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My review was classified ?unsignificant? even I inquired several times. Now the
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Indias move to stabilize its power grid by asking wind farms to accurately predict their output a day in advance or face fines will deepen the slowdown in Asias second-biggest wind market, Tata Power Co. (TPWR) said.
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In the morning, sadly, our time with the Clan Ridley was over. I cant thank them enough for their hospitality, which was of the best kindeffortless despite the effort, generous despite the cost, and without apparent limit.
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I got to thinking about the exponential decay function that I had used to calculate the lag in warming and cooling. When the incoming radiation increases or decreases, it takes a while for the earth to warm up or to cool down. In my calculations shown in my previous post, this lag was represented by a gradual exponenti...
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It is hard to fathom why some of the redacted information, which would reveal nothing sensitive about government policymaking, was withheld. The federal government must have spent thousands of dollars' worth of attorney time unsuccessfully fighting to keep it from being disclosed. For example, a January 7 at 9:17 p.m. ...
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Its very plain to see that the observed global surface temperatures have not risen as fast as predicted by climate model simulations in recent years.
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Wasnt it just this last June that NASAs Gavin Schmidt from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that after adjusting historical worldwide temperature data there has not been a global warming pause? So which NASA group are we to...
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h/t John Droz (graph) and Willie (news)
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Galston and Kamarck surely understand that Republicans aren't in as bad shape as Democrats were in 1989. Then Democrats had lost the presidential popular vote in the last six elections by an average of 10 percent. The corresponding figure for Republicans today is 4 percent.
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131.At the other end of the spectrum, Plaintiff and his Counsel have issued demands that have no basis in law, as they well know ? including the preposterous assertion, in response to a parody video by ?Minnesotans for Global Warming?, that ?Professor Mann?s likeness? is protected from parody and satire?There is a smel...
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National Geographic, a respected scientific magazine global warming propaganda pamphlet, says that global warming will kill monkeys , by causing indigestion. Whatever, add imminent monkey doom to the list.
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"Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg scored a major victory on Monday, when a U.S. appeals court ruled that the Winklevoss twins could not appeal their previous settlement with Facebook over claims that Zuckerberg had stolen their idea for a similar site. But the victory may prove to be short-lived."
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The pledges in the Copenhagen Accord are purely voluntary, and are insufficient to meet the goal scientists have set to limit the average global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius (3.8 Fahrenheit) above what it was before the industrial age began.
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"Despite some diplomatic language about the agreement not replacing the Kyoto Protocol, this new approach to managing greenhouse gas emissions by some of the world's largest energy-consuming nations clearly rejects Kyoto's inflexible, economically destructive approach. Whatever the challenges future climate change may ...
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Settled Science: Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters "It seems that every time we get some snow, another "scientist' is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming But let's, for one moment, remind ourselves of some of the "scientists' who have said the exact oppo...
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When data from the satellites used by Santer are compared to data sets from radiosondes and NOAA/UAH satellites, Christy shows the climate models project from 157 percent to 297 percent more warming than has been recorded by any data set in the global mid-troposphere where the models indicate greenhouse gases should am...
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Further, if India and China don't also sign up to cut their carbon emissions-and they did not embrace Kyoto-these proposed dramatic cuts in American carbon emissions alone would not solve the problems of climate change.
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During his visit to America, Pope Francis has placed the responsibility for global warming on mankind and called for countries to reduce greenhouse gas production.
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The second Yale/George Mason survey, ?Climate Change in the American mind ? Americans? Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in September 2012?, is even worse.
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The Cap-and-Trade Kids argue that, whatever the economic merits, their approach is the only one with a political chance. But why? Carbon taxes have certainly been seen as a political third rail, at least since President Bill Clinton dropped a proposed BTU tax in 1993. People don't want to have to pay more for energy. B...
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References finding either no acceleration or a deceleration of sea level rise during the 20th and 21st centuries:
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A Reuters report titled: "Heat waves pushes Texas power grid into red zone," stated: "Texas has the most wind power in the country, but the wind does not blow during the summer." Just a few months earlier, Texas ice storms forced rolling blackouts for hours because electric supplies dropped below demand." All of these ...
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There seems to be an awful lot of misinformation about UKIP. And believe me, if the discourses were true, I would certainly not be a member. Weve had a few problematic characters: Godfrey Bloom and David Silvester being those that Oxford students will probably be the most familiar with. But our goals are far too import...
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Bill Nye thinks it's "very bad news' gas is cheap
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I was hoping to avoid debate on the science, but what you say is actually incorrect. Positive feedbacks dont necessarily lead to run away effects if the strength of the feedback changes, or other effects become more significant leading to an equilibrium being reached.
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We cant run offrhetoricalbullshit. The real world doesnt work that way.
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That??s an annual figure. And the plan seems to be even more subsidies. (I thought the plan was to make renewables competitive?)
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The position with EF-5s is less clear, with a slightly increasing trend. However, this trend has been heavily influenced by the single year of 2011.
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(click on image to enlarge) Note: The Greenland ice core data ends in early 20th century; the pink arrow and dot have been added to indicate the "consensus" temperature increase through 2009 since the LIA end mid-19th century. Additional historical temperature charts. Climate history postings. Modern temperature charts...
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When the time came to start preparing the drawdown in detail, however, US
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In the study, Webster, along with Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Chair Judy Curry and research scientist Hye-Mi Kim used satellite data along with historical tropical storm records and climate models.
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??? If the new reconstruction of Southern Hemisphere temperature is accurate, then estimates of climate sensitivity the response of global temperature change to a given amount of external radiative forcing may be lower than those calculated based solely on Northern Hemisphere reconstructions 10 .
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5. Loss of Arctic sea ice, particularly multiyear ice: As Dr. Meier would agree, the satellite record of Arctic ice is quite short, much shorter than the long-term changes in Arctic temperatures. The Arctic was as warm or warmer in the 1930s, and many records from that time attest to greatly reduced ice conditions. Bot...
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If you are in the wealthiest 40% or so, here is what it will take to save your Social Security benefits: New taxes. These taxes will either be additional payroll taxes or additional income taxes. If they are payroll taxes, my guess is that the main tax increase will be eliminating the top cap on earnings subject to the...
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So, here?s a list of basic climate change questions, and brief answers based upon what I know today. I might update them as I receive suggestions and comments. I will also be adding links to other sources, and some visual aids, as appropriate.
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S.J.Res.26 would overturn the legal force and effect of EPA's endangerment finding, a December 2009 rulemaking in which the agency concluded that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. The endangerment finding is both trigger and precedent for sweeping policy changes Congress never approved. Ameri...
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In light of their several findings, Crook and Foster conclude - in the Conclusions section of their paper - that "understanding reasons for the low Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical climate change feedback for both land and sea in the current generation of climate models should be a priority," which clearly indicates ...
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Climate "skepticism" is not a morally defensible position . The debate is over, and its been over for quite some time, especially on this blog.
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Nice circular logic. They build a model which assumes that warming is caused by man-made CO2, then use the model as proof that the assumed warming is caused by man-made CO2.
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Food. Food consumption consists primarily of groceries and restaurant meals. Of these, the latter are the larger component of indirect energy consumption, accounting for roughly 12.5 percent of all indirect energy consumption and nearly 53 percent within the food category (see table 3). Table 4 shows how much energy in...
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Morano excerpts: "United Nations climate scientists have admitted that the models used to make these predictions of 50 to 100 years don't account for half the variability in nature, in other words the scientists can juice or tune the models to pretty much say anything they want to. The current climate reality is failin...
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Previous alerts include 3 posts on the Omaha situation and the participation of Warren Buffetts very rich daughter, whos pushing her weight around and has already intimidated the mayor into being quite on this insane idea.
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When I talk to people about the insidious reach of big government one example Ive been using lately is that of The Netherlands. In the name of carbon-pollution the government of the Netherlands wants to have a GPS in every car in order to charge people for their CO2 emissions. Each GPS will track where and when every c...
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German Analysis: 97 Percent Consensus Does Not Exist Demands To End Debate Are Way Off Sides
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I lived out West for a decade, back in the 1970s, and saw wildfires and dozens of burned-over forests. I hiked, camped, and skied during extra wet and ultra dry years. During a flight from Denver to Seattle, I watched multiple fires rage across tens of thousands of acres in four states.
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THE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD HAVE WARMED
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In other words, there are many government functions that are unappealing to one extent or another. That is not in itself an argument against them. The Patriot Act was uglyand necessary.
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The confidential statement, which was not meant to be distributed, is based on a 2010 evaluation of homeopathy by the British House of Commons science and technology committee, which declared it was no more efficacious than a placebo.
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2000 worked on the Bush v. Gore case and the Florida recount. Stuart Levey is also a bureaucratic innovator who
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ENERGY - Are Denmark's Renewable Energy Goals Wishful Thinking?
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???Hydroponic growers use co2 in their operations,?? says reader John the 1st. ???There are several great videos on you tube demonstrating it. Plant yield, root structure ??? everything ??? is improved.??
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And you know, her prediction was pretty extraordinary. The homeowner could easily find out that there are only 4 fires per 1000 existing houses per year (in Texas). Only 16.6 percent of these fires are caused by wiring - a similar percentage as fires caused by heating equipment (15.8 percent), cooking (11.4 percent), m...
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I?m sure you agree?the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should
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In May 2013, Paul Driessen, a senior policy advisor for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), noted that the EPA, since Obama's inauguration in 2009, had generated 1,920 new regulations. "The EPA's actions are forcing us to expend vast financial, human, and technological resources to achieve minimal or eve...
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You see, the alarmists have been telling us for decades that rapidly accelerating global warming was imminent and unavoidable. The problem for the alarmists is the warming that has occurred has been modest and decelerating. In fact, it has ground to a complete halt for more than a decade.
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Refer to my post Guilyardi et al (2009) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges , which introduces that paper. That paper was discussed in much more detail in Chapter 5.8 Scientific Studies of the IPCCs Climate Models Reveal How Poorly the Models Simulate ENSO Proces...
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I know the heading sounds odd, but its true. If we look at data on a global basis, we can only see that the global dataset has warmedwe cant see if there are obvious reasons for the warming. To eliminate that problem, well simply divide the data into two portions. Well call these regions the East Pacific (90S-90N, 180-...
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Oil prices fall to early summer levels.
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Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Storage: No Proof of AGW
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Read here . Climate alarmists and the IPCC have been aggressively trying to convince national policymakers and the public that dangerous climate change is affecting modern lives and it's due to human CO2 emissions. Unfortunately for the alarmists, the real world empirical evidence seems to always run counter to their a...
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Is this because the UK wholesale market is very different? Where can I find a graph of UK wholesale prices? Is some other factor other than supply and demand involved?
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on how "new media" makes old arguments about ownership obsolete:
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The models have been tuned to base their predictions almost exclusively on Mans influence. Also, the models handling of temperature feedbacks may have led to an undue tripling of the global warming rate via the use of a system-gain equation borrowed from electronic circuitry an equation that has no place in the climate...
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could ultimately get it extended. The official recalled the president
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Giorgio Tomassetti/Flickr/Creative Commons
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Without directly saying so, the issue posed by Eduardo here, in a Mannian context, is whether the calibrated relationship between the North American PC1 (bristlecones) and the NH temperature PC1, which has a positive correlation even though there is negligible correlation to gridcell temperature, is simply a result of ...
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Some media have reported the results of a "research" by Amy Bug. Phys Org, Scientific American, and - sadly - even Physics World have equipped their articles with dramatic and suggestive headlines:
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by itself shows how far we have yet to go to accuratelt predict precipitation. There is no way the regional models can correct for the deficiencies in the physics and dynamics of the global model results since its temperature, wind and moisture fields feed into the regional models. There is also no way the regional mul...
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How strong will this reversal be? I predict that Republicans will gain between 55 and 72 seats in the House; my best estimate is 64. That will give the GOP 243 seats, its highest total since the election of 1946 and the second highest since the Great Depression. No living Democrat has served in a House of Representativ...
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Protect students' rights to all the facts about the climate
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"In June the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission made payment on more than 45,000 Phase I flue-cured and burley quota owner and producer claims totaling over $19 million dollars."
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The New York Times released information that compromised US national security , but won??t publish the CRU documents . Agenda, much?
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or I will write something ? it depends on whether and what we get from Japan.
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The higher one goes in the government food chain the less interest in accountability. IPCC stands for ?Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?, which in the opinion of some makes it accountable solely to itself. How anyone can justify resisting disclosure of information paid for by taxpayers is a mystery, yet the re...
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scenarios draw upon some of the most recent climate modelling work, we identify
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Be that as it may, when these PR experts (who presumably would be happy to have university departments, science journals, and government agencies pay them for their services) say that scientists must do a better job of communicating with the public, what they really mean is that scientists must do a better job of scari...
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I don't envy them the taskbut I remember a British politician a decade ago marveling about the governmental impact of the global warming fear: "My constituents are actually demanding that I raise their taxes!"
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Scientifically unsupportable and misleading statements prompted an October 2007 ruling in Londons High Court that An Inconvenient Truth can be shown in secondary schools only if accompanied by guidance notes for teachers to balance Gores one-sided views. Following extensive evidentiary review, the judge cited nine spec...
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Then too, the governments of China and India may lack the popular support that they would need to be able to bear the political costs of GHG controls. Their governments have often gone to great lengths to hold energy prices below world levels. To now drive domestic energy prices above world market levels would be a dar...
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So let me describe the weather on election day and predict who will win the presidential election. Hey...if we can forecast a rare storm like Sandy, an election should be child's play.
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The 2014/15 El Nio Part 4 Early Evolution Comparison with Other Satellite-Era El Nios
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But you might well be getting this result by massaging the factors that are programmed in until you get a reasonably good fit, but without those factors necessarily being the right ones if you are missing some ingredients.
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More importantly, to borrow a favorite Obama phrase, let me make one thing perfectly clear. There is no dangerous manmade climate change, now or on the horizon. There is no evidence that methane or carbon dioxide emissions have replaced the complex, powerful, interconnected natural forces that have driven warming, cool...
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The Journal notes another motivation for the change in corporate behavior. "Many U.S. multinationals trying to keep pace with Europe's faster approach simply don't want to be on the extreme end of the political spectrum, especially if they want a seat at the table where regulations are being crafted. Some hope to fores...
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?That?s the result that they get when you premeditate your science,? said Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg. ?When you set out to establish a certain scientific outcome and you program your computers to do that, you shouldn?t be surprised if that?s the result you get. The probl...
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???Some other experts said however the idea of a hiatus was still valid, since warming had probably slowed this century if compared to fast rates in the 1980s and 1990s.
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There is significant uncertainty, not only in solar reconstructions, but in the interpretation of satellite measurements since 1980. There is a 6 W m-2 discrepancy in the baseline measurements across different satellite systems, plus significant differences in trends since 1980. There is 5 W m-2 discrepancy in the reco...
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1. 1880 isn??t long in geological terms. Most climate cycles are far far longer than that, and we know that this current warming trend started in the mid 1700?? s or early 1800?? s. Glaciers have been melting and sea levels have been rising since long before General Motors Holden was even dreamt of. We don??t know what...
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From the Industrial Revolution to 1950, atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations rose by about 15 percent. Today, the increase is up to 41 percent, making long periods without warming either 1) increasingly unlikely, or 2) the natural result of simply overestimating how sensitive surface temperature is to carbon dioxi...
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This diagram is a representation of real-time reality and the physics that drives the climate on the Earth:
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The State Department has found that the pipeline will have minimal impact on the surrounding environment and no significant effect on the climate. Recent expert testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology confirms this finding. In fact, even if the pipeline is approved and is used at maximum c...
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By Staff Writers, Washington DC (SPX), Aug 10, 2015
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Common core is a fraudulent collectivist statist educational program for all the states, sponsored by elites and the state.
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Robert Tracinski has a post entitled Free Speech for Mann, but not for thee. Excerpts:
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Environmental activists encourage cities to celebrate "Earth Hour" by turning off lights for an hour on March 28th.
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There are three main characteristics of the tropical rainforests. First, is lush vegetation with dense, closed forests and high canopies that allow little light to reach the ground. Second is rich flora and several endemic species. Third is stratification. ("Environmental Gore," Evaristo de Miranda, p.154)
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As even EPA admits , applying the Act literally (i.e. lawfully, statutorily) to CO2 leads to absurd results . For example, EPA and its state counterparts would have to process an estimated 41,000 pre-construction permits annually (instead of 280) and 6.1 million operating permits annually (instead of 14,700). Such work...
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Oil at $30 Is No Problem for Some Bakken Drillers Cutting Costs
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> >> are *very* poorly substantiated (e.g. you cite -10% to -2.2%
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 01:24:41 PM at epicenter
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