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A year into Kyoto, global warmers seem to be focusing more on melodrama than science. | 0_0 |
However, the American public is not clamoring for the closure of cost-effective coal-fueled power plants. What they want is cheap energy, but Obama is, as the Washington Post states: "a President bizarrely antagonistic toward domestic energy production and low energy prices." | 4_1 |
On 23rd June 1988, James Hansen went before the Senate having allegedly** went in the night before and opened all the windows, So that the air conditioning wasnt working inside the room it was really hot . Hansen then stated falsely that he was 99% certain that the recent temperature rise was caused by humans a figure ... | 5_2 |
S. Raghavan, retired Deputy Director-General of Meteorology of the India Meteorological Department, has written a valuable and very insightful essay on the role of meteorologists in society. Although he recognizes that he is not a climate expert, his essay equally applies to climate scientists, as is evident in the tex... | 0_0 |
They have good reason to worry. A new study by Charles River Associates, an economic consulting firm, shows that of all the industrial nations Canada could face the highest costs to reduce energy emissions. "Of all the OECD countries," says the study, "Canada is probably in the most disadvantageous position to respond ... | 0_0 |
I will not search through the hundreds of comments you have made on the subject in multiple venues to find ones that might meet some agreed definition of promotion | 0_0 |
Floods usually occur in the middle and lower reaches of the major rivers in China. These floods are experienced on a recurring basis along this and other river systems in China. The periodic severe flooding associated with these heavy rainfall events kill from several thousand to several hundred thousand people. During... | 1_7 |
The climate policy adopted by many governments is still in its infancy. The publications provided by an international group of scientists (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , IPCC) have encountered skepticism, especially since some of their researchers have shownthemselves to be fraudsters (Betrger). In any... | 5_2 |
The CFC Ban: Global Warming's Pilot Episode | 0_0 |
2 Observations and Global Climate Models. in press Journal of Climate | 0_0 |
If you want to know which scientific frauds each of these wretches committed, come to my lectures across Australia in late January and early February. Dates, times and venues will be posted from mid-January at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org. | 0_0 |
Prof Phil Jones told the University of East Anglias boss that he did not delete any of the emails that were released from the university last November, despite apparently saying he would in one of those emails. | 5_2 |
We now know that the prospect of such answers seeing the light of day was clearly of great concern to the DoE. This raises the question of whether, by refusing to share information sought by the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Global Warming, Ms. Zoi lied to or misled a member of Congress exercising... | 0_0 |
Increasing river flow into lakes causes the water level to decline. Brilliant. | 0_0 |
When those early records are taken into account, it is clear that New South Wales experienced cooling from the late 1800s to about 1960. After 1960, temperatures across the state and the nation started to increase. This warming continued until it reached a plateau in 2002. Because the warming of the late twentieth cent... | 1_4 |
On page 45 of the platform, the Democratic Party agreed, "We believe the United States must lead in forging a robust global solution to the climate crisis. We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations, to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II." | 0_0 |
This line of thinking falls apart at the very beginning, of course, since it's not at all clear that global temperatures are driven by atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. | 2_3 |
Mr OBrien pointed to the Commonwealths decision as a reason not to go ahead with the Victorian standards. | 0_0 |
In the words of the authors, "during the period 1801-1900, the western European lakes show no significant trend whereas annual mean air temperatures at the eastern European lakes decrease significantly." For the period 1901-1997, on the other hand, they note there is a warming trend "at all but the Fennoscandian lakes.... | 1_4 |
Two New Attacks on Hockey Stick by Paleoclimatologists | 0_0 |
Whether it is the President or the Pope, or the countless politicians and bureaucrats, along with multitudes of "environmental" organizations, as well as self-serving "scientists", all aided by the media, a virtual Green Army has been deliberately deceiving and misleading the citizens of planet Earth for four and a hal... | 5_2 |
Quite generally, the very idea that there should be more people involved in this shooting is bizarre. A vast majority of similar incidents involves a single shooter. Think about Breivik and lots of others. Why would someone think that it's more convincing to create a theory with numerous shooters? | 0_0 |
The Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) Land-only TLT trend is +0.3 F/decade. | 0_0 |
The groups lawyer Terry Sissons told the High Court at Auckland today that NIWA could have obtained inaccurate New Zealand average temperatures due to sudden site relocations and by regularly changing temperature gauging instruments. | 5_1 |
Despite the withdrawal, CEI is still pressing for the D.C. Superior Court to take action and apply sanctions against Walker. The superior court heard the group's legal case at a hearing on Tuesday. The think tank says the judge is reviewing their request and a decision could come soon. | 0_0 |
Yesterday's vote in the Senate that failed to kill $6 Billion in annual subsidies to corn ethanol might seem like a defeat for market-oriented energy reformersBut there's a lot more here than meets the eye. | 0_0 |
Floods, hurricanes, droughts and famine are all blamed on man-made climate change and more is to come if we dont clean up our act we are told. One would have thought, listening to the doom mongers, that such disasters had never happened in the history of mankind until some Pandora-like figure had the idea of burning th... | 0_0 |
By Tom Stacy and George Taylor, Institute for Energy Research, Jun 30, 2015 | 0_0 |
Grain-based ethanol is a bad idea, combined with subsidy programs; prices of corn have soared to new heights. We should stop that insanity. | 0_0 |
President Obama's director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee's duties at the White House include "online response" and there has been no shortage of responses to one person who routinely communicates with him on Twitter." | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, the weeds, bedbugs, mosquitoes and viral crop diseases continue to mutate and proliferate. The chemical companies only make money if their pesticides can safely be approved for useand suppress pests. | 0_0 |
Roughly speaking, the business-as-usual warming from all greenhouse gases in a century is the same as the warming to be expected from a doubling of CO2 concentration. Yet at present the entire interval of warming rates that might have been caused by us falls well below the least value in the predicted climate-sensitivi... | 3_1 |
I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it | 0_0 |
On Al Gores own chart of the past 650,000 years, you can see temperature increases similar to today approximately every 105,000 years. | 2_1 |
There hasnt been any sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay for at least 70 years. | 1_6 |
Everybody: please PLEASE, whatever your concern is, DO NOT ever make it descend into a farce, following the sad path of AGW. | 0_0 |
MV Akademik Shokalskiy (file photo) from expeditionsonline.com click image for details | 0_0 |
The problem with the great international conspiracy of climate sceptics is that its so small and innocent that a disappointed warmist who steals documents from the Heartland Institute finds they must fake the main one to get media attention. | 0_0 |
However, the trends of increases or decreases in extreme daily rainfall are not statistically significant; although, there have been changes in extreme rain events in certain areas in the Philippines. For instance, intensity of extreme daily rainfall is already being experienced in most parts of the country, but not st... | 1_7 |
They??ve gone down .39 degrees Celsius per decade from 1986 to 2011. These two periods of down-trending annual temperatures were separated by a curious and unexplained temperature step change increase of 3.6 degrees F occurring between 1985 and 1986. | 1_4 |
Balling also found that "winter warming of minimum temperatures accounts for more than 40 percent of all warming observed at Rothamsted; summer maximum temperatures account for only 10 percent of the warming," meaning that most of the warming occurs at night and in winter. Also, 92.5 percent of the warming in the recor... | 0_0 |
Another apostle of the renewable energy, anti-hydrocarbon movement is Senator Harry Reid. The chief organizer of and keynote speaker at this week's falsely named National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Reid is a true believer in destroying conventional energy through subsidies, regulations and strong-arm tactics. He... | 0_0 |
Learn more:Obama: Sound and fury, signifying nothing for foreign policy | 0_0 |
The wind power industry often claims that "electricity generated by the wind turbines will displace on a kWh for kWh basis electricity that would be generated by fossil-fuel generating units and any associated emissions." But that simply is not true, says Schleede. "Such claims are generally exaggerated. For example, t... | 4_4 |
Incidentally, as we expected, they begin to emerge more and more 'stories related to the cliche' of corruption generated by power. There 'year that passes without a minister who should resign in shame (even twice). Blair himself, instead of preventing earthquakes, and was detected in the public cultivate ties, those ar... | 0_0 |
Like the global-warming crowds movement toward ever more labored explanations for why the weather isnt behaving according to Al Gores scary computer-model scenarios, Earth Day keeps evolving. It began in 1970 as a well-meaning conservation effort, and even inspired some needed laws to clean up the air and rivers. | 5_2 |
The start of the current pause is difficult to determine precisely. Although 1998 is often quoted as the start of the current pause, this was an exceptionally warm year because of the largest El Nio in the instrumental record. This was followed by a strong La Nia event and a fall in global surface temperature of around... | 1_4 |
WND reports on the subpoena that CEI receieved from Attorney General Claude Walker and discusses Sam Kazman's response. | 0_0 |
Carbon dioxide present in the oceans is essential to plant life and current very low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the ocean are limiting plant growth. All animal life depends on these plants. Mans mining and industrial activities are harmlessly recycling some of this valuable carbon dioxide from natur... | 3_3 |
The rule follows new ozone limits proposed by the EPA last November, new limits issued in March on hydraulic fracturing on public lands, new moratoriums on drilling in and around Alaska, and a potential rule cracking down on greenhouse gas emissions from drilling on federal lands. Keep in mind the states already regula... | 0_0 |
There's another reason why there will be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It involves two of the most swiftly developing nations in the world, China and India, both of whom are building coal-fired plants to generate electricity as fast as they can. This is happening while the Environmental Protection Agency has b... | 4_2 |
In the field of governance, things are not a great deal better in the UK. We have seen a second instalment of the CRU Climategate e-mails, which tell us little new but confirm the culture of shiftiness, obstruction and the stifling of debate seen in the first instalment. We still hear from time to time the mantra of, T... | 5_2 |
Censorship is the single most important tool of those who want to scare the masses. (Money, of course, would trump that, but there is no shortage of whole government departments devoted to pumping the climate gravy, so while money is theoretically vital, in this case its guaranteed. Censorship, though, is an entirely d... | 0_0 |
16 Marshall Goldman, The Piratisation of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry, 2003. | 0_0 |
Man Made Global Warming Is A Complete Fraud | 5_2 |
A company in the flexible packaging industry asked its permitting agency to allow it to run a thermal oxidizer only when it runs solvent-based inks and coatings, since the increasingly popular water-based inks and coatings contain materials that can poison the oxidizer's catalyst. The change would have saved approximat... | 0_0 |
In effect, the only thing which conceptually allows our temperature to measurably rise with todays minimal CO2 forcing is the lag in thermal transfer to these huge thermal masses. Oceans are said to mix on over-century timescales. Water and ocean, conduction and convection effects are stated by modern science to be too... | 5_1 |
Conclusion #5: There are better, more cost-effective ways to improve and protect the nation's air quality. | 0_0 |
The Clinton-Gore administration claims, however, that if implemented with "flexibility mechanisms," Kyoto would impose negligible costs on the U.S. economy not more than one-tenth of 1 percent of GDP. The most important flexibility mechanism is emission trading a system under which the U.S. supposedly could pay others ... | 0_0 |
If e increases with CO2at constant I, T goes down. Therefore CO2causes global cooling. | 0_0 |
Of course, it is not clear what, if any, good can come from a climate plan that exempts the heaviest emitters. | 0_0 |
on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 at 1:17 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
on Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 at 2:36 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Romney commented, "Economic success and environmental protection go hand in hand. The steps we are taking today will ensure a cleaner environment and a brighter future for generations to come." He also maintained that the plan is one of the nation's strongest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and said it exhibited a s... | 0_0 |
All GHG emission sources are included (all countries and all GHG emissions in each country) | 0_0 |
The fraudulent documents created by the IPCC modelers generate massive increases in carbon dioxide emissions over the next century. | 5_2 |
Could polar bears face extinction? A November 9 Washington Post would have us believe that. Apparently Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin was unfamiliar with a review of the science on polar bears and climate change that we first published in 2002; that report can be found here . But first, consider the study on which E... | 0_0 |
This AEI Public Opinion Study examines polls on the environment, energy, nuclear power, and global warming. In the first section, we look at national polls on the politics of the environment. Democrats lead Republicans by a substantial margin nationally as the party best able to handle environmental issues. Surprisingl... | 0_0 |
"While its actions are being lauded as a step into the future, California is actually a late entry into the already failed game of energy rationing. Europe, Japan and Canada are all failing spectacularly to meet their emissions reductions targets under the Kyoto Protocol, despite years of breathless cheerleading for ca... | 4_1 |
The Trick Thats Going to Keep Americas Coal Alive | 0_0 |
What we demonstrated in our JGR paper earlier this year is that when cloud changes cause temperature changes, it gives the illusion of positive cloud feedback even if strongly negative cloud feedback is really operating! | 3_1 |
President Obama's prescient 2002 opposition to the Iraq War was an early instance of this instinct. While the | 0_0 |
This palpable, intolerable insanity must end. It's time to tell Congress (and the European Commission) we need real energy for real jobs, real revenues and a revitalized economy. And we need it now. | 0_0 |
How could that be? Cherry says theres been an implicit assumption that because electric cars dont burn fossil fuels, theyre cleaner for the environment and safer for people, but that doesnt take into account how the electricity they use is generated. In China, that would be from you guessed it fossil fuels. About 85% o... | 4_2 |
Two quick comments. First, as a technical matter, EPA did not receive an official remand from the Court of Appeals, where the case originated, until September 14, 2007. Second, and more importantly, it wasn't until December or thereabouts that EPA began to understand the enormity of the regulatory burden it might inadv... | 0_0 |
Now, as to the second piece of trash you mention, written by a grad student and Steven Schneider, that is so hopelessly flawed that even several warmists condemned it. It's all over the blogosphere if you care to read the details. BTW that paper was NOT peer-reviewed. PNAS is a vanity press for members of the NAS and p... | 0_0 |
Figure 1. Annual average global temperature anomalies from the surface (red) and from the lower atmosphere (blue), 1979-2011 (the value for 2011 in the surface record is based on only 11 months of data). | 0_0 |
According to Storch et al. (2009) , "temperature is often invoked as the main determinant of distribution ranges and boundaries for marine and terrestrial species," and they note the larval stages of many marine species "are more vulnerable to thermal and osmotic stresses than adults." Consequently, they explored the r... | 0_0 |
"Alex Sink's campaign violated rules Monday evening at the CNN/St. Petersburg Times Florida gubernatorial debate when her make-up artist delivered a message during a television break." | 0_0 |
But Thompson et al (2009) acknowledged that there was also a drop in land surface temperatures at that time. They wrote, It is worth noting that the land data also exhibit a small drop in the mean ~1945, albeit much smaller than that found in the residual SST time series (Figure 10). | 0_0 |
Thus Michael Kundu, whale photographer , pronounces the data from NASA, Hadley, UAH, CSSP, IPPC, as fiction. | 0_0 |
Google launches a new global initiative dedicated to promoting literacy. | 0_0 |
So riddled with wishful thinking and contradictions are these proposals that one scarcely knows where to begin. For a start, even if we could hope to build enough windmills to provide, say, 25 per cent of our electricity (10 times the current proportion), this would require not the 10,000 turbines the Government talks ... | 0_0 |
Steve Fielding confronts Climate Minister Penny Wong with his question : why has the world not warmed these past seven eight years when were pumping out more carbon dioxide than ever? | 1_4 |
UPDATE: See the follow-up post El Nio Residuals Cause the C-Shaped Warming Pattern in thePacific for a further discussion. | 0_0 |
Back to the title question: Are anthropogenic greenhouse gases important in the warming of the global oceans? | 0_0 |
He?s skeptical that the warming is as great as we show in East Antarctica ? he | 0_0 |
Meanwhile, the National Academy of Sciences and a number of large higher education associations and other academic interests are supporting Mann?s position with their own legal brief. Michael Halpern of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has written about relevant background for the scientific community. ?The cour... | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Crookwell Gazette | 0_0 |
"Mankind shares a real co-responsibility," Trittin told a news conference. "It is unacceptable for American citizens to pump twice as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as Europeans," he said earlier in an ARD television interview. | 0_0 |
R is the coefficient of determination. It tells us how well the trend line fits the data. An R of 1.0 would be a perfect fit. An R of 0.0 would be no fit. 0.0334 is a lot closer to 0.0 than it is to 1.0. R is related to explained variance. The linear trend line explains about 3.3% of the variation in the temperature da... | 0_0 |
26a. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for other parts of the world in the next ten years (very low to very high). | 0_0 |
Of course, this agency would be fair. They would realize that it was trivial to see that the fire couldn't occur - because they were looking at hundreds of similar houses in the past and they knew the actual reason of the small recent fire. And the only reason why they had to see this house was that its owner was misle... | 0_0 |
At best, such argumentation debases the coinage of public discourse about "national security" and makes it harder to devote resources and attention to things that have a much more direct and demonstrable impact upon our security. When everything is a pressing "national security" challenge, after all, nothing really is.... | 0_0 |
About 50 people set out on foot from the Swiss village of Fiesch at dawn on July 31. As the sun rose over 13,000-foot (4,000-meter) Alpine peaks, the procession moved slowly up a mountainside and into the cool of a pine forest, stopping at a tiny church. | 0_0 |
Uncertainty in the amount of warming combines with uncertainty in the pace of warming. From an instantaneous doubling of atmospheric CO2 content from the pre-industrial base level, some models would project 2C (3.6F) of global warming in less than a decade while others would project that it would take more than a centu... | 5_1 |
Things used to be simple. The Church taught how the world worked and how to behave. The positive and the normative were united. The Enlightenment put an end to that. We are supposed to follow evidence rather than dogma. In the early days, an intelligent person could comprehend all of science. Not any longer. Experts ma... | 0_0 |
The Chinese crew is hoping a French icebreaker 14 nautical miles away will arrive and offer relief, said Zhu Li, chief officer of the Chinese ship. | 0_0 |
Morrongiello et al . determined that "fish growth declined as water levels in the lakes dropped during the drought," but they say that "this effect was offset by increased growth in warmer years." In fact, it was more than offset; because based on the relationships they developed from their real-world data, they found ... | 0_0 |
They say a team of scientists has irrefutable proof of a large colony of platypuses, living under the site and they have called on Environment Minister Desley Boyle to intervene to stop construction of the supermarket. | 0_0 |
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