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Meanwhile, Coburn framed the ethanol issue in stark terms declaring: "What part of stupid are we? This is a historic vote that is a signal to the American people: Either people in Washington get it and are going to stop wasting money and start acting in the best interests of the country, or ... they won't." | 0_0 |
CLEXIT's founding statement says, "This vicious and relentless war on carbon dioxide will be seen by future generations as the most misguided mass delusion that the world has ever seen. Carbon dioxide is NOT a dangerous pollutant it is a natural, non-toxic, and beneficial gas which feeds all life on earth. Its increasi... | 3_3 |
Before the cause started to contaminate climatology about two decades ago, climate scientists realized that around the years 950-1250 AD or so, the Earth experienced warmer temperatures than in some later centuries, e.g. 1550-1850 AD. They called the first period the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the second period was... | 2_1 |
In Iraq, George W. Bush has followed the Reagan path, repeatedly changing methods and tactics but without drawing attention to his changes of direction. The voting public has not liked that. | 0_0 |
The sin of course is modern human activity in prosperous nations. You know, the kind of sinful activity that has lifted so many out of poverty, protected them from never-ending unusual weather events, and dramatically contributed to healthy living. | 1_7 |
the reputation of the ?scientific standing? of some of the leading exponents of the global warming doctrine has been heavily undermined recently (the most scandalous example being the case of the ?hockey stick?, which constituted the basis of the 2001 Third Assessment Report of the IPCC); | 5_2 |
In order to deter challenges to your plan for centralized control of industrial development through the issuance of permits for greenhouse gases, you have called upon each state to declare its allegiance to the Environmental Protection Agencys recently enacted greenhouse gas regulationsregulations that are plainly cont... | 4_1 |
The UAH graph provides a complete answer to the Chameides attempt to suggest that skeptics are confusing short-term and longer-term temperature changes. The year 2008 will turn out to have been no warmer than 1980 28 years ago. This is not a short-run change: the cooling trend set in as far back as late 2001, seven ful... | 1_4 |
As former NASA employees, we feel that NASAs advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At ri... | 0_0 |
Similarly the real savings of CO2 emissions from wind were 3 million tonnes less than the official DECC figures of 11.7 million tonnes, and which also ignores the increased emissions of Gas plants to balance Wind. The real capacity load factor of Wind Farms was 20.6% and not the quoted 28.7%, once you take into account... | 4_4 |
Lets return to the quote from the introduction of Trenberth et al. (2014) Earths Energy Imbalance : | 0_0 |
Be afraid of the dark: Misguided NIMBYs foster future of blackouts | 0_0 |
Steven Lyazi is a student and day laborer in Kampala, Uganda. He served as special assistant to Congress of Racial Equality-Uganda director Cyril Boynes, until Mr. Boynes died in January 2015. | 0_0 |
There are other, deeper tensions at work. Working-class voters crave order and stability. They value the degree of these things that the welfare state and public institutions have provided. They also respect entrepreneurs but have no desire to be forced to emulate them. They respect private economic activity, but fear ... | 0_0 |
Joe Herring warns of Islamist terrorists setting up a propaganda shop in the Heartland | 0_0 |
"At a stroke, Medicare chief Donald Berwick has revived the "death panel" debate from two summers ago. Allow us to referee, because this topic has been badly distorted by the political processand in a rational world, it wouldn't be a political question at all." | 0_0 |
The administration wants to apply this to concessionaires as well. This will force us to raise a $20 camping rate by $4 a night. | 0_0 |
A host of data shows all catastrophic events allegedly caused by CAGW occurred in the past when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were lower and constant.For many weather events, rates of occurrences recently declined. | 1_7 |
It is time that the Australian government shook itself free from the baleful influence of the IPCC by, first, commissioning a review by fully independent scientists as to the relative risks of natural and hypothetical human-caused climate change; and, second, by adopting a cost-effective national climate policy of prep... | 0_0 |
By Matt Ridley, WSJ, Aug 13, 2015 | 0_0 |
From a sampling point of view you cant sample temperature using a min/max thermometer, nor is meteorological maths correct. Lots of awkward problems where pragmatics comes into it. On the other hand a deep ground temperature thermometer is integrating, it can produce valid data except the technology and reading method ... | 5_1 |
Former Vice President Al Gore prepares for the release of his documentary on global warming. | 0_0 |
Professor Chris Turney and Dr Richard Jones, both from the Universitys Department of Geography, have reported a comprehensive study of the Last Interglacial, a period of warming some 125,000 years ago, in the latest issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science . | 0_0 |
In the context of our weblog posting of December 26, 2005 More on Sudden Climate Transitions A Book by John D. Cox , the paper we published in the Proceedings of the National Academy (PNAS) in 2004 is relevant. | 0_0 |
In respect to Schmidts whinge, as Lucia sagely observed a couple of years ago in connection with Schmidts defence of upside-down Tiljander, one cannot assume that people actually asked the questions that Schmidt says they asked or that his answers are adequate because he says so: | 0_0 |
Following the records set last September, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent continues to run well above normal. The average for January was similar to last year, and continues the increasing trend since 1979. | 1_1 |
The controversy started in August 2007, when statistician Stephen McIntyre found an error in NASAs temperature data sets that he said caused temperatures in the U.S. from the year 2000 onward to be overstated. After posting his findings on his website ClimateAudit.org , according to Judge Barbara Rothsteins decision, M... | 5_1 |
Below is chart showing recent global temperature increases are not even "unprecedented" in the context of the 20th century. Here are some worldly examples of higher temperatures in early 20th century. And, in recent historical past, today's temps are not near being " unprecedented ." (click to enlarge) | 2_1 |
For years, wind farms sprouted on privately held land while projects on public lands languished, in part because of the complex federal environmental reviews. Projects on private land are governed by state regulations if a federally protected species does not live there, which can lead to a cheaper and quicker approval... | 0_0 |
Is Kyoto the Hidden Price of Britain's Aid in Iraq? | 0_0 |
Things went along just fine like that for years. Then secondary recovery methods started to come into use. These were a variety of physical and chemical methods used to squeeze more oil out of existing fields, including fracturing the rock to allow the oil to come out more easily. | 0_0 |
The adjustable parameters (in red in the spreadsheet) are soil depth (0.2 m is typical for day-night temperature changes), the soil heat capacity (2.5 is typical, water is 4.18), the IR emissivity (0.90-0.95 would be typical), the downwelling sky radiation intensity (0 for all you sky dragon slayers out there, 250-350 ... | 0_0 |
Did the Gore Effect land in Melbourne , Australia? I report, you decide . Related, Gores speaking engagement wasnt quite as non-partisan as it appeared. | 0_0 |
Today, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that EPA would respond to the Supreme Court global warming case, Massachusetts v. EPA, by issuing an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to solicit public comment on a range of complex issues. | 0_0 |
Amazed that the committee would treat a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT and an IPCC lead author with such disrespect and disregard, I contacted Dr. Lindzen. He told me, "They also basically ignored what I said. I suppose they interviewed me in order to say... | 0_0 |
Your base rate will depend on your state and your job class. Rates are usually stated as premium dollars per hundred dollars of payroll. Rates vary all over the map. Store or clerical workers might be just a few dollars per hundred. Our campground workers are $9-$20 per hundred. Roofing workers can be $25 and up. So if... | 0_0 |
Climate researcher Michael E. Mann said his shared interest, with U.Va., in his e-mails means they can be released to him, but not to climate change skeptics. (Tom Jackman The Washington Post) Thats because U.Va. apparently has already given the 12,000 e-mails to Mann himself, though he left Charlottesville years ago. ... | 5_2 |
The reconstruction also ???reveals a long-term cooling trend of -0.31C per 1,000 years (0:03C) over the 138 B.C.-A.D. 1900 period . . .??This trend isnotreflectedin tree ring width data from ???the sametemperature-sensitive trees.?? Thus,reliance onsuch data (as in the hockey stick reconstruction)??probably causes an u... | 5_1 |
After 1985 solar activity started to decrease yet global temperatures continued to rise. Nir Shaviv is a proponent of a possible solar explanation for this that requires the suggested link between cosmic ray flux and clouds to be real. Svenmarks successful pilot experiment, published in 2006 provides experimental suppo... | 2_1 |
(C) Documents 1-7 in your list have not been revised by Heartland staff since they were stolen by Peter Gleick. Document 8, the fake memo, is not an authentic Heartland document or draft document, therefore I do not know whether or not it has been changed. I suggest you ask the Pacific Institute if they know. | 0_0 |
First of all, I am going to enlarge the context of the discussion. The primary source of heat for the surface of the Earth is the radiant energy of the sun. The solar wind of the sun, materials dumped into the atmosphere from space, heat from the deep interior of the earth, and the interplay of changes in the Earth's m... | 2_1 |
Switzerland would have to charge higher end-user power prices and resort to new gas-fired plants to fill the supply gap created by its planned nuclear phase-out prompted by Japans Fukushima accident, the Swiss energy ministry said on Friday. The statement also said the average household electricity bill, estimated at 8... | 0_0 |
Tool making and communication skills are easily distinguishing features between human beings and other species on this planet. When coupled with a natural curiosity and the ability learn from our mistakes, we have lifted most humans from the vulgar realities of our ancestors existence. For those bent on controlling oth... | 0_0 |
The IBM supercomputer, unveiled in May 2009 and 90 per cent funded by Government, has 15 million megabytes of memory and can make 125 trillion calculations every second. | 0_0 |
Julian Morris makes 26 points in response to the Stern Review discussion paper, "What is the Economics of Climate Change?" | 0_0 |
African leaders have expressed concern about European efforts to seek binding targets on sustainable development, fearing brakes would be applied to their economies by rich countries. An expanded role for UN agencies would face almost certain opposition from the United States. | 4_1 |
Experts in academia and government research centers were e-mailed invitations to participate in the on-line poll conducted by the website questionpro.com. Only those invited could participate and computer IP addresses of participants were recorded and used to prevent repeat voting. Questions used were reviewed by a pol... | 0_0 |
The provision of financial resources in payment for ecosystem services projects, such as are associated with Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), has the potential to stimulate conflict over resources and property rights (Melick, 2010). For example, efforts to ensure REDD readiness in Tan... | 0_0 |
OBSERVABLE DATA REBUT CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS | 5_1 |
CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker, Marc Morano, who edits CFACT's Climate Depot news and information service and a contingent of students from CFACT Collegians chapters at the University of West Virginia and Marshall University testified before the Board, which voted in January to temporarily pull back the amended ... | 0_0 |
Worst of all, our Congress and courts have completely abdicated their obligations to provide oversight and control of this dictatorial agency and Obama Administration. If this is the hope, change and future we can look "forward" to, our nation's health, well-being and justice will be rolled backward. | 0_0 |
Roy knows full well that PSI already did a physics experiment looking for the type of heating that is postulated from their greenhouse effect models. We used the atmospheres very own theorized greenhouse effect to check for the heating from back-radiation/imbalanced radiation output/heat retention or whatever label the... | 2_3 |
The IPCC models water vapour-driven positive feedback as starting from the pre-industrial level. Somehow the carbon dioxide below the pre-industrial level does not cause this water vapour-driven positive feedback. If their water vapour feedback is a linear relationship with carbon dioxide, then we should have seen over... | 3_1 |
Swedish academic gives climate models "F" in history | 0_0 |
In fact, this year was cooler than years such as 1762, 1779 and 1826, and more than a degree colder than 1783. | 1_3 |
Sea level was stable from at least BC 100 until AD 950. Sea level then increased for 400 y at a rate of 0.6 mm/y, followed by a further period of stable, or slightly falling, sea level that persisted until the late 19th century. Since then, sea level has risen at an average rate of 2.1 mm/y, representing the steepest c... | 1_6 |
NREL is an extension of the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). EERE is run by Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi, who, until assuming this post, served as CEO to Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. Zoi is responsible for many millions of the "green jobs" stimulus... | 0_0 |
Neither I, Marlo Lewis, Jr., nor The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has received any federal government funding which directly supports the subject matter on which I am appearing before the Committee. No money has been received in any amount from any Federal Grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or subcontra... | 0_0 |
It is fair to say that those who had access to powerful computers had no advantage in predicting anything about the long-term behavior of the atmosphere relatively to those who know enough theory (about the atmospheric dynamics) and only use the pencils and paper. The climate models may have "looked" realistic, like a ... | 5_1 |
Russians Pressure Japan, EU to Buy Credits | 0_0 |
In Debunking National Wildlife Federation Claims Part 2 some commenters claimed that the snow data cited from WRI "was not good enough". OK then, on to a bigger catchment. Steve Goddard replies in this brief essay. | 0_0 |
The American conservative movement was founded in explicit opposition to the progressive project. It was also founded on the premise that a return to the governing principles of the Founders' Constitution was feasible and desirable. The first principle is anti-progressive; the second is pro-conservative. The dynamics o... | 0_0 |
They argued that Democrats' previous victories in congressional and state elections wouldn't continue indefinitely, as conservative Southerners would start to vote Republican. | 0_0 |
In 22 days, Antarctic sea icea area will have been above normal for 365 days in a row. | 1_1 |
The heavy agenda Congress faces for the remainder of the year has gotten much heavier over the past week. The botched car bomb in New York puts a new emphasis on threats to the homeland, and it will (or should) require a renewed focus on the threat that exists to the most endangered places in America, namely New York a... | 0_0 |
Virgin Islands AG raises free-speech fears with subpoena for climate dissenters | 0_0 |
<3655> Singer/WWF: | 0_0 |
Counterviews are also presented, however, although at the end of the article, and lumped together with industry lobbyists. An excerpt from a climate scientist is | 0_0 |
Elevated CO 2 significantly increased leaf tannin and starch contents in a genotypically-dependent and -independent manner, respectively, while decreasing leaf cyanoglycoside contents, regardless of genotype. Atmospheric CO 2 enrichment did not significantly affect leaf water, sugar, protein, or nitrogen contents. Thus... | 3_3 |
It's a time for some potentially shocking news from the "third leg" of the WIMP witch hunt. | 0_0 |
Britain is in trouble with his runaway energy prices, with a rural lousy of wind, and with lots of fossil-fired power plants must stngas soon on grounds of age. The new environment minister Owen Paterson, gr out HRT against wind industry. Green subsidies in Soviet-style br scrapped, he says. Wind Industry should stand ... | 0_0 |
One fast-food chain, which I wont name, had a large (2-ft x 2-ft) help-wanted sign in the front window, a similarly-sized sign hanging over the serving line, and yet another large sign that practically covered the soda dispenser. I mean, they really want workers! | 0_0 |
The three Australian researchers discovered that the RMRs of fish reared at 29.5 and 31.5??C were "significantly higher than the control group reared at 28.5??C," and they indicate that "fish that developed in 30.5 and 31.5??C exhibited an enhanced ability to deal with acute temperature increases." What it means | 3_2 |
Cross-sex strip searches ruled unconstitutional: | 0_0 |
Increasing U.S. domestic petroleum will not likely lower world oil pricesmost experts believe that U.S. oil reserves are small in relation to the rest of the world. But it will help the U.S. offset the negative economic impact of a large increase in oil prices. For example, the economies of Alaska and Texas fare much b... | 4_5 |
There is little doubt that some players in the climate game not a lot, but enough to have severely damaged the reputation of climate scientists in general have stepped across the boundary into postmodern science. The Climategate scandal of 2009, wherein thousands of emails were leaked from the Climate Research Unit of ... | 5_2 |
Congress should also keep in mind Mississippi's "right to develop." International lawyers assert that the countries of the world must achieve greater economic parity before developing nations are expected to pitch in to fight global warming, even though they account for more than 30 percent of annual global emissions. | 0_0 |
For thirty years, asthma rates in the United States have increased, while pollution has declined. From 1980 to 2009, ambient American air concentrations of the major pollutants sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone decreased 78 percent, 48 percent, and 30 percent, respectively. Yet the prevalence of asthma increa... | 0_0 |
Hurricane Ike has many people worried, much like with Hurricane Gustav. As many of you may know, I produce a variety of weather imagery maps for web and broadcast in SD and HD. Since there is a lot of interest in the path of hurricanes, I thought Id post a few near-live images, which will update every 30 minutes. Here ... | 0_0 |
Deploying its members and financial resources, 1199 has branched out to support other "progressive" causes, including tax increases, gay rights, climate change, and an expansive immigration policy. It has helped underwrite "living wage" campaigns, including the "Fight for $15" fast-food workers' movement, and lent supp... | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 5:19 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Since January 2005, the data from which the IPCCs latest Assessment Report starts its backcast predictions, there has been no global warming at all. Yet compared with little more than nine years ago the IPCC predicts that the weather should now be a sixth of a Celsius degree warmer than it is (Fig. 1). | 1_4 |
Meanwhile, warming prevention proves not to be cheap. Forced substitution of commercial energy by costlier alternatives has hurt individuals and businesses in Europe, Australia, Ontario, and elsewhere. With claims about cost-free adoption of carbon-free energy increasingly in conflict with experience, doubt grows about... | 4_1 |
Now, there is no shortage of true believers in global warming even in the face of this awe-inspiring scandal. They do have a point: just because there is no evidence of global warming doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't happening. | 0_0 |
Also, as Peltier (2009) points out, the GRACE gravitational-anomaly record indicates that sea level has actually fallen in recent years. The raw data from the Envisat satellite from 2004-2012 show sea level rising at a rate equivalent to an unalarming 3.2 cm/century: | 1_6 |
The Army Corps of engineers intended to construct floodgates to close off water from Lake Pontchartrain during storms. A lawsuit by the local environmental group Save Our Wetlands, assisted by the national Environmental Defense Fund (now Environmental Defense), sued the Corps of Engineers, saying that gates could threa... | 0_0 |
The LNG issue boiled over last month when the US Department of Energy released the second of its delayed and highly anticipated reports on the potential impact of relaxing restrictions on natural gas exports. This analysis, prepared by NERA Economic Consulting, concluded "the US would experience net economic benefits f... | 0_0 |
After two studies refuted President Barack Obama's assertions regarding the success of Spain's and Denmark's wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies. | 0_0 |
An American team led by Randy Dole of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) suggested that the heatwave was mostly natural in origin. They based that on the fact that there was no basis for anticipating the heatwave given the conditions which applied at that time in Russia, said Myles Allen, ... | 1_7 |
Despite the reports projected increases in electricity cost and reductions in GDP, the impact of a CES would likely be much worse as the EIAs models (like most other economic models) dont do a very good job of predicting the future and, in the case of a CES, a government-dictated energy market can only lead to disaster... | 4_1 |
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has sent U.S. oil, natural gas, and propane production soaring. Natural gas output is up 36% since 2005. Oil output is expected to increase another 780,000 barrels per day (BOPD) in 2014 and reach 9.6 million BOPD by 2019. The United States is now importing half of what it did in 2005. | 4_5 |
A large degree of uncertainty in global climate models (GCMs) can be attributed to the representation of clouds and how they interact with incoming solar and outgoing longwave radiation. In this study, the simulated total cloud fraction (CF), cloud water path (CWP), top of the atmosphere (TOA) radiation budgets and clo... | 0_0 |
Verification of the forced component of twentieth-century climate trends simulated in model experiments depends on the existence of accurate estimates of these trends in observations. Given the limited sampling in both space and time of the observations and proxy records, these verifications must be handled carefully. ... | 5_1 |
Bellantuono et al . say their findings suggest that "the physiological plasticity of the host and/or symbiotic components appears to play an important role in responding to ocean warming," and they go on to describe some real-world examples of where this phenomenon may have played a crucial role in preserving corals ex... | 3_2 |
In our column from the previous month , we took a lookat the ice volume in the Arctic. Since then summer has come to an end and the data for the May-August period are now available from PIOMAS . | 0_0 |
Today, our own Margaret Wente and Rex Murphy sing in tune with the likes of Glenn Beck, sincerely believing their skepticism to be a form of intellectual virtue. It is not. | 0_0 |
Herrick and Thomas conclude that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment stimulates the seasonally integrated carbon gain of sweetgum trees by increasing rates of leaf photosynthesis, but not by changing leaf phenology. They also demonstrate that the CO 2 -induced stimulation of photosynthesis has now persisted in these specific t... | 3_3 |
Figure 3 shows the global temperature projections from the BAU scenario, along with the successive adherence to the Kerry-Lieberman emissions schedule by the U.S., the OECD90 countries (industrialized countries including the U.S., Western Europe, Australia and Japan), and the entire world. Basically, unless the develop... | 4_2 |
In ???The scandal of fiddled global warming data,?? Christopher Booker points out how one of the graphs of US surface temperature records published by NOAA, one of the worlds most influential climate records, has been ???shamelessly manipulated.?? | 5_2 |
Open access to natural resource development. The next Administration should open all federal waters and federal lands that are not part of the national park system or congressionally designated areas to exploration and production for all of America's natural resources. Congress should require the Department of the Inte... | 0_0 |
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