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Donald P. Hodel and Becky Norton Dunlop, "The Federal Estate: Opening Access to America's Resources," Chapter 7 in Environmental Conservation: Eight Principles of the American Conservation Ethic, The Heritage Foundation, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/projects/environmental-conservation; Katie Tubb and Nicolas ... | 0_0 |
Keep on the good work. I won't be able to use this email address for long so if you reply, I can't guarantee reading or answering. I will several batches, to anyone I can think of. | 0_0 |
It is in this context that climate change provided a new opportunity for many governments to legitimize their role, and expand their scope. The formation of the IPCC and its apparent focus on the science of climate change allowed the political establishments to claim science as the basis for proposed climate policies t... | 5_2 |
In Scotland, such poisonous artifices to circumvent the plain intention of a law, and particularly of a constitution, would be regarded in the courts with the gravest disfavour. Yet in Australia, according to the judge in Peter Spencer's case, the governing class can do pretty much as it likes, and to hell with the mer... | 0_0 |
The reader may be surprised to learn of the critical role energy plays in agriculture and the amazing variety of important products made from petroleum and other fossil-fuel energy sources. As Moore and White point out, these products include pharmaceuticals, plastics, chemical feedstocks, soccer balls, guitar strings,... | 0_0 |
The report has good news for the Canadian environment as well, "The Environmental Screening Report concluded that, with incorporation of Keystone's proposed measures to avoid or minimize impacts and with Keystone's acceptance of the NEB's regulatory requirements and recommended conditions, implementation of the propose... | 0_0 |
Once again quoting the researchers who did the work, "our results show both short-term acclamatory and longer-term adaptive acquisition of climate resistance." And they thus conclude that "adding these adaptive abilities to ecosystem models is likely to slow predictions of demise for coral reef ecosystems.' References | 3_2 |
Instead, though, the authors of this studymost of whom get money from Big Pharmaconclude that the results mean that we must tighten LDL and HDL goals even moreto a point whereby they cannot be achieved except with drugs. | 0_0 |
"Seems to me that "serial climate misinformer' and "anti-science' qualify as defamatory, and it's difficult to imagine that the statements were not made with malice." | 0_0 |
How the desire to beat the crap out of someone who is a fellow scientist, and who is also a taxpayer who helps pay his salary, is in accord with these above values is something Id love to hear Santer explain. | 0_0 |
Has something happened to the Adam Smith Institute ? They seem to have a new, very corporate-style website (yuk). The blog appears to be there, but there's no RSS feed. No word of explanation - no nothing. Have they all been abducted by aliens or something? | 0_0 |
In this post, Dr. Roy Spencer asserts that climate change is more a result of changes in the environment from natural causes or cycles, and not by man-made causes. He writes that, Over the last quarter century, mainstream climate science has changed dramatically, from a paradigm where climate changes naturally to one w... | 2_1 |
Although there have been year-to-year and decadal-scale oscillations in the annual number of freezing rain-days in the United States, recent numbers are about the same as the 50-year average.?? Thus, it would appear that there is nothing extreme or unusual about the current level of occurrence of this particular weathe... | 1_7 |
Infections of significance that occur in hospitalized patients are unavoidable in many cases because the patients are debilitated and have reduced resistance. | 0_0 |
Can climate models simulate ENSO? The answer is also no. Refer to the post Guilyardi et al (2009) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress andchallenges . | 5_1 |
The question is not whether temperatures have risen or whether mankind has affected the climate. Temperatures have always risen and fallen and mankind has always affected the climate. The question is whether we have a problem on our hands. The poor performance of the climate models suggests that the problem is much les... | 5_1 |
This huge, international farce formerly known as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, began as an international treaty created in 1992. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Kyoto Treaty, but pledges to reduce greenhouse gases were made by 33 out of 195 countries, called their ?Intended National Determined ... | 0_0 |
Once the embodiment of Western ideals, the UN has turned into a lean, mean anti-West machine. Though European publics no longer have any illusion today about a Europe-puissance, they still retain a surprisingly boy-scoutish view of the UN, one that no longer corresponds to reality. European public opinion saw nothing w... | 0_0 |
Whales whose hearing is disrupted or permanently damaged by noise are basically sentenced to death because they are no longer able to orient themselves. | 0_0 |
Well then, I would say that pretty much confirms it. For quite some time, I?ve harbored the suspicion that both the popular science and the political activity that create and sustain the belief in Global Warmingism are informed by a retrogressively pagan mindset. | 5_2 |
Separate from the matter of EPA's final position on the three enforcement issues described above is the constant change and uncertainty surrounding its positions. Industry experts express frustration with EPA's apparent practice of changing NSR policies without following established rulemaking requirements. | 0_0 |
The European Union's legal officials propose creating a new category of "environmental crimes". | 0_0 |
In 1997, the Competitive Enterprise Institute set out to answer just that question. CEI sponsored a conference on the implications of an international treaty on global warming in July of that year. This conference examined recent scientific developments, the economic and distributional impacts of proposed policies, the... | 0_0 |
But lets be real generous, and ignore all that. For the purpose of this analysis, well swallow the whopper that a 3 temperature rise wouldnt drive evaporation through the roof, and well assume that the parasitic sensible and latent heat losses from the surface stay at a quarter of the radiation losses. | 0_0 |
<2495> Humphrey/DEFRA: | 0_0 |
This is a pretty serious warning that warmer temperatures are not going to endlessly improve plant growth, Running said. | 0_0 |
In the face of multi-trillion dollar political insanity, we would do well to remember these scientists are nothing but glorified weathermen. The same as the much derided group of science minded individuals who tell us if it will rain next week. These climatoknowledgists claim to know the average temperature a hundred y... | 5_2 |
I also agree with Giuliani that Obama is helping to establish the culture in which one cannot criticize Islam , not even for its features that are self-evidently wrong, and that's a very harmful influence of the president on the life and security of the U.S. | 0_0 |
The 2001 IPCC gospel had abolished the medieval warm period by another piece of dubious statistical prestidigitation that was now under investigation by the Attorney-General of Virginia under the Fraud against Taxpayers Act 2000 (gasps of gaping astonishment from some of the environmentalists, who seemed not to have be... | 5_2 |
Now the picture seems to look rather less satisfying. We can see that empirical measurement is suggesting a low climate sensitivity with the most likely value at around 1.5C. Higher values are driven by the modelling studies. Moreover, we can see that large ranges of values of climate sensitivity as implied by the empi... | 3_1 |
All of this raises the question just how much of the step up in UK temperatures since the 1980s been caused by more sunshine, rather than CO2? | 2_1 |
The well documented , accelerating growth of CO2 emissions has not produced the "expert" predicted warming across the globe , nor thecontiguous U.S. | 2_3 |
Have you wondered what the end game of the "protests" on Wall Street might be? To gain a little insight into the answer to that question, watch these two videos: | 0_0 |
The same conclusion emerges from a 1997 NHTSA study, which was similarly characterized as indicting SUVs but which turns out, on closer analysis, to indict CAFE. A NHTSA press release touted the study's finding that a 100-pound decrease in SUV weight would prevent 40 fatalities per year, most of them in cars colliding ... | 0_0 |
This is Mann at his best. Claiming random data will fail cross validation is only reasonable by properly doing the statistics. He performed this verification by calibration of end points to temp data and checking the middle in M08, the statistical pass has to take into account the autocorrelation of the proxy data whic... | 5_1 |
The result of factoring out this non-GHG warming is illustrated in Figure 4. The 1950-2009 trend drops to 0.061 C/decade. | 0_0 |
A: Our global paleotemperature reconstruction includes a so-called uptick in temperatures during the 20 th -century. However, in the paper we make the point that this particular feature is of shorter duration than the inherent smoothing in our statistical averaging procedure, and that it is based on only a few availabl... | 5_1 |
Regulating GHGs under the CAA leads inexorably to "absurd results," including an economically-chilling administrative quagmire. To prevent GHG regulation from overwhelming agency administrative resources and stifling economic development, EPA proposes to suspend, for six years, the "major" source applicability threshol... | 4_1 |
"It should be clear that the science of global warming is far from settled," said Dr. Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist who now co-runs a major satellite temperature dataset at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. | 5_1 |
The utility group, RWE, is about to commission a new lignite power plant that would emit 2.9 million fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide per year than the plant it would replace. It also plans on building a second plant in 2008. But Dietmar Kuhnt, chairman of RWE, said that the second plant would not go ahead "if its p... | 0_0 |
This tendency is captured in an old expression popularized by Nat Hentoff: free speech for me, but not for thee. | 0_0 |
The main excuse was that some of the raw data had been provided to CRU with strings on it preventing release. Surprisingly, within days of Climategate, the Hadley center has announced that it got all of those nasty strings cut, and voila!are now free to release the data. That is, the data they haven't "lost," which sup... | 5_2 |
none of the AR4 models simulates the overall brightening of the Earth system. The majority of the models show a loss of radiative energy by the tropical energy in the post-Pinatubo period, suggesting that the models have still not properly captured the feedbacks between temperature change and clouds. | 5_1 |
A version of this story was posted in Forbes Online on October 29, 2013. | 0_0 |
Sydneys hottest Christmas Day on record was in 1868 when the city sweltered to 39 degrees celsius. | 1_7 |
What about Russian astrophysicist Habibullo Abdussamatovs contention that were headed into a little ice age? No mention of him. | 1_2 |
As of 1999, Hansen showed 1934 almost a full degreeFahrenheitwarmer than 1998. How did 1998 retroactivelybecome the hottest year? | 5_1 |
Here are the biggest Republican ethanol boosters. Readers may want to call or email them, to present the facts and ask them why they (and most Democrats) insist on perpetuating this wasteful system, which benefits so few, at the expense of so many. | 0_0 |
The jerk you mention was called Good(e)rich who found urban warming at | 0_0 |
2. Labor Market Improving. The BLS reported today that total job openings in May (4.63 million) reached their highest level since June 2007, and openings for private jobs (4.2 million) were the highest since April 2007. That brought the number of unemployed workers per job opening down to 2.11, which is the lowest in f... | 0_0 |
As I said in Parliament, the inability of climate scientists to admit their ignorance is one of the reasons nobody trusts them. The Science Media Centre are just helping that process along in the wrong direction. | 0_0 |
As independent scientific advisors to Senator Fielding have shown , the IPCC-derived science advice that the Australian Government is using as the basis for its carbon dioxide tax legislation is utterly flawed. This finding has yet to be rebutted. | 5_2 |
On Thursday, DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis said the agency could act on propane fracking applications by relying on a 1992 state environmental impact statement on natural gas drilling. While no applications have been received yet, she said if one is, DEC would conduct a thorough environmental review including evaluati... | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on why California is heading down a failed path: | 0_0 |
Collie News, sport and weather | Collie Mail | 0_0 |
Treasury hiring FOIA officers "to withhold information from release to public': | 0_0 |
In April of last year, 47% of Americans blamed human activity versus 34% who viewed long-term planetary trends as the culprit. But the numbers have been moving in the direction of planetary trends since then. | 0_0 |
I am an ardent proponent of nuclear energy because of its negligible carbon dioxide emissions and its incredibly high power density. No other form of energy production can produce as much energy from such a small footprint as a nuclear reactor. This is due to basic physics. Allow me to explain this by using a common me... | 4_5 |
This summer's once-in-a-half-century Midwestern drought caused global prices for staple food products to soar by 10%and corn in particular to jump by 25%, according to the World Bank. The food shortages across Africa, the Middle East and South America are the worst since the 1980s and have produced hunger and political... | 0_0 |
LOL, it's a constructor. Who would have thought? One would think that a kettle isn't constructing anything in the same sense as cranes do. But if you want to become so high that you confuse construction workers with cooks, it may be a great idea to unify cranes with kettles. And raindrops on roses and whiskers on kitte... | 0_0 |
for by the same richest 40% who would lose their benefits. Given the negative rates of return that SS pays | 0_0 |
Ive added the 5 million square kilometer line for reference. | 0_0 |
Since Nov. 18, the normal high temperature has been hovering around 15 degrees colder than the historical normal temperature of 55 degrees. The normal low has been about 10 degrees lower than the normal temperature of 36 de grees. The national weather forecasters are predicting this same weather pattern going into the ... | 1_3 |
on Sunday, November 24th, 2013 at 1:35 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Observe the last interglacial 130,000 to 110,000 years ago. Temperature plummeted even as CO2 stayed at about 260 ppm. | 2_3 |
Even a new ?record warmest year?, year after year, is not that significant if the total warming ends up being only 1 deg. C more over the next 100 years. | 0_0 |
Southern ice cap expansion is particularly impressive because, since is surrounded by water, it requires more cooling to freeze that ice than it does to warm cold dry air a bit on continental surfaces that surround the Arctic Ocean. When the Atlantic Oscillation returns to its cold mode, the northern ice cap will expan... | 0_0 |
Conclusion #6: EPA's 2002 reform recommendations promise to restore common sense to the New Source Review program, thereby avoiding the excessive costs, uncertainties, and counterproductive incentives resulting from recent enforcement deviations. The reforms do not put at risk recent gains in air quality. | 0_0 |
The climate change debate is unfolding in precisely the same way. Because they oppose EPA regulations while still supporting the overarching reasons for the rules ? fears of dangerous anthropogenic climate change ? groups such as the United Mine Workers are regarded by many as selfish and misguided. This is especially ... | 0_0 |
I never thought much of psychoanalysis but its fun to consider psychopathology in the context of true believers. This series talks of the bright, dull and dark greens. | 0_0 |
Hansen believes, the paper reported, that "efforts to stem climate change will be ineffectual as long as fossil fuels remain the cheapest form of energy," and therefore he "proposed a new tax for carbon emissions from oil, gas and coal." Yet, he stated: "Government shouldn't be making decisions as to what the next ener... | 0_0 |
NOAA image for the famous Elkhart, IN double funnel tornado that hit the Midway Trailor Park. | 0_0 |
And what cant climate models simulate? ENSO. For further information about climate models failings when trying to simulate ENSO, refer to Guilyardi et al (2009) . Climate models also cant simulate Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Indian Ocean Dipole, and other coupled ocean-atmosp... | 5_1 |
Morano followed up by showing slides of quotes by noted climate alarmists making outrageous claims of doom and gloom. At several points the crowd broke out in laughter or were simply astonished, such as when Morano showed them quotes by famous green thinkers saying insensitivity to global warming alarmism is a "sin," a... | 5_2 |
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Red Raspberry (Hentley et al., 2014) | 0_0 |
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? | 0_0 |
The Sahel is just such a transitional region between the rainforest on the coast of west Africa and the true desert of the Sahara. Alarmist stories appeared about the expanding Sahara desert associated with the cyclical Sahelian drought that visited the region between 1968 and 1974. Famine accompanied the drought and o... | 1_7 |
This isn't proof that the world is entering a global cooling cycle. But the absence of sunspots is the most prolonged in a century, and scientists say the reduced solar activity is reminiscent of the Maunder Minimum, between 1645 and 1715, when the Northern Hemisphere suffered through the coldest weather, worst storms ... | 1_2 |
When so-called "consensus" can be that far off, it would seem that there's plenty of room for serious debate. | 0_0 |
Part I. The Rise and Fall of the Science of Weather Modification: 1. The rise of the science of weather modification; 2. The glory years of weather modification; 3. The fall of the science of weather modification; Part II. Inadvertent Human Impacts on Regional Weather and Climate: 4. Anthropogenic emissions of aerosols... | 0_0 |
He points also on a dilemma hr: In order to explain the LGA temperatures p 2000s's must models are either count with a oknd factor (eg, an inactive sun) that can keep the temperature down. But d it becomes difficult to hvda that one must explain the late 1900s uppvrmning with principal hnvisning to mnniskans CO2 produc... | 0_0 |
b) The USHCN station is situated within a water treatment plant, which may not be ideal. | 0_0 |
More likely, the day after enactment of a carbon tax, various groups will put out studies with ever higher social costs of carbon, and environmentalists will immediately wave them around, calling for raising the carbon tax, and decoupling it from revenue neutrality to finance more wind and solar boondoggles. And theyll... | 0_0 |
Even if Waxman-Markey works according to design, it appears the net reduction in GHG emissions by 2050 would only be about 50 percentstill an ambitious target, but considerably less than the 83 percent reduction advertised in the bill's summary. In other words, instead of reducing fossil fuel CO2 emissions from 6 billi... | 0_0 |
This is in now way excusable, and naturally we have to make sure that we make the peer-review of the text much more efficient. | 0_0 |
The only people that seem to be unable to get their arms around the reality is the enviroslooking for a utopia where the air is clean as in no pollutants. | 0_0 |
Microsoft has received federal contracts worth $852 million under Obama, according to USASpending.gov, and the company spent about $6 million on lobbying last year, pushing its case on tax credits, education funding and immigration policy. | 0_0 |
Even in his most recent whinge, Schmidt does not seriously argue against the strident antagonism of Real Climates reaction in September 2009. | 0_0 |
Hope for the future: One of the striking facts about America is how readily we believe that we can prosper through hard work and our own efforts. Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly believe this to be true. These polls also show there is a high correlation between the belief that one is in control of one's life an... | 0_0 |
Arctic Ice Loss July 7 August 28, 2006 | 0_0 |
If we can bring back manufacturing jobsor at least stem the flow of them from our countrywe need to be encouraging low-cost energy and making more of it available. Moser believes: "balancing the trade deficit should be the number 1 national priority." He told me that would take a 25 percent increase in manufacturingwhi... | 0_0 |
The aerosol cooling that appears in the Met Office model when climate sensitivity is low is very strong, completely inconsistent with recent observationally-based estimates of aerosol forcing. In fact it is so strong that it would also have prevented most of the temperature rise seen since industrialisation. In other w... | 5_1 |
The Board owes every child an open-minded education free of indoctrination. | 0_0 |
So I was pleased indeed to participate last week on a panel discussing "Science, Politics, and the 2016 Election," held at George Washington University (GWU) before an audience of about 200 policy types, faculty, students, and a few souls seeking a respite from the sidewalk slush. The central issue how can rigorous sci... | 0_0 |
No time to blog right now, check this out at WUWT. It looks like the DOE didnt get the exhaustive review from the AP. All documents must be preserved. | 0_0 |
Glacier Scientist: I Knew Data Hadn't Been Verified | 5_1 |
Many CA readers have followed Richard North s recent blog posts on Pachauri, whose recent travails have been also covered by Bishop Hill , Pielke Jr. , James Delingpole , Andrew Bolt , to name but a few. | 0_0 |
> Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 1603 507784 | 0_0 |
Band-aids Can't Fix the New IPCC Report | 0_0 |
The Justice Department has prosecuted farmers and ranchers for trying to protect their property from current or potential fires, by starting "controlled burns" or "backfires" that got out of control and burned a few hundred acres of U.S. forest. But when intentional Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service fires in ... | 0_0 |
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