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Above all, it reflects a conviction that alarmists have a right to control our energy use, lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no transparency and no accountability for mistakes they make or damage they inflict on disfavored industries and families. And they are pursuing this agenda despite global warming aga... | 4_1 |
American Products. American Power. educates Americans on the importance of domestic energy production and the hundreds and hundreds of products that are made with American power. Our goal is to not only create awareness, but also mobilize Americans against regulation that fail to properly balance the costs and the bene... | 4_1 |
OIRA seems to have little understanding of the nature of regulation and how it might be disciplined. By "discipline," it should be understood, we are not asserting that regulations are "good" or "bad," but rather that OIRA ensure that this question is addressed. To see how badly OIRA has missed this point, consider how... | 0_0 |
To condemn the poorest of India?s poor to continuing poverty is to condemn many to an untimely death. Mr. Modi is right to have no more to do with such murderous nonsense. It is time to put an end to climate summits. On the evidence, they are not needed. | 0_0 |
In his first year in office President Obama has presided over an administration that has been more hostile to the development of nuclear energy than any of his predecessors. This week, forced by economic realities, he has begun to resurrect the nuclear energy program he and his environmental supporters have long demoni... | 0_0 |
Too many are intimidated by the CTBS cult of expertise. Citizens of a democracy cannot afford to leave important decisions to persons unknown, for reasons that are too technical for laymen to comprehend. | 0_0 |
Chimalaya has an article Ready or not: Can Bangladesh cope with climate change? Excerpts: | 0_0 |
Some authors (e.g. E. O. Wilson) went as far as to suggest that ?humans are bringing about a holocaust for the Earth?s other species.? | 0_0 |
Climate policy that is designed to mitigate the human impact on regional climate by focusing only on the emissions of CO 2 is seriously incomplete unless these other first-order human climate forcings are included, or complementary policies for these other human climate forcings are developed. Moreover, it is important... | 4_2 |
In its own way, progressive ideology is just as vital to the modern 1199 as Medicaid revenues. Like other interest groups that rely on ideological incentives to enhance solidarity, 1199 must exaggerate threats to keep members engaged. Without uncompromising rhetoric and a sense of perpetual crisis, the union would risk... | 0_0 |
County board hires former Rep. Hassert as lobbyist: | 0_0 |
The committee found the video "without merit" and recommended that it not be used. | 0_0 |
America's Businesses Get It: Immigration is Good | 0_0 |
So far I have identified six different versions of the De Bilt series: GISS raw, GISS adjusted, GHCN raw, GHCN adjusted, KNMI and Labrijn (the latter emailed to me by Hans, who obtained it from the authors.) GHCN raw and Labrijn are the only versions that go back to 1706; the two GISS versions begin in 1881; the GHCN a... | 0_0 |
He went to La Martiniere, a boarding school for the Indian upper middle classes. Cricket is an obsession and his website devotes a whole section to his achievements, detailing such landmarks as his 300th wicket. | 0_0 |
Rural American jobs threatened by Obama forest plan | 0_0 |
For starters, establishing GHG emission standards for new motor vehicles would by definition make CO 2 a CAA-regulated air pollutant. As such, CO 2 wouldautomatically besubject to regulation under the Acts Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.Under the CAA, any firm that pla... | 0_0 |
"John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, has advised that the action group for the legalisation of online poker is to change its strategy in Washington state, lobbying lawmakers to change the state's draconian anti-online gambling laws rather than fight cases through the courts." | 0_0 |
Quoting an essay in the American Outlook (Summer 2000), he noted, "But to the Federal government, the greatest threat is something far different. As Warren Christopher assured his audience in May 1996 at Stanford University, the main threat is climate change produced by the burning of fuels ." | 0_0 |
If we take the HacCRUT3 instrumental temperature record for the Northern Hemisphere and tack it on to a recent Northern Hemisphere climate reconstruction ( Ljungqvist, 2009 ) and then scale the GISP2 climate reconstruction ( Alley, 2004 ) to fit the instrumental record and reconstruction, we can see that the modern cli... | 2_1 |
This is a good question. It is a still incompletely understood mix of a variety of human caused radiative forcings (e.g. CO2, methane and several other greenhouse gases, land use/land cover change,black carbon (soot), sulphates, and other aerosols) and natual climate variations. | 5_1 |
After all, the pols know that both party bases will be there, with predictable results and that what they need to do is persuade the persuadables. This means a sharper focus on the big issues that concern them and the country, from budgets to energy and climate change to education and jobs, and more moderate rhetoric, ... | 0_0 |
The four researchers?? reconstructed record of intense hurricanes revealed that the frequency of these ???high-magnitude?? events ???peaked near 6 storms per century between 2800 and 2300 years ago.?? Thereafter, it suggests that they were ???relatively rare?? with ???about 0-3 storms per century occurring between 1900... | 1_7 |
The computers are taught that the temperature rise during the last hundred years is due mostly to the greenhouse effect. If the truth is that only about 10% of the present warming is caused by the greenhouse effect, the computer code must be rewritten | 5_1 |
Heartland Institute Experts React to State of the Union Address | 0_0 |
Going back even further there is strong evidence for dramatic changes obtained the synthesis of ice core isotope proxy records for temperature showing that there was a warm period, much warmer than Antarctic is today, between 11,500 and 9000 years ago, a period sometimes referred to as the early Holocene climatic optim... | 2_1 |
But, in SK they generate about 40% of this potential or 60 megawatts (see Saskatchewan Legislature Hansard, January 2007, page 794) | 0_0 |
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? | 0_0 |
When equating energy flux density, climate science thus chose the branch of making Sunshine way too cold (-18 degrees C). Such freezing cold sunshine is at odds with the observation and fact that Sunshine creates the water cycle by both melting and evaporating H2O. Instead of reconsidering whether or not the numbers on... | 0_0 |
"For now, energy is carbon based because it is cheaper than anything else and it makes no sense to decarbonise unless everybody is doing it; it's lunacy to go it alone when China is building a new coal power station every week," he said, speaking at the LGA annual conference. | 4_2 |
I clearly remember the tone of articles on global warming during the 1980s. Most of the concern came out of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on the ozone layer. By the way, this was during the new era of climate scientists working with high-grade graphic computer modelling. | 0_0 |
Where is this likely taking us? President Obama has long promised to fundamentally transform the U.S. economy and ensure that electricity prices necessarily skyrocket. His edicts are doing precisely that. And now Christiana Figueres, the UNs chief climate change official, has declared that her unelected bureaucrats are... | 0_0 |
project could do a lot to raise awareness of threats to the reef from climate | 0_0 |
What this implies is that even if CO2 emissions are responsible for all the warming of the past 30 yearsa big ifwe may reasonably expect about 1.7 degrees Celsius of warming over the next hundred years. | 0_0 |
A paper under open review for Climate of the Past reconstructs summer ] temperatures in Sweden and Finland over the past ~2,200 years and finds temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago and the Roman Warm Period 2,000 years ago were about the same as at the end of the 20th century. The paper also sho... | 5_1 |
In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled "Earth Day, Then and Now" to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day, and in the years... | 0_0 |
Even if these women do exist, which is highly doubtful, EPA could not identify the supposed harm posed by U.S. power plants. EPA's modeling demonstrates that the 99th percentile pregnancy fish consumer (a hypothetical woman who eats almost 240 pounds of self-caught fish during pregnancy) would suffer a 0.8 IQ point los... | 0_0 |
This is why validating the predictions of any theory is so important to the progress of science. The best test of a theory is to see whether the predictions of that theory end up being correct. Unfortunately, we have no good way to rigorously test climate models in the context of the theory that global warming is manma... | 5_1 |
It tells us so little while saying so much. The paper tells us, by the figures in Table 2, that sea levels could rise from anywhere between 300 mm and 2200 mm, but Table 3 tells us that, relevant to coastal planning the range could be from 120 mm to 1900 mm. | 5_1 |
Further, the political downside to supporting the legislation is unambiguous. Americans are primarily concerned with jobs and the economy. Any significant effort spent on other legislation will reignite charges, originally hurled during the lengthy and unsuccessful health-care debate, that the White House and Democrats... | 0_0 |
Global warming activists call for policies to lower the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to their recommended level of 350 parts per million. | 0_0 |
Dr. Sassan Saatchi of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., put the critical role of these earth observing satellites into perspective. These detailed emissions estimates would not have been possible without the NASA satellites that helped us quantify forest cover change and forest carbon stocks, which a... | 0_0 |
Effects of Super-Elevated CO2 on Mint and Thyme | 0_0 |
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules for existing coal-fired power plants, a 30 percent reduction in allowable carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The only way this will be possible will be by upgrading almost all combustion units, and the ultimate cost of the upgrades will make coal n... | 4_1 |
If you've been following the global warming issue via this Report, one thing you can't have missed is that the satellite data in our monthly Earth Track segment show no warming since measurements began in 1979. Yet we hear that this year, last year, or next year is, was, or will be the hottest ever measured by ground-b... | 1_4 |
Clearly we see that in 2009,two years after the 4AR had been issued in 2007, Schellnhuber was preaching the Himalayan 2035 glacier meltdown, even claiming he could calculate the melt very easily and that major rivers like the Yangtze, Ganges, Mekong, etc.would dry up. But just over 2 months later, the media found out t... | 0_0 |
Ed Feulner is founder of the Heritage Foundation. This piece originally appeared in The Washington Times. | 0_0 |
"Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems, the latest in a string of quality lapses for the world's No. 1 automaker." | 0_0 |
In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. government's two primary climate centers: the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for ... | 5_2 |
So I reached out to Patrick Muttart, former chief of staff to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. Muttart is perhaps the world's leading expert on working-class voters in English-speaking countries, having studied their behavior and attitudes not only in Canada but also in Britain, Australia, and America. He has fo... | 0_0 |
If the greenhouse effect is so strong on Venus, why isnt the lapse rate much larger, and much larger than Earths, given the fact that the amount of CO2 decreases a lot between the surface and the height of 60km? | 2_3 |
?unchanging? environment leads people to generate local explanations for coral | 0_0 |
Plant stomata reconstructions (Kouwenberg et al., 2005, Finsinger and Wagner-Cremer, 2009) and contemporary chemical analyses (Beck, 2007) indicate that CO2 levels in the 1930s to early 1940s were in the 340 to 400 ppmv range and then declined sharply in the 1950??s. These findings have been rejected by the so-called s... | 2_3 |
In other words they are picked as being robust and reliable. Out of the nineteen, only thirteen have records back to 1934 and these are listed below with comparisons of this years temperatures with those of July 1934. The temperatures shown are the actual original readings, and not adjusted, homogenised or otherwise ta... | 0_0 |
Leaf water potential in plants subjected to drought, but grown at elevated CO2, was less negative than in their ambient CO2 grown counterparts ... Read More | 3_3 |
Monash News, sport and weather | Monash Weekly | 0_0 |
Ed Markey (D-CA) responded flippantly to Johnson's ANPR letter: "The A' in this document should stand for absurd.' ... This cynical step by EPA to announce an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking' in the coming months should be seen for what it is: an "Aspirational Notice of Procrastinational Rulemaking'." Markey has... | 0_0 |
Of particular concern to me, is the Bureaus decision of last June, to discard the statistical models that had been used to generate seasonal rainfall forecasts in favour of a general circulation model that has no predictive skill at all. I have documented the absence of skill in the general circulation model in a peer-... | 5_1 |
The reality is far brighter. The costs of removing oil from the sands have gone down as new innovations have made it more economical. Peter Huber and Mark Mills, authors of the newly released book "The Bottomless Well," note that oil extraction from the Alberta sands is not "especially difficult or expensive." | 0_0 |
Moderate progressives view the rejections of the Democrats from 1968 to 1984 as a sober lesson delivered by a sober populace. They view Americans today as wanting the same things economically that their parents and grandparents wanted from the New Deal: an active safety net that helps them move up in American life. In ... | 0_0 |
First, why is "the existence of entanglement" not an observable? Well, take a two-spin Hilbert space, to pick an example. The states \(\ket{\uparrow\downarrow}\) and \(\ket{\downarrow\uparrow}\) are said to be non-entangled. So if there is an observable \(E\), a linear operator whose eigenvalues are \(0,1\) for non-ent... | 0_0 |
Pershing also suggested U.S. financial support for the Green Climate Fund would not be a sticking point, because Paris puts pressure on industrial countries to "mobilize" $100 billion for the fund, not pay it all out of "public coffers." | 0_0 |
And then there is a new breed of academics that are working at the interface of (physical) climate science and social science, trained in the paradigm of environmental studies. These academics have some understanding of the science of climate change. They mostly use the IPCC conclusions (imbuing them with even higher c... | 5_2 |
And the fabricated documents (which Dr. Mann apparently still thinks is factual) which lead to the sort of misinformation Dr. Mann uses, are here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/global-warming-alarmists-resort-to-hoax.php | 5_2 |
Inhofe disputed this, saying that while the Supreme Court said the EPA had the discretion to "decide whether greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare," it did not authorize draconian regulations based on flawed science, regulations that would impose an economy-crushing hidden tax on businesses, energy produc... | 0_0 |
Chinese Famine of 1928-1930-Over 3 million perish in northwest China | 0_0 |
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - NY Top Court Upholds Lap Dance Tax | 0_0 |
/s/ Joseph E. Rogers JSC, Chief, Structures and Dynamics Branch, Engr. Directorate,40 years | 0_0 |
Last's informative and crisply argued book strives to let "hope have the last word." Yet his documentation of our self-absorbed commitment to our own pleasure and comfort, both of which child-bearing interferes with, and our indifference to the world that will come after us, suggests that for "a deeply unserious people... | 0_0 |
We are being told atmospheric carbon dioxide levels leapt, so why didnt it get unbearably hot? | 2_3 |
"Cuba has set income tax rates at 25 to 50 percent for its soon to be expanded private sector, with the biggest earners paying the most taxes, according to official decrees published on Monday." | 0_0 |
Pretty much says it all: Sweden may have to import garbage | 0_0 |
Memo to believers of global catastrophe: Here??s a strategic tip ??? run, flee, hide, and avoid the Hot Spot argument at all costs. (You can??t win). Either the hot spot is missing because the models exaggerate wildly, or the hot spot is there but we can??t see it because the world hasn??t warmed as much as those therm... | 2_3 |
on Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 at 1:13 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Oh, my. Only American troglodytes and neanderthals are supposed to question whether the planet is hurtling towards climate disaster. Surely the Aussies can't be having any doubts. Al Gore, call your office! | 0_0 |
The winners are states with high power costs or with significant inexpensive hydroelectric resources that would be unaffected by GHG policies. The losers are states with low power costs driven by disproportionate use of cheap, coal-fired power. By driving power costs up in the latter group of states, the GHG policies w... | 0_0 |
2. Hinderaker, J. June 9, 2012. Is the United States Actually Getting Warmer? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/is-the-united-states-actually-getting-warmer.php | 0_0 |
The hockey team could have stayed with the temperature according to tree rings but they did not. For this small region of temperature, forty degrees or so, they used conventional thermometry but for the other thousand years or so they used ring separation. That is, they chose to replace the inconvenient later tree data... | 5_1 |
Australian, New Zealand Armed forces equivalent of Poppy Day. Remembrance Sunday. | 0_0 |
Citigroup's "Energy 2020" report says the U.S. petroleum industry could add "as many as 3.6 million jobs by 2020 and increase the U.S. gross domestic product by as much as 3 percent," while also generating billions of dollars in lease bonuses, rents, royalties and taxes for local, state and federal governments. | 4_5 |
"Last summer, two American researchers took a more careful look. Armed with 210 overhead photographs of the Amazon region taken by Landsat satellites, they compared images from 1978 and 1988, painstakingly entered into a computer every tiny forest clearing, road, and power-line right of way. They found the average rate... | 0_0 |
Since the earliest days of climate policy development, the world's focus has been on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions rather than adaptation. In fact, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has always discussed the idea of adaptation to climate change as a second- or third-best po... | 0_0 |
Fortunately, while globalista academics, their handmaidens in the political commentariat, leftist think tanks, and non-governmental organizations were hard at work, others, in the late '90s, were awakening to the consequences of all that buzz. Sometimes derided as "new sovereigntists" by the multilateralist chorus, the... | 0_0 |
4 Fourth, satellites have measured the outgoing radiation from the earth and found that the earth gives off more heat when the surface is warmer, and less heat in months when the earths surface is cooler. Who could have guessed? But the climate models say the opposite, that the Earth gives off less heat when the surfac... | 5_1 |
''Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Reader's Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of Communism? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were... | 0_0 |
Other complicating factors are easier to assess and guard against. They found that the embankments that protect the land from the river and sea had also robbed it of fresh supplies of sediment: during the five decades of its existence, the polder had sunk by a full metre relative to the land outside the embankments bec... | 0_0 |
It gives us little pleasure to say we foresaw that the Republican Party was on a destructive course that could lead to such a situation. | 0_0 |
The purpose of this paper is to describe existing methodologies to separate decadal natural variability from anthropogenically forced variability, the degree to which those efforts have succeeded, and the ways in which the methods are limited or challenged by existing data. Note that the separation of decadal natural v... | 0_0 |
Final Tab for Pelosi's Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt Or $3.66 Billion Per Day: | 0_0 |
ScienceWorldReport Climate Change: Seabirds are Abandoning Ancestral Nesting Grounds in California . | 0_0 |
This figure depicts the central Greenland surface temperature reconstruction produced by the six scientists; and as best as can be determined from this representation, the peak temperature of the latter part of the Medieval Warm Period - which actually began some time prior to the start of their record, as demonstrated... | 2_1 |
"Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, | 0_0 |
The institute said there was a need for a wider public debate as the controversial method of extracting gas from shale rock, commonly known as fracking, has generally relied on a solution of potentially toxic chemicals to break up rock and release the gas. | 0_0 |
Research and ruling classes benefit, while poor, minority and blue-collar families suffer and Africans are told they must be content with wind and solar energy because, as President Obama put it, "if everybody has got a car" and air conditioning and a big house, "the planet will boil over." | 0_0 |
Obama seeks new air pollution limits for landfills | 0_0 |
In other words, the assumptions that underpin the economic analyses used to justify carbon pricing are appropriate for a theoretical modelling exercise but unrealistic, impracticable and highly unlikely to be achieved in the real world. Some key assumptions that underpin the analyses are: | 0_0 |
Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix did not use the published dates for ocean cores, instead substituting their own dates. The validity of Marcott-Shakun re-dating will be discussed below, but first, to show that the re-dating ???matters?? (TM-climate science), here is a graph showing reconstructions using alkenones (31 of ... | 5_1 |
The most cited potential reason for this unexpected inconvenience is that the oceans have been taking up the extra heat and replacing it with cooler water from the ocean depths. In that scenario, the natural ocean surface-cooling mechanism now in progress (if it exists) will eventually go back to normal, and surface wa... | 0_0 |
The BEST report said: Numerically, our best estimate for the global temperature of 2014 puts it slightly above (by 0.01C) that of the next warmest year (2010) but by much less than the margin of uncertainty. (italics added) Therefore it is impossible to conclude from our analysis which of 2014, 2010, or 2005 was actual... | 1_4 |
Glacial ice packs advance and recede according to precipitation and havent lost any ice due to warming anywhere on the globe. We have been told for years of the sea rising and flooding shallow areas of the globe. | 1_1 |
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