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MISSOURI -80% of electricity; 6th in coal use | 0_0 |
The two-week period, last week of November and first week of December is the coldest since CET records began in 1659. | 1_3 |
WTO-UNEP report gives the nod -- sort of -- to carbon border taxes | 0_0 |
It sits smack dab in the heart of several recently active geologically induced geothermal heat and gas release events (see geologic map below). | 0_0 |
Future historians will reflect upon this unscientific aberration of our age as highly reminiscent of a time nearly four centuries ago when Galileo hopelessly protested when forced to recant his direct observations,"and yet it moves." Just as the sun doesn't orbit around the earth, perpetual world climate changes don't ... | 0_0 |
I, too, have firsthand knowledge about receiving special treatment. Ross McKitrick has documented similar experiences, as have John Christy and David Douglass and Roy Spencer, and I am sure others. The unfortunate side-effect of this differential treatment is that a self-generating consensus slows the forward progress ... | 0_0 |
DSM proponents exaggerate the energy savings from such policies. Contrary to popular belief, energy efficiency improvements do not reduce society's overall energy consumption. In fact, greater efficiency leads to more energy use, because efficiency lowers the cost of consumption and frees up dollars for other energy-co... | 4_2 |
"Do the powers-that-be at NPR think Juan Williams is a bigot? Do they think a traveler who has a reaction (fair or unfair) like the one Juan describes, in our age of terror in the name of Islam, is a bigot?" | 0_0 |
This means that if this trend continues, these two datasets will in the future report monthly GSTA that are increasingly higher than UAHs. RSS on the other hand will in the future report monthly GSTA that are increasingly lower than UAHs and that of the three land-based data sets. Albeit the fact that RSS and UAH use d... | 0_0 |
All of the above is background to one of the great mysteries of the climate change issue. Virtually all the scientists directly involved in climate prediction are aware of the enormous problems and uncertainties still associated with their product. How then is it that those of them involved in the latest report of the ... | 5_1 |
The group think concludes that carbon dioxide is the principal driver of climate change and that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing unprecedented and dangerous global warming. These conclusions can easily be rejected by examining ice core borings from Greenland and other empirical data which show that temper... | 2_3 |
Because the sea surface temperatures for that dataset cool during the 9- and 11-year periods between the major El Nio events, and because the sea surface temperatures there warm only during the major El Nio events, and because the long-term data shows a significant warming trend, then one might conclude the major El Ni... | 2_1 |
Plant growth enhancement with CO2 up to 1000 ppm is strong, and up to 2000 ppm is measurable, meaning that plants know how to use more, expect to have more, and are rate limited at the low levels of today. | 3_3 |
After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years. We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas, and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar with tens of thousands of good,... | 0_0 |
A moment's reflection, however, reveals that this argument is an empty suit. All it proves is that EPA has jumped through the requisite procedural hoops, which nobody disputes. It in no way demonstrate that Congress intended for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. | 0_0 |
A Climate Deal Worth a Small Degree of Success | 0_0 |
As one would expect, Europe does very well in the rankings and has the highest representation at the top of the list with fourteen of the top twenty countries. The highly homogenized populations of Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are listed in order as the top five most prosperous countries. The large... | 0_0 |
We may have some information about the spin of the electron a second ago and predict some measurement of the spin we perform the next second. This is true both in classical physics and quantum mechanics. The two frameworks radically differ by the "spectrum" of possible values that the spin can take (and similarly other... | 0_0 |
The models also did not predict the 18-19 year "pause" in global warming, thus are not valid to determine attribution to natural vs. anthropogenic causes | 5_1 |
Material for a reconstruction comes from several proxies, from innumerable places, several latitudes, of areas with continental climate and marine climate, and they are not all of equal quality. To puzzle this all together not only requires carefulness but also a truck cargo of statistical techniques to find real corre... | 5_1 |
A spate of books have come out to support these claims: "The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World," "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil" and "The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies." | 0_0 |
I seem to remember from statistics class that anything less than 95 percent probability is junk science. This is an editorial from the most recent issue of GEO, a Norwegian magazine about earth sciences | 0_0 |
The United States Supreme Court ruled today against six states that sought standing to sue sources of greenhouse gas emissions for their contributions to global warming under federal common law. The court ruled 80 in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut that the Clean Air Act and the Obama administration's regula... | 0_0 |
The changes to the UAH dataset can obviously be justified, while the changes to the NOAA data obviously cannot be. | 5_1 |
Here For the 12th time this meteorological summer (since June 1), daytime highs failed to reach 70 degrees Wednesday. Only one other year in the past half century has hosted so many sub-70-degree days up to this point in a summer season -- 1969, when 14 such days occurred. Wednesday's paltry 65-degree high at O'Hare In... | 1_3 |
Professor Bob Carter is a geologist and the author of Climate: The Counter Consensus. | 0_0 |
4. Global temperatures increased roughly from the middle of the 19th century (the end of the Little Ice Age) through the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, and then from about 1910 through about 1940. They were roughly constant through about 1980, increased until 1998 (a year with a strong El Nio), and have exhibited no tre... | 2_1 |
???While incremental improvements can be expected with biomass, wind and solar, what is needed for them to become viable is an order of magnitude increase in productivity?? . As significant future energy sources these technologies are dead ends, which is why the government, and not the private sector, is funding them.?... | 4_4 |
A more fundamental problem: Most Kyoto foes rest their case on a demoralizing argument. Kyoto is said to be "flawed" and "unfair" because it exempts developing countries from emission controls. As the slogan has it, "A global problem requires a global solution." But such criticism concedes the main points at issue. It ... | 0_0 |
Theodore Them provides a detailed criticism of New York State's determination to ban hydraulic fracturing, which prevents the development of the state's vast natural gas and oil reserves. The misguided fracking ban, he writes, is due to radical environmentalists' influence on Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and the actions of in... | 0_0 |
When doing business becomes so expensive, there tends to be a lot less of it. Of course businesses pass on their costs, so regulation becomes a hidden trillion-dollar tax on consumers. This is bad policy at any time. During a recession, it's economic hara-kiri. The numbers are up as well as the costs. The 2008 Federal ... | 0_0 |
Zurich University Hospital has stopped treating North American "medical tourists," fearing million-dollar claims from litigious patients if operations go wrong. Hospitals in canton Valais have also adopted measures to protect themselves against visitors from the United States, Canada and Britain. | 0_0 |
Today, it's been 50 years since the assassination of JFK. | 0_0 |
The plan was aimed at "raising questions about and undercutting the "prevailing scientific wisdom'" on climate change, Newsweek claimed. The plan was leaked to the press and as a result was never implemented, according to Newsweek. | 0_0 |
on Saturday, November 6th, 2010 at 12:26 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The temperature increasing capacity of atmospheric CO2 is known to diminish as concentrations increase. This diminution effect is probably the reason why there was no runaway greenhouse warming caused by CO2 in earlier eons when CO2 levels were known to be at levels of several thousands ppm v . | 2_3 |
transition of artificial ventilated Stevenson screen to the current KNMI round-plated screen (June 1993). | 0_0 |
California Gov. Jerry Brown is 76 and turns 78 in 2016. Andrew Cuomo lives with a woman not his wife not a problem in New York, but not helpful for a national candidate. | 0_0 |
In addition to the CEI, a number of groups belonging to the Cooler Heads Coalition were represented at Celebrate Coal!, including the National Center for Public Policy Research, FreedomWorks, and Americans for Prosperity. Also attending were Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the Irish filmmakers whose new documentary ... | 0_0 |
Among other things, the fact that the deadly North American droughts of the MWP have never been equaled throughout all the ensuing years argues strongly that what Benson et al . call the anomalous warmth of that period has also "never been equaled throughout all the ensuing years," which further suggests (since the air... | 2_1 |
First, Icelands eye-catching volcanism, which captured the curiosity of the world, erupted and its associated heat flow rapidly melted huge continental glaciers. It is important to understand that while pictures of Icelandic eruptions make good press, there is another very significant component to the Icelandic heat-fl... | 0_0 |
He says the most reliable gauges, located at Fremantle and Auckland, show an increase in sea level of approximately 120 millimetres between 1920 and 2000, or 1.5 millimetres per year. But this increase is reducing at a rate of between 0.02 and 0.04 millimetres per year. | 1_6 |
Response: Yes. The Clean Air Act specifies that BACT for a source cannot be less stringent than an applicable NSPS. Thus, when EPA completes an NSPS for a source category, BACT determinations that follow for applicable sources would need to consider the levels of the pollutant standards and the supporting rationale of ... | 0_0 |
Tonight, from the 1965 EP Prop Del Bressol ("Near the Crib"), Catalonian choir Orfe Enric Morera keeps Christmas up and running with a few traditional Czech, German, and Italian songs . The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips. | 0_0 |
Because of the centrality of individual freedom in the United States, norming advocates are invariably on the international Left politically; there are simply no other nations as liberty-oriented as we are. | 0_0 |
A Conservative Think Tank Wants The White House Science Czars Private Emails | 0_0 |
The Times reports on the subpoena CEI recieved from an attorney general as part of the intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change. | 0_0 |
This study claims to reconstruct 2,000 years of sea levels. (It actually extrapolates from a study of shallow salt marshes with an historical reconstruction going back 300 years and based on the prevalence of foraminifera fossils to reconstruct the past sea levels. These reside in the very shallow, sandy pools and die ... | 0_0 |
The total Arctic sea ice area is currently almost 2 million square kilometers higher than one year ago. It is near normal for the end of October, humiliating some would-be "predictions" (self-serving and ideologically driven, unsubstantiated lies) of a new record low for 2008. | 1_1 |
policy for wanting others to step up: The point is not merely to spread the burden but | 0_0 |
In short, if melting permafrost continues, as it has being doing steadily since the last Ice Age, then more carbon dioxide will be absorbed. This represents a massive natural buffer to any tipping point predicted by climate change doomsayers. | 3_1 |
Coming at a time when public credibility in science is being seriously eroded by ongoing revelations of malpractice in what the public was assured was irrefutable fact and settled science regarding climate change, these extraordinary (their own description) claims regarding the GBR are well positioned to become a Reefg... | 0_0 |
Greenhouse gas curbs on industries such as power generation and steel could provide a basis for a renewed U.N.-led drive to fight global warming, Akio Mimura, Chairman of Nippon Steel Corp said on Thursday | 0_0 |
While we discuss the uncertainties in estimates of Arctic Ocean temperatures and its trends, it is useful to put into perspective its relatively small size. | 0_0 |
Renewable Electricity 'Creating' Jobs, Destroying Wealth | 0_0 |
Of course, not all celebrities are liberal. Bush had a small stable of celebs in his corner, ranging from Loretta Lynn to Bo Derek. Others such as Charlton Heston and Arnold Schwarzenegger have made themselves fixtures in conservative circles. | 0_0 |
Grandmother Mounts Legal Challenge to Scotland's "Dash for Wind' | 0_0 |
Speziale, K.L. and Ezcurra, C. 2014. Rock outcrops as potential biodiversity refugia under climate change in North Patagonia. Plant Ecology & Diversity : 10.1080/17550874.2014.983200. | 0_0 |
The Committee also credited Mann with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore. "This would have been impossible had his activities in reporting his work been outside accepted practices in his field," the committee observed. MIT's Lindzen was also a c... | 0_0 |
By Jim Lakely, Heartland.org, Jul 9, 2015, from geologist George Klein | 0_0 |
My point is that there are many sudden rainfall change events in Australian climate history and from larger regions than SW WA and little attention is put into explaining these. | 0_0 |
Patrick J. Michaels is Senior Research Fellow for Research and Economic Development at George Mason University and author and editor of ?Climate Coup: Global Warming?s Invasion of our Government and our Lives.? | 0_0 |
Aside from this flawed argument, you havent offered *any* other argument that would imply that the adjusted graphs are wrong and the graphs preferred by you are right. Its just your emotions and prejudices and the rational content is zero. | 0_0 |
Ultimately, President Bush has cleverly managed this issue to leave the sole outstanding question to be whether the increasingly isolated dare I say unilateral? European Union can accept a political loss and return to the table seeking practical responses to the challenge of potential anthropogenic climate change that ... | 0_0 |
The results showed fat content of the liver remained unchanged when the six HFCS and sucrose groups were averaged. Fat content in muscle tissue was also unchanged over the 10 weeks when the six HFCS and sucrose groups were averaged. | 0_0 |
Vecchi and Knutson introduce their study by stating that "there is currently disagreement within the hurricane/climate community on whether anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone depletion, etc.) has caused an increase in Atlantic tropical storm or hurricane frequency," as well, we might add, as storm... | 0_0 |
Earth Gains A Record Amount Of Sea Ice In 2013 Earth has gained 19,000 Manhattans of sea ice since this date last year, the largest increase on record | 1_1 |
The Keystone pipeline remains a strong possibility, though the Canadians have nearly given up on us. Fracking is regulated at the state level, which, mostly, allows it tocontinue to increase America's energy freedomresulting in lower prices at the pump. Because more than 96% of the wells drilled in America today use th... | 0_0 |
Warm Weather, Lower Quota for Seal Hunt | 0_0 |
When it comes to implementingmeasures for adaptation to climate change, there are no problems like those listed above. Measures for adapting to climate change do not have the problems that measures for prevention have. Adapting to climatically related environmental changes do not have the free-rider problem, where one ... | 4_2 |
To keep the program going, the municipality has turned to asking for charity. "Under the new charitable program," reports Electricity Daily, "four levels of participation are offered: Friend of the Environment for $4.30 to $20 per month; Supporter of the Environment for $21 to $60; Conserver of the Environment for $61 ... | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, about 30 of us gathered next to the Greenpeace truckapparently Greenpeace prefers motorized vehicles to bullock cartsfor a counterdemonstration to "Celebrate Coal and Keep Energy Affordable!" The Greenpeace truck had a big solar panel, but it was covered by at least three inches of snow, so the activists had... | 0_0 |
Dating the air with respect to the ice it is trapped in is problematic. | 0_0 |
Vanity Fair abandons the 'green issue' h/t | 0_0 |
The snow measured 69 centimetres on Sunday, the last day of March, he said. | 0_0 |
The title summarizes the main point of this article that presents many examples suggesting that the temperature data from the weather stations have been repeatedly retroactively adjusted. | 5_2 |
EPA's final CPP contains a key initiative not mentioned in the draft rule: the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP). EPA added the CEIP to jumpstart investment in wind and solar power, assuring environmental groups and renewable energy interests the CPP won't trigger a "dash to gas' as it suppresses electric power gen... | 0_0 |
Oliver and Palumbi say their results suggest "previous exposure to an environmentally variable microhabitat adds substantially to coral-algal thermal tolerance, beyond that provided by heat-resistant symbionts alone," indicating a latent potential of Earth's corals to adapt to warmer temperatures than scientists believ... | 3_2 |
Then theres the issue of sea level change. Global warming and climate change are usually thought to mean that world sea levels will rise, perhaps disastrously. But according to US government scientific experts, in recent times (2010 and 2011, to be precise) phenomena driven by human carbon emissions have actually cause... | 1_6 |
In war and in science, the bloodiest conflicts always seem to be the religious ones. Time for the American public to say it's no longer going to play the victim in this one. | 0_0 |
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that some of the more calamitous projects are rather less likely, raising the question of how much of this agenda is really necessary in short order. | 0_0 |
7 " the global time series since 1990 reveals that the full data set has warmed more than the rural during recent years and this coincides with a decreasing percentage of the rural stations in the full data set. T. C. Peterson et al., Global rural temperature trends, Geophysical Research Letters 26, 329 (1999). | 0_0 |
The White House document notes that the Treasury Department, OMB and other White House offices agreed that no more money should be provided because there was a near-zero chance that the company could survive. | 0_0 |
Given the categorical requirements of the statute, EPA's authority to take such action is dubious indeed, so it relies on "the basis of the legal doctrines of "absurd results' and "administrative necessity,'" to fill the gap. Of course, the invocation of such doctrines highlights the absurdity of the Massachusetts v. E... | 0_0 |
Libelous websites devoted to such tattling have been with us for years. There are many distortions and falsehoods on them. But what did the bad kids actually do wrong? Well, nothing. That is, unless you feel it is wrong to be seen in public with an acquaintance of the dentist of someone who worked once for an oil compa... | 0_0 |
As political scientist Frances Lee has demonstrated, the trend toward polarization was driven not just by sharper policy differences but also by a much more competitive struggle for control of the levers of power. Unlike the situation through most of the past century, both parties now had a reasonable shot in most elec... | 0_0 |
Washington would no longer regard sitting down to talk with an adversary as a | 0_0 |
Figure 2 presents the model-data comparison for global satellite-era sea surface temperature anomalies. The data show the oceans warmed at a rate of 0.08 deg C/decade for the last 32+ years, but the models indicate they should have warmed at twice that rate if they were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases. | 0_0 |
Watch the Liberals closely on this one. What they say - or, more likely, don't say about this development - will reveal much more about the party's position on Israel than the high profile - low cost Wrzesnewskyj resignation. | 0_0 |
Changes in global atmospheric CO2 are lagging 9.510 months behind changes in global air surface temperature. | 2_3 |
Monckon, Spencer & Rothbard on Climate Science & Policy | 0_0 |
In the countersuit filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute against the outrageous subpoena issued by the U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general for CEI's climate-change research, the attorney general was forced to show his cards. In a brief filed in D.C. Superior Court, the only two supposedly fraudulent statements... | 0_0 |
The whole Northern Hemisphere is experiencing cold snaps at the same time, says Argiris. Whatever happened to global warming? | 1_3 |
The arrangement between the World Bank and the private, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is working well. The NGOs lobby Congress for increased funding, and the GEF picks NGOs to help run its projects. Thus more money eventually ends up in the pockets of the environmental pressure groups. | 0_0 |
A reviewer should not evaluate a manuscript authored or co-authored by a person with whom the reviewer has a close personal or professional connection if the relationship would bias judgment of the manuscript. | 0_0 |
But it should also mean another wake-up callabout the hundredthfor Congress to do something to protect our constitutional institutions of governance from decapitation via an attack. More than eight years after 9/11, we still have no serious plans in place to deal with a disruption of government that could follow an att... | 0_0 |
This is an odd contention given that we are now in a multi-year period (12 years and counting) period during which time the global warming has been preceding much more slowly than the climate-model mean projections of the expected rate of temperature rise. And, whats even worse (for the models anyway), is that the rate... | 5_1 |
To put things into even starker perspective, consider that from August 1954 through August 1955, the East Coast saw three different storms make landfallCarol, Hazel and Dianethat in 2012 each would have caused about twice as much damage as Sandy. | 0_0 |
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bills to repeal and replace Obamacare more than 60 times. Republicans in the Senate haven't been able to meet the 60-vote threshold to achieve closure in that chamber or to override a promised presidential veto. Candidates for the Republican nomination for president notably ... | 0_0 |
During the Industrial Revolution, migration to cities made children less useful than they were on farms and more expensive. Easier divorce, reliable birth control, cohabitation replacing marriage, and women entering the workforce in greater numberssince 1990, about 70 percent of women have been working at any given tim... | 0_0 |
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