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Is the PCA approach robust? Are the results statistically significant? It seems | 0_0 |
In my closing comment, I firmly endorsed Briffas stand against the use of radially deformed data. | 0_0 |
The part I really don??t like in all of this is that once again, all of their claims are built on computer models. But what I don??t find is any serious testing of their whiz-bang models against things like the global or the CET temperature and rainfall records. In fact, I don??t see any indication in any venue that an... | 5_1 |
koda Octavia is the bestselling model (or group of models) but there are perhaps better examples of the edge. | 0_0 |
Actually, more concern by all should be directed towards the potential of extreme global cooling, based on the most current 10-year trend | 1_2 |
What they have done here is divide Alaska up into its natural climatic zones (their opinion, of course) and graphed each separately, on a single graph. We see mirrored here the warm 1930s-40s. The global cooling period 1945-1975 (rough dates here, folks, we are just talking about this). Then the 1975-1978 spike/step-up... | 2_1 |
Complete participation is important because the cost function for abatement appears to be highly convex. We preliminarily estimate that a participation rate of 50 percent instead of 100 percent will impose a cost penalty on abatement of 250 percent. | 0_0 |
America can ready for living in the dark no new coal power stations were built in 2010 , despite the nation generating half of its power with its abundant coal reserves. | 0_0 |
I can only imagine the future where Ill be typing some story, like this one, and there will be a knock at the door and | 0_0 |
This is energy policy by and for not-so-bright lights, who let their religious fervor for anything not hydrocarbon get in the way of common sense and fact-based analysis. Their policies will result in dim bulbs in our future light fixtures and expensive, job-killing energy for other needs. We cannot afford to continue ... | 4_1 |
A rapidly growing number of Americans are coming to distrust ?scientific? climate report conclusions that emanate from authoritarian government and institutional sources ? often with good reason. Such skepticism has arisen in part from revelations of conspiracies among influential researchers to exaggerate the existenc... | 5_2 |
13b. How well do ocean models deal with heat transport in the ocean | 0_0 |
The Stanford project will seek to provide the kind of clean energy alternatives that will allow all nations to dramatically reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_0 |
For others who are more busy, a homework problem: Where have you seen the background color under the Calabi-Yau manifold from the video at 1:39:06? ;-) It's actually an originally Mathematica animation that was redone with other options. | 0_0 |
The Polar Bear Specialist Group didn't invite Taylor to their conference. More disturbingly, they explicitly said that the reason had nothing to do with the quality of Taylor's science. Derocher, a boss of the AGW-contaminated polar bear specialists, wrote an explanation to Taylor: | 5_2 |
Fortunately, the authors allow us to formulate even such statements in a more "natural" and more "profound" way: | 0_0 |
Fax: (49-228) 815-1999 | 0_0 |
In public policy, favoritism in the energy sector takes many forms. Over the years Congress has implemented numerous policies that use the political process to support the production or consumption of one good over another, including direct cash grants, special tax treatment, taxpayer-backed loans and loan guarantees, ... | 0_0 |
Shlaes offers a new gloss on the old theme of how FDR used the Depression to craft the durable New Deal coalition. Here her narrative sparkles, as she recounts how FDR transformed the failures of his economic policy to his political advantage in the 1936 election. The failure of the New Deal to deliver meaningful econo... | 0_0 |
Climate change skeptics are doing a bit of gloating following a series of mainstream media reports that acknowledge what those skeptics have long held the earth is not warming, at least not in the last 10 years. | 1_4 |
26b. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for other parts of the world in the next 50 years (very low to very high). | 0_0 |
extreme weather is due to global warming"] ? at least not a climatologist. | 0_0 |
MSNBC doesn?t talk about solutions to the food chain tightening, but we will. We must triple the food yields on the planet?s existing farmland, by intensifying production. The public must get over its chemo phobia, and license its farmers to use the pest controls that work best, whether they be chemical or biotechnolog... | 0_0 |
Right now we are witnessing cold temperatures that we have not seen in decades. The following is the way that one meteorologist put it | 1_3 |
Insurance companies facing massive claims due to the devastating floods in Europe are blaming global warming. Swiss Re, a major re-insurance company that is likely to be burdened with the lion's share of the costs, has stated unequivocally that global warming is the reason for the floods. | 0_0 |
Such polls function to manufacture opinion where none exists and, in particular, to claim a popular mandate for the preferred policies of the political class. A way has been found to impute a superior wisdom to the very people whose ignorance is privately relied on. Democracy triumphs again! The college educated are th... | 0_0 |
Exhibit 1: Greenhouse Gases are Making You Fat: | 0_0 |
The Fakegate scandal provides opportunity for U.S. congressman to push common Democrat lies and the climate change hoax - the Heartland Institute challenges congressman about falsehoods | 5_2 |
A paper published today in The Holocene reconstructs sea surface temperatures of the Southern Adriatic Sea during the Medieval Warm Period and finds "clear" evidence of solar influence on climate change. The authors find sea surface temperatures varied closely with 11 year solar cycles. According to the authors, " We o... | 2_1 |
Were that fact mentioned in Al Gore's movie, the Kyoto Protocol might not survive its second anniversary. | 0_0 |
Cancun, Mexico (AP) More countries are expected this week to pledge specific actions to limit carbon emissions over the next decade, in what would be "very good news" for arduous negotiations on a climate change agreement, says host country Mexico. | 0_0 |
An earlier version of this post appeared in Energy Metro Desk (subscription required), titled The Future: 97 Percentiles Below Princeton. | 0_0 |
Irrespective of soil nitrogen status and air temperature, increases in the air's CO 2 content produced large increases in soybean biomass, as well as soybean seed concentrations of twelve major isoflavones. Hence, it can be appreciated that as the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration continues to rise in the years and decad... | 3_3 |
Unfortunately, EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman has pledged to continue these legal and administrative enforcement actions, even though a strong case can be made for putting such actions on hold pending NSR reform. In defense of the Clinton EPA, it should be noted that the problems and inefficiencies of NSR wer... | 0_0 |
?The findings in the new report from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) are a cause for great concern. | 0_0 |
Alpine melt reveals ancient life. A glacier in the mountains retreats due to our evil cars and what do we find? People, living 3000 plus years ago where we couldnt live now with modern technology. Only three thousand years ago people are living in what is no unimaginably cold, yet we cant even explain how they were abl... | 0_0 |
Few arguments in favour of action to mitigate the effects of climate change begin without claiming that the science is in. James Garveys The Ethics of Climate Change is no exception. There begins an account of the science which forms the basis of an unassailable consensus that the world faces a terrifying future. The a... | 0_0 |
Temperature in Greenland now is -67F, and only needs to warm up 100 degrees to get above freezing. | 1_3 |
When free enterprise operates, resource extraction and development expands greatly, and innovative technologies generate new opportunities, creating jobs and stimulating the economy in the process. On the other hand, when policymakers try to promote or prohibit specific energy sources and technologies, the federal gove... | 0_0 |
For two centuries, overpopulation has haunted the imagination of the modern world. According to Thomas Malthus, writing in 1798, human population growth would always surpass agricultural production, meaning "gigantic inevitable famine" would "with one mighty blow level the population with the food of the world." | 0_0 |
I think Ian will be a real asset because in his profession one is often trained to hold people?s feet to fire. Many like to say or write things, but are they able to back it all up later on. After all people who listen to these experts often act and make decisions based on the things said, and thus may incur either ben... | 0_0 |
Green energy supporters, such as Schumer, like to mix the terms "subsidies" and "tax credits" with "tax deductions"when they are completely different. A subsidy, or loan guarantee, and tax credit involves taxpayer dollars being doled outor taxes not collectedto incentivize a favored activity. This is not how America's ... | 0_0 |
Russia may be tempted to pursue tactical rapprochement with China. But any meaningful strategic rapprochement with China would move Russia further away from the United States and into a position of dependence on Chinese support. This would run counter to the strategic realities Russia faces on its far-eastern border, g... | 0_0 |
Due to the lack of understanding a thermometer remains crucial. And it is not pointing in the direction of a doomsday. The temperature over the Northern Hemisphere has decreased since about 1950. In some countries the eighties were very warm, but there are countries where this is not the case. On Greenland there is lit... | 1_4 |
I'd like to share my positive experiences in engaging with climate sceptics and talk about the extent to which we can, or already do, apply this approach to other areas - both geographically and scientifically. Where is the common ground, and where are the difficulties? Is it just too late to try and erase some battlel... | 0_0 |
He acknowledges there are risks to both natural and manmade climate change, he simply doesn't believe the case has been made that they are catastrophic risks; | 0_0 |
The strong relationship between global temperature and CO2, documented by ice-core studies, makes scientific sense only if the CO2 is the effect rather than the cause. Correlation does not necessarily describe cause and effect. In the last transition from ice age to our present climate, global temperature changed about... | 2_3 |
There's a general point here. Though communication has advanced beyond the wildest dreams of futurologists of the 1950s, transportation has underperformed. Our time-traveling visitor would be shocked at the absence of routine space travel and the general scarcity of helicopters in civilian life. He would be surprised t... | 0_0 |
Misguided environmental regulations, green obstructionism and the NIMBY (Not-in-my-backyard) syndrome have combined to delay the construction of desperately needed new power plants and transmission lines. The result is an infrastructure that will soon be unable to meet the demands of the American economy. Policy makers... | 0_0 |
However, the 12-mra of the difference between UAH and NCDC, when normalized to 1981-2010, is not increasing statistically significant indicating that the difference between these two datasets to date has not increased over time (linear regression slope is also close to 0). The 12-mra of the difference between GISS, Had... | 0_0 |
From CEI: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on why adopting watered down versions of the Kyoto Protocol is just as foolish as embracing the treaty itself, plus how we got from Kyoto to here. | 0_0 |
Aus: No emission limit on new coal plants | 0_0 |
The rising CO2 content of the atmosphere may induce changes in ocean chemistry (pH) that could slightly reduce coral calcification rates; but potential positive effects of hydrospheric CO2 enrichment may more than compensate for this modest negative phenomenon. | 3_2 |
The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 154-month period that ended about 2004, but warming trends have dropped drastically since then. There was a similar drop in the 1940s, and as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-... | 1_4 |
Glassman: Now, have you actually correlated the activity of the sun, this magnetism that you're talking about, with the rise of temperatures on Earth? | 0_0 |
Bry goes on to note his concern that humans may be living through what many environmentalists and conservationists call the "Sixth Extinction," which is understood to mean an era when more than half of all earth-living species will croak. | 0_0 |
The spatial structure and dominant time scales of natural variations differ across models (see discussion of Fig. 5). Additionally, coupled climate models produce a range of responses, in space and time, to anthropogenic radiative forcing (Fig. 8). Such differences in model estimates of internal variability and respons... | 5_1 |
5. The UN's IPCC and the other immensely taxpayer-funded climate "science" agencies (e.g., NOAA, NASA, UK's MetOffice, Australia CISRO , etc.), continue to claim that CO2 levels act as the globe's thermostat, which will allow politicians and bureaucrats to "dial-in" the desired Earth 's temperature... this claim is dem... | 2_3 |
A paper published today in Quaternary Research reconstructs drought and fire activity in Idaho during the Holocene and finds droughts have been relatively less common and rainfall less variable over the past century in comparison to the past 1,900 years. In addition, the paper finds fires were more common ~900-400 year... | 1_7 |
While Grantham might be correct about some harder-edged libertarian | 0_0 |
Of course, this is not entirely fair. The 110th Congress has some significant accomplishments, including implementing the 9/11 commission recommendations, increasing the minimum wage, expanding college aid, implementing "pay-as-you-go" budgeting and working hard to make it a reality, and passing significant lobbying an... | 0_0 |
Instead of saying clearly that the models prove that humans cause global warming, they have to talk with forked tongues with such phrases as: This experiment showed that the projections of climate models are consistent with recorded temperature trends over recent decades only if human impacts are included. | 5_2 |
The environment is challenging, with resources trapped deep in shale rock. But technological breakthroughs coupled with a feverish quest for the next major find are unlocking the door to oil and natural gas riches here and in several other countries in the Americas not traditionally known as energy producers. | 4_5 |
USA Today lauds the EPAs GHG reduction proposal a big deal to for fighting climate change, but it doesnt go far enough. David Brodwin, writing in USA Today lauds the EPAs proposed GHG reductions for existing coal plants (the dirtiest form of electricity). His opinion is that the 30% reduction in GHG from dirty coal ele... | 0_0 |
You see the same shift in focus in the public away from climate change questions to questions of economic survival and growth , said Woo, president of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. | 0_0 |
With regard to the political aspects of bushfire, Ambrose Bierce had it well covered. He defined politics as a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The strife of interests includes winning the votes of urban dwellers who are rarely subject to bushfire, yet may have assorted passionate notions ab... | 0_0 |
The feedback parameter used here is 4 W m-2 K-1, which implies a climate sensitivity of only 1 deg. C warming from a doubling of CO2. This is much less than the IPCC's estimate of 2.5 to 3 deg. C of warming. | 3_1 |
It is in this context that the Manhattan Institute's Center for Energy and the Environment offers this publication. It is predicated on the belief that wise and prudent policies in these areas require a well-informed citizenry "one well versed in the facts. With that goal in mind, the Center sought, with the help of su... | 0_0 |
5) And in March this year, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey quantified just how badly the predictions had failed, An Initial Assessment of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in the CMIP5 Models | 5_1 |
As the study concludes, Clearly, the potential savings from reduced reproduction are huge compared to the savings that can be achieved by changes in lifestyle although they caution that reducing the future population on its own is not enough. What is required is that the changes to your lifestyle are then multiplied by... | 0_0 |
Click here to download Part 2 in PDF form | 0_0 |
An organosulphur compound obtained from garlic kills off methane-producing bacterium in the digestive system of cows, according to Professor Jamie Newbold, who heads up a 5 million-research programme at Aberystwyth University. | 0_0 |
Without a large uptick in temperatures in the next few years, the modelers really have to go back to the drawing board (or they need to discover another negative forcing to keep the models on track to reality). | 5_1 |
What is so striking is how these scientists, who rightly highlight the need for careful scientific analysis in characterizing the climate effects of GHG emissions, unwittingly forsake science when thinking about how to mitigate climate change. Instead, they jump right from "burning fossil fuels causes dangerous climate... | 0_0 |
Doran and Zimmerman (2009) Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, Eos, VOLUME 90 NUMBER 3 20 JANUARY 2009 | 0_0 |
So what about the ?fourth branch of government,? the media? What do they appear to think about such breaches of public trust? Judging from all of the seven invited representatives at Part Two of a Nov. 23, 2010, Yale Forum titled ?Scientists and Journalists on Lessons Learned ,? not very much at all. | 0_0 |
Abstract. Given that over the course of the next 1030 years the magnitude of natural decadal variations may rival that of anthropogenically forced climate change on regional scales, it is envisioned that initialized decadal predictions will provide important information for climate-related management and adaptation dec... | 0_0 |
MONTANA -60% of its electricity; 5th in coal production | 0_0 |
Sea level is not rising appreciably in California. The global warming industry is reduced to nothing but fantasy. | 1_6 |
The trick to making sense of the diverse paleoclimate record is to understand that some measures are more precise than others, says Hughes. For instance, rings on trees in Canada may tell you something about summer-to-summer changes in precipitation, while lake sediments, stalagmites, and ice cores may not record every... | 0_0 |
A snapshot of Earths plant productivity in 2003 shows regions of increased productivity (green) and decreased productivity (red). Tracking productivity between 2000 and 2009, researchers found a global net decrease due to regional drought. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio | 0_0 |
For more information on Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order, find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Scribd (keyword: Hoover Institution) or visit HooverPress.org. For more information on the Hoover Institution, visit Hoover.org. | 0_0 |
www.canberratimes.com .au/.../melting-runway-cuts-flights-to-antarct... | 0_0 |
To save his presidency, Obama should follow the real lesson of FDR and our other great presidents and turn away from the failures of health care reform and nationalization of the economy. He will be remembered if he follows through in Iraq, pursues al Qaeda with the restoration of aggressive measures, and achieves vict... | 0_0 |
Carbon dioxide is an environmentally beneficial atmospheric trace gas; | 3_3 |
on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 9:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
on Monday, May 20th, 2013 at 1:40 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
There are currently huge amounts of money in energy attracted there primarily by the presence of Kyoto-style regulation. That money, however, is not to the benefit of the energy consumer and may well damage the development of emissions-reducing technology in the future. It would be best for government to step out and l... | 0_0 |
Farmers are resilient, but when you cannot even get seed into the ground, its devastating, he said. | 0_0 |
Climate studies show that the world has already warmed about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1900, but that warming has stopped and some scientists even argue that the world has cooled slightly since then. | 1_4 |
SHIMLA/MANALI: 15 Dec 2014 ??? Intense cold has gripped the entire Himachal Pradesh with unprecedented snowfall in areas where it had not snowed in many years. Snow not only covered Kullu, Bhuntar, Bajaura but also Panarsa area in Mandi district where snowing is not common. Across the state hundreds of roads were block... | 1_3 |
Well over a million U.S. workers age 55 and older have now been out of work for 27 weeks or more. Not only do prospects plummet for re-employment of older workers. The longer they are unemployed, the more they are disconnected from society, the further their living standards fall, the more their physical and emotional ... | 0_0 |
undoubtedly result in reconstructions with wider error bars than we currently | 0_0 |
It's true that Detroit temperatures didn't dip below freezing in January and February in'79 followed by a frost in June. But that was 1879! When he was a boy, "snows were frequent and deep in every winter," Thomas Jefferson recalled in December 1809. "The Greenland seas, hitherto covered , have in the last two years en... | 0_0 |
Hudson Bay sea ice cover is the highest since 1992, and is the third highest on record. | 1_1 |
$ M \leq M {Planck} / N^{1/2} $ This statement is supported by | 0_0 |
Attorney Peter Glasers Morning After Reflections on the D.C. Circuit Court GHG Decision | 0_0 |
A commentary that accompanies the study notes that, "The warming of the 20th century is seen more clearly as a continuation of a trend that began at the start of the 19th century, not the early 20th." It also notes that, "the curve of Esper et al. provides evidence for greater climate variability in the last 1000 years... | 0_0 |
The first conclusion is that as is not uncommon with sea level records, nearby tide gauges give very different changes in sea level. In this case, the Wilmington rise is 2.0 mm per year, while the Hampton Roads rise is more than twice that, 4.5 mm per year. In addition, the much shorter satellite records show only half... | 1_6 |
Nor, despite Mr. Paulson's claims, is there much reason to think that adopting a U.S. carbon tax would cause Beijing to do the same. China's Communist Party, after all, flouts Western norms on human rights, on intellectual property, and even on market-based exchange rates. Why should climate be different? To the contra... | 4_2 |
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