0_0 |
First they told us that Arctic ice volume had collapsed. Then they told us that the remaining multi-year ice had cracked and failed . Then they told us that an unprecedented hole had opened up in the Arctic ice, and that it would all be gone this summer. Then they told us that Arctic ice was in freefall . | 0_0 |
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