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This piece originally appeared in National Review Online. | 0_0 |
DC to offer Internet gambling, becomes first in US: | 0_0 |
A leading House GOP member on nuclear issues said Wednesday that Senate nuclear waste management legislation that does not identify Yucca Mountain as a permanent repository will not pass the House. | 0_0 |
In investigating this possibility, Yoon et al . grew plantlets of Phalaenopsis "Amaglade" -- a monopodial epiphytic CAM orchid with succulent leaves -- derived from flower stalk cultures and multiplied on a hyponex medium either with or without the addition of 30 g sugar per liter of medium, in air of either 400 or 100... | 0_0 |
Cut allowable SO2 emissions by 73 percent, from 11 million tons currently to 4.5 million tons in 2010, and 3 million tons in 2018. | 0_0 |
The House-passed energy and climate bill remains moribund in the Senate. EPA is trying to regulate carbon dioxide in the absence of congressional action based on its assertion that automotive, power plant and factory CO2 emissions "endanger human health and welfare." However, Texas refuses to knuckle under, other state... | 0_0 |
While ACESA would be more efficient without its regulatory provisions, the design of the cap-and-trade program is also troubling. Namely, the emission reductions are more stringent and faster than most economic analysis recommends. | 0_0 |
Enforcement of EPA's reinterpretation of NSR has discouraged modifications that, had they been allowed to proceed, would have been economically and/or environmentally beneficial and would not have increased emissions. | 0_0 |
If Andrew Weaver is heading for the exits, its a pretty sure sign that the United Nations agency is under monumental stress. | 0_0 |
Solar forcing based on these modern reconstructions is 1 - 2.6 times higher than the alleged forcing from increased greenhouse gases during the 20th century. In addition, climate models do not consider any of the multiple solaramplificationmechanisms which have been described in the literature. Thus, the IPCC and other... | 2_1 |
Not every idea advanced at the summit was bad-participants talked about the need to simplify regulations, improve American tax competitiveness, and increase openness of foreign markets. Even President Obama admitted that "true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector." But if Obama realizes the p... | 0_0 |
The term carbon emissions really refers to emissions of carbon dioxide gas but carbon and carbon dioxide are two totally different things. Carbon is a solid (think coal and charcoal) and the central building block of hydrocarbons, whereas carbon dioxide is the gas that all humans and animals exhale and all plants requi... | 3_3 |
(Climate Change Skeptics (also known as morons) are people who dont believe in science purely because they a) cant bear to admit they couldnt see it coming or may have contributed to it b) dont care because they assume by the time the real catastrophe happens theyll be old, dead or rich enough to buy their way out and ... | 0_0 |
I then followed up immediately with working on her account, in Sacramento, CA. | 0_0 |
Under normal circumstances, someone who started a campaign called Trees Have Rights Too in order to convince the United Nations to adopt a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights, based on the idea that ?we are all one, life is sacred and love is all?, might reasonably be suspected of being an LSD-tripping hippy. | 0_0 |
A version of this article first appeared in Forbes Online. | 0_0 |
OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (EMITTED INFRARED RADIATION) AT TOA | 0_0 |
The six Malaysian scientists conclude that "collectively, the enhancement in yield and quality provides an economic motivation to produce a consistent pharmaceutical-grade product for commercial purposes," via what they describe as "controlled environment plant production." And it also stands to reason that the ongoing... | 3_3 |
Die Zeit describes the first time Michael Mann met Marc Morano, having no idea who he was. Today when Mann thinks back at this first encounter, he has to take a deep breath. Now hes knows who Marc Morano is . | 0_0 |
The ABC's idea of balanced debate on climate change | 0_0 |
By providing energy flows of high power density, fossil fuels and electricity made it possible to embark on a large-scale industrialization creating a predominantly urban civilization with unprecedented levels of economic growth reflected in better health, greater social opportunities, higher disposable incomes, expand... | 4_5 |
JC comment: the possibility that multidecadal natural variability is a major driver of rainfall variability does not seem to be considered. The poor performance of the climate models somehow gives rise to greater alarm about the future. Go figure. | 5_1 |
Pea-size hail and dangerous lighting were possible, along with gusty winds and brief periods of heavy rainfall. | 0_0 |
"Economically significant" is the bureau-speak description for rules costing at least $100 million per year. There are 180 of such rules in the 2008 Register, up 13 percent from 2007which was itself up 14 percent from 2006. | 0_0 |
The penny is fast dropping that by far the most disastrous appointment made by David Cameron to his Coalition Cabinet was that of the ultra-green, Lib Dem millionaire Chris Huhne as our Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. | 0_0 |
Unlike the global marching army of climate researchers the IPCC has enlisted, we do not walk in lockstep. We are willing to admit, ?we don?t really know?, rather than mislead people with phrases like, ?the warming we see is consistent with an increase in CO2?, and then have the public think that means, ?we have determi... | 0_0 |
~Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, the divergence between the climate models and reality is ever greater . In other news, it may not all be the fault of your carbon footprint : | 5_1 |
Yes, it is a whole new world when it comes to the "Climate Debate" and the Canadian Senate has reflected this sea change by striking down a bill that in the words of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "sets irresponsible targets, does not lay out any measure of achieving them, other than by shutting down sections of the Ca... | 0_0 |
On the other hand, on immigration, President Bush has followed the Roosevelt approach, turning about-face on the border fence and ordering raids onmeat-packing factories that employ illegal aliens. Yet this has not helped him either: Immigration skeptics still do not trust him on the issue, but neither do Hispanic vote... | 0_0 |
Obama can't afford to oppose this commonsense measure. | 0_0 |
Chevy Recalls Cruze After A Steering Wheel Falls Off: | 0_0 |
There is a long-term warming trend with or without La Nina. | 0_0 |
It has been 15 years since leading British experts announced the demise of snow. | 0_0 |
The principle, therefore, is that if the national government (or, a fortiori, the government of a State or Territory) takes over a person's land, it must pay just compensation, or else. | 0_0 |
Indeed, satellites show that Earths total vegetation increased 6% just from 1982 to 1999, as CO 2 levels increased. Famines in a CO 2 -warmed tomorrow are therefore less likely, not more. | 3_3 |
That's a tiny fraction of the wind turbines' "rated capacity." But it is a situation commonly faced with turbines on freezing Minnesota winter nights and sweltering Texas summer afternoons, when they average a measly 10% of the electricity output their subsidy-hungry backers say they are capable of. | 0_0 |
While the UN was sinking in global parochialism, NATO has gone global geographically (50,000 troops deployed now on three continents) and functionally (broadening of political consultations in the NAC). It is also beginning to go global in its cooperation with non-Atlantic partners like Japan to Australia. | 0_0 |
Carbon dioxide gas is NOT a pollutant, but a harmless and vital gas which trees and plants fix by the process of photosynthesis and liberate oxygen to the atmosphere. We humans and all animals need this oxygen to breath and survive. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is recycled naturally, as a plant nutrient, by rock weatheri... | 3_3 |
"Gary Weeks' balanced approach to budget is far from balanced. He and SEIU worked this out together." | 0_0 |
US Police increasingly peeping at email, instant messages: | 0_0 |
He was right to be embarrassed. Climate change is already hurting and, unchecked, will turn into a catastrophe. Economists use what is called a discount rate to compare income and welfare in the future with income and welfare today. If we forgo just a little welfare today through burning less fossil fuel, even applying... | 0_0 |
We owe the Heartland Institute, a free market think tank, a debt of gratitude for the eight international conferences it has held to debunk global warming. Joseph Bast, its president and CEO, has said: "The toll our EPA is taking on the country is staggering, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work at a ... | 0_0 |
Clearly, G.W. Bush's environmental executive agreements provide no precedent for Obama's plan to adopt "the most ambitious climate change agreement in history" without obtaining the Senate's advice and consent. | 0_0 |
Ian Marchant, chief executive of Scottish-based utility, says government must invest more money in CCS technology | 0_0 |
The longer-term record shows global temperatures have hardly risen for about 15 years. But Dr Stott said the key point was that they had remained consistently above the long-term average. ( source ) | 1_4 |
What could explain the lack of interest in verifying a dated computer forecast? After all, computer forecasts are the basis for the current alarm. Did people perhaps decide that a 16-year-old forecast had to have been based on inferior methods? | 0_0 |
So Santers messages to Jones and others at UEA were not private or personal correspondence. If he wanted them to be, he should not have used his llnl.gov email account with his official LLNL affiliation in the signature line. He should know better, since LLNL makes clear those distinctions . But if he did want to commu... | 0_0 |
That's because the snow plows picked up virtually everything in their paths, which prevented them from simply depositing all that winter snow into the harbor. Ton after ton was moved from the city streets of Boston to this snow farm, where piles towered over 20 feet. It was one of seven such piles scattered throughout ... | 0_0 |
But looming in the background, Shlaes thinks, was the European war, and the Republicans' latent isolationism diluted their appeal. Although Willkie was an internationalist, FDR was a more convincing one. "As leaders and oppositions since have discovered," Shlaes writes, "war trumps everythingeconomics as well as politi... | 0_0 |
Folks wanting to do even more can set up a Virtual Machine and play with it (not too hard, but needs decent real hardware or its slow): | 0_0 |
In fact, the baneful state of contemporary American society might seem to be no accident at all, as it keeps the productive class in line through threats from above (impoverishment, prison, and family breakups, all of which governments have shown themselves quite willing to inflict) and below (by crime and social disor... | 0_0 |
It certainly is not in line with what one would call reasoned debate, Kenneth Haapala, executive vice president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, said of Heartlands short-lived marketing campaign. Id much prefer to stick to reasoned argument. But Heartland is doing a good job. Whether this was the best thi... | 0_0 |
Each point is an orbital subtraction calculation of the mean anomalies of four planets Jupiter, Mars, Earth and Venus, taken on the 1st of January every two years from 1900-2012.. | 0_0 |
on Friday, December 20th, 2013 at 3:32 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The public think political decisions concerning climate are based on scientific predictions. This is untrue: what the politicians get from IPCC and CSIRO are projections based on models. Models depend on assumptions, what you put in (data), the program, and conclusions drawn from the output. | 0_0 |
Sound Science And The U.S. Economy Victimized By The EPA's CIA Fake, John Beale | 0_0 |
Ah, but you won't have to wait nearly as long for the higher cost of energy to be passed on to all Americans. And not just in the form of higher utility bills (which are already bad enough), but in the cost of nearly everything. After all, the businesses that you use will be facing higher bills, too. That increase will... | 4_1 |
So how do we get 1/2 of the present value when it was warm enough to melt Antarctica (while today Antarctic ice is growing)? | 1_1 |
NW Washington Gets Hit Again...and an Unusual Low | 0_0 |
As disturbing as such thuggery from state attorneys general would be in any case, the premise of the subpoena is faulty. The Competitive Enterprise Institute did not cast doubt on the dubious climate science. The actual data cast the doubt. The think tank and others have simply pointed out what the data show. | 0_0 |
When it was Mr. Hamm's turn to talk briefly with President Obama, "I told him of the revolution in the oil and gas industry and how we have the capacity to produce enough oil to enable America to replace OPEC. I wanted to make sure he knew about this." | 4_5 |
And in fact, a plain reading of two of the key studies that the White House and EPA deadlocked on is quite revealing. Far from being a settled matter, as environmental activists claim, both reportseven the one that the White House did not favorare quite clear about the extent of the remaining uncertainty, and the impor... | 0_0 |
Bangladeshs problem is primarily one of population a very large and growing population with demands to feed more and more people places more people in the most flood vulnerable regions (also most fertile)as they attempt to eke more productivity out of their limited land. | 0_0 |
Moreover, most of Britain's older coal-fired and nuclear power plants are scheduled to be shut down, with almost nothing to replace them, even as electricity demand rises. That could bring widespread blackouts, said the Daily Mail, and cause hundreds of thousands of UK jobs to be outsourced to countries where energy co... | 4_1 |
Here is a chart similar to the one used by Al Gore in The Inconvenient Truth showing a correlation between estimated global average temperature of the atmosphere at the surface and CO 2 concentrations during the most recent glacial and interglacial periods, over the past 400,000 years. As is well known, Gore misreprese... | 2_3 |
What with the current mania for carbon offsets, I should have known it would happen eventually. In addition to the already burgeoning crowd of environmental outfits specializing in questionable science and creative economics, the ranks of carbon offset vendors has been joined by...the U.S. government. Thats right, fell... | 0_0 |
There also hasn't been an increase in the number of stormy seasons. Pre-1928, there were nine years with three or more hurricanes compared to only five years with three or more hurricanes post-1928. | 1_7 |
I heard President Obama on the radio talking about the epidemic of school shootings by psychotic young men armed with knives, guns, cars and explosives. He said he would even be willing to talk to sportsmen about the problem | 0_0 |
Then at BBC on Dec 5 , where the IPCC WG2 author denied any problem: | 5_2 |
I dont believe that the worlds present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row. | 0_0 |
But it's not that simple. The EPA is part of the executive branch of government, and it is unconstitutional for the executive to legislate. The EPA's attempt to alter the text of the Clean Air Act seems to fly in the face of the separation of powers, one of America's founding political principles. There will be lawsuit... | 0_0 |
CEI: Any thought that down the road you could be the right-wing Ralph Nader? | 0_0 |
Olle Hggstrm have 2015-05-09 via Twingly in the right hand column lnkat hit with a blogginlgg entitled The vile debate grip SLAPP. This is part of a frtalskampanj he conducts. His reasoning is lax because SLAPP is a legal freteelse as frekommer in the United States but that hardly is mjlig in Sweden. Swedish frtalslags... | 0_0 |
In addition, as is well known, prompt policy action (by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases in accord with the Kyoto Protocol) would lower the calculated temperature rise by 2050 by at most a tiny one-thirtieth of a degree C ??? too small to even measure. | 4_2 |
Eelgrass meadows grow in shallow coastal waters and are among the most productive ecosystems in the sea. These meadows are now threatened, not only by climate change but also by overfishing and eutrophication. | 0_0 |
8) And Finally: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past The Independent, 20 March 2000 | 0_0 |
The previous administration, of course, did not ratify Kyoto. But one of Kevin Rudd's first acts as Prime Minister was to grandstand at a UN climate junket in Bali two years ago and turn his signature to the Kyoto Protocol into a gruesome, gibbering publicity stunt. | 0_0 |
Each of modern rationales for energy subsidies that have proposed over the decades, suffers from fundamental analytic weaknesses that should discredit them and the subsidies that result from them. These rationales include: the need for energy "independence;" the need to support infant industries; the need to level the ... | 0_0 |
2) The Decreasing Population Bias in Tornado Reports across the Central Plains by James B. Elsner and Laura E. Michaels | 0_0 |
The fertilisation effect occurs where elevated CO 2 enables a leaf during photosynthesis, the process by which green plants convert sunlight into sugar, to extract more carbon from the air or lose less water to the air, or both. | 3_3 |
What do observational analyses tell us? Observational analyses can implicitly include the effects that are ignored by climate models. Here is one paper that suggests a significantly larger role for solar forcing: | 2_1 |
If BACT does not require fuel-switching, we should have no reason to expect that NSPS would require fuel switching or redefine the source to impose identical CO2 control requirements on coal boilers and on gas turbines. Is that correct? | 0_0 |
Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, | 0_0 |
Any regulation seeking to limit the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere deliberately and deceptively ignores facts that anyone can understand. Bonner spelled out the basic scientific facts, but it is essential to keep in mind that CO2 is essential to all life on Earth, providing the "food" that all... | 3_3 |
President Obamas Inaugural Speech: New Heat on Warming? | 0_0 |
Between 1998 and 2012 the global economy more than doubled in sizeto some $71 trillion in GDP from $30 trillion. Thats the good news. Over the same period the world pumped more than 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That is supposedly the bad news. Yet global surface temperatures have remained ess... | 1_4 |
According to Mydlarz et al ., "taken together, these studies suggest an unexpected degree of resilience under adverse environmental conditions." Indeed, they say "it is clear from the data presented in this paper that the sea fan aggressively combats infection in the gorgonian- Aspergillus pathosystem and exhibits the ... | 3_2 |
If this doesn't prompt you to lobby your MP to have "Canada's Almost New Government" do away with these kangaroo courts, nothing will. | 0_0 |
This ensemble output suggest that it isi probable that the temperatures will be warmer than currently (they are very cold now), but there is a lot of uncertainty. Precipitation should be light, but a few ensemble members are fairly wet. Winds are modest. | 5_1 |
Jo Nova has an entertaining article describing the excellent correlation between increasing US Postal charges and rising temperatures through the 20th Century. Joanne humorously claims a causal relation and thus excellently lampoons the IPCCs ridiculous assertion that a similar correlation between rising levels of atmo... | 2_3 |
Even so, the FTA represents a significant milestone in the economic relationship between the two signatories. And President Xi played his part perfectly. In his address to the Australian Parliament, he offered the FTA as a sign of China's friendship and evidence of the economic opportunity its rise is creating for neig... | 0_0 |
A New Theory of Everything: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law (SciAm) | 0_0 |
Even though it is stylish to excoriate conservatives with toothpaste-commercial moralizing about science, there is no science in the toothpaste-commercial science consensus picture. There is only politics, money, and power. The political events of 2016 make plain that the climate arena is a side show in a much larger p... | 0_0 |
Of course, the chance of editors at Science allowing such a response paper to get published is virtually zero. The editors at Science choose which scientists will be asked to provide peer review, and they already know who they can count on to reject a skeptics paper. | 5_2 |
the state of climate science from the sort of standpoint you are wanting. | 0_0 |
Blacks and Hispanics work hard to provide better futures for their children. The EPA regulations will push the American dream even further out of reach for them. Their incomes will be less, their unemployment rates will increase substantially, and it will take those who are out of work longer to find another job. Black... | 0_0 |
Many of the doubt-inducing climate scientists and their media acolytes attribute this rising skepticism to the stupidity of Americans, philistines unable to appreciate that there is "a scientific consensus on climate change." One of the benefits of the recent Climategate scandal, which revealed leading climate scientis... | 5_2 |
Further, at the end of the El Nio, sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific cool and return to normal levels. They might even cool to temperatures below normal if a La Nia follows the El Nio. That typically happens after a very strong El Niothat is, La Nias typically follow strong El Nios. | 0_0 |
on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 9:21 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Even then, according to UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) figures, the reported global temperature increase between 1942 and 1995 was approximately +0.5 C, while U.S. and Western European data showed approximately zero. | 0_0 |
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