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But, with Podesta's return to the White House as an advisor specializing in energy policy, I must admit my optimism was misplaced. I've been wrong. And, I hate to be wrong. | 0_0 |
Not coincidentally, the conclave of bureaucrats also saw in "global governance" a greater role for themselves. | 0_0 |
It?s the old, old thought process of: ?Bad things are happening and we don?t know why. How can we stop these things? How do we control what we don?t understand? We must be to blame. We must do something, anything, to make amends.? | 0_0 |
"Christine Lewis said she was just being honest with the nurse at Colorado's Aurora Medical Center when she showed her the festering bites on her arms just before she was to have a spinal injection for her back pain." | 0_0 |
"The latest Gallup poll reveals that Americans think one of the most important problems facing the country is high gas prices. Only the war in Iraq was rated the top problem by more of the 1007 adults surveyed August 7-10. But the news hasn't reached the U. S. Senate yet. While Americans struggle to pay higher gas pric... | 0_0 |
Policy Peril Segment 2: Air Pollution | 0_0 |
Shlaes rids us of the temptation of thinking that Hoover, had he contrived reelection in 1932, might have avoided the macroeconomic mistakes FDR made. Instead of letting markets correct, Hoover raised taxes, signed the disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff, and inveighed against short-sellers and other ostensible market manip... | 0_0 |
Climate changers usually warn about Arctic ice, which has been receding over the last few decades, but rarely address the overall growth of ice inAntarctica. | 1_1 |
As talks resume next month to forge legislation to act as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, CEI looks forward to OSTP ceasing this unlawful activity and providing prompt access to the requested records so the taxpayer can know what they, and the IPCC, are up to. | 0_0 |
At the time, ratings firm Fitch posted the following: "Fitch will closely monitor management's response to the current market turmoil and the company's access to capital markets in the coming days for any further deterioration in the credit profile." | 0_0 |
These represent jobs and orders for equipment that are not occurring in the United States, along with the failure to utilize nuclear energy to provide the growing need for electricity here. The same environmental organizations opposing construction here are the same ones supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's... | 0_0 |
Lower resolution ice core data extending back to the last interglacial from both Antarctica and Greenland show temperatures were higher than the present ~8,000 years ago and much higher than the present ~130,000 years ago: | 2_1 |
7. Ethiopia - Agreement for Cooperating in the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program | 0_0 |
Justice Department Prepares Subpoeneas In News Corp. Inquiry: | 0_0 |
Regulators reform federal accounting rules in an effort to revive banks and other financial institutions. | 0_0 |
As regards coral bleaching, in the words of Wall et al ., "the present results clearly support a null effect for high pCO 2 ." Or as they state in the final sentence of their paper's abstract, "short-term exposure to 81.5 Pa pCO 2 , alone and in combination with elevated temperature, does not cause or affect coral blea... | 3_2 |
A GOVERNMENT-RUN research body has found in an extensive study of corals spanning more than 1000km of Australias coastline that the past 110 years of ocean warming has been good for their growth. | 3_2 |
Freelance science writer Ed Yong echoes this sentiment at hisDiscovermagazine blog: If the paper was rubbish, if the peer reviewers missed something, if the scientist lied, if the press release is distorted, its still our fault for producing something that is inaccurate or that fails to root out these problems. | 0_0 |
The union's rhetoric and muscle have crowded out political life in the city as effectively as Medicaid spending has choked off competing governmental priorities in the state budget. The lack of any real opposition to the so-called progressive movement in New York City has created a bizarre dynamic wherein elected offic... | 0_0 |
The Swiss online NZZ has a commentary written by Social Sciences Prof. Ulrike Ackermann, Director of the John Stuart Mill Institute for Liberty Research in Heidelberg, read here (in German).Its no secret that the German Greens have been on the rise and that their movement has spearheaded the drive against the use of fo... | 0_0 |
Overwarm While there is much that can be discussed from these results, we wonder simply why the models overwarm the troposphere compared with observations by such large amounts (on average) during a period when we have the best understanding of the processes that cause the temperature to change. During a period when th... | 5_1 |
By Emily Underwood, Science Insider, Aug 7, 2015 | 0_0 |
The central lie is that we are experiencing a known human-caused climate crisis, a claim based on speculative theories, contrived data and totally unproven modeling predictions. And the evidence? Much is revealed by politically corrupted processes and agenda-driven report conclusions rendered by the United Nations Inte... | 5_2 |
By Alan Carlin, Carlin Economics and Science, Aug 13, 2015 | 0_0 |
Climategate 3.0: Climategater to World Bank Economic damage estimates from global warming should be "treated very skeptically'; "Our methodology is so flaky' | 0_0 |
Ummm. I thought windmills were all about generating electricity, not using it. So why put torches on it that run all night ? Want to bet the lighting power is coming from coal? While the turbine probably generates more power than it uses most nights, it sure seems odd. | 0_0 |
Public firms are already required to list in the "risk factors" of their annual report both the risks of climate change and the threat of related legislation and regulation if it will impact the company's bottom line. In 2010, the SEC issued disclosure guidance stating that climate risks must be discloses when they cou... | 0_0 |
Your daily reminder on why commas matter... pic.twitter.com/eYOwsueCBS Mandy Jenkins (@mjenkins) March 21, 2014 | 0_0 |
The only way we could have defaulted would have been if Obama chose to default, which would have led to his immediate impeachment. The White House assumes that Americans are complete idiots, which appears to be true for about 45% of the population as well as the Republican leadership in Congress. | 0_0 |
Quote of the Week: I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton | 0_0 |
"the UK's National Lottery will no longer pay winners who purchased their lottery tickets over the internet from abroad. The current rules allow for players to buy tickets while overseas using their internet accounts at the National Lottery's website, but this will all change in a couple of months." | 0_0 |
25 Edward Luttwak, The Political Uses of Seapower, 1975; Ken Booth, Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, 1977, and, Navies and Foreign Policy, 1978; James Cable, Gunboat Diplomacy, 19191989, 1998, and Norman Friedman, Seapower as Strategy: Navies and National Interests, 2001. | 0_0 |
So it looks a bit less like nothing there and a bit more like on a fault in the approach to the volcano rise line. Those lateral cracks we see near spreading zones. | 0_0 |
Connecticut is experiencing its coldest February in recorded history . So is Michigan . So is Toronto . Cleveland and Chicago are experiencing their second coldestFebruary in recorded history. Frigid and record cold temperatures are being set from Key West to International Falls . At the same time, blizzard after blizz... | 1_3 |
Rather the "proofs" employ a rejection of reason, and are based on the scientific method of philosophy, where the fundamental three parts of the scientific method of natural sciences do not apply. | 0_0 |
The graph shows very little change in either global temperature or atmospheric carbon dioxide level since 1850. That's because we plotted the ranges on scales that better suit planetary history as opposed to the global warming lobby's fascination with dramatized illustrations of relatively small temperature change over... | 0_0 |
The decline in polluting emissions, despite increases in urban summer air temperatures, is quite dramatic, as Joel illustrates in the figures below. | 0_0 |
Carbon Taxes, Energy Costs, and Economic Activity | 0_0 |
And theres the rub. Whereas onlylarge industrial facilities have a potential to emit 250 TPY ofair contaminants such as sulfur dioxide or particulate matter,an immense number and variety ofentitiesoffice buildings,hotels, big box stores, enclosed malls,small manufacturing firms, even commercial kitchenshave apotential ... | 0_0 |
"The climate science is sound and last winter was the second warmest globally despite the bad weather experienced here in the UK," said Watkinson, also a professional fellow of the University of East Anglia. | 0_0 |
Much of this oil, known as tight oil or shale oil had not been accessible with conventional extraction techniques. Improvements in technologies, primarily horizontal drilling and fracking, now enable producers to extract the oil and gas from these tight formations. | 4_5 |
9. Juckes et al failed to provide any statistical references for the results in their Appendix 1, nor any proof of the claimed optimality (or a reference of the fact). They assert a noise model, but do not show that they carried out any tests to demonstrate that the noise model in Appendix 1 was applicable to the actua... | 5_1 |
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 |
Among the seventy-three distinguished speakers were two global climate believers: 1) Tam Hunt, J.D. who owns and runs Community Renewable Solutions LLC and is also a lecturer in Climate Change Law and Policy at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (a graduate-level program), and 2) A. Sc... | 0_0 |
Research & Commentary: Requiring Legislative Approval for Carbon Dioxide Regulations | 0_0 |
Fact 1. A mild warming of about 0.5 degrees Celsius (well within previous natural temperature variations) occurred between 1979 and 1998, and has been followed by slight global cooling over the past 10 years. Ergo, dangerous global warming is not occurring. | 1_4 |
His deeds also struck a balance between advancing freedom and respecting stability. Rasher conservatives often criticized him for failing to do more to reduce the size of government, but he understood, having been a supporter of FDR himself, how much the safety net meant economically and spiritually to the working and ... | 0_0 |
There is a good chance that there will be more sea ice on Earth on January 1, than ever measured before on that date. | 1_1 |
2. Uncertainties. The uncertaintiesin their Figure S2 (A) (shaded dark and light pink in Figure 1 above) are constant over time. In other words, they say that their method is as good at predicting the sea level two thousand years ago as it is today ?? seems doubtful. | 5_1 |
Indeed, the specific pattern of Patriot pressure variability, when examined in detail, in my opinion, argues against washroom deflation and towards a quite different explanation of the quite unusual actual pattern of variability. | 0_0 |
Global sea ice area has been above normal most of the year, and is averaging above normal in 2013. | 1_1 |
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are down roughly 40 percent from 1970 levels, and have also returned to Great Depression levels. | 0_0 |
Should we triple-check the worlds temperature records, just to make sure that the few tenths of a degree change that has everyone in a tizzy arent, in fact, the result of errors? | 0_0 |
It should be clear to everyone from the results obtained by Allan et al . that the number of extreme storms impacting the British Isles over the last eight decades of the 20th century were not in any way related to the global warming of that period, which climate alarmists claim was unprecedented over the prior millenn... | 1_7 |
"The use of a GPS device to track your whereabouts is not an invasion of privacy in New Jersey, a state appellate court panel ruled today." | 0_0 |
Some 50 million acres of U.S. crop and habitat land (equal to Wyoming) have been turned into corn-for-ethanol farms, biofuel plantations, and wind and solar installations. American forests are being converted to fuel for British power plants. Towering turbines butcher birds and bats, while Big Wind is exempted from end... | 0_0 |
He has not, a private citizen. Indeed, he spent eight years at the top of Superpower. What hope could there be then to see him tried, convicted or even? | 0_0 |
The report comes at a time when numerous polls demonstrate that climate change is a very low priority for most Americans. A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll in January found that "climate change" ranked last on a list of 15 issues when people were asked which ones the administration should make its priorities. | 0_0 |
The biggest factor, though, in America's success in cutting emissions has been the shale gale. A tsunami of natural-gas production has been unleashed in recent years thanks to continuing improvements in extended-reach horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Domestic natural-gas production was up 4.7 percent last ... | 4_5 |
The other implication of Dr. Meier??s statement is that a warmer, ice free Arctic occurred when CO2 levels were less than 290 ppm. This implies that there is no long term correlation between CO2 and Arctic temperatures. | 2_3 |
S. A. Gabriel, A. S. Kydes, and P. Whitman, "The National Energy Modeling System: A Large-Scale Energy-Economic Equilibrium Model," Operations Research, No. 49 (2001), pp. 1425. | 0_0 |
First, lets get rid of the 1998 red herring. The implication is that you can only get this slowdown by picking 1998 as the start year. The reality is that temperatures have been flat since 2001, which was a neutral ENSO year, and therefore comparable to this year. The Wood For Trees graph below shows this well. | 1_4 |
Today??s Washington Times has a commentary on the flawed science and the famous ???hockey stick?? graph used by the the Gorebot and the IPCC: | 5_1 |
Whether short or long-term, the state-of-the-art empirical satellite evidence is not only obvious, it is both climate and statistically significant: CO2 emissions have not had a significant influence (warming or cooling) on atmospheric temperatures. For objective science, this means that the CO2-centric anthropogenic g... | 2_3 |
And Duranty may be needed to maintain this fiction as the Sydney Morning Herald reports today, | 0_0 |
"You see, Dr. Hansen of NASA GISS, has been using his position to protest the use of coal in America. That's certainly his right. But, since his concern is global CO2 produced by coal, is he really being effective by protesting here? It seems that he should think locally, but act globally. Have a look at this graph and... | 0_0 |
"Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros." | 0_0 |
Climate Change: Front and Center. Climate change came roaring back into the news this week when the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unveiled its legislation on the subject, and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a rule to require big greenhouse gas emitters to install new pollution-control tech... | 0_0 |
So it should come as no surprise that some corporations love Waxman-Markey. Indeed, the corporate coalition known as the United States Climate Action Partnership (US CAP) outlined the main features of the Waxman-Markey bill months before it was introduced in a January 2009 report titled A Blueprint for Legislative Acti... | 0_0 |
two of the doctrine's leading exponents, General David Petraeus and General Stanley McChrystal, were | 0_0 |
NOAAS TOP GLOBAL WEATHER, WATER AND CLIMATE EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY | 0_0 |
You simply say that the task of creating energy from nothing is impossible. | 0_0 |
He has been wandering around in the swamp of atmospheric feedbacks, positive or negative, proclaiming it is all too complicated and controversial. Like esteemed MIT Professor Richard Lindzen and other meteorologists, he is trapped in his feedback swamp and cant get out. | 0_0 |
"Light Brigade' to debunk "forward on climate' D.C. rally | 0_0 |
Americas chemical companies use ethane, a natural gas liquid derived from shale gas, as a feedstock in numerous applications. Its relatively low price gives U.S. manufacturers an advantage over many competitors around the world that rely on naphtha, a more expensive, oil-based feedstock. Growth in domestic shale gas pr... | 4_5 |
New Zealands Climate Science Coalition has issued a press release detailing the end of the Kiwi-gate affair. The outcome is that data published in 2009 by New Zealands National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) entitled Are we feeling warmer yet has been abandoned and replaced with real, unadjusted dat... | 1_4 |
But BAT also demands a lot more in seeking to set the relevant inputs, for now everyone has bad incentives. More specifically, a regulated utility will downgrade the expected benefits of technological improvements while talking up the costs of implementation. Environmental activists, with none of their own dollars on t... | 0_0 |
"In the 1,461 days that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) served as speaker of the House, the national debt increased by a total of $5.343 trillion ($5,343,452,800,321.37) or $3.66 billion per day ($3.657,394,113.84), according to official debt numbers published by the U.S. Treasury." | 0_0 |
They then go on in figure 6 to show how these different projections affect the average mass of CO2 for which the ancestor is responsible. The potential for reducing carbon emissions by reducing the number of future genetic units was remarkable. Whereas increasing a cars fuel efficiency from 20mpg to 30mpg saved only 14... | 0_0 |
Here, we will look more closely at New Zealand and the rest of the Pacific Ocean. In particular, taking New Zealand out of the whole record leads to even greater temperature stability in the Islands. If the half of the planet that is the Pacific Basin is not warming, it can hardly be Global nor Warming. When we look mo... | 5_1 |
Back to the buoys in Monterey harbor. A flight of pelicans | 0_0 |
Most major environmental improvements occur as older, inefficient plants and machinery with high air pollutant emissions are replaced with new, more efficient, and more environmentally benign plants and machines. NSR, like other end-of-the-pipe environmental mandates, slows the replacement process by grandfathering exi... | 0_0 |
The latest science suggests the equilibrium climate sensitivity probably lies between 1.5C and 2.5C (with an average value of 2.0C), while the climate models used by the IPCC have climate sensitivities which range from 2.1C to 4.7C with an average value of 3.2C. | 3_1 |
Richard Nixon launched the shuttle program in 1972, but the president whose name will always be associated with it is Ronald Reagan. | 0_0 |
The question originally posed, of course, was whether the increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide is associated with more or more-severe landfalling hurricanes. To answer this question, we plotted storms against atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. | 0_0 |
Facts That Don't Fit the News Media's Anti-Gun Narrative | 0_0 |
Do global warming policies save human lives? A Stunning new report found the exact opposite. The report, entitled ???Global Warming Policies Might Be Bad for Your Health,?? was produced by leading researcher Dr. Indur Goklany and found that issues of poverty like malnutrition and unsafe water have a global impact of de... | 4_1 |
I have already written extensively about what happens to the 2009 Vermeer and Rahmstrof model ( Global Sea Level Linked to Global Temperature, PNAS, 2009 ) when the outdated sea level data they usedis replaced by a newer versionfrom the very same people who provided them with the data. Itwas not good for Rahmstrofs the... | 5_1 |
Why, I wonder start the linear increase in 1980? Obviously the temperature starts rising then, but why not start the straight line in 1970? The answer is that the temperature is flat between 1970 and 1980. It seems illogical to take notice of flat data at the start of a dataset but totally ignore it at the end! | 5_1 |
Like the urchins occupying Wall Street, Rosenthal chides Americans who prefer bigger cars and bigger homes. We value personal freedom, are suspicious of scientists, and tend to distrust the kind of sweeping government intervention required to confront rising greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_0 |
We can ignore the first one. Command-and-control is economist short-hand for any system that relies on central planning. Bureaucrats and cabinet ministers decide on targets, e.g. as of next Tuesday 15% of all gasoline must be made from ethanol. That's the "command" part. The next is the "control" part, in which an enfo... | 0_0 |
It seems probable that 2010 will be in terms of global annual average temperature statistically identical to the annual temperatures of the past decade. Some eminent climatologists, such as Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglias Climatic Research Unit, suggest the global annual average temperatures have... | 1_4 |
German households will pay a renewables surcharge of ?7.2bn this year alone. In addition, consumers will be affected by indirect costs because industry, trade and commerce pass on their rising energy costs in product prices. And because green energy subsidies are guaranteed for 20 years, the costs threaten to rise exor... | 4_1 |
"Sex that doesn't produce people is deviate." Montana state Rep. Dave Hagstrom. | 0_0 |
Burger and Cubasch (2005) attempt to bolster their claims based on a reference to claims by "McIntyre and McKitrick (2005b)", published in a social science journal Energy and Environment that is not even in the ISI database. McIntyre and McKitrick made essentially the same claim in a 2005 GRL article. Huybers (2005), i... | 0_0 |
These positions reflect adherence to the shaky hypothesis of catastrophic manmade global warming and unsupportable claims that the oil sands contribute disproportionately to a looming climate Armageddon. However, Alberta environment office show that greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands plummeted 38% between 1990 and... | 5_1 |
And you know what? They're welcome to hold that point of view. My question is, if these academics are so certain they have the truth on their side, why are they so concerned about the views of dissenters? Oh, the dissenters slow progress in addressing the problem, the academics reply: | 0_0 |
So far, summer 2012 has been thequieteston record for both tornadoes and hurricanes in the US. We also have the fewest forest fires since at least 2003 . | 1_7 |
Now heres the interesting thing about this station, it has a trifecta of siting issues, and not just from the air conditioner and brick building. Look at the location located by Tim Channon: | 0_0 |
19 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, p. 11. | 0_0 |
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