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Junk Science: Climate Activists' Credibility Gap | 5_2 |
As I mentioned earlier, I was a student at ASU in 1974 the year they had eighteen days in a row over 110 degrees . | 0_0 |
Aus: Farmers shocked at minister's slur | 0_0 |
At a May 6 hearing, Senator John McCain (R-Az.) vowed to seek a second vote before the end of this Congress on his bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions. McCain is the chief co-sponsor along with Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) of the Climate Stewardship Act, S. 139, which would create the infrastructure necessary to... | 0_0 |
Perhaps Idsos final conclusion should make all those who fear that global warming and increased CO2 is adding to the demise of the planet that everything is going to be OK: he claimed it is far more likely that CO2 proliferation will increase regional biodiversity and will contribute to the expansion and proliferation ... | 3_3 |
But skiers can enjoy the snowfall. In the Carpathians, snow does not stop almost daily. The slopes of the tourist complex Bukovel are covered by 10 -cm layer of snow. If this continues, management is optimistic and hopes this years ski season will start in the middle of November. | 1_3 |
as individual rivalry. Says Dr. Maestripieri: "I am a Monkey-Man, | 0_0 |
But anyone who looks at the data (shown in Figure 1) will see that no matter which caused the other, the changes in temperature from ice-age cold to interglacial warmth are about 10C while the change in CO 2 is about 100ppm. Since the late 1800s, the temperature has warmed a bit less than 1C , while the CO 2 concentrat... | 2_3 |
U.S. Climate Data Reveals Past Global Warming Far Exceeds Modern Temperature Change | 2_1 |
They balked at reducing carbon dioxide by using such methods as reforestation ("carbon sinks") and trading of emission credits between nations. Those methods would have made meeting the targets more affordable for countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan, but would have little effect on Europe, ... | 0_0 |
I have been following the proposed collision theory for the onset of the Younger Dryas for a number of years with considerable interest as it explains so much in a relatively straightforward fashion, if true. The academic response to the hypothesis has been, predictably, harsh and unforgiving with accusations flying ba... | 0_0 |
Tropical rainforests are found within the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, in a belt that girdles the earth. Location is between 23 1/2 degrees north and 23 1/2 south of the equator. They grow through the heart of South America, Africa, Northern Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, to name a few. (Lesso... | 0_0 |
Still, if you have 12,500 to spare for the long term, the scheme looks attractive. The industry regulator Ofgem warned last week that bills could rise by 25% over the next ten years and having your own power source could help protect you from these rises. (I think a diesel generator may be a better option). | 0_0 |
A new poll among 3,146 earth scientists found that 90 percent believe global warming is real, while 82 percent agree that human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures. | 0_0 |
Tuesday the U.S. Government's Global Change Research Program released its latest "National Assessment" report on climate change impacts in the United States. | 0_0 |
"A second person denied transplant coverage by Arizona under a state budget cut has died, with this death "most likely" resulting from the coverage reduction, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday."Economics: | 0_0 |
The main reason, though, is that to acknowledge cooling over the past decade is to admit that the AGW hypothesis is wrong. Why? Jones provides a clue when he says that while the planet isn't warming and is actually cooling, it hasn't warmed or cooled for enough years to be "statistically significant." | 0_0 |
Since the mid-2000s, about 9,000 megawatts of proposed wind projects were delayed or derailed because of radar issues, according to AWEA, the industry's trade group. Defense officials say they are trying to work out issues with companies and even posted an online map so companies can see if their proposals are close to... | 0_0 |
At one time, citizens could count on their officials and candidates to either tell the truth or say nothing. Not any more. Clinton has a long record of neglecting truth. Trump seems not to care about the veracity of his statements. And the media is so much on one side that it mainly looks at the Trump gaffes and does i... | 0_0 |
Saying that humans cause climate change is like saying alcohol causes babies. Sure, you might get some more, but it rather misses the point. | 0_0 |
Not only have these disasters not occurred but the world has more food per capita, less disease and larger and cheaper energy reserves every decade. | 0_0 |
Let us be clear about what that would mean. The electric power supply will be interrupted when it cannot meet demand. Lights will go out Offices wlll cease to function. People wlll freeze or swelter. Elderly people will die. If sustained, this situation will severely damage the economy. Jobs will be lost. Health will s... | 0_0 |
The problem with NCARs interpretation on the ozone fluctuations were that some, like Hanson, took an immediate ideological tone to explain the ozone shifts not once mentioning the Sun or the Interplanetary Magnetic Field effect on Earths ozone layers. For some reason, there was a resistance to even mentioning the Suns ... | 0_0 |
A well-rooted scientific consensus, like a mature oak, usually needs time to emerge. Scientists around the world have to do research, publish articles, read about other research, repeat experiments (where possible), have open debates, make their data and methods available, evaluate arguments, look at the trends, and so... | 0_0 |
Tomorrow is the exhaustively-named House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming's hearing on high gas prices. According to Chairman Ed Markey, it would seem that the problem with high gas prices is the percentage of oil and gas that U.S. suppliers import from abroad. In the world of gas price demago... | 0_0 |
Automakers who manufacture the small cars said the tests simulated a high-speed crash that rarely happens on the road. They also said the tests rehashed past insurance industry arguments against tougher fuel efficiency requirements. The institute has raised questions about whether stricter gas mileage rules, which are ... | 0_0 |
CEI Response: Davis found a net ice balance increase of 1.4cm/yr over his entire region of coverage (ROC). The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is gaining at a rate of 1.8cm/yr (over the period 1992-2003) and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is thinning at a rate of 0.9 cm/yr. He writes: "For the ROC, the 5:1 ratio in East versus ... | 1_1 |
News release, "U.S. Chemical Investment Linked to Shale Gas Reaches $100 Billion," American Chemistry Council, February 20, 2014, https://www.americanchemistry.com/Media/PressReleasesTranscripts/ACC-news-releases/US-Chemical-Investment-Linked-to-Shale-Gas-Reaches-100-Billion.html (accessed July 7, 2016). | 0_0 |
Then an even higher temperature was recorded in Kent, making today the hottest day since records began about 130 years ago in 1875. | 0_0 |
In addition, on PNAS Authors must acknowledge all funding sources supporting the work . There appears to be no such disclosure in this study. | 0_0 |
"Most BLM projects are being held up as a result of this," said John Anderson, director of siting policy at the American Wind Energy Association. "It's definitely a mixed message and an example of one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing." | 0_0 |
Showing that academics can cost the country more than they return, ANUs Geoff Cary posits that there is an 80% consensus (an unmeasured, meaningless statistic) that there will be more fires in Australia 60 years from now. | 0_0 |
Ezra Levant; Calgarys Muslim mayor, Naheed Nenshi, has been held up as a symbol of the citys tolerance. Which is ironic, given his own anti-Christian bigotry in return. Last week, Nenshi ordered city police, backed up with a ridiculously large contingent of private security, to arrest a Christian pastor and five of his... | 0_0 |
LaFramboise further found that one third of the literature reviewed and cited by the IPCC in its 2007 report wascontrary to IPCC chief publicist Ragendra Pachauris pronouncementsnot even peer-reviewed, and in many cases included citations of promotional literature devised and distributed by environmental activist organ... | 5_2 |
However, a belligerent Pachauri has told the Times of India he has "shed any inhibitions or feelings of cowardice. I believe this is now my opportunity to go out and do what I think is right. In the second term I may be a little more uncomfortable for people than I was in the first." | 0_0 |
Megadroughts lasting a century or two are known to have occurred in what is now California over the last 3,500 years. Droughts of similar severity have also been implicated in the downfall of the empire of the Maya in Central America a millennium ago; the Akkadian empire (the worlds first) in Mesopotamia 4,200 years ag... | 1_7 |
The Climate Change Doctrine is Part of Environmentalism, Not of Science | 0_0 |
"This settlement shows that EPA is committed to upholding standards to protect public health, enforce the law and protect clean air," said Administrator Gina McCarthy. But it's just a "partial settlement," a "first step" in holding VW accountable for breaching "the public's trust," added DOJ Deputy AG Sally Yates. | 0_0 |
Recognizing the brazen nature of their mandate, the Dutch judges take pains to explain why they believe they are not violating the separation of powers as it exists under Dutch law. "The task of providing legal protection from government authorities, such as the State, preeminently belongs to the domain of a judge." "W... | 0_0 |
Gwen Ingram, an artist and yoga instructor, is one of many Oklahomans who have protested Keystone XL in recent weeks. The proposed project has become a poster child in the climate change debate, and Ingram said she does see a potential connection between climate change and the latest string of tornadoes to rip through ... | 0_0 |
The title makes you instantly skeptical because sea ice isnt at its lowest even in the last two years. Of course we then have to wonder how they determined sea ice levels back 800 years. | 1_1 |
Had these scientists found an increase in the total number of tropical cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere, they would need to hire press agents to handle the global coverage. Their work would be front page news all over the world, Time and Newsweek would be all over the story, and thousands of web pages would trumpet ... | 1_7 |
Health-care costs are soaring. Since 2000, insurance premiums have more than doubled " hitting working Americans right in the pocketbook. Median family income has dropped by a thousand dollars a year every year since the beginning of the decade. As David Frum notes in his book, Comeback, employing a typical, median wor... | 0_0 |
Greg Mankiw points to this Larry Summers comment on the Charlie Rose Show: | 0_0 |
on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 6:36 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
on Sunday, December 13th, 2009 at 4:28 pm and is filed under News. | 0_0 |
United States, as a global power, has developed for its dealings with the rest | 0_0 |
Before the abysmal British summers of 2007 and 2008, a series of hot summers lead to the inevitable speculation that the UK would, in the near future, have a summer climate like that of the Mediterranean. If only! This in turn fuelled speculation that the water supply shortages that the country experienced would also b... | 0_0 |
How delusional is the OIC today? So delusional that, at its May 2007 summit, the 56 foreign ministers agreed that the "greatest form of terrorism" in the world today is Islamophobia! The same OIC is the main force behind the election of Iran as vice-chairman of the Disarmament Commission, the presence of representative... | 0_0 |
Utility MACT: Electricity Prices will "Necessarily Skyrocket"; Jobs will be lost | 4_1 |
The trends in the neutron count over the lastfew solar cycles strengthens the forecast of coming cooling made from projectingthe PDO and Millennial cycle temperature trends.The decline in solar activity from 1990 (Cycle 22) to the present (Cycle 24) is obvious. | 1_2 |
But equally importantly, the comments they are making about things like quantum information are just totally wrong. | 0_0 |
Inhofe Opening Statement Regarding Gore Testimony | 0_0 |
In order to obtain a TCR estimate that is as independent of global climate models as possible, one should scale the aerosol component of the AR5 total forcing estimates to match the AR5 recent satellite-observation-derived mean of 0.78 W/m 2 . Putting this all together gives F = 2.03 W/m 2 and T = 0.71, which, since AR... | 0_0 |
Kavanaugh cites several provisions that clearly link PSD permitting to NAAQS pollutants: | 0_0 |
This article, by ABCs environment editor, Sara Phillips (pictured), encapsulates all that is wrong with the national broadcasters treatment of the climate debate. Written, as always, from a position of belief, and institutionally critical of any dissent, Phillips attempts to show that scepticism is crumbling in the fac... | 5_2 |
What Abraham has done, here as elsewhere, is to wrench my data deliberately out of the context in which I actually (and accurately) presented then, and then to lie about it. | 0_0 |
". . . if the tenets of this theory are valid there can be no outcome other than a doubling of surface energy (a doubling at minimum, that is, since there's no reason to suppose that radiation from the now-warmer surface would not continue to be back-radiated, absorbed, and amplified in a "runaway' heating cascade). | 0_0 |
This picture was taken soon after it was completed. It was lovely and green on the day that we visited, with people walking all over ... | 0_0 |
Microbial mass increases. Another team of Japanese scientists examined how the beneficial soil microbial biomass beneath the rice plants was impacted by elevated CO2. Li et al. reported Elevated significantly increased microbial biomass carbon in the surface 5 cm soil when N (90 kg ha-1) was in sufficient supply. | 3_3 |
In its Report to the President, EPA did not specifically acknowledge that its policies on de-bottlenecking and aggregation have harmful effects on efficiency, utilization, or emissions. However, EPA's 2002 recommendations for reform include action on these matters. | 0_0 |
If we could pick the month when global warming officially started, it would be March of 1985. The previous month, February of 1985, was the last time the temperature of the Earth was below the average for the 20th century. Over twenty-seven years ago. Every month since then 329 months in a row has been above the 20th c... | 1_4 |
Now, here is why we spent so much time with experience mod. This base premium is then multiplied by your experience mod to get your actual premium. So, if you have an experience mod of 1.3, your premium in this example would be 1.3 times $6,000 or $7,800. (By the way, beyond just the audits, this is why trying to hide ... | 0_0 |
Glaciologist, Lonnie Thompson, also produced this temperature graph, using ice cores on the Quelccaya, which clearly show higher temperatures back in the MWP. | 2_1 |
The two Australian researchers report that after a 4-week incubation period under various experimental conditions, negative effects on juvenile development and growth were only observed at a pH of 7.2 (a decrease of one full unit), which was brought about by pCO 2 values in the range of 4430-4600 atm. | 3_2 |
And it even warns that incautious attempts to mitigate climate change may themselves be the causes of conflict: | 0_0 |
The figure above also highlights the strong divergences between the IPCC model and the temperature, which are explicitly studied in my papers proving that the IPCC model are not able to reconstruct any of the natural oscillations observed at multiple scales. For example, look at the 60-year cycle I extensively discuss ... | 5_1 |
The unprecedented boom in natural gas supplies over the last few years as been one of the few tail-winds for the US economy over the last few years, as plummeting natural gas prices have lowered costs for both industry and consumers. | 4_5 |
The results of this study are very encouraging. For the standard 300-ppm increase in atmospheric CO 2 concentration we use to express the effects of elevated CO 2 on plant photosynthesis , they indicate that this important plant process is stimulated by close to 42% in ambient air and 34% in ozone-polluted air for typi... | 3_3 |
Monbiot and Lynass one sop to science is to link to the official sea level rise data for the Maldives. At one site the sea level is rising by 3mm a year, as the IPCC says; at the other, the rise is zero, as Mrner says. | 1_6 |
We have been told by NASA ???that carbon dioxide itself is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG)?? and by NOAA??s UCAR that ???the current spike in carbon dioxide is sure to result in a rapid increase in global temperature??. Anthroprogenic CO2 emissions have increased by over 60% since 1990; | 2_3 |
The scientists will start monitoring temperatures for some unstated reason. During the first 25 years, the scientists continue to support all 10 thermometers, fixing broken ones running QA checks etc. But after a while, someone cuts their budget. Inspecting the data, the scientists decide they don??t need to record the... | 5_1 |
When asked directly by ABC News in October if taxpayers should worry about the more than $500 million in federal funds on the line, Henrik Fisker was emphatic: "No, I don't think they need to worry about it." When asked if Fisker might be the next Solyndra, he said, "Absolutely not." | 0_0 |
Today's Wall Street Journal features several letters to the editor (subscription required) on the paper's editorial on the Rockefeller-Snowe letter to ExxonMobil. Naturally, it is to be expected that at least somebody would write taking exception to the editorial, but the letter by Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch h... | 0_0 |
10) But Aren?t Natural CO2 Emissions About 20 Times the Human Emissions? Yes, but nature is believed to absorb CO2 at about the same rate it is produced. You can think of the reservoir of atmospheric CO2 as being like a giant container of water, with nature pumping in a steady stream into the bottom of the container (a... | 0_0 |
And it's not even consistent with itself. According to Willis Eschenbach: | 0_0 |
The new study undertook a more accurate estimate by continuously monitoring the emission of carbon dioxide from a reservoir in Mississippi. The researchers discovered nighttime carbon dioxide emissions were 70 percent greater than during the day, and extratropical cyclones increase emissions by as much 16 percent. As a... | 0_0 |
S hopefully we can look forward to an exciting internal struggle between different kommissionrer within the EU. It becomes frnuftet to win, or will it f dangling from the gallows? | 0_0 |
With up to 50 inches of snow dumped across the northeast of the United States, this monster blizzard was aptly dubbed The Great White Hurricane. Major metropolitan areas like New York faced severe winds of up to 45 miles an hour, drifts of more than 50 feet and floods caused when the snow melted. With fire departments ... | 0_0 |
"The Obama administration is instituting a variety of far-reaching policies to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. Are any of these capable of making a difference?" asked Mr. Lazear. "Simple arithmetic suggests not." Up to this point I was very pleased with his conclusion, but then he wrote "Given this... | 4_2 |
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.027 (F2.74; T1.28; A2.05; B3.07; Q3.07) | 0_0 |
Again, the timing of Chesapeake's donations is suspicious. The company started giving to the American Lung Association at about the time the Sierra Club discontinued its relationship with Chesapeake. The timeline speaks volumes: | 0_0 |
A paper published today in Global and Planetary Change reconstructs temperatures in Northern Fennoscandia over the past 1,600 years and finds more non-hockey-sticks clearly demonstrating that the Arctic was warmer than the present during the Medieval Warm Period. The paper adds to over 1,000 peer-reviewed published non... | 2_1 |
I would love to implement the Australian model in America, but I recognize that mandatory voting actually, mandatory anything is a hard sell in this country. So here is another idea: a series of Mega Millions-like lotteries for primary and general elections, with awards that can range up to the hundreds of millions for... | 0_0 |
The Norwegian, Captain WiktorArnesen, who has just returned fromthe Arctic, clains to have discoveredan island 12 miles in circumferencenear the Franz Joseph Island, in latitude 80.40. He says that the islandpreviously was hidden by an iceberg between 70 and 80 feet high, which hasmelted, showing the exceptional nature... | 0_0 |
This is why the ERO has recommended a series of reforms. Foremost among these is the removal of regulatory barriers to the building of new infrastructure. Power plants and transmission lines need to be built urgently; measures that facilitate green obstructionism must be repealed. Without this new capacity, the power s... | 0_0 |
A few years later, when Simpson had expanded his argument and identified David Beckham as the poster boy of the phenomenon, "mextrosexual" entered the cannon of the chattering classes' vocabulary, and the Aughts found us familiarly, unblinkingly rubbing shoulders with the specimen. | 0_0 |
Within the military, the concept of "strategy" has not fared much better. The post-Cold War era has witnessed a surreal debate between the disciples of Clausewitz, who invariably confuse strategy with the operational level of war, and the supporters of the supposed Revolution in Military Affairs reducing war to "target... | 0_0 |
The higher temperatures reported at the 3 vacancies with intermediate talus areas may have been the result of a more barren dry landscape typical of the eastside of the Sierra Nevada. If so, lack of food, not higher temperatures may be the critical factor. Stewart never asks if the vacancies are due to higher temperatu... | 0_0 |
Yet Gore has received a Nobel Prize for a book (and film) that even sympathizers can see is filled with factual errors. Gore's book and film are so tendentious and inaccurate that they do little to advance his position. | 5_2 |
IOC President opens historic meeting on irregular and illegal sport betting: | 0_0 |
The crisis? Theres a fast shifting moral landscape that threatens to leave our industry adrift, shunned by the customers we serve. Good luck on the shun, given that most people have monopoly utilities, and the IPP industry where NRG operates is unknown to most of the public. | 0_0 |
A Canadian soldier, killed recently in Afghanistan, is praised for saving the lives of his mates, while Hillier moves to rectify an inequity that involves wounded soldiers and their danger pay. A new Canadian poll (for what its worth), suggests that support for the Afghan mission is up. In Afghanistan itself, a clutch ... | 0_0 |
CMIP5 Models Misinterpreting the North Atlantic Oscillation (12 January 2015) | 0_0 |
Dwight Fielder, who heads BLM's Division of Fish, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said federal officials are discussing issuing conditional permits to companies working on eagle protection plans, but it's not clear if this would allow them to make the stimulus funding deadline. | 0_0 |
We frequently hear that climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of droughts in Africa. There is, of course, no evidence that current droughts are any worse than historical ones. | 1_7 |
One of the most cited and used historical surface temperature databases is that of NASA/Goddard's GISS. This is not some weird skeptics site. It is considered one of the premier world temperature data bases, and it is maintained by anthropogenic global warming true believers. It has consistently shown more warming than... | 5_1 |
The Kind and Lee amendment (#9) would not merely codify EPA??s Tailoring Rule, it would also codify the entire ever-growing ensemble of EPA greenhouse gas regulations of which the Tailoring Rule is apart. It would put Congress??s legislative seal of approval on EPA??s seizure of legislative power. Passing this amendmen... | 4_1 |
There has certainly been a jump in temperatures in the last 20 years or so, but all they have done is return to the level commonly seen between the mid 1920s and mid 1950s. Since 2007, the annual average temperature has been 60.73C, compared with 60.65C between 1934 and 1954. Meanwhile the warmest year on record is sti... | 0_0 |
Climate change is a manmade crisis, and so the need to implement sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is paramount. That summarizes the constant drumbeat of conventional wisdom, which raises an interesting question: If the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan a 17 percent reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas ... | 0_0 |
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