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Before the DOE report came out, Dow, guided by its public relations team, had characterized itself as "in the middle" on this issue. All last year, the company had repeatedly declared itself a "proponent of fair and free trade," stating that it "opposes policies that arbitrarily limit reasonable experts of natural gas ... | 0_0 |
As the BBC put it (May 13), "The blockbuster climate disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow contains badly flawed science and ignores the laws of physics, leading UK scientists believe." It seems somewhat odd for the chief scientific adviser to praise the something that "ignores the laws of physics" for its political qu... | 0_0 |
CEI: What's the idea behind the Club for Growth? | 0_0 |
Inhofe Honored For Protecting U.S. Taxpayers from Devastating Climate Tax | 0_0 |
Donald Trump said, "A lot of people in my industry think asbestos is the greatest fireproofing material ever made." Fire testing organizations such as the National Fire Protection Association have consistently given asbestos materials a zero flame-spread rating, which means it has no ability to spread flame under any c... | 0_0 |
Heres an example of his calculations: At Cougar Peak, a 1925 record documented the lowest elevation that pikas had inhabited was 2416 meters . Beevers more recent surveys detected pikas living even lower on Cougar Peak at 2073 meters in the late 1990s, and at 2222 metes in followup surveys in 2003. Despite the fact tha... | 0_0 |
So we're also exposed to the standard anti-quantum propaganda that entanglement is a borderline crime and it shouldn't happen unless and the rest of the sentence is their "contribution" you have some powerful constructors inside kettles to heat water and to beat other constructors, or whatever. It's just batit crazy. | 0_0 |
9. "Surely no failure of American intelligence," wrote Angelo Codevilla, a former senior staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee during the 1970s, "compares in seriousness to this NIE's misprision of the size, scope, and purpose of Soviet strategic forces between 1965 and 1979." From Angelo Codevilla, Informi... | 0_0 |
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and multiculturalism means more pavilions at Jihadifest; | 0_0 |
UPDATE: Robert Manne replies at #29. See my reply to that. Jo | 0_0 |
"DOE is to be congratulated for abiding by the law despite strong pressure from special interests to set up a credit program, which would allow them to profit from higher energy costs at the expense of consumers. Awarding Kyoto credits would shift the political balance of power in favor of policies like the McCain-Lieb... | 0_0 |
Off the coast of the southern island of Japan, we have a 6.6 quake. Some news shows are reporting this as a 6.9 but Ill go with USGS. | 0_0 |
Flashback 2008: "Why Winter No Longer Exists' "Winter has gone for ever Climate change has wiped out the season of traditionally long, hard frosts' | 0_0 |
Its also instructive to witness the hostility that Svensmark receives from The Cause. And they accuse the sceptics of being anti-science? | 0_0 |
Well at least the models were right about the sea ice loss in the Northern Hemisphere. Too bad for the modelers that our planet also has a Southern Hemsiphere. | 5_1 |
Less has gone to those at the bottom. Those in the middle have seen their health insurance canceled by Obamacare and sit waiting for healthcare.gov to function. | 0_0 |
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Will Hutton, a stockbroker turned left-wing talking head, reviews the climate debate in the aftermath of the Rio conference. It's mostly fairly ill-informed: | 0_0 |
Did you know? nder the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the federal government spends $188 million it doesnt have, $130 million of which is borrowed from itself. A little more on the utterly ignored number one threat to the Canadian economy. | 0_0 |
So heres the Harvard blather about food production creating net bad effects: | 0_0 |
Lewis and Curry arrive at their lower equilibrium climate sensitivity estimate by using updated compilations of the earths observed temperature change, oceanic heat uptake, and the magnitude of human emissions, some of which should cause warming (e.g., greenhouse gases), while the others should cool (e.g., sulfate aero... | 3_1 |
But no matter how cold it gets, global-warming adherents insist its all part and parcel of what they believe to be abnormal and soon-to-be-catastrophic warming of the planets surface due to mans reckless introduction of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. | 5_2 |
And don't forget the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age, and the five frigid epochs that buried North America, Europe and Asia under glaciers a mile thick. Or the 4,000-year-old trees that recently emerged as modern glaciers melted back proving that a forest grew in the now icy Alps just four millennia ago. | 2_1 |
Over the last 30 years, the warming rate has been remarkably constantabout 0.17 degrees Celsius per decade. And for 25 years before that, the world was actually cooling! | 1_4 |
We've been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from | 0_0 |
Green energy also uses more land and materials than conventional fossil fuels, which the authors note makes it questionable whether wind and solar are really "green" at all. For instance, Moore and White point out an average wind farm uses 460 metric tons of steel and 870 metric tons of concrete per megawatt produced, ... | 4_4 |
The logic of this announcement is crazy the US government is already spending billions of taxpayer dollars propping up the struggling car manufacturers in the US, and yet in the name of climate change, Obama kicks them again hard while theyre down | 0_0 |
The one-sided reporting and blind faith in climate change has infected politicians who are incapable of balancing the federal budget. So why put faith in them or the meteorologists who track with them that they can do anything other than talk about the weather? | 0_0 |
In another email exhange, Mr. Mann wrote to Mr. Jones: "This was the danger of always criticizing the skeptics for not publishing in the "peer-reviewed literature.' Obviously, they found a solution to thattake over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering "Climate Research' as a legit... | 5_2 |
The failure of the models to simulate the polar amplified warming should come as no surprise to regular visitors. We showed in the post here last year that the models do not show the polar-amplified warming in the Arctic during the recent warming period, or the polar-amplified cooling in the Arctic during the cooling p... | 5_1 |
The question of post-accord security for Israelis dominates every discussion of a deal with the Palestinians. The Obama-Bush transition does not appear to have produced any significant glitches in the critical area of permanent security arrangements. First outlined by Condoleezza Rice and later fleshed out by retired G... | 0_0 |
The above graph shows how drastically the IPCC was compelled to reduce its near-term warming projections between the spaghetti-graph shown and the sharply downward-revised prediction zone between the two green arrows. The red arrows show where the medium-term predictions were in 1990. The observed trend, in black, is t... | 5_1 |
?The scale and scope of the World Bank Group?s support to our country clients on climate change issues has grown rapidly, as has our engagement in the international dialogue,? said Mr. Zoellick. ?Given the importance of this issue, we decided we needed a high-level ?point person? on climate change. Andrew brings a deep... | 0_0 |
Leading climate scientist: "democratic process isn't working' | 0_0 |
What Congress, and Everybody Else, Should Know About Genetically Modified Crops | 0_0 |
It is important to understand why measures to attempt to mitigate CO2 emissions are always going to be unaffordable. First, as the California example demonstrates, regional mitigation measures do not noticeably change the global CO2 concentration. Therefore manmade radiative forcing is scarcely altered. | 4_4 |
In the updated edition of the Limits to Growth, the authors seem to climb down from the certainty of the original report, complaining that the media misunderstood or misinterpreted their findings. More than once in the new edition, the authors insist that "we are not predicting that a particular future will take place.... | 0_0 |
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) contradicted their claim that the 20th century was the warmest ever. | 2_1 |
I first posted this five-part video series in November, 2008 because I felt that Svensmark was truly on to something very important in climate research. As the debate over Svensmarks research intensified, I posted it again in July, 2009 for the same reason. Recently, Svensmarks research was validated in the CERN experi... | 2_1 |
Solar activity is going into a decline as well. We dont yet know if this decline will be to a Dalton Minimum-like level or a Maunder Minimum level. The model projection into the future does not contain ENSO or volcanic data as that data cannot be predicted. But it will get cooler for the next thirty years. The AMO will... | 1_2 |
after having to ask a second time. This gorgeous little juxtaposition of tales comes from a new | 0_0 |
Experts like Katherine Hayhoe have been hysterically warning about drought in the southwest, based on their mindless superstitions about CO2. Over the past two years, the southwest and Rocky Mountain states have been much wetter than normal. | 5_2 |
Bear in mind that under established legal interpretation ,EPA is forbidden to take compliance costs and economic impacts into account when settingNAAQS. In short,applying the NAAQS program toCO 2 could turn the CAA into the equivalent of an economic suicide pact. | 0_0 |
The sun is causing the cooling thats going on. The sun reached a peak of activity around 2000 and has been declining ever since, said Ball, who noted that the cooling trend will continue for years to come. | 1_2 |
And 2012? Their forecast of 0.48C was well above the actual temperature of 0.40C (based on HADCRUT3 , which was in operation when they made their prediction). | 5_1 |
There are theories see e.g. the Milankovitch cycle but they have no quantitative predictive value and the actual causal mechanism is far from clear. So we do not know what the temperature outside should be, with and/or without CO 2. We do know historically that the Little Ice Age that ended around 200 years ago was tie... | 2_1 |
"House Republicans moved today to prevent controversial Net neutrality regulations from taking effect, a move that is likely to invite an eventual confrontation with President Obama. " | 0_0 |
seasonal-mean temperature and rainfall. Estimates of associated changes in | 0_0 |
The issue of drought post 2000 ??? often greatly exaggerated and distorted ??? usually linked with arm-waving ???climate change?? doomsterism ??? misleading publicity on rainfall ??? all have been skilfully brought into play by the proponents of expensive water. | 5_2 |
"The one that brought the hot temperatures to the US lasted over a week, while the current one affecting Pakistan and Russia has been persisting for already around eight days and could last for a few more days." | 0_0 |
The EPA statement is grossly misleading. There has been no warming in Alaska since 1978, and a sharp decrease in temperatures over the last five years. | 1_4 |
If this network of division of labor exists and operates within a system of natural liberty, each man will soon find that it is in his own self-interest to apply his own activities in ways that serve and improve the conditions of his fellow human beings as the surest means of attaining his own desired goals and ends. | 0_0 |
The lesson for climate change is obvious: Innovation is the key to moving from dirtier fuels to cleaner ones. Some environmentalists despair that this means there's nothing governments can do on climate. But the truth is that the federal government helped create the fracking revolution. Forty years of Department of Ene... | 0_0 |
But the Global Warmingists seem more intent on making others sacrifice than in making big, painful changes in their own lives (yes, Al Gore, I?m talking to you). | 0_0 |
Nominations close on Sunday evening. To nominate click here, fill in at least three different URLs. But you can nominate any blog for several categories as long as they suit the category. | 0_0 |
Dr. Ryan Maue??s ACE plot also shows a low year. He adds: ???The agency should have stopped when they were ahead and not mentioned global warming during a historically quiet Typhoon season. Their explanation must have been lost in the translation because almost everyone has noticed that there has been a rapidly develop... | 1_7 |
Nevertheless, skepticism about manmade climate disasters is gradually gaining ground. | 0_0 |
The global warming legislation backed by President Obama would 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. Companies with plants overseas are lobbying for the global warmi... | 4_1 |
A dozen states have already sued EPA over its Clean Power Plan, which is opposed by experts on both sides of the aisle and even noted liberal constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe. Other states should join the suit, demand a full accounting of regulatory costs, and simply refuse to implement the plan. | 0_0 |
Personally I dont think God pays any interest in the sexual mores of a person as long as there is love behind them (with consent, adulthood, etc etc). | 0_0 |
There could be no question as to the climax of the conference. Even the president of Heartland Institute, Joseph Bast, concluded as much, when he decided to present the wrap-up of the conference before Lord Christopher Monckton had spoken at the final lunch gathering on Tuesday, May 18. Lord Monckton is chief policy ad... | 0_0 |
See this amazing film on May 2, and find out for yourself. To learn where it's showing near you, and to buy tickets, visit www.ClimateHustle.com | 0_0 |
Whatever the reason, prosecution is not the answer. If you can't stand the heat in the debate room, don't try and bar the doors to others. | 0_0 |
Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth | 0_0 |
Judge rules use of GPS to track a cheating spouse is not an invasion of privacy: | 0_0 |
A trend analysis of the RSS satellite dataset would reveal a modest global cooling since January 2000, while at the same time, vast amounts of human CO2 emissions were injected into the atmosphere having zero warming impact - in addition, reviewing the empirical measurements since the beginning of the satellite era ind... | 1_4 |
Mr. Obama made his announcement at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 job training center in Lanham, Maryland. He was joined by Building Trades President Mark H. Ayers; United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters President William P. Hite; and President Ed Hill of the IBEW. He boasted that ... | 0_0 |
And since he knows the deniers are misinformed, anti-science, and confused, it seems odd that he also deleted the link in the quote from Alenes original article (the one his whole article is about) that shows just how nasty those vile people can be. (Its tricky to cut and paste directly isnt it?) | 0_0 |
"U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in June, with employers hiring the fewest number of workers in nine months, dampening hopes the economy was on the cusp of regaining momentum after stumbling in recent months." | 0_0 |
Hadley Centre/University of East Anglia: +0.3 F/decade. | 0_0 |
However, close examination of the source of the claimed 97% consensus reveals that it comes from a non-peer reviewed article describing an online poll in which a total of only 79 climate scientists chose to participate. Of the 79 self-selected climate scientists, 75 agreed with the notion of AGW. Thus, we find climate ... | 5_1 |
The web site sent out an email blast on Gingrich's ideological transgressions on cap-and-trade on Wednesday and demanded: Will Gingrich recant and apologise for appearing in the ad with Pelosi? | 0_0 |
Despite the absence of any significant amounts of human-released carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the climate was HOTTER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now. | 2_1 |
OIRA should recognize that regulatory agencies now face no serious discipline, and that, even worse, no one within the agency sees regulation A competing with regulation B. Each regulation is seen as sui generistanding on its own grounds, to be decided only on the grounds that it is, or is not, a "good" thing. The use ... | 0_0 |
After all, Mississippi didn't cause global warming. The State only industrialized during the 1980sabout a century after the rest of the country. Because of this, the Eagle State's historical contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is tiny. Congress needs to ask itself: Is it right to slow Mississippi's econ... | 0_0 |
One of the key statements (from page 2 of the Executive Summary of the EPA's TSD) is thisa simple mimic the IPCC AR4 finding: | 0_0 |
At his latest July 18 Saturday Summary here , Joe Bastardi presented the latest NCEP global temperature chart for the past 10 years, and here more confirmation that the globe has cooled off a bit. | 1_4 |
Health authorities admit wind turbine syndrome is real | 0_0 |
Iain Murray, The Corner , 1 April 2010 | 0_0 |
On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005. That number of days will break the existing record of days between major US hurricane landfalls, which previously was between 8 Sept 1900 (the great Galveston Hurricane) and 19 O... | 1_7 |
Recent research from Robert Davis and Wendy Novicoff of the University of Virginia looked at whether urban mortality related to higher temperatures than normal has increased or decreased over recent years. In many cities across the US, they found that human mortality during days with extremely high apparent temperature... | 0_0 |
That preoccupation with risk is expressed differently in arguments about climate and terror, but the logic is the same, and their nexus is interesting. Since the claims in currency are so contested, it would be prudent to understand the desire to naturalise complex things such as war than to take the claims at face val... | 0_0 |
Pielke Sr response: This is also erroneous. You made no mention of the inappropriate shadow version of the Chapter that I was Convening Lead Author on that you were aware of, nor that it was not the publication of the papers, but the repeated cherry-picking of information from the draft Report that were prematurely pre... | 5_2 |
scale. But the ?big climate picture? includes ocean feedbacks on all time | 0_0 |
In light of these several observations, it would appear that if humanity's many physical and chemical disturbances of the planet's coral reef environments were either eliminated or significantly reduced, there would be much less warming-induced destruction of corals throughout the world; for if a 50% reduction in seawa... | 3_2 |
But the pain from the new EPA rules won't be evenly distributed across America. Far from it. The coal producing states like West Virginia and Wyoming will see massive job losses and increases in electric utility costs. The nationwide costs will be about $100 billion a year eventually or a reduction in GDP by about one-... | 4_1 |
The disclosure will lead to further questions over possible conflict of interest against Dr Pachauri, whose position as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is already under threat over errors in its reports. | 0_0 |
on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 2:24 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
MP: Let's keep those spectacularly wrong predictions from the first Earth Day 1970 in mind when we're bombarded tomorrow with media hype, and claims like this from the 2015 Earth Day website: | 0_0 |
I'm up to my ears in travel and work until Monday - posting will be slow as a result. Get over to the blogroll and expand your blogging horizons. (Or get off the computer and expand your horizons - even better!) | 0_0 |
JFK magic bullet: irrationality of conspiracy theories | 0_0 |
Poor Andy gets told by Marty Hoerling and John Wallace that Coumou and Rahmstorf are basically FOS. | 0_0 |
"Let me quote from the Salon review to give you an idea." | 0_0 |
We are dealing with environmental groups, the IPCC, and government leaders like Obama for whom the telling of huge and blatantly obvious lies about global warming is nothing compared to the billions generated by the hoax for the universities and scientists that line their pockets supporting it and industries that benef... | 5_2 |
3. Accelerating , rapid and "runaway, tipping point" global warming does not exist, nor is it even remotely and/or feasibly "imminent" | 3_1 |
This is simply an outright lie. Inherent in natural events such as hurricanes and typhoons, blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and forest fires is the damage they cause, but FOE asserted that "People in vulnerable communities are already struggling with dirty air, unsafe housing, and increased cancer rates. So whe... | 0_0 |
It's a cooling trend equaling 1.3F per century. And not a single government sponsored climate expert, nor wildly expensive climate model, predicted such. | 1_2 |
Finally, the broker will ask you for your workers comp. experience "mod", short for modifier. If you do not know what an experience mod is, you soon will. A company called NCCI collects premium and loss data from most all the carriers for most businesses. If they are tracking your company, you should get a report like ... | 0_0 |
There has been a 43% increase in the best estimate of total anthropogenic radiative forcing between that for 2005 per AR4, and that for 2011 per AR5. Yet global surface temperatures remain almost unchanged: 2012 was marginally cooler than 2007, whilst the trailing decadal mean temperature was marginally higher. The sam... | 0_0 |
Climate Minister Combet still innocent of knowledge | 0_0 |
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