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I disagree with liberals on most issues, but I do believe that many of them care deeply about people. So they should be alarmed when environmental leaders put the welfare of animals and plants ahead of people. | 0_0 |
Figure 1. Conventional oil leaking out of the ground near McKittrick, CA. | 0_0 |
But according to the FSHP, the only way a Cuban can get access to the hospital is through a bribe or contacts inside the hospital administration. "Cubans are reportedly very resentful that the best hospital in Havana is 'off-limits' to them," the memo reveals. | 0_0 |
Marine ecologist Larry Crowder from Duke University in the US is reported at BBC News Online claiming that leatherback turtles face extinction within 30 years if there are not dramatic changes to fishing practices. | 0_0 |
Having endured hundreds such diasters, the villagerswith the help of local Jesuitsorganized the pilgrimage, to be held annually on July 31: the Catholic feast day dedicated to the Jesuits founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola. | 0_0 |
The new study indicates that thats quite wrong, with the current warming less serious than the Romans and others since have seen and the overall trend actually down by a noticeable 0.3C per millennium. | 0_0 |
Dan Lashof, director of NRDC's Climate Center, tried to rebut Joel's critique. He did not challenge Joel's central points--emissions are already well below 1996 levels, current policies ensure emissions will continue to drop, and, therefore, air quality predictions assuming that 1996 emissions will persist into the 205... | 0_0 |
There is another way to address the potential problem: geoengineering. It would be less disruptive of business activity, less threatening to employment, and it promises to be relatively inexpensive. | 0_0 |
"A 2006 law effectively blocks all types of Internet gambling by Americans, largely to prevent a rise in gambling addiction that online betting can easily lead to. Strong attempts to overturn the law have so far failed. Now a bill in Congress aims to open a crack in that wall. It would legalize only one type: online po... | 0_0 |
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After Andy Strominger explained his profound consternation by the fact that we had not been able to analyze the civilization of native Americans who lived in Northern America as recently as 800 years ago, Frank Wilczek hypothesized that no future historian would be able to learn that on Monday, March 13th, 2005 AD, Fra... | 0_0 |
The bottom line is that claims that these pH changes are unprecedented, fast or unnatural are overstating things dramatically. Typical estuarine environments have an inflow from rivers (with a lower pH) that fluctuates wildly, so do areas with upwelling, and even the pH in kelp forests varies dynamically. | 3_2 |
Parameters NST=330, Nph=362, Dmin=409.7 km, Rmss=1.26 sec, Gp= 14, | 0_0 |
Dear Robert, No, you werent defeated by a wall of money. You lost, despite your wall of money. | 0_0 |
As farmers and others speaking for the hundreds of millions of people who will benefit from this technology attempt to mount a defense, we cannot depend upon science and reason to win the argument. The people who understand the science are often absent or ineffective when they do speak up. Reason fails miserably in rea... | 0_0 |
Next Mr Weyler tells us Precipitation has increased in eastern Americas, northern Europe, and Asia. So what? Natural variability will cause more rainfall in some places and less in others. Overall, as even the IPCC admits both in its 2012 report on extreme weather and in its 2013 Fifth Assessment Report, there is no ev... | 1_7 |
Those who disagree with him are not merely mistaken, they are malevolent, unworthy even of persuasion through honest debate. Instead, "denialists" deserve only to have their homes razed. | 0_0 |
The proposals range from encouraging the construction of "green" schools and buildings to developing a trading market for emissions within Massachusetts. Additionally, the state will implement a greenhouse gas inventory in order to track greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_0 |
We can compare the charcoal and tree-ring fire records. It confirms that the charcoal is a good indicator of past fires, Swetnam said. | 0_0 |
The easiest way for car makers to meet ever-rising CAFE standards has been through continued car downsizing. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration itself noted, "weight reduction is probably the most powerful technique for improving fuel economy. . . . Each 10 percent reduction in weight improves the fu... | 0_0 |
According to Bill McKibben in an op-ed in The Washington Post, the biggest news of the year is that Jim Hansen has spoken. According to Hansen, who has risen in recent years from astronomer to wizard and now to high priest of a doomsday cult, the safe level for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be no more than 350 p... | 5_2 |
In June 2007, two Colorado scientists, Jan F. Kreider, an engineering professor at the University of Colorado, and Peter S. Curtiss, a Boulder-based engineering consultant, determined that carbon dioxide emissions from corn-based ethanol are worse than those of conventional gasoline and diesel fuel. They concluded that... | 0_0 |
Maine high court overrules state PUC approval of huge wind energy deal | 0_0 |
Most of the Left wants to measure access to health care by the percentage of people who have health insurance,implyingthat those without insurance have no access to care. But in fact the uninsured in the US have access to better health care than most other people in the world. | 0_0 |
Pielke goes on to deconstruct the study, but just compare the two bolded statements. First, that there is not sufficiently extensive and accurate observational data to test a hypothesis. BUT, then we will create a model, and this model is validated against this same observational data. Then the model is used to draw al... | 5_1 |
"Well, son. I voyaged up to the Arctic Circle in a nice big boat with a bunch of installation artists, mime practitioners, YouTube cat short specialists and climate scientists on an all-expenses trip to make a documentary called The Earth Is Weeping: Feel Her Pain. My contribution was a Concerto for Gamelan and Nose Fl... | 0_0 |
Part of the resistance to a clean break comes from trade diplomats and some political leaders who recoil at the supposed stigma of presiding over the first failed trade round since GATT was established after World War II. This is understandable but in the end misguided. For those who care about the future of the multil... | 0_0 |
Why should you be interested? As noted in the post, the sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, ... | 2_1 |
The IRS repeatedly abused its power in targeting conservative groups. But then Lois Lerner's emails mysteriously disappeared, she took the Fifth and retired with full pension, "two employees on the night shift" deleted the email backup tapes (with no repercussions) and Mr. Koskinen steadfastly refuses to cooperate with... | 0_0 |
cap and dividend, in which the proceeds of auctioning pollution permits are rebated to taxpayers | 0_0 |
Initially, they might start addressing the unprecedented warming that took place during the 1930s well before the large human CO2 emissions. The fact that the 1930s had a much larger impact on U.S. temperatures than either 1990s or the 2000s should be of interest; also very germane to the modern "unprecedented" warming... | 2_1 |
How can natural variations, of which there are plenty, be distinguished from purported man-made ones? | 0_0 |
The best data we have on such Halloween sadism is compiled each year by University of Delaware professor Joel Best. His conclusion is simple: | 0_0 |
Yet only a year ago, Mr. Obama's 2010 Budget contained no mention of nuclear power. Nor did the 1,400-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - cost: $820 billion over the next decade - sponsored by liberal Democrats Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, which passed the House last June. | 0_0 |
Over at BNA Energy and Environment Blog, Dean Scott has an interview with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). At one point, the discussion turned to a 2009 cap-and-trade bill co-authored by then-Rep. Markey and the formidable Rep. Henry Waxman. According to Scott: | 0_0 |
After reviewing the scientific literature the reports concludes that the standstill is an empirical fact and a reality that challenges current climate models. During the time that the Earths global temperature has remained static the atmospheric composition of carbon dioxide has increased from 370 to 390 ppm. | 1_4 |
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plans to control your home appliances when youre not there. | 0_0 |
"The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model exp... | 5_1 |
A dispute over the status of a small species of mouse threatens development across large parts of Colorado and Wyoming. | 0_0 |
In Canada, Action Plan 2000 earmarked $210 million in government funding to promote technologies that reduced greenhouse gas emissions in industry and transportation and gave $125 million to cities to encourage use of such technologies. Another $100 million went to promote foreign demand for these Canadian solutions. D... | 4_2 |
From that we can make a simple time-dependent model to calculate the change in temperature throughout the night. This simple spreadsheet model Ive provided here will allow you to change assumed parameters to see how to get a realistic temperature decline over 12 nighttime hours. What you will find is that the temperatu... | 0_0 |
All of this says, we have no idea how much carbon dioxide nature is adding to the atmosphere. The models used to justify the war on carbon start with dream-time forecasts of world economic activity. These figures drive forecasts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to assumptions and complex formula in... | 5_1 |
Our analyses of ice cores from the ice sheet in Antarctica shows that the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere follows the rise in Antarctic temperatures very closely and is staggered by a few hundred years at most, ??? Sune Olander Rasmussen | 2_3 |
The American Energy Alliance (AEA) and the Institute for Energy Research (IER) have created a new platform, American Products. American Power. to educate the nation about the critical role that energy plays for our economy and in our daily lives. | 0_0 |
The scenarios in which coffee beans *might* be threatened, forecasted 1.8 to 4.0 C of warming in the 21st century based on business as usual carbon emissions. The actual warming since 1998 has been less than the scenario in which atmospheric CO2 levels stopped rising at the beginning of this century. | 0_0 |
Public education is biting us back. Schoolteachers cant be trusted with children, having been indoctrinated in John Dewey socialism and worse. They certainly cant teach because they are too busy with political correctness and socialist/post modernist/relativist brainwashing. | 0_0 |
To illustrate the point further, at any given time, some parts of earth are actually in cooling trends while others are in warming trends. By averaging temperature anomalies across the globe, the IPCC and consensus science has concluded that there is an overall positive warming trend. The following is a simple example ... | 5_1 |
The Politics, If Not The Science, Is Settled At The EPA. Alan Carlin, Global Warming And Trouble | 0_0 |
is a non-pollutant, and is necessary for life on earth. Concentrations of the others are negligible compared with their Threshold Limit Value . Methyl mercury can be dangerous in high concentrations, but volcanoes are responsible for half of all mercury emissions. Eruptions usually result in a 4-6x increase in atmosphe... | 3_3 |
As much of the northern hemisphere last week froze under the snows of the fourth unusually cold winter in a row, our ministers, led by David Cameron and Chris Huhne, the Climate Change Secretary, laid out a blueprint that promises to inflict on Britain a social and economic catastrophe unique in the world. They chose t... | 0_0 |
When a president of the United States starts talking about wood chips and switch grass, you know that a substance has reached front and center in the national discourse. Both of our current presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, support ethanol as well, though McCain's support for ethanol seems to have ... | 0_0 |
Today, we are facing rising carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere through human activities, and the amount of oxygen in the ocean may drop correspondingly in the face of rising seawater temperatures, Lyons said. Oxygen is less soluble in warmer water, and there are already suggestions of such decreases. In the face... | 0_0 |
Also collaborating on the project as a co-investigator is Dr. Susan Stonich, professor of anthropology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. | 0_0 |
willing to make billion-and trillion-dollar decisions for adaptation to the | 0_0 |
Re-examining Schmidts complaint: Schmidt argued that it would be unfair to take a statement that he had made on May 11, 2012 pointing out that Briffa et als results would be different from what McIntyre had put up (on May 6 2012 ) (as the figure below demonstrates), and then using a calculation made on May 15 2012 to c... | 0_0 |
Paeth et al 2006 Improving Seasonal Forecasting in the Low Latitudes, | 0_0 |
The corpus of climate legislation was already cooling before Snowmageddon. The cold wind that buried its chances this year didn't come off the snow burying Washington: It came off horrific unemployment reports, lackluster economic growth, massive Tea Party rallies and vicious town hall meetings. After the breakdown in ... | 0_0 |
In conclusion, as ever more relevant evidence is acquired, the case for an equivalent or warmer-than-present Medieval Warm Period grows ever stronger, continually weakening the climate-alarmist claim that the planet's current warmth can only be explained by including the warming they believe to have been produced by th... | 2_1 |
Please join me in support for poor, beleaguered gas station owners, the victims of unconscionable price gouging by ruthless consumers who are taking advantage of market conditions to reduce their demand for gasoline, riving down the price by nearly $2 per gallon over the last four months. Fortunately, governments are s... | 0_0 |
The plan will result in higher electricity costs for businesses and families, lost jobs, lower incomes, higher poverty rates, reduced living standards, and diminished health and welfare, our exhaustive recent study found. This damage will be inflicted at the national level and in all 50 states. The CPP will impact all ... | 4_1 |
Norman G. Loeb, John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Richard P. Allan, David R. Doelling, TakmengWong, Brian J. Soden & Graeme L. Stephens, 2012: | 0_0 |
North Pole temperatures in 2013 have fallen below freezing way in advance of where they normally do this year. This is the coldest ever recorded by the Danish Meteorological Institute since they started looking at this in the late 1950s. | 1_3 |
While Grantham might be correct about some harder-edged libertarian places, he paints with an overly broad brush. The libertarian think tank of which I am a part, for example, has published several papers calling for government policies to address climate change, including investing more in geo-engineering research. An... | 0_0 |
Point out this blog on the situation in Rosarno, written by Peppe Caridi. I do not agree on all the details but the conclusion and extraordinary in its center lantico problem of Calabria: | 0_0 |
As NIPCC explains , if we are going to use models to overhaul our economies we would hope they do better at predictions than being low or absent in skill, yet thats exactly what Kiktev et al found when they compared five GCMs with observations: | 5_1 |
And it will soon become apparent that the converse is not true either - even with insurance, in a top-down rules-driven government-controlledhealth care system, one may not have access to health care. For example, one of my employees was complaining that she was having trouble with workers comp getting care for her inj... | 0_0 |
Seems like the Professor joins a growing list of senior academics who have fallen foul of their local political correctness crowd. How many other cases of perhaps lesser mortals could be going unreported? | 0_0 |
A good example of this is equating climate skeptics to pedophiles , something else Lewandowsky was involved in (via an ABC radio show, but he didn??t actually make the claim, the announcer did) but note that he??s made the claims about HIV and AIDS here, even before his latest paper was published . Predetermined conclu... | 5_2 |
The fact that the warmest portions of the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods in the vicinity of the northeast Atlantic were so much warmer than the warmest portion of the Current Warm Period - and at times when the air's CO2 content was so much less than it is currently - strongly suggests that the atmosphere's CO2 concen... | 2_1 |
seasonal and annual temperatures for the entire CET seriesshow unprecedented warmth during the 1990s, but earlier decades such as the 1730s and 1820s are comparable. | 0_0 |
Energy Bill Requires Scientific Fact, Not Courage | 0_0 |
Columnist Tim Carney notes that BP, responsible for the massive oil spill, is "a close friend of big government whenever it serves the company's bottom line." It lobbied for President Obama's $800 billion stimulus package, the "cap-and-trade" global-warming bills backed by Obama, and "the Wall Street bailout" that Obam... | 0_0 |
"The Earth is not "unusually" warm. It is the application of the predictive equation that is faulty. The ability of common substances to store heat makes a mockery of blackbody estimates. The belief that radiating trace gases explain why earth's surface temperature deviates from a simple mathematical formula is based o... | 0_0 |
Antarctica set a new record for ice extent in 2014, and continues to set records for how much ice covers the oceans surrounding this southern hemisphere continent as 2015 progresses. | 1_1 |
Sadly for the US, most experts dont expect a new reactor to be operating there before late 2016 or early 2017. Many experts see the future of nuclear power in smaller, modular reactors being developed around the world. Unfortunately, the US Department of Energy continues to drag its feet on certifying new reactor desig... | 4_5 |
Power infrastructure provider Alstom estimated that across Asia close to half of the 600 gigawatt of new power generators to be built over the next five years will be coal-fired, Giles Dickson, a vice president at the company said. | 0_0 |
Now be clear here, the greenhouse effect is premised upon a -18C solar input being amplified to +15 degrees C by the atmosphere trapping or back-radiating heat. None of this is correct because 1) the solar input is not -18 degrees C, 2) reality doesnt function like this in any case heat cant amplify its own temperature... | 0_0 |
Mark Pollock on September 1, 2008 at 6:33 am | 0_0 |
Robock Seeks Audience with Christie, Invited to Debate Global Warming | 0_0 |
Attachment1.pdf is, as already noted, simply a statement of the policy of PNAS. The actual letter concerning our submission is Attachment2.pdf. This attachment begins with what we regard as a libelous description of our choice of reviewers. Will Happer, though a physicist, was in charge of research at DOE including pio... | 0_0 |
Alarm, Alarm. Lets increase the growth of data. Or, to speak like Honecker (leader of former communist regime East Germany): Always higher, never lower! And if its not possible to increase the current data, then lets just reduce the data of the past. Just like some climate scientists also want to reduce the temperature... | 5_2 |
?Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.? | 0_0 |
Glenda Kwek, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2010 | 0_0 |
In fact, polar bears have likely survived past ice-free periods in the Arctic. Scientists recently found there's no evidence of marine life extinctions in the Arctic in the past 1.5 million years, despite the Arctic going through periods of prolonged periods with no summer ice cover. | 3_2 |
Can anybody see any 100 year events in the last 5 years? Or any increase in extreme rainfall patterns? Good, because I cant either. | 1_7 |
In fact, the temperature of planet today is almost the same as it was when satellites first started measuring it in 1979. No one under the age of 32 has experienced global warming. Some of us predate that and remember the heavy frosts of the nineteen seventies. Those frosts are returning, and worse. Solar activity is w... | 1_4 |
Never too early to worry about water? :: Peter Foster ...it's a sign of the grim times for our planet when pre-schoolers are worrying about something as basic as water, a commodity which my generation never even thought about at his age. When I look at my kids like my son and wonder what kind of place the world will be... | 0_0 |
For the scenario with lower -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 emissions and air temperature, the NEP of the globe increased from a positive (carbon-sequestering) value of 0.8 Pg C yr -1 in 1990 to 1.3 Pg C yr -1 in 2100, for a rate increase of 62% over the 110-year period. For typically -assumed increases in CO... | 3_3 |
These papers all report anomalously increased OLR associated with tropical surface warming. Models, by contrast, fail to show such an increase. Presumably that is why it is referred to as anomalous. One can (though the authors dont) infer a negative feedback factor from the observations, and it is at the high end of wh... | 5_1 |
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said before the Copenhagen summit in 2009 that we have 50 days to save the world. Copenhagen was of course a complete flop and yet we are all still here, although his government is no longer with us. Similar predictions of impending doom have come and gone. | 0_0 |
Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing Germanelectric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book.In an interview with SPIEGEL, hearguesthat the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by wea... | 0_0 |
And that lead commenter Caz to make the discovery of the photo: | 0_0 |
"Net neutrality proposals are driving a wedge between service providers like AT&T; and content providers like Google. Strange, is it not? Their interests are actually closely aligned. If AT&T; upgrades its network, Google benefits from the increased bandwidth. If Google improves its products, AT&T; benefits from increa... | 0_0 |
>A Discontinuity In 1945 Or A Missing ENSO Event? | 0_0 |
The meeting hopes to restore credibility to the talks after the last summit in Copenhagen a year ago, which failed to agree on any binding measures to rein in emissions of global-warming gases. A nonbinding political document, the Copenhagen Accord, outlined important compromises among key players, including the United... | 0_0 |
A funny thing happened this week. Humanity did a low-orbit bypass of a totalitarian world government, and pulled away, but only a few noticed the near miss. | 0_0 |
SUV owners have perfectly good reasons for their vehicle choices. Even Consumer Reports praises their "roomy interiors, commanding view of the road, and go-anywhere ability." The fact that NHTSA has trained its sights on SUVs hasn't kept its administrator, Ricardo Martinez, out of one. He puts his family in a Ford Expl... | 0_0 |
Here is a discussion about how to stop common core, from the heartland, at the grass roots, Ms. Crossin. | 0_0 |
As Webster et al . describe it, "the interval in our record from AD 750 to 1150 was the most prolonged dry phase in our 3300-year record," which period of time can be seen from the Interactive Map and Time Domain Plot of our Medieval Warm Period (MWP) Project to correspond well with the MWP's mean time of occurrence ar... | 2_1 |
'24' Executive Producer Howard Gordon Turns Green | 0_0 |
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