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Inhofe rightly noted that Congress deliberately did not regulate so-called greenhouse gases with the Clean Air Act, a bill that was designed to deal with air quality, not climate change. | 0_0 |
I'd guess that's slim to none. The Republicans may well move to the center, and embrace some kind of domestic greenhouse gas control scheme (which would be a bad idea for the same reasons discussed earlier), but I'd say there's little or no chance they'll ever join in the United Nations process. It's possible that more... | 0_0 |
Neutron Monitors. Ground-based neutron monitors detect variations in the approximately 500 Mev to 20 GeV portion of the primary cosmic ray spectrum. | 0_0 |
The Plan also supports more conventional generation technologies that can address climate change. According to the Plan, the Department of Energy will issue a draft solicitation that would make up to $8 billion in loan guarantee authority available for a wide array of advanced fossil energy and efficiency projects to s... | 0_0 |
1. Chris Landsea, "Why I Must Resign," Canada's Financial Post, January 20, 2005. | 0_0 |
Well, we already know that models cant simulate the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that cause global sea surface temperatures to warm over multidecadal periods. (See the quick overview that follows.) So, the difference between the modeled and observed ratios of land to sea surface temperature warming rates suggests... | 5_1 |
Svenmark's cosmic ray theory of climate is only one of many solar amplification mechanisms described in the peer-reviewed literature. | 2_1 |
George Bush would make Dick Cheney do it, and Dick'd have a heart attack in your front yard. Donald Rumsfeld would invade your lawn, and have 100,000 soldiers trying to cut it with one pair of nail clippers. Howard Dean would be screaming at the grass to shorten up. Hillary Clinton would marry the Toro dealer. You woul... | 0_0 |
SOURCE: Roy Spencer Global Warming Blog | 0_0 |
Gore's U-Turn Given Qualified Welcome | 0_0 |
But men evolve! And Simpson, from his front-row seat at the runway of male social trends, this summer declared that decades of encouraging men to take themselves as their own love-object has spawned a much hipper version of the original metrosexual. This newer new man has untangled himself from the (still enjoyable, su... | 0_0 |
to ramming home a lesson that we all seem very reluctant to learn: | 0_0 |
Dr. Ahlman urged the establishment of an international agency tostudy conditions on a global basis.Temperatures had risen 10 degreessince 1900. The navigable seasonalong Western Spitzbergen now last-ed eight months instead of three. | 0_0 |
To be sure, 2011 saw some very extreme events in the United States. But was it the "most extreme year for weather" since the 19th century? Not by a long shot, whether the metric is dollar damage or loss of life. | 1_7 |
In Obama's construct, America's allies are "free riders" on US power and treasure. Nowhere does he profess an understanding of leadership or of what the concept of leading an alliance might mean. Indeed, at one moment, he refers to presidential leadership as "theater in political communications." But this great man is ... | 0_0 |
And what about the people? Environmentalists may like to keep development out of the Third World and maintain it as some kind of giant wilderness refuge they can visit now and again, but that is hardly in the best interest of the citizens there. And as for the indigenous tribes, they may like to glamorize the lifestyle... | 0_0 |
It comes after officials for the panel were forced earlier this month to retract inaccurate claims in the IPCCs report about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. | 0_0 |
warming trend of 0.11C per century caused by urban warming. | 0_0 |
My browsing did go so far as to try to identify the underlying data and, for some reason, I contacted the author of the hockey stick study, Michael Mann, when I was unable to locate the data. I initially became engaged in the matter in a more serious way, when Mann said that he had "forgotten" where the data was and on... | 5_1 |
Tropical Cyclones Making Land-Fall Over Eastern Australia | 0_0 |
Morano specifically wants Gingrich to apologize for the Pelosi ad and for suggesting that lawmakers need to find a solution to global warming. | 0_0 |
Seitzs sin? He signed a cover letter for the Petition Project, an effort by scientists skeptical of the global-warming mania. The petition urges the U.S. to reject the climate treaty drafted in Japan in December. | 0_0 |
Regular SDA reader (and he adds - frequent Weblog Awards vote caster) Gary Valcour is requesting your assistance in the final round of the National Post's "Canada in six words or less" contest. It's an entry worthy of SDA support, I do believe! | 0_0 |
Abdussamatov also observed the most significant solar event in the 20th century was the extraordinarily high level and the prolonged (virtually over the entire century) increase in the energy radiated by the sun, resulting in the global warming that today climate alarmists believe is a man-made phenomenon. | 2_1 |
Image by Darren Wamboldt/Bergman Group. | 0_0 |
Last year, some 160 nations negotiated an agreement in Kyoto, Japan, that would require the United States to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, more than 30 percent below the levels otherwise projected for 2008- 2012. Since emission levels are closely l... | 0_0 |
Chicago exploring high speed rail system: | 0_0 |
As has been recently reported by this writer on this blogand at Anthony Watts on WUWT, the summers in both the contiguous US and Canada have not warmed but have actually cooled in US and the trend is quite flat in Canada over the last 10 years. Therefore warmer summers cannot be causing more negative AO and colder wint... | 1_4 |
The report did conclude, however, that, "We have not found, and based on current knowledge do not believe it is realistic to expect, that there are new reactor and fuel cycle technologies that simultaneously overcome the problems of cost, safety, waste, and proliferation." (Boston Globe, July 30). | 0_0 |
The United States signed Kyoto on November 12, 1998 and never rescinded that signature. There is nothing in the Constitution or law impeding the Senate from voting on the duly signed Kyoto today. One of the most important reasons they have not done so is the surrender of US sovereignty to foreign regulators and courts ... | 0_0 |
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz said the Greens leader should apologise for his insensitive comments. | 0_0 |
ased on what we see in the atmosphere, there is no evidence of substantial increases in methane emissions from the Arctic in the past 20 years. | 3_1 |
Peter Glasers full commentary on the D.C. Circuit Court decision follows. | 0_0 |
Simple as that, but people in the business of taking down institutions use any tool available. | 0_0 |
Their piece begins with a large color photo (not the one shown above) of a godfather-like appearing Marc Morano, who Die Zeit portrays as the communication and climate skepticism kingpin. The only thing missing from the photo is Richard Lindzen kissing his hand. | 0_0 |
And they are realists. Take, for example, the agreement of Palestinian negotiators to accept serious limits on their military capabilitiesno heavy arms or aircraft, merely a well-equipped militia to provide law and orderin exchange for Israel's forgoing the right of any of its soldiers or civilians, including settlers,... | 0_0 |
Ocean heat content (sorry, can't find the link but the shift from using thermometers in pails dipped from ships to the ARGO floats caused a one time step change in ocean heat content measurements) | 0_0 |
"Each of the successive periods after 1950 exhibits a downward step in per-capita real GDP growth, with steps downward marked at 1964, 1972, and 1987." | 0_0 |
It goes on at some great length about how Green House Gases increase the radiative cooling of the Stratosphere. They are throughly convinced that stratospheric cooling is the Evil Twin of tropospheric warming, showing that GHGs are critical to both (so by implication, cooling in the stratosphere endorses warming tropos... | 2_3 |
The Maunder Minimum was a period of intensely cold winters during the 1600?s. If Lockwood and his colleagues are right this is yet another indicator that points towards global cooling. Although the effects of the jet stream are predominantly felt in Europe the overall temperature drops caused by a cessation of activity... | 1_2 |
Once again - see Greening of the Earth in our Subject Index - we have more compelling evidence for the powerful aerial fertilization and transpiration reducing effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment and what they can do for both the managed and unmanaged biosphere in terms of enhancing biological prodctivity. | 3_3 |
But the real worry with climate research is that it is on the very edge of what is called postmodern science. This is a counterpart of the relativist world of postmodern art and design. It is a much more dangerous beast, whose results are valid only in the context of societys beliefs and where the very existence of sci... | 5_2 |
The EPA enjoyed substantial administrative policy and budget independence during its early years. This rapidly began to change when President Clinton came into office with an alleged pre-election deal to appoint an assistant administrator from the Sierra Club who carefully and methodically removed the policy office's i... | 0_0 |
But there are several critical elements that cast a long shadow on this scenario. First is the obvious question of just how much rainforest is actually being lost. Wilson and others put in the high estimates, and get high numbers of species loss, but as seen in the previous section, the numbers they use are at least 4 ... | 0_0 |
Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations and the media driven "consensus"... | 0_0 |
Climate has continually varied in the past, and the causes are not well understood ??? especially on the 100 year timescalerelevant for todays climate change | 2_1 |
Scientists announced this week that rapidly melting Arctic sea ice has beached tens of thousands of Walruses in Alaska. Apparently no one told them that the ice is closer to Alaska this year than it was in 1998. | 1_1 |
I suspect that those of you you that have been diligently attending the College of Climate Etc. are eminently qualified for such positions :) | 0_0 |
Decline in the extent of Arctic sea ice may have more to do with changes in circulation patterns of fresh water entering the Arctic Ocean from rivers in Russia than changes in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide according to a new article in Nature : | 2_1 |
Global Warming Research, Financial Regulation and Transportation Projects | 0_0 |
Years from now, historians will look back on this period as extraordinary. The great social fervor was over something that only seems like science. It?s of science but lacks the heart of science. It will take generations to pick through the detritus, but this period will ultimately tell us far more about ourselves than... | 0_0 |
The snowfall and thunderstorms came just before the Memorial Day holiday weekend. | 0_0 |
> >> climate and adaptation in SE Asia and the Caribbean (Neil Adger et al.) | 0_0 |
Biomass burning was calculated to cause 20 year global warming of ~0.4 K because CAE I (~32% of BB warming), CAE II, semidirect effects, AHFs (~7% of BB warming), AMFs, and tar balls from biomass burning together outweighed indirect effects, contrary to previous biomass burning studies that did not treat CAEs, AHFs, AM... | 0_0 |
Initially, rationally minded people could chalk it up to human confusion and misinformation. But after the recent fake news follies of 2016, weighed against the sheer scale of the past absurdities, only the most earnest boy scouts would not see much of it as pure disinformation instead. | 0_0 |
It is not that conservatives are ignorant. Knowledge of science makes little difference to people's beliefs about climate change, except that it makes them more certain about what they believe. Republicans with a good knowledge of science are more sceptical about global warming than less knowledgeable Republicans. | 0_0 |
Hansen now believes he has an answer: All the climate models, compared to the Argo data and a tracer study soon to be released by several NASA peers, exaggerate how efficiently the ocean mixes heat into its recesses . Their unanimity in this efficient mixing could be due to some shared ancestry in their code. Whatever ... | 5_1 |
The Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, is seeking the opinion of the chief scientific adviser about whether the government should be planning for more severe winters in future. ? BBC News, 19 December 2010 | 0_0 |
A reader explains - "This is an online...christmas? holiday? disturbing? card sent, presumably to commenters on Garth Turner's blog." The copy of the email I received indicates it's "From: "Garth Turner, MP Halton" " I'm holding out hope that this is a hoax... source Update . The good citizens of Halton can be proud. I... | 0_0 |
Crop production is predicted to decrease by up to 32 per cent by 2050, by which time there will be an extra 130 million mouths to feed. | 0_0 |
Figure 1 presents the temperature deviation data, and it can be seen that solely northwestern Alaska was above normal, while all the rest of Alaska was too cold when compared to the normal. It is interesting to note that a new minimum in the sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean was observed in September. The lack of sea ... | 1_1 |
Casual observers of the issue might recall 1978 as the approximate end of the 30-year cooling trend, or, if one prefers, the beginning of the subsequent 30 years' warming of the same, er, degree. No mention of that in the story. | 0_0 |
Last month Landsea, a climate change scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), resigned as a participant in the producing the report. Landsea had been a chapter author and reviewer for the IPCC's second assessment report in 1995 and the third in 2001, and he is a leading expert on ... | 5_2 |
Actual scientists in disciplines that have existed before this political movement became strong are usually neutral or skeptical about the climate panic. This includes people in the adjacent disciplines such as meteorology, geology ??? and physics itself. Physicists should be particularly immune towards this kind of br... | 5_2 |
Brian: OK. So, err, Senator, any plans for the future? | 0_0 |
The U.K.'s The Independent newspaper reproduced a graphic (from by the Climate Research Unit) that generally illustrated what the correction to the dataset may look like when it is finally applied. | 0_0 |
According to an article in the Washington Post, Maryland Governor Martin OMalleys long-sought offshore wind project is positioned to win approval from the state legislature within the upcoming weeks. Environmentalists have fought hard to encourage States and developers to build off-shore wind projects on the East Coast... | 4_4 |
On the other hand, Italian researchers have just finished surveying bird species in a high Piedmont valley where the temperature since the early 1990s has increased about 1 degree C. How did the birds adapt? They did nothing. Sixty-eight bird species were detected in both the 1992-94 survey and the 2003-05 survey. The ... | 3_2 |
of the private sector economy in order to avoid an environmental crisis that is | 0_0 |
As weve seen in numerous model-data comparisons, there are few similarities between modeled and observed surface temperatures and precipitation. See here , here , here , here , and here for examples. Weve compared satellite-era sea surface temperature to model outputs in past posts (examples here , here and here ), but... | 5_1 |
Last September, when the First Working Group (Physical Basis) released its fifth report, I was sort of optimistic (on TV and in a newsletter), suggesting that we may be nicely surprised by Spring 2014. The other parts of the IPCC may very well see the light before WG1 and they may conclude that there is no problem befo... | 0_0 |
Americans are working longer than ever to pay for the cost of government programs. | 0_0 |
Because of TOBS, all older temperatures should be adjusted upwards, not downwards. And because of UHI, all recent temperatures should be adjusted increasingly downwards. The actual adjustments are exactly the opposite of what they should be according to the USHCN documentation. | 5_1 |
The Environmental Protection Agency has been in a full assault on the U.S. economy since the 1980s when the global warming hoax was initiated. It has been assisted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. | 5_2 |
How does this square with temperature records from 2005-2007, by some measurements among the warmest years on record? When added up with the other four years since 2001, Swanson said the overall trend is flat, even though temperatures should have gone up by 0.2 degrees Centigrade (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) during that t... | 1_4 |
Obama, With Co-Star DiCaprio, Says Climate Change Skeptics Should "Pay Penalty' | 0_0 |
There are cheaper options, he says. Scientists with the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute in Gazipur have developed salt-tolerant rice to grow in flood-prone plains. In large coastal cities, new homes and public infrastructure could be built on artificially raised land. Near the coast, conserving and planting trees co... | 0_0 |
Surface temperature trend (HadCRUT4) = 0.3 F/decade | 0_0 |
A team led by researchers at Winrock International, a U.S. environmental nonprofit organization, has developed an estimate of gross carbon emissions from tropical deforestation for the early 2000s that is considerably lower than other recently published estimates. | 0_0 |
Animation 2 is a similar side-by-side comparison, but on the left are maps of sea surface temperature anomalies and on the right are the H300 maps. The sea surface temperature maps trail the others by a pentad or two, which is why they do not run through July 2. My apologies for the shift in the color scaling for the r... | 0_0 |
There is an interesting parallel with the German Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1941. No Hitler planned Operation Barbarossa (the attack on the Soviet Union) 's promised scientists that the coming winter would be mild. That was the message that Hitler wanted. Hitler anfll is why Soviet without frsett Wehrmacht with tillrc... | 0_0 |
In the Fits test, the dummys head struck the steering wheel through the air bag and showed a high risk of leg injuries. In the vehicle-to-vehicle test, the Fit was rated poor while the Accords structure held up well. | 0_0 |
Replacing NSR as it affects nonutility emitters with simpler Clean Air Act tools would be a superior option to NSR reform, but the administration may have feared a firestorm of criticism from Democrats and reporters had it attempted to cross that bridge. As it turns out, the administration's more modest reforms generat... | 0_0 |
The next Administration should also recognize that state and local governments are closer to most environmental issues than Washington and can more effectively promote environmental protection and economic growth. Federal ownership and federal regulation of public lands restrict economic activity and often have created... | 0_0 |
Gus Speth, author of Red Sky at Dawn, is currently dean at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and was chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality under President Jimmy Carter, where he was the driving force behind The Global 2000 Report to the President. Global 2000 had the misfortun... | 0_0 |
The key error stems from the risky practice of grandfathering existing sources of pollution while imposing high regulatory standards on new facilities and equipment. This differential enforcement creates perverse incentives that systematically increase pollution levels by postponing the orderly substitution of new (and... | 0_0 |
The idea there was that Dr. Frankenstein was doing something against nature, and that somehow the genetically engineered food crops are against nature. And as a biologist, Im just baffled by that line of argument because agriculture has been in that sense against nature for 10,000 years. That were finally able to do mo... | 0_0 |
His conclusion: "Because of the saturation effect in the energy absorption of CO2 molecules with increasing concentration and short residence time, the further increase in temperature could be therefore only at most a few tenths of a degree, if at all. However, the known fossil reserves would be exhausted by then." | 2_3 |
Facebook upgrades user privacy controls in response to customer concerns. | 0_0 |
Farmers are the next target for greens one sure way to ensure a lower population is a lot less food. That said, anything that ends the crooked racket of EU farm subsidies is likely to be a new benefit. US farmers arent all that impressed with new green tractors and prefer to keep the old ones running. | 0_0 |
China's one-party autocracy has acted decisively on two issues, which can be summed up in the phrases the population explosion and global warming. The media, university and corporate elites of not just America but most of the world have been of one mind about these two issues, and in my opinion are being proven wrong o... | 0_0 |
The 1997 version disappeared from the web archive around January 1, right after I first published the results. It now comes up a blank page. Nothing suspicious about that. Certain nothing suspicious about the past repeatedly getting colder, and the present repeatedly getting warmer. | 5_2 |
The absolute fact, we are told, is that once a piece of rainforest is gone, it is gone forever and that the intrusion of people is simply bad for this wondrous ecosystem. But once again, reality is quite a bit different from perception. | 0_0 |
eventual political payoff for this stance is well known, the speech Obama gave | 0_0 |
Lehr: As indicated in the film clip, carbon dioxide does absorb some of the heat radiated back into the atmosphere by the earth. Water vapor absorbs 95 percent of it, but CO2 absorbs some, but only that which is in a wave length of 15 microns, which is like 10 to the minus 17 exponent. This measurement is extremely fin... | 0_0 |
Guess what: These crowd-pleasing proclamations are contradictory. Anyone fearful of global warming should cheer higher gasoline prices, because much higher prices represent precisely the sort of powerful incentive needed to push consumers toward more fuel-efficient vehicles and to persuade the auto industry to produce ... | 0_0 |
FactCheck: Actually a more recent study (also published in Science magazine) says satellite measurements show that the ice sheet as a whole is in fact shrinking "significantly," and that most of the loss is taking place in the smaller West Antarctic ice sheet. | 0_0 |
The second part of this classic play is the attempt to discredit your opponent. In this case, Sen. Rockefeller would have us believe that ExxonMobil, as an interested party, cannot be a participant in an honest debate. | 0_0 |
A paper published today in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change finds that development in poor countries will be harmed by misguided efforts at emission reductions, even if industrialized countries covered all of the costs. According to the authors, "This opinion piece argues that even if the full incrementa... | 4_1 |
In that respect, the UN's main achievement since 1949 has been the transformation of a once-peripheral issue into a global Passion Play. Though the number of refugees throughout the world were millions after 1945 (and 15 million more with the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947), the UN decided to focus quasi-exclu... | 0_0 |
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