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Lomborgs Copenhagen Consensus wrote numbers 1, 3, 5 and 6. | 0_0 |
cost of $1.39 million/job to install smart meters in Chattanooga, TN. (Project #51) | 0_0 |
SUMMARY: Ridley repeats President Obama comments claiming stale arguments when defending the Environmental Protection Agencys carbon-dioxide reduction plan, which may do more harm than good. The trouble is, weve heard his stale argument before, too: that were doomed if we dont do what the environmental pressure groups ... | 0_0 |
In the past, La Nina has been associated with a greater than average number of North Atlantic hurricanes and La Nina seems to be changing its structure as well, said Webster. Were vitally interested in understanding why El Nio-La Nia has changed. To determine this we need to run a series of numerical experiments with c... | 0_0 |
In 2011 the Congressional Research Service reported that America's reserves of coal are unsurpassed, accounting for more than 28% of the world's coal. It estimated that U.S. recoverable coal reserves were approximately 262 billion tonsnot including massive, but difficult to access, Alaskan reserves. | 0_0 |
Granted, McCain could run again in 2012. But he would be 76, which makes another campaign less likely. And that leads to these questions: Who emerges as the party's standard-bearer, and what will become the new standard for the GOP? Does the party first have to concern itself with a redefined message and then worry abo... | 0_0 |
Suddenly 93% of the Earths the third pole disappears. | 0_0 |
The models have difficulties capturing the difference between the higher NH winter solstice peak and the lower SH winter solstice peak in the seasonal cycle of albedo, seen in the ERBE and CERES observations. This is likely due to the representation of snow and ice in the models. Large and consistent differences in abs... | 0_0 |
How global warming can worsen snowfalls, read a Boston Globe headline . | 0_0 |
Figure 2. Changes in monthly average lower tropospheric temperature between latitudes 82 N and 82 S through August 1999, from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) measurements. These data have been corrected for the recently reported effects of, for example, satellite orbit decay.3 The temporary warming in 1997-1998... | 0_0 |
> >> >>Dear Mike, | 0_0 |
Quite simply the hurricane and cyclone records demonstrate a decline in the numbers and force. The primary reason insurance losses have increased is migration of people (and therefore increase in property value) to more attractive coastal areas such as Florida in the natural hurricane path. | 1_7 |
New EPA Regs Will Boost Oil Productionand Carbon Emissions | 0_0 |
To avoid such ?absurd results,? the EPA in July 2010 issued a ?tailoring rule? exempting GHG emitters from PSD unless they have a potential to emit 100,000 tons per year of CO2-equivalent emissions ? a 400-fold increase over the statutory definition of ?major? source. In effect, the EPA?s solution was to amend the stat... | 0_0 |
Source: Seminole County Environmental News Examiner | 0_0 |
Has James Murray realized playing the Climate Change card he is letting every third world tyrant and terrorist of the hook .Is he trying to excuse every latest civil war atrocity. | 0_0 |
conventional wisdom would go unilaterally into Pakistani territory, without the consent or cooperation of | 0_0 |
In fact, he later admitted this bleaching had a minimal impact and his team was genuinely surprised/relieved about how quickly some of these coral colonies had recovered. In 2007, he warned temperature changes were again bleaching the reef. | 3_2 |
"We suggest that the qualitative projections for dramatic reductions in population numbers and range are overly pessimistic given the response of polar bears, climate, and sea ice to the present," Canadian scientists wrote. | 0_0 |
The major source of economic optimism about the costs of reducing emissions is provided by the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change. Sir Nicholas Stern and his team of two dozen or so professional economists produced a most impressive 700-page report that displays all the technical tools of the economics pro... | 0_0 |
Not long after I wrote the elusive post, Gavin Schmidt (current director of GISS) made a couple of curious statements in his blog post Absolute temperatures and relative anomalies at RealClimate. We discussed them in the post Interesting Post at RealClimate about Modeled Absolute Global SurfaceTemperatures . The statem... | 0_0 |
Increasingly, government policies in general (both federal and state) are anti-business. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Geez. And that discourages those who have the money to spare from investing it into new business, or hiring more people. They then take their business out-of-state, or out of the country. ... | 0_0 |
Quoting the nine Australian researchers, "there is evidence to reject one model as unsuitable for making climate projections in the region, and another two models unsuitable for analysis of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ)." And they add that "many of the systematic model biases in the mean climate in CMIP3 ar... | 5_1 |
The boys have been inculcated in Aztec and Hard Green ideology from birth. As EG members, they're dedicated to "educating" other children about "sustainability," "dangerous climate change" and "earth-friendly" renewable energy. In an era when too many babies are having babies, it's not surprising that children are indo... | 0_0 |
One mechanism that suggests a link between the Sun and recent cold winters is ???blocking??. Low solar activity causes extensive anticyclones that persist for several weeks in the Atlantic Ocean, causing the warm westerly winds to be replaced by cold, continental north-easterly winds. Depending on the position of the a... | 2_1 |
Only the federal government and crony confederates could come up with a scam where we are forced to pay more to remove something that doesnt really matter, use it for something else they are trying to regulate out of existence, and then release that same bad stuff into the air where it was supposed to be dangerous. | 5_2 |
The global warming trend since 1990, when the IPCC wrote its first report, is equivalent to below 1.4 C per century half of what the IPCC had then predicted. | 5_1 |
Now, take the claims that there was a different shooter, like the driver. Well, the driver theory just disagrees with all the evidence I could see. An even more popular theory is the Grassy Knoll Badge Man. I watched this conspiracy video defending this meme and I just had to laugh out loud. They take a random place in... | 0_0 |
Over the course of his first term, Obama gradually shifted toward the non-interventionist position. A series of disasters in the Middle Eastthe chaotic aftermath of the war in Libya, the debacle that followed the removal of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and the generally disappointing results of the Arab Springseem to have co... | 0_0 |
An ancient description of a wise man is that he is the same on the inside and the outside. That means that as he thinks, so he speaks and acts. There are other things that might be said of the wise, but this simple description comes to us now as the essence of the modern term transparency. | 0_0 |
Stefan Rahmstorfs Sea Level Amnesia Using His Own Numbers, Sea Level Rise Actually Slowed Down 3%! | 1_6 |
A typical carbon tax of $20 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, rising at a nominal rate of 5.6% a year, could bring in $1.2 trillion over 10 years. But a major problem with the carbon tax is that it is regressive. Because low-income people spend a larger percent of their income on energy than high-income people, a carbo... | 0_0 |
It's no small amount of cash either it can add up to between 900 and 1,450 a year. But go with Isis and you won't get it Isis will. And that isn't particularly financially efficient for you. | 0_0 |
SMHI also issued a class 1 warning ??? meaning weather conditions that can involve some risks and disruptions ??? for Halland and Blekinge counties, two other southern regions where snowfall, windy weather and between five and 15 centimetres of snow were expected on Sunday. | 1_3 |
Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, followed her, declaring that "This meeting needs to take the next decisive steps in the global response to climate change." | 0_0 |
The most interesting, and important, dynamic in American politics today is the existential struggle going on in the Republican Party between the establishment and the insurgentsor to be more accurate, between the hard-line bedrock conservatives (there are only trace elements of the old-line center-right bloc, much less... | 0_0 |
Over the years Germany has been bombarded by the media with dire warnings that the warming was galloping ahead like never before. Now suddenly observations and measurement data show theres been no warming even though CO2 emissions have steadily risen. The public is wondering. | 1_4 |
Heartland's science director points out that "EPA's budget could safely be cut by 80% or more without endangering the environment or human health. Most of what EPA does today could be done better by state government agencies " I serve as an advisor to Heartland. | 0_0 |
Astrophysicist Nir Shariv, one of Israel's top young scientists, describes the logic that led him-- and most everyone else -- to conclude that SUVs, coal plants and other things man-made cause global warming.Step One Scientists for decades have postulated that increases in carbon dioxide and other gases could lead to a... | 2_3 |
However, I do not believe the earths climate is dominated by strong positive feedbacks and tipping points. It is this feedback hypothesis in climate models that multiplies warming to 3-4-5 degrees or more over the next century. In climate models, the catastrophe comes from feedback, not greenhouse effects, and I think ... | 3_1 |
Gilders is making a weak attempt to neutralize skeptics. He hits imaginary ???deniers?? he can??t name and pretends that real skeptics would agree with him, even as he exposes that he is religiously irrational. | 5_2 |
In sum, it would have been good if we had won yesterday and even better if we had gotten that fifth vote in Massachusetts (that is also likely to be the decisive vote in the health care decision tomorrow). We didnt. Petitioners will now at least ask the Supreme Court to take the case and may also seek rehearing en banc... | 0_0 |
In modern conditions the overwhelming thermostatic influence of the two giant atmospheric heat-sinksthe oceans and outer spacedampens the already small direct warming from a doubling of CO2. | 3_1 |
Figure 2: Symbolic diagram of the Suns influence. The Sun influences Earthly temperature by two forces, solar radiation and force X, where changes in the former lead the latter by half a full solar (Hale) cycle. The influence of force X on changes in Earthly temperatures is about 10 to 20 times the influences of change... | 2_1 |
Environmental activists believe efforts to address the remaining uncertainties in climate change science are nothing more than a way to delay mandatory greenhouse gas emission limits by revisiting questions that have already been long ago "asked and answered," as the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate change s... | 0_0 |
Calls for us to live "sustainably," use wind and solar and biofuel power, and never use fossil fuels, are a demand that we accept prolonged starvation and death in our poor countries. They mean desperate people will do horrible things to survive, even just another day. | 0_0 |
Which brings to mind the one person who is largely missing from the bursting out of bipartisanship: President Obama. All these recent bipartisan agreements have been reached with little or no involvement by him. They were forged by knowledgeable members of Congress skillful at bridging differences with colleagues acros... | 0_0 |
EPA's punitive, fraudulent clean power plan | 0_0 |
"German researchers have created software called X-Pire that gives images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key." | 0_0 |
Predictions of changes in bushfire 60 years hence are thus equivalent to alchemists attempts to turn lead into gold. These are National Tea-leaf Readers, and they are not only afforded nice salaries and all the accoutrements, but given space in our national news as if they had something remotely useful to say. | 5_2 |
On the other side, citizens, like Mary Kay Barton of New York, are sending their elected federal representatives letters asking them not to support a PTC extension as proposed in EXPIRE. She sent a letter to Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and he sent one back to her. | 0_0 |
East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week??s meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown ???significant cooling in recent decades??. | 1_1 |
The Chinese are actually blaming the Japan for high PM 2.5 levels. | 0_0 |
New York spends more on Medicaid than Texas and Florida combined. The state spends so much because it enrolls so many people6.2 million today, up from 2.7 million in 1995, during a period of near-stagnant population growthand because it allocates Medicaid dollars using complex reimbursement formulas that favor inpatien... | 0_0 |
EPA's three changes in enforcement policy, if consistently enforced in the future, would vastly expand the number of applications for NSR required from regulated emitters. But EPA is not content with applying its latest interpretations to future cases. Starting in 1994, EPA began a series of enforcement actions allegin... | 0_0 |
on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 2:56 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Has there been any warming since 1997 (Jonathan Leakes question)? There has been slight warming during the past 15 years. Is it cherry picking to start a trend analysis at 1998? No, not if you are looking for a long period of time where there is little or no warming, in efforts to refute Hypothesis I. | 1_4 |
Washington, D.C., December 8, 2004 An energy policy group created and funded by left-wing foundations is scheduled today to release a report expected to call for a range of anti-energy policies designed to raise energy prices, restrict consumer choices, and expand government control over energy use. | 0_0 |
The mayor has also obsessed about urban sprawl. However, when new developments mean high rents, high taxes and photo-op ground breakings, he has a different philosophy. | 0_0 |
It appears to be based on another paper he has written this year, A Statistical Model for Tornado Intensity . There is already, of course, a well established system of measuring the severity of tornadoes, the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which uses damage surveys to estimate wind speeds. | 0_0 |
"I have been brooding about the cumulative void. First we lost Milton Friedman, who died in November 2006, then William F. Buckley, Jr., in February 2008, and then on September 18, Irving Kristol. The respective giants of the libertarian, conservative, and neoconservative Right, all gone within three years. . . . We're... | 0_0 |
Some scientists, including Dutch Nobel Prize winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, believe that altering some features of the Earth's environment would be a more cost-effective and efficient way to combat global warming. This is geoengineering. | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith on the outlook for a new trade agreement: | 0_0 |
By independent I mean I am not employed in a research or academic position; Im not obligated to publish results that encourage future funding for my researchthat is, my research is not agenda-driven. Im a retiree, a pensioner. The only funding I receive is from book sales and donations at my blog. | 0_0 |
Suitably impressed and depressed, we rolled on south to visit Matt Ridley and his family. Matt is an amazing guy, he was the Science Editor for the Economist magazine, is the author of several books, writes a blog called The Rational Optimist , and is a member of the House of Lords. He graciously had invited the Clan E... | 0_0 |
Another WUWT.TV video, Mike Smith, severe weather expert | 0_0 |
There to be clarified first of all if the road of the International Tribunal would be feasible: as a future US administration will in fact never take the responsibility to establish a precedent, sending an ex-President to answer for war crimes abroad? So at most we would have to wait for it to move something in America... | 0_0 |
Bangladesh Cyclone 02B, April 1991. Another cyclone struck the Chittagong region in Bangladesh in 1991 killing over 138,000 people and causing damage in excess of 1.5 billion dollars. The tropical cyclone devastated the coastal area southeast of Dacca with winds in excess of 130kts and a 20 foot storm surge. | 0_0 |
The software maker advised customers on its website late on Monday to install the security software as an interim measure, buying it time to fix the bug. | 0_0 |
The pause is now the ever greater pause . And even if global temperature sets new record highs, it will be by hundredths of a degree, well below the model-predicted increase. The pause is even more the climate-model discrepancy . 95% of Climate Models Agree: The Observations Must be Wrong , one climatologist humorously... | 1_4 |
A big part of this data tampering is implemented by making up monthly temperatures at stations where USHCNsays they have no thermometer data. The amount of fabricated data is increasing exponentially, and at current rates of fabrication 100% of the data will be fake by the year 2035 i.e. there will be no actual thermom... | 5_2 |
Such musings have been a recurring theme in Western civilization for generations, particularly among wealthy elites. Fortunately, for centuries the consequences of back-to-nature evangelizing were restricted to a few intellectual poseurs reading some impenetrable books by some other intellectual poseurs who somehow con... | 0_0 |
To extend the analysis, I have decided to show results of hypotheses test to determine whether the IPCC best estimate for the trend in GMST during the next three century, published in the AR4, is consistent with observation for the GMST measured after the projections were made. | 0_0 |
The age of "thought crimes" is truly here in the "land of the free." | 0_0 |
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 7 May 2014 Update and What Should Happen Next | 0_0 |
Pat and Chip thencompare the black part of the chart above (theportion of U.S. temperatures influenced by global temperatures) with the PDSI. They find no relationship between global temperature variations and U.S. drought conditions (graph below, left) but a significant relationship between PDSI and non-global warming... | 1_7 |
Video: World Bank Prez says if you disagree with the climate consensus, then "you disagree with science itself' | 0_0 |
Canada will seek to claim credit for exporting energy from hydroelectric power and natural gas to the United States and elsewhere. Environment Minister David Anderson claims that Canada should be given credit since such exports would replace "dirty" coal power. This would account for as much as 29 percent of Canada's K... | 0_0 |
The next problem with an ???ice-free Arctic?? is that summer temperatures north of 80N have not changed over the last 50 years. You can see that in the DMI graphs . If anything, recent years have had colder summers near the pole. High Arctic warming has occurred in other seasons, but not during the summer. The melt sea... | 1_1 |
Interior Secretary Salazar cracks under pressure and begins issuing Gulf of Mexico Drilling Permits: | 0_0 |
This major effort revealed, in the words of the two researchers, that "southern faces of outcrops had different species and lower maximum temperatures than isolated north faces and surrounding vegetation plots." And, therefore, they concluded that "south faces of outcrops by providing cool microhabitats, and currently ... | 0_0 |
The problem is that few degrees of freedom are easily adjusted in a regression. Therefore, the described feature will occur with any trended series, be it synthetic or natural (trends are ubiquituous): regressing it on NHT using that special calibration/validation partition returns a high RE. McIntyre and McKitrick, 20... | 0_0 |
Of course, older tide gauge data is likely to be poor, too, and the older data is suspect. | 0_0 |
Now, let's see what happens when we start to factor in recent findings. | 0_0 |
At the very least, the House of Representatives needs to hold hearings, and have callous bureaucrats, slick scientists and computer modeling charlatans present their data, codes and findings under oath. Then voters need to vote Republican in November to change the Senate majority, and restore at least a modicum of cons... | 0_0 |
First U.S. small modular reactor inches ahead | 0_0 |
The Sun and solar amplification mechanisms are dismissed as a cause because sunspots peaked around 1960, even though sunspots remained at relatively high levels, considered as the solar grand maximum of the late 20th century. | 2_1 |
Here is the NHC 5 day track, Havana, Houston, and Galveston seem to be the targets this time. Ike will probably weaken as it goes ove Cuba, and may regain strength as it passes into the Gulf. Though, the last time, Gustav didnt recover much after passing over western Cuba. | 0_0 |
As Senate majority leader, Harry Reid blocked bipartisan measures, and Obama has shown neither the inclination nor the capacity to advance them. But with McConnell opening up the Senate floor for votes and amendments, agreements are now possible. | 0_0 |
B classification is the only one initially determined by annual precipitation. If it is not a B climate then it is one of the other classifications. The amount of precipitation must be sufficient to support trees. Thus a desert is not defined by temperature, but by lack of vegetation. Koppen recognized another importan... | 0_0 |
If you register as a warrior against the "deniers", and I did, you will be getting lots of e-mail asking you for money. We often mention the Nigerian scams as an example of scams associated with Africa but I am afraid that Obama's Kenyan scams are already harming the credibility of the U.S. more than the Nigerian scams... | 0_0 |
Another peer-reviewed scientific study, by Erlykin et al. this time, finds that modern fluctuations of temperature, storminess and precipitation are basically normal fluctuations - ergo, the weather still changes and includes extreme incidents, as has always been the case. | 2_1 |
The three Canadian researchers say their findings demonstrate that "increased CO 2 will not have direct negative effects on all marine invertebrates, suggesting that predictions of biotic responses to climate should consider how different types of organisms will respond to changing climatic variables." Indeed, they cle... | 3_2 |
And what happened? Mr Letts asked. Zilch, said Mr Lilley. Nothing. There was no global warming over the ensuing decade. And, indeed, when 2014 arrived, we could see that far from this forecast coming to pass, the temperature trend had not, in fact, risen since 1998. | 1_4 |
"Although the high-speed rail project is dead, the downtown Madison area around the proposed rail station is set to be developed." | 0_0 |
So having an archive named Archive Chewy and a working set named Working Droid lets you only decrypt the active part of your files and leaving the more stable set even less likely to be accessible. Keep a backup copy on a removable drive so if the malware tries to re-write and / or append and screws up the bits so the ... | 0_0 |
And the concern about EPA GHG regulation does not just stem from the CAAs very permissive endangerment standard. The CAA programs under which EPA can regulate also grant EPA great discretionary authority in setting standards. Some CAA programs (the NAAQS, for instance) do not authorize consideration of costs; others do... | 0_0 |
A recent article in Science, Arrow et al., provides a summary of and supporting example for the declining discount rate argument. However a close reading of both the Science article and Wietzman's original article reveals just how critical, and arguably contrived, are the assumptions needed to justify declining discoun... | 0_0 |
The three Finnish researchers report that "higher production temperature induced a positive maternal effect resulting in faster hatching and indicating that the mothers can invest more in their eggs, and therefore produce better quality eggs." In addition, they further note, in this regard, that the similar studies of ... | 3_2 |
From legal scholar Henry G. Manne, one of the founders of the field of law and economics. Communism's show trials and gulags are well known, but Communism has an equally insidious impact on how ordinary people live and work. Prof. Manne's formulation may be the single most concise summary of Communism's devastating imp... | 0_0 |
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