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From the Federal Food Insurance program that now socializes the cost of flood stupid to everyone (and is painfully in deficit) encouraging massive building in flood plains (guess whey the are called that?) and on mobile sand bars (as they all are), to the over regulation of commerce that breaks flexible and innovative ... | 0_0 |
New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that obese fathers have changes to microRNAs that increase the risks for daughters to be overweight/obese, and both sons and daughters to have diabetes-like diseases | 0_0 |
Update: This does not mean that there has been no warming, just that it has been exaggerated. Satellites have shown warming over the last 30 years and are unaffected by the same biases and issues as at the CRU. But the whole point is the exaggeration. Skeptics generally dont think there is no warming from mans CO2, jus... | 5_1 |
One year ago, on January 31, we were treated to another of these Snowmageddon scenarios. At the time, USA Today quoted Gary Szatkowski, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, as saying: Its a little surprising that people are falling for this. | 0_0 |
Temeln (CZ), Jaslovsk Bohunice (SK), Tetov (CZ), Blahutovice (CZ), Mochovce (SK), Kecerovce (SK) besides the existing ones in Temeln (CZ), Dukovany (CZ), Jaslovsk Bohunice (SK), and Mochovce (SK). Seven nuclear places is not bad for a country of 15 million. | 0_0 |
All essentially forced energy conservation (called conservation ism at this blog) is primarily to reduce emissions of all sorts, but largely GHGs, given that pollutants are covered by other regulatory regimes. | 0_0 |
The entire industry of "climate science" was created out of virtually nothing, by means of a massive influx of funding that was almost universally one-sided in its requirement that its recipients find evidence for man-made climate changenot investigate whether or how much mankind had caused climate change. | 5_2 |
The basic concept is that if the radiative forcing of the climate system is increased, the surface temperature will warm until the outgoing long wave radiation becomes in balance with the new radiative forcing. There is a lag between when the radiative forcing is imposed and when an equilibrium is achieved with the new... | 0_0 |
Most recently, the current issue of Macleans magazine has a cover story titled "Why Your Grocery Bill is About to Hurt", which is linked here : "...the U.S. biofuels industry has made | 0_0 |
The plaintiff in the case is the Dutch environmental organization Urgenda, described by the court as "a citizens' platform . . . involved in the development of plans and measures to prevent climate change." As part of a global strategy to persuade courts that they have authority to trump the climate policy decisions of... | 0_0 |
> >> >>adaptation. Such a document should contain a critical | 0_0 |
the opportunity for major policy change is ripe, as it was for LBJ in 1965. But | 0_0 |
When all the warming and cooling periods are combined, there has been overall warming of +0.6C since 1880, which is entirely normal, considering the realism that world temperatures have been on a natural warming trend since the incredible coldness of the Little Ice Age. Even with the large increase of CO2 levels since ... | 2_1 |
Use more technology (geoengineering, carbon capture and storage). | 0_0 |
This set of examples shows that the HADCM3L cannot produce a unique solution to the problem of the climate energy state. No set of model parameters is known to be any more valid than any other set of model parameters. No projection is known to be any more physically correct (or incorrect) than any other projection. | 5_1 |
From S. Fred Singer HOT TALK, COLD SCIENCE: Global Warmings Unfinished Debate S. Fred Singer is a distinguished astrophysicist who has taken a hard, scientific look at the evidence. In this book, Dr. Singer explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data, the limitations of attempting to model climate on computers... | 0_0 |
Since 2000, industrial power prices are up 13 percent in real dollars, while commercial power prices are up 9 percent. Before 2000, both prices had fallen steadily since 1982, by 42 percent and 27 percent, respectively, according to the federal government's Energy Information Administration (EIA). Prices are up in part... | 0_0 |
Using a livelihood security approach, Alexander and her team identified vulnerable households in these communities and examined how they adapted and coped with major climate events and shocks such as droughts, hurricanes and floods. The Baylor researchers also developed tools to measure each households long-term resili... | 0_0 |
They may dismay consumers, but higher rates will encourage suppliers to find new sources of energy. | 0_0 |
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 5 The Relationship Between the PDO and ENSO | 0_0 |
The SREX Report seemed to conclude that, apart from warmer days and nights, there was no significant trend in heatwaves, tornadoes, hurricanes is that still the case? | 1_7 |
Of the $6.3 billion to be spent on stage 1, $3.6 billion would come from tax incentives to stimulate spending on energy efficient transportation and housing. But, says the GAO, the Administration "has no estimate of the expected benefits and thus is not explicitly tied to the protocol's target for emission reductions."... | 0_0 |
The 2001 Third Assessment Report contained a graph contradicting the First Report by falsely abolishing the medieval warm period, which, like the Roman, Minoan, and Holocene optima, and 7500 of the past 11,400 years, and each of the four previous interglacial warm periods, and most of the past 600 million years, was wa... | 2_1 |
This new version of the party eschewed any serious effort to bargain and compromise with the opposition party, an essential activity within the American constitutional system. | 0_0 |
Advocates of "pooling" U.S. sovereignty with others to address "global" problems are really saying we should surrender some of our sovereignty to international organizations that other nations will influence or even control. | 0_0 |
Theres no indication that global warming will result in stronger storms. The World Meteorological Organisation announced earlier this year they find no connection between global warming and hurricane activity. | 1_7 |
Economics, not politics, will decide the fate of Canada's tar sands. Energy analysts at Wood MacKenzie recently estimated that $200 billion in oil and gas investments in 45 projects around the world were being delayed due to low prices. About $60 billion of those planned investments were slated for oil sands projects. ... | 0_0 |
This brings us to the what John L. Casey, founder of the Space and Science Research Corporation, (SSRC), an independent scientific research organization in Orlando, says about the forthcoming November 30 to December 15 U.N. climate conference in Paris which he describes as ?doomed? and that?s the good news. | 0_0 |
Little kid (sounded 5 or 6 years old) asks: | 0_0 |
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? | 0_0 |
Source:?? Popular TechnologyGlobal warming alarmists like to distort the scale on temperature graphs to exaggerate the mild warming of less than a degree since the end of the little ice age. (IPCC +0.74 ??C)NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2009)Realist:Alarmist:Source:NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temp... | 5_2 |
Its a good question, and it arises out of an article posted on Business Green (an on-line news and campaigning site for green capitalists) by its editor, James Murray. More about that in a moment. First, the background. | 0_0 |
Eighteen people registered to vote out of a truck stop | 0_0 |
The data shows a global mean sea level rise of only 1.85 mm/year since January 2005, a deceleration of 44% from the prior rate of 3.3 mm/year. At this rate, sea levels will rise 7 inches over the next 100 years. Break out the life rafts! | 1_6 |
One of the key assumptions in the general circulation models (which are the basis for the IPCC's global warming predictions) relates to the sensitivity of climate to changes in the amount of energy reaching the earth. The models currently assume that every Watt per meter squared (W/m2) of energy added to the earth will... | 0_0 |
The unadjusted NZ temperature history. Click for larger version. | 0_0 |
Far too many environmentalists, bureaucrats, politicians, and judges would rather let forests burn than let anyone selectively cut timber, thin out overgrown trees or even let loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle kills, devastating fires, or volcanic explosions like Mount St. Helens. (Do you suppose they'd al... | 0_0 |
Robert L. Bradley is the chief executive officer and founder of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston. | 0_0 |
For Bosch, another German giant, its move into solar ended in disaster too, costing the electronics company even more than Siemens: about ?2.4bn. | 0_0 |
In Pakistan, about 1600 people have died since floods struck in July and early August, while about 14 million are struggling to cope with the consequences of the natural disaster, the UN and Pakistani government said. | 0_0 |
A new paper finds that over the past decade the global average effective cloud height has declined and that If sustained, such a decrease would indicate a significant measure of negative cloud feedback to global warming. | 3_1 |
Meet the man, assistant DeSmogger Brendan De Melle , who took a whole hour to get the documents online from the time received. Speed is more important than fact checking in journo-lism I suppose. | 0_0 |
?global icons? One of these suggested icons was the Great Barrier Reef | 0_0 |
They let these random diatribes of absolute, incorrect nonsense get published. Theyre not able to determine if whats being said is correct or not, or whether its just absolute balderdash. . | 0_0 |
Addressing the executive order emphasis, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue says: "It is unfortunate that on a matter of such importance to all Americans that the administration has chosen to bypass our elected representatives in favor of unilateral actions and go-it-alone tactics." | 0_0 |
The paper is a preprint that will eventually appear in the European Journal of the Philosophy of Science and can be downloaded here . It is a contribution to an ongoing debate in philosophy of science circles as to how computer simulations fit into the normal blueprint of science, with some claiming that they are somet... | 0_0 |
But UKIP hates Europe? Not at all . European nations are among some of our closest allies, but we want out of the European Union on the grounds that it is entirely undemocratic. Unelected people write the laws, referendums are scoffed at and ignored and the EU has failed its financial audit every year for the past 20. ... | 0_0 |
Missing stations, missing data, adjustments based on differences in temperature measurements and rerunning the adjustments all t get more precise results? I couldnt adjust data that had product or legal (environmental) liability without documenting each change. I was also subject to regular audits by customers and regu... | 5_1 |
An all of the above energy policy that is rigged against consumer-driven dense energy and rigged for government-enabled dilute energy; | 5_2 |
Fuel poverty will only reducesubstantially if fuel costs come down. That will only happen if someone comes up with a cheaper, clean alternative to fossil fuels. That will not happen for a generation or more. Subsidising alternative energy sources that will always be much more expensive than oil is currently may divert ... | 4_4 |
2nd person denied Ariz. Transplant coverage dies: | 0_0 |
The caricature of President Bush the unilateralist is inaccurate. He went to the United Nations before invading Iraq, and he assembled an international coalition to fight the war. But Europeans should recognize that Mr. Bush scored points in the campaign when he derided Sen. Kerry's suggestion that the U.S. needed a pe... | 0_0 |
An advertising agency for the citys health department obtained the rights to use the photo to illustrate its campaign shown throughout the subway system against supersize portions of fast food and sugary sodas. To emphasize that consuming too much of those foods could lead to diabetes and the amputation of limbs, the a... | 0_0 |
There is not the slightest indication that Arctic sea ice is disappearing. Arctic sea is two meters thick, the thickest it has been since 2006 and about the same thickness it was 75 years ago. | 1_1 |
Experts Decry Eco-Imperialism on Earth Day | 0_0 |
Global sea ice levels decreased but then recently have come back to normal (at least the same levels as when we started monitoring). | 1_1 |
In reality, the soil surface cools faster that does the deeper layers, but I didnt want to complicate things with a multi-level model (which I dont have time to work on anyway). This is just a simple, bulk model calculation meant to illustrate how extremely cold it would get at night without downwelling IR from the sky... | 0_0 |
Now I'd like to address one more myth that's being perpetrated by Utility MACT proponents, which has to do with their public health argument. The truth is that the health benefits EPA claims are exaggerated and misleading. That's because EPA's analysis shows that over 99 percent of the benefits from the rule come from ... | 0_0 |
Instead of these intractable disputes, it's better to ask whether, at the margin, the additional cost of pollution control is justified by the environmental gains achieved. Only a firm has the information needed to make these continuous adjustments. Let the government set the per-unit tariff for pollution and the firm ... | 0_0 |
The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don't expect anyone who pointed to last year's hurricanes as "proof" of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don't work that way. | 0_0 |
In commenting on their findings, the five Chinese researchers say "our well-calibrated high-resolution tropical SST records, which suggested a warmer MCA than recent decades, did not agree with the results of the IPCC fourth report, which suggested that the recent decades were the warmest in at least the past 1,300 yea... | 2_1 |
This is not some Iird skeptics fantasy. This two-part description of catastrophic global warming theory is right out of the latest IPCC report. Most of the warming in the reports forecasts actually results from the theory of positive feedback in #2, not from greenhouse gasses directly. | 2_3 |
> >> >- maybe the IDS at Sussex | 0_0 |
The Gospels are quite clear. Besides depicting Jesus dining with prostitutes and publicans without feeling any urge to lecture and condemn them, references abound on concentrating on ones own real problems instead of anybody elses purported issues. | 0_0 |
According to the French financial daily Les Echos, France, the birthplace of the Paris climate agreement, is planning to scrap a tax on carbon dioxide emissions it had announced earlier in 2016. Sources within France's socialist government said it would not include the carbon tax in the budget update it is drafting. | 0_0 |
The firefighters have been working around the clock to fight the Crow Edge blaze, which has created a huge pall of acrid smoke that can be smelled across much of South Yorkshire . | 0_0 |
If the standstill continues for a few more years it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime, said the reports author, Dr David Whitehouse. | 1_4 |
We have to switch datasets to NOAAs ERSST.v3b for the long-term data. The data for the month of February 2013 will not be available until early in March, so well use the January 2013 value for the most recent temperature anomaly for the New England coastal watersthe red horizontal line. The current anomalies were excee... | 0_0 |
In fact, Obama??s energy policies have created the worst of all possible worlds for American consumers: higher prices and continued dependency on imported oil. | 4_1 |
Blake Hurst is a Missouri farmer and a frequent contributor to THE AMERICAN. | 0_0 |
"The Clean Power Plan is an illegitimate exercise in executive authority," added William Yeatman, CEI senior fellow. "It is an affront to federalism; it usurps the states' long-held, exclusive authority to oversee retail electricity markets. If finalized, the rule would fundamentally overhaul the electric industry with... | 4_1 |
According to NOAA, drought in recent years has been at historically low levels, while precipitation has been trending upwards. | 1_7 |
Click for more on the Manns involuntary public figure charade. | 0_0 |
>> >Sorry for this delayed reply to your mail. I have been quite | 0_0 |
Table 1. Exponents table showing pairwise differences in Patriot measurements. Exponent commented as follows: There are seven pairs of measurements (highlighted in orange and red) in which the drop in pressure between the earlier ball tested and the later ball tested is greater than or equal to 0.75 psig, and there are... | 0_0 |
At the same time it released its report, EPA issued seven recommendations, the first four of which were proposed by the Clinton administration in 1996 but never implemented. These recommendations are: | 0_0 |
In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out | 0_0 |
This tactic will allow developed nations to sell binding targets to the public. Nature concludes, "Their greatest opportunity is that a growing sense of crisis over global warming will focus minds on the need to rethink our use of energy and other resources, and to accept the pain that this will inevitably require." | 0_0 |
In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise. The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than... | 2_3 |
So don't think President Obama has softened his position since 2009, when he attempted to ram a cap-and-trade bill through Congress that would have required draconian cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and caused electricity rates to skyrocket. Apparently he still believes that droughts, floods, and wildfires can be bani... | 0_0 |
Because non-CO 2 -forceced wetter and drier conditions than those of the present have occurred in this region in the past, such conditions can be expected to naturally recur in the future.?? Yet just as soon as the precipitation balance begins to tip towards one extreme or the other, you can count on there being a numb... | 1_7 |
Abbott promised to repeal Labor's carbon tax. Norway's Ema Solberg called for business-friendly reforms to produce the economic growth necessary for an expensive welfare state. | 0_0 |
I've spent a little time with this report. Here are my observations. Feel free to forward and cite this posting, I?ll get it up on Heartland?s Freedom Pub momentarily. I?ll appreciate comments on whether I got this right. | 0_0 |
What is actually going on is the exact opposite of the Guardians claims. Arctic sea ice is melting very slowly, and is nearing a mid-summer high for the past decade. | 1_1 |
Irvine, Calif. Two new UC Irvine papers reach markedly different conclusions about why methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, unexpectedly leveled off near the end of the 20th century. They appear today in the journal Nature. | 5_1 |
It is now estimated that some 50,000 executions took place across Europe. | 0_0 |
The Elsner paper relies on far too short a period to draw any meaningful conclusions. | 0_0 |
The London Daily Mail published a chart that, as they say, reveals how 95 % certain estimates of the Earth heating up were a spectacular miscalculation. Comparing actual temperatures against the IPCCs 95% certainty projections, the lines track closely until recent years, at which point the line representing the observe... | 5_1 |
Earlier this year, CEI filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department as part of its inquiry into developing a successor regime to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. For example, CEI hopes to obtain records shedding light on the Global Climate Fund (GCF) that then-Secretary Hillary Clinton p... | 0_0 |
Another tiny factor that plays a role in our climate is the sun, believe it or not. Low solar activity has shown to be strongly correlated with cold periods on this planet. Currently, contrary to what was earlier expected by NASA, cycle 24 is turning out to be one of surprisingly low activity. That bodes ill for more c... | 2_1 |
Our findings in this report ratify a longstanding and broadly-held belief that parts of the NSR program can and should be improved. For example, we conclude above that changes to NSR that add to the clarity and certainty of the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion will improve the program by reducing the unintend... | 0_0 |
According to Teris own website, Dr Pachauri and his wife are on the jury panel for the 2010 awards. Dr Pachauri has been on the jury panel for the awards in previous years. | 0_0 |
The year as a whole is currently running as the second coldest since 1996, beaten only by the exceptionally cold year of 2010. Temperatures so far in December are 2 degrees below normal, and the Met Office are forecasting that this will continue for the foreseeable future. | 1_2 |
Kevin Rudd was fired and Julia Gillard took his job. | 0_0 |
Your dad's job is to try to stop the government making laws to reduce Australia's carbon pollution. He is paid a lot of money to do that by big companies who do not want to own up to the fact that their pollution is changing the world's climate in very harmful ways. | 0_0 |
A directive took effect this week ordering wind farms with a capacity of 10 megawatts or more to forecast their generation in 15-minute blocks for the following day. Missing estimates by more than 30 percent will incur penalties. Forecasting at 15-minute intervals is very challenging, and could cost a 100-megawatt farm... | 0_0 |
?This century is special in the Earth?s history. It is the first when one species ? ours ? has the planet?s future in its hands,? reports the AFP news agency. ?We?ve invented a new geological era: the Anthropocene.?, he stated. | 0_0 |
Larsen et al. performed multiple analysis of sediment cores of an Iceland glacial lake. The analysis clearly documents the robust climate change during the periods of the Dark Ages,the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age. The empirical evidence points to the extreme warmth of Iceland's climate during the MWP and th... | 2_1 |
Principal component analysis of the weather station data produces results similar to those of the satellite data analysis, yielding three separable principal components. We therefore used the RegEM algorithm with a cut-off parameter k=3. A disadvantage of excluding higher-order terms (k>3) is that this fails to fully c... | 0_0 |
As Adam Smith expressed it in his earlier book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759): | 0_0 |
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