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Any further action by the Prime Minister seems to bring new charts, new requirements and new demands, without any connection between them. The response of the British public service and it was obvious, as a run-up to do the minimum possible to avoid incurring the wrath ministerial, with no consideration for the users o... | 0_0 |
6) Thought control. In addition to vilifying climate chaos skeptics, alarmists are determined to control all thinking on the subject. They are terrified that people will find realist analyses and explanations far more persuasive. They refuse to debate skeptics, respond to NIPCC and other studies examining natural clima... | 5_2 |
Funniest thing about this climate nonsense is the sense of supreme importance many (like our opponents in the paper) feel. Politicians feed egos of scientists and their hangers on because, for now, these folks are useful in advancing the agenda-of-the-moment. But, as always happens, manias morph and something new will ... | 0_0 |
Converting to biomass? I bet the conversion efficiency is lower than conventional fuels, therefore even more waste heat. | 0_0 |
Currently, its "Clean Power" plan is generating its latest and most duplicitous Administer, Gina McCarthy, to go around saying that it will not be costly, nor cost jobs. "Clean Power" is the name given to the EPA policy to reduce overall U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It is requiri... | 4_1 |
For instance, the notorious claim that glaciers in the Himalayas would disappear by 2035 seems to have been based on a misprint (for 2350) in a document issued by a pressure group. When several reviewers challenged the assertion in draft, they were ignored. When Indian scientists challenged it after publication, they w... | 0_0 |
Yet you wouldnt know this from most networks. Recent years slowdown in global warming was completely ignored by networks in 92 climate change stories in 2013. (2) | 0_0 |
Dem congressman: Hey, let's impeach John Roberts: | 0_0 |
As DOJ reviews legality of merger, it's AT&T; versus Sprint: | 0_0 |
Biggest Player. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the scientific panel whose reports contain the work of Glimategate figures and are highly politicized and publicized to increase fear of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW): "imminent catastrophic man-made climate change." Many horren... | 5_2 |
To summarize, a pro-AGW paper being peer reviewed by other climate scientists is probably (like Briffa appears to have been) being considered favorably because of its results, is being reviewed by reviewers who know and often have co-authored with the papers writer, likely contains undisclosed data treatment that influ... | 5_2 |
As noted above, the application of likelihood methods to assess trend confidence intervals under different autocorrelation structures seems so obvious and is so easy to implement that one would expect it to be almost routine. And perhaps it is in some circles, but, if it is, it hasnt been mentioned in any of the recent... | 0_0 |
Click here to download Part 4 in PDF form | 0_0 |
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball, WUWT, Aug 8, 2015 | 0_0 |
On the basis of these findings, the authors conclude that this worst drought of the modern meteorological record "is not likely to be purely anthropogenic in origin." And if it is no different from what has been occurring over and over again for the past 1500 years, it is surely not the result of anthropogenic greenhou... | 1_7 |
These showers are just the first line, more will come later...here is the 24 hr precipitation ending 5 AM Monday. Not used to seeing precipitation around here! But with the rain will come lightning and the potential for new fire starts. | 0_0 |
"Based on the above analysis," in the words of the three researchers, "it is likely that the observed decrease in stress response was the result of acclimatization of the coral/algal holobionts (Berkelmans et al ., 2004; Maynard et al ., 2008) or an influx of thermo-tolerant colonies between 2002 and 2007." And providi... | 3_2 |
Human Achievement Hour is an annual event that recognizes and celebrates the fact that this is the greatest time to be alive yet, and that the reason we have come this far is that people have been free to use their minds and the resources in their environment to experiment, create, and innovate. | 0_0 |
Figure 1. Changes in yearly average surface-temperature sampled worldwide, reconstructed for land and sea surface (solid line, University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit ), and land only (dashed line, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies ).2 The temporary warming in 1997-1998 is a natural and unusually strong ... | 0_0 |
In today's highly charged environment of climate change policy, efforts are often made to impune the credibility of those engaged in the debate through assertions that their views are a product of financial relationships rather than sincerely held beliefs or objective research. | 0_0 |
For what its worth, while this study is often cited by cholesterol deniers, they almost never emphasize the absurd conclusions regarding pushing the guidelines even lower. Perhaps this is to protect the lay audience from falling into despairas they probably shouldover the state of what used to be called science. | 0_0 |
Near-future reductions in pH will have no consistent ecological effects on the early life-history stages of reef corals | 3_2 |
Firstly, it misunderstands international trade. Our economic well-being is independent of Chinese productivity. The idea that other nations will ?steal our jobs? or otherwise capitalize off of our unwillingness to go green is a fallacy. The belief that another country?s rise or fall impacts our economic well-being in a... | 0_0 |
#31. Key Finding of International Scientific Panel's Analysis of Climate-Change | 0_0 |
National | Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate | 0_0 |
In the civilian world, politicians and bureaucrats have robbed the concept of "strategy" of any meaning by systematically using it interchangeably with "policy." Academics and think-tankers, for their part, have chosen to blow out of proportion a Revolution in Security Affairs in which "the dividing lines between hard ... | 0_0 |
\] is an example of a state (there are infinitely many) that is a linear superposition, but it is obviously not non-entangled. It is entangled. It should have a different eigenvalue \(E=1\) which proves that the linear operator cannot exist. | 0_0 |
Students meet state treasurer - Campus With a graduate degree in geology, Mourdock said his studies have convinced him that global warming is not happening. "I'm scared to death about each of the three candidates and their positions on global climate change," Mourdock said. "Global caps in the last 15 years receded unt... | 2_1 |
We know life is better from stories we've heard in our own homes. Existence has improved enormously within the lifetimes of our immediate family members. My Grandfather O'Rourke was born in 1877, and born into a pretty awful world. The average wage was a dollar a daythat's if you worked; O'Rourkes were not known to do ... | 0_0 |
"A New Jersey Little League is taking safety up a notch. For the first time they're requiring all their volunteers be fingerprinted. We're talking coaches and concession stand workers, too." | 0_0 |
Right now, Higginbotham's salary and career hang by a thread, preserved only by attorneys he has hired to protect himself from OSU attacks. The Robinsons' studies have been severely disrupted. Meanwhile, however, public outcry in favor of Higginbotham and the students has grown in intensity, especially in Oregon, and a... | 0_0 |
Typhoon Vera, September 1958. This typhoons passage over Japan in 1959 caused Japans greatest storm disaster. The death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless. Typhoon Vera dealt a staggering blow to Japans economy with tremendous damage to roads, bridges and communications from wind, floods and landslides... | 0_0 |
Dubbed geoengineering, it involves purposely "engineering" the planet's climate in ways intended to offset warming from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although Nature"s discussion of the various possibilities is fascinating on its own, the article is more interesting for its implicit insights into climate scientists' ... | 0_0 |
Researchers say it proves their cosmic impact hypothesis. I say its more evidence of huge explosions in the sky triggered by the Gothenburg magnetic reversal. | 0_0 |
Todays Paper | Sydney Morning Herald | smh.com .au | 0_0 |
In Keremali Akyaz Plateau district about 10 most elderly stranded citizens were rescued after heavy snowfall there mounted up to 70 cm (27 inches). | 1_3 |
Here is another attempt at trying to untangle the Skydragons misunderstanding about the greenhouse effect and the planetary energy balance. | 0_0 |
Academic freedom is the belief that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authoriti... | 0_0 |
The Nobel Committee has a long tradition for being controversial; it has repeatedly awarded the price to controversial candidates in an effort to reach a hand out to people building bridges for peace and prosperity. This decision was not controversial; it was trite. | 0_0 |
Also July of 2015, and thus the 19th year without any signfiant linear global warming, the question remains: wheres the global warming ? | 1_4 |
Veterans Affairs wind turbine, built for $2.3 million, stands dormant | 0_0 |
It is true, Secretary Kerry, that "no one nation can stand alone." But he has promised we will rise to meet the challenge of tackling climate changerising energy prices, that is. | 0_0 |
<4262> Klein/LLNL: | 0_0 |
Despite this, no changes were made to the text. In fact, when V.K Raina challenged the 2035 date in his report on Himalayan glaciers for the Indian government, the IPCC accused him of mischief and defended 2035 as a good estimate of when the glaciers would be gone. | 5_2 |
The authors of this new study were able to reveal a dimension of plant-environment feedbacks, which is currently insufficiently investigated and described for the response of plants to future CO2 concentrations, and that dimension reveals a promising future for Earths plant life?? Read More | 3_3 |
It is a huge no-brainer that Jan 1974 rain exceeded Jan 2001 . Note the BoM coy way of putting it ??? ???? what data the bureau has suggests 1893??s rainfall was extreme.?? Feb 1893 rain might have exceeded Jan 1974 and 2011 combined. | 1_7 |
Not only are the 14 proxies used in O&B; not independent of prior studies, in fact, they are composed entirely of proxies repeatedly used in previous studies. Astonishingly, 2 of the 14 proxies (2 of only 10 in the Medieval Warm Period) are bristlecone/foxtail pines, despite the fact that these are precisely the proxie... | 5_1 |
On Wednesday, July 20, authors Timothy and Christina Sandefur will be at The Heartland Institute's Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois to talk about their book Property Rights in 21st-Century America. On Wednesday, July 27, Eric O'Keefe who successfully fought back against the infamous "John ... | 0_0 |
FactCheck: The lead author of the Antarctica study, University of Missouri professor Curt Davis, said : "These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate. They are selectively using only parts of my previous research to support their claims." Davis's study i... | 0_0 |
Emissions from our power plants, cars, factories, and farms are causing catastrophic climate change! | 0_0 |
We can see this clash most clearly in the reactions of both camps to the Clinton presidency and to Hillary Clinton's once and future candidacy. To liberal progressives, the Clinton presidency is anathema. It was too timid when it had power in 1993-94, and too conciliatory when it shared power with a Republican Congress... | 0_0 |
Translation; Pieces of wood are found repeatedly at the edges of receding glaciers. These provide evidence that it was frequently warmer than today over much of the past 10,000 years. | 2_1 |
The economic pain cuts deeper than wasted taxpayer money because government inventions distort free enterprise, create government dependence, and allow Washington to direct the flow of private-sector investments. The number of investment opportunities is broad and expansive, but the available capital is limited. Of cou... | 0_0 |
Claim F: Climate scientists claim that the .4-.5C warming from 1975-1998 cannot have been caused natural variations. This has never been reconciled with the fact that the 0.6C warming from 1910 to 1940 was almost certainly due mostly to natural forces. Also, the claim that natural forcings could not have caused a 0.2C ... | 2_1 |
The Public Utility Commission is anticipating months of debate. It will hold another five hearings in February, March and April to consider what testimony will be permitted. Evidence will be presented at hearings in early May. Kristen Edwards, staff attorney at the commission, told me: "We'll consider more meetings as ... | 0_0 |
Expanded the first 10 clean, it looks s hr: | 0_0 |
Global warming alarmists in full retreat as skeptics attack greenhouse theory | 5_1 |
In conducting their experiments, the three researchers determined that "primary polyp growth was reduced only marginally by more acidic seawater," but they state that "the combined effect of high temperature and lowered pH caused a significant reduction in growth of primary polyps by almost a third." Nevertheless, they... | 3_2 |
DELVING INTO THE causes of the French Revolution, de Tocqueville famously noted that regimes overthrown in revolutions tend to be less repressive than the ones preceding them. Why? Because, de Tocqueville surmised, though people "may suffer less," their "sensibility is exacerbated." | 0_0 |
Michael Mann proved climate change with his hockey stick | 0_0 |
A recent study from the Institute for Energy Research (IER), which examined the state-by-state burden of the PTC, called it "an amazing subsidy" because it can "effectively give a utility a bigger subsidy than the actual market price. It would be as if Uncle Sam allowed car dealers to knock off $60,000 from their tax b... | 0_0 |
Aside from giving over most of its running time to what amounts to a stump speech, the film's efforts to humanize Gore are only remotely tied to his passion for the environment. We do learn that his interest in the issue goes back to his college days. But the picture's attempts to connect the near-death of Gore's young... | 0_0 |
The compromise baffled many outside observers, who could not understand what drove either side to reach the agreement. Both sides claimed victory, with Max Baucus (D.-Mont.) announcing that last year's was "a better bill," while Pete Domenici (R.-N.M.) reminded commentators that the Republicans would be able to rewrite... | 0_0 |
The hiatus period of 18 years 4 months, or 220 months, is the farthest back one can go in the RSS satellite temperature record and still show a sub-zero trend. | 1_4 |
Satellite Study: slowing plant growth, 2000-2009 | 0_0 |
"If the Vice President is so worried about global warming he should consider a "no regrets' policy," says Paul Georgia, environmental research associate at CEI and managing editor of Cooler Heads, a bi-weekly newsletter covering global warming issues. "We suggest a program of deregulation that would remove barriers to ... | 0_0 |
22 Amy Myers Jaffe and Robert Manning, "The Myth of the Caspian "Great Game': The Real Geopolitics of Energy" Survival (Winter 199899). See also Robert Sokolsky and Tanya Charlick-Paley, "NATO and Caspian Security: A Mission Too Far?," RAND, 1999. | 0_0 |
70-100: Friends funerals in-between doctor appointments | 0_0 |
Editor note : Adam Smith (17231790)is considered the father of modern libertarian thought, although economics and political economy have advanced significantly since the 18th century. Many of Smithsinsights have proved prescient, and it is often remarkable how todays follies bring to minda quotation or insight from his... | 0_0 |
Further information on the upward step changes that result from strong El Nio events, refer to my posts from a year ago Can El Nino Events Explain All of the Global Warming Since 1976? Part 1 and Can El Nino Events Explain All of the Global Warming Since 1976? Part 2 | 2_1 |
Sea level in the region has been completely steady since 1975, Taminos period of modern global warming. Once again, scientists are trying to pretend that they know something scary, when in fact there is not one shred of evidence to support their claims. | 1_6 |
The paper, written in Chinese, says that there is also a "significant correlation" between solar activity over the past century and an increase in Earth's surface temperatures over the same period. The correlation between solar activity and water temperature is even higher than the correlation between solar activity an... | 2_1 |
Narrator: Like heat-related mortality, air pollution levels have fallen as cities have warmed. U.S. air quality should keep improving regardless of climate change. | 0_0 |
Simon, Julian L. "Disappearing Species, Deforestation and Data," Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. (ed. Lehr, Jay H.) | 0_0 |
November to April snow extent was the highest on record this year, and has increased sharply since CO2 hit Hansens global warming tipping point of 350 PPM. | 1_3 |
It's not just me saying this. As the Chicago Tribune reported on May 18, in 2015 "electric bills are set to be about $130 more than they are now." It went on to say that prices have already significantly risen in the heartland. To quote this article again, "Prices were higher in northern Ohio and the Mid-Atlantic regio... | 4_1 |
Why did they overestimate ice loss from these glaciers by 50%? The impact of rock debris that covers certain glacier tongues (4) and protects them from solar radiation (and thus from melting) was not taken into account in the previous work. Moreover, their sampling was limited to longitudinal profiles along the center ... | 5_1 |
The substantial study, by Peter Lilley MP, is the most thorough analysis of the Stern Review so far undertaken. It takes the IPCCs view of the science of global warming as given, but points out that Sterns economic conclusions contradict the views of most of the worlds leading environmental economists and even the econ... | 5_2 |
implement it in prose. The political discourse on foreign policy wrestles with | 0_0 |
In fact it isnt a slur to call the farming lobby virtually irrelevant in the coal seam gas extraction debate because they are. In Australia the Crown owns mineral rights, not landholders and regardless of whether farmers lease grazing rights on surveyed government roads they have no rights to lock gates or prevent acce... | 0_0 |
This brings us to the topic of cap-and-trade, a form of energy rationing. There's money to be made in energy rationing -- OPEC proves it! The emission permits in a cap-and-trade program are like the oil production quota in OPEC, the only difference being that they're tradable. The cap makes the permits a valuable commo... | 0_0 |
11) Is Rising CO2 the Cause of Recent Warming? While this is theoretically possible, I think it is more likely that the warming is mostly natural. At the very least, we have no way of determining what proportion is natural versus human-caused. | 2_1 |
27 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, p. 11. | 0_0 |
And making flood insurance a federal program was a stroke of genius. That way homeowners didn't apply for it. Because you get federal government services whether you want federal government services or notInternal Revenue Service, for instance. | 0_0 |
Hes taken the leash off the EPA to wreak havoc on industries with massively expensive, and entirely unnecessary new regulations. | 0_0 |
As of Saturday afternoon, 31,800 customers remained without power. Duke Energy estimated that some customers in the Triad may not get their lights back until Wednesday. | 0_0 |
record for a 100-yard dash and then flame out before ever reaching the finish line. | 0_0 |
Hansen Forecasts 30 Degrees Warming At The Poles | 0_0 |
a foreign country's experience: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/pdf/Calzada%20EPW%20Testimony%... | 0_0 |
Joe reports the shocking news that it is hot in Arizona in the summer. | 0_0 |
Meltdown cuts Antarctic flights Tasmania News The Mercury The ... | 0_0 |
Yesterday on Saskatoon radio's John Gormley Live , Finance MInister Ralph Goodale responded in a grave, lowered voice when a caller challenged him on the just-announced assistance to the Darfur region of Sudan. She accused him of buying the vote of independant MP David Kilgour, who has been publicly demanding action in... | 0_0 |
Latif saysthat half of the 0.8C of global warming weve seen since 1850 is due to natural causes.Marotzke says that ocean cycles stopped the warming over the last 12 years. | 2_1 |
That is politics in a nutshell. Because how else are the politicians going to stay politically powerful? Or get politically powerful? Or, for that matter, get a job? | 0_0 |
"These harmful regulations are going to drive blacks into government dependency," said Borelli, who is an African American. "By harming the fossil fuel industry, you're harming hard-working Americans." | 0_0 |
Obama's turnout pitch to Latinos: Get out there and punish your "enemies": | 0_0 |
Temperatures above the "pre-industrial era" in the last 450,000 years. Note that even the limit of 2.0 ??C was probably breached 8,135 years ago and 128,357 years ago, among other periods. | 2_1 |
There were no significant steps taken toward a new global waming treaty at the April meeting in the Bonn Maritim Hotel of two ad hoc working groups of the UNFCCC parties. The official purpose of the conference was for the industrialized nations to negotiate additional obligations on the carbon dioxide reductions and th... | 0_0 |
Track between Govett and Evans Lookouts, December 9, 2007 | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, the total surface heat and water fluxes are not well observed. Normally, they are inferred from observations of other fields, such as surface temperature and winds. Consequently, the uncertainty in the observational estimate is large of the order of tens of watts per square metre for the heat flux, even ... | 5_1 |
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