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With all of their fancy equipment, forecasters can??t predict an historic ice storm just a few hours in advance ?? and you want me to believe that the IPCC can predict what??s going to happen a hundred years from now? | 5_1 |
been shunted to Iraq, yet this raised the question of what could be achieved | 0_0 |
What are our options? I could race back to the car, buy a pair of boots and hike up again. Dylan could go, flag a car, call the police. But I don't like the idea of separating. I imagine trudging back in socks, my feet starting to freeze. I imagine panicking as frostbite sets in, and starting to run. It's "To Build a F... | 0_0 |
The numerical raw data are here, with some early stage statistics derived from the raw data. I make no claims about the number of significant figures carried, the distributions of data, etc. The purpose of this essay is to invite your comments. | 0_0 |
Toward the end of that overview, she boldly and vigorously supports free speech. Moreover, she rejects the idea that academic freedom is meant to be a shield behind which publicly-funded professors hide. | 0_0 |
???The reality of these key points is not just our opinion. The national academies of science of 32 nations, and every major scientific organization in the United States whose members include climate experts, have issued statements endorsing these points. The entire faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at ... | 5_1 |
The next question you may have: The El Nio released lots of warm water from below the surface of the western tropical Pacific, but how was that warm water created? | 0_0 |
World Bank Serves as PR Firm in Support of Global Warming Treaty | 0_0 |
Youre still the doctor and you still have to prescribe D or P (or nothing). No matter what you prescribe something will happen to the patient. What? And when? Perhaps the malady clears up, but how soon? Perhaps the illness is merely mitigated, but by how much? You not only have to figure out what treatment is better, b... | 0_0 |
NOAA ??? NASA Temperature Announcement: Perhaps few public statements exemplify the willingness of certain government agencies to mislead the public as clearly as this week??s joint announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). T... | 5_1 |
Are environmentalists and government bureaucrats using global warming to cover up their share of responsibility for the wildfires that have displaced more than 500,000 people and destroyed more than 1,300 homes? | 0_0 |
The same degree of judgment is required in practically every other area of medical practice. That doesnt mean that the tech enthusiasts wont continue to push for more computerization and may even succeed. But the quality of medical care will certainly be much the worse for it. | 0_0 |
Its reached the point where our national masthead felt the need to issue a whole feature article rebutting their critics ( Climate debate is no place for hotheads ) which includes quote after quote of The Australians pro man-made-global-warming editorials. But why under the Goddess of Free Press should any serious news... | 5_2 |
Two major uncertainties lie in the statistical development, analysis and interpretation of tree-ring data for paleoclimate studies. First, there are nonclimatic influences on tree-ring records, including tree biology, size, age and the effects of localized forest dynamics ?? . Perhaps of more concern is that tree ring ... | 5_1 |
Global-Warming Bill Contains Ethanol Subsidies, Which Cause Famine, Hunger, Food Riots, and Political Unrest | 4_1 |
As the International Energy Agency recently put it in a recent report , increasing access to modern forms of energy is crucial to unlocking faster economic and social development in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is awash with fossil fuels but not the capital to build plants to turn them into electricity. | 0_0 |
A new paper published in Climate of the Past reconstructs the climate of southeast Tibet over 224 years from 1781-2005 and finds, " The climate appears drier and more stable in the 20th century than previously." The paper contradicts claims of climate alarmists that global warming causes an increase of extreme weather ... | 1_7 |
Rarely does one see science get so harshly criticized. | 0_0 |
Link to report: Renewable Energy: Lobbys Report More Fog than Light, | 0_0 |
Little attention is given to the fact that oil production in the North Slope of Alaska has fallen from 2 million barrels per day in 1988 to 500,000 barrels per day in 2013. Alaska now ranks fourth as an oil-producing state. If oil flow through the Alaska Pipeline slows to 300,000 barrels per day, the oil may freeze and... | 0_0 |
Today I have talked a lot about Utility MACT. Let's be sure we understand what it means one more time. Utility MACT is a rule by the EPA to end coal in America and cause electricity rates to skyrocket. My resolution, SJR 37, will allow the elected members of the Senate to stop the Obama-EPA. It is as simple as that. | 0_0 |
Democratic Institutionstransparent and accountable governing institutions that promote economic growth | 0_0 |
In both cases, plants absorb CO 2 through stomata in their leaves and they need a very large amount of water to grow. A higher CO 2 concentration allows them to reduce the number of stomata and save water, if I simplify things a bit. So one may say that a higher CO 2 helps the plants to deal with the shortage of water. | 3_3 |
Oceanic Transport of Heat: Deep vs. Shallow Circulation | 0_0 |
What justification does the Appendix give for choosing the trending autoregressive model? None. In other words, the model used by the IPCC is just adopted by proclamation. Science is supposed to be based on evidence and logic. The failure of the IPCC to present any evidence or logic to support its choice of model is a ... | 5_2 |
Were it easier to understand, this collective lapse in judgment could have been safely consigned to a mental file containing other oddities and caprices of the social sciences, and then forgotten. Yet even today, at a 20-year remove, the assumption that the Soviet Union would continue in its current state, or at most t... | 0_0 |
Hewitt, K. 2005. The Karakoram anomaly? Glacier expansion and the 'elevation effect,' Karakoram Himalaya. Mountain Research and Development 25 : 332-340. | 0_0 |
The four Spanish researchers say that "elevated CO 2 caused cork oak seedlings to improve their performance in dry and high light environments to a greater extent than under well-irrigated and low-light conditions, thus ameliorating the effects of soil water stress and high light loads on growth ." Consequently, and be... | 3_3 |
Met Office 2008 Forecast: Trend of Mild Winters Continues | 0_0 |
Environmentalists and Democrats often cite a ?97 percent? consensus among climate scientists about global warming. But they never cite estimates that 95 percent of climate models predicting global temperature rises have been wrong. | 5_1 |
www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly time series/RSS Monthly | 0_0 |
The global average anomalyis currently well above average, but unless this positive anomaly continues for the coming months, the absence of a clearlong term trend since1998 remains (although the interannual variations are remarkably large). | 1_4 |
About eight percent of the contiguous U.S. was covered by snow at end of April, according to an analysis by the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center.Snow coverage during the month peaked at 30.2 percent on April 6, after a late-season winter storm hit the Midwest and Plains. | 1_3 |
Atmospheric pressure, gravity and temperatures Every planet with sufficient gravity to hold onto a substantial atmosphere shows a temperature gradient like the earth's, warmer as you approach the surface - and always far warmer than radiative physics allows. Every planet. Despite evidence now available to us, however, ... | 2_3 |
"According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation. | 0_0 |
Moreover, Republicans have won House majorities in eight of the last ten elections on platforms similar to that of their presidential candidates. The party faces challenges but not doom. | 0_0 |
Obviously there has been a lot of concern from climate change sceptics who brought this matter to the public eye. If you look at the wording of the emails, the fact is that Prof Jones talked of a trick to hide the decline. | 5_2 |
It is long past the time to have a real energy policy, one that works for America, not against it. | 0_0 |
The IPCC reached a climate sensitivity to CO2 of about 3C per doubling. More popular (at least in the media) catastrophic forecasts range from 5C on up to about any number you can imagine, way past any range one might consider reasonable. | 5_2 |
Now that scientists have confirmed that global warming has been entirely missing since 1998, possibly the the lamestream press will finally gain the courage to finally report actual weather and climate facts, such as reporting the global cooling trend since 2002. This would be a huge improvement versus their modern met... | 1_4 |
The core from Lake Elgygytgyn shows a regular change between warm and cold periods in the Arctic thanks to changes in the Earths orbit, fluctuating greenhouse gases and changing solar activity. However from the back and forth in temperatures and precipitation, some extreme events stand out: The scientists have compared... | 2_1 |
President Obamas Clean Power Plan: All cost, no benefit | 0_0 |
G F(x-y) = i \bra 0 T \ket 0. | 0_0 |
#4. The simple 5-year moving average curve during the very recent past indicates a declining period for 30-year changes, possibly signalling an extended cooling phase is upon us. | 1_2 |
Scottish Power has announced that it is going to convert two of its coal-fired power stations to burn wood - coppiced trees in other words. They aim to replace fully 5% of their coal requirement (that's their coal requirement, not the country's coal requirement, mind) with this "carbon neutral fuel". In order to do thi... | 4_4 |
Now on Arctic sea ice, allow me to use the same NOAA scientific method and declare that the Arctic has experienced the slowest July ice melt ever! (Well, at least sofar). | 1_1 |
Climate change science is in a period of negative discovery the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled. | 5_1 |
The two photos were published across the world with the statement, "The blame can be put squarely on human activity. Our addiction to fossil fuels releases millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and this is what is causing temperatures to rise and our future to melt before our eyes." | 0_0 |
So, when you hear the solar power proponents chirping about regulations that encourage investment in solar, incentives to help families, and mechanisms to increase deployment, remember they are taking our tax dollars and giving them to companies like Abengoa that get the funding because of connections. They win, while ... | 0_0 |
14. " highly risky use of atomic energy use." No, nuclear energy is not highly risky. | 0_0 |
The Wealth of Nations was published in March 1776, just a few months before the signing of the American Declaration of Independence in July of 1776. If the American Founding Fathers articulated in TheDeclaration of Independence the political case for individual freedom, Adam Smith presented the complementary argument f... | 0_0 |
The authors report that Stenchikov et al . (2006) analyzed seven models used in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that "included all the models that specifically represented volcanic eruptions," finding that the strength and spatial pattern of the surface tempera... | 5_1 |
Natural influences and anthropogenic influences have different strengths in the stratosphere relative to the surface | 0_0 |
This is a real concern. The presence of significant economic rents in the area will attract investment like flies to flypaper. For example, President Bush's new Advanced Energy Initiative offers $148 million for solar and $44 million for wind energy research in 2007. In most economic bubbles, the expectation of high pr... | 0_0 |
An often appearing name in the BBC news as the hottest place in the country is Gravesend but the true location of the Met Office thermometer is a mystery. By chance I followed up today and discovered a new snippet of information. | 0_0 |
Just a few years ago, LNG import terminals were being constructed across North America in response to the then dwindling domestic natural gas supply. Most of them are underused. Today, the public debate is no longer about how to squeeze out more domestic supplies to limit expensive oil and gas imports and cap domestic ... | 0_0 |
Credit: Ian Howat. It has come to an end, Murray said during a session at the meeting. "There seems to have been a synchronous switch-off " of the speed-up, she said. Based on the shape and appearance of the 14 largest outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland, outlet glacier flows have returned to the levels of 2000 near... | 1_1 |
When skeptics point out these blatant biases, however, alarmists claim that scientists by their very nature are immune from having their environmental activist affiliations, the source of their paychecks or their preexisting advocacy for global warming restrictions influence their research and scientific opinions. Skep... | 5_2 |
Given that the President last night announced that legislation for "a market-based cap" on greenhouse gas emissions is a priority for his administration, it should come as no surprise that there has been an explosion in climate lobbying on Capitol Hill. According to an article in today's Politico, | 0_0 |
Dr.Timothy F. Ball on Alex Jones show | 0_0 |
Environmental Protection Agency administrator from 2001 to 2003; governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001; chair of the Republican Leadership Council | 0_0 |
A close study of the Elsner paper does not appear to reveal any reference at all to tornadoes getting stronger. (The paper is here if anyone finds such a reference, let me know!) So where does he get this evidence from? | 0_0 |
Congratulations to BH regular Mike Haseler, who has been appointed UKIP's climate change spokesman for Scotland. The press release is as follows: | 0_0 |
Let me stress that there is a lot of uncertainty with this forecast and the models were not good last year. But this year's warm water is more extensive than last and the models are more in agreement. If the forecasts hold into mid-summer, our confidence in the strong El Nino prediction will be substantially enhanced. ... | 0_0 |
Germany has the most expensive electricity in Europe, with an average price of 26.8 euro cents (40c) a kilowatt hour. No wonder Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the rapid expansion of green energy programs is weakening Germany?s competitive advantage in the global economy. | 0_0 |
Until the last quarter of a millennium, mankind depended on living nature for all its food and clothing, most of its energy, and much of its material and medicines. Then mankind began to develop technologies to augment or displace living natures uncertain bounty. In a new study, author Indur Goklany shows how fossil fu... | 4_5 |
The SPM omits that better cultivars and improved irrigation increase crop yields . It shows the impact of sea level rise on the most vulnerable country, but does not mention the average. It emphasizes the impacts of increased heat stress but downplays reduced cold stress . It warns about poverty traps , violent conflic... | 5_2 |
If temperature can't be projected for a week, how is itpossible to project temperature to 2050 and beyond? | 5_1 |
In the green energy society, before coal and oil replaced our hay burning horses and bullocks, most of the food produced was consumed by the large farming families, their labourers and their draught animals. Any surplus went to service people like butchers, bakers, blacksmiths and saddlers. Cities were small and there ... | 0_0 |
Interannual shifts in plant productivity (green line) fluctuated in step with shifts in atmospheric carbon dioxide (red line) between 2000 through 2009. Credit: Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengt... | 0_0 |
Japan caused an uproar last week when it flatly said it will refuse to go along, as long as all major emitting countries have similar obligations. The United States was assigned a reduction target, but it rejected the treaty. Developing countries, including China India were excluded from Kyoto's strictures. | 0_0 |
In spite of its massive size, Obama's carbon tax won't begin to pay for all his spending increases, such as a budget that will generate $4.8 trillion in increased deficits, Obama's trillion-dollar toxic-asset program, and his $800 billion, economy-shrinking "stimulus" package, all of which contradict Obama's campaign p... | 0_0 |
This comes almost exactly 40 years after the government wrote a state of the climate report saying that global cooling was going to cause floods, famines, extreme weather, and wouldkill us all. | 1_2 |
First, 74% of all U.S. stations are adjusted, while only 37% of ROW stations are adjusted. This is a statistically significant difference by any measure. Is this because the ROW stations are, on average, located in more rural settings than in the US? Or is it because of a difference in methodology (or metadata)? While ... | 5_1 |
Although fracking has been used for 60 years, in combination with deep horizontal drilling it has sent U.S. oil and gas production sharply upward for the first time in decades, turned "imminent depletion" into another century of affordable petroleum, generated millions of jobs and billions of dollars in government reve... | 0_0 |
On forest floor, air is very still, humidity is almost always above 70%, and temperature is relatively constant and other than seedlings, herbs, and ferns, vegetation is sparse due to lack of light. Also, mostly free from decaying logs and dead leaves since high temps and humidity are good place for billions of microor... | 0_0 |
"In the long run, Congress should end subsidies, privatize and deregulate passenger rail. These actions are the only way to force Amtrak to abandon unnecessary routes that are not commercially viable, improve safety, and manage its resources effectivelyand honestly." | 0_0 |
However, we can reach the point where remaining pollutants pose few or no health risks and we have largely done so. Since 1970, America's cars have eliminated nearly 99% of pollutants that once came out of tailpipes, notes Air Quality in America co-author Joel Schwartz. Refiners have eliminated lead from gasoline and r... | 0_0 |
New Source Review: Report to the President (pdf) | 0_0 |
We have often discussed the observed patterns of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity and what may lie behind them, and we generally have concluded, based upon both our analysis of the data, along with a thorough review of the scientific literature, that identifying a statistically significant and robust human signal in ... | 1_7 |
National Economic Research Associates (NERA) used the Federal Government?s own data in finding that Obama?s proposed EPA regulations would cost America over 180,000 jobs per year between 2013 and 2020. | 4_1 |
Now, these and other projects appear unlikely to make the year-end deadline to potentially qualify for hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds. If extensions aren't granted in the lame duck session of Congress, the future of many of these plans could be in doubt. | 0_0 |
Eisenhower's warning dovetails well with one made some years earlier by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in his essay, "Can Capitalism Survive?" He warned that intellectual elites, driven by resentment of the market and their economic self-interest, would push for the expansion of the state and the increased re... | 0_0 |
Historical records indicate that the first recorded El Nio occurred in 1525 observed by Spanish explorers. Other studies suggest strong ancient El Nios ended Peruvian civilizations. The main point here is that strong El Nios are natural, and not increasing in relationship to global warming as contended by many climate ... | 1_7 |
Because, in the long run, the country class will not support a party as conflicted as today's Republicans, those Republican politicians who really want to represent it will either reform the party in an unmistakable manner, or start a new one as Whigs like Abraham Lincoln started the Republican Party in the 1850s. | 0_0 |
L. GORDON CROVITZ: "Complexity Is Bad For Your Health" | 0_0 |
Dr Whitehouse is a man who deserves to be listened to. He has consistently followed an approach of examining observations rather than projections of large scale computer models, which are too often cited as evidence. He looks dispassionately at the data, trying to establish what message it tells us, rather than using i... | 0_0 |
Similarly, to avoid making the PSD statute an absurdity, the EPA must construe ?air pollutant? in CAA 165(a)(4) to mean any NAAQS-regulated air pollutant. | 0_0 |
Farmers in developing countries are clear-cutting rain forests to make room for arable land to grow crops and meet global demand. According to many scientists, these land-use changes result in massive emissions of greenhouse gases. | 0_0 |
Or, some at the march were there for entirely unrelated reasons, such as this walking contradiction: | 0_0 |
develop tactical and strategic regional adaptation plans to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather events, climate change, and sea level rise. | 0_0 |
>> At 13:25 28/05/99 +0200, you wrote: | 0_0 |
It was easy to compare the year-to-year warmings and coolings in the East Pacific data and our ENSO index because neither has warmed in 30 years. Lets make the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature anomalies just as easy to compare to our ENSO index by removing the trend in the Rest-of-the-World data. Detrending a ... | 0_0 |
1) The various green levies will add 188 to household dual bills by 2020, about 13%. Of this, we are already paying 89/yr. | 4_1 |
An overriding feature of the debate is the constant attempt to intimidate policy makers, in some cases successfully, with the mantras of follow the science and the science is truly settled. The purpose is to create the impression that there is really no room for argument; this is not really a public policy issue; it is... | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, it seems that environmentalist groups owe more than their intellectual pedigree to the gas industry. Recent evidence suggests Chesapeake Energy has been giving millions of dollars to environmental nonprofits, including the American Lung Association and the Sierra Club, to propagate anti-coal disinformati... | 0_0 |
To explore the indirect ways that people use energy, we examined input-output tables from the Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2006, the latest year for which data are available. The core of the input-output accounts consists of two basic national accounting tables: a "Make" table and a "Use" table. The Make table shows... | 0_0 |
There are 2 main reasons why stronger tornadoes are usually associated with unseasonably cool conditions, and why there has been a decrease in strong tornadoes during a period of average warming: | 0_0 |
Leaked IPCC Draft: Climate Change Signals Expected To Be Relatively Small Over Coming 20-30 Years | 0_0 |
The days of Washington dragging its heels are over, Obama said. | 0_0 |
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