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"The amount of the sun's energy that reaches the earth's surface is the main driver of the earth's temperature. Clouds are one of the least understood aspects of climate change. They can block the sun, but light can also bounce off one cloud into another cloud's shadow and increase the solar energy hitting earth," said... | 2_1 |
The grim reality is that the EPA wants states to do their dirty work for them. By submitting a plan, states will become complicit in the agency's plan to shut down affordable, reliable power generation, destroy jobs and livelihoods, and plunge minority families deeper into poverty, hardship and ill health. | 0_0 |
> >> may be best divided into 3-4 regional studies, drawing upon | 0_0 |
3 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, | 0_0 |
To be fair, Gore is more invigorated here than he ever seemed to be on the campaign trail. Yet Guggenheim presses too hard to present a "loose" Gore, making sure to include the self-deprecating one-liner he uses to open his presentation: "I used to be the next President of the United States." Watching Gore crack a joke... | 0_0 |
Laframboise attributes these appointments to UN diversity goals. I suspect that the UNs objective is to obtain buy in from the developing countries for the UNFCCC policies. | 0_0 |
Soviet Union (Ukraine and Volga regions) 1921-1922- to 5 million perish from drought | 0_0 |
the current commitments, even with some strengthening, are little different | 0_0 |
Economic Productivity and Competitiveness top priorities for the Obama administration and the Harper government, can be boosted by natural gas abundance. Even as prices remain affordable, natural gas utilities in both countries are leaders in promoting energy efficiency for consumers, lowering the input cost of energy ... | 0_0 |
CEI has fought the good fight. CEI fought the Safety Nazis at the Department of Transportation. If mandatory airbags increase safety in cars, how come those mandatory airbags, the Kennedys, are such dangerous drivers? CEI fought to stop the ban on pressure-treated woodmy children would thank CEI, but they've been knock... | 0_0 |
It means that something like Lindzen's adaptive iris effect must take place. Now, Lindzen's iris effect is just one possible mechanism how it can occur and I can't promise you that this is exactly what happens. But I think that much more general principles of physics make it extremely likely that the main result - name... | 3_1 |
Carbon capture and sequestration, he said, was unlikely to be competitive unless natural gas prices increased by 100 to 150 percent and the construction of nuclear plants was ruled out. | 4_4 |
1. Met Office July 2010: Climate Change Gradually But Steadily Reducing Probability Of Severe Winters In The UK | 0_0 |
At this, the officers announced they were coming in, and they broke down the door. They found Hollis King smoking marijuana, and put him under arrest. They also found powder cocaine. King was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 11 years in prison. | 0_0 |
As discussed and illustrated in this post, there are two naturally occurring, coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that the models obviously fail to simulate properly: | 5_1 |
Cord Blomquist (cblomquist@cei.org) is Senior Communications Director at CEI. | 0_0 |
To overcome those failings, the sea surface temperatures in climate models have to be forced by greenhouse gases to create very high warming trends in the tropics, where observations show little warming. Now consider that the Pacific Ocean stretches almost halfway around the globe at the equator and youll understand th... | 5_1 |
Robert Schneider of the World Bank says, "What we're seeing is that people are figuring out what you can and cannot do as far as what crops you can grow, what crops you can grow in which soils, where you can put crops when you have to put in pasture, and which fertilizers can be used successfully." (Dartmouth Review, p... | 0_0 |
?The US has the cleanest, most heavily regulated drilling and mining facilities on earth, right?? Tabitha asked. | 0_0 |
You cannot blame him. His degree and training is in railroad engineering. You read it right. This man was educated to make railroads from point A to point B. | 0_0 |
Germans forced to waste electricity to prevent Green energy meltdown | 0_0 |
The administrations proposed CO 2 emission limits for existing power plants pose the biggest risk to consumer welfare and the economy. Like it or not, coal still provides the largest share of U.S. electric power . At best, CO 2 emission limits make electricity more costly. At worst, they can destroy coal as an economic... | 4_1 |
The IPCC selects lead authors from the pool of those nominated by individual governments. Over time, many governments nominated only authors who were aligned with stated policy. Indeed, the selections for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report represented a disturbing homogeneity of thought regarding humans and climate. | 5_2 |
Mauskar said, "In 2000-01, India was spending 0.63% of its GDP on climate change adaptation and mitigation which has now risen to 2.17%. So we can say that Nicholas Stern's argument (that climate change action does not hurt economy much) is perhaps not true." | 0_0 |
U.S. Main stream media duped on global warming polls | 0_0 |
There are powerful countries that remain single-party states, with their entire government apparatus controlled by a small political elitebut the Republicans are going to lose the House this fall. | 0_0 |
The only consolation at the moment is that global temperatures have failed to rise for more than a decade now, and have turned sharply downward in the past 18 months. | 1_4 |
Making matters worse, dense conifer canopies intercept rain and snow, with 30% lost to evaporation instead of soaking into the ground or flowing into rivers. When a little rain fell on the Bozeman fire on Aug. 31, the Forest Service reported that it was caught in the tree tops and quickly evaporated. An estimate by Wes... | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Western Herald | 0_0 |
The coordinated effort to privatize federal lands has included the "Sagebrush Revolution" of the 1970s, the "Wise Use Movement" of the 80s and 90s, and the more recent "free-market environmentalism" that consists of a network of corporations and conservative foundations and think tanks intent on gaining control of what... | 0_0 |
Reducing emissions through a permitting process requires bureaucracies to inspect facilities and enforce compliance, resulting in high costs, delays, litigation, political interference, and unintended consequences. Extensive empirical research of such programs has found they typically cost between four and six times as... | 4_2 |
"After the weird "future' award to President Obama of the Nobel Peace Prize, another Nobel committee has made a brilliant choice awarding the Economics prize to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. Their work follows the lead of Ronald Coase (himself a Nobel prize winner years ago), which showed that the institutions o... | 0_0 |
The authors note that "the section of Antarctica drained by Pine Island Glacier and the fast flowing glacier itself have been the subject of much speculation and discussion, but they have received relatively little quantitative examination." The present work does much to alleviate this deficiency and suggests there is ... | 1_1 |
The East Pacific sea surface temperature data represents about 33% of the surface area of the global oceansthats a chunk of waterwhile the Rest-of-the-World data makes up the other 67%. | 0_0 |
In my view this comment exemplifies a problematic attitude not only in climate science but in the social sciences as well. The good cause which allegedly motivates much of the research puts the researcher in a special position. It allows them to dispense with essential standards of professional conduct. It is perhaps n... | 5_2 |
Colleges are Obama's next takeover target | 0_0 |
Perhaps you watched the Earth Day news coverage of the "historic" ceremonial signing of the Paris Climate Agreement during which representatives from 175 countries walked up to the stage in the General Assembly hall at the United Nations headquarters in New York, sat down behind a desk on the podium, and added their si... | 0_0 |
Last Friday, the EPA decreed the amount of ethanol that retailers must blend into their gasoline. For 2015, it will be about 14 billion gallons. That decree provides an opportunity to ask a simple question: How have ethanol producers been able to garner a federal mandate that requires motorists to buy their low-heat-co... | 0_0 |
"From its mountains you may dig silver, iron, coal, copper, quicksilver, zinc and tin; from the sands of its tributaries you may wash gold, diamonds and precious stones; from its forests you may gather drugs of virtues the most rare, spices of aroma the most exquisite, gums and resins of the most useful properties, dye... | 0_0 |
Eagle Takes? The US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Department of the Interior violated federal laws when it created a final regulation in 2009 allowing wind energy and some other companies to obtain 30-year permits to kill protected Bald and Golden Eagles without prosecution by th... | 0_0 |
Is there a consensus in the climate modeling community on the validity of regional climate prediction by dynamical downscaling? A large number of dynamical downscaling efforts are underway worldwide. This is not necessarily because it is meaningful to do it, but simply because it is possible to do it. It is not without... | 5_1 |
Matt and Janet Thompson are now down to simultaneous opposing injunctions and writs. Theyve launched several against the DEC in WA, and against the constitutionality of the EPA regulations (wait til you hear how obscenely silly the fine print is on those laws). The NAB (or receiver) immediately returned fire and issued... | 0_0 |
The initial reports in 1986 claimed 2,000 dead, and an unknown number of future deaths and deformities occurring in a wide swath extending from Sweden to the Black Sea. As the years passed, the size of the disaster increased; by 2000, the BBC and New York Times estimated 15,000-30,000 dead, and so on | 0_0 |
Regardless of those inconvenient "global warming" facts, the NASA climate research unit and James Hansen continue to embarrass the entire science community with their hysteria, hyperbole and serial fabrications. And July's commentary about heat waves and "global warming" is a painful reminder of the embarrassing Bozo-s... | 5_1 |
Capital Rivals: U.S. Chamber of Commerce vs. SEIU: | 0_0 |
I know you have other things you need to do, but if the government keeps growing, when will any of us be less busy? | 0_0 |
Annex I countries are mostly developed countries, covering the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and much of Europe including countries that are struggling financially such as Greece and Portugal. | 0_0 |
As James Murray believes that there we be further regional and international conflict because of Global Warming then whats his opinion on further defense spending and the stomach for further foreign Military Intervention.In the name of preventing Climate Change this time. | 0_0 |
The models are broken. They are based on flawed assumptions about water vapor. | 5_1 |
A climate criminal ignores the fact that models have massively over-predicted warming | 5_1 |
Moghaddam et al . report that the daily two-hour 400-ppm increase in the controlled environment chambers' atmospheric CO 2 concentration led to a 193% increase in C. asiatica leaf biomass, a 264% increase in plant water use efficiency, as well as a 171% increase in leaf total flavonoid content. | 3_3 |
Instead of insults, these legislators should be lauded for trying to save the American economy. Even the EPA admits that regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is "absurd." To avoid having to shackle the entire economy, the EPA wants to increase the threshold for the regulation of greenhouse gas "pollution... | 0_0 |
42) Trenberth's 'missing heat' really is missing and is not "supported by the data itself" in the "real ocean": "it is not clear to me, actually, that an accelerated warming of some...layer of the ocean ... is robustly supported by the data itself. Until we clear up whether there has been some kind of accelerated warmi... | 5_1 |
I agree, and would add that they have provided NO demonstration of skillful regional and local predictionsof changes in climate statistics from that in the historical and paleorecord. | 0_0 |
The warming vs cooling depends on the place (as well as the month, as I mentioned) and the warming places only have a 2-to-1 majority while the cooling places are a sizable minority. Of course, if you calculate the change of the global mean temperature, you get a positive sign - you had to get one of the signs because ... | 1_4 |
The estimates from the scientific community range from 4.0 to 5.6 million square kilometers, with 8 of the contributors suggesting a September minimum below 5.0 million square kilometers, 3 contributors suggesting a minimum of 5.0 million square kilometers, and 5 contributors suggesting a September minimum above 5.0 mi... | 0_0 |
U.S. PIRG, part of a web of groups associated with fearmonger extraordinaire, Ralph Nader, has also released a report repeating the tired litany of disasters supposedly linked to global warming. The claims by these groups are based on pure speculation, however. They are not supported by the scientific literature (www.i... | 5_2 |
What we do not hear from them , from any one of them, is the slightest indication of puzzlement over how or why so suddenly, in this age of the greatest emergency our planet has ever facedglobal warmingthings have gotten cool. Not a furrowed brow among the lot over the consideration that, contrary to the visions of Al ... | 0_0 |
Ball #7 in the above solution to the inverse problem has an estimated inflation of 0.5 psi.The reverse engineered (inverse) inflation of 0.5 psi is, by another coincidence, is thedifference in pregame pressure between Patriot and Colt balls. Indeed, this prompted the guess. Could it be possible thatone of the Colt ball... | 0_0 |
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Kaufmann?s team looked into how sulfate uncertainty impacted its results and decided that it was relatively minor. However, we can?t find any independent test showing that the geographic ?fingerprint? of a dramatic recent increase in sulfate cooling is actually being observed. More on this in a minute. | 0_0 |
Climate Audit's graph show's the data from the ten chosen samples (from ca. 1800 on) in red recreating the infamous discredited "hockey stick" temperature trend. Climate Audit shows a larger data set of living trees in black without Briffa's samples. Proponents of global warming theory are up in arms, yet have no good ... | 5_2 |
Monbiot, a fourteenth-rate zoologist who knows nothing of climate science, had attacked me in a characteristically vicious, ignorant 1800-word rant for having failed to understand the fundamental equation of radiative transfer, of which he had never even heard until he read about it in a major article I had published i... | 0_0 |
Today's Links: October 24, 2012 | 0_0 |
In January 2001, Bushs EPAissued a request for comment on the ICTA petition. In late August 2003,EPAGeneral Counsel Robert Fabricant issued a memorandum concluding that the CAA does not authorize GHG regulation.Two weeks later,EPA published its denial of the ICTA petition in the Federal Register . | 0_0 |
At least ten Fatah militias were unable to hold their own in Gaza when pressed by the more disciplined Hamas, and given that weakness Israel has a legitimate skepticism about security issues that will have to be addressed before it considers a final accord with the Palestinians. Nor will security alone fully satisfy th... | 0_0 |
Here's how it really is: Is Vladimir Putin succeeding? Well, opines Obama, the Russian president is "not completely stupid." According to him, Putin "understands that Russia's overall position in the world is significantly diminished. And the fact that he invades Crimea or is trying to prop up Assad doesn't suddenly ma... | 0_0 |
Hybrid Cars' Miles Per Gallon Falls Short | 0_0 |
Hantemirovs intemperate criticism was immediately seized upon by commenters at Real Climate on the then Yamal thread, first by Steve Metzler here and then by Phil Clarke here . Over the next week or so, RC commenters, abetted by Real Climate moderator Eric Steig, used Hantemirovs criticism to launched one tirade after ... | 0_0 |
Another potential contributor is a wooly-minded romantic environmentalism that seems to have infected scientists as much as anyone else. This also comes through in Nature"s profile: | 0_0 |
written by Andy Neitzke. Andy is one of the coolest bigshots among recent graduates, and because he is also a clear expositor (recall, for example, his and Cumrun's review of topological strings), you should try to look at his comments. | 0_0 |
Solyndra, the Obama administrations mascot solar company thatburned through $535 million of the taxpayers money before going broke, isnot the only failure in the Presidents green investment portfolio.The Institute for Energy Researchprovides information on eightother stimulosers that also failed, laid off workers, or h... | 0_0 |
Date: April 7, 2010 Time: 7:00 pm Central DST To Listen: Visit our BlogTalkRadio Page | 0_0 |
The War on Terror was or at least I claim it was incautious, for precisely as many observed at the time and many more since, there was no clear basis for the interventions and no clear objective. Bush and Blair of course didnt write ISISs manifestos and mission statements, but they were in many senses the authors of th... | 0_0 |
A study of sea sediment cores in the Chukchi Sea shelf in the Arctic Ocean concluded that `during the middle Holocene the August sea surface temperature fluctuated by 5C and was 3-7C warmer than it is today. | 2_1 |
The authors found that juniper trees recovered better from the effects of drought in the 1994-1998 period, when the average CO 2 concentration of the air was 343 ppm, than in the 1896-1930 period, when the average CO 2 concentration of the air was 300 ppm, noting that "greater recovery following drought in the late per... | 3_3 |
For quite some time, I?ve harbored the suspicion that both the popular science and the political activity that create and sustain the belief in Global Warmingism are informed by a retrogressively pagan mindset. No matter what the weather is like, it always turns out to be exactly the kind of weather we should expect if... | 0_0 |
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In the words of the scientists who conducted the research, "the fact that the temperature sensitivity of gross primary productivity is larger than that of ecosystem respiration suggests that global warming could lead to increased carbon sequestration in boreal ecosystems." References | 3_3 |
As the late David Bradford of Princeton University (one of the leading lights in tax reform who will be much missed) told Time Magazine in 2003, a consumption tax "approach yields enormous simplification of the rules related to capital gains, interest deductions, and treatment of complex financial transactions. It appa... | 0_0 |
The mistake that climate science makes is to equate the output temperature with the input temperature, which is the same thing as equating the output flux to the input flux in a rather naive attempt to conserve energy. But this goes about it the wrong way we need to conserve energy first, and let the flux be whatever t... | 0_0 |
But let's forgive Mr Chu this mistake - his field was laser optics, not the phase transitions of water. And incidentally, the ice age will eventually return. In a few dozens of thousands of years, there will be another one and the natural contribution to the dropping temperature will be over 5 C. Why doesn't Steven Chu... | 0_0 |
CFACT Europe Challenges Environmentalist Orthodoxy with "Eco-Nihilism: A Critique of Political Ecology" | 0_0 |
Increased prosperity in India and China is good, but now we have to follow up with an increase in food production. Molecular plant breeding techniques will create that increase. Europe cannot opt out of the international river of grains to go it alone, it's time to get with the program. | 0_0 |
Apparently, many in Washington and elsewhere, particularly those in the Administration, remain ignorant of the critical role CO2 has in life on the planet and the enormous benefits that enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide is providing to plant life, to the environment, and to humanity. One is tempted to ask: are those ... | 3_3 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Regulatory Policy Analyst Isaac Post on the ideological background of the CSR movement: | 0_0 |
It is implausible to expect that small changes in the concentration of any minor atmospheric constituent such as carbon dioxide, can significantly influence that radiative equilibrium. | 2_3 |
President Obama says that the climate is collapsing and that he is going to rescue the human race by fixing it. | 0_0 |
* Renewable fuels will prevent oil depletion and reduce imports. Baloney. U.S. oil and natural gas were declining and imports rising for decades, because environmentalists and politicians blocked leasing and drilling. The very people decrying the situation were causing it. They wanted to justify a non-hydrocarbon futur... | 0_0 |
Some commentators have been very quick to seize on one more example of perceived Team iniquity. That I had been publicly seeking this data for a long time and that Briffa had withheld the data not just from me (but also from D??Arrigo et al, for example) lent an unsavory aspect to CRU??s conduct, fresh after widespread... | 5_2 |
its government. Four years before ordering the Navy seal mission to take out bin Laden, President Obama basically said how he would | 0_0 |
The bounce back in the extent of sea ice in the Arctic this summer was reflected also in the volume of ice. | 1_1 |
But it will also include food and grocery manufacturers, alcohol companies and healthcare providers, to name a few. | 0_0 |
The means more then normal north to south contrast and moisture aplenty to help feed spring severe weather activity. Normally La Nina springs have more severe weather activity as have posted earlier. | 0_0 |
In an article intended to raise pubic consciousness about the threat of global warming, environmental writer Bill McKibben mentioned reports that, in northern Russia, "venomous snakes had appeared for the first time..," well, venomous snakes will certainly get people's attention. | 0_0 |
Cavuto asked why, instead of getting oil from Libyas Moammar Gadhafi and other Middle East countries, America doesnt drill for more oil domestically. Morano replied, The Congressional Research Service just did a study of natural gas, coal, and oil. We have more than the entire world, we have more than China, Canada, an... | 4_5 |
He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to ... | 0_0 |
The congressional hearings also revealed that EDF might possibly profit from early action credits. David Ridenour told the congressmen at the hearing that EDF, which helped write the Chafee early action bill, may be trying to position itself as a third party verifier of emissions reductions. He cited a report by the No... | 0_0 |
While this is quite similar to my previous result, there is one major difference. The trends fit better. The difference in the trends in my previous results is just barely visible. But when I use a fat-tailed exponential decay function, the difference in trend can no longer be seen. The trend in the NH is about three t... | 0_0 |
The UK's HadCRUT global temperature dataset indicates a global cooling trend of -0.2C/century over last 15 years, plus May 2012 was slightly cooler - the global warming science facts, per the IPCC's own gold-standard | 1_4 |
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