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"Spitzer and his allies can't change any of this. Their suit mainly allows them to advertise themselves to people who don't know better. Here's Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sounding off:
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Finally a graphic of Perth rain history back to 1876 note how the pre WWI winter rain is similar to the post 1970s rain. Who is to say what is normal ? I am not aware of any tablet of stone which tells us whether the WWI to mid 1970s high rain era was normal or are the slightly dryer decades before and after more norma...
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FactCheck: One of the ads says research shows "The Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner. . . Why are they trying to scare us?" Actually, scientists say increased snowfall in Antarctica's interior is evidence that global warming is taking place.
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For the sake of their constituents, elected officials in Washington and state capitals have an obligation to fight this federal takeover of state authority. They should act soon. EPA is scheduled to release its final regulation in August, initiating a one-year period before states will be forced to comply.
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The model-data comparisons in this post run from the November 1981 start of the Reynolds OI.v2 data to February 2014, more than 32 years.
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So Im feeling like I can embrace the Conspiracy Conjecture enough to investigate, but I cant swallow the Conspiracy Theory angle.
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Youd think it would be huge news that the greenhouse scare is over. Instead, the news sections of Science and Nature are behaving in their predictable fashion. In Nature , Quirin Schiermeier wrote this may worsen the greenhouse effect.
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The federal government can also play a role. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has recently introduced some proposals to create a federal equivalent of the My Safe Florida Home Program. Through tax credits and means-tested assistance, Thompson's proposals would help peopl...
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My brief comment was sent in at 12.26 WST to the ABC site... The moderators must be overwhelmed coping with all the comments, Im sure theyll put one up soon.
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Thinking over this history, I see three primary uses of environmental computer forecasts: to understand the implications of what we know (Can living things change the global environment?); to know the future; and to influence public behavior. Only the first can be strictly scientific. The third is wandering farther and...
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Authors correct error found in research article
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One of the favorite policies of green activists is the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that require U.S. auto makers to keep the average fuel economy of their fleet below 27 mpg. Recently, however, the greens have been frustrated because the CAFE standard has not been tightened for years. They are espec...
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Another variation to the fairy tale: ENSO is simply noise or an exogenous factor in the global surface temperature record. The fancy-schmancy word exogenous was recently and incorrectly used to describe ENSO in the 2011 Foster and Rahmstorf paper Global Temperature Evolution 19792010 . Exogenous, according to Webster, ...
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* It hasn??t warmed in 7 years. Al Gore says that ???there is one relationship that is more powerful than all the others and it is this: When there is more carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer.?? Well, emissions keep going up, yet temperatures stay the same. Where??s the warming?
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Obtaining federal permits for energy production is difficult. Between fiscal years 2005 and 2012 the number of new permits fell over 50%, from 3,514 to 1,729. Between 2005 and 2012, the time it took to acquire such a permit rose from 154 days to 228 days. In contrast, it takes only 10 days to secure a state drilling pe...
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Quite to the contrary of model predictions, the four researchers found that observations of intact forest "greenness" in the region were, in their words, "dominated by a significant increase (P<0.0001), not a decline." What it means
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- This week the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and 11 other free-market organizations submitted public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency opposing EPA's long-anticipated Clean Power Plan (CPP), which would increase electricity prices and raise reliability concerns across the cou...
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Finally, if the global temperature begins to rise again, we can consider the implementation of a carbon tax.
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Osborn also complained that I had insufficiently acknowledged their identification of root collar inhomogeneity at Polar Urals. However, in my first article in the recent sequence, I provided a lengthy exposition of their findings in connection with root collar inhomogeneity, complete with long quotations directly from...
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Or, to look at it in yet another way, were being told that, while surface temperatures are no longer warming, the oceans to depth continue to warmyet the warming is not occurring in the largest ocean basin, the Pacific, and the North Atlantic is showing evidence of cooling.
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There are obvious similarities both single men of low intelligence and not really connected with the world, convicted on faulty forensic evidence.
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Government officials cannot pressure a private party to take adverse action against a speaker. For example, the federal appeals court in New York ruled that officials could not pressure a billboard company to stop displaying a church's anti-gay billboard, or pressure a business group not to publish a businessman's ad i...
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The data are seriously compromised and fill in with homogenizing makes it worse, not better. It hides what is really happening and smoothes out divergent and disjoint obviously incongruent series to blend them into a fictional common warming that does not exist.
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Chesapeake Energy is also a major donor to the American Lung Association. Although exactly how much the company has donated is not clear, the American Lung Association's 2010 annual report said Chesapeake Energy "provided the funds that allowed the American Lung Association to create a new public service campaign based...
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Your question and other commentary at your blog may give readers the false impression that we have published using an inadequate dataset.
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the train wreck that would result from trying to restrict greenhouse gas emissions using the Clean Air Act:
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No model has ever successfully predicted any future climate sequence. Despite this, future projections for as far ahead as several hundred years have been presented by the IPCC as plausible future trends, based on largely distorted storylines, combined with untested models.
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Image source: National Snow and Ice Data Center via the WUWT sea ice page .
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and I'll now show the unique numeric solutions perfectly reproduce within 0.28C the temperature at every height in the 1976 Standard Atmosphere database from the surface all the way to ~11,000 meters height, after which the atmosphere at < ~0.223 atmospheres (units) becomes too thin to sustain convection and the equati...
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17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
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The earths climate is largely controlled by the suns radiation. The current and anticipated sun (-spot) activity, i.e . energy received by earth from the sun, will be below normal for the next decades .
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This piece originally appeared in WSJ's Marketwatch
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Southern Europe will be gripped by fierce heatwaves, drought in North Africa will be more common, and small island states face ruinous storm surges from rising seas, a report by United Nations climate scientists says. The assessment is the most comprehensive yet by the 194-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan...
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"Canada is -- like it or not, take it or leave it -- a country founded on Christian principles..."
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Wall Street agreed. According to Mother Jones, in 2006, Wall Street "worried that even a small increase in investment in non-oil alternatives would distract BP's focus from its core businessoil." Commentators and analysts began mocking BP as being "Beyond Profits."
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I can only conclude you would rather sit in the dark and bitch, smugging about price gougers getting spanked and threatening the limited allowed approved licensed union dues paying utility workers for not having feather bedded enough in the last 50 years to be able to cover this as Business as usual.
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34568 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 116 / Tuesday, June 17, 2014 / Proposed Rules
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To some extent, our findings demonstrate that whatever happens to Earth, she will recover, and recover at a rapid pace, Bao said. Mother Earth lived and life carried on even in the most devastating situation. The only difference is the life composition afterwards. In other words, whatever humans do to the Earth, life w...
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Environmental scientists are cast in the role of priests, the trust in their narrow expertise extended to other areas of fact and value. Most scientists dont like that. Some quite enjoy it. The concept of planetary boundaries seems to be designed to make environmental scientists the final arbiters in politics, much lik...
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Climate models suggest they should be increasing, 110 years of real world data indicate otherwise?? Read More
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Ocean SST as measured by PDO, AMO, ocean heat content and ENSO cycles and pressure changes as measured by AO and NAO are all pointing to a future cooling planet. AMO has gone negative in November 2011 for the first time since early 2009. Time will tell whether this is just the normal seasonal dip or a long-term pattern...
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And how he crows at the news of Abraham's "evisceration" of my Minnesota speech.
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4. According to Marlo Lewis in A Skeptics Guide to the Inconvenient Truth ** tide gauge records show that sea levels at Tuvalu actually fell during the latter half of the 20th Century. This is an island often quoted as being lost to rising sea levels including in Al Gores book also called An Inconvenient Truth where th...
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A veteran Palestinian negotiator complains: "It's as though you ask me to sit and discuss the future of this table, but as we talk you are slicing away the pieces of the table."
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Science is about developing theories and then continually challenging those theories through observation and accumulation of real world data. Yet, a myopic focus on a single variable (fossil energy use, in this case) excludes a wide range of other valid perspectives and ignores critical factors and. As a result, the re...
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And while were on the subject of Svensmark and cosmic rays, Anthony on Facebook linked to an interesting series of videos in which Svensmark and Nir Shaviv are both interviewed. First three parts are excellent, will get to watch the remainder soon. There doesnt appear to be a date, but from the upload information, it w...
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Figure 6 presents the long-term hindcasts and projections of outgoing shortwave radiation, but this time in anomaly form, referenced to the 1996-2015 base years. The use of anomalies allows a better visual comparison of the modeled changes before and after the transition from hindcast to forecast. Obviously, there are ...
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I tend to agree that these adjustments are likely to have made the warming trend look higher and the case for global warming more robust than the most accurate data would manage. However, I am not quite certain about the size and relevance of this effect and I feel very uncomfortable about many climate skeptics' knee-j...
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Might Brown or his successor pay it back? Who knows. Even if they do pay back the loan, that wont undo the consequences: as environmentalists point out, the loan will delay the implementation of various programs that were intended to cut GHG emissions in the near-term, a delay that wont be recouped even if the loan is ...
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Climate Depot releases 321 page report over 1,000 skeptical scientists
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critics of Obama's Iran policy is that he has imposed much tougher sanctions on Iran than his
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And Bush was excited about our ability to make ethanol as well:
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But a scientific moment of clarity is now prevailing: The U.N. and Congress do not have the power to legislate, tax or regulate the weather.
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It also appears that other experienced and reputable scientists such as Hans Jelbring, Harry Dale Huffman and many others have previously pointed out the errors of the climate consensus in failing to give due weight to the Gas Laws which represent much longer established settled science than the relatively recent specu...
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There are reasons to assume that marine life will not be overly affected by an increase in ocean acidity due to atmospheric carbon dioxide:
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Bank plan would help build bridges, boost jobs:
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I agree that there's something ugly about the police, even local police, asking citizens for their "papers" (there's nothing particularly ugly about asking illegal immigrants for their papers, though). There's also something ugly about American citizens' being physically searched at airports. There's something ugly abo...
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Really now, you've got to be kidding me. Your link doesn't even mention this article. You're going to have to show actual proof that it is peer-reviewed, and if it is my opinion of the peer-review process in climate "science" will sink to a new all-time low. I didn't even mention many other flaws in this article, inclu...
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A new assessment of global mean sea level from altimeters highlights a reduction of global trend from 2005 to 2008
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Regardless, the automakers have little choice but to develop and try to push more hybrids as they prepare for fuel-efficiency requirements that call for significant increases later this decade. Advances such as Fords EcoBoost technology have increased mileage for gas-powered engines the new Fusion midsize sedan it unve...
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Now just so you can compare numbers, nuclear power plants cost about $2000 per kW or $2 billion for a plant to reliably produce the nameplate capacity of the massive Indiana windfarms 1000 MW of electricity at 90% operation capacity with a 40 year life. Ill do a more complete post on nuclear power later but just from t...
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We are getting more intense rainfall events as the earth warms , but its difficult to pin down any individual event, he told AAP.
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She explained at the time: "When the earth gets warmer, more water evaporates into the atmosphere. Warmer air holds more water, and if you look around the planet, our humidity at a global scale has increased already by over four percent. So, there is more water up in the air. That's why our rainfalls are often getting ...
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Elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 also enable plants to better withstand the growth-retarding effects of various environmental stresses, including soil salinity, air pollution, high and low air temperatures, and air-borne and soil-borne plant pathogens. In fact, atmospheric CO2 enrichment can actually mean the differe...
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Also in South Africa, researchers are working on insect-resistant biotech potatoes for Africa's millions of small highland farmers who can't afford pesticides. USAID is collaborating with Michigan State University and the South African Research Council. The project has foundered amidst regulatory disputes between South...
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(As an aside, if Miliband was serious about massive and quick expansion of nuclear, which he would need to set in motion soon after the election, I assume he would have offered it as a definite strategy by now. The history of the Blair and Brown Governments would suggest that, instead, there will be much prevarication....
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From Laframboises Citizen Audit: Of the 18531 references in the 2007 Climate Bible we found 5,587 a full 30% to be non peer-reviewed.
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What you see if you do a linear regression is a cooling trend by 0.49 ??F = 0.27 ??C per decade. The cooling between 2006 and 2008 was more dramatic: from 55 ??F to 53 ??F, by a whopping two degrees Fahrenheit!
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But now scientists claim that warming of the planet is in fact behind a paradoxical growth in South Pole sea ice.
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By Ben Wolfgang, Washington Times, Aug 6, 2015
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So if I dont believe that the warmer ocean can be substantially warmed by radiation from cooler air floating over it, on the basis that a warmer object will always heat a cooler object, its a rejection of science. That is itself unscientific however, it would be scientific to produce evidence of the alleged warming.
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Regulators and energy companies met Tuesday, hoping to hash out a solution to the peculiar stresses placed on the state's network by sharp increases in wind and solar energy. Power production from renewable sources fluctuates wildly, depending on wind speeds and weather.
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The cap-and-trade bill will do little to cut greenhouse gas emissions, since it contains so many special interest giveaways and environmentally-destructive provisions like subsidies for ethanol . Instead, notes the Examiner , it will result in massive destruction of the Earth??s forests. Although the bill??s supporters...
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The first explanation that comes to my mind is a change in daytime convective mixing of the troposphere. If there is a slight increase in the depth of convective mixing, then drier (lower dewpoint) air aloft will be mixed down toward the surface. Such a change would probably also be associated with deeper moist convect...
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> >> >>The Bank would commission a study estimating weather-related
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The naive assumption of policymakers that Europe?s main competitors would follow the shift from cheap fossil fuels to expensive green energy has not materialised. Europe, The Washington Post recently warned, ?has become a green-energy basket case. Instead of a model for the world to emulate, Europe has become a model o...
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Forecasters predict barbecue summer to rival 2003 as temperatures rocket to 27C tomorrow Telegraph
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This post was written for persons who have seen my posts around the blogosphere for the past three and a half years, or have seen other bloggers discussing them, and have wondered what I was yakking on and on aboutwith the El Nio this and La Nia that. This post is a basic, down-to-Earth discussion of the causes of the ...
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A paper by the same author finds we are nowhere near a "tipping point" regarding Arctic Sea Ice
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In fact, though, a recent Brookings Institution study by Charles Frank shows that the main effect of a carbon tax would be to induce power companies to switch from coal to natural gas. Even with a hefty price on carbon emissions, the study shows, today's wind and solar power sources cannot compete with natural gas. Now...
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A suggestion the Great Gale of 1821 was worse than Hurricane Sandy, and Alarmists are wrong to suggest otherwise.
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Now, you Keith complain about the way we introduced our result, while saying it
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Joint letter to NASA Administrator blasts agencys policy of ignoring empirical evidence
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??self-evidently? dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth-seeking?scientists ? and politicians ? must trade truth for influence.
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More reading to observe the green "holy day' Earth Day
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The second thing the large range of modeled energy imbalances reminded me of: there is a similar large range in the modeled global surface temperatures in absolute form. See the graph here from the post On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature A Model-DataComparison . The span of the modeled surface temp...
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Over time, the UN's New Urban Agenda will see decision-making authority shifted from individuals and local governments to regional councils. These regional councils will be stacked with a smattering of elected officials joined by assorted "stakeholders." These stakeholders will be composed of green groups, housing advo...
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Earth to looney left. A record cold winter is the wrong time to be picking a global warming fight.
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My Comments On A New Paper Climate Drift In The CMIP3 Models By Sen Gupta Et Al 2012
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her colleague's remarks than vice versa, stares down her colleague
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The all-clear signal on the hurricane front is another setback for the IPCC. In keeping with lead author Kevin Trenberths predictions, the IPCC report warned that there would be more hurricanes in a greenhouse climate. One of the graphs in the IPCC report is particularly mysterious. Without specifying a source, the gra...
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He quotes extensively from Mike Hulme, the guy who set up the Tyndall Centre with help from Pachauri, here are just a few prime examples:
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CSIROh!: Climate of Deception? ... Or First Step to Freedom?
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The survey found that the views that Americans hold about a wide range of these issues are, in key ways, inaccurate. Significant numbers of people appear to misunderstand such crucial matters as:
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Fossil fuels--hydrocarbons--are part hydrogen, part carbon. Both elements burn nicely. Your charcoal barbecue burns pure carbon; the Space Shuttle's main engine burns pure hydrogen. The carbon, which becomes carbon dioxide when you burn it, is what the climate models link to global warming.
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Hope all is well with you and all the best to all. Glad you enjoyed the paper.
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Read here . The IPCC, its climate models and its Climategate scientists have become infamous for flat-out, dreadful, incorrect climate predictions. A prominent prediction of an increase in severe weather due to global warming (ie, climate change) was made long ago, yet all the empirical research keeps confirming the la...
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