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Has it got warmer since pre-1800 levels? This really depends on the time period referred to. Do they mean the Little Ice Age, when disastrously cold temperatures caused massive loss of life and untold hardship? Of course temperatures are now warmer than that desperate period in climate history. Is that what they would ... | 2_1 |
An article in Nature by Benjamin Santer bolstered that argument showing a correspondence between temperature and the presence of sulfates (sulfates reflect heat, cooling the planet). The study began in 1962 and ended in 1987. The problem with Santer's model is that it only assumed a change in the amount of warming radi... | 5_1 |
<4470> Norwegian Meteorological Institute: | 0_0 |
Commercial shipping will be possible from North America to Russia or Asia over the North Pole by the middle of the century, thanks to climate change, a new study says. | 0_0 |
By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Aug 8, 2015 | 0_0 |
In those parts of the world where there has been some recession of mountain glaciers, such as the Alps, researchers are finding long-lost medieval forests, mountain passes and even an entire silver mine. Besides, the retreat of the mountain glaciers began in many places in 1880, long before we could have had any influe... | 2_1 |
Virgin Islands AG Withdraws DC Subpoena of CEI | 0_0 |
A NASA study suggests changing winds and currents in the Indian Ocean during the 1990s contributed to the observed warming of the ocean during that period. The findings, published in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters, have potential implications for long- term regional climate variability. | 2_1 |
Over at HuffPo, the founder of DeSmogBlog tries to divert attention from the collapsing "consensus" on global warming by saying that it's all the fault of a decades-long "climate confusion campaign" waged by, among others, the Competitive Enterprise Institute. While it is nice of him to give us the credit for the good ... | 5_1 |
The United Kingdom (UK) joined the governments of the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, and Poland to lobby the European Union (EU) to delay tougher emission rules for coal-fired power stations. The Financial Times reports a letter from UK environment minister Thrse Coffey warned the EU environment commissioner the "unc... | 0_0 |
Dr. Nigel Smith concludes this area by noting, "In spite of popular belief that the Amazon forest is being totally destroyed, the scale of the region and the concentrated nature of many of the development thrusts have prevented any major ecological catastrophe thus far." (Smith, "Global Land Use Change," p.240) | 0_0 |
WASHINGTON The Global Climate and Energy Project announced last month by Stanford University is a welcome collaboration between academia and the private sector that holds the promise of shedding much-needed light on the debate on global warming. | 0_0 |
This Malthusian nightmare never came close to occurring. To the contrary, world per-capita food production has increased by about one-third over the last generation, with further substantial increases expected. More significant, however, is that the population bomb turned out to be a wet firecracker. Long-range world p... | 0_0 |
Black and brown carbon particles increase atmospheric warming in three ways. First, they enter the minuscule water droplets that form clouds. At night, thats not an issue. But during the day, sunlight scatters around within clouds, bathing them in luminescence. | 0_0 |
The desire to stuff complex social, political and economic phenomena into the terms of an encompassing ecological narrative overwhelms people who struggle to make sense of the world, and those who resist simpler or inconvenient explanations. And of course, those who would like to elevate themselves and the industries w... | 0_0 |
Right, but it is A-OK if all taxpayers, including those who will never see a baseball game, are taxed to pay for the new stadium. | 0_0 |
To reverse these trends, liberal progressives knew they had to control the Democratic party, and to do that they had to nominate and elect one of their own to the presidency. Thus was born the now endemic battles between the progressives and the old guard (unions and party bosses in the '80s, the DLC in the '90s and '0... | 0_0 |
Backing this idea up is Robert Schneider of the World Bank, who said deforestation rates increased as a demographic transition spread into the rain forest, but "since 1989, the demographic transition has decreased dramatically and so has the rate of deforestation." (The Dartmouth Review, "Bungle in the Jungle," Eric Ha... | 0_0 |
With rain wetting the soil over the past day and then being hit by a deluge that certainly was well over an inch in an hour, there were mudslides and debris flows over portions of the north Cascades, including a section of State Route 20. That road was covered with mud, rocks, and trees--in some places as deep as 25 fe... | 0_0 |
budget, puts it, when your house is on fire, you don't water the lawn. | 0_0 |
From the prior post: Single graph demonstrates man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warming | 2_3 |
Unfortunately at the Schwarzheide SeeCampus school in Niederlausitz, the climate systemin the school building doesnt work like the architectural models thought it would. According to the Lausitzer Rundschau: | 0_0 |
Stratford Mountain Club spokesman Rob Needs said it was the most significant snow to fall at such low levels and so early in the winter season for several decades. | 1_3 |
El Nio, of course, is not a hurricane, nor is it becoming more frequent or more violent. The last one began in 1997, five years before the current El Nio, which began this year. That's the average interval between El Nios. Moreover, the current El Nio is significantly less powerful than the one in 1997. Nor are hurrica... | 0_0 |
Fan DaiDu et al looked at proxies (microfossils, sedimentary organic layers, storm deposits, tree rings, stalagmites and corals) and found there was no simple linear relationship between typhoons and temperature over the Holocene period. Basically, it??s about La Nina??s rather than degrees C. More hurricanes and typho... | 1_7 |
In the last part of their definition of global warming the Yale/George Mason pollsters say that ?the world?s climate may change as a result? of temperature rise. | 0_0 |
Professor Lance Enderbee has published graphs of mean temperatures from 27 rural recording stations in Australia for 100 years from 1890 to 1990. The trend is horizontal, with mean temperature in 1990 below that for 1880. This has occurred during the century of the motor car, two world wars, and massive growth of coal ... | 2_3 |
Other models work from the bottom up, using a mechanism that centers around the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Solar energy added during the peak of a solar cycle causes more water to evaporate from the ocean's surface. Through a long chain of changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, this results in fewer clouds form... | 2_1 |
Question 1 (for Pederson): Karl Popper has written: "A theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event is not scientific." What empirical evidence would it take for you to consider the anthropogenic warming hypothesis to be refuted? | 0_0 |
Marden Henge is the largest henge in Britain enclosing 14 hectares (Avebury encloses 11.5 and Durrington Walls encloses 12). | 0_0 |
Spencer's report covers a wide swath of climate science topics from the factors behind global warming, to how scientists make adjustments to climate data, to the "97 percent" consensus figure often cited by politicians and environmentalists. | 5_1 |
Senator Lieberman, on the other hand, seems to misunderstand the relationship between industrial activity and temperature. In Senate hearings earlier this year, Sen. Conrad Burns (R., Mt.) said in his statement that, "Last year, the Washington Post reported that we had emissions decreased last year . One of the reasons... | 0_0 |
This finding comes less than a week after another astonishing revelation published in the prestigious journal Nature, which reports that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys long considered a bellwether for global climate change have grown noticeably cooler since 1986. Indeed, air temperature readings taken continuously o... | 1_1 |
The three researchers conclude that "at the Russian sites studied, the impact of twentieth century warming has not yet compensated fully for the mortality and range constriction caused by the cold temperatures of the Little Ice Age," and they note that "these results are similar to observations in some other northern t... | 2_1 |
Nashville, Tennessee arrived from google.com on GORE LIED Al Gore lied about anthropogenic global warming by searching for onion al gore supreme court . | 0_0 |
Yet the evidence to the contrary was there all along. Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms but no more frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence then repeated ... | 1_7 |
Their storyline is so predictive that then may tell you that the new coupling constant is \(g a\approx 0.36\), too. | 0_0 |
All throughout the debate there is talk of the Global Average Temperature. But at its core, that very concept is broken. An average of temperatures is a bogus concept. | 5_1 |
on Saturday, January 8th, 2011 at 3:27 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
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Global Warming - Frog Decline Link Is Disproven | 0_0 |
Case Study 2. Environment Ohio: "Ohio's Steve Stivers Votes to Gut the Clean Air Act" | 0_0 |
For some time, I have been joining the "alerts" that it's plausible that the dark matter particle could be discovered very soon and it could be great. | 0_0 |
Indeed, the planning rule's language is an open invitation to regulatory mischief and litigation. For example, Forest Service bureaucrats are supposed to use the "best available science" in making their determinations. But the term "best available science" is left conveniently undefined. Similarly, forests are to be ma... | 0_0 |
I wrote this article at the request of a leading opinion journal in Australia, where I shall be on a speaking tour for three weeks from mid-January. | 0_0 |
While Americans grapple with the Obamacare debacle and 90 million are officially unemployed according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is another threat to our future as environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth continue their assault on the provision of electrical energy, the lifeblood... | 0_0 |
Instead of economically harmful global warming policies, development agencies should concentrate their considerable institutional knowledge on advancing pro-growth policies, like trade liberalization. Today, free trade needs an influential booster such as the World Bank. Energy intensive export industries in developing... | 4_2 |
That's because local officials and the USEPA didn't do their jobs didn't monitor or fix failing, corroded lead water pipes. Repairing Flint's system, and addressing water and sewer problems in other cities, will cost billions of dollars. If we are forced to spend tens or hundreds of billions on exaggerated, fabricated ... | 0_0 |
Well, science says something different. All these weather events ??? much like the Earth and the Solar System ??? have been around for 4.6 billion years. Up to noisy fluctuations and some potentially understandable, mild, regular, persistent climate cycles, not necessarily periodic ones, nothing has detectably changed ... | 1_7 |
...which does at least make it clear how the climate change is being used to push a political agenda. They need to spin a threat of climate change in order to move the politicians in the desired direction. Shame about the impact on the reputation of science, but that has long since ceased to be a concern of Royal Socie... | 5_2 |
So the planet has got a little warmer in the last 200 years, and grapes are ripening a little earlier. Just as it got colder before the Little Ice Age and, no doubt, grapes ripened a little later. Its called climate and its what the planet does. | 2_1 |
National Academy Of Sciences Study Shows Worlds Love Affair With Stepping Stone To Prosperity Growing! | 0_0 |
As living entities, corals are not only acted upon by the various elements of their environment, they also react or respond to them. And when changes in environmental factors pose a challenge to their continued existence, they sometimes take major defensive or adaptive actions. | 0_0 |
HAYDEN: Onlyoh never mind. Look, Im late to see my mother. She expects me. You know if I dont show or call, she worries. | 0_0 |
A DfID spokesman described Teri as a globally respected institution. | 0_0 |
on Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at 3:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Virtually all the projections of future climate change in AR5 are based on the mean and range of outcomes simulated by this latest CMIP5 generation of climate models (AOGCMs). Changes in other variables largely scale with changes in global surface temperature. The key determinant of the range and mean level of projecte... | 0_0 |
I try really hard not to try to guess at what motivates folks I disagree with by assuming they are driven by something dark and evil, but how else in this case can one describe opinions like this so contrary to facts as anything other than prejudice against a particular ethnic group? | 0_0 |
Consider the change in cell phone technology and prices over the past 20 years. When the director of Wall Street wanted to emphasize Gordon Gecko?s power and wealth, he portrayed him holding a brick-size cell phone. | 0_0 |
Everything you think you know about the collapse of the Soviet Union is wrong | 0_0 |
And they create some thorny issues for policy makers that will need to be addressed. Most importantly, energy analysts must cease utilizing a far-too-simple assumption that efficiency gains yield direct and linear reductions in energy use. The complex and varied economic phenomena known collectively as "rebound effects... | 4_2 |
Robert Wood on May 30, 2008 at 1:35 pm | 0_0 |
We in the West have reached a level where we can sit in the dark for an hour, fully confident that the lights will come back on when we flick the switch, but there are many places around the world where that is not the case. In some countries it is Earth Hour every hour. | 0_0 |
And by loudly denouncing all bad thingswar, poverty, famine, and cigarette advertising aimed at teensthe Chicken Littles are also playing the moral bully. They're saying: | 0_0 |
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has estimated the potential savings from a nationwide 25% renewable electricity standard, a goal included in the Waxman-Markey energy bill that narrowly passed the House last year. Best-case scenario: about 306 million tons less CO2 by 2030. Given that the agency expects... | 4_2 |
Obama has not done so, because he is unwilling to let Waxman-Markey succeed or fail on its own merits. He wants the prospect of regulatory chaos to herd Republicans into the cap-and-trade corral. But Republicans can turn this weapon against those brandishing it just by refusing to share responsibility for policies they... | 0_0 |
policy address at the Wilson Center to pledge a shift of forces and focus away | 0_0 |
From the not-at-all-funny-department, two Gore employees have been sentenced to hard labor in North Korea. Al might go do something about that . From the OK-I-cant-help-myself-department, prisoner exchange? Please ? | 0_0 |
BP jumped into renewables and the company's moniker underwent an evolution from British Petroleum to BP, then to Beyond Petroleum. Between 2000 and 2005, BP invested $500 million into solar power and $30 million on wind and has invested more than $4 billion in alternative energy in the US since 2005. At the time, accor... | 0_0 |
If the results obtained by Collins et al . for the freshwater Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are typical of what to expect of marine microalgae - which Field et al . suggest may provide nearly half of the primary production of the planet - the totality of earth's plant life may well provide a significant brake upon the rate... | 3_1 |
Users can then log in to the secure web portal, where they use a password they create. | 0_0 |
Cronyism and boondoggles in an energy bill is nothing new in the U.S. Congress. But this week, senators of both parties are taking the process to new lows in amendments they are offering to the pending S.2012the Energy Policy Modernization Act. | 0_0 |
Strong Storms of the Little Ice Age on the Southern Coast of Brazil (8 April 2015) | 0_0 |
better to spot attacks by rivals or leopards), is less attentive to | 0_0 |
It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, Greenland ice sheet flow might not be accelerated by increased melting after all, says Shepherd, who was not involved in the research or peer review of the paper. | 1_1 |
USA Growing Degree Day Deviation 41 F Map | 0_0 |
IPCC Zero Order Draft files found and put back online | 0_0 |
The authors argue, however, that since "it is quite clear that human activity is raising global concentrations of carbon dioxide," and that "virtually no one is suggesting that we can emit as much carbon dioxide as we want into the atmosphere without adverse consequences," we must do something. Policies should include ... | 0_0 |
It's hard to disagree with Mr. Hamm's assessment that Barack Obama has the energy story in America wrong. The government floods green energya niche market that supplies 2.5% of our energy needswith billions of dollars of subsidies a year. "Wind isn't commercially feasible with natural gas prices below $6" per thousand ... | 4_4 |
" Please try to use your own words to make sure the panel considers each comment individually." | 0_0 |
I said that global warming is the fact that the world has warmed somewhat, perhaps one degree F, in the past 150 years. The cause of the warming is mostly natural forces, since mankind has not placed much CO2 in the air until the past four decades. | 2_1 |
Some big-name players are playing games with people's lives and livelihoods. | 0_0 |
Neither CBS nor ABC have included a skeptical scientist in their news shows within the past 1,300 days, but both networks included alarmists within the past 160 days ??? CBS as recently as 22 days ago. When the networks did include other viewpoints, the experts were dismissed as out of the scientific mainstream or back... | 5_2 |
With this in mind, I started playing with the data. I was utterly surprised to learn that in order to recover their average "global" temperature, I needed to mix about 37% of their southern hemisphere temperature with 63% of their northern hemisphere temperature. In other words, their "global" temperature is highly dis... | 5_1 |
Not a climate scientist himself, Chu had faith in the validity of Al Gores position on global warming, and even said just prior to becoming energy secretary: Coal is my worst nightmare theres enough carbon in the ground to really cook us. Such unscientific and biased comments should have immediately eliminated Chu from... | 5_2 |
His circumstances were quite different than the others I mentioned. He came out of the authoritarian environment of Soviet times, only to find it showing up all over again, intruding into his work on climate. Of course he knew exactly what he was dealing with. He once told me that freedom made him realize that his prev... | 0_0 |
There is strong evidence to suggest that the temperature increase observed on the Peninsula has nothing to do with global warming, but is due to changing wind patterns. We can speculate on the cause of such changes, but essentially we are looking at natural variation which is likely to have happened in previous eras. (... | 2_1 |
Baker et al . (2004) found notches on Rottnest Island marking former high sea levels. Calcareous organisms left deposits within a narrow range that could be carbon dated. The higher notch at about 1.8 m is about 3600 yr BP. | 0_0 |
Thats our take, because its the only one that seems internally consistent. But, if somehow we are wrong (a rare event), then greenhouse warming is over, as the sensitivity of the earths temperature to carbon dioxide has been grossly overestimated. Believe us, wed like to hope the latter is correct, but we have to call ... | 3_1 |
A study from the National Academy of Sciences on the health effects of radiation raises alarm about even extremely low exposure levels. | 0_0 |
About 26 in there is a comment about spectral radiance changes and that the models may have a wrong sign on solar forcing variation. | 5_1 |
Even our simple 1D model produced a higher climate sensitivity consistent with IPCC claims if we assumed all climate change was due to the same forcings they assume. The IPCC??s climate models are too sensitive (produce too much warming in response to increasing CO2) because they have basically assumed virtually all pr... | 3_1 |
The day after the election, the Friends of the Earth, wasting no time, sent out a dramatic fundraising pitch, opening with: "The election's overthe planet lost." (You may not have even known that the planet was on your local ballot, but apparently it was.) | 0_0 |
Lets contrast this with the hysteria over the Pakistani floods and Russian heatwave in 2010, which, because it occurred in Summer and was therefore related to heat, was immediately linked to climate change: | 5_2 |
Alarmists also claim current Arctic sea ice changes are "unprecedented" while ignoring proxy data indicating Arctic sea ice was much less than present-day during the Holocene Climate Optimum ~6,000 years ago , Arctic temperatures were warmer than the present multiple times over past 1357 years , the Medieval Warming Pe... | 2_1 |
A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earths climate. In a paper due to be published in an upcoming volume of the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaines Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Austra... | 2_1 |
A quote from an IPCC insider: As far as I can tell, there is no data quality assurance associated with what the IPCC is doing. | 5_2 |
IPCC Third Assessment Report Climate Change 2001 Complete online versions | GRID-Arendal Publications Other | 0_0 |
My daughter, her husband and their little baby managed to get out of the city ahead of the flood on Sunday, driving 14 hours into Texas with the few belongings they could stuff into their car. They have no idea what has become of their house and their possessions, not to mention their friends, their pets, their jobs, t... | 0_0 |
\rho {AB}(\vec x A, \vec x B) \neq \rho A (\vec x A) \cdot \rho B(\vec x B). | 0_0 |
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