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The White House is expected to bypass Congress if any U.N. climate treaty is signed by arguing whatever comes out of Paris isn't a treaty, but an international commitment made by Obama using existing U.S. laws and regulations. | 0_0 |
Paper demonstrates the claim made by the IPCC that Himalayan glaciers were retreating at an abnormal rate and would disappear by 2035 was unsubtantiated. Glaciers in the Himalayas, over a period of the last 100 years, behave in contrasting ways, some shrinking, some expanding, some staying about the same. It is prematu... | 1_1 |
Smiths system of natural liberty, therefore, came very close to the free-market ideal of laissez-faire. | 0_0 |
Even cutting it down to 1825 start date is a bit large. Notice that the trend of the blade on our little hockey stick tries to get a lift in trend, but our recent cool spate and sleepy sun have quashed it. Unless you measure from a cherry picked baseline, there is no warming. Everything is substantially like it has bee... | 2_1 |
By now, you may realize that the acidic CO2 and photosynthesis does not cause a decline of the pH in natural water but an increase instead. In fact, that has been documented by the annual pH spikes observed in ocean water like at the ALOHA Station offshore Hawaii and in freshwater at the Experimental Lakes Area in Cana... | 3_2 |
The Climate Exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco | 0_0 |
The IUCNs Dr. Andrew Smith is the only researcher with results from long term pika monitoring that actually provides insight into the natural frequency of extinction and recolonization. | 0_0 |
However, previous periods free of global warming did not occur while Man was putting more CO2 in the air anything like as rapidly as he is today. Now that CO2 concentration is rising, so should temperature be rising, if the IPCC were correct about how much warming we should expect as CO2 concentration increases. | 2_3 |
#2 0.5 < Pr( A | E ) < 1 and which reads "The probability that A is true is greater than a half but not certain given the evidence E. This answer is the best we can do with the given evidence. | 0_0 |
Dr Pearman suggested that much of the 0.7 degree Celsius increase in the earths temperature over the last 100 years has occurred in the last 10 years. Yet the last really hot year was in 1998 and global temperatures have since plateaued. | 1_4 |
"Improve the ecological condition"? Doesn't that cover pretty much anything the Forest Service does? That's not really much of a promise when the point of this "investment" is specifically to fight global warming by planting more trees. One wonders if the people who are sending their money in are reading the fine print... | 0_0 |
While it might not have been obvious, I am trying to come up with a quantitative method for correcting past temperature measurements for the localized warming effects due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. I am generally including in the ???UHI effect?? any replacement of natural vegetation by manmade surfaces, str... | 5_1 |
Boston snow still melting in man-made glacier of ice and trash | 0_0 |
<4938> Jenkins/MetO: | 0_0 |
It??s interesting that the very first incident of hide-the-decline in IPCC literature was in a graphic prepared by the UK Met Office. | 5_2 |
Although controversy regarding the management of the GBR may appear of minor public interest from a U.S. perspective, it will be national news here in Australia and PNAS could find itself very much involved in a most difficult to defend position should prompt and decisive action not be taken. | 0_0 |
Charles Battig, M.D., Piedmont Chapter president, VA-Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment (VA-SEEE). His website is www.climateis.wordpress.com | 0_0 |
(ii) If e << 1, the dynamical transports of heat dominate over radiative cooling. This regime, characteristicof Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. Thus, for e << 1 a very small or negligible equator-to-pole temperaturedifference is expected. For similar reasons, the diurnal variation of temperature on such a planetwould be ne... | 0_0 |
"Two new initiatives at the University of Cambridge aim to address the growing demand on the Earth's resources for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis." | 0_0 |
In yesterdays posting, we saw how an excursion of 80% of record ranges would provide more than enough tracking error to cause biased analysis. (Tracking error of the excursion from a full average for temperatures in a city such that the analysis done by folks using The Reference Station Method or comparing a Grid Box i... | 5_1 |
Heritage Foundation Panel on the Social Cost of Carbon featuring Marlo Lewis | 0_0 |
Lets clarify a few things on another of Anthonys excellent posts, like this one Hey Hansen! Wheres the Beef !? | 0_0 |
Note how all the issues in the progressive civil war played out in this discussion. Should we aim for incremental amelioration or bold transformation? Should public opinion cause progressives to slow down or not? Is the public genuinely for liberal progressivism or not? | 0_0 |
What can you do? Think twice before you purchase any products with germ-fighting or antimicrobial claims. No one needs chemical-impregnated clothing. Soap and water is all the germ-fighting we need. | 0_0 |
When the wildfires that are burning millions of acres in the West are finally smothered by winter snows, environmentalists undoubtedly will blame climate change. They might look in the mirror instead. | 0_0 |
It has returned to very near the 1979-2000 year average ( NSIDC ). Had NSIDC used the entire period of record as their base period (1979-2008), we would be at or above the average. | 1_1 |
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms, the President says.But even assuming the President is right about the science, since even aggressive emission controls would at best avert only a tiny amo... | 0_0 |
According to the EPA?s longstanding opinion, reaffirmed in the agency?s April 2010 triggering rule, once any air pollutant is regulated under any part of the CAA, ?major? sources become ?subject to regulation? under the PSD program. Under this reading of the Act, a firm must obtain a PSD permit before it can build a ma... | 0_0 |
Fig. 3: Where do the emissions p 100 Gtonnes in the coming 1000 clean? Klla IPCC. | 0_0 |
I have a ghost of an old songbig band dayshiding in the back of my head into which I know I can insert | 0_0 |
As the following graphic shows, the PDO which was originally discovered as the main control over fisheries productivity off the west coast of North America is also related to periods when global temperatures were rising or falling, which tend to occur over ~30 year periods: | 2_1 |
It's microsite influences : barbecue devices etc. often sit in the stations and Cook says that it doesn't matter. In reality, a huge portion of the surface stations was affected by such things and the accumulated errors often exceed 1 degree Celsius. A priori, the effect of the microsite influences may be both warming ... | 5_1 |
Averaging the Dye 3 temperature record using the 22 year length of the Hale Cycle produces a lot of detail. What is evident is that there has been a very disciplined temperature decline over the last four thousand years. The whole temperature record is bounded by two parallel lines with a downslope of 0.3C per thousand... | 1_2 |
"New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie's spokesperson responded to videos conservative activist James O'Keefe released Monday apparently showing unionized educators at a New Jersey Education Association conference attacking the governor and his policies in crude language." | 0_0 |
Obviously Isis Solar isn't doing this out of the goodness of its heart. So what's in it for them? | 0_0 |
Also, as noted in a previous post ,NASA scientistJames Hansen, theworlds leading voice of climate alarm, argues thatatmospheric CO 2 levels should be reducedto 350 ppm or lower.This viewpoint is gaining traction among eco-litigationgroups, notably the Center for Biological Diversity , which recentlylaunched a $17 milli... | 0_0 |
Such a dramatic decrease of the frequency of record cold temperatures is clearly not happening because the record cold temperatures seem to be as frequent as they were in the past. More precisely, their frequency should be naturally decreasing with the growing temperature records (with time). | 1_3 |
Total water vapour is of the order of 0.5%. So at worst, going from 0% to 100% humidity is only going to equate to around a 0.1C change in global temperature. | 0_0 |
A review of biofuel justifications shows why these programs must be revised, cut back or scrapped. | 0_0 |
Asked to explain data that showed the earth had been cooling in recent years, the trained astrophysicist acknowledged air temperatures had leveled during the La Nina weather pattern, now nearing an end.?? | 1_4 |
Socialism is counter to innovation, effort, creativity, service and productionit dumbs things down but does provide a comfort zone. | 0_0 |
Nature is dominated by negative feedbacks ??? a reason to expect that the climate sensitivity is smaller than, not larger than, the no-feedback value of 1.2 ??C per CO2 doubling. Why are negative feedbacks more common? It's simple. They're a property of stable points in the landscape of possibilities, in the configurat... | 3_1 |
In chemical jmviktr reaction rates ibda directions equal, and we have the simple relationship: | 0_0 |
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Canada benefits as China attempts to squeeze the rare-earth minerals supply . No doubt greens will soon be slamming the rare earth mines as hard as the oil sands, until they figure out that rare earths are needed to make every wind turbine and electric car. | 0_0 |
Nicolas D. Loris is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Brett D. Schaefer is Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studie... | 0_0 |
regional land cover changes and changing dust and biomass aerosol loadings. | 0_0 |
Underlying those short-term variations are a long-term trend whose cause is known and whose existence is supported by all the available global analyses. | 0_0 |
These dismissals of 1970s-era hysteria from some figures in the environmental establishment are an indication that eco-pessimism is slowly passing out of fashion or is at least maturing from free-floating apocalypticism toward more specific focus on discrete global issues such as species extinction and climate change. ... | 0_0 |
Last October, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Action Aid petitioned the EPA to review the so-called renewable fuel standard that mandates that 13.8 billion gallons of corn ethanol be blended into the gasoline supply next year. The free-market think tank and global hunger charity argued that the EPA's technical... | 0_0 |
We find a similar pattern in the UK. The Met Office offer the following list of extreme rainfall events. The heavy rain at Seathwaite in 2009 stands out, but all the other events date to 1975 and earlier. | 1_7 |
Read here and here . Map source here . A peer-reviewed study utilizing high resolution data from a peat bog sediment core, analyzes 6,000 years worth of a temperature proxy. The researchers determined that both Roman and Medieval Periods experienced temperatures that were significantly higher than those of the current ... | 2_1 |
And exporting coal, and increasing exports of coal, is almost equivalent to being a drug dealer to the world . | 0_0 |
Finally, this Framework recognizes that, as we expand manufacturing in the United States, the tax code should encourage doing so in way that is sustainable and that puts the United States in the lead in manufacturing the clean energy technologies of the future. This will create jobs here at home and can also have impor... | 0_0 |
Working at the Duke Forest FACE site in Orange County, North Carolina (USA), where eight 30-meter-diameter plots of loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda L.) trees were enriched with an extra 200 ppm of CO 2 from 1996 to 2010, while four similar plots were maintained under then-current ambient-air conditions, Phillips et al . me... | 3_3 |
Almost all measures of the cost of electricity only assess building new plantsuntil now. Using data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, we offer useful comparison between existing plants and new plants. | 0_0 |
Ldecke and his colleagues agree with Dr. Michaels assertion that the projected increase in the earths temperature from CO2 is getting smaller and smaller. | 2_3 |
Why should you be interested? Sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and Ive searched ocean hea... | 2_1 |
The Financial Post brought attention to the problem back in January in this article : "...the sharp rise in raw food prices in the past year will | 0_0 |
EPA's recommendations are justified by the facts and ought to be implemented as quickly as possible. | 0_0 |
"The mortgage mess just keeps getting messier. Last week, Bank of America announced that it had performed a "thorough review" of its processes, found nothing amiss and would soon restart 102,000 pending foreclosures. On Sunday, the bank acknowledged that it had in fact found errors in its filings, and would resume fore... | 0_0 |
Although I agree that GHGs are important in the 19th/20th century (especially | 0_0 |
In April 2012, we created a major stir in the political world with a long piece in the Washington Post Sunday Outlook section called, "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem." It was adapted from our book published days later, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided Wi... | 0_0 |
The new energy bill, signed by President Bush this past Wednesday, is noted for its huge hike in auto fuel economy standards and in ethanol mandates and subsidies. The former will kill people, by causing cars to be downsized and less crashworthy; the latter will waste huge sums of money. | 0_0 |
What begets such total climate madness? Seriously, its completely, utterly, totally, mind-bogglingly beyond comprehension. | 0_0 |
Reprinted with permission from Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org | 0_0 |
Cap-and-trade attacks went both ways for Romney in New Hampshire primary | 0_0 |
The village sticks out on a thin raised finger of land surrounded by water, close to the Modhumoti river. Located on the intertidal floodplains of south-central Bangladesh in Gopalganj district, its facing a three-pronged attack from water-logging, floods and saltwater intrusion. | 0_0 |
9 hours ago AUSTRALIAs $46 Million Antarctic Airstrip Is Melting, Leaving The Government Scrambling To Find A New Air Link To The Frozen Continent. | 0_0 |
Carter and de Lange conclude that policy guidelines should include (1) abandoning lets stop global sea-level rise policies; (2) Recognising local or regional nature of coastal hazard; and (3) flexible and adaptive planning controls. | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, facts like these have not stopped peak oil diehards and anti-hydrocarbon activists in and out of the Obama administration. They have become master fear mongers and propagandists, advancing their "just say no" opposition to North American fossil fuel energy and using lawsuits, lobbying, fabrications and d... | 5_2 |
These numbers are not perfect, and they come from observations that are definitely not perfect. For example, there are concerns about urban heat islands and about siting issues, concerns which I share and have helped publicize. So these trends need to be double-checked and confirmed in some way. | 0_0 |
Krugman on Waxman-Markey's Cost: We Hope His Readers Can't Multiply | 0_0 |
Nor was America the catalyzing force. The "Reagan Doctrine" of resisting and, if possible, reversing the Soviet Union's advances in the Third World did put considerable pressure on the perimeter of the empire, in places like Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua, and Ethiopia. Yet Soviet difficulties there, too, were far from... | 0_0 |
Once again, and from the part of the world - high northern latitudes - where CO 2 -induced warming is predicted to be particularly dramatic, real-world data reveal no net warming over the last 117 years. As we are wont to say in our USHCN Temperature Record of the Week feature: "Not much global warming here!" | 1_4 |
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. | 1_4 |
While the CPP appears to be about forcing the power sector into reducing CO2 emissions, there are spillover impacts of higher electricity rates on overall economic activityespecially energy-intensive industries such as steel, manufacturing, and chemicals. America's abundance of affordable, reliable energy provides busi... | 0_0 |
M.K. Muthoo, leader of a FAO/UNDP Project Team, wrote in 1978, "Brazil has abundant natural forest. It holds that world's biggest tropical forest reserve, in the Amazon, which can be continuously used and improved at the same time, but has hardly been tapped." (Rational Readings, Simon, pp.745-746). | 0_0 |
New proposal from NASA JPL admits to spurious errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the problem. | 5_1 |
Oh, and designing a bigger rocket that someday, we're told, could take astronauts and robot ships to asteroids and Mars. Right: We'll see Obama embrace the flat tax first. There's ideology at work here. | 0_0 |
1) Wind, solar and biofuel energy are not renewable, eco-friendly, reliable, affordable or sustainable. | 4_4 |
Climate Change Hoax: Key U.S Congressman Caught Spreading Democrat Lies & Rumors - Same Old, Same Old | 5_2 |
When it comes to climate change, ad hominems are all but ubiquitous. They are even smuggled into the way the debate is described. The common label "denier" is one example. Without actually making the argument, this label is supposed to call to mind the assertion of the "great climate scientist" Ellen Goodman: "I would ... | 5_2 |
The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 157-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 |
Read here . IPCC scientists still claim that the Medieval Warming was limited to the northern European region despite all the evidence otherwise . Adding to that 'otherwise,' researchers documented a confirmed Medieval warming and associated dry precipitation levels within the Panama region, near the Equator. "The auth... | 2_1 |
In other words: The 21st century climate catastrophe is not taking place. | 0_0 |
Figure 1. Observed global temperature history, 1950-2009 (data source: Hadley Center). | 0_0 |
A look at the range of public opinion surveys on Congress in recent days, weeks and months can't leave anybody happy. The most recent Associated Press-Ipsos survey showed a 25 percent approval rating, coupled with a staggering 70 percent disapprovala 45 percent gap in the wrong direction. The most recent NBC-Wall Stree... | 0_0 |
system to reduce greenhouse gases, for effectively abolishing the secret ballot | 0_0 |
In fact, the opposite relationship applies at all time scales. Temperature change precedes carbon dioxide change by about 5 months during the annual seasonal cycle, and by about 700-1000 years during ice age climatic cycling. Hypothesis fails. | 2_3 |
Canadians are already among the biggest contributors to UN aid funds, including more than $300 million to the World Food Program, and almost $70 million to run the UN itself. Canada is also one of the few nations to pony up on its climate commitments at Copenhagen after Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced the c... | 0_0 |
On Wednesdays broadcast of MSNBCs Morning Joe, the Center for American Progress Christie Hefner said that Chicagos sky-high murder rate could be blamed at least in part on climate change. | 0_0 |
1. All the species of coral that occur in the Great Barrier Reef also grow in Papua New Guinea where the waters are 2 degrees warmer. | 3_2 |
If now, and one can calculate this very easily, in the next 30, 40 years, with 2C of warming this will with certainty happen, um, when these large glaciers disappear for the most part, these rivers will dry up in the summertime. And in winter, this is the other side of the story, the precipitation will fall as rain in ... | 0_0 |
???Such causality assertions require a validated theory that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increases in GAST. Lacking such a validated theory, the EPA??s conclusions cannot stand. In science, credible empirical data always trump theory.?? | 2_3 |
My latest Mind and Matter column for the Wall Street Journal is on how the future turns out: | 0_0 |
The most widely used metric of global warmingglobal surface temperaturesindicates that the rate of global warming has slowed drastically and that the duration of the hiatus in global warming is unusual during a period when global surface temperatures are allegedly being warmed from the hypothetical impacts of manmade g... | 1_4 |
For quite some time, this idea of wisely developing the natural resources of a nation and improving the lives of it people was the common thinking of the day. But that was 1961. This is 1997. And instead of looking to a place like the rainforest to see how man and nature can work together for the benefit of both, the G... | 0_0 |
Green taxes could force one in four into fuel poverty One in four households will be driven into fuel poverty if the Government pursues controversial green energy targets, ministers have been warned.Radical policy change may be necessary to protect millions of struggling families from biggest household price shock sinc... | 4_1 |
Care must be taken when using HadISST1 for studies of observed climatic variability, particularly in some data sparse regions, because of the limitations of the interpolation techniques, although it has been done successfully... | 0_0 |
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