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The "Appeal of the Climate Alliance," drafted by the Evangelical Academy of Bad Boll, contains mistakes in logic that cannot remain unchallenged. | 0_0 |
The droughts of the 1930s and 1950s were stronger than those of the 2000s according to the Palmer Drought Severity Index. | 1_7 |
If one computes the loss in ice volume (the melt) for each individual year from May 1st to August 31st of each year, we get a surprise: | 0_0 |
I wonder what is the quantity that measures how "bad" an impact humans and comets have on Earth so that he concludes that the people are worse. People have disadvantages but any situation with people is better for Earth than the situation without the people because the people are so far the most precious thing that thi... | 0_0 |
It is religion that asks for repentance and offers rituals for atonement; | 0_0 |
Dr. Christy is distinguished professor of atmospheric science, Alabama's state climatologist, and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He served as lead author, contributing author, and reviewer of United Nations' IPCC assessments, have been awarded NASA's Medal for Ex... | 0_0 |
Well, what causes chaos? All of this could simply be the characteristics of a nonlinear dynamical ???chaotic?? climate system. While a few people have objected to my use of the term ???chaotic?? in this context, I see no reason why the traditional application of chaos theory to small space and time scales (such as in w... | 2_1 |
"We are pleased with their decision not to use the politically natured global warming video as a classroom instruction tool and that they have set a standard that information-based texts must be factually correct to be put in front of our children," they wrote. | 0_0 |
She insisted on the word "World" in the organisation's name, saying it was an important nuance compared with "international," meaning an exclusive focus on nations. | 0_0 |
Great. But I think it would be worth checking for Dr Horton's views on climate change wouldn't you? Just in case? | 0_0 |
To study tree rings, researchers generally take a pencil-sized core from a tree. The oldest rings are those closest to the center of the tree. However, ancient giant sequoias can have trunks that are 30 feet in diameter far too big to be sampled using even the longest coring tools, which are only three feet long. | 0_0 |
Clean Power Now VP Charles Kleekamp argued in favor of the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind project on economic grounds in guest editorials in the March 6 Cape Cod Times and March 15 Cape Cod Today . In letters-to-the-editor to the same papers (not published), Glenn Schleede challenges Kleekamps analysis and describes ... | 4_4 |
This is not a new problem. The unilateral redrafting of IPCC reports by "lead authors" after reviewers had agreed them, and the writing of a sexed-up "summary for policy makers" before the report was complete, have discomfited many scientists since the first report. It is no great surprise that the "experts" who compil... | 5_2 |
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms and may s... | 0_0 |
Paying homage to their connection to the frozen sea, villagers eat the delicacy to celebrate the moment when the Arctics ice touches shore. | 0_0 |
"Obama's doing a quickie presser at 4:40 p.m. to talk about the debt ceiling and the evils of corporate jets, etc, but apart from that, it'll be wall-to-wall Caseymania on cable news for the rest of the day. There's no avoiding it so we might as well catch the news wave and surf. How many of you followed the trial? I o... | 0_0 |
Figure 3 also shows a rapid warming from 1935 to 1938, as well as the recent warming from 2004 to 2007, just like the DMI measurements. The same phenomenon is likely the cause of the temperature rises then and now. This reference was found here: | 2_1 |
After one year of treatment exposure, there were no significant effects of the extra 200 ppm of CO 2 or ozone on apparent tree volume. After two and three years, however, elevated CO 2 increased apparent tree volume by 22 and 28%, respectively, while elevated ozone reduced it by 26% in each of those years. Although ele... | 3_3 |
Russia, Japan, Canada Say Nyet to Kyoto Follow Up | 0_0 |
be associated either with nitrogen or increasing CO2 or both. Contrast this | 0_0 |
Longtime MasterResource readers know of Chip Knappenberger??s post on the negligible climatic effects of unilateral adherence to Waxman-Markey. Across the board, the response from supporters of Waxman-Markey was not to deny Knappenberger??s calculations, but rather to insist that the U.S. had to show leadership. The (p... | 4_2 |
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of... | 1_1 |
It's conventional to define the trend by the slope of the trend line, a best-fit straight line through a segment of the data. There's no reason to expect that the Earth is actually warming at a perfectly steady rate, but the slope of the trend line is a convenient measure of the average rate of warming. | 0_0 |
CFACT Advisor Dr. Hans Penner Challenges Bad Boll Evangelical Academy's "Mistakes in Logic" | 0_0 |
So this is not science as we know it. Science has to re-invent itself as a political tool, just as it was under Hitler and Stalin. Scientists must learn ?as quickly as possible? what will please the political elite, and serve it up. As one Richard Fernandez has written: | 0_0 |
Whats so good about it? Well, for once everybody should join in the celebration of a climate model that is presented for what it is (a policymaking tool for negotiators to assess their national greenhouse-gas commitments ahead of Decembers climate summit in Copenhagen ) rather than for what it is not (a scientific tool... | 5_1 |
Melting ice has provided us with frozen mammoths and even frozen people, like the famous Oetzi from the Alps, as if they were kept in a fridge. No wonder that melting glaciers in Western Canada, which recently reached a historic minimum, have unveiled 7,000-year-old tree stumps. | 0_0 |
gluon + bottom bottom + Higgs would be both unexpected and highly consequential. In Five faces of the God particle , I explained why the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) requires two Higgs doublets that produce five physical states. Both Higgs doublets participate in the electroweak symmetry breaking and bo... | 0_0 |
The new warm anomaly in the western equatorial Pacific is highlighted in Figure 3. It has strengthened in the past few weeks. If the anomaly works its way eastward with the Equatorial Undercurrent in the Pacific (the Cromwell current), as it should, then the anomaly will increase as it works its way to the east, becaus... | 0_0 |
I'm not sure whether this is a particularly productive discussion as regards the climate debate. If a computer simulation is to be policy-relevant its output must be capable of being an approximation to the real world, and must be validated to show that this is the case. If climate modellers want to make the case that ... | 5_1 |
But three years later Pachauri was mired in controversy when errors were found in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. | 5_2 |
1. The Price Tag For Uprooting Americas Electric Grid | 0_0 |
Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University climate Svengali, a member of the CRU (he figured prominently in the e-mail scandals at East Anglia), and great Pittsburgh Penguins fan (he created the famed "hockey stick graph" that was so influential on the 2007 IPCC Climate Change report) has stepped in it again, this tim... | 0_0 |
This figure shows that, per the IPCC, in the absence of climate change, GDP per capita would grow between 11- and 67-fold for developing countries, and between 3- and 8-fold for industrialized countries. | 5_2 |
Although there is a consistent movement in the region toward earlier tornado activity, it is difficult to pinpoint a cause, said Paul Stoy, assistant professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at MSU and co-author of the new study. Records of tornado activity in the U.S. only date back to ... | 1_7 |
People will see their choices limited to the few options presented them. The terms "property rights" and "individual liberty" were nowhere to be heard at Habitat III. Instead, participants were told that "decarbonization" is imperative if the planet is to be saved. And if that means packing people into compact housing ... | 4_1 |
IPCC Third Report (2001), Summary for Policy Makers, p.32. Sea levels will rise by 88cm by the year 2100 (99 years-times). This is 8.9mm per year. Error to date is 523% | 0_0 |
But, as we already know , Katharine is not really a proper climate scientist. | 5_2 |
Accountability can be hard, global warming muppet Jim Hansen??s predictions from 20 years ago are not even close to observations in today??s climate. Why are we listening to Doctor ???death trains??, exactly? | 5_2 |
Last year, 130 skeptical German scientists co-signed an Open Letter of protest to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, asserting, among other things, that a "growing body of evidence shows anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role" in Earth's climate. | 2_3 |
Command-and-control is the most common form of environmental policy, but it has a lot of problems. Principally, central planners can never get enough information to figure out the least-cost way to achieve a target. In the case of CO2 there are so many millions of emission points, and the costs of abatement at each poi... | 0_0 |
"For the latest example of governmental bait-and-switch, look no further than your ashtray. Attorneys general from 46 states sold the public on the 1998 "Master Settlement Agreement" as a way to collect "damages" from the major tobacco companies and spend these sums to rescue teenagers from nicotine addiction." | 0_0 |
Mr. Markey and his big-D colleagues excoriated the guilty parties they had summoned to their Star Chamber. They then refused to allow testimony by the Republicans' proposed witness. Competitive Enterprise Institute lawyer Chris Horner had intended to discuss a recent hoax by environmentalists, who had impersonated U.S.... | 0_0 |
Experiments with Zebra Fish show that if their embryos develop in warmer water, they not only are able to swim faster but they cope better in both warmer and colder water. (How catastrophic can that be, I ask you?) | 3_2 |
Democratic nominees, not just for president but for statewide office, are required not just to tolerate but to celebrate abortion. They must be willing if not eager to raise tax rates. They must back racial quotas and preferences. They must mutter the catechism that global warming is the greatest threat facing mankind. | 0_0 |
The City will grams Friday in what is called omstllning and which in practice means that gteborgaren be forced to change their lifestyle completely and the hole. Gteborgaren the vision should like to bike or walk, and like kvartersvxthus but not to increase the car to the cottage. | 0_0 |
While JAXA shows extent now lower than 2009, DMI and NANSEN plots show it to be about even. The differences in observing sensor/platform AMSRE -vs-SSMI and methodologies at agencies are in play. | 0_0 |
So as is the case with many of the current alleged global environmental "crises," the predictions about species loss are not based on any real-world observations but rather, guesses and speculations that depend on questionable mathematical models. | 0_0 |
Second, is that fossil fuels are likely to come down in price than go up. In particular in Britain the shale gas revolution will guarantee supplies for a generation and are more likely to see gas prices fall in real terms, than rise. | 4_5 |
Courtesy of the Natural Resources Defense Council and just one day after the National Research Council announces EPA needs more regulatory authority. | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, GHG control seems to have many of the features that complicate efforts to restrict open access to resources, and these features raise real doubts about when an effective agreement might be expected. | 0_0 |
So the most important questions in the first poll make no sense. They are also leading questions since they imply that the pollster believes that we in a warming phase. This then activates the problem of Expectancy Bias. | 0_0 |
The simple fact is that heat waves are nothing new. In 1936 a North American heat wave was the most severe in the modern history of the continent. It occurred in the middle of the Great Depression, killing more than 5,000 Americans and desiccating vast amounts of crops. To put it in perspective, there were no home air ... | 1_7 |
Todays average vehicle sold in North America gets worse gas mileage than a Model T. | 0_0 |
Chutzpah: Treasury Secretary blames GOP for Keystone XL delay | 0_0 |
It would be like asking a person to choose: either eat or love God. I am afraid most would choose the former. | 0_0 |
Today, the goals of electric utility regulation bear little resemblance to the traditional aim of preventingmonopoly abuse. Public utility regulation is now thevehicle for a host of special interest social experiments at the expense of the diffuse interests of the consumers who will have to pay for any failures in thes... | 4_1 |
"House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called for an ethics investigation following Anthony Weiner's admission Monday that he tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a woman and engaged in "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married." | 0_0 |
The rejection of the present paper required some extraordinary violations of accepted practice. We feel that making such procedures public will help clarify the peculiar road blocks that have been created in order to prevent adequate discussion of fundamental issues. It is hoped, moreover, that the material presented h... | 0_0 |
Adding the the recent spate of papers showing that - surprise - the Sun has much, much more to do with climate change than previously thought, the respected German Physics Journal Annalyn der Physik recently published a paper analyzing solar irradiance data from 1905 to 2008 which finds cosmic rays modulated by solar a... | 2_1 |
Talk Show Host Wants Florida To Drown | 0_0 |
Another Govt Climate Change Propaganda Unit | 0_0 |
The Northern Hemisphere, North Atlantic, North Pacific and East Pacific SST Anomalies are all dropping. It will not be long before the Atlantic Coast and the Arctic regions will show similar cooling as the AMO goes cool or negative. North America is more likely see much cold weather during the next 20-30 years rather t... | 1_2 |
Hope the cows will like it. Personally, I a fan, especially when I'm eating cows, but I don't want it in my milk. | 0_0 |
Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear free no one has to incur costs to create them. But turning a free resource into usable electricity costs money for collecting, generating and distributing that energy. To consumers and tax payers, the real cost of wind power is very ... | 4_4 |
The geologic record does not support dangerous CO 2 -driven planetary warming either. CO 2 has played no role in the dramatic climate change of the ice ages, or at any other time over the past 500 million years, said University of Ottawa Earth Sciences Professor Ian D. Clark. Only in unverified computer models cited by... | 2_3 |
Some East African people in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, the Republic of Congo, and other countries around South Sudan received new opportunities and skills. They were able to feed their families, send their children to school, pay medical bills, and cover other expenses. | 0_0 |
However, he has an interesting inlgg on his blog about something else, nmligen whether the IPCC's forecasts still str itself. He notes that virtually's IPCC has said the same thing angende klimatknsligheten since the first report (FAR) in 1990. It should be between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees at a CO2 doubling. Oskerheten has ... | 0_0 |
are the big questions that transcend the 100 days issue, questions for more | 0_0 |
11. Union of Concerned Scientists, "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" (1992), available at http://www.ucsusa.org/ucs/about/page.cfm?pageID=1009. | 0_0 |
The Air Offices permitting guidance for greenhouse gases, both as proposed in November 2010 and as adopted in March 2011 ,similarly states that the initial list of control options for a BACT analysis does not need to include clean fuel options that would fundamentally redefine the source. In other words, coal power pla... | 0_0 |
16j. The ability of global climate models to model extreme events for the next 50 years | 0_0 |
For the Full Report in PDF Form, please click here. | 0_0 |
More Nations May Pledge Carbon Limits at U.N. Climate Talks | 0_0 |
The actual texts and implications of these seven recommendations are complex, and not all the consequences can be anticipated. The authors have studied the issue sufficiently closely, however, to conclude the reforms address the biggest concerns about NSR expressed during EPA's hearings, and appear to correct policies ... | 0_0 |
So let us examine "progress" against two other standards: (1) pollution reductions to date; and (2) the validity of claims used to justify ever more burdensome and expensive environmental regulations. | 0_0 |
Throughout the wine-producing world, from France to South Africa to California, vintners are in the vanguard of confronting the impact of climate change. Rising temperatures are forcing unprecedented early harvests, changing the tastes of the best-known varieties of wine and threatening the survival of centuries-old wi... | 0_0 |
The study also says that an overestimate of the power of CO2 as a greenhouse gas could be why the models over-predict, but that they do not know why the models are wrong at this point. | 5_1 |
The researchers goal is to understand what drives the Earths climate system without taking increases in greenhouse gases into account, says Mayewski. There are good reasons to be concerned about greenhouse gases, but we should be looking at the climate system with our eyes open, he adds. Understanding how the system op... | 0_0 |
KTLAs camera at Snow Summit, a resort in Californias San Bernardino Mountains, caught the snow storm moving in just before 3 p.m. | 0_0 |
There were at least three major droughts in nineteenth century North America: one from the mid-1850s to the mid-1860s, one in the 1870s, and one in the 1890s. There was also a drought around 1820; the periods from 1816 to 1844 and from 1849 to 1880 were rather dry, and the 19th century overall was a dry century for the... | 1_7 |
A new paper published in Biogeosciences finds groundwater and porewater are "major sources" of alkalinity to reefs which are not taken into account by computer models of ocean 'acidification'. The authors " suggest that porewater and groundwater fluxes of TA should be taken into account in ocean acidification models in... | 5_1 |
Interesting to see the effect of a GOP president who makes climate change an important issue, although approaching it from a more market-oriented, pro-innovation perspective. | 0_0 |
When I was in medical school, computers were fairly new. They used punchcards and took up all the space in large rooms. Even then people that were enamored with new technology predicted that someday the computer would replace the doctor. Patients would sit down at a keyboard, type in their symptoms, and the computer wo... | 0_0 |
South-western Western Australia has an 80 per cent chance of exceeding average temperatures over the next three months. | 0_0 |
/s/ Dr. Humbolt C. Mandell JSC, Mgr. Shuttle Program Control and Advance Programs, 40 years | 0_0 |
This low climate sensitivity along with ocean cycles like the AMO, ENSO, and PDO may be the reason for no warming since 1998. See Bob Tisdales post in WUWT here for reinforcement of that idea. | 1_4 |
After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). Read more here . | 1_1 |
PHILIP: Who wants to stay? Its clear brawn is no substitute for brains. | 0_0 |
Averaged across the entire experiment, elevated CO 2 significantly increased rates of net photosynthesis in both mangrove species, but only when grown at the lower salinity level. Interestingly, the percentage CO 2 -induced increase in photosynthesis was greater for R. stylosa , than it was for R. apiculata , which gen... | 3_3 |
As youdexpect, petitioners in Mass v. EPA still deny that the public has anything to worry about. CAA provisions are not self-executing, they note. EPA must either initiate action under those provisions, or be compelled to do so by litigation. And according to them,nobodynot industry, not EPA, not the environmental com... | 0_0 |
"Sen. Cruz promised to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty, while Sen. Rubio promised to submit it to the Senate, with the understanding the Senate will defeat ratification," said Ebell. | 0_0 |
.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page :. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, will be honored tonight by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation with their prestigious "Washington Aw... | 0_0 |
New guess: Sea level rise of 1 meter within 100 years New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level which is three times higher than predictions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. | 0_0 |
On December 12, 2011 documents purporting to be the ?Zero Order Draft? of the WG1 (Working Group 1) committee was published on the Internet. Less than 48 hours later the site went dead. Fortunately, most of the files were recoverable. | 0_0 |
Traditional conservatism is a woefully inadequate response to the rule of the progressive aristocracy because conserving the changes of the past few decades would be disastrous: the vast increase in the welfare state, the Sexual Revolution and its antinomian devaluation of all values, the nation's catastrophically bad ... | 0_0 |
Another interesting aspect of these videos is that they show how so many of the "climate skeptics" come to the same conclusions, and how different they are from the way the mainstream media portrays them. | 0_0 |
A new study shows that flying squirrels have been adapting to recent warming since the 1990s by both moving and hybridizing. C.J. Garroway and his research team trapped more than 1600 of the flying squirrels in Ontario and Pennsylvania between 2002 and 2004. The flying squirrels' DNA shows the southern G. volans flying... | 3_2 |
Prior to assuming the Florida State presidency, he served as director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. From 2006 to 2008, he was dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. At Pennsylvania State University, he was professor of geosciences, director of... | 0_0 |
Muscle: SEIU's million-dollar ad push for more taxes: | 0_0 |
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