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The worst tornado in US history occurred in 1925. It had wind speeds over 300 mph and destroyed 15,000 homes. | 1_7 |
Thus, it is not surprising that Yale University economist William Nordhaus calculated that Kyoto would impose higher compliance costs on the United States than on all other industrialized countriesEurope, Canada, Japan, and Russiacombined. Given Kyotos impotence as climate policyit would avert a hypothetical and unveri... | 4_2 |
Forecasters predict barbecue summer to rival 2003 | 0_0 |
Dr. Sara Alexander, an applied social anthropologist at Baylor who conducts much of her research in Central America, studied different households in several coastal communities in Belize. While climate change has been an emerging topic of interest to the world community, little scientific data exists on exactly how peo... | 0_0 |
But one essential argument appears at the very end of Mosher's text: Whether or not you apply one of the specified major adjustments or two or none of them doesn't visibly affect the resulting graph at all. It changes nothing about the qualitative picture. So not only is the "principled" criticism of all adjustments co... | 0_0 |
2013 was a year which rocked the credibility of the global warming campaign. It will take a long time for the closing image of warmists on ice to fade. | 0_0 |
In other words, leave it to the market to assess the true risk. Dont impose your warming beliefs. | 4_2 |
In short, although with a veneer of satire, eight years ago there was no talk of a simple head of government, and even of a charismatic leader, but also a divine figure, by superhuman powers, ready to put in place a UK he felt exploited and gnawed by two decades of conservative leadership, first with the Iron Lady Marg... | 0_0 |
Most economists traditionally use a simple economic measure known as GDP to define prosperity. Whether measured in total for a country or on a per-capita basis, GDP is the most familiar and widely used measure of national progress. It captures the value of all goods in the economywhether consumed by households, governm... | 0_0 |
This is exciting news, particularly given that we disappeared in a cloud of blue steam decades ago, we survived the 1970s ice age, we survived the global famine of the 1980s, we survived the ozone hole and acid rain, we survived the permanent drought, and we survived the drowning of Manhattan. | 5_1 |
As Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, writes, under the amendment, borrowers purchasing energy-efficient homes "would mostly likely leave the table with an LTV over 100%, that is already underwater before they've even moved in. Did Congress learn nothing from the crisis?" | 0_0 |
The relationship is totally clear: The higher the share of wind and solar power in the power generation, the higher the electricity prices for consumers. | 4_4 |
"I had been expecting it, but when it finally came it was far worse than I had feared. I could scarcely believe my eyes." | 0_0 |
The climate models upon which the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis is based have no such record of success. This is not their fault. They are new and they make predictions about the climate, which can be observed only over a period of decades, shorter periods being mere weather. A new model that predicts weather... | 5_1 |
A look at the websites of the candidates as well as media coverage reveals that all of the Democratic candidates for President have presented detailed plans for addressing climate change that include four components: carbon caps and targets; fuel efficiency measures; renewable electricity standards; and efficiency targ... | 0_0 |
Is it necessary to point out that those in NIWA and the Royal Society of NZ, with the connivance of the Minister for Climate Change Issues, Nick Smith, who resist the release of New Zealands temperature records for independent examination, risk similarly magnified scrutiny just because of their resistance? | 0_0 |
China and India as well as heavy demand from the biofuels industry ." | 0_0 |
Heavy snow is expected on Wednesday in parts of Canterbury and Marlborough, with the MetService warning snow could be more than 1 meter (3 feet) deep in places. | 1_3 |
4. United Nations Environment Programme - Agreement to Cooperate on Activities and Facilities to Support the UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment in North America | 0_0 |
A plastics plant wanted to install a heat exchanger that would recover waste heat from one of its natural gas-fired units. As a result, natural gas consumption would have fallen 7.5 percent and emissions of NOX would have fallen by 7.5 percent, SO2 by 5.8 percent, CO by 7.6 percent, PM by 9 percent, and VOCs by 9.3 per... | 0_0 |
The last two years have been a real Arctic nightmare for greens who hate the human race, but it gets much worse. There has been a massive increase in the amount of oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic over the past three years, and next year is set to double the amount of five+ year old ice. | 1_1 |
EPA stalling policy to prevent politicizing science | 0_0 |
These totalitarian green decrees are fraudulent, illegal and unconstitutional. They severely impair the rights of people to enjoy affordable, reliable energy and the quality jobs, living standards, health and welfare such energy brings. | 0_0 |
Also youll note there is a difference in the annual cycles of the sea surface temperatures in the eastern and western equatorial Pacific in Figure 4-40. The two cycles per year in the western equatorial Pacific are of course due to the fact that the Sun crosses the equator twice annually. The reasons for single cycle i... | 0_0 |
Video: Police officer threatens concealed-carry driver with execution, beating; Update: Officer relieved of duty, under investigation: | 0_0 |
By Betsy McCaughey, The Shreveport Times, Aug 7, 2015 | 0_0 |
One country adopting trade sanctions, or a few countries doing so, will merely change the geographic pattern of trade flows. It would do little net harm to China and India. As GHG controls raised U.S. production and transport costs, countries like Japan with low-carbon processes for producing steel, aluminum, or other ... | 0_0 |
Whoand whatexactly is this "spornosexual"? As described by Simpson, the "spornosexual" is a man who has become everything to himself, and then given a one-ticket exhibition in the Louvre. He is his own inspiration, his own disciple, his own jealous lover. The image of himself upon which he expends so much attention and... | 0_0 |
Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalists Journey to Climate Skepticism | 0_0 |
Since wind and solar also run the risk of not producing enough electricity, grid operators have to keep excess conventional power reserves running just in case. Power demand is relatively predictable over time and conventional power plans, like nuclear plants and natural gas, can easily adjust output. | 0_0 |
Using the Wilson cloud chamber , in 1927, Dimitr Skobelzyn photographed the first ghostly tracks left by cosmic rays. | 0_0 |
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article. And then the... | 5_2 |
These comments were not acknowledged in the Final Report, Climate Change The IPCC Scientific Assessment (1990) which only listed four individual comments from New Zealand. | 5_2 |
"Now I don't assert where he was born, I will just tell you that we are all certain that he was not raised with an American experience. So these things that beat in our hearts when we hear the National Anthem and when we say the Pledge of Allegiance doesn't beat the same for him." U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa. | 0_0 |
16b. The ability of global climate models to reproduce precipitation observations | 0_0 |
The fact that this has not happened is actually enormously strong evidence against both positive feedback and catastrophe. Yes, anthropogenic CO 2 may have shifted all the attractor temperatures a bit higher, it may have made small rearrangements of the attractors, but there is no evidence that suggests that it is prob... | 3_1 |
Other scientists contest the IPCC assumptions, on the grounds that the climatological effect of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide is trivial and that the climate is so complex and insufficiently understood that the net effect of human emissions on global temperatures cannot be forecasted. | 5_1 |
In the September 7 Gazette article, "Global warming makes firefighting more dangerous," Running is quoted saying "Since 1986, longer, warmer summers have resulted in a fourfold increase of major wildfires and a sixfold increase in the area of forest burned, compared to the period from 1970 to 1986." Fortunately for sci... | 1_7 |
YouTube - Patrick J. Michaels on Climate Change | 0_0 |
Despite the Obama Administrations hostility to fossil fuels, the U.S. is the worlds largest natural gas producer and third largest and fastest growing crude oil producer. The United States is poised to develop and export energy to the advantage of the American economy and permanently reduce Russias control over Europea... | 4_5 |
conundrum of peer review in science. Peer review is asymmetric: The | 0_0 |
On average, Antarctic sea ice reaches minimum on 20th February, about a month earlier, relatively speaking, than the Arctic. It is likely then that we will see a new record high minimum set this month. The current record was set in 2008, with 3.691 million sq km. | 1_1 |
Prof Richard Tol calculated that climate change would be beneficial up to 2.2C of warming from 2009 (when he wrote his paper). This means approximately 3C from pre-industrial levels, since about 0.8C of warming has happened in the last 150 years. The latest estimates of climate sensitivity suggest that such temperature... | 3_1 |
Water required for energy production. Source Dominguez-Faus et al. Deepak Divan and Frank Kreikebaum from Georgia Tech, writing in the November 2009 IEEE Spectrum , put the issue into perspective: organic biofuels can't possibly fuel a growing world economy in a sustainable manner. By their calculations running the wor... | 4_4 |
Weve all been looking at the Yamal (Steve Mosher named)treemometer ring width data. Yamal is a tree ring series with a huge hockey stick blade used in and likely to be highly influential in a lot of serious studies which demonstrate the unprecedentedness of recent temperatures. When Steve McIntyre replaced 12 of the ho... | 5_1 |
The difference between these two regions is that the water from the Great Canadian Lakes was ready to flow to the Atlantic while the Greenland ice sheet would have to melt first. It is not quite the same thing although I understand that a brain at the Gore level simply can't be enough to comprehend such things. | 5_2 |
Has anyone ever seen a verified threat from a real skeptic? (And was it anything more than an angry commenter mouthing off, which no publicly known skeptic encourages.) | 0_0 |
We hear over and over that any warming at the global scale will be amplified in the Arctic region of the Northern Hemisphere, and the warming will cause ice to melt and sea level to rise and all the rest. Let some ice-free area appear during summer near the North Pole and the global media will take the bait every time ... | 2_1 |
In the concluding sentence of their revealing paper, Frommel et al . suggest that "since the Baltic Sea is naturally high in p CO 2 , its fish stocks may be adapted to conditions predicted in ocean acidification scenarios for centuries to come." | 3_2 |
Leiserowitz points to the damage caused by "Climategate" and "Glaciergate." He is partially right; those scandals did cause damage. Unfortunately the damage was inflicted on climate scientists. | 5_2 |
I think that there are two separable issues in the Burger and Cubasch paper which you have to pay attention to | 0_0 |
CEI also reminds OSTP of a similar, ongoing effort by the administration to claim that records on U.S. government computers belong to the UN IPCC, refusing to produce them under FOIA. This practice was affirmed in a report by the Department of Commerce's Office of Inspector General earlier this year. | 0_0 |
I don't want to jinx a good thing by talking about it, but good news on the climate front continues, although you wouldn't know it from reading your local newspaper or watching the news on television. In less than two months (October 6, 2016) it will be 4,000 days since the last time a major hurricane (category 3 or hi... | 1_7 |
But on occasion those scientific articles have been egregiously and obviously flawed, with basic rules of research violated. | 0_0 |
In terms of greenhouse gases it emits half what coal does, per KWh generated. Unlike oil, or even coal, the worlds gas reserves are expanding dramatically. The coming decades could be a golden age for natural gas, as the International Energy Agency explored in a recent report by this title. However, it is doubtful that... | 4_5 |
The consensus literature proposes that direct effects of CO2 result in a downward energy flux of 3.7 watts/m2 for a doubling of CO2. Lets accept that. Then they propose that this in turn results in a temperature increase of one degree. That proposal cannot be supported. | 2_3 |
Here is what the Newcastle wind turbine looks like during the day, note the coal terminal in the background. | 0_0 |
One of our early issues was a critique of the International Monetary Fund. At a Cato Institute conference, one critic of my talk claimed that abolishing the IMF would bring about financial Gotterdammerung. I responded that I doubted it, but that anyone who's visited the IMF's headquarters could easily envision Valhalla... | 0_0 |
As my wife and I walked down the historic main street, we saw help-wanted signs in almost every other window. Dishwashers, servers, cooks, hostesses, cashiers, clerks, stockers, janitors, painters, carpenters, electricians, masons, bookkeepers, window washers, you name it, those jobs are going begging. One owner told m... | 0_0 |
Had it been otherwise, "fracking" would never have gotten off the ground. The incredible North Dakota, Texas and Pennsylvania oil, gas, jobs and revenue boom would never have occurred. Vast deposits of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids would have remained trapped in shale rock formations, thousands of feet below... | 4_5 |
Finally, the studies argue that opportunities for meeting the targets through fuel substitution (gas for coal, for instance) are few since there have already been significant advances made along these lines. All of the studies agree that Annex B countries will be unable to meet their Kyoto targets without large carbon ... | 0_0 |
I prepared CG1 & 2 alone. Even skimming through all 220.000 emails would have taken several more months of work in an increasingly unfavorable environment. | 0_0 |
The reasons an El Nio did not continue to form this year in response to the Kelvin wave are well established. First, the atmospheric component of ENSO, the SO part, refused to cooperate. That is, the trade winds in the western equatorial Pacific did not weaken as expected to help reinforce the El Nio development. (The ... | 0_0 |
ACESA 2009 and the U.S. National Strategy for Dealing with Climate Change | 0_0 |
on Saturday, July 13th, 2013 at 12:24 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
The previous six months shows a quite different pattern of local trends, but, again, the global trend is cooling. | 1_2 |
The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index is a 24-month running sum of monthly energy levels in all hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones. The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index hit a 30-year low in October 2008. | 1_7 |
Obviously there are no events listed since 1999, but it gives a bit of historical perspective to weather disasters in the 20thC. | 0_0 |
Altogether, these and other similar programs achieve emissions reductions that far exceed those attributable to the NSR program. Moreover, most of these other programs are much more efficient, streamlined, and simple than NSR because they do not entail the same resource-intensive, case-by-case review that is required u... | 0_0 |
Tehran's abandonment of the deal coming just weeks after President Obama's news conference at a g-20 summit to uncloak a secret nuclear facility in Iran made many key governments much less patient with Iranian leaders. Which is how | 0_0 |
The IPCC central tendency is illustrated: it lies outside the uncertainty intervals which corresponds to rejecting the hypothesis that the IPCC projections are correct. | 5_1 |
Even the United Nations will soon issue a report admitting that biofuels do more harm than good. Here are the details, according to The Telegraph: | 4_4 |
James Hansen, Homer Simpson lookalike, is in Melbourne lucky old Melbourne spouting his usual mix of hysteria and lunacy. The Age fawns and grovels at his feet not surprising since acres of Age copy is thanks to Hansen and his ilk.A few quotes deserve mention. On the plus side, he acknowledges that nuclear power has to... | 0_0 |
It is certainly true that voters need to understand better the most important facts relevant to allegedly dangerous, human-related global warming. So let us list the five most salient facts the minister might try to communicate in his advertisements. | 0_0 |
10 questions with British politician and "New Road to Serfdom' author Daniel Hannan: | 0_0 |
It looks to me like the error band on precipitation makes it completely impossible to know what CO2 might or might not be doing. It can only be an article of faith. Since we have no clue, really, how precipitation changes happen over the PDO / AMO cycles to 2% of variation, how can we say if any warming or cooling is C... | 5_1 |
California: Lawyers to save us from reliable electricity | 0_0 |
We could end the post on those notes, but lets examine the models in more detail to see how else they fail. | 0_0 |
For those who cannot fly to Europe for care, death does not distinguish between rich and poor, Ugandan or foreign. The same terrible facilities and lack of medicine affect everyone. In a world with so much money, technology and knowledge, there is no reason this should continue, year after year. | 0_0 |
Asia-Pacific: Climate change momentum fading | 0_0 |
Over the coming days I will produce specifics of these internal emails and emails between the administration and the windmill lobby (think numerous European companies, not merely a few utilities and GE). | 0_0 |
Conflicting statements by the two different NASA entities brings into focus several political and scientific questions. This article will address one of the scientific questions, specifically the root cause of western Pacific Ocean warming during the 2000-2015 time period. Discussions of the other questions arising fro... | 0_0 |
Apropos for UN events, COP16 began with a lavish climate ?Fiesta? on the beach, paid for by taxpayers around the world. While preaching austerity for the rest of humanity, the self-anointed Earth saviors lived it up: gourmet food; fancy drinks; excellent service; expensive entertainment, including a live mariachi band;... | 0_0 |
So why did Clear Skies fail? In 2005, then Senator Obama served with me on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and it was his vote that killed the bill. As Senator Obama himself admitted, "I voted against the Clear Skies bill. In fact I was the deciding vote despite the fact that I'm a coal state and ... | 0_0 |
Indeed, if there is an Achilles heel to climate reporting, it would be its penchant for simplistic, dramatic coverage be it a new study linking climate change to shrinking animals or to declining grape quality in wine-growing regions. | 0_0 |
Environment, education, and health all benefit from wealth creation. Perhaps the real mystery of capitalism is that neither the United Nations nor the pope recognize the benefits it can bring to four billion of the world's poor. Free enterprise and human welfare boom where governments allow new markets with access to c... | 0_0 |
The blaze was "a big job", said Mr Hoyland. | 0_0 |
NASA's James Hansen said in a statement that, "to say that the tar sands have little climate impact is an absurdity." Hansen conveniently ignored the report's common sense conclusion that this oil will be put to use with or without the pipeline. If CO2 is Hansen's worry, transporting the oil less efficiently would sure... | 0_0 |
Marchants comments will be a concern to the government, after Scottish Powers decision to abandon its attempts to develop the technology last year. SSE and the oil group Shell are trying to create the countrys first CCS facility at an existing gas-fired power station at Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. Marchant told MPs mor... | 0_0 |
???The leap from one-dimensional to three-dimensional models is an important step,?? said Wolf. ???Clouds and sea ice are critical factors in determining climate, but the one-dimensional models completely ignore them.?? | 5_1 |
Arizona's law is more humble than that. While California pushed a stricter standard than the one Washington was enforcing, Arizona seeks to enforce the federal law that Washington isn't enforcing. | 0_0 |
The strange thing from my point of view is that its in the middle of nowhere. Zooming in: | 0_0 |
The acid test of all this is the last 22 years of satellite measurements made of the lower layer of air of the Earth. That layer of air should be warming quite rapidly. It's where the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect should be taking place. That layer has not seen a big warming trend. It's seen ups and downs, but there... | 0_0 |
Conclusion : Should we expect a nice recovery this summer due to the thicker ice? You bet ya. Even if all the ice less than 2.5 metres thick melted this summer, we would still see a record high minimum in the DMI charts. | 1_1 |
CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to free markets and limited government. For more information call Emily McGee at (202) 331-1010. | 0_0 |
A few weeks after the White Housedeclared the end of winter sportsdue to global warming, Colorado has record snowpack and streamflow. | 1_3 |
Over the last million years, the earth's climate has shifted dramatically between ice ages and warmer periods like the present one, called the Holocene. The glacial periods, with major advances of ice sheets, have generally lasted about 100,000 years, while the interglacial periods have lasted about 10,000 years. The t... | 0_0 |
Another Kyoto area where money is flooding in with the expectation of quick profits is renewable energy technology. As UPI Business Editor Martin Hutchinson has recently written, | 0_0 |
At the political level, the Fifty Years' War is about what defines American freedom. Is the promise of America that everyone enjoys the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness best kept when government is minimally involved, either through regulation or taxation, in individual decision making? Or is it bes... | 0_0 |
According to the CEI, the subpoena requests "communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI's work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information. It demands that CEI produce these materials from 20 years ago, from 1997-2007, by April 30, 2016." | 0_0 |
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