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America's carbon dioxide emissions last year fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report. | 0_0 |
Casino And Lottery Gambling On The Agenda of Hawaii Lawmakers: | 0_0 |
DAVID B. RIVKIN Jr. and ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY: "Plenty of Debates, Not Much About States" | 0_0 |
The fact that four of the seven recommendations were initially proposed during the Clinton administration suggests they have been extensively debated by stakeholders. While this does not mean these four recommendations would necessarily be cost-effective or optimal, they are unlikely to have as their intended effect a ... | 0_0 |
Steve McIntyre pointed out some time ago, here , that almost all the global climate models around which much of the IPCCs AR5 WGI report was centred had been warming faster than the real climate system over the last 35-odd years, in terms of the key metric of global mean surface temperature. The relevant figure from St... | 5_1 |
However, what I do have an unambiguous opinion about is the management of the co-existing brands at the VW Group level. First of all, it seems obvious to me that whatever seems to "work" in the VW Group should grow and be copied to other parts of the group; and what doesn't work too well should be suppressed or abolish... | 0_0 |
Research published in the July 25 issue Science suggests that the height of the tropopausethe boundary between the stratosphere and the troposphere, the atmosphere's lowest layer that extends to the Earth's surfacehas risen by almost 700 feet since 1979 because of the human impact on the atmosphere. The tropopause play... | 0_0 |
The title of Souweines piece is, The People-Power-Inflicted Downfall of Heartland. Hate to break it to you, Dan, but there is no downfall. While you and your leftist activist buddies have been exchanging high fives and taking a victory lap, Heartland has been keepin on keepin on and better than ever. | 0_0 |
By Rafael Mendez and Miguel Jimnez, El Pais, Jun 25, 2015 | 0_0 |
?These are what we call a cold snap? a series of three or four cold snaps in a row adds up to a cold winter. And that?s quite likely what we?ll see as solar activity declines.? | 0_0 |
Now, when I've talked about this before, I always get the same question, so I'll answer it pre-emptively. What about people who can't get away? This is a tough problem. Some have proposed the establishment of a climate-change damages trust fund, which would grow over time, and be there to pay for relocation of people, ... | 0_0 |
Theoretically this relationship has been known a long time. The parallelism between global temperature and solar activity over the past 1000 years appears to confirm it. | 2_1 |
The vast majority of public lands regulated by the BLM are in western states, where all current onshore wind farms approved or in planning stages will be located. Offshore wind farms, like those proposed off the New England coast, are regulated by a different federal agency. | 0_0 |
All the Great things are Simple, and Many can be Expressed in a Single Word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope . Winston Churchill . | 0_0 |
On Wednesday, Heather Zichal, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change, told a group of reporters that Obama, knowing that climate change is "a legacy issue," will soon issue new rules to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from electricity-generation plants. "After all that we've done, after all that histo... | 0_0 |
One passage from Sanger's book, quoting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gets to the heart of the Obama strategy of engaging Iran or any government with which the United States | 0_0 |
In order to hide the unexpectedly slow increase in temperature, he has alsostretchedout the Y-axis of his graph. If he drew the temperature graph at the same scale as his 1988 forecasts, no one would even be paying attention any more. The graph below doesnt look much like a hockey stick. | 5_2 |
Obtaining the lithium for these batteries involves mining and scarring the earth as much as mining coal, which for the foreseeable future will generate much of our electricity. And we likely will be as dependent on foreign, and sometimes unfriendly, sources of lithium as we are for oil. | 4_4 |
On his web site, Alan Carlin posted his remarks upon acceptance of the Climate Science Whistleblower Award. Carlin tried to fight from within the EPA that finding the greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), endangers human health and welfare (Endangerment Finding). He thought it was based on bad sc... | 5_2 |
"We're doing everything we can to move things forward," said Rankin, whose 104 megawatt wind farm proposal is planned for west of Bend in central Oregon. "Whether or not we'll qualify for stimulus grant money remains to be seen." | 0_0 |
Senior Fellow, Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute | 0_0 |
In Denver, some teams also talk about the searches for axions. They promise a final Yes/No verdict on axions within a few years. | 0_0 |
"The discovery of shale has really recreated the value proposition to build these facilities in what is the world's largest market," Andrew Liveris, Dow's chief executive, gushed about its Texas expansion plans. | 0_0 |
CEI: The recent tax bill contains an odd treatment of the death tax: phasing it out for one year a decade down the road. Why has eliminating (or even modifying) the estate tax been so difficult, and what are the prospects for speeding up its elimination? | 0_0 |
S. Edvardsson, K. G. Karlsson and M. Engholm | 0_0 |
In 2005, a similar blizzard struck central North Dakota. | 0_0 |
Right now, we have too many taxes and regulations, too much secrecy and fraud, too many extremists, and far too little accountability in EPA. There is too much eco-religious fervor, too little science and humanity. Poor and minority families are hurt most of all. Our governors, state and federal legislators, attorneys ... | 0_0 |
Considered somewhat of a black sheep within the scientific community Judith was a one time supporter of the IPCC until she started to find herself disagreeing with certain policies and methods of the organization. She feared the combination of groupthink and political advocacy, combined with an ingrained noble cause sy... | 5_2 |
The idea that three outstanding students PhD candidates at OSU could face dismissal, and worse, shortly before receiving their degrees, is simply shocking. That this could be happening because their father had the temerity to challenge an entrenched 12-term Democratic congressman (and OSU earmark purveyor) could make p... | 0_0 |
in magnitude? Of course not. And the last thing they really want you to do is look at the total picture of the 2 meter temperatures the last few years, after the leveling off of the previous 10. | 0_0 |
The Merkel government now stresses that fossil fuels will remain the foundation of German energy supply for many years to come. It has also announced it will produce a new national energy plan in 2013, with support from all institutions. In the meantime, the energy transformation is entering a chaotic phase. | 0_0 |
Lead to an aggregate loss of more than 1 million jobs by 2016 alone. | 0_0 |
Secondly, during the eight months of "investigation" (Abraham's word) that he carried out, at no single point did he ever contact me to ask me to clarify one of the numerous references which, he said over and over again, were not clear in my slides. | 0_0 |
Our work shows that even though only a small portion of the ocean contained toxic and metal-scavenging hydrogen sulfide, it was sufficiently large so that changes to the oceans chemistry and biology were likely profound, Owens said. What this says is that only portions of the ocean need to contain sulfide to greatly im... | 0_0 |
Instead of questioning the integrity and motivation of those who raise important questions about our understanding of the climate system, advocates should engage in an honest discussion of what actions are consistent with our state of knowledge and how best to resolve major uncertainties. That would make an important a... | 0_0 |
For Obama, closing down some of Guantanamo, signing an unenforceable climate agreement in Paris, flirting with the notion of a "no first use' nuclear doctrine, apologizing to Laos and exchanging ambassadors with the Castro brothers are what history is made of. | 0_0 |
I wish they??d exhibit the same investigative zeal when it comes to looking at Arctic sea ice record low extents , for all we know, the 2007 low extent might also be a victim of the same algorithm shift that occurred that year. | 5_1 |
On the other hand, the same temperature record could be used to argue that there is no justification for supporting the Kyoto Protocol since "without that jump, there is no warming in Japan." Balling concludes, "in discussing the climate shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol, one need look no farther than Japan to begin t... | 0_0 |
The swirl of praise around Rowling's comments is especially welcome given how widely it was reported and commented uponfrom the proudly left-wing pages of The Guardian in the UK to the enthusiastically conservative Daily Caller here in the U.S. But it is a reminder that we should also be vigilant in standing up against... | 0_0 |
We do know a few things about the 50 or 100 year future that are locked in. First, people will be the same and there will be more of them. There's no evidence that human or social evolution has changed or will change people's basic proclivities. Even in the very far future, people will still have two eyes, a nose, and ... | 0_0 |
A key part of the IPCC report is the presentation of evidence of parallel increases in both global temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is claimed by IPCC that the increased carbon dioxide emitted by Man is causing global warming. In my paper it is shown that the cause and effect relation is ... | 2_3 |
delta H = inflow outflow K | 0_0 |
Comment: Bingo! If the conclusion that the EPAwould not require fuel switchingis a reasonable interpretation of the BACT guidance, then Congress and electric utilities had no reason to expect the agencyto require fuel switching only one year later, much less do sovia a form of regulation NSPS that is generally less str... | 0_0 |
Here is a photo from the walk way along the top of the dam. I can not imagine a worse place for a USCHN weather station. It is located in a very narrow canyon, with long shadows. It is surrounded by stone building heat sinks except on the river side. Here on the river it is exposed to waters of varying temperatures, co... | 5_1 |
A high price today that is expected to collapse because of a faulty design (not to mention the lack of bipartisan support) will merely cause input costs of energy to rise but generate little investment in reducing emissions. A price that is low but expected to rise in future years in a robust system, with the interests... | 4_2 |
Flashback 2010: Watch Now! Climate Depot's Morano in MSNBC TV Debate Morano: "Now are trying to say global warming causes blizzards, that's the level of climate astrology it's like a daily horoscope nothing that happens falsifies the theory' "He (Weiss) need's Tarot cards, that is what he needs, he is peddling astrolog... | 0_0 |
his aides had been reading Gordon Goldstein's Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam about the difficulty of trying to finely tailor wartime decisions.) Meanwhile, | 0_0 |
Professional alarmist Tim Flannery whips up more fear by exploiting bushfires which he falsely claims were unusual and unprecedented: | 1_7 |
Scott is not alone, however. It's unfortunately common among reporters to reinvent a highly partisan history of climate policy in Congress. For example, in a late 2015 story for the New Yorker, Jonathan Chait wrote the following about what ultimately happened to the Senate version of a cap-and-trade in the 111th Congre... | 0_0 |
If Gore had really wanted a big event on the Mall, all he would have had to do was pick another weekend. The big bad Bush Administration and the mean old Republican-controlled Congress placed no obstacles in the way of antiwar rallies and Earth Day events held on the Mall in the past few years that bashed the President... | 0_0 |
There is evidence that the document is authentic based on a specific mention in the 2000 Hoover Institution report by S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz, "Climate PolicyFrom Rio to Kyoto: A Political Issue for 2000and Beyond." | 0_0 |
In Sub-Saharan Africa, some 615 million (100 million more than in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico combined) still lack this life-saving technology, and 730 million (the population of Europe) still cook and heat with wood, charcoal, and animal dung. Millions die every year from lung and intestinal diseases, due to breathin... | 0_0 |
Looking at the numbers shows that in 2013, just the increase in hydrocarbon use was greater than the contribution of all global wind energy and all global solar energy combined. | 0_0 |
The AEO2014 side case for the $25 per ton carbon tax would cut energy-related CO2 emissions by about 50 percent by 2050 (overall emissions would probably drop by a slightly smaller percentage). These cuts translate to a temperature moderation of about 0.05 degrees centigrade (about 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end o... | 0_0 |
This is a leading statement. It implies that opinion leaders think global warming is happening; otherwise why give it attention? This amplifies, instead of overcoming, social desirability bias. | 0_0 |
Another curiosity: Meehl et al (2013) presented the outputs of 5 ensemble members of the CCSM4 model using RCP4.5 forcings. But the CMIP5 archive contains 6 ensemble members with those forcings. Why did they exclude one? We illustrated how poorly all six ensemble members simulate the warming rates in the Pacific on a z... | 5_1 |
"It points to the natural variability of the climate system," he said in an interview with Canada's National Post. "It's quite likely is simply due to the dimming and brightening of the sun." | 2_1 |
Drought severity and area has declined sharply in the USsince the 12th century. The exact opposite of what Obama claims. | 1_7 |
Fred Dardick, When will science get serious about global cooling? | 0_0 |
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, "At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." | 0_0 |
But that may be changing. Consider the more insidious and subtle tactics of the San Francisco-based As You Sow Foundation. | 0_0 |
The list makes no distinction between corporate donors and individual donors, or between million-dollar donors and $5 donors. The PIC has all this information it is legally required to collect it for the April FEC filing. But it's not disclosing the information, and PIC officials didn't answer when I asked why. They al... | 0_0 |
It s worth noting that the sharpest point of contention between Clinton and Obama in their now-finished race " whether people should be forced to buy health insurance " amounted to a lovers quarrel: Obama favors the idea for children, while Clinton champions it for adults, too. Even that distinction is fuzzy, though, s... | 0_0 |
Belief in public order: Working-class voters rely more on the public order to provide a structure in their lives than do upper-class voters. They can't afford private security services or retreat to homes with large yards far from unruly elements. They live closer together and in closer contact with crime. Accordingly,... | 0_0 |
Date-Time Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 09:01:06 UTC | 0_0 |
Are E30-optimized vehicles commercially viable? The proposed Tier 3 rule provides no data on either the consumer cost of such vehicles or the fuel economy gains. Even if the lifetime fuel savings outweigh the increase in vehicle cost, that is not usually the decisive factor for most consumers, otherwise hybrid sales wo... | 4_4 |
criminals in a blackout, anonymous reviewers, in the book's words, | 0_0 |
With a r 2 of 0.00 between monthly CO2 and temperatures values, the UK climate records also confirm the legitimate dismissal of the argument that CO2 acts as a "control knob" - some type of global temperature thermostat that UN elite bureaucrats and national politicians thought they could just dial for a desired climat... | 2_3 |
6. J. W. Zillman, Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 16, no. 85 (2003). | 0_0 |
From Dan Hopey's article in The Toledo Blade: | 0_0 |
The three researchers conclude their report by speculating that elevated atmospheric CO 2 was effective for the survival and rooting of the majority of the cutting branches "because of its promoting photosynthetic activity in plants and possible synthesis of root promoting factors." Whatever the reason, their observati... | 3_3 |
Winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and Little Ice Age than they were during the Roman Warm Period, Medieval Warm Period and Modern Warm Period, providing strong evidence to refute the climate-alarmist contention that storminess ten... | 1_7 |
While we have known for some time, including through the work of Anthony Watts , that many weather stations are poorly maintained and positioned in wrong places including next to air conditioning outlets on bitumen the recent GISS saga indicates how subjective the system of compilation can be. Indeed it appears that wh... | 5_1 |
on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 5:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
I suggest this is what really happened: the polar bear biologists working in Svalbard earlier this year knew this bear was going to die back in April when they captured him they simply waited, with a photographer on hand, until he died. It was an orchestrated photo-op ?? How is it possible that this bear was healthy in... | 5_2 |
The IPCC does not have a convincing or confident explanation for this hiatus in warming. | 1_4 |
Restructure socialized insurance and risk mitigation for energy projects. Several government programs offer liability insurance schemes for specific industries. Proponents usually argue that these programs support industries that are vital to the national interest, but are so high-risk that they would be unprofitable w... | 0_0 |
There are ominous signs that the Earths weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The... | 0_0 |
But what about the climate? Did it lower temperatures? Nope. Did it make any difference to global action on climate? Double Nope. Did anybody, except the twits in the Gillard government, take any notice whatsoever of the fact that New Zealand had stitched up its economy like a kipper? Nope, nope and thrice nope. | 0_0 |
How else could this sentence lead a recent article on global warming? ?Scientists now believe that global warming is to blame for extreme cold snaps in North America during the winter months.? I suppose by this logic excessive rainfall causes droughts. | 0_0 |
Today is the 30th 40th* anniversary of the most expensive flubbed line in history. "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind." | 0_0 |
"This is a global problem," stated McGinty. "This job gets much more difficult if China and the rest of the developing nations do not become part of the solution." To make them part of the solution the administration has promised $1 billion in foreign aid. | 0_0 |
In 2011, winter drought in eastern Chinas wheat-growing region had significant implications beyond the countrys borders. Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices; the resultant price spikes had a serious economic impact... | 0_0 |
"Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn (D) continues to pick up key endorsements in the special election race for former Rep. Jane Harman's (D-Calif.) seat." | 0_0 |
In the meantime, global average sea surface temperatures have reportedly increased at about 3.5 times this rate, about 0.6 deg. C, based upon the HadSST2 data. | 0_0 |
The fact that people try to escape conflict and persecution needs no explanation. One only needs to see footage from any war to see precisely that refugees are one of the most predictable consequence of war. The cause for this that Murray chooses to emphasise is is weak, theoretical and highly contestable. Murray claim... | 0_0 |
Anyone who would like to join the Light Brigade and enlighten the Mall on February 17th can sign up at industrialprogress.net/lightbrigade. | 0_0 |
In addition, the platform supports the Paris Agreement, an international agreement adopted by 195 countries that aims to keep global temperature increases to "well below" two degrees Celsius. | 0_0 |
i) We need to know whether the Modern Warm Period has peaked or not. It seems that the recent peak late 20 th Century has passed but at a level of temperature lower than seen during the Mediaeval Warm Period. Greenland is not yet as habitable as when the Vikings first colonised it. Furthermore it is not yet 1000 years ... | 2_1 |
RSI At the start of November RSI had a peak, but it was a lower peak than the near 80 from August. Lower Highs is a downtrend. | 0_0 |
The two researchers say their results imply that "current climate models cannot reliably predict changes in tropical precipitation extremes," noting that "inaccurate simulation of the upward velocities may explain not only the intermodal scatter in changes in tropical precipitation extremes but also the inability of mo... | 5_1 |
2005 may go down in the record books as the warmest year on the global record. What a perfect backdrop for the international Greenhouse 2005 conference held in Melbourne over the last week. 350 delegates from science, industry and government attended for a review of climate change science, likely impacts and strategies... | 0_0 |
* Atmospheric satellite temperature trend over land (RSS MSU-LT) = 0.3 F/decade | 0_0 |
Who Turned on the Heat? The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation is intended for color versions of Kindle. It is a data-supported, not a computer model-dependent, presentation of how the Earth warmed naturally over the past 30 years. This is not some theory. This is how the satellite-based se... | 2_1 |
Floods : Prof. Pielke Jr. : 'Are US Floods Increasing? The Answer is Still No' -- 'A new paper out today shows flooding has not increased in U.S. over records of 85 to 127 years' | 1_7 |
The Global Economic Recession and Montana's Energy Future | 0_0 |
We report on a sediment record from a small lake within the subarctic wetland complex Stordalen in northernmost Sweden covering the last 1000 years. Variations in the content of minerogenic material are found to follow reconstructed variations in the activity of the Sun between the 13th and 18th centuries. Periods of l... | 2_1 |
Additionally, having now actually lived with the presence of industrial wind turbines, people no longer want them "imposed on their communities." On April 4, the Falmouth, MA, Board of Selectmen and the Falmouth Finance Committee held a joint meeting and unanimously stood by the selectmen's prior vote to remove the tow... | 0_0 |
With this morning's Freedom of Information Act request, the explaining they have to do must begin by providing the taxpayer certain records regarding including but not limited to user names and passwords for a backchannel "cloud' established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA, thereby also seeking to undermine the Pr... | 0_0 |
The authors of this study conclude that the coccolithophorid they studied ???could adapt to ocean acidification with enhanced assimilations of carbon and nitrogen,?? becoming even more productive than it is now, which is yet another positive finding of the often feared consequence of Earth??s rising atmospheric CO 2 co... | 3_2 |
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