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Because of the low photosynthetic efficiency and the competition of energy plants with food plants for agricultural land, we should not grow plants for biofuel production. The growth of such energy plants will undoubtedly lead to an increase in food prices, which will predominantly hit poorer people. | 4_4 |
Study of Gravity Exposes Weakness of Global Warming Theories | 0_0 |
Indian Drought of 1900-1/4 to 3 1/4 million die due to drought, starvation and disease | 0_0 |
Over at his blog, Thomas Fuller gives many reasons not to take at face value the claims that climate change contributed to the conflict in Syria. These include (in no order): | 0_0 |
Nicolas D. Loris, "The Many Problems of the EPA's Clean Power Plan and Climate Regulations: A Primer," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3025, July 7, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/07/the-many-problems-of-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-a-primer. | 0_0 |
This volume can be regarded as an observation-based response to the IPCC reports from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climatic Change (NIPCC) . | 0_0 |
One reason we have been so unprepared for the past three winters has been the obsession of our government and other authorities with global warming. They kept listening to climate change campaigners warning that Britain will heat up four or five degrees and believed we would never have cold weather again. They wrote re... | 0_0 |
Mumby and Harborne's findings suggest that marine reserves can indeed "build coral resilience and offset the effects of global climate change." And they also suggest that were it not for the site-specific deleterious effects of humanity on reef environments, this would likely be the case nearly everywhere, which in tur... | 3_2 |
At the same time, Santorum was leveling similar attacks at Romney, who supported carbon reductions when he was governor, before changing course to oppose the 10-state cap-and-trade program called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. | 0_0 |
So the fact that individuals are voluntarily sending money to pay for the Forest Service to plant tress (and other stuff) is proof of a plan to sell off all government-owned land. That's some tortured logic worthy of Moonbat himself. All of this, however, is strictly academic, since we all know that even if we were fac... | 0_0 |
As the table shows, there is no clear-cut answer as to what is happening to sea levels in the Pacific. If we average the data, we get a sea level fall of -11.2 mm/yr., but this still tells us almost nothing and has little meaning to an island such as Tonga, which is experiencing sea level rise. Given the large differen... | 1_6 |
Poll Finds Party Polarization on Global Warming | 0_0 |
Wal-Mart teams up with labor unions to launch a new health care program for workers. | 0_0 |
Contrary to what you may have heard, both of those huge ice sheets are growing. | 1_1 |
Mazzarella and Scafetta say their findings and analysis indicate that "the global climate likely presents a ~60-year oscillation since at least 1700," and that "this natural oscillation was in its warm phase during the period 1970-2000 and has likely largely contributed to the global warming during this period," which ... | 2_1 |
This value is very important for calculating the amount of energy that the carbon dioxide absorbs and emits each second. Given the specific heat capacity of the carbon dioxide at its current density and temperature, which is of the order of ~871 J/Kg K, the carbon dioxide is not the cause of any change of the Earths cl... | 2_3 |
Odd couple: Will Dow Chemical and Ed Markey's opposition to natural gas exports cripple America's energy advantage? | 0_0 |
What the pessimists missed, however, was the successful launch last Friday of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V booster, carrying a GPS satellite into orbit the fiftieth such successful launch and powered by the same kind of seventies-era RD-180 engine that blew up on the Orbital Science platform. | 0_0 |
I warned at the start of the post that wed see the usual Mannian debating trick. B-C said that the Mannian method was "susceptible" to nonsense regressors, a view that I share. Watch the pea under the thimble. Mann re-states this as being "necessarily" and then tries to show a situation where the problem doesnt occur t... | 0_0 |
So imagine how completely flabbergasted I am when I hear nonsense about co2 and causing global warming and Irene is a product of that, , when in a 2 year stretch, 1954-1955 6 hurricanes, affected N Carolinas with at least hurricane conditions and 8 in a 7 year stretch from 1954-1960. And cat 2 or greater in New England... | 1_7 |
Attending Heartland's Fourth International Conference were seventy-three distinguished scientists, economists, and policy experts from twenty-three countries. The speakers were all united in thought that the time is now to reconsider the science and economics of global warming. New scientific discoveries cast doubt on ... | 0_0 |
About 2/3 of the Americans, including John Kerry and Oliver Stone , believe that there is some deeper story behind the murder than a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald. Holy crap. Why are they doing it? I have already mentioned that they probably want to "restore some order", to save their (incorrect) assumption that ... | 0_0 |
Twitter / billmckibben: Quite a large, actually a truly | 0_0 |
EPA Offers Draconian "Guidance" for Global Warming Energy Restrictions | 0_0 |
By Donn Dears, Power For USA, Aug 11, 2015 | 0_0 |
He understands that there are risks to over-reacting, because wealthier societies are safer societies, and radical climate policy can threaten that wealth; and | 0_0 |
The Green Jobs conceit goes like this: the government should offer tax credits and impose regulations that lead businesses to implement environmentally-friendly practices. This will create jobs doing what's needed to qualify for the credits or comply with the regulations. Most importantly, carbon regulation (most likel... | 0_0 |
EXAMPLE: WHY DIDNT THE CONSENSUS OF REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS PREDICT TIMING, EXTENT AND DURATION OF THE CALIFORNIA DROUGHT? | 5_1 |
??They are obviously tuttorecchi to know who can deal better than me, than you will reduce global temperature in 2020 thanks to 20-20-20. Lomborg also on Sole24Ore recently spoke of hundredths of a degree, in 2100. | 4_2 |
I would like to weigh in or maybe kick the door down. | 0_0 |
At -67 degrees, the pro is concerned about damage to the greens. | 0_0 |
The attachment was a polite rejection of our paper. Included were the complete reviews. Although some of the points in the reviews were, in fact, addressed in our paper, we thought it advisable to respond to the reviews in detail, and to revise our paper in order to clarify matters. It was, however, clear, that the rev... | 0_0 |
By Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
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He replied, soaking it all up. In a bold twist reminiscent of Soviet psychologists, he called the skeptics bullies and the attacks orchestrated: | 0_0 |
Automobile designers have long recognized ethanol's potential as motor vehicle fuel. The first American internal combustion prototype made by Samuel Morey in 1826 ran on ethanol, and it remained the dominant automotive fuel until 1908, when a combination of rapidly dropping gasoline prices and rapidly increasing ethano... | 0_0 |
Only 7000 years ago the earth was warmer, a lot warmer. In fact it was enough warmer that TREES WERE GROWING OLD WHERE GLACIERS NOW LAY!!!!. When you first read most warming in 7000 years, it is shocking, . . . but taken in context it means that the Earth WITH NO PEOPLE MAKING CO2 will still MELT THE DAMN GLACIERS! The... | 2_1 |
Actually the arctic ice is very 3rd highest level since 2002, very close to 2003, in a virtual tie to last winter and the highest year according to IARC-JAXA . The anomaly is a relatively small 300,000 square km according to The Cryosphere Today. | 1_1 |
And if the higher profits of koda depend on the salaries, well, it means that the salaries in koda should relatively go up while those in other parts of the VW Group should go down. The average wage in koda is 1.5 times higher than the average Czech salary, so it's a great employer, but it's still lower than in VW Germ... | 0_0 |
It is time to demand, unequivocally, that the warmies tell us exactly what would falsify the theory of AGW. And it is time to demand that the EPA Administrator answer that question under oath before Congress. | 0_0 |
One-fiftieth of a Celsius degree of warming forestalled is all that complete, global compliance with the Copenhagen Accord for an entire decade would achieve. Yet the cost of achieving this result an outcome so small that our instruments would not be able to measure it would run into trillions of dollars. Do your Treas... | 4_2 |
???he impact that emissions reduction efforts in the U.S. will have on global emissions totals???andby extension, global climate???is quickly diminishing.?? | 4_2 |
From President Obama, in campaign rather than governing mode these days, we hear denunciations of Republicans for killing proposals for legalizing illegal immigrants. | 0_0 |
However, these actions are essential if the United States is to have an economic and employment revival, and poor, minority, and blue-collar families are to be protected from regulatory excess and unaccountable ruling elites. | 0_0 |
This article appeared on Dr. Spencer's weblog at http://www.drroyspencer.com/ | 0_0 |
on Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 3:39 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Bottom right: Adjustments from GISS-GHCN raw data. GISS-GHCN version minus 4 versions. | 0_0 |
Nicolas D. Loris, "No More Energy Subsidies: Prevent the New, Repeal the Old," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2587, July 26, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/no-more-energy-subsidies-prevent-the-new-repeal-the-old. | 0_0 |
The $800 per-household expenditure is merely the cost of building the transmission lines. Wind power is more expensive to produce than conventional power sources, so Texas consumers will also pay electricity premiums every year. | 4_4 |
In addition to traditional public service announcements, prominent green organizations have recently added the political attack ad to their public-relations portfolio. Indeed, environmentalists now run some of the most aggressive negative advertisements in the media business. It doesn't matter if you are a Republican o... | 0_0 |
I recently had a post about why $5 per gallon gas would be good for America, because the higher the price and the longer gas stays expensive, the greater the conservation, and the greater the chance we'll someday see viable alternatives. In today's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson has an excellent, related article ("A... | 0_0 |
However, thinking back upon the results from Santer et al., the same is probably is not entirely true for all of the climate model runs for the 1979-2010 time period. Almost certainly, the combination of random variability has added some amount of noise to the trend distribution even at time frames of 30 years or so. | 0_0 |
According to these results there wont be any significant global warming between now and 2100 provided my analysis is realistic. Is it? Well, its admittedly speculative. But then, so are the climate models the IPCC uses to make its official global warming predictions. And my models fit observations a lot better too. | 5_1 |
A Chinese icebreaker named Snow Dragon ( MV Xue Long ) was sent to liberate the Russian vessel. However, this Chinese boat can only penetrate through the ice that is about 1.5 meters thick ??? and the thickness is 3-4 meters at many places, as I have mentioned. So the Chinese gave it up two days ago ??? while being abo... | 1_1 |
But the green technologies are not commercially viable to build without the subsidies, which will be paid for through levies on energy consumers bills. | 4_4 |
"The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian had already scheduled a day of events -- including the Indian Summer Showcase 2007, which appeared to be absorbed into "Mother Earth - In the Spirit of the Live Earth Concerts.' There were already going to be performances, drum circles and spiritual/environmenta... | 0_0 |
The chart also clearly indicates that billions upon billions of human CO2 emissions have had little, if any, impact on global warming. | 2_3 |
Meanwhile, the population bomb has turned out to be a dud worldwide, as birthrates declined, and the real demographic problem, as Ben Wattenberg and Phillip Longman have pointed out, is population decline. Warren Buffett, who planned to leave his fortune to population controllers, wisely decided to leave it Bill and Me... | 0_0 |
Australian National Universitys Geoff Cary said a projected lift in temperatures of more than 2C would probably mean much more bushfire activity across the country. | 0_0 |
Walking is not as difficult as I imagined. Every twenty steps I have to stop and pull the sleeping bags up over my legs again, but my feet stay warm. In ten minutes we meet another hiker. We must look like the Donner Party, but we tell him everything is okay and keep going. Between the mountain ridges there is a small ... | 0_0 |
Even the catastrophic scenarios painted by enthusiasts clash. In one extreme case, the Greenland ice sheet and much of the polar ice caps could melt, raising the global sea level by as much as 30 feet, inundating billions in coastal areas. (Keep in mind, though, that such a scenario would take decades to play out, unli... | 5_2 |
With the Republicans now in charge come January, Murkowski will become the Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. She is expected to start by "holding hearings, pressuring Obama Administration officials, and testing the level of support from party leadership." | 0_0 |
To put some perspective on this, here is what 7000 wind turbines across Northern Europe (between the North sea, the Baltic Sea and the Austrian-Swiss border) produced in 2004. You can admire the stable predictable output that comes from averaging so many turbines over such a large area. Right? | 0_0 |
Yeah, adding in fudge factors is definitely one way to make the numbers show whatever you'd like them to. | 0_0 |
Putin may not have an economy, and his power projection capability may be held together with chicken wire and spit, but the delusions of his opponents have always been his chief tools. European and American leadership since the end of the Cold War has been operating on the false belief that geopolitics had come to an e... | 0_0 |
The Czech company has been doing some quality cars since the 19th century (founded as Laurin & Klement). It was bought by the non-car industrial giant koda Works, here in Pilsen, in the 1920s. The companies shared and keep on sharing the logo, the winged arrow , even though communism has de facto divided them again. Th... | 0_0 |
Looking at the latest global temperature on Roy Spencers graph, I was struck how half the graph is warmer than the rest. Zealots usually pick on this and ask why have 9 out of the last 10 elections days been warmer than they were, or some other meaningless statistic. | 5_2 |
Above all, there is a striking contrast between the careful, measured, balanced tone of Roy Spencers facts, which I have summarized above, and the intemperate, hate-filled Gish gallop of cherry-picked citations, half-truths, and outright falsehoods of which Nuccitelli is yet again guilty. | 0_0 |
coordinating with organizers of an April conference in Germany (programme here, registration info here) | 0_0 |
Bao et al . next compared their record to other pluvial studies within and around their study region, of which they report "similar fluctuation patterns of drought and pluvial intervals existed in several available tree-ring-based hydroclimatic reconstructions and ours." And based on their record and this regional comp... | 1_7 |
Interesting juxtaposition of news today record snowfalls at Falls Creek and the ACT GreenLabor Govt inflicting more mad taxes on us. While of course their incomes and super are indexed and paid for by you guessed it us poor sucker voters. | 0_0 |
After finding polar bear prints and scat they finally encounter one actual bear, an animal who appears half-starved and confused by the Greenlandic summer, which has rendered the fjords ice-free for a few weeks each year, for the first time in human memory. He has ransacked a remote cabin left behind by other explorers... | 0_0 |
One of the more difficult concepts is RegEM, an algorithm developed by Tapio Schneider in 2001 . Its a form of expectation maximization (EM) which is a common and well understood method for infilling missing data. As weve previously noted on WUWT, many of the weather stations used in the Steig et al study had issues wi... | 5_1 |
Queen's University Belfast has data on tree rings that goes back millennia, in particular, to the Medieval Warm Period. QUB researchers have not analyzed the data (because they lack the expertise to do so). They also refuse to release the data. I have been trying to obtain the data, via the UK Freedom of Information Ac... | 5_2 |
The expedition vessel was hired by a group of global warming scientists, says Craig Rucker at CFact. | 0_0 |
This economy needs stimulus. Taxing and spending are anti-stimulantsand so is regulating. The administration's fiscal "stimulus" amounts to taking money out of the economy and putting it back in. That is like ladling water out of the deep end of a pool only to pour it back in at the shallow endall the while paying some... | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | The Wagin Argus | 0_0 |
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! It's cooling, not warming. | 0_0 |
How the Hadley Centre spins the data on non-warming | 5_2 |
" The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earths sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming or global coolin... | 2_1 |
However, many people involved with the U.S. research program are involved closely with the IPCC process, and a reciprocal influence is to be expected. A genuinely independent climate assessment process would need to build from the ground up, recruiting a team wholly independent of the IPCC's personnel, and funded adequ... | 0_0 |
Thus, the price of oil, which is responsible for about 40 percent of the price we see at the pumps, is largely outside of government control. On the other hand, a good chunk of the other 60 percent can be reduced. The most obvious target is taxes, including the 18.4 cents per gallon federal excise tax, as well as state... | 0_0 |
Advantages: Least effort. Readers will notice that back in January, when I first began using data, I would use only one data set: GISSTemp. This choice was dictated by pure laziness. I was interested in getting up to speed and gaining familiarity with available data sets and the literature. | 0_0 |
In contrast, records of CO2 and temperature reveal no discernable warming effect of CO2. There is a correlation between atmospheric CO2 and temperature, but with CO2 changes following temperature changes by an average of about 800 years (Caillon 2003 ), indicating that it is temperature change that is driving atmospher... | 2_3 |
UN IPCC 2001 report: "Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms' IPCC Third Assessment Report ? Climate Change 2001 | 0_0 |
support is vital to keep pressure on Iran in between attempts at negotiation, | 0_0 |
The project?s purpose is as ambitious as sending men to the moon once was: to foster the development of a global energy system with significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions and provide abundant and efficient energy for a world population projected to increase by some 21 percent in the next two decades. | 0_0 |
2) Regardless of whether it's getting hotter or colder "or both "we are going to need to produce a lot more energy in order to remain productive and comfortable. | 0_0 |
They are using high-pressure pumps from Nottinghamshire to fight a woodyard blaze, more than 48 hours after a pile of wood chippings caught fire , and are pumping water almost four miles from Harden reservoir at Hade Edge. | 0_0 |
The most intense hurricane in US history occurred in 1935, and seven of the ten most intense hurricanes occurred below 350 ppm. It has been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US the longest period on record. | 1_7 |
After lamenting that, since his visit to the 2009 Copenhagen UN conference on climate change, President Obama has failed to mention global warming every day, Rosenthal wrote But two years later, now that nearly every other nation accepts climate change as a pressing problem, America has turned agnostic on the issue. | 0_0 |
???The results of the study indicated that a temperature increase of up to 2C could be advantageous for growth of some species of tropical plants, such as Stylosanthes capitata Vogel ,?? Martinez stated. | 3_2 |
Errors arise when we think about jobs on a gross basis, not a net one. Green programs do create jobs in certain fields, like makers of solar panels and providers of energy audits. Home Depot's CEO attended the jobs summit to push for more tax credits for products like insulation and energy-efficient windows-because the... | 0_0 |
First up, a common misconception in the climate debate is that radiation from a cold body (e.g. the -18C atmosphere) can warm a hot body (e.g. the +15C Earth surface) just because the cold body does indeed send very-low-energy photons to the hot body. Heat transfer (not radiation) from cold to hot is forbidden by the 2... | 2_3 |
Twenty years ago, Mark Simpson walked out of Britain's first style exhibition laser-beamed at menGQ had sponsored "It's a Man's World"and, on the evidence of the stockpiled face creams and the tailored Armani suits, declared that the age of Metrosexual Man had arrived. ("I'd seen the future, and it was moisturized," Si... | 0_0 |
Molly: Well, it recognizes that the world is now dangerously overcrowded. Did you know there are now about 1 trillion of us? Experts at United Forests say we are now at the carrying capacity of the Earth. Each year billions of us die just due to overcrowding and competition for natural resources. | 0_0 |
Scientists can calculate how much energy is added to the atmosphere by increases in greenhouse gases. Then, using sophisticated computer models, they attempt to simulate how the climate responds to the added energy. But no one knows how to calculate correctly the climate's response to the added energy. Two of the many ... | 0_0 |
in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country (Figure 2). | 1_4 |
Carpe Climate: Senate GOP seizes power from Obama by controlling confirmation of EPA political appointees | 0_0 |
With respect to the current and future health of Earths coral reefs, McClanahan et al . (2009) note that Jones et al . (2004) have argued that climate overrides and undermines local resource use and management, and they say that Aronson and Precht (2006) have thus further argued that this position emphasizes the need f... | 0_0 |
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