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The longest running tide gauge in the Marshall Islands is on Wake Island. It shows a trend of 1.91mm/year since 1950; in other words, about 5 inches since the war. | 1_6 |
President Obamas energy/climate policy is all about the two things that Enron wanted most in its lifetime cap and trade and a federal renewable standard. (Enron did secure a renewables mandate for Texas back in 1999 the single most important reason for the U.S. wind power boom.) This is why I have referred to the Waxma... | 4_2 |
What has become of science? We thought that science was about the pursuit of truth. Then we became perplexed at how quickly scientists have prostituted themselves in the service of political agendas. We have seen the unedifying spectacle of scientists refusing to share their data, fiddling their results, and resorting ... | 0_0 |
RATES OF DEFORESTATION: FOOTBALL FIELDS OR NOT EVEN ENOUGH FOR A FIRST DOWN? | 0_0 |
Taxes have two general categories of costs. The first is the tax revenue, called the direct burden in economic jargon. The second is the cost imposed by the tax's price distortions, called the excess burden in economic jargon. A simple (if extreme) example will illustrate these different impacts. | 0_0 |
Senator McCain said of his measure, "This is an issue of worldwide importance. We will get another vote and see if there is any temperature change in the Senate this spring." McCain acknowledged that there is little, if any support for his bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. (Environmental News Service) | 0_0 |
Why is this stunning refutation of previous IPCC forecasts of strong warming driven by rising levels of CO2 hidden away in Chapter 10? | 5_1 |
Last summer, the mainstream media breathlessly reported that a brief 4-day surface melt over the Greenland ice sheet represented evidence of man-made global warming. However, a paper published today in The Cryosphere finds that " the recent warmer summers over cannot be considered as a long-term climate warming but are... | 2_1 |
Simon is back, and he has brought the satirebat with him global warming causes Vegemite sales slump , or something. | 0_0 |
Morano on new modeling study claiming: Climate Change Will Make the Persian Gulf "Uninhabitable' | 0_0 |
on Friday, June 15th, 2012 at 8:45 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
So, if we had sea levels of 16-31 feet higher than the present 100,000 years ago, well before the dawn of the industrial revolution, what caused that? Inquiring minds want to know. | 2_1 |
@wattsupwiththat Mann seems to split his time thusly?? 1) Complain about abuse, etc, in the media/journals.
2) Abuse, name call on twitter | 5_2 |
27 You have heard that it was said, `You shall not commit adultery. | 0_0 |
If a single simulation is not a good predictor of reality how can the average of many simulations, each of which is a poor predictor of reality, be a better predictor, or indeed claim to have any residual of reality? | 5_1 |
Although Svante Arrhenius showed great foresight in many of his comments on energy in 1919, he was wrong in some of his most important predictions: America will run out of oil by 1953 at the latest. Coal reserves will be depleted in England within 50 years and in America within 150 years. | 5_2 |
What is at stake, the papers make clear, is not only the alleged betterment of the world, but the U.N.'s soaring ambitions for itself no matter what roadblocks national sovereignty may throw in its way. | 0_0 |
The panel lineup had changed significantly from the original plan - Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein was sidelined due to an illness in the family (although was later noted to be listening to the proceedings via cell phone). The final lineup consisted of Oregon Public Radio producer Christy George, ABC News co... | 0_0 |
But if the temperature "trend" might be toward cooling, that at least means that there was no statistically significant global warming during the years from 2002-2010, does it not? And the planet may well be coolingNOAA's U.S. data certainly points that way. Jones argues the timeline isn't long enough to establish a co... | 1_4 |
But Clinton s drift to the middle ended abruptly in 2008: as the primary campaign wore on, and a frontrunner emerged to her left, Hillary herself banked left and embraced more and more government activism. By the spring, she was championeing a series of hard-edged proposals that would leave Washington setting the price... | 0_0 |
The IPCC's first report on predicted surface temperatures was off by 500%. It's fifth report was off by 300% when compared to real-world data. | 5_1 |
In a statement released on Wednesday, the group admitted "poorly substantiated estimates." More specifically, it appears to have been based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published in 1999. That story, in turn, was based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known ... | 0_0 |
Despite the expenditure of over $50 billion to find evidence that man-induced greenhouse gasses are the primary cause of the current warming, not one piece of empirical evidence in support of this theory has been found. | 2_3 |
An apples to apples comparison, shows that the summer of 1936 had five times as many record maximums as the summer of 2012. | 1_7 |
The faint grey dashed lines represent the 1?? spread of the model-mean projections. In principle, this spread represents the structural uncertainty arising from l lack of understanding of the physics. In truth, it??s actually something of a bastard value because some models only have 1 run. So,the spread may include a ... | 5_1 |
On the same day the President was lying about warming, eight inches of snow fell in Rize, Turkey. It has fallen as well in South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia while closer to home snow fell on several cities in Idaho with cold freezes extending into Oregon. In June! | 1_3 |
Gooding et al . report that "the relative growth (change in wet mass/initial wet mass) of juvenile P. ochraceus increased linearly with temperature from 5C to 21C," and that it also responded positively to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. More specifically, they state that "relative to control treatments, high CO 2 alone i... | 3_2 |
In blasting Republicans for delaying passage of the small-business bill, Obama proclaimed, "Small businesses are the engine of job growth, and measures to cut their taxes and make lending available should not be held hostage to partisan tactics." Yet in preparing legal briefs for the Obama administration, Kagan effecti... | 0_0 |
By how much, measured in thousandths of degrees Celsius, will the Earths temperature be reduced through the carbon tax? | 4_2 |
Now comes a new spat, with Japanese officials and media suggesting Chinas latest air-pollution crisis may be spreading across the East China Sea into Japan The Japanese reports drew some harsh response from China. One critic was quoted as saying: After the earthquake, Japan switched from nuclear power to coal fired pow... | 0_0 |
Here's a poll. The only reason I didn't use JS-Kit polls for quite some time was that I forgot that I had to reset admin access after some time and it didn't work without it. | 0_0 |
All these forces created a massive backlash against the Republican Party leadership. From the beginning stages of the presidential nomination process for 2016, 60 to 70 percent of Republicans in polls opted for insurgent or outsider candidates, with 20 percent or less for insiders and establishment figures. In the end,... | 0_0 |
Energy officials Monday touted a deal to recover money loaned to a less well-known firm, Beacon Power, which currently operates a 20-megawatt flywheel storage plant in Stephentown, N.Y. The company was the second recipient of Energy Department funds to file for bankruptcy. Under a deal announced today, taxpayers are ex... | 0_0 |
"As a former research chemist now teaching middle-school science, I am concerned about the scientific ignorance underlying much of what now passes for environmental education. That is the reason I am pleased to recommend Facts, Not Fear, a concise and easy-to-use alternative resource." | 0_0 |
In their simulations, Exponent observed that the difference in measurements between extremes of dry and wet balls was relatively small as follows: | 0_0 |
Corrected versions will continue to be used in Millard's sixth-grade language arts curriculum, he wrote. | 0_0 |
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts | 0_0 |
Several commenters retaught the scientific principle of "least significant digits." Climateers concoct 'temperature reconstructions' from bacteria fossils, ice samples, and tree rings. Translation: They're guessing. We don't know historical temperatures on a calibrated temperature scale. If you measure five samples to ... | 5_1 |
"Propaganda Mill Marches On': "These unusually harsh winters usually are the result of heating somewhere else, most likely in areas of the world that are already hot' | 0_0 |
Abuses are rampant throughout federal, state and local governments, as news accounts constantly attest. Incompetence, fraud and public trust violations just in the environmental arena are mind-numbing. | 0_0 |
But to the PR experts cited by Marshall, "doublespeak" means that the world's scientists, journalists, and government agencies do not all speak about climate change with one voice. | 0_0 |
"The Obama administration will require mortgage companies to extend more generous mortgage relief to help certain unemployed borrowers from losing their homes to foreclosure." | 0_0 |
"The next generation of entrepreneurs will be focusing on climate change adaptation products, and in a world where billions of people face these challenges, there is a huge marketand enormous payofffor those who succeed." | 0_0 |
Predicted historical low is -2.1m, high is 8.4m, range is 10.6m. | 0_0 |
"In trying to overcome criticism of earlier attempts to gauge the view of earth scientists on global warming and the human impact factor, Doran and Kendall Zimmerman sought the opinion of the most complete list of earth scientists they could find, contacting more than 10,200 experts around the world listed in the 2007 ... | 0_0 |
What about renewable energy as an alternative? Consider these EU costs for various sources of electricity in cents per kilowatt-hour: nuclear 4, coal 4, natural gas 5, onshore wind 13, biomass 16 solar 56! | 0_0 |
The murder took place on Friday, just like today. For generic two years, the probability is 1/7 that a given day occurs on the same day of the week. However, for a 50-year gap, the probability is approximately 1/3 because each of the 50 years shifts the day of the week by 1 plus 11-13 (mostly 12) from leap years (it ma... | 0_0 |
Hubbard Glacier has been advancing into Disenchantment Bay for more than 100 years, according to NASA??s Earth Observatory. In addition to its forward movement, the glacier has been thickening as well. | 1_1 |
(I would have posted this earlier, but I didnt hear about it until today. For some reason, the national media doesnt seem to have noticed this.) | 0_0 |
In other words, the model mean represents the central tendency of how the climate science community thinks the oceans should have warmed if they were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases, and, in the real world, the oceans only warmed at half that rate for the past 32+ years. Or to phrase it a little differently, in the ... | 5_1 |
The record snow burying Boston this winter remains within the bounds of natural weather variability. It is weather, not climate, and neither proves, nor disproves the theory of global warming. | 0_0 |
Renewable fuels that cost so much in land and fuel use, cant be piped, eat up space and money to pander to enviro agendas and feed the the maw of the Ag people making this bad excuse for a fuel that competes in the market for food for people. | 4_4 |
International Law Expert Defines Ideal United States-United Nations Relationship Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order | 0_0 |
GWPF summary of the full DM report: Myth Of Arctic Meltdown: Satellite Images Show Ice Cap Thicker And Growing Back . | 1_1 |
on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 11:12 am and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
Technically recoverable energy resources on these onshore and offshore lands total 1,194 billion barrels of oil and 2,150 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, Institute for Energy Research analyst Daniel Simmons noted in congressional testimony . At $100 per barrel of oil and $4 per thousand cubic feet of gas, those res... | 4_5 |
Despite a consumption of 90 million barrels of oil per day, the world needs more coal than ever, about 8,000 million tons per year. Most of that is used for electric power, the rest mainly for heating. Obviously, with estimated reserves many multiples of that annual consumption, the world is not going to run out of coa... | 4_5 |
Hes also co-author of the IPCC reports based on his readings. | 0_0 |
The authors would like to thank AEI research assistant Abigail Haddad for her assistance with editing, fact-checking, and calculation validation. | 0_0 |
That the U.S. withdraw from the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank. | 0_0 |
Group selection as a theory is something that is designed to support collectivist ideologies and collectivist political regimes. They exist on both sides of the political spectrum; it just seems fair to say that the extreme left-wing ones are much more widespread than their right-wing counterparts today. Nevertheless, ... | 0_0 |
4. If empirical evidence indicates that the rate of sea level rise is decreasing, how does the IPCC claim that there definitively is a strong correlation between sea level rise and CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere? Doesnt the science tend to indicate that there is a lack of correlation? | 2_3 |
Two years later, Copenhagen became the epicenter of a world-wide media frenzy as some 5,000 journalists, along with some 100 world leaders and scores of celebrities, descended on the Danish capital to witness what was billed as the best opportunity to impose a global tax or limit on carbon dioxide. | 0_0 |
If you thought the current talk of enforced compliance with energy reduction mandates and soaring electricity prices was oppressive, you aint seen nothing yet. Especially if you live within the European Union. According to the bureaucrats in charge of EU Climate Change Policy science tells us that we have to reduce emi... | 4_1 |
Its criteria obviously don't include a concern for accuracy or truth, or Gore wouldn't have been a co-recipient of the Prize. | 0_0 |
Skeptics have well-justified suspicions that the official climate data keepers were ???cooking the books?? to lend whatever support they could to the highest estimates of carbon sensitivity. Around the year 2000, US Mean Temperature data was ???adjusted?? down by 0.1 to 0.2C for years prior to the 1970??s, and upwards ... | 5_2 |
In one section, the document calls for developed countries to help poorer countries with "finance, technology and capacity building" so they can "adapt to and mitigate climate change" while helping eliminate poverty. Another section provides that developing countries should receive an amount of money equal to the amoun... | 0_0 |
They are the four independent scientists who together advised Senator Steve Fielding during his discussions with Climate Minister Penny Wong over her proposed emissions trading bill in 2009. | 0_0 |
Discounting is the tool used to make the comparisons and the correct rate is critical. Office of Management and Budget guidance stipulates that cost-benefit analysis should use discount rates of three and seven percent. | 0_0 |
> >> is about +1.6 deg C above the 1961-90 average | 0_0 |
In his paper The NIWA Seven-station Temperature Series , Dr B. Mullan notes that 238 stations currently report temperatures to NIWA, but prior to the 1930s, a lot fewer observations are available. | 5_1 |
* Americans support prioritizing energy development (47 percent) over protecting the environment (44 percent). This is a change from previous years, when more people prioritized the environment. | 0_0 |
The Legates piece must have been sent to loads of environment correspondents across | 0_0 |
/s/ Enoch Jones JSC, Mgr. SE&I, Shuttle Program Office, 26 years | 0_0 |
It is a tragedy that an alleged American nightmare of overconsumption has replaced the earlier dream of a more prosperous world. Such social pessimism stands in the way of tackling the real challenges facing humanity. That is why growth skepticism is so important to understand and challenge. It is a barrier to rediscov... | 0_0 |
Temperature, after holding near freezing, now appears headed sharply downward. | 0_0 |
Contrary to Schneiderman's claims of fraud, Exxon did not engage in any deception about the health risks of its products when used by consumers (the way that asbestos makers were accused of doing), or in other forms of unprotected speech. Nor did it deny basic science. What angers Schneiderman most may be that Exxon po... | 0_0 |
Much has changed in the last century, but in all cases the key to freeing us from these strictures has been widespread, affordable energy. A permanent flow of electricity has powered an explosion in wealth that has enabled millions to livelong Uniting lives free from Crushing hardship. The condition of life is no longe... | 0_0 |
California's GHG intensity is about half the national average. See California's greenhouse gas inventory here: http://www.energy.ca.gov/reports/600-02-001F/2002-09-14 600-02-001F.PDF. | 0_0 |
Nor do I agree that CRUs response demonstrated that the observations about crossdating reported in the comment were erroneous. The calculations are what they are and yielded the results that I reported. In any event, it is common ground between us that the 11th century portion of the Briffa et al 1995 chronology did no... | 0_0 |
Delegate authority to states for environmental review and permitting of energy projects on federal lands within their borders. The sheer size and diversity of the federal estate and the resources above and below ground are too much for distant federal bureaucracies and an overextended federal budget to manage effective... | 0_0 |
2. The wind-energy industry is lobbying to extend a production tax creditthe 2.2 cent-per-kilowatt-hour subsidy that has fueled the turbine-building craze over the past few years. Last year the subsidy was extended for one year, at a cost to taxpayers of $12 billion. Another one-year extension will cost an additional $... | 4_1 |
In honor of this celebration, on this week's RealClear Radio Hour, I interview Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, who recounts the long, flawed history of pessimistic predictions that have been debunked time and again by humanity's forward march of progress. Also joining me on the show is Marian Tupy, editor... | 0_0 |
Extreme Heat: The number of 100 degree days may ???turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records?? | 1_7 |
Ethanol and Water Pollution. In Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) points out that if the United States continues to expand corn-based ethanol production without new environmental protection policies, "the increase in harm to water quality could be con... | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Climate fraudsters keep telling the press that Greenland is melting down. With satellite technology, you can see that they are lying. There is a strip about 60 miles wide on the northern and western edges of the ice sheet where significant melting is occurring. The rest of the ice sheet shows very little signs of melt. | 1_1 |
Read More: The climate drown in climate policy, Susanna Birgersson, DN 2014-03-06. | 0_0 |
Next is canopy layer at 65 to 100 feet formed by flat-crowned trees that offer near-continuous cover over the forest. Catch most of the sun's rays, allowing only 2 to 5 percent to slip through to forest floor. | 0_0 |
The ice is spreading out and the extent is increasing, exactly as it did in years past. | 1_1 |
3. But DDT was once nicknamed "Double Death Twice" in the popular press. What happened to people exposed to higher than normal amounts of DDT? | 0_0 |
I can't stand pompous fools, people who are completely dumb but who like to pretend how wonderfully smart they are. So it is not hard for you to guess that I was rather upset when I was forced to read a new preprint by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto and the associated hype in Scientific American: | 0_0 |
It is not just the winter, either. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show the United States has been cooling for the past decade . Nor is it just the United States defying alarmist predictions. Global temperature data show no global warming since the late 1990s and very little global warming for the ... | 1_4 |
The villagers have a solution. Stop air pollution and give us financial help to survive this, they say. It resonates with UN climate negotiations: stop damaging, pay for the damage. | 0_0 |
A sampling of the international norms on which this duty of care is based includes "fairness," the "precautionary principle," "sustainability," the "principle of a high protection level," and the "prevention principle" (whatever any of those mean). "With due regard for all the above," write the Dutch judges, "the answe... | 0_0 |
The tragic deaths in the Mediterranean are precisely in line with the predictions of climate security analysts, without urgent action they could herald an era of mass migration and international tension | 0_0 |
The doom and gloom started right away. Another introductory speech, this one by host-country President Felipe Calderon, painted an approaching dire apocalypse. ?If we don?t act to prevent climate change, the cost will be much higher to reverse its effects,? claimed ?His Excellency? Calderon (the UN really refers to dis... | 0_0 |
On the American side, there is certainly no shortage of will and vision. Our two authors themselves were instrumental in forcing Europeans to look beyond Brussels sandbox politics and leading the drive for a successful enlargement of NATO. In the process of preaching a gospel of "broader and farther is always better," ... | 0_0 |
To reach the multimeter levels projected for 2100 by RV requires large positive accelerations that are one to two orders of magnitude greater than those yet observed in sea-level data. | 1_6 |
Alex Jones Prison Planet.com Dearth Of Sunspot Activity To Herald New Ice Age? A top observatory that has been measuring sun cycles for over 200 years predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next two decades as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet drastically cools down, potentiall... | 1_2 |
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