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Al Gore's Whine: What Really Happened on the Mall | 0_0 |
Obama's global warming legislation would also drive jobs overseas, since it would impose a costly cap-and-trade carbon rationing scheme on American industry, while leaving foreign plants operated by multinational corporations unregulated. That's one reason why many big companies with plants overseas are lobbying for th... | 4_1 |
But these inconvenient truths are irrelevant to climate campaigners, who are using dangerous manmade climate change as the best pretext ever devised to control energy use and economies. They simply hypothesize, model and assert that every observed weather and climate phenomenon is due to human CO2 emissions. Warmer or ... | 5_2 |
The Export-Import Bank holds an advisory meeting to prepare its next report to Congress. | 0_0 |
According to Bruce Berman of Save the Harbor Save the Bay, "Everything you see there was on the streets when the snows hit. None of it went into Boston Harbor, which is a terrific thing." The city of Boston also has a twitter contest on how long the snow will remain before it all melts. Enter using the hashtag #BosMelt... | 0_0 |
The taxpayer-funded, billion-dollar black holes known as 'climate models' have been unable to predict squat when it comes to future climate conditions - as with global temperatures, the same holds true for the newer IPCC models predicting Antarctic sea ice extent.....it's the 'same old, same old' | 5_1 |
Polls of voters consistently show that Americans place global warming (sometimes framed more generally as environmental concerns) at or near the bottom of their list of priorities. Most of the top concerns are almost always directly related to the economy. | 0_0 |
The US is currently in the midst of the longest streak ever recorded without an intense hurricane landfall | 1_7 |
In fact, no one has yet documented a single case of illness from GM foods, even as about 3,000 people a year in the U.S. die of food-borne illnesses, many of them contracted from "organic" foods. All the dangers of GMO that worry critics are speculations of what might happen in the distant future. Mixing genes from dif... | 0_0 |
Some of President Obama's personal habits also rub working-class voters the wrong way. The president's urbane articulateness and emphasis on rational argumentation attracts many highly educated voters, but is offputting to the working class. His preternatural calm and seeming lack of emotion also work against him. Thes... | 0_0 |
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Gas Prices Climbing Toward $5 Per Gallon: | 0_0 |
I look at the models, and I do use them as input to the forecast with many other factors. However they are not Gods, and to make the excuse we need a bigger computer when in reality all they do is arrive at a solution right or wrong faster, and have nothing factored in about past weather events, or natural cycles, or s... | 5_1 |
This is not a peer review issue this is a propaganda issue. And right now the good guys have conceded the field. | 0_0 |
I have drought data are from NCDC, and the temperature record is Hansens own. His hypothesis is a complete and abject failure. | 0_0 |
Governor Schwarzenegger justifies his call for a near elimination of California's GHG emissions with scary stories about future human-wrought climate disasters. But the only "evidence" for these upcoming disasters is the output of computer models that don't jibe with reality. This is not evidence, but nonsense. | 0_0 |
She has also immediately declared that she will be fighting against global warming. | 0_0 |
The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Challenging the basis of Kyoto Protocol As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming. Russian critics of the Kyoto Protocol, ... | 2_3 |
Now we calculate the global warming that will be forestalled by reducing carbon emissions by this amount. For this we need another equation: 88% of 5.35 times the natural logarithm of . And the answer? A little over 0.0001 Celsius, or around one five-thousandth of a Fahrenheit degree. And only that much if the IPCCs ex... | 4_2 |
Agreement 9, another bilateral with Mexico, authorizes Peace Corps "volunteers" to "respond to the needs of both Parties in the area of the environment and natural resources." | 0_0 |
Here's your daily dose of links and quotations on the latest in science, business, and tech. | 0_0 |
The July eagle memo obtained by the AP directed BLM staff not to approve any more permits until companies submit protection plans. Federal officials said they do not know when permitting will resume nor whether the stimulus deadline will be met. | 0_0 |
I could walk too fast among the metropolitan commuting classes to notice gaggles of women swooning over the newly-liberated male thigh, or am frightfully unobservant, but it doesn't seem that Chubbies and their like have become the Pied Piper of females. A small surface-scratching of the Chubbies culture, in particular... | 0_0 |
?Each chapter of the report has two co-ordinating lead authors,? explains, ?and then nine other contributing authors. Sven Teske was one of the nine, as was someone from a Jamaican oil company. These people are not dummies. They are distinguished scientists.? | 0_0 |
A Lone Dissident Uncovers the Terrifying Truth Behind Government-Issued Carbon Offsets | 0_0 |
Bolt, J. and J. L. van Zanden (2013). The First Update of the Maddison Project; Re-Estimating Growth Before 1820. Maddison Project Working Paper 4, http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm (accessed February 26, 2014). | 0_0 |
New Paper "Decision Scaling: Linking Bottom-Up Vulnerability Analysis With Climate Projections In The Water Sector" By Brown Et Al 2012 | 0_0 |
Whats happened here is that the cart was put before the horse. The UN didnt wait around for climate science to mature. Theyd already decided that human-generated emissions were dangerous. Back in 1992, 154 nations endorsed this premature conclusion when they became signatories to the UNFCCC. . . The fourth edition of t... | 5_2 |
Last year, I encountered a stark example of this. One of my colleagues was thinking about publishing a paper that challenges the IPCC interpretation of the previous pause during the 1940s to 1970s. My colleague sent a .ppt presentation on this topic to three colleagues, each of whom is a very respected senior scientist... | 5_2 |
The Earth is not a greenhouse with a glass roof. The amount of heat in the atmosphere is totally dependent on the amount of heat the Sun produces. In its current cycle, it is producing less. | 2_1 |
The report is driven by the misguided ideology of Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earths climate. According to Climatism, Earths climate has been unchanging for thousands of years, but carbon dioxide emissions from human society are now causing dangerous global warming. Further, any ... | 5_2 |
was a couple of years later that the programs we remember the New Deal for were | 0_0 |
Similarly the Climategate emails, the FOIA-2011 releases, the EPA-Gate fake email accounts. Folks are conspiring all over the place these days, openly at times. Sure, it is called collaboration, coordination, or just working together or getting grants / giving grants. Its all just legal forms of conspiracy. That is why... | 0_0 |
As the CO 2 content of the air increases, most plants will likely experience concomitant decreases in oxidative stresses, which trigger the production of reactive compounds that can cause cellular damage. Thus, plants should require reduced concentrations of the enzymes that detoxify these harmful substances; and this ... | 3_3 |
At the end, you measure some observables such as the spin \(s z\) or anything else and the state vector tells you the probabilities of individual outcomes. Once you get the outcome, like \(s z=-1/2\), you have the same information you may call it classical information that you have in classical physics. There is no dif... | 0_0 |
In one of the just-released documents (#000033, dated October 2, 2015), Shukla insists that he and his comrades never asked for a RICO investigation of "contrarian scientists or bloggers" for "expressing their views about climate change." Well, of course they didn'topenly. Only a fool would do that. | 0_0 |
Dr. MICHAEL MANN (University of Massachusetts): The unusual warmth of the 20th century, and the 1990s in particular, which have been an especially warm decade, are unprecedented over a much longer period of time then we previously have been able to establish. | 0_0 |
In fact, even those brave dissidents who have not yet had their meetings broken up by groups of savage goons are more and more openly saying that the nastiness that was National Socialism/Fascism/Communism now stalks the world again, in a new and more terrible form. This time, it is global. This time, leaders of once-d... | 0_0 |
I therefore assume a capacity increase of 25%. | 0_0 |
By Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Project Syndicate, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
"The state's new attorney general said Tuesday he plans to continue the kind of enforcement that has closed three of four privately operated gambling halls that had reopened in recent weeks, but he wouldn't say if the last remaining hall at Greenetrack in west Alabama is his next target." | 0_0 |
Sixty-two percent of vulnerable households made the assertion that chronic weather-related threats such as floods and prolonged drought are a greater concern than one-off disasters like hurricanes. | 0_0 |
What happens if a modification to one unit in a manufacturing complex allows output and therefore emissions to increase in other, un-modified, units of the same complex? If two modifications are made at the same time or sequentially, should the emission impacts of the two projects be combined (aggregated) to determine ... | 0_0 |
In 2006, I met a lady in Mulago Hospital whose son was dying from malaria. The Congress of Racial Equality people I was with asked her if she knew that DDT could help prevent malaria, by keeping diseased mosquitoes from coming into their homes. She said, yes, "but DDT is bad for the environment," so she opposed using i... | 0_0 |
Clearly Schellnhuber wants us to believe that he had never peddled the easy to calculate 2035 Himalayan ice melt scenario. Journalist Karsten Schwanke, who had done the interview withSchellnhuber on ZDF television backin 2009, wrote in an e-mail on February 1, 2010 (see 8:00 min mark): | 0_0 |
A spokesman for the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: Its going to be a long job. The wood chippings are able to generate heat so can make it tricky to deal with which is why we are using 6,000 litres a minute to tackle it. | 0_0 |
2. If anything is done in the short term, developed countries are likely to bear virtually all the costs. Climate change is generally not a high priority for developing countries. Putting food on the table isnot to mention the annual toll of 2 million children who die of diarrheal diseases from poor sanitation. | 0_0 |
Authoritative studies by social scientists have shown that good weather is helpful to Democratic candidates. One well-known study by Gomez et al. 2005 (link here ) entitled The Republicans Should Pray for Rain: Weather, Turnout, and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections found that the estimated number of | 0_0 |
The two Polish researchers report that the frequency of deep cyclones in Poland, both overall and in each of a number of specific track groups, "failed to change significantly" over the 110-year period of their study (see the figure below). In the most important of these groups, which was composed of "more than half of... | 1_7 |
A recent report detailed how Californias Riverside County has become the epicenter of the states renewable power movement, producing more solar power than anywhere else in the United States. But consider one of the impacts on the local economy. A 500-megawatt natural gas plant in the county pays nearly $6 million in pr... | 4_1 |
Over the full record (1979-2010) the real world has only warmed about two-thirds as much as models indicate that it should have. If this continues to the end of the century, the IPCC?s 21st century warming range of 1.1 C to 6.4 C becomes about 0.75 C to 4.25 C ?with a central value of 2.5 C. But what?s worse is that a ... | 5_1 |
The problem is that until the surfacestations.org project came along, they never actually looked at the measurement environment of the stations, nor did they even bother to tell the volunteer operators of those stations that they were special, so that they would perform an extra measure of due diligence in data gatheri... | 5_1 |
Computer codes Here the committee lurches into willful ignorance. They unquestioningly accept Jones' argument that the details of his adjustments were published in journal articles and continue: "We note that the research passed the peer review process of some highly reputable journals." The implication seems to be tha... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Global Warming & International Environmental Policy Myron Ebell on the need for reform of the Endangered Species Act. | 0_0 |
The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly im... | 0_0 |
Northwestern University's Monica Prasad argues that Demark's experience with carbon taxes is instructive: "Unless steps are taken to lock the tax revenue away from policymakers and invest in substitutes, a carbon tax could lead to more revenue rather than to less pollution. If we want to reduce carbon emissions, then w... | 0_0 |
The attitude of some Democrats, including some in the leadership, is eerily reminiscent of the Republican leaders in 2005 and 2006voters don't really care about the internal dynamics of Congress, and even if they are unhappy, our fundraising advantages and strong candidate recruitment will keep us in charge. That is a ... | 0_0 |
But the main problem is the longstanding one: if you take a small subpopulation of hockeystick shaped bristlecones and mix them with a population of proxies that are indistinguishable from white noise/red noise and apply typical multiproxy recipes, you will get back a HS-shaped reconstruction. | 5_1 |
Micropropagation , to quote the authors, "is an established technique for rapid propagation of uniform plants," but they note that leaves formed during in vitro growth "may never attain photosynthetic competence." Consequently, to maintain a positive carbon balance over the in vitro to ex vitr o transition, they say "s... | 0_0 |
They also ignore and undermine the recent International Energy Agency forecast that, by 2020, the USA could be producing more oil than Saudi Arabia , currently the largest oil producer on the globe, thanks to advances in seismic, fracking, deepwater drilling and other technologies. A March 2012 Citi Global Problems and... | 4_5 |
However it is not a stretch to think that the conclusions of this Harvard study were preordained. Delving into the literature shows that a different group of folks could set out to examine the same thing even selecting from among the same pool of climate, economic, and epidemiological studies and arrive at a largely di... | 5_2 |
Today the New York Times is hysterical about retreat of the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska. | 5_2 |
At this point, we might ask, since virtually everything else in the NCA report is based on these computer models, doesnt that invalidate all that follows? It certainly invalidates their dire predictions, but the report also contains assertions that are based on claims other than from models. So lets look at some of tho... | 5_1 |
Editorial: The growing case for the Keystone XL pipeline | 0_0 |
David Bier, immigration analyst: The president should focus less on trying to dump billions of federal dollars into high tech jobs and more on trying to allow immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators create them for free. | 0_0 |
So, based on the most up to date numbers from the IPCC AR5 report itself and using the most robust methodology on the data with the best signal-to-noise ratio, one arrives at an observationally based best estimate for TCR of 1.30C, or 1.36C based on the unadjusted AR5 aerosol forcing estimate. | 0_0 |
Do you think we will hear anything about this major turn around from the people screaming about the hot July, even though it may wind up being unprecedented | 0_0 |
This is the definition of a sensitivity experiment! In other words, policymakers are being given global and regionalmulti-decadal model results by the IPCCwhich are not predictions but sensitivity model runs since a variety of important first order climate forcings and feedbacks are not included in the models! . Real C... | 5_1 |
The "greenhouse effect" is then determined by dT=h*g/Cp = 33K on Earth 3. The surface temperature is thus 255+33 = 288K Thus, the entire greenhouse effect, troposphere temperature profile, and surface temperature have all been derived from the 1st and 2nd laws and ideal gas law, completely independent of "radiative for... | 2_3 |
From page SPM-9: There is very high confidence that models reproduce the more rapid warming in the second half of the 20th century, and the cooling immediately following large volcanic eruptions. Models do not generally reproduce the observed reduction in surface warming trend over the last 1015 years. There is medium ... | 5_1 |
In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn't noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved. HT: Ben Cunningham | 0_0 |
All best estimates given are medians (50% probability points for continuous distributions), unless otherwise stated. | 0_0 |
No Social Security information, drivers license numbers, addresses, birth dates or other identifying information is transmitted from the smart meter. Instead, an encrypted code is used to identify the house and its usage, Smith said. | 0_0 |
"We have learned from our experience with Medicaid that more spending does not mean better care," he said. But by the time of his final State of the State address in 2006, Pataki had abandoned talk of fiscal discipline, defining better care as expanded enrollment in government health-insurance programs. Pataki's revers... | 0_0 |
But when leaders neither criticized nor condemned the assertions, it gave them more legitimacy with voters. We do not believe that party leaders themselves believed Obama was a secret Muslim, that Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin was a terrorist, or that a Black Panther uprising was ever imminent. But those claims we... | 0_0 |
In many countries, people could possess access to capital by virtue of the real estate they already occupy, but they are unable to prove ownership of the land due to inadequate land-titling systems or because of traditional forms of property ownership where everything belongs to the village chief. As Hernando de Soto e... | 0_0 |
What can possibly be wrong with those guidelines unless the regulators have a lot to hide? | 0_0 |
The hilarious South Park episode, "Smug Alert" (Season 10), frames the issue with which the Audi ad execs seem to be wrestling. | 0_0 |
It seems to me that it is at least plausible that Immelt is simply switching rent-seeking strategies. If, all of a sudden, the prospects for cap-and-trade and other Obama green priorities dramatically improved, I'd bet Immelt would still be touting his love of renewable energy subsidies and the like. | 0_0 |
Okay, the good professor doesnt say that exactly (though he gets there, eventually, by extension). Heres whathe actuallysaid: | 0_0 |
As a public body, NCDC have a duty to be accountable for all of their work, as well as to be totally transparent. They have been aware of this issue now since January, and it is surely time for them to step up to the plate and either explain how their adjustments are correct, or withdraw them. Furthermore, they must fu... | 5_1 |
For decades, the IPCC has presented climate science as an established field. Now we??re being asked to have ???more patience to let the science to unfold??? Climate scientists have had two decades to program their models, and they still cannot simulate naturally occurring, naturally fueled, coupled ocean-atmosphere pro... | 5_1 |
"In comparison to water in all of its forms, the effect of the carbon dioxide increase over the last century on the temperature of the earth is about as significant as a few farts in a hurricane!" | 2_3 |
In the end, the most rational thing for the country to do on GHGs is for Congress to enact legislation that gets EPA out of the GHG regulatory business entirely. Even proponents of GHG regulation dont believe that the CAA is suited to that purpose. We must therefore keep pushing on the legislative front, since new legi... | 0_0 |
Parameterization of instantaneous global horizontal irradiance at the surface. Part II: Cloudy-sky component | 0_0 |
I like that whim of the researcher part. It is true, but the reality is that the degree days calculated with a 41 degree reference point will not be dramatically different from the 40 point and most crops will not care which one you use (as long as you have calibrated that crop on that scale) while repeatedly doing mat... | 0_0 |
The IPCCs 2-4.5 deg claimed sensitivity range is shown as the shaded area. | 0_0 |
Thus proving to be rude, ignorant, and unable to reason. He is at least up front about it. It was honest of him to CC Bob Carter in at the start. Though it appears to be more unfounded arrogance than an attempt to communicate. | 0_0 |
President Obama claims the global climate pact negotiated in Paris last Decemberthe so-called Paris Agreementis an "executive agreement," not a treaty, hence is not subject to Senate review. How convenient. Obama knows that if he were to submit the Paris Agreement to the Senate for a debate and vote on ratification, it... | 0_0 |
There is no support for this type of environmental and energy legislation in the U.S. Congress among most Republicans, and little among Democrats. | 0_0 |
I can understand why certain officials need to fly private planes just for security, but the average Congressman from Wyoming? Why won't commercial work. Andy why, if they must have a private plane, wouldn't a more reasonably sized Falcon 50 or Citation work just as well? | 0_0 |
Does GISP2 ??? or any other paleoclimate record ??? show us that climate change isn??t happening? No, of course not. It shows us that climate change always happens. The 20th-century warming was hardly unprecedented, and doesn??t call for unusual explanations. | 2_1 |
Energy Density . As scholars from Vaclav Smil to Robert Bryce have documented, the best energies are the ones that can produce the most power at the least resource cost. The future belongs to the efficientand oil, gas, and coal are the prime-time consumer-driven choices. | 4_5 |
Although many of our commentators are talented p to follow climate blogs around the world, and often come with interesting lnkar, s they must of course have something to comment from being able to give his lnk. Sjlv I always want gna through a few of those for me Blogs of when it is time to write a inlgg, but I got clo... | 0_0 |
Frankly neither the pH range nor the time frame for OA seems to be outside natural variation. There is also ample evidence that more significant physiological changes can happen in shorter time frames. At the end of the day, before we get all hot and bothered by OA we need to sit back and acknowledge that the species i... | 3_2 |
Business suits are out, for both sexes. And with the right to open a window, office employees no longer have to carry sweaters or space heaters to work in the summer. After a long absence, ceiling fans, window fans and desk fans (and, for that matter, paperweights) take back the American office. | 0_0 |
The panel found Schatten, as co-author with Hwang on a 2005 article in the journal Science, did not exercise a sufficiently critical perspective as a scientist. By not properly checking the veracity of the paper, Schatten committed a serious failure that facilitated the publication of the work, the panel said.... | 0_0 |
For most months and for the entire growing season, the first half of the century was much drier that the second half of the century (Figure 3). Bonsal et al. note that The time series of total growing season precipitation indicates 3 distinct periods: above normal precipitation from 190516, anomalously low amounts duri... | 1_7 |
Better still, we can look at the graph of GISS anomalies for the two poles between 1938 and 1980. | 0_0 |
Figure 2.1.1: Leading mode of annual rainfall variability over Australia, from observations (Bureau of Meteorology), the CSIRO Mk3.6 and Mk3.5 climate models, and three leading international models: HadGEM1 (United Kingdom), GFDL CM2.1 (USA) and MIROC 3.2, medium resolution (Japan). | 0_0 |
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