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Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:32 PM | 0_0 |
In a speech at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser President Bill Clinton explained the continuing conflict between U.S. and Canadian commercial fisherman. He said, "I can tell you, one of my big problems with our best partner in the world, Canada, is that our salmon fisherman are fighting all the time . . . You... | 0_0 |
Number of the Week: 926,900 tonnes. A report from China asserts the State Oceanic Administration said China has built a total of 112 seawater desalination plants by the end of 2014, producing 926,900 tonnes of fresh water per day. In north China, desalted water is mainly used for water-intensive industries including el... | 0_0 |
The Golden Age myth historically arose when more complex urban civilizations developed that increased the distance between people and nature. The Golden Age is that earlier existence before cities, agriculture, and technology, a time idealized as simpler and more fulfilling, closer to a maternal nature that is "untouch... | 0_0 |
Two long comments that deserve greater visibility, the blog Calabria Solar Thermodynamics | 0_0 |
SteveFs essay takes no account of the most substantial medium-term natural cycle that seems to influence global temperatures: the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The cycles of that great Oscillation tend to exercise a warming influence for about 30 years followed by a cooling influence for about 30 years. This cyclical in... | 2_1 |
Another Climate Alarmist Scientist Prediction Proven Wrong - Instead of Crop Failures, They Thrive With More CO2 & Warming | 3_3 |
This paper is mostly about the trends if you put in the Roman (300 AD) and Medieval (1100 AD). Naturally the trend is up since the Little Ice Age that ended in the late 18th century. Remember why Valley Forge was so damn cold. | 2_1 |
At the same time, I want to say a big thank you to Ingemar, Jonny and Peter of you keeps the flag up there! | 0_0 |
The original standards forced students to only consider "rises" in temperature. The amended standards substitute "changes" and permits students to consider "natural forces" as well as human activity when they study the climate. | 0_0 |
Initially funded with grants totaling $225 million from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Schlumberger and E.ON, the energy project will be completely administered by Stanford University. The selection of Franklin M. Orr Jr., dean of Stanford?s School of Earth Sciences, to head the new project guarantees that it will be in... | 0_0 |
much of the fact that, because it can spread by skin contact, condoms | 0_0 |
The desert will be scarred well beyond a human life span, and no amount of mitigation will repair it, according to scores of federal and state environmental reviews. | 0_0 |
Finally, there's the question of whether CFLs really do reduce the use of electricity. Back in 1987, the small town of Traer, Iowa, handed out 18,000 fluorescents to its residents, in a free giveaway aimed at cutting power consumption. How did that work out? | 0_0 |
Claims that sea level rise is accelerating are shown to be misleading. | 1_6 |
"The full IPCC report, most of which is written by scientists about specific scientific topics in their areas of expertise, is an admirable description of research activities in climate science. It is not, however, directed at policy. The SPM is, of course, but it is also a very different document. It represents a cons... | 5_2 |
Carbon math makes clear that without major effort and a good bit of luck, we are unlikely to control the growth of emissions enough to meet the standards that many climate scientists suggest are necessary. It is time to end the delusions and start thinking realistically about what can and will be done. | 0_0 |
NSIDC needed something negative to say about Arctic ice, and if they waited another week they couldnt have said it. Those areas of low concentration ice are now high concentration ice. | 1_1 |
On October 27, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a precedent-setting cease and desist order which forbids Jessica Beaumont from posting certain Bible verses on the Internet. If this 21-year old woman posts the wrong Bible quotation online - even if it is on an American website - she could face up to 5 years in ... | 0_0 |
Who denies that CO2 lags temperature in the ice core data by as much as 800 years and hence isa product of climate change not a cause? | 2_3 |
4) Boris Johnson: Why Did Met Office Get It Wrong Yet Again? | 0_0 |
Julian Simon notes that "recent scientific and technical advances especially seed banks and genetic engineering have diminished the importance of maintaining species in their natural habitat." (Scarcity, p.43) | 0_0 |
/s/ Dr. Donald M. Curry JSC, Mgr. Shuttle Leading Edge, Thermal Protection Sys., Engr. Dir., 44 years | 0_0 |
UPDATE: Lucia and JunkPschology in comments confirm that these six papers listed would not have made Cooks list. So in only half an hour of random analysis I can easily turn up major papers by skeptics that fall outside Cooks primitive keyword hunt. How many others miss too? | 5_1 |
Many people think CEI was founded on the principles of classical liberalism. But Fred Smith started CEI in 1984, about the same time the Clintons were putting their political careers into high gear. And I like to think that CEI is really founded on the Clinton Principles: | 0_0 |
The researchers conclude that the recent estimates of 40 p.p.m.v. CO 2 per degree Celsius can be excluded with 95% confidence, suggesting significantly less amplification of current warming. | 3_1 |
The academic freedom issue is murkier. Academic freedom, as per the Wikipedia: | 0_0 |
The reports forecast of a drier future could come to pass, but the track record of Australian climate scientists for predicting rainfall even one season ahead is dismal. The Bureau incorrectly forecast below average rainfall for spring this year for the upper Murray catchments just before the region was flooded. Last y... | 5_1 |
If we continue to follow Sterns advice, the principal losers, apart from British taxpayers and businesses, would be developing countries who cannot raise living standards without massively increasing their use of fossil fuels and will therefore be responsible for most of the growth of carbon emissions, Lilley argues. | 4_5 |
It is impossible from Solomon et al.'s analysis to know what went on prior to 1980, so, for lack of any other guidance, I'll assume that no changes took place (or, that the net change was zero) from 1950 to 1980. I'll then back the 15% warming influence from stratospheric water vapor changes since 1980 out of the "corr... | 0_0 |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syrias civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syrias government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll says. | 0_0 |
Nature blogs just told us about an APS conference that took place in Denver, Colorado on Saturday (well, it continues through Tuesday): | 0_0 |
Excerpt from Shaviv: ???We find that at least 66% of the variance in the paleotemperature trend could be attributed to CRF variations likely due to solar system passages through the spiral arms of the galaxy.?? | 2_1 |
"Over Pakistan, the weather pattern is just staying with the monsoon, and the monsoon is bringing drenching rains," weatherzone.com.au meteorologist Josh Fisher said. | 0_0 |
Sorry, Steve Running, Wildfires Are Decreasing with Global Warming | 1_7 |
* The bucket method has been used since earliest times. The samples come from near the surface (about 1 meter), and temperatures are recorded manually. They should show a pronounced max after noon due to direct solar heating. | 0_0 |
2007 / Dec / 07 at 08:47:41 | 0_0 |
The bill, sponsored by Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, would have eliminated ethanol blender subsidies while striking the import tariff on foreign ethanol (typically cheaper Brazilian ethanol derived from sugarcane). It failed 59-40, falling 20 votes short of cloture, but a closer look reveals that the defeat had as mu... | 0_0 |
Many thanks for your paper and congratulations for reviving the global warming. | 0_0 |
Ayers is a Ed professor at the U of Illinois, has a friend in the White House, and is famous for saying guilty as hell free as a bird, America is a great country. | 0_0 |
WUWT; After I showed the original press release contained not one mention of global warming or climate change, one of our readers decided to ask the researcher about this statement attributed to to Jessica Morgan in that Business Insider story... | 0_0 |
And that is the whole issue. What price are we supposed to pay to revolutionize the way the industrial world makes energy and what temperature benefit will result? This climate commissioner of Australia has no answer as to what the temperature drop would be. I strongly suspect he has no idea what the cost will be to ac... | 0_0 |
I used RegEm, as provided by dr Steig with the data as he also provided it to make the following graphs. There are a pile of them because I dont have the actual implementation code and I havent verified which version (if any of these) he used yet but here it goes. I think youll find some interesting detail. | 0_0 |
Personally, I have felt the need to break loose of the shackles of loyalty to colleagues and institutions if it comes at the expense of integrity in science and professional conduct. I envy Richard Muller who comes at the issue of climate science without the baggage associated with loyalty to colleagues or institutions... | 5_2 |
How rapid and extensive has the phenomenon been? According to the authors of this study, ?vegetation in the upland tundra east of the Mackenzie Delta has changed dramatically in the last three decades with relative increases in tall shrub cover and alder density of 68.1 and 35%, respectively? Read More | 0_0 |
Here is another excellent example of a false problem that allows the mandarins to have a free run. Its early re hospitalization. So an old and debilitated person returns and is hospitalized within 30 days of the previous hospitalization and the insurance companies, or even the medicare and medicaid people refuse to pay... | 0_0 |
Most alarming of all, however, was a succession of scientific studies showing that, far from helping to cut global CO2 emissions, biofuel production could often give off much more CO2 than it saved not least by disturbing huge quantities of CO2 locked in the soil which, according to the University of Minnesota, could r... | 4_4 |
CFACT heads to Rio+20 to expose UN "sustainability" ploy | 0_0 |
The fact that growing numbers of people, on their own, have turned to CFLs doesn't count for much; for our esteemed congressional representatives, the burning question is: Why hasn't everyone? Why is the CFL market share only 6 percent here, compared to 80 percent in Japan? | 0_0 |
This state of affairs is much the same as what has typically been found on land for birds, butterflies, and several other terrestrial lifeforms, as their ranges expand and overlap in response to global warming. | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Merredin-Wheatbelt Mercury | 0_0 |
This study is of interest since it shows a new perspective on thelarge uncertainty thatremains in climate prediction.It also highlights how poorly the ocean uptake of heat is simulated in the models. | 5_1 |
Because large droplets in clouds scatter sunlight almost uniformly across the spectrum, the clouds themselves can't be the reason why different wavelengths contribute differently to the net cloud effect. Compared to cloud droplets, aerosols are more than 100 times smaller and scatter wavelengths differently. These resu... | 0_0 |
Strike one : No one measuring ice extent or area shows a decline since 2007. | 1_1 |
Modellers have failed to cut their central estimate of global warming in line with a new, lower feedback estimate from the IPCC. They still predict 3.3 oC of warming per CO2 doubling, when on this ground alone they should only be predicting 2.2 oCabout half from direct warming and half from amplifying feedbacks. | 3_1 |
Or is this number good for NWF? In its Educator's Guide, a sidebar column said 51 million acres of tropical forest is lost each year (equal to 140,000 acres per day, 5,800 per hour, 96 per minute, and 1.6 per second). | 0_0 |
"Although not an accurate demonstration of the physics of climate change, the experiment we have considered and related ones are valuable examples of the dangers of unintentional bias in science , the value of at least a rough quantitativeprediction of the expected effect, the importance of considering alternative expl... | 5_1 |
With a little goading by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists, in 2005 newspaper headlines linked the busy hurricane season and the strength of the hurricanes to human-caused climate change. Where are the headlines now? | 0_0 |
Incredible amounts increasing yearly and wasted on every bigger and more expensive computers to run models. Careerists who cannot forecast seasonal weather were making things up (and began to alter weather data on purpose) while spending lavishly on computers pushing the AGW ideology all at the publics great expense. | 5_1 |
But OSTP changed its view in its final response, which labeled Holdren's statement as his "personal opinion." Perhaps it realized the weakness of Holdren's argument that global warming causes winter cold. It refused to correct Holdren's statement, invoking the personal opinion exception in the federal Information Quali... | 0_0 |
But that approach lost out to the computer-modeling approach favored by climate scientists. And that approach was flawed from the beginning, Dyson said. | 0_0 |
Now that President Obama has won re-election, these two excellent books will be | 0_0 |
Weve reported on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) on several occasions, the last time here . Could it be that the AMOC acts as a decisive internal component of variability for Arctic ice melt? Lets carry out a short plausibility check: The impact of the AMOC can be especially well depicted by the ... | 0_0 |
By C. Idso, S. Idso, R. Carter, S. Singer Lead authors, NIPCC, 2014 | 0_0 |
We raised the water temperature in miniature ecosystems containing eelgrass meadows, while simultaneously bubbling with carbon-dioxide. This allowed us to simulate a future climate scenario, characterized by both warmer waters and ocean acidification, explains researcher Christian Alsterberg. | 0_0 |
To put it another way: in July of last year, at least 7/8th (87%) of the warming was due to natural processes, and the truth surely was well over 90%. It is funny that Dr. Hansen and others exaggerating the effects of human emissions don't say it this way. The correct way. | 2_1 |
"South Korea's liberal opposition, bolstered by the under-40s and power of social media, could spring a surprise win in this week's parliamentary elections despite opinion polls that show it tied with the ruling conservatives." | 0_0 |
Given this information how on earth can climatologists claim that the multi-year irregularities in the data are caused by human activities? Putting it the other way round, how can they distinguish between natural variability that has been observed since biblical times, and the superimposed human-related consequences? I... | 2_1 |
I doubt that Garth would be too comfortable being described as an ?insider,? even though the public would surely view him as one. Garth is first and foremost a scientist and scientific thinking requires one to step outside convention, conformity, and consensus in order to discover things that have been missed previousl... | 0_0 |
Messrs. Bowen and Coles, who last year formed a company called Virginia Uranium, are asking the state to determine whether mining uranium really is a hazard and, if not, to lift the ban. But they've run into a brick wall of environmental activists who raise the specter of nuclear contamination and who are determined to... | 0_0 |
Serious studies from prominent organizations, e.g., the Harvard School of Public Health, show that that loss of protection results in a substantial number of fatalities. | 0_0 |
Since the output from GCM models is in W/m^2 a second fabricated parameter was required to convert flux to temperature; another conversion that has no possible physical relationship that can be validated by data. This parameter called climate sensitivity was simply the value that converted the output energy flux to tem... | 5_1 |
Gov. Kaine supports allowing the National Academy of Sciences to determine whether mining could be done safely. So does virtually every elected official in heavily Republican Pittsylvania County. Earlier this year the narrowly Democratic state Senate voted 34-6 to authorize the study. But the measure was killed in comm... | 0_0 |
According to the program, our purpose is to think long-term about dealing with climate change, which I'll do in a moment. | 0_0 |
So how do the EPA, IPCC, Michael Mann, Al Gore and other Climate Armageddonites deal with all these inconvenient truths, questions and skeptical researchers? | 0_0 |
When the data consistently conflict with their hypothesis, reputable scientists revise the hypothesis. Five-alarm climate scientists desperately seek new shells, and new excuses. | 5_1 |
As the UK experiences its coldest March in 50 years and braces for a white Easter weekend at the same time there are critical shortages of natural gas, Christopher Booker expresses his frustration with the UK's energy policy in The (UK) Telegraph: | 0_0 |
Hurricanes were supposed to get bigger and more frequent, instead we??ve had an unbroken 7 years long drought for major Cat3-5 hurricanes , and Sandy wasn??t even a hurricane when it made landfall . The last Category 3 or stronger storm to make landfall was Hurricane Wilma making landfall onOctober 24, 2005. The more t... | 1_7 |
The Clinton Administration's economic analysis, which claims that the cost of reducing emissions 31 percent by 2008-2012 will be negligible, relies on the estimated availability of emission credits from Russia. Under the Kyoto Protocol Russia must reduce emissions to 1990 levels by the target date. As a result of its e... | 0_0 |
Although this paper confirmed the findings of a massive amount of previous research that the Medieval Warming generated higher temperatures than the current warming, the IPCC instead conferred star status to the statistically-tortured 'hockey stick' graph, which showed the previous warming to be less than the current e... | 5_1 |
In the 19th century, British Prime Ministers used to say there were lies, damned lies, and statistics. In the 21st century, we may say there are frauds, serious frauds, and IPCC Assessment Reports. Recall, for instance, the notorious graph in the Fourth Assessment Report that falsely indicated that the rate of global w... | 5_2 |
For example, the metabolism of many crustaceans that live in eelgrass meadows increases when the water temperature rises. This in turn means they need to eat more algae and may consequently graze it more efficiently. At the same time, the growth of benthic microalgae on the sediment surface in the eelgrass meadows will... | 0_0 |
Murphy's view fits very well with what Phil Jones, the former head of East Anglia University's Climatic Research Unit, said in one of his "Climategate" emails (July 5, 2005): | 0_0 |
What a remarkably intricate world we live in, where a bunch of cows figures out how to keep a small genetically interbred herd strong in the absence of predators. Astonishing. | 0_0 |
G stinl gg av Lennart Bengtsson | 0_0 |
They threaten our most basic rights and freedoms, our political and scientific processes and ultimately our continued innovation and invention, energy reliability and affordability, job creation and economic growth, and modern living standards, health and welfare. | 0_0 |
"Officials at the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Stability contracted with a small consulting firm that has given nearly $25,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005 (and no money to Republicans) to hire "Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Analysts to support the Disclosure Services, Privacy and Treasury Recor... | 0_0 |
Clearly, back then, they thought that Everybody ought to have a henge! | 0_0 |
Then I discovered something in Google Earth called Panoramio, which had a whole collection of tourist submitted shots around the observatories. | 0_0 |
But he said the Upper Midwest region is getting wetter. Researchers found there is more water vapor in the atmosphere now compared to decades ago. | 0_0 |
Farm Subsidies, Media Ownership and Global Warming | 0_0 |
It was presented as fact. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led by India's very own RK Pachauri, even announced a consensus on it. The world was heating up and humans were to blame. A pack of lies, it turns out. | 0_0 |
Yet this remains a hard sell to a public more concerned about terrorism than about climate change. So the administration has gone so far as to try and link the two issues, making the absurd claim that climate change is a matter of national security. | 0_0 |
Likelihood refers to a probabilistic assessment of some well defined outcome having occurred or occurring in the future, and may be based on quantitative analysis or an elicitation of expert views. When authors evaluate the likelihood of certain outcomes, the associated meanings are: | 0_0 |
But when it comes to climate change they insist that ?Big Oil? is pouring billions and billions of dollars into skeptic?s bank accounts. They are not. I have not received one dime of money from any oil company nor do I know anyone who has. But the claim is, Big Oil is essentially employing skeptics to do their dirty wo... | 0_0 |
Mix into the mix a very dry spring, not enough warm days, and you have a well insulated pile of, er, crap. And a very large one at that. Ice cubes on a kitchen counter will melt quickly if left apart. Put those same ice cubes in a bag and then on the counter and you have a much different story. For all the science behi... | 0_0 |
And even if we did have confidence in the SCC numbers, the policies evolving around the SCC seem quite convoluted and who knows how they would even play out at achieving the larger policy objectives. | 0_0 |
Best of all, Washington's biggest business government is transformed. In 1978, 50 years after air conditioning was installed in Congress, New York Times columnist Russell Baker noted that, pre-A.C., Congress was forced to adjourn to avoid Washington's torturous summers, and "the nation enjoyed a respite from the promul... | 0_0 |
The new paper acknowledges its lineage from earlier work from Greenpeace and thank James Hansen for comments. Epstein et al. also state: The genesis for this paper was a ConferenceThe True Costs of Coal: Building a Healthy Energy Future that was supported by the Energy Foundation and the Rockefeller Family Fund. | 0_0 |
A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology finds " that the atmospheric pressure in the early instrumental period was not significantly different to that of the present day." Climate models , however, predict a 'human fingerprint' of decreased Arctic atmospheric pressures due to alleged warming... | 5_1 |
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