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E-mail Documentation Of The Successful Attempt By Thomas Karl Director Of the U.S. National Climate Data Center To Suppress Biases and Uncertainties In the Assessment Surface TemperatureTrends | 0_0 |
The three researchers' data indicate that relative to the plants grown at 300 ppm CO 2 , those grown at 400, 500 and 600 ppm produced approximately 200, 275 and 390% more aboveground biomass, respectively, as best we can determine from their bar graphs. In addition, they report that "reproductively, increasing CO 2 fro... | 3_3 |
Gore: The Arctic is warming at an unprecedented rate. Truth: The Arctic region warms and cools dramatically every few decades, due to shifting currents and winds. Arctic ice also melted significantly during the 1930s; it is now back to seasonally normal levels. | 1_1 |
With all these variables in play, choosing a winner will be as much a game of luck as of skill. Based on what weve seen, it seems probable that it will come from the middle of the pack between 2008 and 2009. | 0_0 |
Professor Hajo Eicken is one of the leading experts. On a speaking visit to Utah, he said recent losses are especially dramatic. | 0_0 |
Broadly speaking, the IPCC expects this centurys warming to be equivalent to that from a doubling of CO2 concentration. In that event, 1 C is indeed all the warming we should expect from a CO2 doubling. And is that going to be a problem? | 3_1 |
Across the pond, more than 100 Conservative Members of Parliament urged Prime Minister, David Cameron, to block further expansion of onshore wind. Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, called England's onshore wind farms a "blight," and while Minister of State at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (now the pr... | 0_0 |
OMB Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation | 0_0 |
But the significant point about these temperature trends is that there was a step change, but that since then temperatures have stopped increasing. There is no evidence to suggest that temperatures will increase in future years, and, until we understand better the reasons for the step change, there is a possibility tha... | 1_4 |
The environmentalists, moreover, very often forget to mention that even their hypothetical relationship is not linear (or exponential), but logarithmic and that ? and now I quote from the IPCC 2001 Report ? ?each incremental amount of extra carbon dioxide exerts a lesser heating effect.? It is not a statement of a glob... | 5_2 |
Like most climatologists, Hayhoe accepts the broad scientific consensus that the climate is changing and that humanitys combustion of fossil fuels is the main reason for it | 0_0 |
Known as the C40 Risk Assessment Framework, the climate risk project, as Bloomberg referred to it, would develop a consistent set of measures by which cities could assess their risk of a natural disaster, including hurricanes and floods. | 0_0 |
I wrote this North Idaho weather review on a chilly, snow-covered Saturday morning, Dec. 21, the first official day of the winter season. | 1_3 |
La Framboise, D. 2011. The Delinquent Teenager who was mistaken for a World Top Climate Expert . Ivy Avenue Press. pp. 235 | 0_0 |
All of this explains why Charlie Brown thinks Lucy will help him kick the football, but fails to explain why Lucy likes to pull it away. | 0_0 |
Just six days into his presidency, Barry is already making bizarre decisions based on flakey science and a complete misunderstanding of the issues of climate change. And just for luck, theres another D Word Alert. As reported in The Age today: | 0_0 |
But, writes HVS, the r nd just scientific knowledge, the knowledge that is in dispute, which is sjlva svrigheten hr and create VRT dilemma. He continues: | 0_0 |
What makes this discovery particularly noteworthy is that we mapped out a landscape of bioessential elements in the ocean that was far more perturbed than we expected, and the impacts on life were big, said Timothy W. Lyons , a professor of biogeochemistry at UCR, Owenss former advisor and the principal investigator on... | 0_0 |
Finally, it amplifies yet again what is obvious to most of us: the fact that the climate is changing and that human CO2 emissions are causing it is now unassailable by conventional scientific means, forcing some of those who cannot accept this discomforting fact to seek refuge in the ethical twilight of internet warfar... | 0_0 |
Myron Ebell (mebell@cei.org) is Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at CEI. | 0_0 |
NOAA accomplished this by primarily lowering temperatures prior to 1950 (note the red tips at bottom, left of the blue dotted line). After 1950, global temperatures were primarily adjusted up (note the red tips at the top, to the right of the blue dotted curve). | 5_1 |
The scientists say that Non-periodic processes like a warming through the monotonic increase of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause at most 0.1C to 0.2C warming for a doubling of the CO2 content, as it is expected for 2100. This positive forcing will be overwhelmed by the stronger negative forcing of natural cycles. They... | 1_2 |
But we also know from the best polls with robust samples of Massachusetts voters and physicians, conducted by Bob Blendon's group at the Harvard School of Public Health, that support for the law has been extraordinarily high. Two years after implementation, 69 percent of residents supported the law, with 77 percent sup... | 0_0 |
The problem with liberals isnt so much that they are ignorant, it is that they know so many things that arent so. | 0_0 |
Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario. This is because if the global temperature rise is limited to 2 degrees, CO2 reduction measures would have to be taken... | 4_2 |
Dunn discusses using Federal Rules of Evidence regarding admissibility of scientific studies to challenge EPA policy. Courts tend to defer too much to agency discretion, Dunn writes. There is no law that Congress has passed that permits agencies to use and promote junk science. | 0_0 |
Thousands of fires have already torched millions of acres, amid yet another dangerous and costly fire season. It happens every year, and has for centuries. But now, the Department of the Interior misinforms us, "climate change is making it worse. Wildfire seasons are now hotter, drier and longer than in the past." Sure... | 1_7 |
The World's Leading Climate Scientists, in Their Own Words | 0_0 |
NSF Releases Online, Multimedia Package Titled, Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change | 0_0 |
For the record, I did the sum in front of him. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 today is about 388 parts per million by volume. However, we are adding just 2 ppmv a year to the air. So the warming we cause each year, even if one believes the UNs wild exaggerations of CO2s warming effect, is just 4.7 times the natur... | 2_3 |
The following figure is one that Ive used for looking at various time series, shown here for the UAH tropical T2LT series. | 0_0 |
policy, both portray the administration as recalculating American leverage and | 0_0 |
Woodpecker could alter California logging laws: | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer puts the subprime mortgage shakeup into historical perspective: | 0_0 |
Some 1199 lobbying efforts have also been financed by voluntary contributions from members and, in the late 1990s, "excess" employer-pension contributions (see sidebar). Anyone who doubts the union's lobbying might should consider its success in squaring off against the most formidable organized interests. In 1999, for... | 0_0 |
Comments from Associated Owners and Developers Submitted to EPA Regarding the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act | 0_0 |
21 The methodology was not applied to utilities because a 1990 court decision (Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. Reilly) held it would substantially change the legal meaning of a "major modification" and therefore had to go through the rulemaking process before being changed. EPA interprets the court's ruling narrowly, a... | 0_0 |
this means we will need to resubmit the manuscript to peer review once again... | 0_0 |
Lacher calls the conjecture about the rainforest on the verge of disappearing "unwarranted speculation." He further talks about how "ill-conceived deceived development schemes" attracted poor people to try and settle in the rainforest, that they were "encouraged to move in," but that they were not adequately backed up ... | 0_0 |
For example, LOST's Preamble asserts that we aspire to "realization of a just and equitable international economic order which takes into account the interests and needs of mankind as a whole and, in particular, the special interests and needs of developing countries, whether coastal or land-locked." You should prepare... | 0_0 |
All in all I heard Joe Bastardi forecast here December global temps to drop to about +0.15 to 0.20 above the normal. I say expect a similar drop for January, meaning well be in negative territory. Same goes for February. There just seems to be lots of cold out there. | 1_3 |
Overall, U.S. online stations have dropped from a peak of 1,850 in 1963 to a low of 136 as of 2007. In his blog, Smith wittily observed that the Thermometer Langoliers have eaten 9/10 of the thermometers in the USA including all the cold ones in California. But he was deadly serious after comparing current to previous ... | 5_1 |
We now turn to external effects that might explain the existence of a global warming pause; the principal ones are volcanism and solar activity. The problem here is one of balancing; the amount of cooling by volcanism, for example, has to be just right to offset the warming from CO2 during the entire duration of the pa... | 1_4 |
A Reprieve From Climate Doom forthcoming report points lowers estimates on global warming Sept 13, 2013 in the Wall Street Journal by Matt Ridley | 0_0 |
New paper unexpectedly finds diverging trends in global temperature & radiative imbalance from greenhouse gases Paper finds a decrease of IR radiation from greenhouse gases over past 14 years, contradicts expected increase | 1_4 |
"The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws " | 0_0 |
Information on Cases against EPA and FWS and on Deadline Suits on EPA Rulemaking | 0_0 |
In times of global warming, people may ask whats causing allthe cold and snow? Accuweathers Brent Anderson has the answer: | 0_0 |
Met Office, 25 September 2008: The Met Office forecast for the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be milder than average. It is also likely that the coming winter will be drier than last year. | 0_0 |
To many folks who have, for years, been fed a constant course of the-world-is-heating-up-faster-than-ever-before-and-you-are-the-cause, 9 to 12 years of no warming at all seems to indicate that something is amiss with this mantra. | 1_4 |
"Organic" Is The Latin Word For "Grown In Pig Shit" | 0_0 |
France opposes binding targets on renewable energy use. | 0_0 |
But no such accusations are made against the protectionists who question the benefits of free trade among nations, deny the manifest evidence of its success, or challenge its status as a human right. Such people are in fact standing athwart 250 years of economics, and an overwhelming consensus of living economists. The... | 0_0 |
"Google Inc. is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws, according to people familiar with the matter. " | 0_0 |
Read here . From the "experts" that predicted more hurricanes back in 2005, a group of hurricane modelers create a new model that concludes there will be less hurricanes (about 33% less) in the Atlantic basin, but the number of intense storms will increase by 81% due to CO2-caused global warming. One would hope that th... | 5_1 |
In other words, not just genuine ecological risks but virtually any impact that can be imagined may constitute a cognizable harm under NEPA if a sympathetic judge agrees. Thus, if agencies fail to address some tangential, inconsequential issue, they can be tripped up by a litigant who alleges that the environmental rev... | 0_0 |
Granted, he will use this non-binding pact in an attempt to strong-arm other countries to commit to targets when the issue is discussed in Paris next year. But such false idealism does not stand America in good stead. | 0_0 |
J. Scott Armstrong is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, editor of "Principles of Forecasting" (Springer, 2001), a founder of the International Journal of Forecasting and the Journal of Forecasting, author of "Long-Range Forecasting" (Wiley-Interscience, 1985), and founder of ForecastingPrinciples.com. | 0_0 |
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte, who knew a thing or two about epochal change, remarked: "When China awakens, the world will tremble." China is awakening, all right, and promoting worldwide authoritarianism all the more successfully that the spectacle of Western democracies lately has not been exactly edifyin... | 0_0 |
and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the | 0_0 |
If increasing emissions of CO2 in the 20th century have anything to do with monsoons, why did they peak in the 1880's and 1920's and decrease since then? | 1_7 |
New global warming legislation contains subsidies for ethanol production. | 0_0 |
I have predicted the death of global warming several times, but like a Hollywood zombie global warming is kept alive by its massive propaganda machine and useful idiots in the media. | 5_2 |
Update: TV News on TV Prima (May 2nd) showed that our pro-radar mini-tumulus with the U.S. flag has survived at least for one day: go to 10:25. The U.S. flag and the stone man is on the left side at 11:30 and it appears in detail at 11:56. ;-) | 0_0 |
SM: I actually think it's kind of a miracle that we, as a movement, have done as well on this issue as we have. It's astounding that we have 60-70 percent support for getting rid of this tax, considering the fact that only the top two or three percent of Americans pay it. But Americans have a fundamental understanding ... | 0_0 |
EPA whitewashed the toxic flashflood it caused in Colorado. But it says particulate matter smaller than 10 microns (PM10) is risky and worries incessantly about 2.5-micron particles. (A human hair is 50-70 microns; dust, pollen and mold are around 10; combustion exhaust particles are 2.5 microns or smaller.) | 0_0 |
(C) The science presented as a series of solutions, not simply as an accumulation of knowledge (mp3: 19m45s). Who he believes nellAGWers seems unable to distinguish between research and civic engagement: for example, lIPCC politically active, so as to win a Nobel Prize for Peace. | 0_0 |
Well the answer is definitely not from direct observations. As accurately expressed by biologist Garret Hardin in a quote from Julian Simon, "it is unknowable how many species are being extinguished." (Scarcity, p.132) | 0_0 |
The grid operators were forced to shut down conventional power plants after green energy produced too much electricity, nearly frying the grid, according to a Tuesday report. Media outlet Quartz attempted to spin the near disaster as a huge triumph, lauding the fact green energy briefly provided 87 percent of Germany's... | 4_4 |
Climate scientists sometimes (GISS yes, NOAA no) attempt to correct measurements in urban areas for this effect, but this can be chancy since the correction factors need to change over time, and no one really knows exactly how large the factors need to be. Some argue that the land-based temperature set is biased too hi... | 5_1 |
"We don't really have wolves in Europe any more, but they are still an important part of our culture and everyone knows what they look like," he said. | 0_0 |
Senate EPW Republicans take a stand for academic freedom | 0_0 |
This might all be harmless fun if it just stayed in peoples minds. But governments are already taking steps to deal with this alleged threat to civilisation, steps which already damage the least well off more than any other. | 0_0 |
As Professor of Geophysics, Saltzman served Yale University with distinction from 1968 until his death in 2001. Michael E. Mann's position in the highly politicized sphere of climatology has since grown to be just as significant-but far more controversial. But we may have stumbled upon a sinister connection between the... | 0_0 |
To borrow a phrase from Administrator Spalding, to choose latter will be painful, "painful every step of the way" for their constituents. I hope they make the right choice. With that Mr. President, I yield the floor. | 0_0 |
While tidal power may be predictably intermittent, wind power is even more problematical. Recent EU directives have stipulated that some 40% of electricity should be powered from renewable resources by 2020. If this were to be predominantly produced from wind turbines, as is likely, then we would need some 30 gigawatts... | 4_4 |
Monte Solberg: Warming talk cools All of this should be good news, and yet not everyone is happy. For some reason, many climate change warriors seem disappointed that things aren't quite as bad as they thought. If so, they probably won't want to hear about the Arctic ice cap either. | 0_0 |
When scientists make claims opposite the data, you know that they are criminals not real scientists. | 5_2 |
The conclusion seems inescapable. The U.S. can have little impact on when China and India become willing to bear the costs required to control GHG discharges. This limit on America's options reflects a basic reality: Conditions are not yet ripe for forging an effective global accord on GHG controls. To understand why t... | 0_0 |
As ever, a warning about the current el Nio. It is becoming ever more likely that the temperature increase that usually accompanies an el Nio will begin to shorten the Pause somewhat, just in time for the Paris climate summit, though a subsequent La Nia would be likely to bring about a resumption and perhaps even a len... | 1_4 |
Ive recently published my e-book (pdf) about the phenomena called El Nio and La Nia. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Ni... | 2_1 |
Had Epstein et al. factored in a lower value of life and smaller climate damage estimates (more in line with recent observations) and their low end could drop to about $50 billion per year. | 0_0 |
One of those found guilty of attempting to bribe UN program officials overseeing the Oil-for-Food program was Tongsun Park, a South Korean businessman who had sublet office space from Maurice Strong. Coincidentally, it seems, Park also invested nearly $1 million paid from his Jordanian bank account in Strong's family b... | 0_0 |
OK, so if I understand correctly, the climate changes in line with cosmic rays. Cosmic rays change in line with the sun's output. But the changes in output are insufficient to explain the changes in climate, so the deduction is that these changes must be amplified in some way - in other words that there is a direct and... | 2_1 |
This is a key fundamental issue. If the models cannot skillfully predict CHANGES in the statistics of weather patterns, they add no value for the impacts community beyond what is available from the historical record, the recent paleo-record and worst case sequence of real world observed events. Thus, we should not be g... | 5_1 |
James V. DeLong is vice president and senior analyst of the Convergence Law Institute, LLC, and special counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Kamlet Reichert, LLP. He also served as research director of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a senior analyst in the Office of Program Evaluation in... | 0_0 |
Even though there is this hiatus in this surface average temperature, were still getting record heat waves, were still getting harsh bush fires it shows we shouldnt take any comfort from this plateau in global average temperatures. | 1_4 |
But what about the strongest tornadoes, the EF-4s and EF- 5s? If Elsners theory is correct, surely we should be seeing an increasing frequency of these? | 0_0 |
NSR mandates that regulated emitters adopt specific technological solutions "regardless of ambient air quality and are therefore structurally divorced, to a large extent, from benefits."34 The recurring problem at the heart of the case studies cited above is that costs apparently (sometimes obviously) exceed benefits, ... | 0_0 |
Then, faced with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans declined to offer alternatives or technical "corrections" as an older generation of Republicans would have and instead voted dozens of times simply to repeal the law. And in the Senate, the threat of filibuster, once reserved for a handful of highly c... | 0_0 |
Schwarzenegger wants to achieve by 2020 more than twice the percentage reduction in GHGs that EIA evaluated for 2025. Marginal costs increase with each increment of GHG reduction. California also has relatively low per-capita GHG emissions compared to the national average, due largely to a mild climate and virtually no... | 4_1 |
Reject 2.0 C/century to confidence of 95%? (=5%) | 0_0 |
Had that tactical ploy established itself as a governing political philosophy for the eight years of the Bush presidency, it might have been the logical successor to previous incarnations of Republican thought during the past 150 years: the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the party's antislavery roots of the 1850s; turn-of-the... | 0_0 |
What it achieves, instead, is the solidification of our beliefs that these AGW cultists are not just mentally ill, but a danger to themselves and others. | 0_0 |
So, in what universe does a cold winter, a cool summer, cold lake water, and an unusually cold fall air mass result from global warming ? | 1_3 |
Guest Post: Ian Plimer Renewables in NSW produce 0.0% of all electricity generated | 0_0 |
Activist tries to superglue himself to Gordon Brown | Mail Online Dan Glass, of the climate change pressure group Plane Stupid, today tried to superglue himself to the Prime Minister at a Downing Street reception. | 0_0 |
In a recent article, Dr. Craig Idso, the founder and former president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a coeditor of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and James M. Taylor, a senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and the managing editor of Environmental & Clima... | 5_2 |
This includes effects from the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) as well as Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) rules. | 0_0 |
This paper discusses the point that one can't define either observable so everything is consistent. | 0_0 |
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