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10. Since CO2 is incapable of causing climatic warming by itself (CO2 makes up only 0.038% of the atmosphere and accounts for only a few percent of the greenhouse gas effect), is there evidence of concomitant increase in water vapor (which causes more than 90% of the greenhouse gas effect)? | 2_3 |
But this argument essentially says that Hillary Clinton should have won the presidency. The whole point of liberal progressivism is to rid the Democratic party of what it views as temporizing and lack of principle. Barack Obama won his nomination with that faction's support; Nancy Pelosi was elevated to the speakership... | 0_0 |
ER=EPR means that ER, an Einstein-Rosen bridge (a non-traversable wormhole), may always be interpreted as EPR (an acronym chosen for the quantum entanglement, after Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen, to make it sound funny), and vice versa. However, you could object that one can't define a Yes/No observable that would measure th... | 0_0 |
Whatever the reason, all of us should be grateful that Mr. Obama is supporting nuclear power, a less-expensive means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and one that already provides 20% of America 's electricity. | 0_0 |
The science was idiotic, but Arrhenius saw global warming as a good thing. Fast forward 100 years, and the New York Times ups Arrhenius stupidity by a huge margin. | 0_0 |
The blink comparator above shows the changes in UNISYS SST anomalies over the past week. Areas that are less than +/- 1C are marked as white. | 0_0 |
?The analysis revealed a number of trends in the reporting of renewable energy news,? the study found. ?First and foremost, the temperature of the media?s sentiment toward the renewables industry is cold. More than 51 per cent of the 138 articles analysed were either negative or very negative toward the industry.? | 0_0 |
The Vaclav Klaus lecture yesterday was excellent - a very unpolitician-like politician, I thought, quietly spoken and with a complete lack of histrionics. This made him a very persuasive speaker I thought, and I would recommend you read what he has to say if you haven't already. | 0_0 |
There are frsts several reasons for this, but one of them is that the EU's climate and energiml has received politicians to make very costly and destructive decisions on energy production. The focus on so-called frnyelsebara energikllor ssom wind and solar power is driving up prices, and both consumer and manufacturing... | 0_0 |
I sat in silence a moment, absorbing the complex simplicity of what she was asking. | 0_0 |
What if the Global Warming ?Pause? was ?Fast Forward? Instead? | 1_4 |
The four Italian researchers write that "the multi-model ensemble mean and most individual models exhibit a wet bias with respect to CRU and GPCC observations in both regions and for all seasons," which is about as all-encompassing a negative finding as one could imagine. Yet they also report that "the models differ gr... | 5_1 |
Fracking Chemicals Linked to Cancer, According to New Report | 0_0 |
b) In the close bloggvrlden has framfrts To Bomb The curve does not have zero as the baseline, but rather goes from a value of approx 100 ngontingtill 200 ngontingoch then decays exponentially to 100 that is something kind of steady state in the atmosphere from the C-14 through the relatively constant pverkan (p N-14) ... | 0_0 |
Youre probably asking yourself why you should spend $8.00 for a book written by an independent climate researcher. There arent many independent researchers investigating El Nio-Southern Oscillation or its long-term impacts on global surface temperatures. In fact, if you were to perform a Google image search of NINO3.4 ... | 0_0 |
"But when leaders neither criticized nor condemned the assertions, it gave them more legitimacy with voters." | 0_0 |
As a result, at higher CO2 concentrations, plants can better cope under conditions of drought, thereby vastly improving their productivity and growth as opposed to conditions experienced under lower CO2. | 3_3 |
British filmmaker Martin Durkin presents a groundbreaking new documentary on climate change titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." | 0_0 |
Giving up on growth also means surrendering to problems that could be solved. For instance, the "demographic problem" populations aging in the Westmay be solved with strong economic growth. A more productive society, where each employed person produces more, can afford to maintain a larger number of dependents. | 0_0 |
Relativism : Things arent worse; theyre just different. This would be the fall back position for all those with an allergy to any kind of duty. | 0_0 |
Whatever the reason for the divergence, it would seem to suggest that the practice of grafting the thermometer record onto a proxy temperature record as I believe was done in the case of the hockey stick is dubious to say the least. | 5_1 |
Does anyone else find it disturbing to see legislators and environmentalists working hand-in-hand like this? | 0_0 |
"Climate change" trumps property rights? A troubling precedent. | 0_0 |
And why not? Well, put simply, the equation shows that at the temperatures prevailing on Earth you need a very large increase in radiative flux to achieve a pathetically small increase in temperature. That's not the sort of thing the climate-extremists want known, so they carefully don't mention it, which is one reason... | 0_0 |
Full text (note this is an unsigned draft) here and reprinted below the fold. | 0_0 |
Global Warming and Tropical Cyclones of the Western North Pacific (5 Apr 2011) In spite of a remarkable warming, the authors of this study determined that the frequency of TC against the background of global warming has decreased with time ... Read More | 1_7 |
The Northern Ireland Assemblys Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee has been briefed by the Fermanagh Fracking Awareness Network on shale gas exploration. Further meetings with prospective developer Tamboran Resources are expected in the coming weeks. | 0_0 |
I'm not sure how much overturning the rule would help the economy, but it certainly would not hurt! It would avert regulatory burdens that hinder job creation and make U.S. firms less competitive. It would avoid at least some higher energy and production costs that regulated entities would pass on to consumers. | 0_0 |
Well, I could go on. And on and on. And on and on and on. Just about every one of the 115 slides presented by Abraham in his shoddy little piece of lavishly-funded venom contains serious, serial, material errors, exaggerations, or downright lies. All I have been able to do here is to give you some flavor of how unscien... | 0_0 |
Laurie Hawn, Conservative Candidate in Edmonton Centre, has filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Elections Canada after massive voter list irregularities were uncovered by his campaign. For some time, there have been rumors of election irregularities in Edmonton Centre. At an all candidates meeting with Elections... | 0_0 |
While the pivotal states of this strategy appear to be Pakistan, Iran, and (more recently) Saudi Arabia, the geopolitical situation of Iran puts it in a class by itself, as the most precious proxy in China's "indirect approach" against American primacy. It is therefore no surprise to learn that China is using Iran as a... | 0_0 |
Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight: | 0_0 |
SciAm: Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe | 0_0 |
Now, according to GISS the homogeneity adjustments are designed to adjust the urban stations like Anchorage so that they more closely match the rural stations like Matanuska. Imagine my surprise when I calculated the homogeneity adjustment to Matanuska, shown in Figure 3. | 0_0 |
Camille came days after the first Moon landing, and history was largely lost in the euphoria. | 0_0 |
The sun is almost completely blank, meteorologist Paul Dorian notes . Virtually no sunspots darken the blinding yellow orb. The main driver of all weather and climate has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. Not since February 1906 has there been a solar cycle w... | 2_1 |
Unfortunately, the anti-science of climate science will continue since it appears to be prerequisite of research funding - in simple words, scientists are forced to support the consensus green political agenda in order to survive and thrive. | 5_2 |
In 1974, the consensus agreed that global cooling was the new normal, and thatmuchmoney was needed to study it. 97% of scientists understood that global cooling causedextremeweather. | 1_2 |
A paper published today in Nature finds "Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 5501,500 years" and "we show, on the basis of a new tropical cyclone activity index (CAI), that the present low levels of storm activity on the mid west and northeast coasts of Australia are unprecedented ... | 1_7 |
150 Economists Back US Republicans in Debt Fight: | 0_0 |
In some American and European quarters, this globalization of NATO has led some observers to assert rather boldly that "NATO's next move must be to open its membership to any democratic state in the world that is willing and able to contribute to the fulfillment of NATO's new responsibilities."37 But to add four or fiv... | 0_0 |
Sir, Nullius in Verba, the motto of the Royal Society, is usually translated as on the word of no one. That is a fine motto, the message being that knowledge about the material universe should be based on appeals to experimental evidence rather than authority | 0_0 |
For well over a decade, the George C. Marshall Institute has been addressing the studies, the speculation on hazards, the many efforts to predict, and the theories supporting fear of human-made global climate change. | 0_0 |
Lewis finds that in recent years neither the global temperature nor ocean heat uptake have changed very much, while CO 2 concentrations have continued to rise. Therefore, the climate sensitivity must be lower. | 3_1 |
In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers--and even the questions themselves--contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are the... | 0_0 |
Babcock et al., 2010 (in another study published in PNAS on the same day as McCook et al.) also examined the ecological effects of marine protected areas. However, this report is much more widely based geographically and longer term . | 0_0 |
Those countries will receive far less foreign aid from increasingly cash-strapped Western nations. Little good will come of the Green Climate Fund cash the United Nation says industrialized nations should transfer to kleptocratic rulers in poor countries as reparations for supposedly causing climate change. | 4_1 |
Democrats in Washington have long fought to protect the unions and have been champing at the bit for greenhouse gas restrictions. The bailouts provide new leverage on both of these scores. | 0_0 |
Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street to everyone's peril: | 0_0 |
I recently came across a report written by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) which estimated the cost to taxpayers for ???federal policies to promote (aka subsidize) the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles (EVs).?? The piece also predicts the short-term benefits of the subsidies and includes the effects o... | 4_1 |
Last year I published an ebook (pdf) about the phenomena called El Nio and La Nia. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Nia ... | 2_1 |
Certainly, 2011 sticks out , but it is absolutely clear that the last decade is unexceptional. It is also clear that there were many more strong tornadoes in the 1970s, and to a lesser extent in the 1950s. | 0_0 |
As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, it is likely that these four weedy species common to European grasslands will not flourish and expand their territories as often claimed by some individuals who propagate the view that rising CO 2 levels will cause weeds to become increasingly more problematic and devas... | 0_0 |
Port Pirie News, sport and weather | The Recorder | 0_0 |
The satellite measures temperatures in the layer of atmosphere from sea level up to about 35,000 feet, which Christy says includes three-fourths of the total Earth atmosphere. These measurements, he says, are much more accurate than relying solely on ground measurements. | 5_1 |
This breakpoint may be related to loss of seasonal measurements in Antarctica, note that in this Cryosphere Today graph, most of the ice extent anomalies post 2005 are positive. | 1_1 |
Another trick question by activists trying to sell a consensus: If you are seriously ill and 99 doctors recommend a certain treatment, would you go with the one doctor who disagrees? | 0_0 |
/s/ Thomas M. Grubbs JSC, Chief, Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Branch, 31 years | 0_0 |
Is there any good news for the environment among Evangelicals? guest post by Ken Wilson | 0_0 |
Reviving cap and trade or implementing a similarly costly carbon tax is even less likely today than four years ago, as the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans, many of whom are unconvinced of the magnitude of climate change or of the efficacy of unilateral action. Similarly, interfering in the market ... | 0_0 |
The authors report that "low salinity during 1160-1290 AD showed the humid climate condition the Medieval Warm Period in this area, while the high salinity during 1410-1540 AD, 1610-1670 AD and 1770-1850 AD the three cold pulses of the Little Ice Age with a dry climate condition," where the evidence for the occurrence ... | 2_1 |
1. CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs Prospects for the Future, 2009. Science and Public Policy Institute http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/co2 coral warming.html | 0_0 |
Enlarging upon Talley's work, Boccaletti et al . develop the tools for calculating the sizes of the contributions each of the three levels of circulation (shallow, intermediate and deep) make to the total poleward heat transport of the global ocean. What was learned | 0_0 |
This post provides a simple overview of how the instrument temperature record confirms that El Nio and La Nia events, not manmade greenhouse gases, are the primary causes of the warming of global sea surface temperatures weve experienced over the past 30 years. It provides a slightly different and simpler perspective o... | 2_1 |
"Eco-Imperialism" = efforts by the developed world to impose its environmental priorities on the developing world. Developed countries seek to pressure the Third World into reduce greenhouse gas emissions "for the sake of the planet," regardless of its impact on the standard of living and prospects for economic growth ... | 0_0 |
Overall, this is a very good book on an exceedingly important topic. I give it 4.5 stars rather than 5 stars, since the writing was a bit uneven. The unruly teenager metaphor too often leads to explicit scolding, which to me sometimes goes too far in leading the reader. Some of the points, while broadly valid, didnt qu... | 0_0 |
After a period of rapid temperature increases during the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant slow-down since the turn of the century, leading some sceptics to claim that global warming has stopped. | 1_4 |
Perhaps the most Impressive feature, the Governor adds, is the absolute stillness that prevails not only through the absence of the familiar rustle of vegetation as the trade wind sweeps over it, but-also because of the absence of animal and even insect life. Birds, lizards, beetles, snakes, and, in fact, every form of... | 0_0 |
Roger Bate is a visiting fellow at AEI. David Montgomery is vice president of Charles River Associates. | 0_0 |
Duke Energy's new $3.3 billion coal gasification and "carbon dioxide capture" power plant will increase rates for its Indiana customers by some 15% the next two years. Hospitals, factories, shopping malls and school districts will have to pay an extra $150,000 a year in operating expenses for each million dollars in an... | 0_0 |
When compared with pre-1800s levels, do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant? | 0_0 |
A lot may be implied in those words. Obama refers to the creed the philosophy of rights and government articulated in the Declaration of Independence. He seems to suggest that its meaning for our times lies in the doctrine of creation care ,a green variant of progressive theology. But whereas the Declaration articulate... | 0_0 |
There is no question about the critical need for this service, she said. Climate change is real. Its happening now in our own backyards and around the globe, and its beginning to touch nearly every aspect of our lives. | 0_0 |
$10,000 to repair a minor but long scratch | 0_0 |
Image from Adam Smith, via Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.'s blog - click | 0_0 |
Colorado State University professor Roger Pielke Sr. has extensively documented how land use affects climate. Urban sprawl has led to the creation of heat islands which are several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas. Development in Florida has shifted in rain patterns. And deforestation has contributed to the ... | 0_0 |
Then we learned that in the much touted Antarctic ice core record temperature increased before CO 2 , contradicting the main assumption of the Warmists hypothesis. | 2_3 |
"President Obama's environmental policies have already been hard on energy developers and the economy, so if we elect a Democrat president and follow their party's environmental platform, Americans will have hugely expensive energy costs and no economic growth," Ebell said. | 0_0 |
Last summer's record-smashing drought in the US heartland was driven far more by natural variability in weather patterns than by global warming, according to a new analysis by a team of federal and university researchers. | 1_7 |
Such claims have been repeatedly made by GBRMPA and would, if used by a business, constitute violations of advertising and corporate law. To see it done repeatedly and included in a report in a leading scientific journal is a sad indictment of GBRMPA sponsored science as well as basic honesty. | 0_0 |
From the graph it appears that the projections exaggerate, substantially, the response of the earths temperature to CO2 which increased by about 11% from 1989 through 2011. Furthermore, when one examines the historical temperature record throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, the data strongly suggest a much lo... | 5_1 |
If youre new to this discussion, you might be thinking the energy imbalance is a great big number. Sorry to disappoint you. Compared to the amount of sunlight reaching the top of the atmosphere, the imbalance is tinyreally tiny. Trenberth et al. (2014) provide a rough estimate in their Abstract: | 0_0 |
Chairman Markey and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today on the important topic of the outcomes of the global warming talks in Bali last week. My name is Myron Ebell. I have served as director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) since 1999. C... | 0_0 |
David W. Kreutzer, "Renewable Fuel Standard, Ethanol Use, and Corn Prices," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2727, September 17, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/the-renewable-fuel-standard-ethanol-use-and-corn-prices. | 0_0 |
Anyone whos read a book on climate change which excludes most of our media isnt surprised two top Canadian climate scientists have concluded the oilsands are insignificant to global warming. | 4_5 |
Uh Oh Climategate just took the next step | 0_0 |
The IPCC has confirmed the authenticity of sample documents on these sticks. Today, I??m making this massive collection of data, (with reviewer comments), which I call the Secret Santa leak, public. Some of these documents are already online. Many others would only have been released by the IPCC years from now. Still o... | 5_2 |
Researchers have traditionally estimated the net cloud effect by measuring a broad spectrum of sunlight that makes it to the earth's surface, from ultraviolet to infrared. But clouds are white that's because the large water droplets within them scatter light of all colors almost equally in the visible spectrum, the par... | 0_0 |
The EPA has also finalized new federal air quality standards for hydraulically fractured wells, a critical extraction process necessary to help tap vast supplies of oil and natural gas. The EPA contends that the regulations are necessary to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants. Ho... | 0_0 |
This article, seemingly successfully humiliating all the Christians in the U.S., together with a couple of nearly identical papers about the 1994 collision of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet with Jupiter, convinced the folks at the Real Climate that he is the most qualified "climatologist" to describe the Third Santa Fe Con... | 0_0 |
This air is also very moist, something suggested by the 10 AM water vapor product from satellite data (see below). We have an atmospheric river today, with a narrow streamer of moisture extending from the tropics into our region. | 0_0 |
Sounds familiar? Sure, must have read it in the paper last week. Fact: the Arctic variations are notorious and the report above was issued by the US Weather Bureau in 1922. | 0_0 |
In order to assign guilt to humanity for our present warm period (that happens to be a wonderful time of warmth and plant growth), one must also explain the stadial / interstadial cycles, the Atlantic / Boreal cycles, and the Oscillations; then show they are not relevant to now. That simply can not be done since we don... | 2_1 |
The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only seven years of data and it isn't statistically significant. | 0_0 |
3. It is, of course, not only about ideology. The problem has its important scientific aspect but it should be stressed that the scientific dispute about the causes of recent climate changes continues. The attempt to proclaim a scientific consensus on this issue is a tragic mistake, because there is none. | 5_1 |
However, according to Tim Osborn, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, global warming is an unlikely culprit in this case. "If this had happened in winter, then it might be reasonable to talk about global warming," he said. "However, the models suggest that rainfall in summer is likely to remain the same, ... | 0_0 |
More generally, AAAS essentially is the lobbying arm of the U.S. science establishment; more money is its reason d'etre. Can Rush Holt possibly believe that this is consistent with research "objectivity"? | 0_0 |
Variable crustal thickness beneath Thwaites Glacier revealed from airborne gravimetry, possible implications for geothermal heat flux in West Antarctica | 2_1 |
Earlier I noted that satellite-era sea surface temperature data indicate the oceans warmed naturally, not via manmade greenhouse gases. NOAAs ocean heat content data also do not support the hypothesis of manmade global warming. Refer to my recent essay titled The Manmade Global Warming Challenge, which is linked to my ... | 2_1 |
Of course, it may not be of interest to the media, because it only uncovers unlawful dealings to hide an effort impacting our entire economy, the premise for that "fundamental transformation" of America, with the sleazy lobbying operation being the UN. We'll wait on OSTP's response and hope for the best from the Hill a... | 0_0 |
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