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/s/ Bernard J. Rosenbaum JSC, Chief Engineer, Propulsion and Power Division, Engr. Dir., 48 years | 0_0 |
Yet, they would never substantially reduce the climate sensitivity of their models to produce less warming, as seen in nature. In other words, if warming hasn?t materialized, then we must have faith that it will eventually appear ? because the climate system must be really sensitive? | 3_1 |
Nicolas D. Loris, "Free Markets Supply Affordable Energy and a Clean Environment," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2966, October 31, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/10/free-markets-supply-affordable-energy-and-a-clean-environment. | 0_0 |
December 2, 2009: " CLIMATE CHANGE 'FRAUD' , by John Ingham , The Daily Express , London, England. "In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like fools and using climate change to increase taxes.... | 5_2 |
CAFE is one of those failed government programs that has had some very unpleasant, unintended consequences. By indirection, it has limited consumer choice, on average, to vehicles that are lighter and smaller than would otherwise be the case. Laws of physics demonstrate that that reduces the protection provided to the ... | 0_0 |
The conclusion of tree ring reconstruction of climate for the past 1000 years is that we are now in the hottest period in modern history, ever. | 0_0 |
There are, of course, arguments against what has been presented in this post. Those failed arguments have been addressed and shown to be wrong, using data. Ive done this repeatedly over the past three years. Ive included them in Section7 of my book. Refer to the Updated Free Preview . | 0_0 |
September 9, 2011: "Ready for climate change", letter to the editor published in The Australian by ICSC Chief Science Advisor, Professor Bob Carter , PhD, Adjunct Research Fellow at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. | 0_0 |
Now a major humanitarian organization, Red Cross International, has jumped on the bandwagon. A new report by the Red Cross argues that global warming will increase major disasters, and that the Red Cross will need more money to pay for it. The report claims that there will be more droughts and that "marginal areas" wil... | 0_0 |
While it is fashionable to claim there is over-allocation in the Murray Darling Basin the reality is that when water is scarce during drought, government limits the amount of water for agriculture. | 0_0 |
So Briffa and Melvin clearly understood at the time that I had not promoted or advocated Scenario A (or Scenario B or Polar Urals for that matter), but had raised valid questions and that it was important to examine inhomogeneity using the sort of sensitivity analyses that I had carried out. | 0_0 |
And Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.) vowed to force the White House to accept delivery of a new presidential helicopter Obama says he doesn't need and doesn't want. The helicopter program, which cost $835 million this year, supports 800 jobs in Hinchey's district. "I do think there's a good chance we can save it," he s... | 0_0 |
Why would Obama even bring this subject up? It would have made no sense for McCain to accuse him of being a Christian to gain political advantage. | 0_0 |
The Sierra Club, however, criticized Obama saying "As long as his administration keeps throwing lifelines to old sources of energy like oil and gas, we won't be able to lead the world on clean energy solutions like wind and solar." They called for an "end to oil and gas fracking on public lands." What they are not sayi... | 0_0 |
Think about what Curry vs. Mann would accomplish. As Curry admits, "I have at least as good a case against Michael Mann for defamation as he has against Steyn." So this would put Mann is a bind: if he wins against Steyn, he establishes a precedent for his own loss to Curry. If no one can criticize him under the Bill Mu... | 0_0 |
Since we have already experienced 0.6 deg. C in the last 100 years, it would also mean that most of our current global warmth is natural, not anthropogenic. | 2_1 |
"And what it shows is his horrible and gross political miscalculations," he added. "In 2007 and 2008, he actually believed that not only was global warming going to be a, quote, winning issue but he actually believed the Republican base was going to accept this. Those are two horrible miscalculations." | 0_0 |
Thanks to E Stephens and John the 1 st for this link | 0_0 |
Let me stress I am not denying the (global warming) phenomenon has occurred. The world has warmed since 1680, the nadir of a cool period called the Little Ice Age (LIA) that has generally continued to the present. These climate changes are well within natural variability and explained quite easily by changes in the sun... | 2_1 |
If one additionally entertains the possibility that there is still considerable warming still in the pipeline left from increasing CO 2 , as NASAs Jim Hansen claims, then the need for some natural cooling mechanism to offset it and thus produce no net warming becomes even stronger. Either that, or the climate system is... | 3_1 |
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It is precisely the job of a Court of Appeals to resist irrational momentum and offend sensibilities if that is what needs to be done to ensure that agency decisions are not arbitrary. Under normal rules of administrative review, it would not be possible for a court to overlook such a fundamental omission by an agency ... | 0_0 |
I come down stalwartly on the side freedom of speech and media access to information. | 0_0 |
Turnabout is fair play, and just as the Clinton Administrationpunted theICTA petition to Bush, so the Bush Administrationpunted EPAs Mass v. EPA response to Obama. But whereas Clintons EPA simply ducked the ICTA petition, Bushs EPA in July 2008 published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR)exploringnumerous... | 0_0 |
e) Finally, it is clear not so much fossil material on Earth that you can not even get a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (this output has been about 600 ppm) a hjningsniv, somav many hvdas correspond to a temperaturhjning p about 1 degree, apart from the effect avallt soot that would come out from the mngd... | 0_0 |
Lamar Smith, a Republican, represents Texas?s 21st District in the U.S. House and is chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. | 0_0 |
Write this down. Global warming started 20,000 years ago. | 0_0 |
An inconvenient question: "If climate change is a planetary emergency, why take nuclear and natural gas off the table?' | 0_0 |
There is one further problem. If we really do put down 58GW of offshore wind capacity, what happens to the surplus output when the wind blows and demand is low? Nuclear cannot be switched on and off, and certainly any contracts signed will not allow that. This basically means that the bulk of wind output will not be re... | 4_4 |
Thousands remained without power Friday night (March 7, 2014) in the northern part of Durham after a winter storm wreaked havoc | 0_0 |
Obviously, the price tag for renewables is extremely high, compared to hydrocarbons. The additional costs can be justified either by imminent fossil fuel scarcity (the "oil peak"), which would send petroleum and coal prices through the roof, or by the threat of man-made global warming. But on closer inspection neither ... | 4_4 |
Figure 7: Sea level development around the Tarawa atoll based on tide gauges. There is no detectable rise. Diagram source: Donner (2012) . | 1_6 |
All that blue indicates that, yes, July was, as Murphy said, colder than normal in the northern and eastern parts of the United States, in some cases record cold. Granted, the planet won't be uniformly warm (or cold), but record cold? In July? At a time when the planet is supposed to be not only warming, but experienci... | 1_3 |
The climate segment of Mr. Obamas speech concludeswith a theological flourish: | 0_0 |
Had NSIDC begun their graph in 1971, it would be clear that Arctic sea ice is cyclical, not the fake linear trend they are scamming people with. | 5_2 |
Practically all opponents of the EPA?s new rules are taking the same tack. They seem to think that they can thwart the so-called ?war on coal? while accepting the main reason for the regulations, the highly debatable premise that we can control Earth?s climate merely by adjusting our carbon-dioxide emissions. | 0_0 |
DMI Fairly reliable indication to be out with red on top. Also note that ADX, the black line, is picking up strength. Direction of the trade is to the downside, and accelerating. | 0_0 |
However, the report is also expected to say that the UK is on track to meet its self-imposed goal of reducing CO2 emissions to 20 percent below that of 1990 levels. The question is how the UK could possibly achieve that goal since it is not on target to even meet the goals of the Kyoto global warming treaty, which woul... | 0_0 |
What is needed is a fundamentally different approach to the federal role in energyone that emphasizes sustained energy R&D; on basic and early applied researchparticularly in higher-risk, higher-reward, longer-term technologies that are too early for angel or venture capital funding. The federal government has a long a... | 0_0 |
In April, the Parliament in Strasbourg voted against artificially propping up the price of Emission Trading System carbon permit prices following the collapse of energy demand in connection with the Continents economic crisis. While the low price of carbon allowances is great for energy customers, you can be assured th... | 0_0 |
In a recent research paper (Loehle, 2008), I show that if this linear model is mis-specified (i.e., a linear growth response is assumed but in reality the growth response is non-linear), even a model that appears to work well during the training (or calibration) periodthe time during which both temperature and tree rin... | 5_1 |
An increasing trend in Arctic temperatures about twice that of the global average temperature.16 Over the past fifty years, the Arctic should have warmed by 1 C or more. | 0_0 |
(B) Proponents claim always win, no matter what happens, and are always ready to change the cards on the table (mp3: 14m15s). One way to do rather common in environments AGW: today, the planet warms or cools, the comments will still compatible with the theory dellAGW. | 0_0 |
Let me say it again: the question is not whether temperatures have risen or whether mankind has affected the climate. Temperatures have always risen and fallen and mankind has always affected the climate. The question is whether we have a problem on our hands. The poor performance of the climate models suggests that th... | 5_1 |
By clearly understanding how threats to our sovereignty arise, by making them politically important, and by holding our elected officials accountable, we can defend our sovereignty vigorously. But there is no time to waste. | 0_0 |
Democrats have a weak field in part because of their poor showing in recent statewide elections. And there's another problem. The geographically clustered Obama coalition blacks, Hispanics (in some states), gentry liberals tends to elect officeholders with little incentive to compile records that would make them compet... | 0_0 |
Where there are a large number of data points, it does not materially affect the larger picture, but does remove some of the extreme anomalies from the data set. But where there is very little data available the impact is much larger. That is particularly the case prior to 1910. But after 1910, any data deletions pale ... | 0_0 |
The cumulative effect is that families have even less money to buy food, pay the rent or mortgage, repair the car or house, save for college and retirement, take a vacation and keep people comfortable (and alive) on frigid winter nights and sweltering summer afternoons. Workers lose jobs. Health and welfare, family rel... | 0_0 |
WIth regards to climate science, I am arguing that the focus needs to move away from a focus on projections of carbon dioxide-controlled climate and towards examining the more complex dynamics (external and internal) at play that determine both global and regional climate. | 0_0 |
"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 created a powerful quasi-private agency to oversee the auditing of American business, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The PCAOB is responsible for a mountain of red tape, and its broad interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley's rules on what constitutes a company's "intern... | 0_0 |
The model in Figure 3 predicts global cooling until 2030. This result is also supported by shifts in PDO that occurred at the end of the last century, which is expected to result in global cooling until about 2030 . | 1_2 |
So we have an entity that checks off all the boxes for regulatory capture. It's got lots of money. It influences politics. And then it's granted access to literally write policy. Of course, some commentators will claim: "But NRDC is selflessly lobbying to achieve environmental protection, which is always a great thing,... | 0_0 |
So, is it reasonable to assume these feedback loops? First, none have really been proven empirically, which does not of course necessarily make them wrong. . In our daily lives, we generally deal with negative feedback: inertia, wind resistance, friction are all negative feedback processes. If one knew nothing else, an... | 3_1 |
An honest government and honest candidates would inform the public about these truths and lead open discussions of what might be done. The fact that no candidate mentions that governments have promised more healthcare and pension spending than we can pay for tells us a great deal about the state of truth in government ... | 0_0 |
Growing evidence for the linkage between solar variability and frequency of blocking in the Northeast Atlantic has also been provided by meteorological studies. Modern observations show strong solar modulation of the blocking frequency and positioning during the 11-year solar cycles for the past 50 years, impacting sub... | 2_1 |
Outright denial can cloud the movements effort to portray itself as a credible underdog in a scientific debate, some attendees said. And while many people here declined to criticize Heartlands decision to buy a billboard that compared climate advocates to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, they also emphasized that their ideas h... | 0_0 |
Looks like I'm pulling an all-nighter. My belinda is having puppies. Open thread, reader tips, Halloween-themed names suitable for Schnauzers. 11 am Update Just got home from the vet clinic - a few hundred dollars poorer, but 5 new healthy puppies richer. By 3 am it was apparent that things weren't going as expected, a... | 0_0 |
Remember the number 1.85. It is the lodestar of a new demography that will lead us to a different world. It should change the way we think about economics, geopolitics, the environment, cultureand about ourselves. | 0_0 |
As for the implications of these several findings, Stoks et al . say they suggest that "besides genetic changes, also phenotypic plasticity and evolution of plasticity likely will contribute to observed phenotypic changes under global warming in aquatic invertebrates," which further suggests that freshwater invertebrat... | 3_2 |
We are already 12 years into the 30 from 2000 to 2030. As you can see from the above animated plots, there appears to have been a distinct lack of accelerationin the last 100 years or so. Roughly speaking, the sea level along the coast of California is rising at about 2 mm/year. So it looks like there will be a netrise... | 1_6 |
As long as the EPA continues to rely on assumptions about industry activity that are not, in fact, based on actual industry activity, their estimates for methane emissions will remain wrong. The fact that those assumptions result in inflated emissions estimates makes the agencys conscious decision not to adjust its met... | 5_2 |
In other words, over the next five years, their models forecast that global surfaces may be a little warmer or a little cooler than 2014, as much as 0.2 deg C warmer or as much as 0.08 deg C cooler. That narrows it down. | 5_1 |
These calamities included predicting a ?BBQ summer? before the 2009 washout and then claiming there was only a one in seven chance of a chilly winter last year before the coldest few months for 31 years. And the new figures, which show a 60 per cent to 80 per cent chance of warmer-than-average temperatures this winter,... | 0_0 |
In the press, the hottest topic throughout the summit was the Kyoto Protocol. The 1997 agreement expires in 2012. Currently, it is the main mechanism used by the warmists internationally to limit emissions and raise money. It basically forces developed countries, accounting for less than one-fourth of total global emis... | 0_0 |
Weather Channel Founder Says Hurricane Matthew Is "Nature Not Mankind' | 0_0 |
2001: The IPCC concludes that todays temperatures are warmer than in 1300 years. How it reached this conclusion is under criminal investigation. | 5_2 |
Repeal the Jones Act. Enacted nearly a century ago, the Jones Act mandates that any goods shipped by water between two points in the United States must be transported on a U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged vessel with a crew that is at least 75 percent American. By preventing foreign competition, the Jones Act significantly inc... | 0_0 |
"Some 24 environmental groups signed statements largely supporting the aims of solar developers. National environmental groups joined BrightSource and other solar companies in a letter sent Dec. 14 to the White House, asking the president to continue a federal renewable-energy subsidy. | 0_0 |
From Paul Driessen: "In response to pleas for more energy, to meet basic human needs and lift people out of poverty, many politicians and activists continue to insist that "dangerous global warming" concerns must override even these human interests. Now comes this incredible bombshell from Australia's top climate chang... | 0_0 |
So we have two possible candidates for the station that made the red dot. Both have potential placement issues. It makes you wonder how many more of the dots in the HPRCC map have issue like this. I only spotted this one because it was such a large singular anomaly. I??ll check with HPRCC on Monday to see if they can i... | 5_1 |
U.S. energy policy: satisfy the Green lobby! | 0_0 |
Norman Myers himself says "Unfortunately, we live in a world without sufficient scientists, funding, and above all, time to undertake a conclusive check." And in 1989 he wrote, "Regrettably, we have no way of knowing the actual current rate of extinction in tropical forests, nor can we even make an accurate guess." (Sc... | 0_0 |
Downstairs, next to the jellyfish tanks, a rhyming video told how the jellyfish population was exploding in the wild because they thrive in warmer waters. In the main room, a staff member pointed to a rare blue lobster, saying that some lobsters have been scuttling out of Massachusetts and settling in cooler climes to ... | 0_0 |
As candidate and president, on eight separate occasions Barack Obama instructed Americans to "think about what's happening in countries like Spain Germany" if they wanted to know what successful "green jobs" policies look like, and if they wanted to know what we should expect here in the U.S. from his agenda. | 0_0 |
Climate change policy is a major focus of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Indeed, we have been active in the global warming debate ever since the issue first gained national prominence in the late 1980s. Former CEI environmental studies director Kent Jeffreys published a major monograph on the issue, titled "Why ... | 0_0 |
However, as the actual empirical evidence through November 2011 reveals, it is highly unlikely that either of these "scientists" could find his own ass with his hands. Even using Santer's own preferred 17-year analysis span (chart on left), it is clear that global warming is insignificant and likely moving towards a co... | 1_2 |
Outside of Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand also performed well. Had they ranked higher in the area of health, countries in these regions would have finished even higher. The United States comes in at ninth place and is the top ranked country of over 50 million people. Japan (sixteenth) and Hong Kong (... | 0_0 |
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a Democratic National Committee event in Austin, Texas March 11, 2016. Reuters | 0_0 |
More recently, there is the warm period known as the Holocene Optimum (from 3,000 to 8,000 years ago) and shown in ice core temperatures from Greenland (Figure 4). On the right is the rapid emergence from the Ice Age 10,500 years ago with current temperatures on the left. This record shows you can argue it was warmer t... | 2_1 |
For instance, substituting the ECS of Otto et al. for the outdated Roe and Baker distribution, used in the 2013 TSD, causes the SCC for 2020 to drop 41 percent with the DICE model and over 60 percent with the FUND model. There were similar reductions on the SCC for other years as well. | 0_0 |
Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during ... | 1_7 |
In another blow to the alarmist fallacy that the current warming period is 'unprecedented' or 'unusual,' a paper published today in the journal Climate of the Past finds that winter temperatures in China warmed at a rate almost three times faster over the 100 year period from 1862 to 1961 than over the 100 years from 1... | 2_1 |
In the latest report from GWPF, David Whitehouse has examined the 21st century temperature standstill and the history of attempts to, ahem, deny its existence. | 1_4 |
SM: Well, Ralph Nader changed policy, back in the 1960s and '70s. So it would be quite an accomplishment if I could achieve that. | 0_0 |
Mike Hulme1, Ruth Doherty1, Todd Ngara2, Mark New1 and David Lister1 | 0_0 |
In recent comments about Yamal, Gavin Schmidt claimed that he had been misrepresented in my recent post , but, all too characteristically, did not quote the supposed misrepresentation. Or even say explicitly who had made the supposed misrepresentation, though the link to the CA thread implied that I had been responsibl... | 0_0 |
Pachauri's position is also becoming increasingly untenable with demands for his resignation becoming louder by the day. In an interview to Open, Pat Michaels of the Cato Institute, a noted US think-tank, who has followed the debate for years, says, "Dr Pachauri should resign because he has a consistent record of mixin... | 5_2 |
CEI has joined several other groups in urging Congress to update U.S. privacy laws. | 0_0 |
January 1974 : Brisbane Recieved 34 Inches Of Rain Almost 300% Of What It Received This year | 0_0 |
On May 7, 2003, the House International Relations Committee will mark up the FY 2004 State Department authorization bill. The Committee will consider an amendment, introduced by Rep. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), that, if enacted, would effectively overturn S. Res. 98, the Byrd-Hagel resolution. Menendez's amendment, a "Sense o... | 0_0 |
CFACT is an international public policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. which promotes market and technological solutions to issues of environment and development. | 0_0 |
Vice President Al Gore recently held a press conference in which he implied a connection between manmade global warming and more frequent and more intense El Nio events. The history of El Nio, however, shows no such correlation. An article in Nature (May 28, 1998) reviews El Nio's past and finds that several El Nio eve... | 0_0 |
While climate change concerns are voiced most strongly among the young, Liberal Democrat voters and Guardian/Independent readers, these attitudes are not translated into personal action. | 0_0 |
Read here . Agriculture prospers in warm conditions and crops respond fantastically to more atmospheric CO2. More CO2 feeds more people and reduces hunger, unless they use the food to fuel more cars - dumb. | 3_3 |
The signers are: Fred Smith and Myron Ebell, CEI; Paul Weyrich, Coalitions for America; Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform; former Senator Malcolm Wallop, Frontiers of Freedom; David Keene, American Conservative Union; Paul Gessing, National Taxpayers Union; James Backlin, Christian Coalition; Amy Ridenour, Nati... | 0_0 |
> >> Annual mean temperature in Central England during 1999 | 0_0 |
North American snow extent as reported by Rutgers University | 0_0 |
As of Wednesday, Jan. 13, the area has experienced 12 consecutive days of below freezing temperatures ??? a new record. | 1_3 |
say global warming will not pose a serious threat to them or their way of life | 0_0 |
All of the desires and efforts to reduce carbon emissions are up against this very inconvenient truth: World Coal Consumption to Surpass Oil by 2020 Due to Rising Demand in China and India . Excerpts from the Reuters article: | 0_0 |
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