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Even that is likely to be too high. The climate-research establishment has finally admitted openly what skeptic scientists have been saying for nearly a decade: Global warming has stopped since shortly before this century began. | 1_4 |
Sixty percent of Protestant pastors disagree that global warming is real and manmade, and 41 percent of them strongly disagree, a new survey says. | 0_0 |
Much of the so-called science on global warming comes from computer modeling. This same science is rarely correct about the hurricane season, the severity of winter or the weather next week. | 5_1 |
"Aha!" say the hated climatocrats and smirking Ministers, "but we haven't actually taken Peter Spencer's land. It's still his. All we've done is to regulate his use of it, just as we do for instance with the zoning laws." | 0_0 |
Goa (India) : "there is no ongoing sea level rise, sea level has been stable for the last 50 years or so, sea level fell some 20 cm at around 1960." | 1_6 |
It really is frustrating wading through these debates. A series with SNR of 0.1 (with white noise) is not "essentially, entirely composed of noise". It actually doesnt take all that many series for the noise to cancel out and to reccover the signal. The spurious regression problem is the problem of an unrelated trendin... | 0_0 |
Q&A; WITH FRANK WOLAK ON U.S. COAL EXPORTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE | 0_0 |
All was now well and Yale gave Mann his Ph.D in 1998. One eminent source in my enquiries confirmed Mann's Ph.D. was, in fact "rushed through." | 0_0 |
The climate models are also coming into agreement that the number of tropical storms and hurricanes will not go up and may perhaps even decrease (by around one-fourth fewer) because of the increased vertical wind shear. | 1_7 |
Reading the group's press releases it does seem that they even had a hand in getting the president of the United States to sic a taxpayer-funded agency on a foreign academic study about a foreign country's experience with its own policies, because said academic team and its writings threaten the welfare if the word get... | 0_0 |
In his RMS article , Kevin Trenberth also conveniently overlooked the fact that the discussions about the warming halt are now for a time period of about 16 years, not 10 yearsever since David Roses DailyMail article titled Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released and here is the ... | 1_4 |
Surely this means we could be further into a a new ice age than any of us even dared to imagine!! says reader Lee Woods. | 0_0 |
No, that would play into the hands of the fossil-fuel lobby. | 0_0 |
Let's take a look at what's happening in West Virginia. The state government just sponsored a three-day forum last week on "EPA's War on Coal." Larry Puccio, the Democrat Party Chairman in West Virginia said, "A lot of folks here have real frustration with this administration's stance on coal and energy." Also recently... | 0_0 |
About 85% of our total energy is carbon-emitting, and about 99% of all transport sector energy is carbon-emitting. Since energy is used to produce and move everything from autos to food to houses to bytes of electronic information, ACESA's impacts would cascade through the economy. In the report's words: | 4_1 |
Many people including several famous physicists find Maldacena's and Susskind's ER-EPR correspondence hard to believe, controversial, or inconsistent. But there is no known inconsistency. Three folks at Caltech, Bao, Pollack, and Remmen, are addressing a point that I have mentioned on this blog a few times, but they do... | 0_0 |
It was a hot July afternoon 38 years ago, nearly 92 degrees, when Teamsters president and labor icon Jimmy Hoffa is said to have opened the rear door of a 1975 maroon Mercury in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and climbed in. | 0_0 |
Instead of taking one broadband measurement that covers everything from ultraviolet to infrared, Kassianov and crew wanted to determine how individual wavelengths contribute to the net cloud effect. To do so, the team used an instrument that can measure brightness at four different wavelengths of color violet, green, o... | 0_0 |
The Hinckley Times have the story of the 40K turbine at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College, which has used more electricity than it has generated. | 4_4 |
High court could make gay marriage a 2012 issue: | 0_0 |
5 TO 10 INCHES OF NEW SNOW ABOVE 6000 FEET | 0_0 |
What will happen this winter if we keep going on with this trend? Ten degrees below normal with high precipitations? SNOW! A LOT OF SNOW! | 1_3 |
School Board Orders Global Warming Class to Include Conservative Views: | 0_0 |
Finally, one with an intriguing twist from former reporter Ross Gelbspan in another 2005 Nieman Foundation piece, describing the fossil fuel lobby: | 0_0 |
Ill let skyfall speak and then then link the interesting part. | 0_0 |
Algore said that the sea would rise 20?? and much of the world would be submerged. How inconvenient that sea levels in the South pacific have been, um, stable for over ten years . | 1_6 |
This scenario is too pessimistic. As countries develop, they become more efficient in energy use. But even if China tapered its emissions growth from 8.6% to zero over the same 27 years, it would still emit as much carbon in 2041 as the entire world does today. And that's not including emissions growth from India, Afri... | 0_0 |
10. Overall the Antarctic ice sheet has grown in size for the last 35 years, except in a few selective areas which are related to geologically induced geothermal heating. An overwhelming number of these selective glacial melting areas are associated with the West Antarctic Rift System. | 1_1 |
Last week, the attorneys general of 20 states met at a conference "dedicated to coming up with creative ways to enforce laws being flouted by the fossil fuel industry," in the words of the conference's host, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The environmental website Ecowatch called it "an unprecedented, mul... | 0_0 |
Crime against humanity. Not a moderate phrase, that. The usual penalty for crimes against humanity, as dictators from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein have found out to their cost, is execution. | 0_0 |
The alarmism of Sir David King, the British government's chief scientific adviser, has become even more hysterical in recent days. Not content with repeatedly calling global warming a bigger threat than terrorismeven after the Madrid attacks of March 11and publicly criticizing the U. S. administration, he has now gone,... | 5_2 |
subsidies going into the ethanol industry, critics say, the dream of | 0_0 |
From the thousands of email and other documents that comprise "Climategate," this is one of the most interesting: It's a "travesty" that "we can??t account for the lack of warming at the moment." (Emphasis added.) Further, "any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is suc... | 5_2 |
The only observed warming over the period is from 1978 to 1998, 20 years only, out of the 55 years. | 1_4 |
I looked for historical data for Gravesend, which has a tide gauge according to the London Port authority, but I couldnt find any actual data. So I had to rely on a tide prediction program. Given that Gravesend is well upstream from Sheerness. one would expect the tide to be lower, since it has an higher elevation diff... | 0_0 |
Elevated CO 2 enhanced rates of net photosynthesis by an average of 38% in both cultivars. In addition, it reduced stomatal conductances by an average of 30%. Consequently, instantaneous water-use efficiency increased by approximately 80% in both cultivars. Moreover, analyses of rubisco kinetics indicated elevated CO 2... | 3_3 |
In light of the findings of Pansch et al ., as well as those of the other researchers they cite, it would appear that juvenile barnacles of the species they studied are already well equipped to meet the challenges of a significantly warmed and acidified ocean. | 3_2 |
But according to Professor Ole Humlum, a leading glaciologist in Svalbard, "That glacier had already disappeared in the early 1920s as a result of a perfectly natural rise in temperature that had nothing to do with man-made global warming." The photos are misleading, he said. "They should have asked the specialist on S... | 0_0 |
Similar movement rates needed for animals and plants on land and in the oceans | 0_0 |
"Startlingly, nearly all of the usual arguments for alarm about the climate are instances of Aristotles dozen fallacies of relevance or of presumption, not the least of which is the consensus fallacy." | 5_2 |
Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of formidable skill and knowledge. With John Christy he presents the monthly real-world data from the microwave sounding unit satellites that provide the least inaccurate global temperature record we have. | 0_0 |
Germany urges users to ditch Internet Explorer | 0_0 |
Clearly the main accusations leveled at UEA after the Climategate scandal have not yet been addressed in any form by an independent inquiry. There is one more to come, from Sir Muir Russell?s team, which supposedly will investigate accusations of abuse of the peer-review process. If it approaches the inquiry with the s... | 5_2 |
Seitzs petition reminds us of the approach used by the tobacco industry over the decades when asked if tobacco is addictive and harmful, Lucier wrote last spring. | 0_0 |
7 Hugh Ellsaesser, "The Misuse of Science in Environmental Management," Heartland Policy Study No. 70 (December 8, 1995). | 0_0 |
This is a circular, incestuous process. Scientists make decisions as journal editors about what qualifies as peer-reviewed literature. They then cite the same papers they themselves played midwife to while serving as IPCC authors. | 5_2 |
Finally, and most troubling, are the suggestions that a tribe of incestuous climate scientists may have actively conspired to undermine the peer-review process. | 5_2 |
After summarising his preferred version of the science, the remainder of Minister Combets address was concerned with economic and political analysis. Obviously, as scientists, we have no expert comment to offer on those matters. Equally obviously, however, until there is a demonstrated scientific problem of dangerous g... | 0_0 |
2) Climate models are not based upon physics, they consist almost entirely of parameterizations/fudge factors , which is one of many reasons why they do not properly simulate the most fundamental aspects of climate including convection, clouds, gravity waves, atmospheric circulation, ocean oscillations, indirect solar ... | 5_1 |
Source: The Climate Policy Network Published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation | 0_0 |
Reactions to his receiving the prize can be found here and here. Even some who voted for Gore think it is ridiculous. Bjorn Lomborg comments on how odd it was to include Gore along with reputable scientists as a recipient of the prize. | 0_0 |
get ? and has to be well hidden. I?ve discussed this with the main funder (US | 0_0 |
Another thing that feeds my suspicion that a pagan mindset informs Global Warmingism are the steady and consistent calls for sacrifice ? even human sacrifice ? to ward off the threatened catastrophes. | 5_2 |
The planetary energy balance equation has its greatest utility in the context of comparative planetology. It is not needed to prove the existence of the greenhouse effect, although it is conceptually useful in explaining and understanding the greenhouse effect. | 0_0 |
Following an exhaustive review of more than fifty years of long term data on environmental conditions at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the paper??s authors arrived at a sobering conclusion: current climate change models don??t account for real life surprises tha... | 5_1 |
Inorganic fertilizers, for example, are often decried as dangerous and "unnatural." Part of the appeal of "organic" foods comes from their claim that no such fertilizers are used, implying that there is some danger to them. In fact, a 2012 Stanford University meta-analysis of existing studies found that organic foods c... | 0_0 |
4 so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. | 0_0 |
Likewise, the solar energy input on the Earths surface (and also some energy goes directly into the atmosphere) induces a temperature of up to +121 degrees C, and there is no way to trap or reflect this temperature to make itself hotter, as is claimed by the greenhouse effect. We checked to see if the solar energy was ... | 0_0 |
That research, which involved scientists from many disciplines, was based on experimentation. The scientists studied such questions as how atmospheric carbon dioxide interacts with plant life and the role of clouds in warming. | 0_0 |
Teams of international economists, scientists, inspectors and statisticians roaming China to gather information on carbon emissions and reduction initiatives would have been unprecedented. In promoting China, Beijing projects an image of order and competence to the world. In parts of its wealthier coastal cities, China... | 0_0 |
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne confirmed Wednesday that his previously announced financial initiatives to revitalise the UK North Sea oil and gas industry will go ahead, and also said he would remove the climate change levy in his first budget since the Conservatives won the UK general election in May. -... | 0_0 |
The Rest-of-the-World data does diverge from the scaled NINO3.4 data as expected in response to the volcanic eruptions. Ive highlighted those in green. The effects of the very strong 1982/83 El Nio were counteracted by the 1982 eruption of El Chichon and the impacts of the 1991/92 El Nio were overwhelmed by the 1991 er... | 0_0 |
As for natural gas, experts predict that lower prices as more is discovered via fracking, will increase industrial output 2.8% by 2015 and 3.9% by 2025. Policies that would allow the export of U.S. liquefied natural gas would generate between $15.6 billion and $73.6 billion to the Gross Domestic Product and help reduce... | 0_0 |
Because of these realities of the unknown there is an unspoken, but crucial, code among scientists: tolerate colleagues poking and picking at your sacred cows. So Garth should have been able to depend on the code at a meeting of key climate players in Australia, where he questioned the, now infamous, hockey stick, acco... | 0_0 |
Returning in India in the late 1970s, he became director of the Tata Energy Research Institute. | 0_0 |
In the face of some recent pushback for example, from the studies out of Spain and Denmark referenced in this space on numerous occasions the windmill welfare queens over at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) have been cranking up the snivel volume to eleven. | 0_0 |
IPCC reports are supposed to be the gold standard account of what is and is not known about global warming. The panel boasts that it uses only peer-reviewed scientific literature. But its claims about mountain ice turned out to be anecdotes from a climbing magazine, its claims on the Amazon's vulnerability to drought f... | 5_2 |
Returning to the TAO Project data, the warm water volume and depth-averaged temperature data shown in Figure 6 for the eastern equatorial Pacific also show lower values in 2014 than in 1997. This year, the eastern equatorial data both rose, a result of the Kelvin wave carrying warm water from the West Pacific Warm Pool... | 0_0 |
Delegates to the World Trade Organization pledge to renew contentious negotiations over farm subsidies. | 0_0 |
A couple of notes: The multi-model mean data are not expected to present the year-to-year variations in sea surface temperature associated with the El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Some of the models simulate ENSO; others dont. The models that do attempt to simulate ENSO do a poor job of it. (This is documented in n... | 5_1 |
IPCC mistakes, Climategate perversions, and now new major scientific findings all demand the same thingthat EPA reconsider its Endangerment Finding as the validity of its scientific underpinnings is badly in need of update and reappraisal. | 0_0 |
Aristocracies commonly prevent talented individuals from earning more wealth then their social betters, and today's progressive aristocracy runs true to form. Far from being the most talented individuals, its recruits are "people whose most prominent feature is their commitment to fit in," Codevilla writes. He continue... | 0_0 |
Murphy is anything but foolisha Rhodes scholar, he's probably got the finest mind in Canadian journalism. Nor is he wrong or naive about the planetary cooling trend. For example, Murphy is quite aware of the difference between weather and climate, writing in his column: | 0_0 |
We will delete comments which deny the absolutely overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, just as we would delete comments which questioned the reality of the Holocaust or the equal mental capacities and worth of human beings of different ethnic groups. Such "debates" are merely the morally indefensible tr... | 0_0 |
As he did in early September with the ozone regulations , President Obama has the power to tell Secretary Jackson to slow down, delay, or stop altogether. However, without intense public pressure, he is unlikely to do anything. The Utility MACT rule is just one of the expensive rules flowing down from the EPA that will... | 4_1 |
Shouldnt truth-in-advertising laws also apply to press releases for scientific studies? | 0_0 |
By Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, Aug 9, 2015 | 0_0 |
Theres an 80 per cent consensus indicating that increased fire activity into the future is highly likely, he told reporters in an online Australian Science Media Centre briefing. | 0_0 |
In the face of a changing climate many species must adapt or perish. Ecologists studying evolutionary responses to climate change forecast that cold-blooded tropical species are not as vulnerable to extinction as previously thought. The study, published in the British Ecological Society's Functional Ecology , considers... | 3_2 |
All of the believers in human caused ???global warming?? seem to see something ???unprecedented?? in the recent changes in temperature. But all recent changes are well within the normal range of variability, and recent small temperature excursions have been matched or exceeded many times in the past: the Medieval Warm ... | 2_1 |
The "trick" was of course, to truncate the divergent data, to replace it with the instrumental records for the same period and then to smooth the spliced series so that the join was no longer visible. The sentence is the Spiegel article seems to suggest that this "swap, splice and smooth" process could reasonably be de... | 5_2 |
The University of Colorado, at SPPIs request, has updated the sea-level data from the JASON satellite to the end of 2008. Though James Hansen of NASA says sea level will rise 246 feet, sea level has not risen since the beginning of 2006. Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century and has been rising at just 1 ft/... | 1_6 |
The Department of Energy (DOE), citingrising costs, pulled the plug onFutureGen,a $1.5 billion government-industrypartnership to build the world??s first commercial scale CCS power plant.In July 2009,however, FutureGen Alliance, Inc.announced it had reached an agreement with DOE to begin ???construction of the first co... | 4_4 |
First, a real attempt by a small group of scientists to subvert the peer-review process and suppress dissenting voices. This is at best massively unethical. | 5_2 |
Figure description: Trends in Estimated U.S. Air Pollutant Emissions, 1970-2006. Data Source: U.S. EPA, Air Quality and Emissions - Progress Continues in 2006. | 0_0 |
I was therefore interested to read about how critical climate scientists are of climate models, but this did make me return again to my observations about climate sensitivity. If climate scientists have so little confidence in computer models, how come the IPCC's estimates of climate sensitivity are based on models rat... | 5_1 |
In 2001 and 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (and here )estimated that the world would warm at a rate of 0.2 deg C per decade in the future due to greenhouse gas forcing. Since those predictions were made it has become clear that the world has not been warming at that rate. Some scientists retr... | 1_4 |
There are other deleterious manifestations of NRDC's capture of EPA, such as the phenomenon known as "sue and settle," which I explain in more detail in the aforementioned paper. | 0_0 |
While time and space constraints here do not permit a thorough review of the evidence Soon and Baliunas present for their findings, or the possible natural explanations for these temperature variations, a few salient points about their studyand criticisms of itare worth making. | 0_0 |
These inflated, error-prone, tinkered-with temperature recordings are one of several measurements cited by the U.N.??s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as evidence man-made global warming is a threat. But the Heartland study concluded, ???The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. And since the U.S. record is ... | 5_1 |
The examples of rigidly enforced conformity could fill several volumes, and no amount of criticism from outside the environmental citadel is likely to break though the walls. So, is there any chance that reform will come from within? | 0_0 |
Even if the Court upholds the Timing Rule, petitioners and their allies can extract some political capital from the case. A decision favorable to the EPA would confirm the urgency of ending "regulation without representation." As you know, many constitutionalists and free-marketers view the EPA's takeover of climate po... | 0_0 |
Fluorescents aren't all that bad. In fact, they've steadily gained market share in recent years. But from now on their popularity will rest not on consumer preferences, but on the force of law. If there's anything about fluorescents that involves the general absence of hope, it's that Congress has been able to mandate ... | 0_0 |
The IPCC AR4 report shows that over most of Australia precipitation increases and decreases are only shown in two-thirds of all the models, in other words, up to one third of the models might predict no change or the opposite result in exactly the same area. | 0_0 |
23 Different Health Reform Plans, and Not One Mentions Torts | 0_0 |
Solar activity explains all 6 well-known warming periods that have occurred during the Holocene, including the current warm period | 2_1 |
On September 11, 53 Senators (43 Republicans and 10 Democrats) signed a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), begging for a 60-day extension of the comment period for the "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units"also ... | 0_0 |
troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a | 0_0 |
While the eagles are found across the country, populations are larger in the West. California's three priority projects alone are within 10 miles of 21 golden eagle territories, the closest 1,000 feet away. | 0_0 |
China and India pose a great challenge to efforts to deal with the 85 percent of the task that lies beyond direct U.S. control. Their governments refuse to shoulder the costs of limiting GHG emissions. That decision is rational; their governments are largely free from domestic pressures to adopt controls. | 4_2 |
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