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The answer and, as I shall show, it is the right one is that his deliberately dishonest personal attack on my integrity and reputation is an ingenious fiction, he knows it, and he has therefore had to go to some elaborate and time-consuming lengths to conceal the steps he has taken to hide the truth and make this nonse... | 0_0 |
"While the details of the debt ceiling deal remain fuzzy, this much is clear: Barack Obama may be president, but the Tea Party is now running Washington. How did this happen? Simple; this is what American politics looks like when there's no left-wing movement and no war." | 0_0 |
Recall that she mentioned polar ice, sea levels, storms, and ocean acidification. With respect to polar ice, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extents now do not differ from their respective 19812010 averages as a matter of statistical significance. (The 20152016 Arctic... | 1_1 |
This class of cosmic ray detector is more sensitive in the approximate 500 Mev to 4 GeV portion of the cosmic ray spectrum than are cosmic ray muon detectors. The portion of the cosmic ray spectrum that reaches the Earths atmosphere is controlled by the geomagnetic cutoff which varies from a minimum (theoretically zero... | 0_0 |
In 2006, an article appeared in Science magazine reconstructing the temperature of the Northern Hemisphere back to 800 AD based on 14 smoothed and normalized temperature proxies (e.g., tree ring records). Osborn and Briffa proclaimed at the time that the 20th century is the most anomalous interval in the entire analysi... | 0_0 |
9% Support For Barack W Bush | 0_0 |
Most people probably remember from high-school biology that ethanol is a chemical made when yeast breaks down sugar molecules in a process called fermentation. Ethanol has two carbon atoms, six hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen atom. There are various kinds of alcohol, but ethanol is the one found in your beer, wine, and ... | 0_0 |
What I noticed about Sen. Wirth and Hansen back in the late 1980s, is that there was a obvious concerted effort within the emergence of baby boomer management and personnel into climate science on the federal level; that they were pushing ideology as policy. This was a prepatory assault that was planned out. | 0_0 |
More importantly, down to a pH of 7.2 (10 times more acidic), no measurable effect was found and no loss of biodiversity. Thus a doubling (pH=7.9) or quadrupling (pH=7.6) of CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere is not going to have any measurable effect on marine life. | 3_2 |
National monument designations come with severe land- and, in this case, sea-use restrictions. For over four hundred years, the area targeted by green activists and the Obama administration has been one of the richest fishing grounds in North America.. The region's fishermen fear that the monument could spell the end o... | 0_0 |
Yet, even *after* Haiyan, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy of all cyclones in the Western North Pacific is below normal (99%, http://models.weatherbell.com/tropical.php ). The global ACE is at 74%. | 1_7 |
Recognizing that "employment" is one of the primary drivers of global warming, California has been among the first to act. And things are turning around! Green jobs compose less than one percent of Californias economy. Thats right, less than one percent. From 1995 to 2008, California added only 42,000 new green jobs. A... | 4_2 |
Some greens argue that rural parts of Africa may be able to eschew giant power grids and leapfrog into off-grid solar-powered electricity, a bit like Kenya has with mobile banking. But that costs more and it wont power factories. The continent needs both, and those who advocate no support for coal are effectively sayin... | 0_0 |
it's because when a new male baboon joins a troop, it's traditional | 0_0 |
The Wall Street Journal ran a story on March 9, In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest . It was about a study published in a recent issue of the Journal Science claiming that a one degree temperature variation resulted in 2000-2009 being one of the warmest since modern record-keeping began. Their claim is that the p... | 1_2 |
In conclusion, we stand by our request that corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risk of climate change be investigated to determine if they knowingly deceived the public about climate science. And we wish to be clear that we are not suggesting that scientists ... | 0_0 |
Firstly, the assumption that solar activity peaked in 1960 and declined since is false, since it is necessary to determine the accumulated solar energy over multiple solar cycles, which is the accumulated departure from the average number of sunspots over the entire period, which I call the "sunspot integral." The suns... | 2_1 |
Even those who agree with Gore's environmental philosophy, which the picture lays out in exhausting detail, would have to admit that An Inconvenient Truth fails in many of the same ways Gore failed as a Presidential candidate. The picture is tedious, impersonal, dare I say stiff. Staunch environmentalistsor even those ... | 0_0 |
A historical movie from that day, 15 minutes. Death at 6:01. | 0_0 |
But was the "evidence" for global warming intentionally and illegally concocted? By their persistence in hiding their data we may think so, as far as Mann and Weaver are concerned; while Dr Ball's latest sensational book,'' The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science ;' detailing the Climategate shenanigans, is a 'mus... | 5_2 |
... simply put, you can't (from 2006): Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organ... | 5_1 |
The results showed that, without small algae-eating crustaceans in the eelgrass meadows, climate change could pose a much greater threat to their survival. | 0_0 |
Others presented their research suggesting the primary cause is external to the earth. One suggestion is that the primary cause may be the sun alone. Still others suggested the primary cause is high energy cosmic rays, modulated by the sun, hitting the atmosphere and creating changes in cloud cover. | 2_1 |
New Hampshire Town passes 3 mile Property Value Guarantee | 0_0 |
There shouldn?t be someone else at UEA with different views [from "recent | 0_0 |
When we wrote It's Even Worse Than It Looks, many former Republican officeholders understood we were not attacking the Republican Party as partisans but trying to save it from itself. We took no comfort from calling out the GOP. We well recognize that our polity will not function as it is supposed to without two strong... | 0_0 |
"Turning control of the Internet over to an agency staffed by UN bureaucrats would a disastrous mistake. Imagine a world where the rules for what's permissible to say and do online are written by diplomats appointed by Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and the Chinese Communist party." | 0_0 |
This dovetails nicely with our own Al Gore/AIT Index which is currently -.594 degrees Fahrenheit as of the end of July, 2008, i.e. the globally averaged satellite-based temperature has dropped .594 degrees Fahrenheit since An Inconvenient Truth was released January 24, 2006. | 1_4 |
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps calls for an investigation into the National Security Agency's database of telephone records. | 0_0 |
At one point, I asked Ms. Macfarlane about the evidence on the recent temperature record, that is, the climate sensitivity of the atmosphere. She obviously knows nothing about it, but Rush Holt (the AAAS CEO), playing to the audience, jumped in with the snarky comment that it is "either big or huge." That is not what t... | 0_0 |
But is the goal to save the planet from ecological catastrophe or simply to lower energy use? Nature admits in the article that more science is needed, that better and more credible models must be developed. Indeed, it warns governments against relying too much on climatologists! Regardless, Nature argues for signing a... | 0_0 |
If you don't want to watch 10:10?s ad campaign, HillBuzz provides a synopsis: | 0_0 |
reading a book I promised, many weeks ago, to review | 0_0 |
Andy Revkin: More on Extreme Weather in a Warming Climate | 0_0 |
It is reasonable to say that if air pressure caused the lower temperature in the ice-age then birds that cannot fly above 3200m (due to the lower lift) would not be present. In other words, we can disprove this theory if we can find a bird that cannot fly above 3200m and has not changed significantly through the ice-ag... | 0_0 |
Sir, Your editorial "Cutting carbon" (January 20) misstates the efficacy of carbon cap-and-trade schemes as "the most cost-effective way of reducing pollution." | 0_0 |
Yes, that's right: the computer code was designed to create a warming trend no matter what data was put into it. You could make up your own numbers showing the exact same recorded temperatures each and every year for the last thousand years and the "model" would still spit out an Al-Gore-style hockey-stick warming grap... | 5_2 |
Is the USA next in line? The United States is reaping imaginary bounties from its $814-billion "stimulus" spending orgy. It hemorrhaged $223 billion in red ink during February alone on its way to a projected 2011 deficit of $1.5 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office reports. | 0_0 |
Much-hyped Antarctic runway turning to water | News.com .au | 0_0 |
The latest data actually show temperatures have dropped in recent years. The IPCC and other scientists have branded this as a ?pause? in climate change. Ball said that characterization implies that temperatures are temporarily holding steady and will inevitably rise again soon. He said that conclusion is dead wrong. | 1_4 |
are consumed by such fast-emerging markets as China and India" | 0_0 |
Entitled The extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere temperature in the last two millennia: reconstructions of low-frequency variability, by B Christiansen of the Danish Meteorological Institute and F C Ljungqvist of Stockholm University, the paper concludes that previous climate reconstructions seriously underestimate vari... | 5_1 |
About this time Steve McIntyre linked up with Ross McKitrick a Canadian economist specialising in environmental economics and policy analysis. Together McIntyre and McKitrick began to dig down into the data that Mann had used in his paper and the statistical techniques used to create the single blended average used to ... | 5_1 |
Already, protected areas or parks now occupy 13.2% of all of South America. The Pan American Railroad proposed to link North America with Chile is virtually blocked since every possible route must pass through a protected area. (Eco-logic report, p.12) And if the U.N. Biodiversity Treaty goes through, massive stretches... | 0_0 |
This reads, the probability that somebody gets better using drug D rather than P given the raw numbers we had from the old trial (including the old patient characteristics) and that no cheating took place in that trial and the new patients who will use the drugs look like the patients from the previous trial, is greate... | 0_0 |
If it all feels like legal deja-vu, that?s because it is ? though this particular case has come with a twist, as new, broader issues of information access are at stake. On the surface it looks like a kind of redux of the suit launched by then-Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. But because of different legal issu... | 0_0 |
This chart illustrates a data analysis mistake that is absolutely endemic to many of the most famous climate charts. Marc Morano screencapped this from a new EPA web site (update: Actually originally from Pat Michaels at Cato ) | 0_0 |
"The Tampa to Orlando line had the backing of everyone from business to the state's Republican legislators; but Rick Scott, the new Tea Party-backed governor, blocked it as a "big government boondoggle". Today the Transportation Department announced that the money will go elsewhere." | 0_0 |
From a 2005 Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard page, "Global Warming: What's Known vs. What's Told", first quoting from other Nieman writers, then environment reporter Bud Ward: | 0_0 |
This morning we received an update from friend at the Institut Hayek in France. Evidently, the French Academy of Sciences soon will release a paper that eviscerates the ???beautiful certainties?? espoused by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. To read Drieu Godefridi??s brief on the imminent report, click he... | 5_1 |
The restriction has stymied efforts to "fast-track" approvals for four of the seven most promising wind energy proposals in the nation, including all three in California. | 0_0 |
Maritime operations are of course not foreign to NATO. In the 1990s, Operation Sharp Guard constituted a dress rehearsal of sorts for Operation Active Endeavor after 9/11. In 2003, OAE was expanded functionally and geographically to cover the whole Mediterranean and ended up including some Mediterranean Dialogue countr... | 0_0 |
Figure 2. Observations and calculated values, Northern and Southern Hemisphere temperatures. Note that the observations are almost hidden by the calculation. | 0_0 |
The overwhelming success of the Mega Millions enterprise makes it an irresistible target for something more a way to transform American elections and along the way reduce our deep political dysfunction. Our take-no-prisoners tribal politics have at root the reality that the two parties' narrow ideological bases have fa... | 0_0 |
In 2011, almost 40 percent of the giant U.S. corn crop went into making ethanol, and the United States still exported more than half of all corn shipments worldwide. | 0_0 |
Farm special interests lobbied fiercely against including indirect emissions, arguing that the science was inexact. The environmentalists prevailed. In early May of this year, the EPA announced it would include the controversial emissions in its calculation of ethanol's lifecycle emissions. | 0_0 |
Subject: factual error in book review Polar Distress by Holly Morris (last weekends) | 0_0 |
Penn State University has just announced their new President ? Eric Barron. Barron is currently President at Florida State University; my colleagues and friends there tell me that Barron is well liked and has been doing a good job. The interesting angle is this. From his FSU biosketch: | 0_0 |
Note that the survey comprised NINE questions, about global warming, to earth scientists. Only two of the questions have ever been revealed, and the results assessed from those two alone. These two do not consider the magnitude of human influence at all. There is no mention even of CO2. Now what on earth were the other... | 0_0 |
According to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, "the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know the time for action is now." Schwarzenegger issued his call for action on climate change last week at the United Nations World Environment Day conference in San Francisco, where he unveiled an... | 0_0 |
El Nio and La Nia events typically peak in strength in December and January. Refer to Figure Intro-1. Its a graph of the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region of the eastern equatorial Pacific, starting in 1990. The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region are an often-used inde... | 0_0 |
- The available scientific evidence does not support the claim that the climate of the 20th century in many locations around the globe was unusual when compared to the previous 900 years. Claims that man-made emissions are causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research that shows ... | 2_1 |
Heartland's Horace Cooper on The O'Reilly Factor! | 0_0 |
Based on Mann's denial, the preliminary report concluded that there was no evidence to indicate that Mann intended to delete e-mails even though that conclusion is contradicted by the plain language and circumstances of the relevant e-mail exchange. No inquiry beyond Mann's denial was made. | 0_0 |
understand how the physical environment may be damaged by changes in climate and | 0_0 |
Now, as you can see from Figure 2, the Kiehl hypothesis of cancellation has a big problem. The CERES results do not bear out Kiehl??s claims in the slightest. Instead, they support my hypothesis that increased tropical clouds cool the surface. As you can see, on average the loss from the reflected sunlight is about 20%... | 3_1 |
And finally, the Heartland meltdown puts Gleicks actions into a new perspective. An indirect consequence of Gleicks actions seems to have been to motivate some individual environmentalists to harass Heartland, which triggered a response that included the billboard. I still dont think that Heartland was a worthy target ... | 0_0 |
I cant get into it enoughI work at Fort Hood, the home of the 4th ID. | 0_0 |
New Report Debunks Common Myths about Energy | 0_0 |
The Light Brigade is the first serious effort to provide balance to the "forward on climate" rally. | 0_0 |
However, the RICO investigation they propose would unavoidably extend to people whose only "crime' is questioning climate orthodoxy. | 0_0 |
Im free immediately. The only hitch is that I promised Cornell I would teach a two-week course at the end of this June. | 0_0 |
A high-quality, motivated workforce with diverse ideas, skills, and backgrounds | 0_0 |
It is still a good question to ask and one I urged teachers to get their students to ask. They can begin with the book that became the book of genesis for the environmental alarmism, Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring. They can continue through the Y2K fiasco to the CFCs destroying the ozone. There never was a shred of evid... | 5_2 |
First, I suspect that we will see the EPA Administrator raised to cabinet rank. With this will come a more radical and assertive EPA. This should not be surprising. Even within this Administration, the EPA has been flexing its muscles. The issuance of the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on regulating greenhouse g... | 0_0 |
This seems to support Serreze on "more intense in the Arctic" but not on "first in the Arctic". Ed also pointed me to this article, which is cited by AR4. It says this in its abstract: | 0_0 |
The power of green loonies: Apple Rejoins "Green' Registry and Says Exit Was Mistake | 0_0 |
Assuming the ocean heat content data and Hansen's forcing estimates are accurate, how could the average radiative forcing be 4 times the average radiative imbalance? The answer is FEEDBACK: | 0_0 |
In a blog post a few weeks ago, Ms. Cullen scolded a fellow meteorologist, who declined to lecture viewers about global warming, noting how the issue had been "politicized" and that, given the cyclical nature of weather patterns, he was unsure what "generalizations" could be inferred from the warming trend of recent ti... | 0_0 |
Bast, Joseph, L.; Hill, Peter J.; Rue, Richard C. Eco Sanity: A Common Sense Guide to Environmentalism. Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books, 1994. | 0_0 |
Ever since the mosquito-transmitted West Nile Virus appeared in New York City during 1999, environmental activists have been fighting efforts to keep the disease under control. Not only have they battled against any spraying for adult mosquitoes, they have also fought methods to manage mosquito larvae. These groups mai... | 0_0 |
Indeed, EPA and other regulators routinely ignore the impacts that their draconian regulations have on people's jobs, living standards, health and welfare including reduced or lost incomes, lower nutrition, welfare dependency, drug and alcohol abuse, and shorter life spans. They then present scientists, "health" and "e... | 0_0 |
This study finds that even after accounting for green jobs, there is a substantial and long-term net reduction in total labor earnings and employment. This is the unintended but predictable consequence of investing to create a "green energy future." | 0_0 |
Durning, Alan. "Cradles of Life," Worldwatch, May/June, 1989, pp. 30-40. | 0_0 |
TaxPayers Alliance chief executive Matthew Sinclair, said: Many families are going to struggle to pay their energy bills this winter, but instead of helping, politicians are adding to the problem with expensive green taxes. | 4_1 |
Not all federal lands have oil-and-gas, or other mineral-extraction, potential, so a reversal of policy may not increase production by the 61% seen on state and private landsbut it could mean the U.S. not only passes Saudi Arabia in oil production, it leaves it in a dust storm. | 0_0 |
We??ve discussed on many occasions that you can ???get?? a HS merely from picking upward-trending series from networks of red noise (David Stockwell had a good note on this phenomenon on his blog a couple of years ago. My first experiments of this type were on the cherry picks in the original Jacoby network.) Since gri... | 5_1 |
Researchers around the globe continue to build on the mountain of scientific evidence that the Medieval Period had warmer temperatures than the modern era. | 2_1 |
35 See IPCC 1995, p. 40. | 0_0 |
So the White House pushed, and the Congress passed, a gigantic trillion-dollar stimulus, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It was, however, anything but targeted. Instead, it was a grab bag of special interest handouts. | 0_0 |
Unlike carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants, carbon dioxide is not toxic. In fact, it is an essential ingredient in plant photosynthesis, without which there would be no life on earth. For the past century, greenhouse operators have been adding CO 2 to the air inside greenhouses to en... | 3_3 |
Jan Rovensk, Czech Greenpeace Climate Boss, on the left, one of his comrade on the right, and your humble correspondent in the middle. | 0_0 |
And sea levels are rising, threatening to inundate New York and Los Angelesalthough rising sea levels does have a downside. | 0_0 |
They did say that didn't they? I guess what you see is very much driven by where you look. | 0_0 |
Since temperatures have stabilized in the last decade, we looked at the correlation of the CO2 with HCSN data. Greenhouse theory and models predict an accelerated warming with the increasing carbon dioxide. | 1_4 |
B ttcher, F. (1996): Climate change: forcing a treaty. In: Emsley, J. (Ed.): The Global Warming Debate. The report of the European Science and Environment Forum. Bourne Press, Ltd., Bournemouth, Dorset, UK, 267-285. | 0_0 |
I'm not so sure. It's disturbing to see people who have some scientific knowledge, and probably know better, use opposition to GMOs to raise money and garner publicity. Dr. Oz and the Food Babe are after ratings and Internet traffic, and perhaps they haven't taken time to understand the science. But some of the major e... | 0_0 |
Independent climate researcher Nick Lewis put out a study last year with Georgia Techs Dr. Judith Curry that found that the climates response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels a measurement called climate sensitivity was 1.64 degrees Celsius. | 3_1 |
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons "may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945." Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946 now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continu... | 0_0 |
Because the judicial role is generally understood to be that of law interpreter and enforcer, not law maker, plaintiffs in these climate change lawsuits must persuade the courts that existing law requires them to order their coequal branches of government to do what they have previously failed or even declined to do. I... | 0_0 |
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