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During autumn1958, The New York Times predicted both an ice-free Arctic and a new ice age. | 5_2 |
Warmists didn't get everything wrong: CO 2 levels are indeed greater than they were just a few decades ago, thanks to China's industrialization. Yet global temperatures have not increased in 17 years; actually, they are trending down, undercutting the warmists' key argument. The seeming contradiction can be explained b... | 1_4 |
1. Per the empirical satellite data, human CO2 emissions are not causing an accelerating sea level rise that is swamping Pacific Ocean islands, and thus causing a vast migration of climate change refugees (another hysterical IPCC prediction spread by climate liars). | 1_6 |
OMG Greenlands ice sheets are melting fast | 0_0 |
32 P. Reiter, Global Warming and vector-borne disease in temperate regions and at high altitude, Lancet 351, 839 (1998). | 0_0 |
Obama signed memoranda designed to prod the struggling US auto industry to design new fuel-efficient vehicles to lessen US dependence on energy sources which he said bankroll dictators, and to spur the US economy . | 0_0 |
As mentioned above, the most useful place to start when considering the nonmonetary aspects of prosperity is with measures that already exist but which have not previously been brought together. The Prosperity Index, generated by the Legatum Institute, has for the past three years attempted to provide a comprehensive m... | 0_0 |
The Turbines produce a third of their rated output and require space and lines and a back up gas or coal fired plant. That makes sense? And at 5 acres per the space required for equivalent output with 2 Megawatt fans is 2500 acres. Think about that, and then back up generator could be on line but is still required to m... | 4_4 |
At the end of the Eemian Period, for example, the climate descended from a period of warmth as warm as, or even warmer than today??s, into full-blown glaciation in less than 20 years. | 2_1 |
There are people who believe in horoscopes, people who believe spaceships come here; that is not problematic. But it becomes problematic if it becomes a power structure that destroys our society because that is really what's going on. If you cannot use science anymore because of these crazy beliefs, then there is a pro... | 0_0 |
I knew it was bad, but interviewing two people now constitutes a ???thorough investigation?? of alleged serious scientific malfeasance? The investigators didn??t even understand that the famous ??? Mike??s Nature trick ???was a clever way of hiding adverse data , a big scientific no-no. They didn??t interview anyone wh... | 5_2 |
Take four issues where our free and open political system allows continuing, robust domestic debates: global warming, abortion, gun control and the death penalty. | 0_0 |
"Luis Picado's mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a Managua, Nicaragua, slum and said he'd found a way to escape poverty and start a new life in the United States." | 0_0 |
It just happened that the Nobel Prize - the medal plated with 24-carat gold - has been missing for weeks. | 0_0 |
In contrast, a U.S. Senate report listed 1,000 international climate scientists who dissent from "man-made climate catastrophe" claims. More than 31,000 American scientists signed a statement saying they disagree with alarmist predictions. And a 2013 survey found 48% of American meteorologists do not believe humans are... | 5_1 |
18 See IPCC 1995, p. 6. | 0_0 |
Dr. Hans Penner is member of the advisory board of CFACT Europe. | 0_0 |
GHGT effect 15C (-18C) = 33C is wrong. Correct value is 15.0C 15.0C = 0C. Nothing to it. Hansen, Science , 28Aug1981, incorrectly assumed Earth radiates as a black body with emissivity = 1.0, took satellite readings of its average intensity, 239 w/m 2 of surface, and deduced from Boltzmann equation, K = 100(P/5.67e) 0.... | 5_2 |
Features of GHG Controls that Impede Collective Action | 0_0 |
The Young Guns and their allies, including McConnell, also blew up a series of governing norms. While the debt ceiling had been a political football for both parties for decades, leaders were always careful not to push too far, to flirt with default. Republicans in both the House and the Senate, starting in 2010 and co... | 0_0 |
Answer: Australians emit 1.5% of the CO2 emitted by humans. So Australians, over the years, emitted at most about 1.5% of the 110 ppm increase in CO2 since pre-industrial times (that increase is is probably due to ocean warming, due to whatever has been heating the world since 1680), or 0.0000017% of the air (1.7 ppm). | 4_2 |
Conclusions hinge on the choice of statistic and where you set the benchmark. MM05 obtain a critical value for RE of greater than 0.5 using random red-noise data in a replication of the procedure used in MBH98. Non-existent statistical skill of the models is one of the main arguments in MM05 against the reconstruction ... | 5_1 |
The divergences shown in brown in Figure 8 are caused when sea surface temperatures of the Rest-of-the-World fail to cool in response to the La Nia. Basically, they dont cool because of the warm water thats left over after the El Nio. | 0_0 |
In spite of all of the purportedly unprecedented negative influences arrayed against them over the past decade and a half, GBR corals appear to have held their own, maintaining a stable presence over the totality of their 1300-km linear expanse. References | 3_2 |
According to a new paper based upon obedient computer models, global warming could result in an increase in the frequency of wildfires. However, data from both the US and Canada show that the number of wildfires has declined over the past 40-50 years of global warming, and that the number of wildfires was higher during... | 1_7 |
A similar dynamic is working on the purely domestic level, which is the third moving part of this story. Prospects for the passage of a "cap and trade" GHG emissions reduction plan in Congress do not look good at the moment, again because too many Democrats in the heartland states that would be hit hard by sharply high... | 0_0 |
Britain has ended liberalised power market pricing, in a broad strategy announcement that poses questions over how qualified government ministers are to choose between energy technologies and to set prices. | 0_0 |
Whatever may or may not be happening with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current (AMOC), one thing that you can take to the bank (or insane asylum, as appropriate): contaminated Finnish lake sediments, strip bark bristlecone pines and the hundreds of nondescript Mann 2008-9 tree ring series do not contain any usef... | 5_1 |
I just discovered that this blog has been nominated for an award in the annual Canadian Blog Awards. Thanks to the eagle eyed Mayor for spotting the nomination. | 0_0 |
As highlighted in IPCC AR4 (2007), already a moderate warming produces negative consequences: increasing number of people exposed to water stresses, extinction of species and ecosystems, decrease in cereal productivity at low latitudes, land loss due to sea level rise in coastal areas, increase in mortality and morbidi... | 0_0 |
The three researchers say their results showed there was "no change in long-term monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall and frequency of rain days" and that "there is no significant trend in the annual and seasonal rainfall totals." This being the case, they also say "it can be concluded that there is no climate change ... | 1_7 |
Now with global temperatures in an extended hiatus, the IPCC has reversed course and told us that such short-term periods are actually irrelevant to its arguments: | 1_4 |
As you try to wrap your mind around that explanation, just think about the way the Earth goes through regular seasons as well as predictable cycles of warming and cooling. It has done this now for some 4.5 billion years. | 2_1 |
If the deep heat explanation for the Pause were correct (and it is merely one among dozens that have been offered), the complex models have failed to account for it correctly: otherwise, the growing discrepancy between the predicted and observed atmospheric warming rates would not have become as significant as it has. | 5_1 |
Should the world face a "clash of civilizations," America may find itself with weaker allies. It may then be forced to play a greater role in defending and promoting the liberal, pluralist beliefs and values of Western civilization. We may have to do more, not because we want to, but because we have to. | 0_0 |
While the White House economic report does not address those criticisms directly, it says greater domestic energy production, the use of wind and solar power and the reduction in oil consumption have had substantial economic and energy security benefits, and they are helping to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sec... | 4_1 |
I am not brave enough to go to fight to the East of Ukraine in the new conflict created as a product of the desperate American imperialism against the self-declared Ukrainian government. Not only I lack the courage. Such a decision would be meaningless because this conflict is about something completely different than ... | 0_0 |
How unprecedented? Well, so far as we can tell, since 1978, from which year, the Post reports, the date on which a certain farmer in Northern France harvested his grapes has moved up by nearly two months. | 0_0 |
The United States should engage other nations on climate change. More than a few opportunities for agreement may exist. A global pact on GHG caps with full trading of allowances is almost certainly not among them, nor, in my opinion, would it be desirable. | 0_0 |
Hydrocarbon fuels are the true green energy sources. They disturb less land per unit of energy produced, do not murder wildlife and their combustion produces new supplies of water and carbon dioxide for the atmosphere. More carbon dioxide and water in the atmosphere enables plants to grow faster, bigger and more able t... | 4_5 |
Will that nuclear-construction renaissance happen? Although no company has opened a new nuclear power plant on American soil in 30 years, at first glance, there are good reasons to believe in a resurgence. Ten companies, including Constellation Energy, Duke Energy, EDF International, Entergy, Exelon, FPL, Progress Ener... | 0_0 |
But here is the quite fascinating selection bias by the lefty blogs: I have read the whole report, and this is absolutely the only chart in the whole study that in any way, shape, or form might be interpreted as a call for higher government education spending. Even more interesting is what these bloggers left out. This... | 0_0 |
The models also performed poorly at simulating the warming rate of the sea surface temperatures of the Indian Ocean, Figure 20. The models almost double the warming rate there. | 5_1 |
Part I:Schellnhuber claimed the Himalayas melt of 2035 was very easy to calculate | 0_0 |
In a fact check of Chait's article, I wrote the following about the above paragraph: | 0_0 |
Those are very big ifs. And there are many other explosive issues, from abortion to immigration, that make the process of getting to 60 votes in the Senate challenging to say the least. Have you noticed that I have not yet mentioned the public option? That is because I am in fundamental agreement with Paul Starr, the P... | 0_0 |
Just imagine if the uncooperative polar ice was melting rather than thickening. We would hear a collective chorus of, ?See See See? from the climate activists and the media that the planet really is warming. That Al Gore was right when he predicted that the North Pole would have melted by 2013. | 0_0 |
Romney Unveils Climate Protection Plan for Massachusetts | 0_0 |
Conclusion : the Sagan/Hansen runaway greenhouse effect is complete nonsense, and if Hansen was a competent climate modeler he would already know this. | 5_2 |
So the data may very well be real. Notice also that the trend in DMI plots for the last few years since 2000 has been ever so slightly below the mean. Since the sea ice melt may be driven more by wind and currents, what effect it may have on the 2009 sea ice melt season remains to be seen. I think it would be safe to s... | 1_1 |
7 March 2013 The Little Ice Age should be the story of the century, yet its only being announced quietly by climate scientists and solar physicists. Not a word is being mentioned by the mainstream media, who had a hand in selling the Global Warming propaganda that has become irrelevant as we slide into colder climate. | 1_2 |
The NZ temperature record averages seven weather stations Auckland, Masterton, Wellington, Nelson, Hokitika, Lincoln and Dunedin through the twentieth century. But there are many gaps and flaws up to about 1930 and, apart from these seven, there are very few other records to use as benchmarks. | 0_0 |
Mr Cameron is hardly the only prominent celebrity to oppose the ballot measure. Other high-profile individuals campaigning against it include David Arquette, Benjamin Bratt, and California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger ? a prime candidate for a similar attack advert, since he drives an SUV and commutes to Sacrament... | 0_0 |
CEI: Some people, like Steve Forbes and Bob Novak, have not been so charitable toward Greenspan. | 0_0 |
Unscientific policies and regulatory grandiosity and excess, wrote Dr. Miller, are not EPAs only failings; neglecting to weigh costs and benefits is shockingly common, noting that The EPAs repeated failures should not come as a surprise because the agency has long been a haven for scientifically insupportable policies ... | 5_2 |
What's more interesting is that periods in the Arctic when sea ice was exceptionally thick, polar bears and other Arctic animals had the hardest time surviving. | 0_0 |
As a former loyal public servant, I wont give Ambroses cynical definition of the word politician, but it involves the word eel. We should remember, of course, that dictionaries can be wrong. Lets hope that philosophy can come to the rescue, and that there are at least some worthy Australian politicians, and public serv... | 0_0 |
The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists. True, the basic theory that predicts a warming of the planet in response to human emissions does not suggest that warming should be smooth and continuous. To the contrary, in a climate system still dominated by natural variability , there is every reason to thin... | 1_4 |
Finance ministers and central bankers are now calling for an end to ethanol subsidies and other "biofuel policies adopted recently in the West." South African finance minister Trevor Manuel called such subsidies "criminal." Earlier, the Indian Finance Minister Chidambaram noted that "in a world where there is hunger an... | 0_0 |
My Comment: In other words, observations are devalued as being an important part of the assessment of theskill of model predictions. This is such a deviation from the scientific method that I find it puzzling why funding agenciessuch as the NSF do not reject projects that make such a claim. Not only are they ignoring t... | 5_1 |
3. The disappearing ice, we were told, was increasing the propensity of the Arctic to absorb 85% of the incoming solar radiation, rather than reflecting 85% of it harmlessly to space. However, Bob somehow failed to mention that at the summer sea-ice minimum in 2008 the extent of the ice was 12% up on 2007, and in 2009 ... | 1_1 |
Meanwhile, the natural climate archive is disappearing faster than scientists can gather data. "Ice is melting, corals are being destroyed, trees are being cut down," said Trenberth. "Collecting needs to speed up." | 0_0 |
"Low-fat diets didn't reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer or invasive breast cancer, according to three large studies published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers divided 48,835 women into two groups based on diet-- one group with 19,541 women consumed... | 0_0 |
"Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients' health: She'll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors' pay to go through." | 0_0 |
Notwithstanding the considered opinion of Baillie and Wilson that oaks are ???virtually useless as a temperature proxy?? and ???dangerous?? to use in a temperature reconstruction, no fewer than 119 oak chronologies were used in Mann et al 2008. | 5_1 |
But according to the geological record and data from ice cores, higher temperatures actually precede higher carbon dioxide levels by about 800 years. Twentieth century data support this idea in at least two ways. First, most of the 20th centurys warming occurred before 1940, while most of the centurys greenhouse gas em... | 2_3 |
Little wonder, during the government shutdown, more than 93% of EPA employees were furloughed when designated as "non-essential." That was more than nine out of every ten employees! | 0_0 |
Shipping contributes twice as much to emissions as aviation. | 0_0 |
August 2003 low is 0.2m, high is 6.2m, range is 6.0m. | 0_0 |
Morano on CNN debates alleged 'censorship' of global warming science | 0_0 |
This could be part of a natural oscillation of El Nio, he said. Or it could be El Nios response to a warming atmosphere. There are hints that the trade winds of the Pacific have become weaker with time and this may lead to the warming occurring further to the west. We need more data before we know for sure. | 0_0 |
In his review, Ball has a number of excellent quotes from Gray including: | 0_0 |
First, it is difficult to project trends in atmospheric CO2 concentration because the gas is absorbed and released by the ocean, soil and vegetation. Second, it is also difficult to calculate the response of the climate to increased atmospheric CO2 as well as to independently occurring natural climate changes. Current ... | 5_1 |
smartly, with a whirlwind of purposeful activity from Nov. 5 on. Obama more than | 0_0 |
However, there is some humor in ClimateGate. Here's some odd stuff a commenter on the website Climate Audit picked up as a result of checking out the file HARRY READ ME.txt - one of the hacked files. The "Harry" file tells the tortured story of a programmer at CRU struggling to make sense of inconsistent, missing, and ... | 0_0 |
At the same time the report concludes that the pipeline will have no meaningful effect on the climate, even if you accept (you shouldn't) the dire predictions of the most extreme climate computer models, as Canada will extract oil from its oil sands with or without the pipeline. The oil would simply get to market throu... | 0_0 |
And, of course, the natural processes that cause the oceans to warm were detailed with numerous datasets in my recently published ebook. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgr... | 2_1 |
A bit of interesting action continuing on the mid-Atlantic spreading zone and some mild stuff down in Mexico. | 0_0 |
I think the American Democrats and the British Conservative are offering similar advice in two respects. | 0_0 |
Normally by this date, about 20% of the Greenland ice sheet is melting. This year only about 5%, which is the slowest on record. | 1_1 |
Schellnhuber is also the Chairman of the WBGU advisory council to the German government, which is pushing for a Great Transformation of global society to one that is sustainable and not based on fossil fuels. | 0_0 |
Not only did I provide a thorough review of their argument on root collar inhomogeneity, I explicitly stated that their concerns about root collar and radial inhomogeneity seemed entirely reasonable to me: | 0_0 |
He references this assertion by a link to another page of Skeptical Science that provides multiple lines of evidence for the proposition, agreed as St. Vincent of Lerins used to put it, fere omnibus (by very nearly everyone) that the planet has been warming. But not that it currently is warming. | 0_0 |
on Friday, August 17th, 2012 at 12:41 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Councils in the UK should do "absolutely nothing" to tackle climate change unless a stringent global deal on reducing carbon emissions is reached through the United Nations, which includes developing as well as developed countries according to Lord Lawson. | 0_0 |
If taxpayers and consumers are informed about the high cost and limited environmental benefits of renewable energy, and nevertheless choose freely to support renewables by voluntarily paying taxpayer subsidies and higher electricity bills, that is their right. But they also have a right to an honest and fact-based disc... | 0_0 |
As a fuel source, coal is a different product from what it was in past decades. Specifically, it is much cleaner. Yet, as always, it is much cheaper and more reliable than renewables such as wind and solar. In the generation of electricity, its real competition is natural gas. | 4_5 |
This occurred despite the diversion of land and crops from production of food to the production of biofuels in large part in response to climate change policies. According to one estimate, such diversions helped push 130155 million people in 2008 into absolute poverty, exacerbating hunger in this most marginal of popul... | 4_4 |
Could the global warming hypothesis meet the rigorous evidentiary standards of a legal trial? The answer, according to Jason Scott Johnston, is clearly negative. | 0_0 |
The latest Democratic president is repeating the mistake of the first. When Thomas Jefferson entered office 210 years ago, Chief Justice John Marshall warned that Jefferson would "embody himself in the House of Representatives." This would "increase his personal power," Marshall predicted, but it would lead to the "wea... | 0_0 |
Corbin Hiar, UN Dispatch, 11 August 2010 | 0_0 |
When you're out in cold like this, you realize how much you depend on your own body. It's 98.6 degrees in your gut, and zero outside, so you have to conserve that "slow burning" fuel inside. Our boots were soaked, so Dylan left his by the fire. I threw on a few extra logs, and we crawled into our sleeping bags by 9 o'c... | 0_0 |
Any projects built with federal funding have to pay prevailing wage rates pursuant to the Davis-Bacon Act, and those rates are approximately 20% above standard wage levels. Hence the union applause at the president's announcement. | 0_0 |
Yesterday's speech does little violence to the President's symbiosis with the prevailing winds of public opinion, as most disinterested Americans would find nothing objectionable in what he said. He effectively threaded the rhetorical needle of marrying full-throated American exceptionalism with a series of straw-man a... | 0_0 |
So we build into these models a feedback mechanism that says as more CO 2 is added, the temperature increases non-linearly. We then run these models and we find exactly what we expected to see: increasing CO 2 leads to a positive feedback in temperature! | 5_1 |
These numbers do not show successive downward steps in US GDP per capita growth rates from 1950. In fact, the peak is right in the middle of the periods, and otherwise the growth rates are very similar through the period. The calculation of trends on the time series is very sensitive to the start and end point chosen f... | 0_0 |
Observers should note that the cost relates purely to adaptation and resiliency projects, such as poverty alleviation, which will enable poor Indians to better cope with any environmental changes. This cost does not include the far more onerous burden of emissions caps, carbon taxes, renewable fuels mandates, or all of... | 0_0 |
This offset program, the Carbon Capital Fund, will link consumers' offset investment to projects on National Forests to sequester additional carbon as well as improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat, and improve the ecological condition of our National Forests and Grasslands . | 0_0 |
If you are criticizing Professor Mann, that is. But if he is criticizing you?well, then, that's a different story. | 0_0 |
In context of the current status of the CAGW-policy debate, moral arguments seem to be in ascendancy as the scientific argument seems to be weakening. Climate change is a complex moral and political issue; thinking that science and scientism holds the answers is unfortunate dogma and ideology among too many scientists. | 5_2 |
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