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From Dave Mastio, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Times : | 0_0 |
What has been revealed, so far, is a not uncommon occurrence in contemporary science: an ?epistemic community? intervening in peer review and publication processed to further its own interests and beliefs. From my experience, this involves ensuring the continued funding of a research agenda that has become closely iden... | 0_0 |
Now I would like to take a moment to go into detail about why Utility MACT would be so devastating. Just to put this rule in perspective, even Democrat Representative John Dingell, author of the Clean Air Act amendments, said Utility MACT is "unparalleled in its size and scope" and it "presents a set of new regulations... | 0_0 |
Behavior of World's Glaciers Fails to Prove Global Warming Theory | 0_0 |
That is what I mean by fighting on marshy ground, by fighting on the same ground as the Warmists. No wonder they stand their ground it is as if the Skeptics are fundamentally in agreement with them, only differing in scale. | 0_0 |
"Now that the House of Representatives has voted to repeal the health care law, Republicans say they're likely to move soon to another target a rewrite of the Clean Air Act so that it can't be used to fight climate change." | 0_0 |
But the judge added a stinging rider: "It is an extremely disheartening and sad occasion that a person whose life and resources have been placed into rural property for the purposes of conducting a grazing and farming business has been required to resort to this action." | 0_0 |
Marvel goes on to assert that the pause in warming can be explained by a massive increase in ocean heat content. Well, all right, I suppose this is a plausible theory. But it is also a very new oneand only one of 52 different theories offered to explain the hiatus. | 1_4 |
Thus, much of the threat to our sovereignty comes not in traditional national security areas, but on policies heretofore considered entirely domestic in nature. | 0_0 |
on Friday, August 20th, 2010 at 1:30 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
climate variation. As a result, Soon urges caution in concluding that human action has caused global warming. | 2_1 |
The Climate Science Isnt Settled Written by Richard S. Lindzen | 5_1 |
Behind the point-scoring lies an important political battle. Proposition 23 seeks to suspend AB 23, California's tough greenhouse-reduction law, until unemployment in the state drops below 5.5 per cent for four consecutive quarters, a figure that is virtually unobtainable. It was somewhat cynically financed by Tesoro a... | 0_0 |
The transition, dubbed the Energiewende, has so far added more than 100 billion euros ($134 billion) to the power bills of households, shop owners and small factories as renewable energy met a record 25 percent of demand last year. RWE AG, the nations biggest power producer, last year reported its first loss since 1949... | 4_1 |
The Milwaukee Sentinel Google News Archive Search | 0_0 |
Peterson last week told the Hill newspaper that he has lined up 45 members of the House Democratic Caucus to oppose the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy and Security Act, a major climate change mitigation bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to bring to the floor for a vote by July 4. If Peterson is not bluffing -- and he'd ... | 0_0 |
33 Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 22. | 0_0 |
Strike five : During September when the minimum occurs, the Arctic receives almost no sunlight. | 0_0 |
30 Gal Luft and Anne Korin, "Terrorism Goes to Sea," Foreign Affairs (November/December 2004); John Temple Swing, "What Future for the Oceans," Foreign Affairs (September/October 2003); Michael Greenberg, Maritime Terrorism: Risk and Liability, RAND, 2006; Michael Richardson, A Time-Bomb for Global Trade: Maritime-Rela... | 0_0 |
Maybe God has got a sense of humour? says Lyn. Climate change investigators stuck in ice in Antarctica in High Summer !! Then the Chinese ice-breaker rescuing them also gets stuck in ice !!? | 1_1 |
aspects of observed regional climate change related to diurnal temperature range | 0_0 |
Beevers data had similarly suggested higher temperatures were killing pika, but his analysis excluded data from nearby populations thriving at warmer and lower elevations just 93 miles away from 71% of Beevers extinct sites. At Lava Beds pika were flourishing at an average elevation 900 feet lower than the average elev... | 0_0 |
Of equal importance here are the magnitudes of the actual trends of the surface and troposphere. The average global surface trend for 90 model simulations for 1979-2012 (Climate Model Intercomparison Project 5 or CMIP-5 used for IPCC AR5) is +0.232 C/decade. The average of the observations is +0.157 C/decade. Therefore... | 5_1 |
(Bonn) CFACT will hold a press conference at the UN conference on climate change at Hotel Maritim, Bonn, Wednesday, June 5th at 11:30 AM in room Haydn. | 0_0 |
4:07 when the snow is snowing everywhere to us. It's time for the annual deja vu. It was snowing in Pilsen. Yesterday and today. The volume was negligible in front of my windows. But friends and family members in other parts of Pilsen (and especially elsewhere in Central Europe) reported intense snow. The temperature s... | 1_3 |
Andrew J. Dowdy Tropical cyclone (TC) observations are used to examine changes in the TC climatology of the Australian region. The ability to investigate long-term changes in TC numbers improves when the ElNio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is considered. Removing variability in TC numbers associated with ENSO shows a sig... | 1_7 |
As for the amount of deforestation in relation to total forest area, Thomas Lovejoy, then of the World Wildlife Fund, offered a low projection of 50% deforestation between 1980 and 2000 in Latin America and a high of 67%. The source for this was a set of satellite photos taken in 1978 and reported in the Washington Pos... | 0_0 |
Climate prediction not only has the problem of nonlinearity in dynamical systems, but also shares with the analysis of typical real complex systems the equally great trouble associated with the presence of a huge panoply of variables, subsystems, and possible feedbacks in play. I remember Rol Madden commenting, back in... | 5_1 |
Differences in nomenclature notwithstanding, Codevilla's article is particularly useful in its lengthy descriptions of the two parties to the conflict, for they are more than just political movements and are in fact separate cultures. The culture of the progressive aristocracy is devoted to statism, whereas the product... | 0_0 |
to be a warm bias when the nighttime boundary layer has a reduction of long wave cooling at night. | 0_0 |
Other scientists suspected Pounds correlations with climate change were simply due to a lack of statistical rigor. In a 2008 paper, Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines the researchers demonstrated just how easy it is to generate meaningless statistical correlations. In response ... | 3_2 |
Maybe. If the Court overturns the Rule, several other EPA rules compelling States to include greenhouse gases in their permitting programs would become unenforceable or vulnerable to legal challenges. The decision might then create momentum for other litigation to roll back the EPA's takeover of State environmental pro... | 0_0 |
James Annan, formerly a strong defender of Michael Manns infamously flawed alarmist hockey stick graph and an expert on climate sensitivity to CO 2 and other influences, recently concluded in his blog that IPCC is increasingly acting in a wholly unscientific manner. He referred to a list of scientists polled as largely... | 5_2 |
The resulting energyused all across the economybecomes less expensive. Cheaper energy lowers the cost of doing business, making American companies more competitive and enabling them to invest and expand. | 0_0 |
Every major climate organization endorsed the ice age scare, including NCAR, CRU, NAS, NASA as did the CIA. | 5_1 |
Clean Power Plan vs. Reliability: A False Dilemma for States: | 0_0 |
But today there is war and economic recession, oil prices have collapsed, and Ford and other companies closed their operations and left. Some 80% of the people again have no jobs. Their families are again impoverished and starving. | 0_0 |
If thinking backward or forward a century seems a stretch for tech forecasting--it is a long time, although to repeat, this is the time-frame engaged by serious climate-related policy wonks--how about 50 years? Fewer years ago than even that, many of us of a certain boomer age were still using slide rules. A representa... | 0_0 |
As well as pumping much as 600 million tonnes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the carbon credits scheme has been abused by countries like Russia and the Ukraine which have used them as a money making scam. | 4_1 |
Carbon taxes are bad for the economy as economic analysis by both the Heritage Foundation and the U.S. Energy Information Administration have projected. | 4_1 |
The authors bring up the concept of missing heat used in efforts to explain the failure of the globe to warm. Following a suggestion of Hans von Starch, they assert the heat was not missing, because it did not exist. They point out that the difference in surface temperatures from 1998 to 2012 northern Eurasia and from ... | 1_4 |
The conclusion of Ms Bug and her journalistic collaborators is that the male students are sexist pigs who should be vaginized. | 0_0 |
His reasoning is the fallacy known (for a couple of thousand years) as Argument from Authority. The single point that makes science different from a religion is that in science, opinions are always trumped by evidence. There are no high Priests. Manne thinks evidence means studies of the consensus of how many scientist... | 5_2 |
Yet he fails to admit that the reports for instance, an often-quoted report from 1922 about the unprecedented Arctic warming and loss of sea ice observed by meteorologists support what Roy Spencer says and are inconsistent with the largely speculative results in the various papers suggesting sea ice extent scarcely cha... | 0_0 |
Education Minister slams universities elitist view Australias $46m Antarctic airstrip melts Asian banks fill the funding gap Overcrowded prisons festering ... | 0_0 |
Hence, it is necessary for climatologists like Pederson to assert, at least to the public, that warming has occurred after 1998 and, more recently, that it is actually "accelerating." Without warming in the 21st century, "global warming" hasn't reached the crucial 30-year milestone. But if for Pederson there is no stat... | 1_4 |
Since we are free to choose from an infinite bag, all of our models are suspect and should not be trusted until they have proven their worth by skillfully predicting data that has not yet been seen . None of the models in the AP study have done so. Even stronger, since they said temperatures were higher when they were ... | 5_1 |
Ow et al. say the results of their study "demonstrated that tropical seagrasses can increase their photosynthetic rates, adjust photosynthetic performance and increase growth rates in response to CO 2 enrichment" (see figure below), and that this "ability of marine macro-autotrophs to utilize the greater CO 2 availabil... | 3_3 |
Atmospheric satellite temp. differences, 1979-1997 (MSU-LT)= approx. zero | 0_0 |
Climatologist: ???There has been a downward trend in strong (F3) to violent (F5) tornadoes in U.S. since 1950s?? ??? ???Warming causes fewer strong tornadoes, not more?? | 1_7 |
clivere on October 8, 2013 at 8:03 pm | 0_0 |
In a last-minute twist, the King County Republican Party warned Saturday morning of robo-calls to voters falsely claiming that the caucuses had been delayed a week. | 0_0 |
The calendar may say it's spring, but a major winter-like snow storm is wreaking havoc on the lives of Americans from the Rockies to the Upper Plains. Thirteen states are either under a storm watch or warning. | 1_3 |
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It means the destruction of individual responsibility, and thus the individual. | 0_0 |
They even made a video. Meh. Does anyone actually think the World Meteorological Organization, which is at the forefront of misrepresenting its members' collective views , would succumb to such foolishness? Would anyone actually sign this petition to change the naming system to make a political point? | 5_2 |
Personal attacks are common in any dispute simply because we're human. It's easier to insult than to the follow the thread of an argument. And just because someone makes an ad hominem argument, it doesn't mean that their conclusion is wrong. But when the personal attacks are the first out of the gate, and when they see... | 0_0 |
the middle of the cloud of published series and explaining the reasons behind | 0_0 |
England has just experienced its coldest Spring since 1891 , according to the Central England Temperature Series. Capetown recorded it??s earliest June snowfall in years . | 1_3 |
1) Carbon dioxide levels probably will increase for decades to come as the result of population and economic growth. | 0_0 |
In yesterday?s article Pachauri dismissed concerns that a lead author of a recent IPCC report is a Greenpeace activist: | 5_2 |
The skeptics note that first, there are still political risks. Nobody wants to be the first to invest in a new nuke. While streamlining the regulatory process for new plant siting and operating may work in theory, financiers want to see it work in real life before they make an investment. They're not quite sure, for ex... | 0_0 |
Aerosols: Many atmospheric aerosols are liquid droplets containing dissolved sea salt from sea spray, sulfuric acid (H2SO4), organic molecules from trees and plants, and other compounds. Over agricultural and urban areas, dust and soot are common aerosols Soot particles emanate from incomplete combustion of fuels such ... | 0_0 |
Later, Dr Pachauri would unilaterally drop Tata from the title and now, according to sources, Tata, one of Indias largest conglomerates, wants little to do with him. | 0_0 |
This is particularly interesting in light of where GHCN has concentrated the Global Thermometers. They are largely moved to airports in valleys or near the coastline. (Folks dont build major airports on the tops of mountains its hard to get 10,000 feet of straight and level on a mountain top, and the cities are typical... | 0_0 |
Though if the AMA did come out as ??? Doctors for the Planet ?? raging against carbon, I look forward to John Cook??s announcement that their opinion is irrelevant because they have no expertise in climate science. | 5_2 |
The protesters are hoping that President Obama will block the $7 billion pipeline. Their rationale: The pipeline will result in major increases in carbon-dioxide emissions, and therefore it must be stopped or catastrophic climate change will ensue. Protest as they might, a State Department report found that the pipelin... | 0_0 |
Jersey News Outlet Cries "Global Warming' as Blizzard Approaches | 0_0 |
TABLE Indicative Marginal Global Damages from Current GHG Emissions ($/Ton CO 2 -eq) | 0_0 |
Silence Begets SuspicionWhatever the reasons, one fact is indisputable: the Bush administration did silence itself by publishing its report on the state of the environment without including any discussion of global climate change data, trends, science, technology, policies, or goals. (Instead, the report covered just o... | 0_0 |
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Eighty years ago this summer, more than 80% of the US was experiencing drought, and about half the country was in extreme drought. | 1_7 |
In 1992, former Vice President Al Gore reassured his listeners, "Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled." In the real 1992, however, Gallup "reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not beli... | 0_0 |
Organic yogurt king and Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg may have thought that he avoided the buzzsaw this week by ducking a TV appearance with me. Guess I'll just have to go on without him. | 0_0 |
A final observation. If Judge Kavanaugh is wrong and PSD applies to all regulated air pollutants, not just NAAQS-regulated pollutants, then absurd results arise not from the EPA?s misreading of the statute but from Massachusetts v. EPA, which authorized the EPA to regulate GHGs. If so, however, then the permitting nigh... | 0_0 |
The UN just released its summary report on how we should all expect extreme heat in the future. Well forget all that.Its all nonsense coming from unrealistic models that do not even take the cycles of the sun (source of 99.9% of the Earths surface heat) and cycles of the oceans (which cover 70+% of the Earths surface) ... | 5_1 |
Rebuttal: Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters ? Analysis by Paul Homewood ? "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' | 0_0 |
Los Angeles lawmakers require home improvement stores to construct shelters for day laborers who wait for work in their parking lots. | 0_0 |
3. ECONOMICS Cuban dictator Fidel Castro announces plans to resign the presidency. | 0_0 |
Guest essay by Rud Istvan, WUWT, Aug 9, 2015 | 0_0 |
Pelosis Interesting View On Energy : Apparently Ms. Pelosis new script is still being reworked, but its a telling mistake. Not only is natural gas every bit as much a fossil fuel as oil or coal. More to the point, these concentrated organic compounds found beneath the earths surface must be extracted by . . . drilling.... | 5_2 |
The worlds major scientific journals agree that since 2001 the global average temperature has been constant. We live in a warm decade and the world is reacting to that warmth but, contrary to predictions, the world isnt getting any warmer at the moment, Dr David Whitehouse, the GWPFsscience editor, said. | 1_4 |
Be sure to notice the sea level rise rate centered above each graph. Keep in mind that a 30 cm sea level rise in 30 years requires an average of 10 mm per year. | 0_0 |
On this basis, two different research groups have independently done their own merging and intercalibration of the data from various satellites which have been in orbit at various times since 1979: | 0_0 |
Inconvenient weather fact: Frequency of violent tornadoes like the one in Oklahoma has been declining, not increasing | 1_7 |
Election 2012: GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has a new, not-so-welcome friend: Al Gore, who extolled the candidate's promise to fight hard against global warming. Does Gore think Romney can't win? | 0_0 |
Agreement signed at San Jose September 13, 2007; entered into force September 13, 2007. With schedules. And agreement amending the agreement. Signed at San Jose September 25 and 27, 2007; entered into force September 27, 2007. | 0_0 |
On August 24 the BOM predicted that spring would be hot across the north. Instead it was cold everywhere except in the west of WA. | 0_0 |
From the latest NIPCC Report Field scale influence of CO2 on the world's major crops | 0_0 |
Few Americans would disagree. But after their usual pontificating, the Democrats once again proved that, if they didn't have double standards, they would have no standards. | 0_0 |
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; | 0_0 |
Possibly one Republican candidate will call in the next debate for ending US funding of the IPCC, now shown to be actively working (with the Obama White House) to subvert US law. Enough is enough is enough. Possibly Governor Romney could defend Holdren and the IPCC. | 0_0 |
Its certainly true that carbon dioxide is good for vegetation, Dyson said. About 15 percent of agricultural yields are due to CO-2 we put in the atmosphere. From that point of view, its a real plus to burn coal and oil. | 3_3 |
But these are highly respected outfits: the Manhattan Institute, the Mercatus Center, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Reason Foundation, etc. | 0_0 |
The election of Barack Obama has not brought comfort and confidence to the ranks of climate campaigners. To the contrary, there is an obvious sense of panic in the rhetoric of climate campaigners right now. This panic arises not simply from the fact that the global economic crisis is derailing expensive climate action ... | 1_4 |
If CO2 is a powerful greenhouse gas, we would have seen a great warming trend in Indonesian temperature history. We havent. Recent temperatures, according to the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, have been scarcely warmer than they were 70 to 100 years ago. Instead of a strong warming trend, the Indonesian da... | 2_1 |
Europe also drills for oil, onshore and off its coasts, especially in the North Sea. | 0_0 |
If Rudd thinks we can set an example for the rest of the world with a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions the ETS all it would do is push up the cost of living in Australia and the rest of the world will laugh . | 4_1 |
Looking at the data by decade, it's apparent that the anomalously quiet 1920s were followed by surging landfalling hurricane frequency in the 1930s and 1940s. But after the 1940s, the remainder of the 20th century was rather quiet. | 0_0 |
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