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Apparently that seemed to be a bit of an expansionary stretch even for EPA. And then what did they do? | 0_0 |
Figure 2 & 3 show the latest territorial distribution of emissions, and the change over the last ten years.While emissions in the US and EU have fallen by around 8% and 14% respectively, they have sharply increased not only in China and India, but also in the Rest of the World. | 0_0 |
What would the effect of the temperature changes be, both negative AND positive. Undoubtedly some things would be worse, while others, like longer growing seasons, would be better | 0_0 |
The Obama administration lied to change a major foreign policy issue. Other lies are about less important but not unimportant issues. The French economist Thomas Piketty claimed that capitalism squeezes the middle and lower classes to favor the rich. Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century and other studies ... | 0_0 |
At the same time, the paleoclimate data revealed average ocean temperatures that were only about 0.7 degrees Celsius, or 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, above those of today. | 2_1 |
is an important one. the IPCC curve needs to be improved according to | 0_0 |
Even on a frozen planet, H2O would be much more abundant than CO2, and H2O also absorbs a much wider spectrum of LW radiation. | 2_3 |
Well then, can we not assume that if the 22-year cycles have an impact, also the 78-year, 210-year, and 1000-year solar activitycycles must have a significantcorrelation with the earths climate too? Already there are dozens of proxy records showing that this is precisely the case. | 2_1 |
Climate Change, February 2014, Volume 122, Issue 3, pp 447-458 | 0_0 |
The Reynolds OI.v2 sea surface temperature data presented in this post is available through the NOAA NOMADS website , or through the KNMI Climate Explorer . | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Analyst Peter Suderman on regulation of social networking websites: | 0_0 |
What is interesting is that the primary reason for this is not skepticism on global warming per se, even though many recognize that there are more things in heaven and earth than in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. What drove a growing number of people, and not just in the center-right coalition, to become dubious ab... | 0_0 |
"But this jet stream is also bringing dry air from eastern Africa right up into Russia and this continuous heatwave is allowing the wildfires to build." | 0_0 |
Liu et al . report that "overall, the total Antarctic sea ice extent (the cumulative area of grid boxes covering at least 15% ice concentrations) has shown an increasing trend (~4,801 km 2 /yr)." In addition, they find that "the total Antarctic sea ice area (the cumulative area of the ocean actually covered by at least... | 1_1 |
Under the Data Quality Act, material which is considered "influential scientific information"--in other words, is likely to influence public policy or private sector decisions--is also subject to the scrutiny of scientific validation. The National Assessment on Climate Change (2000) and EPA's Climate Action Report 2002... | 5_1 |
Nonetheless, although it's true that the treaty won't be ratified any time soon, it can be kept on hold in the Oval Office. A number of other treaties are likewise waiting in the West Wing: the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Law of the Sea Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Basel Convention on Tr... | 0_0 |
There are too many coincidences here that a sane homeowner wouldn't expect if the "experts" were real independent experts who were giving him a pure professional analysis. | 0_0 |
on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 2:25 am and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
When I started to do this, I focused on American voters. But I soon realized that working-class voters exhibit similar traits in other countries as well. Ask an American working-class voter why he supports Democrats, and he or she is likely to say it's because Democrats support "the little guy." Reading about English v... | 0_0 |
June 20, 2014. Princeton, New Jersey. Recently climate scientists here at the ???Center for the Study of Earth and Moon?? have discovered a dramatic warming effect on the Earth??s climate, which is likely to be caused by the orbit of the moon around the earth. It is estimated that up to 18% of the warming of the earth?... | 2_1 |
The system will be operating below the marginal capacity needed to ensure supply rellability at all times. In other words, in peak periods like heat waves, there won't be enough electricity to go around. Blackouts will inevitably result | 0_0 |
The press release is about the Velarde et al. (2015) paper Warm oceanographic anomalies and fishing pressure drive seabird nesting north . The abstract reads: | 0_0 |
3. In the first half of the sample period from 1954 to 1983, there were nine years when there were more than 60 violent tornadoes, and the annual average was 52 during that period. In contrast, in the second half of the sample from 1984 to 2012 there were only two years when there were more than 60 violent tornadoes, a... | 0_0 |
Rex Murphy slandered for stating a fact: the planet is cooling | 0_0 |
The other day in the Herald , Mr Chris Barton took up the topic of global warming in an article headed Climate debate adrift on rising tide of lunacy . | 5_2 |
(4) The return of a nuclear industry that will prosper on State guarantees and produce large amounts of radioactive garbage nobody has found as yet a good way to dispose of | 0_0 |
That "all adult citizens should have the legal right to conscientiously choose which vaccines are administered to themselves, or their minor children, without penalty for refusing a vaccine. | 0_0 |
Note alsothat the proposed 1,000 lb CO2/MWhperformance standardis substantially similar to the NSPS proposed in section 116 the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill , which would require a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions from new coal plants permitted before Jan. 2020. The Waxman-Markey legislation narrowly passed in the Ho... | 0_0 |
fuel needs. "So its not making us energy independent at all, and its | 0_0 |
With respect to the simulations of the 20 th Century, it appears the modelers did change some forcings during the mid-20 th Century flat temperature period, in an effort to force the models to show more of a decrease in temperature between 1944 and 1976. Yet the models still have difficulties simulating the rates at wh... | 5_1 |
* Polls show strong support for building the Keystone pipeline. In March 2012, 57 percent told Gallup the U.S. government should approve the building of the pipeline, while 29 percent thought the government shouldn't. | 0_0 |
Anyway, can the IPCC do not hvda that we have never before seen a s rapid tempera Turkish accession. NNU an argument that falls. | 0_0 |
On the other hand, it didn't stop him from being a jerk of a sort, either. In 1936, he warned the Soviet officials that the mathematics community was full of counter-revolutionaries in the so-called Luzin affair. People were losing jobs. He was not only an aggressive commie, he was a sort of fascist, too. During mathem... | 0_0 |
I may be wrong, but in my opinion, the averaging over multiple data sets is better than relying on only one. | 0_0 |
Davis' tactics were honed further under Dennis Rivera, who led 1199 from 1989 to 2007. Rivera grew up middle-class in Puerto Rico and moved to New York in 1977; his first job on the mainland was as an organizer for 1199. Upon being elected union president, Rivera faced two challenges. Davis's long-delayed retirement in... | 0_0 |
It's a contentious issue, to say the least. JunkScience.com has tried to slice through a little of the overblown rhetoric to see what, if any, cold, hard facts are available. | 0_0 |
Today, Lysenko synonymous with fraud, but in Stalin's Russia his ideas became law. They reveal a scientific environment distorted by ideology, in which the ideas were literally a matter of life or death. Risked the gulag, those who disagreed with Lysenko, but this has perhaps irreparably damaged the ability of the Sovi... | 0_0 |
I would also remind you that Germany has repeatedly cited the country alone holds 54% of the entire PV market WORLD, and in Germany they have half of the solar radiation that we have in Italy, converge with me then that the development technology of photovoltaics and still in its infancy (a apnnello today can convert o... | 0_0 |
Bao says that he had been interested in this most intriguing episode of Earths history since Paul Hoffman, Dan Schrag and colleagues revived the Snowball Earth hypothesis in 1998. | 0_0 |
In a Times magazine interview, on December 14, 1936, titled Science: Shift on Shift, Dr Hubble makes his opposition clear. One reason that he was not more forceful was because he was begging the government for funding of the Mount Palomar telescope. Public interest was necessary during the tight depression era federal ... | 0_0 |
The Washington Post published a blog in January making a case for cold weather during global warming. | 0_0 |
Lying by political leaders is what we expect from totalitarians. Free societies require truth and honesty. | 0_0 |
The vast majority of this warmingis near the Earths surface, and is due to H2O molecules, rather than CO2. Forecastsoflarge amounts ofCO2 warming, are not based on any legitimate science. | 2_3 |
The current CAFE standard of 27.5 mpg was responsible for between 2,700 and 4,700 deaths in 1996. | 0_0 |
The dumbest global warming story below claimed a 1000 year storm surge as proof of sea level rise and global warming. We already established that sea level isnt rising there, but there is another problem. | 1_6 |
At this point in the solar cycle the sun should be a hive of activity, popping off flares and dotted with sunspots. | 0_0 |
A whole chapter of Pachauri gems, here is one: I am not going to rest easy until I have articulated in every possible form the need to bring about major structural changes in economic growth and development. Thats the real issue. Climate change is just a part of it. | 0_0 |
Above all, opponents should spotlight how Kyoto endangers poor countries. To begin with, the U.S. is the single largest market for developing country products. Any Kyoto-induced economic downturn here would wipe out billions of dollars in developing country revenues. If the U.S. economy catches a cold, developing count... | 4_1 |
So what are the implications for the Northwest if a strong El Nino is in place next winter? | 0_0 |
IPCC AR5 climate model simulations are using the reconstruction from Wang, Lean, Sheeley (2005). Other recent estimates of long term solar variability: Kirova et al. 2011, Shapiro et al. 2011 . | 0_0 |
Don't Like the Weather? Don't Blame it on Global Warming | 0_0 |
That position follows legal actions against ExxonMobil by attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, New York, and the Virgin Islands which demand that the company turn over decades of correspondence with a lengthy fishing trip listing of other suspected climate crisis skeptics. | 0_0 |
a Special Issue on climate change impacts in Africa and would appear early next | 0_0 |
The EPA graph shows 2012as the hottest, when in fact it wasnt even in the top ten. They show 1936 at 50%, when in fact it was 75%. | 1_4 |
Yet the "norming" advocates say that the rest of the world, through treaties, United Nations decisions and "customary international law," has already decided these questions: for massively increased government taxation and regulation to combat global warming, for widely available abortions, for gun control and against ... | 0_0 |
Already, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been in full retreat after having to concede a 17-year stall in global warming despite levels of atmopheric CO2 rising almost 40 percent in recent decades. The new SABER data now forms part of a real world double whammy against climatologists' computer model... | 1_4 |
When I saw that article in the Bend (Oregon) Bulletin , I thought bingo! that eruption hit smack dab in the middle of the Dalton Minimum, a time of extremely low sunspot activity. | 0_0 |
Fracking and horizontal drilling have been critically important technologies in the extraction of the vast amount of recoverable oil and gas in various parts of the country and the revitalization of America's energy sector. Drilling and extraction create jobs, but there are often tremendous job opportunities for engine... | 4_5 |
A study conducted by a team of weather experts determined the October 2013 blizzard that devastated parts of western South Dakota and Wyoming isnt anything to be alarmed about in the near future. | 0_0 |
How well is the new model performing? Let us count the many ways in which a new study suggests it sure could use some help | 0_0 |
During his first term, Europe saw George W. Bush as a fluke. He had won in 2000 without a majority, gaining the White House chicanery or outrageous luck, and he had been a disaster as president. Surely, given the choice of the urbane John Kerry, Americans would not re-elect this hick. | 0_0 |
The results of the Kosalka and Xie simulations can be interpreted in numerous ways. Trying to filter out the ENSO from the PDO signal seems to me to be an erroneous thing to do, given their intrinsic relationship. Using these simulations to attribute the pause (since 2002) to the cooling effect of ENSO/PDO has a coroll... | 2_1 |
Martin Lidegaard, the Danish minister for climate and energy, has portrayed the plan as an insurance policy against the rising costs of fossil fuels. | 0_0 |
So three cheers for Judith Curry, who writes today: | 0_0 |
Yesterday?s article in the UK?s Telegraph may turn out to be one of a series of similar stories (backup link here). Unfortunately, there?s every indication that these accounts will be written by shockingly uninformed journalists who?ll continue to give Pachauri the benefit of the doubt. | 0_0 |
Why is it that despite the past decade of increased CO2 emission levels, the temperature has been stable and is predicted by the Hadley Centre to actually go down over the next decade? | 1_4 |
Over the two years of the study, the CO 2 -enriched plants that were exposed to air containing 49% more CO 2 used 12% less water than the ambient-treatment plants, while they produced 47% more tuber biomass. Hence, the CO 2 -enriched plants experienced a 68% increase in water use efficiency , or the amount of biomass p... | 3_3 |
Warming over New Zealand through the past century is unequivocal. | 0_0 |
The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 160-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 |
Given that the plaintiffs and the government agree on the ultimate goal while disagreeing only on how to get there, why isn't this an issue properly resolved in the executive and legislative branches of the Dutch government? Because, says the Dutch court, that government's policy choices violate the rights of Dutch cit... | 0_0 |
But the results will be worth it. Once the millennial records of changes in oceans, land, and air are sorted out, they can be used to fine-tune computer climate models that take all the same parts of the puzzle into account, says Trenberth. And once those models can be made to reproduce the past climate changes, they c... | 5_1 |
There is actually a cooling trend. There were ENSO neutral conditions throughout 2001, which makes it a good place to start any comparisons. In contrast, last year had moderate El Nino conditions, which makes the declining trend even more remarkable. | 1_4 |
Everyone acknowledges that electricity generated from wind and solar cannot be produced and delivered at prices that compete with coal or gas. However, alternative energy advocates believe that someday the cost curves will cross, and that government subsidies will accelerate that days arrival. | 0_0 |
You can see the ice at the summit was very much still in evidence. | 0_0 |
The five-judge majority, however, deny that Judge Kavanaugh?s narrow reading of the PSD statute is a ?plausible interpretation.? Congress said ?any air pollutant, and it meant it.? The EPA?s broad interpretation ?is the only plausible one.? Let us see. | 0_0 |
Uganda produces about 63 kilowatt-hours of electricity per person. The U.S. produces about 13,300 kWh per person and EVs still havent caught on. | 0_0 |
Antarctica has a record amount of ice this year, and has been above normal for almost 500 consecutive days. A perfect time for Huffington Post to declare the continent to be without ice | 1_1 |
More interesting, though, is the possibility of emerging bipartisan coalitions on sentencing and prison reform and on reform of the National Security Agency. Both are issues that have support from liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans. Neither is so hot-button that the radio talk show/blogger wind machine on th... | 0_0 |
That does make me a little uncomfortable about this guy being in charge of global temperature records to show we're destroying the earth. Can't check out his academic/research papers at CRU. Surprisingly, they've been taken down. | 0_0 |
State Department Friday release: Keystone XL will have little environmental impact, but create 42,100 U.S. jobs | 0_0 |
Florida hasnt been hit by a hurricane in almost 8 years, the longest hurricane-free period on record. In the 19th century, Florida averaged about one hurricane per year compared to one every other year now. | 1_7 |
Also good, and rather surprising, was Revkin's choice to take some of his colleagues to task for over-hyping the results of individual scientific studies by claiming the latest paper out of whichever journal is conclusive proof that we are even now in the midst of catastrophic climate change. It was good to hear. | 0_0 |
After watching the IPCC crowd for the last 25+ years, I feel pretty confident they would be falling all over themselves declaring ?it?s worse than we thought!? They would be adjusting the sensitivity of their models to produce even more warming. | 0_0 |
Here is aclear-cutexample of advocacy by a scientist, Marcia McNutt , who also happens to be the Chief Editor of Science : The beyond-two-degree inferno . Read the whole thing, its only about 600 words.I cite here the passages that I particularly want to comment on: | 5_2 |
AGW alarmists tell us that Arctic ice is melting because of global warming. So what happened 6,000 years ago , exactly? | 2_1 |
I guess Karoly has been taking lessons on honesty in climate communications from Phil Jones. | 0_0 |
In addition amore detailedanalysis might well indicate that, in spite of the cost of fuel being essentially free, the development, fabrication and installation of both Solar and Wind-powerinstallationsinvolves the release of substantial amounts of CO2. The actual savings of CO2 emissions may be hardlyexceededover their... | 4_4 |
It is sheer hubris for humans, even the supposedly smart ones, to believe they can predict the future with any accuracy. | 0_0 |
Last, according to Chen and Tung (2014), hiatus periods due to the sequestration of ocean heat to depth in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans can last 20 to 35 years. And they note the current hiatus period has already lasted 15 years. That indicates weve got another 5 to 20 years more to go with the current hiatus. | 1_4 |
It seems hard to think that the intent of the Epstein et al. work was anything other than to find large negative externalities from using coal to produce electricity and to cast coal-fired electricity in a negative light. | 0_0 |
There are food taboos. Instead of eating fish on Friday, or avoiding pork, Greens now eat organic foods and many are moving towards eating only locally grown foods. | 0_0 |
Part 2 will continue where Part 1 left off. Denning and Lehr debate the final four clips from Al Gore's movie: 3) Melting ice will cause low-lying cities to disappear; 4) Polar bears are endangered because ice is their habitat; 4) Can this nation rise above itself and history to solve global warming?; 6) Global warming... | 0_0 |
And I am not conceding that the apparently elevated levels of carbon dioxide are driving global temperatures. | 2_3 |
If Michael Mann can sue Tim Ball in Canada for libel, Heartland ought to have a case against David Suzuki as well. | 0_0 |
The fact that all the world's complex and expensive climate models can't explain climate change since the last glacial period ended is one of the little talked about embarrassments of climate science. In a new study, soon to be published in PNAS, a team led by Zhengyu Liu, a researcher at the Nelson Center for Climatic... | 5_1 |
In the meantime, out of the media spotlight, thousands of people gathered on the Mall for the festivals that had been properly booked. As Ludacris and Madonna crooned (if you can call it that) in the bask of media attention, the Folklife Festival was abuzz with the sounds of Southeast Asian flute music, folk songs and ... | 0_0 |
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is investigating the state-funded global warming researchUniversity of Virginia professor to see if he defrauded taxpayers; UVA is refusing to cooperate. of a former | 0_0 |
Last week, I mentioned a study which Roy Spencer had done a couple of years ago into tornadoes, and which suggested that a greater number of strong/violent tornadoes occurred in cool years. | 1_7 |
So, goodbye dear old friend, we will always miss you. You made each day that much better, and from now on each day will be that much worse. | 0_0 |
National Geographic published an article titled, Blizzard of Noreasters No Surprise, Thanks to Climate Change. | 0_0 |
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