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The reconstruction of past temperatures is a science unto itself, and the library contains many journals dedicated to the field. We could easily locate an article a week presenting a temperature reconstruction from some part of the planet that would call into question the notion that the 20th century was a period of un... | 0_0 |
Last March, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that he would convene a "blue-ribbon panel to develop a long-term strategy that must include the waste disposal plan" as a way to compensate for abandoning Yucca Mountain. "I don't want to suggest what this blue-ribbon panel might determine, but let me stress this will ... | 0_0 |
The May-June 2010 issue of The Heartlander opens with Heartland President Joseph Bast's comments on old media and new media. Heartland's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change attracted little old media coverage, a fact that speaks "volumes about what's wrong with old media," Bast writes.Also in this issue:a... | 0_0 |
It's easy for many of us in the western world to accept a tiny green inconvenience and then wallow in that righteous feeling, surrounded by our "clean" technology and energy that is only slightly more expensive if adequately subsidized. | 0_0 |
This post is available in pdf form here . Its only 1.2MB so you could email copies to your friends who are proponents of manmade global warmingand to your skeptical friends as well. | 0_0 |
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. . . . A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 at 9:19 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Although Smiths research establishes a natural frequency of vacancy rates, it still doesnt tell us why a site became vacant. In Beevers 2003 paper, the seven extinct sites he attributed to climate change had other more plausible explanations. One site had half of the talus removed for road maintenance, another site had... | 0_0 |
One-third of Mans entire influence on climate since the Industrial Revolution has occurred since January 1997. Yet for 224 months since then there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). With this months RSS temperature record, the Pause sets a new record at 18 years 8 months. | 1_4 |
These costs are small in comparison to the economic damage that could result from reduced use of carbon fuels and the high cost of noncarbon substitutes, such as solar and wind power. | 4_1 |
This sentiment is particularly strong among recent immigrants. One way to show your devotion to your new country is to revere its symbols and institutions, and for the working class the military is perhaps the most accessible institution of all. Hispanics in particular enlist in the military, and it is no surprise that... | 0_0 |
Why, such a thing is hard to believe; (link fixed!) ...the UKs General Medical Council has found that Andrew Wakefield the founder of the modern antivaccination movement acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly" when doing the research that led him to conclude that vaccinations were linked with autism. Despite this and oth... | 5_2 |
I'd like to say thank you to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Thanks for all the effective actions and the courageous stands that you've taken in the fight to protect freedom. Thanks to all of you who have supported CEI with your effort, time, and money. And I'd like to say a special thank you to Bill and Hi... | 0_0 |
Apparently, global warming is now irreversible. Or, at least, it is if you don't consider any of the policy options that might, you know, reverse it. As Roger Pielke Jr points out, the study didn't examine the potential for geoengineering: | 0_0 |
Although the observed effects were generally positive, they were decidedly less large, rapid, extensive, and uniformly positive than those reported for the GBR . All of them also involved areas subject to much greater fishing pressure than the GBR. One might reasonably expect that increased protection for the least imp... | 0_0 |
The Amazon River drainage basin alone supports about 5,000 kinds of fishes, nearly equal to all those in the Atlantic Ocean, while little Panama boasts as many plant species as the entire continent of Europe." (Richard Nalley, Science Digest, p.56) | 0_0 |
I am personally keeping close watch on the seismic activity in the area and if I see anything ominous Ill let you know. As soon as I finish packing and driving about 2,000 miles to the south of here. | 0_0 |
Provoked Scientists Try To Explain Global Warming Standstill The hunt for this missing energy, and the search for the mechanisms, both natural and artificial, that caused the temperature hiatus are, in many ways, a window into climate science itself. Beneath the sheen of consensus stating that human emissions are forci... | 1_4 |
Last week, at the World Federation of Scientists annual seminar on planetary emergencies in Sicily, I heard presentations from several researchers each using different methods showing that the warming from doubling atmospheric CO2 concentration will be just 1 C, not the 3.3 C the IPCC imagines. | 3_1 |
Franke and Clemmesen conclude that "herring eggs can cope at current temperature conditions with an increase in CO 2 ," even one "exceeding future predictions of CO 2 -driven ocean acidification." References | 3_2 |
It's not us : This is a surprisingly basic and general point to appear on the 80th place. As "proofs" that it's us, Cook mentions satellite-measured energy flows and the stratosphere cooling. However, the latter is a general by-product of any near-surface warming, so it says nothing whatsoever about "us". To see whethe... | 2_3 |
Bangladesh is awash with climate adaptation projects. But I am left wondering: what makes for success? And how do you know when you see it? In the capital Dhaka, I track down Bangladeshi scientist Saleemul Huq, leading climate adaptation expert, and author for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IP CC). | 0_0 |
In particular, what is it telling us about the social status and perceived authority of scientific claims about climate change? | 0_0 |
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Complete with interactive chart - This series of four articles will address the problem by digging into the details of the protest, the people and organisations working behind the scenes, and by deconstructing some of the bovine excrement being fed to the public. After several weeks of investigation it's become clear t... | 0_0 |
This problem is only the tip of the iceberg with NCDC data. "For one thing, it is clear that comparing data from previous years, when the final figure was produced by averaging a large number of temperatures, with those of later years, produced from a small temperature base and the grid method, is like comparing apples... | 0_0 |
Several weeks after the news of the EPA report hit the press, the administration convened an Earth Observation System summit in Washington. More than thirty nations agreed to undertake a cooperative effort to collect better environmental monitoring data, including precise global weather data that may help refine climat... | 0_0 |
Im guessing Manne has never spoken to a real skeptic, at least not for long. Only someone who studies skeptics through the DeSmog portal could define denialists as orthodox members of a tightly knit group whose natural disposition is not to think for themselves. | 0_0 |
Reid Bryson , emeritus professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison : Its absurd. Of course its going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because were coming out of the Little Ice Age , not because were putting more carbon dioxide into the air. | 2_1 |
The strange part is, when you open a barrel of un conventional oil to see what conventions were broken in its creation, you find it is indistinguishable from conventional oil. | 0_0 |
You could think that things are different on the gravitational side. You may measure whether the topology of the spacetime is one of a wormhole; or a topologically trivial one. However, as I mentioned many times (as a half-pedagogic, half-research contribution of mine), this is not the case. One actually can't define o... | 0_0 |
Here??s the bottom line: ???Yes?? other forms of warming (under extreme circumstances) could cause the hot-spot according to the models. But it isn??t there, the models are still wrong. Just compare the models with reality. | 2_3 |
12d. How well do atmospheric models deal with the influence of clouds | 0_0 |
8.Mandatory reductions in CO 2 emissions, pursued to prevent dangerous global warming, would have little or no discernible impact on global temperatures, but would greatly increase the price of energy and therefore of everything else. Such policies would put more people at greater risk than the warming they are intende... | 4_1 |
Obama Fail Deny Blame Golf Distract.Lie Repeat Bumper Sticker from Zazzle.com | 0_0 |
First, let?s review the global average temperature, both at the surface, and in the lower atmosphere since 1979?the year that satellite observations of the temperature from the lower atmosphere become reliably available, and pretty near the beginning of the second warming episode of the 20th century. | 0_0 |
For all we know, there is a wholly separate universe, a material world coexisting with everything we can touch and see, with a lot more mass than ours, and getting by without much interaction with our material world, apart from gravity perhaps. | 0_0 |
Remember these scientists and politicians just got on the world stage and literally screamed at the world that, if we dont let them tax us hundreds of billions of dollars and send it to small generally communist, undeveloped countries , the world will die. As an ignorant conservative, you couldnt get me to do that exce... | 0_0 |
Botkin, D. B., D. A. Woodby, and R. A. Nisbet, 1991, Kirtland?s Warbler Habitats: A Possible Early Indicator of Climatic Warming, Biological Conservation 56 (1): 63-78. | 0_0 |
The administration argues that the acid rain program has reduced emissions below the required regulatory cap and has done so at very low cost, about $100 per ton of SO2 reduced. According to the brief, however, economists have estimated that the true cost of the acid rain program has been about $187 to $210 per ton. Mo... | 0_0 |
What's more, asserting that intellectual opponents in the climate fight are industry stooges is a timeworn tactic. But what's comical about Grantham's assertion is he conveniently omits his own role in supporting organizations to push his preferred views on climate. These include the Grantham Research Institute at the ... | 0_0 |
The reason why this is the case appears to be that the negative phase of the PDO also favors longwave low pressure troughs over the U.S. The following regional correlation plot between the negative of the PDO and temperature shows this quite clearly, with a very cool West and somewhat warm South and Southeast: | 0_0 |
I lived in the Midwest all of my youth and into my 30s, except for one year of internship in New York at Harlem Hospital, a great experience at 135th and Lenox. | 0_0 |
Climate Crisis, Inc., jealously guards this power and money train. The IPCC, the EPA, and NOAA spend billions in tax dollars to publish horror stories about runaway temperatures and looming disasters. Mike Mann sues anyone who disparages him or his work. Sheldon Whitehouse and Jagedish Shukla demand that anyone who dis... | 5_2 |
The Wild Jet Stream (Mini-Ice-Age) era we are now in has nothing whatsoever to do with CO2, says astrophysicist and forecaster Piers Corbyn. | 1_2 |
...this British cartoonist tries to explain why the members of his association voted the "Sharon eating Palestinian babies" editorial cartoon the best of the year. The interviewer asked him why no one draws the same sort of thing about Arafat. "Because Jews don't issue fatwas," he says, sheepishly. | 0_0 |
Now the farm lobby is hitting back. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Colin Peterson exploded in a hearing in late May, declaring the EPA is going to "kill" the ethanol industry. | 0_0 |
Al Gore for less than a Euro. Fine with me. It's been a while since someone mentioned that movie. Incidentally, yesterday, I friend told me that when her daughter had to watch it in class, she gave her a list with the ten worst fallacies in the movie. To her surprise, the public school teacher copied it and distributed... | 0_0 |
Regarding Podesta's role, The Hill reports: it's "likely to include administration decisions about how to lease out federal lands and which energy development and mining projects to permit." It also cites Jay Carney as saying: "Podesta will help implement "executive actions where necessary when we can't get cooperation... | 0_0 |
Articles | Kayaker bids for Pole failure - ITV News An environmentalist is aiming to become the first person to kayak to the North Pole - but hopes the expedition will fail. Lewis Pugh - who has previously braved temperatures of -1.7C to swim in the Arctic ocean - wants to show how cracks in the ice have now made the r... | 0_0 |
Summer cyclone chewing up Canadas Arctic sea ice | 0_0 |
In the words of the authors of this study, ???our findings suggest that diverse grasslands throughout the globe have the potential to be resilient to drought in the face of climate change through the local expansion of drought-tolerant species,?? which is good news for the future of grasslands worldwide?? Read More | 3_2 |
Yes, there will be competition for those resources, but since when is competition an automatic negative for the USA? | 0_0 |
In fact, the US government alone spent over $106 billion in taxpayer funds on alarmist climate research between 2003 and 2010. In return, the researchers refuse to let other scientists, IPCC reviewers or FOIA investigators see their raw data, computer codes or CO2-driven algorithms. The modelers and scientists claim th... | 5_2 |
Figure 1. Log likelihood for MSU Tropical T2LT, with various autocorrelation models. Note: y-axis should be labelled as |z|. | 0_0 |
lowering of Stevenson screen from 2.2 m to 1.5 m (June 1961). | 0_0 |
EPA Coal Rule Skirts Law: 10 Percent of Comments from Obamas OFA | 0_0 |
The question remains is whether or not the White House will approve the bill, though spokesman Josh Earnest hinted at an Obama vetowhich would further anger his union supporters that have pushed for its passage for the past six years. If the president vetoes what many are calling the Save Mary Landrieu Act, all is not ... | 0_0 |
Perhaps they refer to periods mentioned by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in an information leaflet that was available on their pre-climategate web site, where they acknowledged earlier warm periods in the Central England Temperature record, but didnt explain the lack of a CO 2 link. However that would produce diffic... | 0_0 |
It is a moral imperative to keep the power flowing. If our forefathers a century ago had worried about the side effects of using all that energy and set in place restrictions to stop it, millions -- no, billions -- would have suffered as a result. Denied the technological advances that energy use enabled, we would live... | 4_1 |
If even such nonsense models score that high the reported 51% of validation RE of MBH98 are not very meaningful. The low CE and R2 values moreover point to a weakness in predicting the shorter time scales. Therefore, the reconstruction skill needs a re-assessment, also on the background of the McIntyre and McKitrick, 2... | 5_1 |
I said at that time that this claimed accuracy, somewhere around five thousandths of a degree (0.005C), was well highly unlikely. | 5_1 |
Well! I guess there's something to be said for predictability! | 0_0 |
"In an unrecorded voice vote, the House of Representatives voted down a proposed amendment to keep people who lied on their loan applications from receiving federal bailout money. The vote was unrecorded so that liberal lawmakers in conservative districts (who camouflage themselves as supposedly-conservative "Blue Dog'... | 0_0 |
The glitter of the Nobel overshadows the inconvenient news reported last week that a British court of law labeled Gore's movie as partisan political propaganda, pointing out 11 different errors of fact or scientific judgment, and prohibiting its screening in British public schools without a disclaimer of these defects.... | 5_2 |
Id really like to see Al Gore sitting down on that rug with those kids. He might learn something. | 0_0 |
The answer to #2 is probably yes, though the amount is in some doubt, but everyone (even the IPCC) agrees it is probably less than a degree per century. | 0_0 |
I know what my environmentalist friends are saying: they're already accusing me of allowing mercury going into the air so today I would like to remind them that it was Republicans who first put forth a real plan to reduce mercury emissions from power plants. | 0_0 |
This comment is divided into two main parts. The first part addresses the scientific basis of the Endangerment Proposal as discussed in EPA's proposed rule and the related Technical Support Document (TSD). The second part addresses the legal basis and regulatory implications of the Endangerment Proposal, drawing upon E... | 0_0 |
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 10 June 2014 Update Still Waiting for the Feedbacks | 0_0 |
The hits just keep coming... The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. Thats 66 per cent higher than esti... | 3_2 |
SM: John McCain's policies have become schizophrenic. Six years ago, McCain was a solid, fiscal conservative. But he really has changed. It's been a complete metamorphosis, and it's been extremely discouraging. John McCain is viewed by many as a great American hero. He had a strong following behind him. But, his recent... | 0_0 |
On Sunday, February 17, the Sierra Club and other NGOs will lead what they are billing as "the world's largest ever climate rally.' | 0_0 |
"Five questions on the Army and the Fort Hood shooter" | 0_0 |
Increase of Carbon Dioxide is thus wholly beneficial to the environment There is no evidence that it causes harm. | 3_3 |
More important from a libertarian-Republican perspective, none of the deep-blue-state governors was a model of the libertarian fiscal policy preferred by Paul and his backers. Romney pushed through Romneycare; Schwarzenegger turned to the left after two years in office, going so far as to hire the former executive dire... | 0_0 |
Temperatures are expected to be several degrees colder than usual for the rest of the week and dropping each day. | 1_3 |
Tempers run high at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. | 0_0 |
In the 1990 report, it was estimated that future global warming, at least until the end of the next century, would run about three-tenths of a C per decade. In 1992, they came out with an interim report and basically said there was really no new science that would substantially change the 1990 estimate of three-tenths ... | 0_0 |
Hallucination: Obama wants 80% of energy from "clean' sources by 2035 | 0_0 |
In short: The very existence of a troposphere makes the whole CO2 driven radiative IR model daft. All that tropospheric CO2 can only close an already closed radiative window in the troposphere and contribute to the convection that is already dominant. BTW, in deep winter with a strong polar vortex, the tropopause can r... | 5_1 |
Based on strong correlation between the production rate of the cosmogenic nucleids 14 C and 10 Be and proxies for sea ice drift, Bond et al. (2001) concluded that extremely weak perturbations in the Sun's energy output on decadal to millennial timescales generate a strong climate response in the North Atlantic deep wat... | 2_1 |
Their explanation is a bit different from the prose I usually offer. They start by defining it by a single observer. One observer can't guarantee that a wormhole exists or not exists because the wormhole in ER=EPR is non-traversible so he would die before he would complete the test of its existence. More nontrivially, ... | 0_0 |
Then there is the lack of warming since 2000, which is fully compatible with a solar explanation for late 20th century warming but is seriously at odds with the CO2 theory. Of course 10 or 15 years is not enough data to prove or disprove either theory, but the episode that is held to require a CO2 explanation is even s... | 1_4 |
Kvicksilverinnehllet in a single lamp is tillrckligt from to make at least 3000 liters of water undrinkable, continuing Jonas and Ida. If each hushll would slnga a single lamp failure corresponds to a volume of less sj. | 0_0 |
Data published on U of Colorado website in 2004 shown in blue. Same data after 9 years of adjustments published on same website today shown in red. The slope of the same 1992-2004 data has somehow increased by 34% over the past 9 years. | 0_0 |
Wind and solar power nearly fried Germany's power grid, but the disaster was prevented when the German government paid consumers to use electricity. | 0_0 |
As with so much of our climate, US and Texas temperatures are driven by ocean cycles. A proper climate scientist would, of course, know this, and would also be fully aware of the long term data and trends. | 2_1 |
Desert Solar Power Plant a Risk to Air Safety | 0_0 |
"Tea Party activists have started to sound the alarms over a United Nations initiative most Americans have never heard of, but one that many in the movement see as one of the greatest threats to America's sovereignty." | 0_0 |
Ice in the Barents and Kara Seas is above normal now, and they will come up with a completely different serious sounding explanation for the harsh weather. | 1_1 |
Unable to afford food, hungry Haitians are now eating "cookies made of dirt, vegetable oil, and salt." | 0_0 |
Yes, thats right, deadly man-made CO2 is the largest cooling agent of the stratosphere as demonstrated by this computer-modeled representation of stratospheric cooling rates: | 2_3 |
We could spend hours analyzing the new IPCC report about the impacts of climate change. Or we could just point out: | 0_0 |
California screamin. Once fertile land in a once rich and prosperous state now resembles an African failed state . | 0_0 |
The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. (Guardian) | 0_0 |
Republicans need to take note " and take action. | 0_0 |
Id also point out that such an international tax regime would be highly undemocratic: it would almost certainly be set in international negotiations with some kind of EU/UN input. Your carbon tax in Birmingham could well be set in Brussels. Who do you vote out of office in that situation? Wheres your First Amendment ri... | 4_1 |
Srinivasan added: Between 2013 and 2014, India experienced a deficit of 4.5 per cent in terms of the electricity supply available to fulfil peak demand. | 0_0 |
LSU researchers find new information about Snowball Earth period | 0_0 |
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