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entirely predictable to primatologists. He observes two university colleagues in a coffee shop and notes | 0_0 |
Monsanto posts profit in 2Q on corn seed gains: | 0_0 |
THREE senior Japanese scientists separately engaged in climate-change research have strongly questioned the validity of the man-made global-warming model that underpins the drive by the UN and most developed-nation governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions."I believe the anthropogenic (man-made) effect for climate c... | 5_1 |
September 1, 2016 | Backgrounder on Energy and Environment | 0_0 |
By Tony Heller Real Science, Aug 14, 2015 | 0_0 |
The report offers a framework for prioritizing climate change research given the many uncertainties that exist. Specifically, the report recommends that research in the following areas be given the highest priority: | 0_0 |
Whatever happened to global warming? How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate change theory. | 1_3 |
Not that climate modelers are unaware of the problems with their creations. Numerous papers have been published that detail problems predicting ice cover, precipitation and temperature correctly. This is due to inadequate modeling of the ENSO, aerosols and the bane of climate modelers, cloud cover. Apologists for clima... | 5_1 |
Elevated from a comment Theodore White says: March 8, 2012 at 5:04 pm | 0_0 |
Similarly, climate alarmists are now scrambling to find new shelter from the stress coming from a public that increasingly realizes their doom-and-gloom predictions of climate chaos are based on shoddy data, faulty computer models, and perhaps outright deception. The alarmist scientists have put themselves in a climate... | 5_2 |
UN "95% certainty" of manmade global warming challenged | 0_0 |
As the concentration of CO 2 in the air rises, photosynthetic acclimation, which effectively reduces the amount of rubisco in leaves (which is often present in excess amounts), may occur to a greater extent in plants growing at high soil nitrogen, rather than at low soil nitrogen, as greater amounts of rubisco are gene... | 3_3 |
...the problem causing these breakdowns is so simple. In cold weather, the pipe that takes waste water from the back of the condensing boiler-which isnt there in a normal boiler-freezes solid, shutting down the system and in many cases causing permanent damage. But this problem is just one of many that have plagued thi... | 0_0 |
In March 2012, consulting firm Ecosystem Marketplace released a report on the evolution of the voluntary carbon offset market since 1997. The report, "Bringing It Home: Taking Stock of Government Engagement with the Voluntary Carbon Market," was sponsored by the International Emissions Trading Association, Internationa... | 0_0 |
We received an email taking issue with some of my comments and observations on the Camp Minden, LA, artillery propellant disposal. This is a good expample of how confusing and messy a Superfund cleanup can get. The writer wished to remain anonymous, so Ive copied the meat of his response below: | 0_0 |
Plant Growth Database (8 January 2015) | 0_0 |
IPCC overblows Bangladesh doomsday forecasts in 2007 4AR. | 5_2 |
And, I didn't include any warming from things such as urbanization, land-use change, site changes, or other natural variabilitywhich have been by some studies to have a detectable (warming) impact. | 0_0 |
The "abuse" of the First Amendment here is by state attorneys general acting like a scientific Inquisition to silence what they believe is the wrong view in this vigorous, unsettled scientific debate. | 0_0 |
When told that the first three allegations against Dr. Mann were dismissed at the inquiry stage Dr. Lindzen's response was: "It's thoroughly amazing. I mean these issues that he explicitly stated in the e-mails. I'm wondering what's going on?' The Investigatory Committee members did not respond to Dr. Lindzen's stateme... | 0_0 |
From the Civil War to World War II, it was generally assumed that neither Southerners nor Catholics were viable presidential candidates. No Democratic nominee from 1864 to 1944 resided in a state that had slavery in 1860. The only Catholic nominee, the talented Al Smith, lost much of the Democratic base. The only Democ... | 0_0 |
SUV critics argue, to use Consumer Reports' words, that "most people who buy an SUV don't need one." But what one person doesn't need is largely a matter of another person's opinion. In the early 1800s the Duke of Wellington complained that the new railroads would "only encourage the common people to move about needles... | 0_0 |
"Gasoline prices haven't gotten much attention amid all the other bad economic news for Democrats heading into a final week of campaigning, but the price per gallon has climbed nearly 15 cents since Labor Day - a surprising jump, given that prices usually plummet before an election." | 0_0 |
The costs of ACESA's proposed GHG emission reductions would probably exceed their benefits. The draft bill's many regulatory mandates are, at best, entirely redundant to its cap-and-trade provisions. In other cases they are likely to add costs without adding to the bill's social benefits. Further, the cap-and-trade pro... | 0_0 |
Serious - Less than 10 percent of fossil fuel has been burnt. Should we burn the other 90 percent? Economists predict that should 10 times more fossil fuel be burnt, there would be a 25 percent reduction in the size of our economy (GPD) by 2100. | 0_0 |
During the last 10,000 years the climate has remained relatively warm and stable, allowing humans to advance and prosper. But even during this generally warm period the temperature has fluctuated significantly. The climate was warmer than it is today about 6,500 years ago, during the Holocene Climate Optimum. There is ... | 2_1 |
This is quite remarkable, because the average of all NOAA tide gauges is less than one third of that, at 1.01 mm/year. Eighty four percent of the tide gauges show lower rates than 3.3 mm/year. The median value is only 1.28 mm/year. | 1_6 |
a simple climate model to link these two analyses. We present a range of four | 0_0 |
MOOSE: See what I mean, Spunky? A little friendly pressure and Socrates here starts in with remarks which cannot be construed as necessary or objective. Ad hominem all the way. | 0_0 |
It has 104 minutes but based on various hints and a quick selection, I believe it must be a pretty good one for an apparent amateur creator! Correct me if I am wrong but I hope you won't! ;-) | 0_0 |
Roman and Medieval Warm Periods vs. the Current Warm Period (12 January 2015) | 0_0 |
Chief scientist Michail Fragkias involved with ?Planet under Pressure? told MSNBC that ?the answer (to population growth) is denser cities.? | 0_0 |
A Russian scientist says the regional heat wave taking place in Russia is not a sign of catastrophic climate change and that the permafrost has been thawing since the last ice age 10,000 years ago, and its rate of thawing is alsonot catastrophic. | 1_7 |
Now the Obama Administration is unleashing a host of new mandates and standards, based on arbitrary "social cost of carbon" calculations that assume fossil fuel use imposes numerous climate and other costs, but brings minimal or no economic or societal benefits. The rules will require onerous new energy efficiency and ... | 4_1 |
But already at those places, and especially in Kosovo, I was growing suspicious that our path (actions in units of troops organized by NATO) isn't right... | 0_0 |
Perhaps most hypocritical is the global-cooling scare promoted by, among others, Mr. Obamas science czar, John Holdren. Today, Mr. Holdren says a billion people may perish from global warming by 2020. | 0_0 |
And including "climate change", as is being more and more talked about? Careful here. This is an ongoing debate and predictions are all but clear. And how do you intend to translate the virtual lack of global warming over the past decade into economic figures? | 1_4 |
Shlaes leaves it to the reader to project lessons forward to our own time. The Democratic party lived large on FDR's high-tax, class-warfare playbook for nearly two generations. The Reagan Revolution put some of it into receivership, but the impulse to tax, regulate, and plan the economy remains embedded in contemporar... | 0_0 |
I put this up actually as an indicator of what climate science is trying to say about the Antarctic. It is apparently based entirely in fantasy world at this point, computer models predicting doom for penguins is certainly not a good thing cept the hockey team. I suspect that when temperature trends in the Antarctic ar... | 5_1 |
This, unfortunately, is not atypical. Under gatekeeper Neal Lane , the Baker Institute has refused to allow fair, open debate about natural versus anthropogenic climate forces and has championed sky-is-falling government activism. For example, Lane/Baker: | 5_2 |
Sneer quotes! Yeah that's a good one. Like they're Al Gore or something. And what the hell would an economist know about climate? What chance is there that an economist could add to the debate? | 0_0 |
In their inaugural essay in Breakthrough Journal outlining what is meant by "modernizing" liberalism, Shellenberger and Nordhaus offered a number of departures from current liberal orthodoxy, including: "A new progressive politics must take liberalism's commitment to broadly-shared prosperity forward while leaving the ... | 0_0 |
However, the largest of all the positive or temperature-amplifying feedbacks in the UN's arsenal is the water-vapor feedback. The UN gets this feedback wrong in numerous fundamental ways. For instance, its models tend to treat column absolute humidity as being uniform at all altitudes, when in fact as Paltridge et al. ... | 0_0 |
State Sen. Evie Hudak resigned her seat Wednesday, ending a recall effort being waged against her days before gun-rights activists were to turn in petitions to try to oust the Democrat from office. | 0_0 |
(16) Alarmists had indicated a decline of Antarctic ice due to warming. The upward trends since 1979 continues. | 1_1 |
PHILIP: Hello, big guy. Circus in town? | 0_0 |
"Environmentalists have long admitted to using fear to arouse public action," writes Berlau, who is a policy director at the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. In ECO-FREAKS, Berlau exposes the often tragic consequences of modern environmentalism. From the banning of DDT to the collapse of the lev... | 0_0 |
What the Europeans haven't come to terms with is that their policies and the policies of the respective member governments have put their economies in a lurch. Pushing the U.S. to adopt similar regressive European policies is not going to help their industries compete with the U.S., rather it will hurt the world econom... | 0_0 |
Please allow me to add to James Glassman's excellent analysis of how the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, which the United States recently announced, has shown the Kyoto Protocol to be yesterday's answer to yesterday's assessment of tomorrow's problem ("Way beyond Kyoto," Commentary, Wednesday... | 0_0 |
I observed the other day that Eli Rabett had done a bait-and-switch, in which Eli showed a picture of a well-located new station at Niwot Ridge (started only in 2003) as a supposed refutation of criticisms of incinerators, barbecues and tennis courts at USHCN stations. In response, Eli observed his right to carrot pick... | 0_0 |
The Republicans want to be even more accepted in the ruling class. They want to be even more powerful. They want to be considered part of it. They want to be in the clique. | 0_0 |
In an April 2013 article in Investor's Business Daily, John Merline reported that, "Overall air pollution levels dropped 62% from 1990 to 2012, while GDP grew 69% and population climbed 26%." The pollution the EPA keeps claiming is rising includes emissions of carbon monoxide, soot, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and others, a... | 0_0 |
In addition, stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentrations Kyoto's ultimate goal is impossible without constraining energy use in developing countries. China's energy emissions alone will surpass those of the U.S. by 2020. Kyoto is, thus, the proverbial camel's nose under the tent. If it is ever ratified, developing count... | 4_2 |
All communities, from small towns to major cities are by definition "vulnerable", but the air has undergone significant cleanup over the years, so this is not a common problem anywhere. As for cancer rates, they too have been in decline thanks to advances in medical care. It is doubtful that most Americans live in alle... | 0_0 |
The 74 people aboard the ice-bound ship have two weeks food left, but report that alcohol is running short. | 0_0 |
We ourselves can't avoid blame for the science disaster uncovered by Mr. FOIA. As Peter Foster of London's Financial Times noted, we didn't heed President Dwight Eisenhower's warning. "Most people are aware of Ike's warning in 1961 about the military-industrial complex," Foster wrote. Our fatal error was to ignore what... | 0_0 |
Three bulldozer operators worked on the 4th of July trying to break down mountains of snow still towering over parts of Anchorage after the city broke its annual snowfall record of 132.6 inches. | 1_3 |
Recolonization has similarly undermined other classic doomsday stories. Parmesans iconic 1996 paper reported global warming had increased extinctions for the Ediths Checkerspot butterfly, but most of those extinct colonies in the Sierra Nevada have now been recolonized. Unfortunately the recolonization information was ... | 0_0 |
If both sides viewed this marriage as one of convenience, 1199 got the better of it. In 1995, GOP governor George Pataki's first year in office, Republicans held 11 more state senate seats than Democrats; 20 years later, after falling into the minority in two of the four electoral cycles since 2008, their margin of maj... | 0_0 |
IPCC produced a graph presumably showing global warming rates on the increase (see Figure 1). The graph uses a well known trick. In any length of a rugose (noisy in appearance) data set, one will encounter short portions steeper (flatter or of opposite sign) than the length as a whole. If the steeper portion happens to... | 5_1 |
Official announcements and papers on the CDMS-II page (added several hours after this blog entry was initially posted) | 0_0 |
On other aspects of climate policy, prospects for technology cooperation may also be good. The U.S. may wish to coordinate with other industrialized nations to help to boost the adaptive capacity of poorer states. There is no reason to forego progress in these areas while waiting for a global deal on GHG caps, a deal t... | 0_0 |
In the Alaska Climate Research Center data, you can clearly see the 1976 shift of the PDO from the cool to the warm phase, and the recent return to the cool phase. Unsurprisingly, the rise in the Alaska temperatures (typically shown with a continuously rising straight trend line through all the data) have been cited ov... | 0_0 |
In October 2003, the ICTAgang, joined bythe attorneysgeneral of Massachusetts and11 otherstates, challenged EPAs decisionin the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.Parties filed briefs during June-December 2004.In July 2005, theappelate court held that EPA acted lawfully in denying the petition, but it did not rule on the co... | 0_0 |
UN Millennium Goals flunk reality check | 0_0 |
Uh, oh...the clash of ice and warmth brings storms | 0_0 |
It is difficult to explain the whole climate-change panic except in religious terms. There has arisen among some in the environmental community what can only be understood as a cult of Earth worshipit is against energy, against mining, against land use, against industry, and against industrial society. Climate change i... | 5_2 |
Matthysen et al . emphasize that "synchronization of the nestling period with the food supply not only depends on first-egg dates but also on additional reproductive parameters including laying interruptions, incubation time and nestling growth rate." And as a result of adjustments in these several related phenomena, t... | 3_2 |
(1) Negative consequences of EPA's interpretation of the RMR&R; exclusion | 0_0 |
"Students who attend Chicago's Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food--or go hungry. Only students with allergies are allowed to bring a homemade lunch to school, the Chicago Tribune reports." | 0_0 |
Then again, our understanding of the rate of the precession of the equinoxes is limited to about 10,000 years of human history. That isnt even one full cycle (of 24,000 years). So perhaps the answer is simply that its easy to see a 24,000 year periodic function that isnt really there. That the actual function is some m... | 5_1 |
Whats not so well known about the Medieval Warm Period is how warm it was in the western U.S., Swetnam said. This is one line of evidence that it was very fiery on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and theres a very strong relationship between drought and fire. | 0_0 |
The Canadians found that the Medieval warm period had indeed occurred, suggesting that periods of warming and cooling were natural trends unrelated to the number of SUVs on the road. | 2_1 |
Here is another one a map of worldwide CO2 distribution as measured by a NASA satellite that appears to me to be almost directly counter to the consensus. Red represents the higher concentrations. | 5_1 |
California is weighing how to avoid a looming electricity crisis that could be brought on by its growing reliance on wind and solar power. At Tuesdays meeting, experts cautioned that the state could begin seeing problems with reliability as soon as 2015. --Rebecca Smith, The Wall Street Journal, 27 February 2013 | 0_0 |
The relevant section reads, "From the viewpoint of the IAEA, "no progress was made in 2003 on the Kyoto Protocol, which would help make nuclear power's avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions valuable to investors.' The next round of talks on energy and sustainable development is scheduled for the 13th session of the Uni... | 0_0 |
Does the observational evidence in AR5 support its/the CMIP5 models TCR ranges? | 0_0 |
the transition of the wooden Stevenson to a PVC Stevenson screen (August 1980) did not have a noticeable effect on the daily mean temperatures; consequently no corrections had to be applied. | 0_0 |
Liberalism and environmentalism have only been strongly connected for about 40 years. Franklin D. Roosevelt had no particular fondness for pristine wilderness. He boasted proudly of the dams he built and proclaimed proudly, at the dedication of the Hoover Dam (then called the Boulder Dam), that humans were "altering th... | 0_0 |
Clearly, your humble correspondent can't compete with Tommaso Dorigo in the number of rumors he propagates. Dorigo has already spread rumors by/from most of the janitors at CERN and Fermilab, too. :-) Many of his rumors will refer to indefensible interpretations of the observations. If one of them were right, it would ... | 0_0 |
Raising constant alarmsabout fracking, pesticides, GMO foodin the name of safety is a dangerous game. | 0_0 |
Zapata et al . conclude that "the recent history of La Azufrada reef since coral reef studies began at Gorgona Island three decades ago (Prahl et al ., 1979; Glynn et al ., 1982) suggests a remarkable ability of this reef to recover from past perturbations," which are of the type (extreme El Nio-driven temperature incr... | 3_2 |
Again, Osborn provided no citation or references. I never claimed that the data for Scenario A or Scenario B or Polar Urals was less biased I defy Osborn to locate any support for that suggestion. | 0_0 |
"The chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee, Local 831, which represents men and women of the New York City Sanitation Department says there is no truth behind a rumor that his members worked slower during the blizzard of 2010." | 0_0 |
Leading hurricane expert Kerry Emmanuel has published a new paper in which he reports that his models suggest that global warming will cause a reduction in the number of hurricanes (with a slight rise in hurricane intensity in some regions). | 1_7 |
The Vatican had approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps. | 0_0 |
The TRAIN Act (H.R. 2401, ?Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011?) establishes an 11-member federal interagency committee, chaired by the Department of Commerce, to analyze the cumulative impacts of a number of major EPA regulations. A final report on the results of the analysis is du... | 0_0 |
Das Welts-Klima-Maschine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Es ist zu simpel zu schnappen der Springenwerk, Blowenfusen und Korkenpoppen mit Spitzensparken. Das Klima ist nicht fur Getinkeren bei die Dummkopfer. Die Rubberneckeren und Sightseeren musten keepen der cotten-pickenen Hande in der Pocketen, oder ... | 0_0 |
On to the biggest scare of them all: sea-level rise. Here, Roy Spencer concedes that Sea levels have indeed increased, which probably is a sign of warming. However, he goes on to say, It is difficult to attribute the current rate of rise to humans when we dont know how much of the rise is natural. | 0_0 |
The average of the trends for each source, calculated , with the uncertainty intervals calculated as if the residuals for each instrument at a given time are uncorrelated from each other. This is incorrect, but the this uncertainty band would enclose the uncertainties in the slope computed using the five sources. It is... | 0_0 |
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness | 0_0 |
It is because both contain stations like Las Vegas that have been compromised by changes in their environment, that station itself, the sensors, the maintenance, time of observation changes, data loss, etc. In both cases we are plotting data which is a huge mishmash of station biases that have not been dealt with. | 5_1 |
He writes, "t is quite wrong to say that our NAS study endorsed the credibility of the IPCC assessment report. We were asked to evaluate the IPCC "Summary for Policymakers" (SPM), the only part of the IPCC reports that is ever read or quoted by the media and politicians. The SPM, which is seen as endorsing Kyoto, is co... | 5_1 |
The Washington Times reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI regarding documents on climate change work. | 0_0 |
And while the added troops would be put on the ground as quickly as possible, | 0_0 |
2. One would expect greater agreement with recent data in more recent years. But since 1997 the difference in temperature anomalies has widened by nearly 0.3 celsius GISSTEMP showing rapid warming and HADCRUT showing none. | 5_1 |
New Internet caf tests limits of state gaming laws: | 0_0 |
Global warming will NOT lead to an overall stormier atmosphere. | 0_0 |
"Although Islam had a religious component, it is much more than a simple religious ideology. It is a complete geo-political structure and, as such, does not deserve First Amendment protections." Georgia congressional candidate Jody Hice. | 0_0 |
This "new nullification," as we call it, has left President Obama's nominee to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat, Merrick Garland, drifting in limbo. | 0_0 |
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