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2) Yeah, it wasnt so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about, used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a longer 10 year period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc. Speculation, but if I see this as a possibility then others might... | 1_4 |
Must See Video: "Global warming panic explained' "How can you disprove global warming? You can't, that's how you know it's true.' | 0_0 |
This is about free speech. What is happening to Matt and Janet is a warning to all of us. Speak against the Establishment and face targeted ruin. The DEC admit they didnt follow procedure, and have treated the Thompsons unfairly. Why wont they fix their mistake? | 0_0 |
Climate history: Basic science and politics under Thatcher | 0_0 |
In fact, we cannot even build wind and solar facilities without coal and petroleum to mine, smelt, manufacture and transport materials for turbines, panels and transmission lines. Analysts calculate that it takes 150 tons of coal and coal-equivalent to build, transport and install one onshore turbine, and 250 tons for ... | 4_4 |
The article mentions increased surface temperatures 5-7 degrees but doesnt mention the cold snap resulting in darn near freezing the Great Lakes over. It also mentions increases in swimmers itch, from duck feces. Is that a result of an increasing duck and goose population or climate change? | 1_3 |
A recent paper published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal examines precipitation in southern China from 1956-2000 and finds precipitation has becomeboth less extreme and less variable. Contrary to claims of climate alarmists, the paper adds to many others demonstrating that global warming decreases extreme weather ... | 1_7 |
Third, the federal government should impose a price on carbon that is fully rebated to taxpayers on a per capita basis. This would, in effect, shift the incidence of federal taxes away from income and labor and onto energy consumption and offset some of the potential regressivity of a carbon tax. For conservatives who ... | 0_0 |
The price of electricity. It has soared: largely to pay for gold-plating the grid after decades of underinvestment, and to meet state and federal renewable energy targets. But those price rises handed Abbott a powerful weapon against Julia Gillards great big new tax and besides, she had lied about it, hadnt she? | 4_1 |
One final noteand it's a positive thought that Republicans should take to heart. Political parties, like economies, are cyclic in nature. They rise and falland, if they're smart, learn to adapt to the changing times. Democrats found themselves in a similar valley in January 1989 after the spectacular failure that was t... | 0_0 |
Kill kill kill kill kill. Jim Fedako (who wrote this piece; send him email ) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH. | 0_0 |
Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in ... | 1_2 |
When you live in a Global Environmental Insane Asylum, you are not likely to hear or read the truth, but you can arrive at it using simple logic. We know instinctively that humans do not control the waves of our huge oceans, nor the vast tectonic plates beneath our feet, the eruptions of volcanoes, the jet stream, clou... | 0_0 |
$11,000 for a minor scrape on the rear panel, including a $155 charge to ensure battery remains charged during the repair | 0_0 |
Ken G. Glozer, "Time for the Sun to Set on the Tennessee Valley Authority," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2904, May 5, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/05/time-for-the-sun-to-set-on-the-tennessee-valley-authority. | 0_0 |
My thanks to Judith Curry for suggesting papers that helped me better understand this topic and to Willis Eschenbach for taking a look at a draft of this post. | 0_0 |
CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group founded in 1984, is dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. | 0_0 |
Fracking and the natural gas it produces have been heralded by many experts as reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, primarily because burning natural gas emits half as much carbon dioxide (CO2) per BtU of energy produced than burning coal. Some life-cycle estimates suggest burning natural gas emits 4... | 0_0 |
By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Aug 5, 2015 | 0_0 |
I won't send Glauber any condolences. After all, when I saw the headline for the first time, I thought that Glauber himself was missing which would arguably be more serious. | 0_0 |
However, EU environment ministers are alarmed at the prospective rollback. They are seeking to prevent the development of EU shale resources by trying to introduce EU-wide environmental barriers. | 0_0 |
Arguably the most important question is: what do the new ERF estimates in AR5 imply about TCR? Over the last century or more we have had a period of gradually increasing ERF, with some 80% of the decadal mean increase occurring fairly smoothly, volcanic eruptions apart, over the last ~70 years. We can therefore use the... | 0_0 |
The theory is that the Earth radiates out a low grade infrared which activates the CO2 molecules and they in turn radiate back to Earth thus warming or increasing the warmth of the lower atmosphere. | 0_0 |
Big engineering projects are often ineffective and sometimes do more harm than good; the approach being taken by the Dutch-Bangladesh consortium seems like a good one. | 0_0 |
What goes on at the IPCC is not peer review as that term is normally understood . . . To sum up, the IPCC is inordinately proud of its review process. It expects us to be impressed by how many people are involved and by how many comments it receives and addresses. But this process is fatally flawed. It is not independe... | 5_2 |
OBAMA SPOUTS BRAZEN LIES AND CRETINOUS PSEUDO-SCIENCE. WE CHALLENGE HIM AND HIS CRONIES TO FACT-BASED DEBATE ANYWHERE ANYTIME | 0_0 |
Bethesda, MDIf you are obese and hope to be a father, heres another reason to lose weight: your children and grandchildren may inherit your waistline or metabolic disorders. Thats because scientists have discovered in mice that obese fathers, even those who did not show any signs of diabetes, passed this negative trait... | 0_0 |
Lindzens hypothesis was that high altitude tropical cirrus results from remnant moisture detrained from towering cumulonimbus clouds (convection cell thunderstorms). Depending on a lot of complicated cloud microphysics, a warmer sea surface could produce more massive convection cells containing more moisture, which wou... | 3_1 |
Under early action proposals, companies that do not participate in early reductions would be able to choose among different compliance strategies in the event that Kyoto is ratified. They could either reduce emissions at the site or they could buy emission credits. If ERT retires the credits it receives for its service... | 0_0 |
The Assessment is woefully ignorant of humanity's ability to adapt and prosper in response to challenges. The quintessence of this is the truly dreadful chapter on human health and climate change. | 0_0 |
The total sea ice cover around Antarctica shows no significant change since reliable satellite monitoring began in the late 1970s, despite large but counteracting regional changes. | 1_1 |
"All too often, folks turn to the government to solve a problem, only to discover that the solution the regulations actually make it worse," Georgia continued. "No environmental good will come from any policy that destroys economic growth. It is far more rational to remove those regulatory barriers so that the US, and ... | 4_1 |
According to one popular just-so story being peddled by the anti-corporate Left, a small handful of media companies are currently buying up more and more outlets, reducing the range of opinions voiced in the major mediaeffectively blocking news and information unfavorable to, or contrary to the ideologies of, the media... | 0_0 |
So 2 days ago, a Java issue popped up: | 0_0 |
Engages existing circulation patterns (Hadley, Ferrel and Walker cells) and atmosphere ocean interactions (ENSO) | 0_0 |
For people who want more action on global warming, an inconvenient truth has arisen over the last decade: Annual average temperatures stayed relatively flat globally and dropped in the United States and Oregon despite mankinds growing release of greenhouse gases. | 1_4 |
The Parliamentary Inquiry was never going to produce much. A single day?s hearings about a complicated subject with no-one on the committee an expert and several members true believers in global warming alarmism is not a recipe for an in-depth investigation. The main skeptical witness was Lord Lawson of Blaby, who, for... | 5_2 |
James Hansen has made many forecasts over the last 30 years, with close to 0% success rate. Betting on the opposite of what he predicts, is almost a sure thing. Thirty years ago he forecast peak sea-ice loss (40%) in the Weddell Sea of Antarctica. | 5_2 |
And this from WattsUpWithThat.com: The cold this December and January has been noteworthy and newsworthy. We just posted that December 2009 was the Second Snowiest on Record in the Northern Hemisphere. Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years, and Korea had the largest snowfall ever recorded since record ke... | 1_3 |
No evidence exists that suggests that both bears and the conservation systems that regulate them will not adapt and respond to the new conditions. Polar bears have persisted through many similar climate cycles. | 3_2 |
From the time he came to Congress in 1979, Gingrich deployed a strategy to break the Democrats' stranglehold on power in the House by moving to polarize the parties, to use the ethics process to taint both the majority and the entire political process, and to get Americans so disgusted with politics and politicians tha... | 0_0 |
Heartlander: September-October 2010 (full-text PDF) | 0_0 |
14) So, What Could Cause Natural Cloud Changes? I think small, long-term changes in atmospheric and oceanic flow patterns can cause ~1% changes in how much sunlight is let in by clouds to warm the Earth. This is all that is required to cause global warming or cooling. Unfortunately, we do not have sufficiently accurate... | 2_1 |
Between 1760 and 1860, the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated a disturbing 30 miles. Atmospheric CO2 was 280 ppm at the time. | 2_1 |
Moreover, the teacher had failed to follow school policy, get permission to bring in outside propagandists, or present other perspectives. Unhappy parents raised a stink with Principal Kris Schuh, and the school district promised to distribute "pro-oil and gas literature" to secure some balance. | 0_0 |
In addition, the IPCC grossly exploits general public confusion over the whole issue of global temperatures. As I commented to them, their claim to have measured globally averaged temperatures near the surface is untrue. In order to do so, it would be necessary to distribute thermometers randomly over the entire surfac... | 5_1 |
on Monday, September 27th, 2010 at 3:11 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
As the CO 2 content of the air increases, belowground biomass production should increase in this particular type of annual grassland, either directly from CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis or indirectly from CO 2 -induced reductions in water use, which tend to increase soil moisture content. Hence, overall prod... | 3_3 |
slightest, just the monotonous obsession with it. Would Holman care to | 0_0 |
John, With regard to the matter of species migration you raised, I believe that this topic is entirely too speculative to discuss here. There are too many variables, too many special circumstances, too many uncertainties. Likewise, ocean heat content data is very poor, requiring numerous "adjustments." Vertical tempera... | 5_1 |
All the models assume that any temperature rise will be least at the poles and greatest at the tropics because the water vapour feedback is lower at the poles..They do not mention Antarctica where the ice is currently increasing. | 1_1 |
Figure 12 presents the TOA energy imbalance anomalies smoothed with 5-year filters. | 0_0 |
But what this data indicates is that if and when warming resumes, it will likely occur at a rate that is lower than projected by the IPCC. So, while the trends will turn up they are unlikely to reach the 2C/century of warming. | 0_0 |
Those increases reflect soaring demand for electricity, up by 36%, which in turn fostered a 47% increase in coal consumption. (Natural-gas use increased by 29% while oil use grew by 13%.) Carbon-dioxide emissions are growing because people around the world understand the essentiality of electricity to modernity. And fo... | 0_0 |
Climate change has been cited as one possibility, but scientist Gerald Meehl of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado told the New Scientist magazine there was no way to test the theory, as the resolution in climate change models was too low to replicate weather patterns such as blocking events. | 0_0 |
And by politicians I don't' mean just people who were elected or appointed. I mean people who sit on the New York Times editorial board and people who sit in the hot tubs of Hollywood, blowing bubbles about the environment and the state of world affairs. | 0_0 |
While they have been higher than before the past 15 years, they have not increased in line with fossil fuel emissions, just as they failed to do over the 1948-77 period. | 1_4 |
Dr. Richard Lindzen writes to me with news of this significant new paper saying It has taken almost 2 years to get this out. . Part of that problem appears to be hostile reviewers in earlier submissions to JGR, something weve seen recently with other skeptical papers, such as ODonnells rebuttal to Steig et al (Antarcti... | 5_2 |
The onslaught of regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will hurt consumers directly through higher energy costs and indirectly through higher prices for goods and services. Like cap and trade, the result is higher unemployment and less economic output. | 4_1 |
In the end, the exploitation of anti-government sentiment by Republican leaders, and the active efforts on their part to make all government look corrupt and illegitimate, reached its logical conclusion. The Republican political establishment looked no less corrupt, weak, and illegitimate than the Democratic one, and t... | 0_0 |
Government bureaucrat-scientists and their expert "global warming" climate models, based on levels of atmospheric CO2, continue to prove an astounding incompetence - billions of taxpayer monies wasted on failed computer simulations that can't predict global temperatures | 5_1 |
There's just one small problem. According to the prestigious International Energy Agency, world energy demand is expected to grow by 65 percent between 1995 and 2020, and fossil fuels are expected to meet 95 percent of that additional demand. During the initial 2008-2012 Kyoto compliance period and beyond, fossil energ... | 0_0 |
Tommaso Dorigo argues that this rumor above could actually be different from his rumor, and moreover he has rumored my rumor before - one month ago . | 0_0 |
Dr Pachauris father studied for a doctorate in educational psychology at the University of London while his mother, according to Dr Pachauris home page, educated and provided her son with the high standards that have enabled him to cope with his ever-increasing workload. | 0_0 |
All this and more is going onbecause of a vast, unaccountable,century-by-century change, in climate. In his study at Bedford College in London, Britains distinguished geographer, ProfessorGordon Manley, is worrying aboutit. | 0_0 |
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased "global governance" of the world's economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments. | 0_0 |
As the Romans used to say falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus, which means false in one thing, false in everything. Do we know that everything is false? Absolutely not ... but given egregious oddities like this one, we have absolutely no reason to believe that they are true either. | 0_0 |
The idea is to beef up the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which critics say lacks muscle for dealing with the world's worsening environmental crisis. | 0_0 |
on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 7:12 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The new EPA rule will impose large new costs for little benefit. In 2013 methane emissions counted for about 9% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Of that 9% about 3% are subject to the new rule, which would cut them in half. A Cato Institute study notes that even if the U.S. ceased all carbon emissions now and forever,... | 0_0 |
Before my most recent visit to the region last June, my own instincts would have mirrored those of my colleagues in the media. I covered Israel for ABC News in 198486 and had returned to the area on writing assignments three times between 2002 and 2007. Like many other journalists, I had a sense of hopelessness produce... | 0_0 |
Here are three more things that won't happen in 2015. | 0_0 |
Gillett et al. (2013) : This study uses temperature observations over 18512010 and a detection-and-attribution regression method to scale AOGCM TCR values. The individual CMIP5 model regression-based observationally-constrained TCRs shown in a figure in the Gillett et al. (2013) study imply a best (median ) estimate fo... | 0_0 |
Theres at least one big potential problem with that theory. Although atmospheric CO2 levels have risen, global temperatures have been flat for going on the past 17 years. | 1_4 |
Kate Sinding, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said propane fracking to extract natural gas did not exist at the time of the 1992 statement, which refers only to propane being pumped into underground storage. | 0_0 |
Agreement signed at Washington September 18, 2008; entered into force September 18, 2008. With annex. | 0_0 |
As the CO 2 content of the air increases, fast-growing native annual species, such as the five studied in this paper, will likely respond positively by increasing their photosynthetic rates and total biomass, regardless of any concomitant rise in air temperature. | 3_3 |
Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources: | 0_0 |
What a surprise! Numberwatch , the site listing a total of more than 480 things caused by global warming, doesnt have this new entry: | 0_0 |
Free-market watchers might be surprised to find social-welfare and high-tax states at the top of the Prosperity Index. This indeed raises more questions than it answers. | 0_0 |
"The UK is not willing to take the steps that liberal environmental groups are demanding because otherwise British jobs will be lost and the economy will suffer," says Iain Murray, senior fellow in international policy at CEI and a native Brit. | 0_0 |
So the federal government's assessment of the state of our environment contains no information about an issue on which it spends $4.5 billion annuallyand which we have, for more than a decade, considered a "common concern of humankind," as the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change put it. | 0_0 |
Edwards said there is little more that can be done to prepare for such a rare weather event. | 0_0 |
Tom Crowley, a key member of Mann's global warming hockey team, showed crass disregard for the lying and hiding: "I am not convinced that the "truth' is always worth reaching, if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships." It's more important to keep the career back-scratching team happy. | 5_2 |
New Evidence Our Record Warm March was Not from Global Warming | 0_0 |
But doesn't that mean a future administration could unilaterally pull out of the Paris agreement? A Republican administration could pull out of the agreement by undoing Obama's regulatory agenda, but that could be complicated in the courts. | 0_0 |
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites, the UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Wiltshire, England. | 0_0 |
Still, there appears to be no groundswell of Israeli public opinion against the two-state solution. The implications of an Israeli state seeking to control an Arab population several times its size is not lost on Palestinian observers. For example, Jarbawi, the minister of planning, asks, "Do I have to advise the Israe... | 0_0 |
My main criticism of the article is that the BoM relies on Melbourne CBD rain data to back up their regional conclusions regarding ???climate change?? and drought, while the rainfall history is in fact affected by the growing urban heat island. | 5_1 |
Environmentalists Defend Property Values Against Global Warming "Art' | 0_0 |
So, depending on wind direction that day, combined with the low tide, the station may have picked up some heated air from the mud flats. Unfortunately the station does not record wind data. Given the nearby stations (such as London City ) show a shift of wind direction to northerly after about 5PM local time on that da... | 0_0 |
Put it this way. Climate forecasts, of the type relied upon by the IPCCand over governmental entities, stink. They are no good. They have beenpromising ever increasing temperatures for decades, but the observationshave been more or less steady. This must meanit is inescapable that something is very badly wrong with the... | 5_1 |
The idea of pursuing Kyoto II by means of an executive agreement or a domestic emissions trading scheme by means of the budget reconciliation process has stirred up significant resistance among members of Congress who still take seriously the separation of powers and the prerogatives of the legislative branch. (Jimmy C... | 0_0 |
Overall the SPPI report makes for a fascinating (although quite technical) read. I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into the nitty-gitty details of how marine organisms from corals, to phytoplankton, to fish respond to changes in the oceans chemistry as a result from atmospheric CO2 enrichment. By the end, after... | 3_2 |
Given the Medicaid squeeze on the state budget, Pataki's successor, Eliot Spitzer, tried to turn the tables on 1199 after he took office in 2007. Unlike Pataki, Spitzer rejected the concept of Medicaid as a union jobs program. At a breakfast meeting attended by hospital and labor leaders, Spitzer delivered a hard-hitti... | 0_0 |
In fact, the spike in temperatures caused by the Great el Nio of 1998 is almost entirely offset in the linear-trend calculation by two factors: the not dissimilar spike of the 2010 el Nio, and the sheer length of the Great Pause itself. | 1_4 |
To avoid any ambiguity, in the Introduction to Elsners paper, he equates tornado intensity with wind speed. | 0_0 |
I rate a paragraph in Moranos article and report, which he fortunately accompanied with the disclaimer Note: Curry is not included in the count of dissenting scientists in this report. | 0_0 |
What do you think? Dare we hope for that fund allocation is made regardless of whether the researcher ifrga stdjer or ifrgastter IPCC's message? | 0_0 |
emissions scenarios prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes | 0_0 |
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