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You didn't need a Cray computer to figure that this was nonsense, that temperatures would have to more or less instantly soar to incredible heights and stay there for this to happen. (As it turns out, 18 degrees Centigrade.) But people wrote it, read it, and believed it. You'd think a magazine with the name Technology ...
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Barack Obama doesn't much like his nation's traditional allies. Europe gets the back of his hand. Saudi Arabia is dealt the same. He (or one of his inner circle) retells the tale of him confronting Jordanian King Abdullah for bad mouthing the president. And then there's Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom Obama reserves speci...
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John Coleman appears in Climate Hustle. He has his very own copy on disc. Do you?
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Mann sees Barack Obama as a president confronted with "the legacies of the two Georges." He would inherit not only the problems left by his predecessor (Iraq,
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If one looked only at these characteristics, one could easily believe the libertarian-Republican fable. But the two groups are very different when it comes to current politics. Post-Moderns overwhelmingly like Obama and the Democrats; Libertarians don't like him, and vote Republican. The reason is that Post-Moderns agr...
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Also note that the excess ice is located at the exact places where Hansen predicted peak sea ice loss.
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The authors simply taken a set of gases (including carbon dioxide) and ascribed an effect: climate forcing. They do not demonstrate a mechanism, or even shown a correlation, between levels of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and global warming.
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The Piedmont Environmental Council is one of the leading opponents. It warns of the "enormous quantities of radioactive waste" produced by uranium mining.
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In the words of Grenchik et al ., "this study shows that there is capacity for thermal acclimation during development, with individuals reared from an early age at some temperatures able to modify their physiology to maintain RMRs at near present-day levels," with the result that this developmental thermal acclimation ...
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The ANPR also suggests thatan endangerment finding under CAA Sec. 202need not set a precedent forNAAQS regulation of GHGs, because CAA Sec. 108 lists threefactors triggering a NAAQS rulemaking, one of which is that the agency plans to produce an analysis known as an air quality criteria document. Thus, the ANPR opines,...
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The result could be a reversal of the weather patterns experienced last year. The northwestern United States could experience an abnormally cold and wet winter, while the South, which was cold and wet last winter, will be hotter and drier. And although the Peruvian fishing industry will profit from the turnaround, the ...
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This means that even if Congress votes to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, and miraculously overrides President Obama's threatened veto, the pipeline may not be initiated in 2015.
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Martin Hoerling of NOAA on Sandy: ???As to underlying causes, neither the frequency of tropical or extratropical cyclones over N. Atlantic are projected to appreciably change due to climate change?? ??? U.S. Govt Scientist Hoerling: ???Nor have there been indications of a change in their statistical behavior over this ...
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The previous, zeroth Iranian astronaut was Buzz Mustaffa (video).
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None of these dynamics (save perhaps the state of scientific understanding) are going to change, and I'm against waste, so, I'd argue that it's time to look past mitigation, and explore what adaptation to climate change means.
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That is exactly the method used, with a base period of 18601879, by the energy budget study Otto et al. (2013), of which I was a co-author. That study used estimates of radiative forcing that are approximately consistent with estimates from Chapters 7 and 8 of AR5, but since AR5 had not at that time been published the ...
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As wealthy homeowners and businesses owners install solar panels on their homes and commercial buildings, low-income families, living in rented apartments, have to foot skyrocketing electric bills. Many can no longer afford to pay, so the utilities are cutting off their power.
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There is no human activity whatsoever that does not generate CO2, and no plant can grow without a generous supply of CO2 in the atmosphere. More than any other substance on earth, production of CO2 measures human prosperity and plant growth.
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An agreement merely among the nations represented in Ottawa obviously doesn't involve all nations, and not even such major polluters such as India and China. Those developing countries would exempted from the Kyoto Protocol. The apparent U.S. position at The Hague was weak enough, and any further would damage the U.S. ...
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The teams report, Multi-Millennial Fire History of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA, was published in the electronic journal Fire Ecology in February. A complete list of authors and funding sources is at the bottom of this story.
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Treaty advocates claim that this provision is merely hortatory. Yet Lawrence Kogan of the Institute for Trade, Standards, and Sustainable Development warns that several provisions create a potential cause of action and could ``be used to commence litigation against the U.S.'' LOST already has generated a suit by Irelan...
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For years, climate-change activists have argued by anecdote to make their case. Gore, in his famous slide shows, ties human-caused global warming to increasing hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought and the spread of mosquitoes, pine beetles and disease. It's not that Gore is wrong about these things. The problem is th...
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Documents: White House was all-hands-on-deck as Solyndra collapse neared
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A closely similar rate of rise in global temperature occurred from 1910 to 1940, pre-dating current high CO2 emissions
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So let me declare now that in no way would I want to upset those who have worked for years in the climate Skeptic cause. However we have to admit that we have made scarcely a dent on the public mind on the public conception.
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There are other climate establishments in this world, and they havent come to the same conclusions about what causes global warming.
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1. Hammer, M. June 27, 2009. Does the US Temperature Record Support Global Warming? http://jennifermarohasy.com/2009/06/how-the-us-temperature-record-is-adjusted/
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Recently WUWT published my comparison of several different land-based and satellite-based global surface temperature anomaly (GSTA) datasets (1, and data sets descriptions and references therein). However, my analysis was critiqued for not using the same baseline period for each data set. Namely, HadCRUT4 refers to the...
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Only 8 out of around 180 countries have capital cities above this 3200m height, so most of the densest populated areas today would still be habitable with a 30% lower air pressure.
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Man City-Newcastle 4-1 2-0
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#TheyAreAllBreitbart More available from the Seattle Times. Related: Jeff McMorris, a caucus organizer, said turnout appeared to be "at least double" numbers in the 2008 presidential caucus, when an estimated 12,000 attended statewide. Also, that damnable CPC strikes again (from the same article):
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In todays post, Im going to show the Deflategate data from a new perspective. Rather than arguing about whether thePatriots used the Logo gauge, Ive assumed, for the sake of argument, the NFLs conclusion that the Non-Logo gauge was used, but gone further (as they ought to have done). Ive guessed the amount of deflation...
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Thanks, as always, to editor David Steinberg at Pajamas.
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And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ?statistically significant? warming.
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A nuclear complex generating 2,880 MW would thus have a comparable cost allowance of; $4.5833 million/MW x 2,880 MW = $13,199.99 million
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Berlau: What scares off investors are not sequesters, but government takeovers of auto companies that shaft bondholders to favor the UAW.. http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/18/whats-good-for-gm-is-now-terri
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Given these limitations on mitigating carbon emissions, it is important to study how to adapt to climate change. There are myriad possibilities for adaptation, including the obvious, like building dikes in low-lying areas, and planting heat-tolerant crops and trees in cities. Some adaptation will occur naturally. For e...
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With infrared measurements taken since 1980, it is clear the planet is warming. What is remarkable is that this has occurred without any contribution from automobile traffic, energy power plants or any other activity of man. How do we know this? Because the planet we are talking about isn't Earth, but Neptune. Yes, tha...
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This graph below from Bishop Hill shows that it isnt just one paper, but several now that show lower climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2.
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Trucost, a group that advises investors on corporate environmental and social risk, estimates the average price increase for airline tickets will be 2 per cent and will continue to increase as the cost of reducing emissions rises. This will most affect low-income passengers, who tend to be more price sensitive. (The Ob...
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The mainstream media, which has tolerated and even promoted people who call global warming skeptics Nazis and traitors and called for the death penalty for skeptics, now pretends to be outraged by this billboard. We took it down immediately and admitted that it was in poor taste and a mistake, but they continue to prom...
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The Meteorological Agency, which has been keeping statistics on typhoons since 1951, said the lowest number 16 was in 1998. The average per year between 1971 and 2000 was 26.7, while the most on record is 39 in 1967.
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34 On PSI, see Mark J. Valencia: The Proliferation Security Initiative: Making Waves in Asia, 2005. On NATO, see Ian Thomas, The Promise of Alliance: NATO and the Political Imagination, 1997, and Istvan Szent-Miklozy, The Atlantic Union Movement: Its Significance in World Politics, 1965.
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Things can change quickly. 1950 was the second most active hurricane season on record, and the first hurricane didn??t form until August 12.
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Wildfire spreads across 280 square miles of Montana.
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Such an approach is unwelcome from an economic and political perspective. Making people poorer and imposing austerity is undesirable. It also does not generally work since ordinary people, quite naturally, resist cuts in their living standards. Such an approach will only likely be successful if imposed through authorit...
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Full Time Career/Career Conditional
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Scaremongering stories of increased frequency or intensity of hurricanes from CAGW are without observational basis. In addition, climate models project decreased frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the future, due to a decrease in temperature gradients between the tropics and poles.
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Figure from paper cited later. If the top trace is correct that is a superb match between insolation (P) and proxy. A lot of reading follows.
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But string theory may also be around the corner in the case of some stringy braneworld models, particularly the intersecting braneworlds. In these braneworlds, which are very concrete stringy realizations of the "old large dimensions" paradigm, the Standard Model fields live on stacks of branes, they have the form of o...
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Benefit/cost analysis: It sounds so scientific, so rational, so impartial. So sound as a tool with which to resolve conflicting assertions about the wisdom of regulatory proposals. So divorced from partisanship or ideological influence.
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One note of caution. Concerns about global climate change are particularly complex as they touch on climate science, economics, societal response to climate change, and other issues. In order to prepare a guide that is accessible to a general audience, some simplification is inevitable. For this reason, references to t...
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9 Dec 2011 Australias jet runway in Antarctica is being little used for a second ... risk of melt water damage, which played havoc with the ice runway last ...
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"An expert at the World Health Organization says time is running out for German investigators to find the source of the world's deadliest E. coli outbreak."
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Once again (see our Editorial of 11 Dec 2002 ), in spite of all the hype about recent dramatic warming in the permafrost regions of Alaska, real-world data demonstrate - at least for Barrow - that it is no warmer there now than it was half a century ago , and the area's permafrost is in no more danger of being wiped ou...
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Learn more:One of us is a conservative. One of us is a liberal. Here's a counterterror approach we can both agree on
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In November 2014, Abengoa bonds were "hammered on accounting concerns," Reuters reported. It added: "The company has so many different buckets of debt and management has cleverly used this to report reductions in reported net leverage."
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I knde me as a frmmande fgel in this context is of course completely natural but after VRT calls on the scene revealed that among the audience there was one other representative from the municipality and county that gave me std's, we talked not only from the DVA rose. The headline from year's conference was Allas wind ...
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** Ive had limited access to the internet and so apologies to those who I have not returned emails. The sitution should improve with my new dialup connection.
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Tobacco Settlement Dollars Go Up In Smoke in Latest Government Scam:
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1 The term "greenhouse effect," coined nearly two centuries ago, is scientifically inaccurate. A greenhouse stays warm because the closed windows prevent the inside air from cooling by circulation; the glass does not absorb outgoing infrared radiation.
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How can this be right, when the median model TCR is 40% higher than an observationally-based best estimate of 1.3C, and almost half the models have TCRs 50% or more above that? Moreover, the fact that effective model TCRs for warming to 20812100 are the 10%20% higher than their nominal TCRs means that over half the mod...
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Lets see .. Evil dictator has WMDs and gases his own people . Is Obama so lacking in imagination that he has to recycle Bushs story from eleven years ago?
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The UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released its first major global warming manifesto since 2007. Once again, the IPCC makes dramatic predictions of future warming and catastrophic consequences due to manmade carbon dioxide emissions. Typically, these predictions are reported as proven findings t...
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This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
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Last year, destruction of CFCs accounted for more than half the CDM credits issued, in a market that will eventually, it is estimated, be worth $17 billion. Of the 1,390 CDM projects so far approved, less than 1 per cent accounts for 36 per cent of the total value.
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Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise?
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So some people analyzed this theory in some more detail, using the state-of-the-art computer techniques. No clear signs of a human or glasses or anything like that were found. More devastatingly, the person had to be one meter tall if he were exactly there; or he was several meters tall and flying 5 meters above the Ea...
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"The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President's health care proposal. In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages...
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I have to put forward the capital into a risky project, the most risky project Ill ever invest in. My shareholders will demand a high return. The state should not have to pay for that. It is much better to put capital support at this stage in that technology.
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Then there were many signs pointing to the possibility that the Earth may be headed for another ice age ( The New York Times , August 14, 1975), moving toward extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciations ( Science , December 10, 1976) and facing continued rapid cooling of the Earth ( Global Ecology , 1971) and the approac...
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Science education is in a general decline. Students are taught that science is based on evidence, and yet all they are presented are inaccurate models.
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Politicians and decades of political environmentalism have a lot to answer for, said Ms. Adali. The man-made climate theoryis still supported by a mighty European Union bureaucracy and a green network addicted to public funds. Even now, the Green Climate Fund through which millions of taxpayers money will still be disb...
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The Cuban Institute of Meteorology reported that last Friday morning (Feb 20) the temperature fell to one degree Celsius (33.8 o F) in the town of Union Reyes in western Matanzas province.
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The scrap says: Youtube Sandy Hook Shooting Exposed and is supposed to be about a half hour per verbal guidance. So I go off to pick some random youtube that looks close and hope its the one they mean About now Im also wondering why Ive turned down this small winding dark street just because the spouse said someone not...
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Solar activity is now back to where it was a century ago (Shouldnt TSI also not be?) Note: Shapiro et al. (2o11) find major increase relative to 100 years ago (~5 W m-2)
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In 1913, the father of global warming said that Earth would warm 8-9C and that the climate of Alaska would be like Maine
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Particulate matter doesn't just make you sick; it is directly related "to dying sooner than you should," former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified to Congress. "If we could reduce particulate matter to levels that are healthy," it would be like "finding a cure for cancer" saving up to 570,000 lives a year.
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Perhaps given the chance to avert public eyes from his lackluster results with containing the deteriorating situation in Syria, nuclear talks with Iran, and the Middle East peace process, Secretary of State Kerry has chosen to flaunt his lack of scientific understanding as a needed diversion.
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Yet, scientific evidence shows that weather would be less extreme in a warmer world. Peer-reviewed studies on droughts, floods, hurricanes and storms show that 20th Century occurrences have been of equal or lesser severity than similar events in past centuries, when Earth??s climate was in the cooler period of the Litt...
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To the west, recent acceleration of Greenlands Jacobshaven Glacier is almost certainly related to geologically induced heat flow. This glacier was actually growing and not accelerating quickly, when recently and quite suddenly it began melting from below and speeding down a long linear, and purported here, a fault-boun...
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In 2012, global coal use increased by the equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil per day. That was more than three times the growth of non-hydro renewables (solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal), which were up by 600,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
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No, to the contrary. Over the long term the number of deadly tornadoes has even dropped dramatically. However, we have to expect that more people will be hit by tornadoes in the future. Not because there are more storms, but because the population is growing and suburbs and cities are expanding. In any case, 2011 is an...
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Bishop Hill asks , Does the committee really think its fine to hide important information from policymakers so long as you report it in the literature?
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The charge against The Australian is summed up by Clive Hamilton, who has accused the newspaper under the leadership of Mitchell of running a virulently anti-greenhouse line, allowing the news pages to become a parody of dispassionate journalism, verballing scientists and attacking science in pursuit of a larger ideolo...
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"This request for documents, indeed the statute authorizing it, put academics on notice that they must do their work openly, honestly, and using the traditional approach of the observer who is indifferent to the outcome of the experiment. That is in grave doubt in the instant case. It is troubling how saying so is cons...
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"Internet giant Google says more than 244,000 Germans have asked that their homes be made unrecognizable in its Street View program, scheduled to launch in Germany next month."
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The lame duck session and 111th Congress finally ended, without the White House getting key items on its wish list. So now, the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department intend to impose costly, job-killing, economy-strangling new rules for power plants and refineries, and implement more land-grabs that w...
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The problem is that this graph does not appear to be correct. Other data sources show Arctic ice having made a nice recovery this summer. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center data shows 2008 ice nearly identical to 2002, 2005 and 2006. Maps of Arctic ice extent are readily available from several sources, including the Uni...
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The reason he made that prediction is because the ice was very thin that summer. No one made any predictions like that this year, because the ice is much thicker. That is why I think PIOMAS is completely FOS. They claim that the ice is half as thick as 2008.
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Gore has garnered widespread media attention both for his book on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, and its film adaptation. Since their respective releases, however, many critics have noted factual inaccuracies, exaggerations and misleading statements throughout both versions. Earlier this week, a judge in the Un...
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Gilles nod to the iconic muscle-car is a slap in the face of President Barack Obama, who recruited Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne to come to Detroit as a missionary teaching the savages how to make proper, fuel-sipping Euro-econoboxes. Indeed, one of the key benchmarks that Marchionne had to meet to assume ownership of the...
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Why do advocates of the dangerous warming hypothesis resort to ad hominem attacks? Is it to protect science? If so, it is misguided. Progress in science depends heavily on research by skeptics.
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Characteristic bleaching scars and isotope temperature records from coral cores commonly show evidence of past bleaching events going back thousands of years. There is no evidence for a recent increase in frequency and/or severity of bleaching events and nothing to link extended periods of calm winds with global warmin...
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U.N. climate talks aren't going anywhere.
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Environmentalists in both countries have kept natural gas out of the Clean Energy Dialogues because many are ambivalent about hydrofracturing technology, and some feel that as a fossil fuel, natural gas use shouldn't be encouraged. That was the prevailing view in the Obama campaign in 2008, and proved influential when ...
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OK, so what does this tell us? Well, we can do something interesting with this chart. We have actually moved part-way to the right on this chart, as CO2 today is now at 385ppm, up from the pre-industrial 280ppm. As you can see, I have drawn this on the chart below. We have also seen some temperature increase from CO2, ...
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How many times can official science be wrong before governments stop acting on the claim that human CO2 is causing climate change? The latest example is the claim that atmospheric CO2 levels are higher and show the largest one year increase on record .
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Many have already written the obituaryfor the Kerry-Lieberman bill and other cap-and-trade legislation in the current Congress. In todays Politico , however, columnist Darren Samuelsohn quotes Sen. John Kerrysrejection of that assessment:No, its not dead because were going to have a lame duck session and we have weeks ...
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Climate models have been programmed to show global warming and all of its manifestations in response to rising energy imbalance values. But modeling groups go through very different gyrations (by manipulating clouds?) with the two computer-calculated components of the Earths energy budget at the top of the atmosphere i...
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