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Unlike the administration reaction to the Gulf oil spill last year, President Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have reiterated their support for nuclear power even in the face of the unfolding disaster in Japan, an encouraging sign. Obama and Chu could go one step better, though, and give a major address when t... | 0_0 |
(Note: The article started out by saying record low temperatures. Then it switched to coldest temperatures of the year. I dont know which statement is true. Either way, it certainly doesn??t look like ???global warming.??) | 1_3 |
House Science Committee Chairman Smith has expressed a commitment to look into concerns that the real purpose of NOAA's report was to push President Obama's political agenda. | 0_0 |
on Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 10:27 am and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
JC comment: the detection of the long-term signal from anthropogenic forcing was detected in the AR4 basically for the period 1970 or 1980 to 2000, without account for this: because on decadal time scales anthropogenic effects may be nonmonotonic, regionally dependent, and/or convolved with natural variability . | 0_0 |
These include the often poor representation of El Nio variability in global | 0_0 |
We have warm, humid area over us now, with many dew points at 60F and above....that is why it feels kind of sticky. | 0_0 |
As Mr. Bast explains in his blog post , the idea Heartland lost nearly $1 million in donations is false: Most of the donors who have said they wont continue to support us have agreed to fund new or existing groups that will continue our work; some already contributed this year before their announcements; and others had... | 0_0 |
the atmosphere. I don't think the evidence is definitive, but it certainly casts doubt as to whether we really know what is going on. I always thought it a bit odd that people would search for the causes of changing temperatures without first checking out the sun, sortof like walking in a room that is too hot and tryin... | 2_1 |
Seabra et al . further state that "habitat heterogeneity as determined by surface orientation and, to a lesser extent, height on the shore may provide thermal refugia allowing species to occupy habitats apparently inhospitable when considering only average temperatures," and they state that "this may be important for u... | 3_2 |
The campaign against The Australian gets under the editors skin and Chris Mitchell and others are right to protest that they have been mislabeled. But by putting so much effort into claiming they really truly do believe in Climate Change theyve fallen into the Orwellian trap of stating the blindingly obvious, as well a... | 0_0 |
Ethanol is a versatile fuel. And the benefits are easy to recognize when you think about it. . . . Ethanol is good for our rural communities. It's good economic development for rural America. . . . Ethanol is good for the environment. . . . thanol's good for drivers. . . . Ethanol's good for the whole country. | 0_0 |
In fact, the power was still off for hundreds of thousands of households in North Carolina, and forecasters warned that black ice was setting in on roads in the western part of the Triangle. | 0_0 |
While soundly endorsing New Delhi's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, the American President stated that "with increased power comes increased responsibility." President Obama asked for Indian collaboration in the fields of nuclear non-proliferation, climate change, freedom, human rights and democrac... | 0_0 |
In order to reduce the risk of expanded nuclear power leading to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the report recommended giving countries that forego "proliferation-risky" enrichment and reprocessing activities a preferred position to receive nuclear fuel and waste management services from nations that possess the... | 0_0 |
The weather played an April Fools Day prank on Moscow residents Monday, bringing fresh snow to the Russian capital instead of long-awaited sunshine. | 0_0 |
Even if I have it all wrong and these scientists had some good reason to mislead us (instead of making a strong case with real data) I think disseminating the truth is still the safest bet by far. | 0_0 |
In the meantime, we look for Rep. Henry Waxman to reprise the level of outrage he displayed over Abramoff to prove it was also not political and come down hard on the practice he so aggressively condemned and pursued, demanding preservation of records, threatening subpoenas, the whole works. With our request, that's es... | 0_0 |
U.S. sees 2,232nd consecutive days without being hit by major hurricane ???shatters?? previous streak set in 1906 Prof. Pielke Jr.: ???Since there won??t be any intense hurricanes before next summer, the record will be shattered, with the days between intense hurricane landfalls likely to exceed 2,500 days?? | 1_7 |
Agreement signed at Stockholm and Washington November 23 and December 6, 2005; entered into force December 6, 2005. | 0_0 |
test-day disaster doesn't ruin a semester. Some teachers, students and | 0_0 |
Lamb, Christina. "Chopping Down Rainforest Myths," Financial Times, January 8, 1992, p. 47. | 0_0 |
They only make one dismissive comment about Thornthwaite?s work. | 0_0 |
TAPS was completed in 1978. It has carried almost 17 billion barrels of oil to energy-thirsty American markets. Its a technological and environmental marvel and a critical component of Americas energy infrastructure. Its been a resounding success for this country, and for my state. Its the engine of growth for Alaskas ... | 4_5 |
Detailed addenda accompanying ITSSD FOIA requests filed with EPA and DOC-NOAA during March May 2014 strongly suggest that the peer review science processes EPA and DOC-NOAA had employed in vetting the USGCRP and other federal and IPCC agency assessments supporting the EPAs Endangerment Findings did not comply with U.S.... | 5_2 |
Arizona's Ugly but Necessary Immigration Law | 0_0 |
DDT can be harmful if used in excess, but application of DDT has also saved many trees from insect infestations and may be partly responsible for an increase in bird populations. Starting in the late "40s, it was sprayed on elm trees to successfully stave off predatory beetles spreading Dutch Elm disease. After DDT was... | 0_0 |
General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler all have come begging at the federal trough for a series of bailouts. In recent weeks, Democrats have made it clear what they will demand in exchange for the bailout cash: more attention to fuel-efficient cars, fewer gas guzzlers, more research into alternative-fuel-powered cars, and ... | 0_0 |
( comment to the IHTs Welcome to the new nuclear era ) | 0_0 |
If thats what a cleaner, greener world looks like, Id rather have it brown and dirty, thank you! | 0_0 |
The draft bill would force tough emission cuts on a fast schedule. This haste flies in the face of a great deal of economic analysis of how GHG reductions should be timed in order to get the most benefit from a given expenditure of resources. That analysis teaches that, for carbon dioxide (CO2) controls, "a more gradua... | 0_0 |
Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth's perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash Am... | 4_1 |
Beyond direct taxes is the hidden tax of federal regulations. This includes reformulated gasoline (RFG), a specialized blend required by federal law in nine major metropolitan areas. RFG currently costs nearly 15 cents per gallon more than already pricey conventional gasoline. | 0_0 |
Over the past few years, Arctic has shown considerable reduction in sea ice levels due to global warming. However, Antarctica has cooled and has even gained some ice recently . A new study suggests that ocean circulation can explain why the polar regions have different reactions towards rise in earths temperature. | 1_1 |
It is worth pointing out that the Index looked much worse for Al Gore back in May when the UAH graph showed its lowest temperature in at least eight years. Since May, the temperatures have been slowly ticking up, but are still lower than when Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth, which just underscores the decline (o... | 1_4 |
This view was confirmed by Charles E.P. Brooks (1888-1957) in the Compendium of Meteorology (1951, American Meteorological Society ) who stated that the idea that CO2 could alter the climate "was never widely accepted and was abandoned when it was found that all the long-wave radiation absorbed by CO2 is absorbed by wa... | 2_3 |
Tim Pawlenty: Also a runner-up in the veepstakes, Pawlenty is the rare Republican who can talk about winning in a blue state without ceding his conservative credentials. Call him the Un-Arnold of the GOP. | 0_0 |
Only seven minutes long, this eye-opening video is well-worth watching. | 0_0 |
To Judith Curry's credit, she is not eager to sue. | 0_0 |
Is that an argument worth a Nobel prize winner? Brian Josephson, Chu's Nobel colleague, might add that the future fire in your house would be started by telekinesis. Well, what a sane person would do in this context? | 0_0 |
They have managed to get committed environmentalists appointed to key congressional committees and regulatory positions. They have a president in the White House who agrees on the broad contours of their agenda. They have already won increased fuel economy regulations, restrictions on drilling for oil and gas in the We... | 0_0 |
Now take a look at Figure 2. Is the warming of the 20th century really unprecendented as Mann claims? Why was it as warm 1000 years ago as it is today? Now comes one of the highlights of the interview: | 2_1 |
Our interest is, or should be, a free, democratic and prosperous society. That is the reason why we have to stand up against all attempts to undermine it. We should be prepared to adapt to all kinds of future climate changes (including cooling) but we should never accept losing our freedom. | 0_0 |
Some have asked me why I have not updated my climate blog in a while. Frankly, the climate debate has become like the movie Groundhog Day, with the same handful of scientists releasing the same flawed studies making the same mistakes. What used to be exciting is frankly boring. I still blog here on updated climate news... | 5_1 |
As for the EU's additional measures, these are proving difficult to adopt. Instead, the British government is on the verge of approving a new runway at Heathrow Airport and is considering applications to build a number of new coal-fired power plants. The German government has applied for special exemptions for its coal... | 0_0 |
In the letter to parents, Feldhausen said the committee recognized there are "multiple viewpoints" on global warming. The committee recommended that all teachers using the book "make students aware of both sides of the global warming theory," he said. | 0_0 |
The Benestad, R. E., and G. A. Schmidt 2009 and Lean, J. L., and D. H. Rind 2009 cannot both be correct in their conclusion regarding the magnitude of solar forcing on the Earths climate. They could both even be wrong based onsuch studies as | 5_1 |
Radiative forcing has to be replaced with a dynamic energy transfer model. There is no climate equilibrium and the time dependence of the energy transfer must be explicitly included. Once this is done, CO2 induced global warming disappears. The minimum description requires four thermal reservoirs and six energy transfe... | 2_3 |
...if the vast majority of Americans are still not even talking about climate change, we will never break through these obstacles and put irresistible pressure on Congress and every other opponent to stop fighting all reasonable actions to combat climate change and finally take positive action-for the sake of their own... | 0_0 |
CO2 Science Sheffer et al. conclude that "the extraordinary flood of 2002 was not the largest in the basin" of the Gardon River. And their findings and those of many others, both in France and elsewhere, suggest that the really huge European floods of the past few centuries occurred during colder rather than warmer tim... | 1_7 |
Hurricane Matthew is currently pummeling the Florida coast after leaving hundreds dead in Haiti. More than 600,000 Floridians have lost power, according to reports, and only one has died during the storm. | 0_0 |
It does a good job in explaining one skill of string theory from a viewpoint of someone who was definitely not trained as a string theorist. In condensed matter physics, there are various phases of matter displaying numerous kinds of behavior (and critical behavior) and things can get very complicated. However, under s... | 0_0 |
8 pm: Jaeah Lee, a nice fact-checker from Mother Jones, has a genial online video in which she tries (unsuccessfully) to figure out the trick to hide the decline, eventually being tricked by Briffa. | 5_2 |
The debate over human-induced global warming is far from settled. Listening to radical environmental activists and Vice President Al Gore, however, would give one the impression that the science is settled and humans are to blame for the warm temperatures in 1998. Recent weather events, however, could give the opposite... | 5_1 |
Thefuel switching issue is somewhat arcane, so it may be helpful if I provide a quick overview before commenting on McCarthys answers. | 0_0 |
The IPCC wants the world to stop using coal, oil and natural gas, saying that they must be "phased out almost entirely" by the end of the century. The report reeks of their contempt for humanity. | 0_0 |
It was created during a La Nia that came before the El Nio. This happens because La Nia events reduce cloud cover and allow more sunlight than normal to penetrate and warm the tropical Pacific. Its all so simple, and its all supported by data, not by incorrect assumptions implantedinto theprogramming climate models. | 0_0 |
In September 2013, the Republican members of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee issued a report that EPA officials had, from the beginning of President Obama's tenure, "pursued a path of obfuscation, operating in the shadows, and out of the sunlight." It detailed violations of the Freedom of Informatio... | 0_0 |
To my knowledge, ???hide the decline??, as a technique, was used in every subsequent spaghetti graph using the Briffa reconstruction except one ??? the Zero Order Draft of IPCC TAR presented to the Lead Authors in Arusha in September 1999. This spaghetti graph ??? which didn??t hide the decline ??? went over like a lea... | 5_2 |
Now they claim they predicted their failures all along, declare every weather event to be unprecedented, and claim that CO2 somehow heats the depths of the ocean where temperatures cant be measured. | 5_1 |
Circle around little tail indicates recent warming that has caused worldwide panic and mass hysteria. | 5_2 |
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It's time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair. | 0_0 |
The Greens are the political face of the environmentalist movement and they have become extremely influential, not only as separate political parties, but as factions within the major parties throughout the Anglosphere and very clearly within our own Liberal and Labor parties. Because they have been able to play the po... | 0_0 |
Google: 244,000 Germans say "no' to Street View: | 0_0 |
As a result, coal plants must install technology to capture and store carbon emissions. This is a cost-prohibitive prospect and one that all but forces new power plants to be generated by natural gas instead of coal. Of the proposed EPA rules, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has predicted they will ma... | 4_1 |
In response to Barton's letter about ending the PTC for industrial wind, Schumer continues: "I believe that it is necessary to balance our country's increasing energy needs with the need to protect the environment. We must also focus on renewable energy and energy conservation in order to meet our growing energy demand... | 0_0 |
We invite you to visit our facts page, videos section and infographics area to see how your life is made easier with American Products. American Power. | 0_0 |
She said the world might be approaching a period similar to that from 1965 to 1975, when temperatures fell over a longer period leading some scientists to predict a new ice age. | 1_2 |
Even if McCarthy makes it, the agency will still be short on Senate-confirmed leaders for its air and general counsel offices, among others, which many agency-watchers say could hamper progress on new regulations. | 0_0 |
A link to a good discussion of the ?Sea Levelgate? scandal appears below, along with links to other important climate news stories of the week. | 0_0 |
Third, while the California economy has grown during the past 25 years, it has also become more volatile. | 0_0 |
Update: Several people have found it ironic that the White House threw a fit over $300+ million for funding of new warplanes but hasn't blinked over $500+ million to ferry Congress around in luxury. | 0_0 |
When I challenged ) Osborn on his untrue claim that I had heavily promoted or advocated Scenario A and/or Polar Urals, Osborn implicitly conceded that he had no source. Instead of then endeavouring to locate a source, Osborn stated that he would not search through hundreds of comments to try to find support for his ass... | 0_0 |
So how cold is it going to get over the vast Canadian territory? The Winnipeg Free Press writes: | 0_0 |
Climate Science has often blogged on the need to assess the entire spectrum of effects when a particular environmental (or other) regulation is implemented (e.g. see and see ). | 0_0 |
Had that reporter been American rather than Russian, he probably would have missed Beckmann's point entirely. When you don't grow up surrounded by propaganda, you tend not to be too good at spotting it. Perhaps that's why residents of Russia and the former Soviet Bloc have such a relatively low opinion of today's globa... | 0_0 |
Once again, climate models have shown they are good for one thing and one thing only: to display how poorly they simulate Earths climate. | 5_1 |
...the scientists were right and Plait was wrong. Or, as he might phrase it, he blatantly misinterpreted long term trends. Notice old Phil (his source, actually) starts, quite arbitrarily, with 1973, a point which is lower than the years preceding this date. If he would have read the post linked above, he would have kn... | 0_0 |
Twitter / ClimateReality: MT @worldresources: #Climate | 0_0 |
"For more than two years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been involved in a constitutional challenge to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the giant agency set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to create auditing rules under the law. CEI attorneys Sam Kazman and Hans Bader are of counsel to the... | 0_0 |
We should provide a word of caution about the optimal case. It is not presented in the belief that an environmental czar will suddenly appear to promulgate infallible canons of policy that will be religiously followed by all. Rather, the optimal policy is a benchmark to determine how efficient or inefficient alternativ... | 0_0 |
But giving in to fear and hysteria, and throwing more roadblocks in front of responsible energy and economic development, creates far more harm than benefit for our nation and its people. | 0_0 |
Will MSM Report on 2008 Arctic Ice Increase? | NewsBusters.org Good news! Despite the recent global warming alarmism in the media that Arctic ice might melt away completely from the North Pole this summer, the latest scientific observations show that Arctic ice has actually increased by nearly a half million square mil... | 1_1 |
As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that ponderosa pine will exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis throughout their entire range in the state of California and elsewhere, regardless of genotype. In addition, with greater carbohydrate supplies, resulting from enhanced photosynthetic rates, it is likel... | 3_3 |
"When we protect our lands, it helps us protect the climate of the future," Obama said at a recent Lake Tahoe environmental summit. | 0_0 |
Pelosi: Things were going great for us until these outside groups started spending money: | 0_0 |
The new approach is to make very general statements about our dire future with only glancing references to secondary literature about climate change or species extinction, all wrapped in a "systems analysis" of the impeding collapse of the planet. Like Limits to Growth, Speth's book offers very little detailed data or ... | 0_0 |
"We have here a chance to appreciate the amazing technologies created by free people. For they allow us to laugh at the folly of our fellow humans, rather than having to mourn their passing." The Wall Street Journal | 0_0 |
Such measures will clearly involve a considerable expense. To afford them means generating more growth to create the resources to pay for them. | 0_0 |
"The Democrat coalition of radical environmental groups, the Environmental Protection Agency, and green companies claim they want to help the environment, but those claims are dubious at best since the oil and gas industry is already doing a good job of policing itself," Stone said. "Being green is big business." | 0_0 |
Putting aside the fact that the Himalayan glaciers have been retreating since 1780 some 70 years before the onset of the current post-Little Ice Age warming trend and 100 years before the onset of significant global industrialization full appreciation of the significance of the researchers' finding requires a brief tri... | 2_1 |
the ranges of TCR estimated from the observed warming and from AOGCMs agree well, increasing our confidence in the assessment of uncertainties in projections over the 21st century. | 0_0 |
Climate alarmists want the newspaper and television media to ignore this information and the skeptics who might present it. Bill Nye the science guy recently asked MSNBC to link all weather events to climate change. Just say the words climate change when you talk about this winters cold and snow, he begged. A new study... | 5_2 |
For a comprehensive solution to offshore oil spill liability, see Nicolas D. Loris, Jack Spencer, and James Jay Carafano, "Oil Spill Liability: A Plan for Reform," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2446, August 2, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/08/oil-spill-liability-a-plan-for-reform. | 0_0 |
the degree to which global temperature responds to concentrations of greenhouse gases | 0_0 |
It is unclear whether there will be time to bring such a deal to the House and Senate floors before Congress adjourns or recesses for the election campaign. The announced date for adjournment is October 11, but a lame duck session after the election is still possible. | 0_0 |
And do we know that protests over soaring food prices were the spark that began the Arab Spring? The Gaurdian certainly thought so . But to the leave it in the ground campaigners rarely stop to think about the effect on prices of abolishing fossil fuels, or subsidies for its consumers the self-fulfilling prophecy. And ... | 0_0 |
At that time, those FOI requests referred to in the emails had been long since submitted. The stonewalling evident in the emails was well entrenched. The skeptics were trying to find enough information to attempt replication of The Teams work but were having difficulty getting that information. Also, the public was alm... | 5_2 |
6. Is it possible that human-made global warming is occurring, but is masked by the cooling effect of air pollution? | 0_0 |
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