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1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that "civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." | 0_0 |
In the words of the authors, the results of this study are important because they indicate that "transgenerational acclimation can help to overcome behavioral impairment observed in fishes exposed to high CO 2 ," adding that "as CO 2 levels rise over coming decades, both parental and offspring generations will experien... | 3_2 |
But the principles frblir same. Bern curve, somen base for pstenden that carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, apparently from myself I physically omjlig. | 0_0 |
The solution is simple. Evil American energy companies produce fossil fuel, because evil Americans keep buying it. If all progressives (particularly at universities) would simply disconnect (I prefer the word divest ) their transportation, heating and electrical systems from the fossil fuel powered grid, they could sav... | 4_5 |
The controversy surrounding this issue is reported today in a post by The Hill. Excerpts: | 0_0 |
Tin and Nickle are falling more than the copper / aluminum / DBB basket. Stuff metals are having the worst of it. Economic production is down, and not showing signs of increase (yet). In some ways, Platinum is the most interesting metal of the bunch. Relatively flat, most certainly at or near a bottom. Unfortunately, i... | 0_0 |
It is also possible, though, that the mandates could, in some cases, go beyond the actions that the cap-and-trade would motivate. That is to say, the regulations might require steps that would cost more than would the cap-and-trade alone. The GHG cap sets total national emissions; so, if a mandate requires more GHG aba... | 4_1 |
So what do the satellites show? Since the mid-1970s the satellite data show no trend either up or down in outgoing long wave radiation. Plain and simple, the satellites say the window is just as wide open now as it was in 1974. The average value of outgoing long wave radiation through the last nearly four decades is ab... | 2_3 |
I came away with the view that you actually did her a favour. I was astonished that she seemed unaware that she was actually arguing against the scientific consensus and her lack of awareness when asked about the IPCC SREX was an eye opener. She was also pushing the view that absence of satellite records may mean past ... | 0_0 |
We cannot make sane decisions on global warming if the "experts' present us with evidence that is biased | 5_2 |
And throughout nearly all discussion of the rainforest, the idea is presented that only indigenous tribes and their "earth- friendly" technologies are suitable for this pristine environment. Peoples like the Kayapo and Yanomami "possess a thorough understanding, much of it encoded in myth" according to Alan Durning of ... | 0_0 |
What is Azar's and Rodhe's "scientific" assessment: "It appears that to keep the changes in global temperature within the range of natural fluctuations during the past millennium, . . . atmospheric CO2 concentration has to be stabilized at around 350 parts per million by volume (ppmv)." This would keep the temperature ... | 0_0 |
One needs only to spend a few days in Moscow talking to the intelligentsia or, better yet, to take a quick look at the blogs on LiveJournal (Zhivoy Zhurnal), Russia's most popular Internet platform, or at the sites of the top independent and opposition groups to see that the motto of the 1980s "We cannot live like this... | 0_0 |
The greenhouse effect is natural and necessary for life on Earth. | 0_0 |
Pass 642-642 exam fast using self paced 640-822 prep tools including 640-863 dumps and other study resources. | 0_0 |
So much for transparency and scruples. This year, Obama is taking unlimited donations, including corporate cash. Instead of a detailed disclosure, the PIC website has one page with a very long list of donors, replete with typos and misspellings and no information on dollar amounts or donors' employment. AT&T;, for exam... | 0_0 |
John: Subsequent events have confirmed the earlier conclusions Brian. The UN head of climate change turns out to be a railway engineer whos now on the gravy train, and it seems our peer reviewed glacier data is obtained over the phone from a gentleman in the Punjab. | 0_0 |
John: Cheers for that Brian. Can we change the subject please? | 0_0 |
We need exploration and innovation in America. We need to tap into energy sources currentlyor in the process of being madeoff limits in America by the Endangered Species Act or by plans to lock up resources under the guise of a national monument. When you think about it, energy makes America greatand we do it in a mann... | 4_5 |
In the mountainous Karakoram region of Asia the glaciers aren??t melting. If anything, some are expanding, says this article on LiveScience . | 1_1 |
How is that possible? My ex-wife and I buy ten thousand pounds of coal every fall for the Kyrgyz family with whom we lived while we served in the Peace Corps. Burning a ton of coal emits about 3 tons of carbon into the atmosphere, so we are responsible for 30 tons of green greenhouse gases! For environmentalists in ric... | 0_0 |
During snowy weeks, we are told that the snow is due to global warming. During non-snowyweeks we are told that skiing is doomed because of global warming is keeping it from snowing. | 5_2 |
December 1st, 2013 through February 28th, 2014 will now be remembered as the coldest meteorological winter on record across much of Upper Michigan. | 1_3 |
A conclusion and its implication in the summary paper was: because our scientific investigation leads us to the prediction that the Sun is headed into a protracted minimum, the warming forecast by the IPCC might not happen. | 1_2 |
The planet is doomed unless humans achieve zero net "carbon" emissions within 40 yearsand maybe even if we do. | 0_0 |
The public comments submitted by CEI further delve into the legal conflicts presented by the Clean Power Plan. For example, EPA is playing fast and loose with the statute because commercial technologies to capture or filter CO2 from existing power plants have not yet been developed. | 0_0 |
And the only purely observational study featured in AR4, Forster & Gregory (2006), which used satellite observations of radiation entering and leaving the atmosphere, also gave a best estimate of 1.6C, with a 95% upper bound of 4.1C. | 3_1 |
I was not sure these seeds would be any good, but its amazing they require little water and they grow fast, said Jacob. | 0_0 |
download large Hemispheric Trends image (81 KB, PDF) | 0_0 |
When the two researchers applied the relation they derived to the period 1610-1995, they found a rising linear relationship for temperature vs. time, upon which are superimposed "some quasi-regular episodes of residual temperature increases and decreases, with semi-amplitudes up to ~0.3C," and they note that "the prese... | 2_1 |
Well, maybe the second greatest lie ever told, after the anthropogenic GW hoax. From The Telegraph (UK): "But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mrner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea ... | 1_6 |
The Washington Times reports on a recent poll that says voters oppose government official's prosecuting those who disagree with them on climate change. CEI received a subpoena earlier this year for their work on climate change because of this very issue. | 0_0 |
Second, they will ask what "class codes" your labor force is. This refers to a set of four digit numbers that have been devised to categorize different types of jobs, much like SIC codes classify business types. A good agent should be able to figure out your code(s) from your description of the business, but if you wan... | 0_0 |
My contribution to the 2007 report illustrates the scientific problem. The report's first table of figures - inserted by the IPCC's bureaucrats after the scientists had finalized the draft, and without their consent - listed four contributions to sea-level rise. The bureaucrats had multiplied the effect of melting ice ... | 0_0 |
The CPP is illegitimate. It violates the separation of powers. EPA is not authorized to restructure state electricity markets, revise state electricity policies, or establish statewide caps for CO2. EPA is making law, not implementing it. | 4_1 |
The climate models are programmed to predict warming. They are completely useless and yet the Met Office continues to stiff British taxpayers withpurchasesof faster GIGO hardware. | 5_1 |
But instead we see anti gouging laws. Sounds good. Politically smart. But, if gas is selling for $3.50 / gallon and can at most have a 10% rise or you get punished, thats $3.85. That wont pay the freight (literally) to haul in gasoline or generators from remote locations. That you then would also penalize the folks doi... | 0_0 |
The problem with step changes is that two flat lines with a rising step change will artificially produce a rising linear trend that is meaningless. McKitrick and Voselgang account for the step change and show that significant warming trends in the low to mid troposphere only occur from 1958-2005 if we include the step-... | 1_4 |
Read here . Over recent decades, it has been noted that Hudson Bay sea ice has been breaking up earlier in the summer season. These are anecdotal recollections/observations that scientists decided to investigate, using an array of advanced technology. | 0_0 |
EU emissions trading scheme threatens electricity blackouts | 0_0 |
The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age. | 1_2 |
Increasingly, researchers all over the world are using charcoal to reconstruct fire histories, Swetnam said. Many scientists are analyzing the global record of charcoal to study relationships between climate, fire and the resulting addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. | 0_0 |
Over the last week or so I've been spending a bit of time with a new paper from Gavin Schmidt and Steven Sherwood. Gavin needs no introduction of course, and Sherwood is also well known to BH readers, having come to prominence when he attempted a rebuttal of the Lewis and Crok report on climate sensitivity, apparently ... | 0_0 |
The Daily Caller (DC) starts an article on Podesta's White House return this way: "John Podesta's return to the White House should have oil, gas, and coal producers worried." He is a former lobbyist and chief of staff to President Clinton. He is the founder of the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress (CA... | 0_0 |
These threats have been wildly overstated. And the solution proposed by many SUV critics, raising the federal fuel economy standards, would mean expanding a regulatory program that has already caused thousands of traffic deaths. | 0_0 |
SST Anomalies Continue To Plummet In The Hurricane Nursery | 0_0 |
That reforms gave rise to a revolution by 1989 was due largely to another "idealistic" cause: Gorbachev's deep and personal aversion to violence and, hence, his stubborn refusal to resort to mass coercion when the scale and depth of change began to outstrip his original intent. To deploy Stalinist repression even to "p... | 0_0 |
The truth is, there has been only one time in all of human history when governments were able to control Earth's climate, and it is highly unlikely that we will ever return to those wondrous days. | 0_0 |
Steve McIntyre points out the wholesale deletion of over 50 of Tom Fuller??s comments at Lewandowsky??s blog today (after they had been in place for days) and made this comment: | 5_2 |
The IPCC Working Group II AR5 report has been released and what people are saying are undermined by what the report says. Six claims are debunked. From Oil Price, Latest IPCC Findings Undermine Climate Change Claims | 5_2 |
The only truth about global warming is that there has been no measured warming over the last 16 years in the global air temperature of the land and the sea surface, the same global air temperature over the last century has been more naturally oscillating than following the carbon dioxide emission, there has been no war... | 1_4 |
Dieldrin's high persistence means it is available to bioaccumulate up the food chain, and can cause birth defects and therefore should not be used for anything else but stopping locusts. Nevertheless because the countries that are now sending aid, and also designed the Stockholm POPs treaty, don't have locust infestati... | 0_0 |
The six scientists report that they "found almost no direct effects of OA on microzooplankton composition and diversity," and that "both the relative shares of ciliates and heterotrophic dinoflagellates as well as the taxonomic composition of microzooplankton remained unaffected by changes in pCO 2 /pH." | 3_2 |
Read here . The vast majority of new scientific research continues to document that the modern era's warming barely rivals what was experienced during the Medieval Period. | 2_1 |
A PhD and a computer have, so far, been insufficient tools to provide useful predictions of the future of our climate system. The current state of climate science ??? or maybe I should say, how scientists have allowed the media and politicians to portray it ??? is a continuing source of embarrassment to some of us. | 5_1 |
> >> was +0.57 deg C above the 1961-90 average, the warmest year | 0_0 |
In a recent CA post , I observed that Shiyatov had crossdated 1021 subfossil trees from his 1968 and 1983 transects plus hundreds of living trees, from which the samples sent to Schweingruber were a minute subset. Although Shiyatovs comprehensive dataset is by far the most imposing dendro work at Polar Urals, Briffa et... | 0_0 |
Normally, El Nio results in diminished hurricanes in the Atlantic, but this new type is resulting in a greater number of hurricanes with greater frequency and more potential to make landfall, said Peter Webster, professor at Georgia Techs School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. | 0_0 |
/s/ Dr. Christopher C. Kraft JSC, Apollo Flight Director and Director of Johnson Space Center, 24 years | 0_0 |
The United States has enough coal reserves to last at least another 250 years, with reserves that are over one-and-one-half times greater than our nearest competitor, Russia, and over twice that of China. This figure excludes Alaska, which contains more coal reserves than all of the lower 48 states combined. If total U... | 4_5 |
The March numbers are out for the CET series . At 2.7C this is the coldest March since 1892, which registered the same temperature. Indeed, you have to go back to 1883 to find a colder March. | 1_3 |
A couple of years ago a Charlatan hack EPA big shot named Jon Samet MD, announced that there is no safe level of pollutants. | 0_0 |
Still, the incidents have highlighted the risks of expanding the reliance on renewable sources like wind before necessary grids, storage and other technologies are established to handle their intermittency and volatility. | 4_4 |
There are still today individuals treated like indentured servants, or slaves, if you willproperty, bought and sold. Obviously other situations much worse are recalled after the kidnapping of girls who were mostly Christian and the declaration by Boko Haram that they are not through. They target Christian Schools and k... | 0_0 |
First off, here is my take on what the EPA/IPCC is claiming. | 0_0 |
Conservatives often assume that elections like 2010 show America has a consistent conservative majority. I think it is more accurate to say that they show that America has a consistent anti-progressive majority. The task conservatives have today is to transform the anti-progressive majority into a pro-conservative one.... | 0_0 |
More importantly, climate models suffer from the limitations of current scientific understanding of the forces that determine weather patterns and climate change. Climate modelers cannot avoid making assumptions about the operation and effects of such key variables as water vapor, clouds, ocean-atmosphere interaction, ... | 5_1 |
On May 6 the same date as the Wells Report was released, Exponent submitted a report on simulations in which three untrained employees attempted to deflate 12 balls in 1 minute 40 seconds with a standard needle. The subjects, after one try, achieved remarkably consistent results, both between subjects and between balls... | 0_0 |
There was a time, not so long ago, when above-the-fold content at some blogs was vehemently criticizing the surface temperature record in terms that suggested our collective ability to measure surface temperature or detect 0.7C or warming was so poor that we could not be confident the annual average surface temperature... | 5_1 |
The eight researchers determined that in terms of the frequency, intensity and duration of droughts and pluvial events, "the 20th century contains some of the driest and wettest annual to decadal-scale events in the last 654 years." However - and it's a very big however - they report that "longer and more severe events... | 1_7 |
Naturally, international aid agencies are jockeying for position to broker this wealth transfer. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that his organization is the "natural arena" for coordinated international action on climate change. To that end, the U.N. operates two programs to facilitate the flow of cl... | 0_0 |
In the third scenario, "Turbulent world," the US is beset by disruptions in the supply of foreign oil, terrorism at home, and global warming-triggered extreme weather events. Responding to those challenges, federal policy makers enact a national renewable portfolio standard, increase new-car fuel economy standards to 5... | 4_4 |
Bangladeshis die in their thousands in floods, few die in Florida floods of the same magnitude. Bangladesh is among the most corrupt and backward countries in the world. Its people will continue to die in natural disasters until it has wealth, and the institutions to achieve that wealth. Limiting greenhouse gas emissio... | 4_1 |
By Donn Dears, Power For USA, Aug 14, 2015 | 0_0 |
We expect a summer pattern more like 2002-06, with above-normal temperatures. | 0_0 |
Real Climate bashes Santa Fe and contrarians | 0_0 |
In short, the growth rates built into the IAMs exceed that of the past two centuries in the U.S. (and the world) and therefore rule out the possibility that Weitzman offers as justification for the very low discount rates. The IWG cannot simultaneously entertain arguments for low discount rates and project high GDP gro... | 0_0 |
To be sure, Congress never authorized EPA to shut down the coal industry. Rather, EPA is using creative interpretations of existing statutes to seize the power it needs to shutter existing coal-fired power plants and prevent new ones from being built, which raises an important question: Why hasn't Congress checked EPA'... | 0_0 |
A blog by Professor Chris Turney on this subject, called A Lesson from Past Global Warming, can be viewed on his website at www.christurney.com | 0_0 |
There are two tide gauges in the San Francisco Bay one shows 0.00 mm/year since 1980, and the other shows -0.78 mm/year since 1980. | 1_6 |
1) Computer model output is not "evidence" of anything. Observations are evidence, never models. It's the scientific method, look it up. | 5_1 |
Must save the worldeh? Mother Gaia is at risk from these bipedal invaderstime to eliminate humans. | 0_0 |
I visualize it as taking some kind of baseline starting point (maybe a line toward the sun on the sun side?) and then subtracting the degrees away from it for each planet and making a net graph? A formula would have been helpful Also an A/B of actual sunspots vs the plot Still, the graph that is, is very interesting | 0_0 |
China Typhoons, Early Half of Century. Several typhoons also struck the eastern China coast during the early half of the century, causing great hardship with deaths from some of the storms reaching the tens of thousands. For example, Typhoons striking the China coast in August 1912 and August 1922 resulted in fatality ... | 0_0 |
Finally, consider the results from Ramanathan and Carmichael published in Nature Geoscience last year. These researchers reviewed the scientific understanding of how black carbon aerosols (aka soot) warm the earth's climate. Black carbon is not a GHG. Black carbon warms the earth by directly absorbing reflected solar r... | 0_0 |
Last July a brief spell of temperatures in the mid 30s had caused some surface slush formation on top of the 1 to 1.5 mile thick Greenland ice. The NASA sensors merely color-coded the phase of the water ice (white), mixed water and ice (rose) and none (land grey). Rose meant some surface liquid. For Greenland, business... | 0_0 |
The disaster for alarmists is that the winds have reversed and are pushing the ice towards the Pacific side, which is driving the massive recovery in the amount of Arctic sea ice up 60% from last summer. | 1_1 |
EXCLUDING and misrepresenting unfavourable data does not provide a credible analysis into Australias extremely expensive carbon tax. | 0_0 |
on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 5:16 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The RICO 20 campaign is incoherent on a deeper level. Shukla believes the feds should prosecute organizations that "knowingly mislead the public about a clear and present dangerthereby robbing innocent people of their lives and livelihoods." For more than two decades, climate action groups have knowingly misled the pub... | 0_0 |
The "ball don't lie" expression has gained fame and is even the title of a popular basketball blog. | 0_0 |
Thats not all, a quick glance at the graph shows globally averaged temperatures have remained below the January 24, 2006 benchmark (when Gores movie was released at the Sundance Film Festival) except for the first few months of 2007. | 1_4 |
Figure 6 shows the step in temperature in 1998 at the Larsen Ice Shelf. The trend in cooling after 1998 is 1.8C/decade, the second fastest cooling on the Peninsula. Butler Island is cooling faster, at 1.9C/decade. (Of course 18C/century cooling is meant as sarcasm, and is only a trick that warmists like to use.) | 1_1 |
The German Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, said that it was aware of targeted attacks and all that was needed was to lure web surfers to a website where hackers had planted malicious software that exploited the IE bug to infect their PCs. | 0_0 |
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar : The earth's climate has NOT warmed in 16 years per UK Met Office! We may not see warming of the climate by more than 0.5C in next 50 to 100 years. | 1_4 |
That is the one thing that they are definitely going to succeed in doing here and they will announce that as a victory in itself, and they will be right because that is the one and only single aim of this entire global warming conference, to establish the mechanism, the structure, and above all the funding for a world ... | 5_2 |
GHG Control, Predominantly a Foreign Policy Problem | 0_0 |
Last summer's ratcheting up of sanctions on oil and gas imports from Iran works similarly, | 0_0 |
Carolus Linnaeus? classification system that named, ranked and classified organisms was a major advance in biology. Vladimir Koppen produced a climate classification system in 1884 that named ranked and classified climates based on the distribution of plants. | 0_0 |
"Unfortunately, what will likely emerge a few months into the Clinton presidency is a deep desire by Republicans to recapture the party mojo by once again prevailing in the forthcoming 2018 midterm elections by using the old scorched-earth strategies." | 0_0 |
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