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The IPCC has decided to discount the global warming standstill since 1997 asirrelevant and has deleted from its final document its original acknowledgement (in its 7 June draft) that climate models have failed toreproduce the observed reduction in surface warming trend over the last10-15 years. | 1_4 |
From CEI: Director of Global Warming & International Environmental Policy Myron Ebell on the prospects for action on ESA reform. | 0_0 |
"I believe this $800 million settlement gives the Virgin Islands Attorney General a lot of credibility in being involved in the inner circle of this because he's proved that he can shake down a major company," said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, o... | 0_0 |
???As shown in the accompanying figure, the d11B-derived pH values for the South China Sea fluctuated between a pH of 7.91 and 8.29 during the past seven thousand years, revealing a large natural fluctuation in this parameter that is nearly four times the 0.1 pH unit decline the acidification alarmists predict should h... | 3_2 |
Guest Opinion: Global warning: Beware of zealot Al Gore - Ellen Prekop | 0_0 |
As most readers know by now, the problematic GISTEMP global temperature anomaly plot for October is heavily weighted by temperatures from weather stations in Russia. | 5_1 |
42 National Governors Association, "New Source Review," from the NGA Web site (www.nga.org) on June 11, 2002. | 0_0 |
The processes of El Nio and La Nia themselves are not opposites. La Nia is simply an exaggeration of the normal state of the tropical Pacificthat is, La Nias are the normal state with some oomph. On the other hand, an El Nio takes naturally created warm water from below the surface of the western tropical Pacific and r... | 0_0 |
Roughly one million children and another million pregnant women die from malaria each year, for example, a tragedy that could well be brought under control if the controlled use of DDT was encouraged by the U.S. and utilized by international pesticide programs. Another four million people a year die from lung infection... | 0_0 |
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on Gore's climate claims: | 0_0 |
El Nio, La Nia El Nio and La Nia events tend to alternate about every three to seven years. However, the time from one event to the next can vary from one to ten years. | 0_0 |
What Mr. Chu didnt mention is the clean energy market is an artificial one built upon an unsound theory. It posits that combustion of the carbon-based fuels that power modern civilization is elevating levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, trapping heat and cooking the planets biosphere. Whats missing in this scary tale... | 2_3 |
That air when dry contains roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon and very small amounts of other gases in fact, such small amounts that they were called trace amounts until we discovered global warming. At that point we called it the greatest challenge in human history and people began to exaggerate the influence ... | 2_3 |
The map resembles the planet Earth, where most of us reside. The continents are in the right places, and so are the oceans. But we know thats not the Earth. The risks illustrated are based on climate models, and we know that climate models used by the IPCC for their reports are not based on Earths actual climate, as it... | 5_1 |
More Confirmation That Unprecedented Global Warming Happened In Past Say, The 1930s | 2_1 |
He focuses on a particular study within the energy balance modelling approach. What he doesnt say is that this paper suggests estimates of climate sensitivity that are largely unchanged based on recent temperature data, and that it implies the need to cut global emissions significantly in order to limit currently high ... | 5_1 |
factoring constraints into the equation. This raises the issues of economic | 0_0 |
In early 2010, MoveOn.org purchased air time for a television ad that claimed a pending Senate vote to "roll back" the Clean Air Act would be as harmful as forcing cigarettes on children. | 0_0 |
On Syria, Obama has constructed an elaborate scaffolding around his ignominious retreat, both from his demands that Assad must go to his infamous "red line." First, or so apparently went the president's thinking, "e was tired of watching Washington unthinkingly drift toward war in Muslim countries. Four years earlier, ... | 0_0 |
Mr. Mann??s 1999 paper eliminated the Medieval warm period from the history books, with the result being the bottom graph you see here. It??s a man-made global-warming evangelist??s dream, with a nice, steady temperature oscillation that persists for centuries followed by a dramatic climb over the past century. In 2001... | 5_2 |
?This hiatus could persist for much of the present decade if the tradewind trends continue; however rapid warming is expected to resume once the anomalous wind trends abate,? the Aussie scientists added. ?Volcanoes and changes in solar radiation can also drive cooler decades against the backdrop of ongoing warming.? | 0_0 |
If I had a chance to accomplish even a fraction of that, I'd have to try. I couldn't morally afford inaction. Even if I risked everything, would never get personal compensation, and could probably never talk about it with anyone. | 0_0 |
We in Europe have put our cards on the table. It is time for the special pleading to stop and for others to follow suit." Britain has called for steep emission cuts and increases in foreign aid to help developing countries grow without increasing emissions. Other countries, Germany included, called for a new internatio... | 0_0 |
"The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, a large number of them may disappear by 2035 because of climate change." Such was the lede of one of countless articles about how 1.3 billion Asians were in imminent danger of first flooding and th... | 0_0 |
In 2005, As You Sow filed a shareholder resolution on global warming with the financial services giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. In return for withdrawal of the resolution, the bank announced that it would lobby for global warming regulations. Though the CEO apparently thought that settling with As You Sow would make the co... | 0_0 |
Most would agree that climate science has already directed where humanity puts its capability, innovation, mental and material "might". The scale will grow ever grander in the coming decades if things go according to script. We're dealing with $trillions and potentially drastic influence on practically everyone. | 0_0 |
Nigel Calder explores the correlation between cosmic ray flux and its effect on the climate, in particular in relation to the sinking of the Titanic (100 years ago on 15 April): | 0_0 |
Undoubtedly, if human caused global warming is one day proven to be a hoax (a moment that may be just around the corner), AL Gore will go down in history as one of the most successful fraud artists ever. He will have enriched himself while causing massive strains to be placed on Western economies just when they are in ... | 5_2 |
According to a press release from the British Antarctic Survey, temperatures of the Antarctic peninsula were 1.3C warmer than today 11,000 years ago . Examination of a graph from the paper also indicates nearby sea surface temperatures were up to a remarkable 10C warmer than the 1961-1990 mean 12,000 years ago as the E... | 2_1 |
Inferentially, the bureaucrats have decided they can no longer pretend I was wrong to say there has been no global warming for 16 years. This one cannot be squeezed back into the bottle. So they have decided to focus on n years without warming so that, as soon as an uptick in temperature brings the period without warmi... | 1_4 |
on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 5:42 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
Texas executes Mexican despite White House plea: | 0_0 |
And finally, Lindzens statement bears repeating, a statement that is wholly consistent with my own statements on the Subterranean War on Science: | 0_0 |
Some recent studies estimate inland waters emit approximately one billion tons of carbon dioxide and methane every year. Those estimates have mostly involved researchers collecting daytime water samples for analysis, once or twice a month, missing any increases or decreases in emissions occurring between readings or at... | 0_0 |
As the air's CO 2 content rises, potatoes will likely display an increase in their water-use efficiency , due in part to reductions in stomatal conductance and increases in rates of net photosynthesis. Thus, it is likely that potatoes will be able to better deal with water stress in the future. In addition, it is also ... | 3_3 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Wollondilly Advertiser | 0_0 |
Roy Spencer contends in this posting that,as part of my exploration of different surface temperature datasets, I'm examining the relationship between average U.S. temperatures and other weather variables in NOAA's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) dataset. (I think I might have mistakenly called it "International" before... | 0_0 |
He was at the center of the 2009 Climategate scandal involving the global warming issue. Based on stolen e-mails, scientists were accused of manipulating data to promote their theory that global warming is being exacerbated by humans. | 0_0 |
Finally there the big skeleton in the closet called Iraq, with the United Kingdom junior partner in an alliance with the US opposed by almost all lelettorato, without any evidence that President Bush has never really listened to his buddy Tony, stuck in a war that does not seem endless. | 0_0 |
It is the fact that henges of various sorts are found all over the place (and since we know of some that have been destroyed during the time of written history, we can presume there were more than even the ones weve found) that leads me to the simple conclusion that these were modestly common places. Places where the l... | 0_0 |
Clouds both cool down and warm up the earth's surface. They cool the earth by reflecting some sunlight up into outer space, and they warm it by bouncing some sunlight down to the surface. Overall, most clouds have a net cooling effect, but atmospheric scientists need to accurately measure when they cool and warm to pro... | 5_1 |
Do we really want to repeat that experience on a global scale? Kyoto and its progeny threaten a vast array of international (and domestic) bureaucrats allocating economic rights and privileges based on vague standards, arbitrary conditions and bad science. | 0_0 |
And that is exactly what he did. The animation below shows how Gavin has altered the US temperature record since 1998, and turned the gold standards of climatology into lead | 5_1 |
Instead of using a single number, or point estimate, for the ECS, the IAMs use a distribution of possible values for the ECS. In essence, the distribution is a spectrum of values in which potential temperatures are weighted by their probability of occurrence. Because of the myriad factors that affect measured temperatu... | 5_1 |
"Al Gore foils opponents," proclaimed Associated Press, after Gore had just announced a "surprise" Live Earth concert in Washington, D.C., the next day. "Global warming naysayers in the political world have not been able to have their way, because this will - despite their best efforts - be held on the Mall," Gore was ... | 0_0 |
Postscript: I really have little use for discussions about funding amounts and sources of various causes. I find it largely irrelevent. So I post this only because this week we are talking about the Heartland Institute's funding of climate skeptics as revealed by hero (if you are an environmentalist blog) or thief Pete... | 0_0 |
Climate experts claim that hot days in the US are becoming more common due to increased CO2, but the data shows the exact opposite. Through June 15, hot days peaked in 1911 and were much more common prior to 1960. | 1_7 |
Because of the immense heat capacity of the deep ocean, the magnitude of deep warming in Scenario 3 might only be thousandths of a degree. Whether we can measure such tiny levels of warming on the time scales of decades or longer is very questionable, and the new study co-authored by Trenberth is not entirely based upo... | 5_1 |
Found it in Dr Richard Keens Global Warming Quiz , via Roger Pielke, Sr.s Climate Science . | 0_0 |
Antarctic Bottom Water across a wide sector off East Antarctica has freshened, and the densest bottom water in the Weddell Sea has warmed. | 0_0 |
Whilst human-adjusted datasets show some warming, none of those predicted to warm by at least 0.14/decade by the IPCC in 2001 have warmed at even the lowest predicted rate. | 5_1 |
In commenting on their findings, Comeau et al . state that "the increased resistance of Acropora hyacinthus exposed to large pCO 2 oscillation (particularly in the 400-2000-oscillating treatment) compared to the response of corals under constant pCO 2 conditions suggests that reef corals may be more resistant to future... | 3_2 |
National security amounted to an afterthought. He devoted one paragraph eachout of the approximately 110 paragraphs in the speechto Iraq, Afghanistan, and terrorism. It is as if Lincoln had spent most of his Inaugural Addresses on the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act. | 0_0 |
The Heartland Institute speaks with Myron Ebell on the presidential candidates' mentions of climate policy. | 0_0 |
How about signing some of those low-income people up for the 42,000 construction jobs and welcoming them into the middle class? How's that for environmental justice? | 0_0 |
Here Poulot and Jacob, engineer goofs from Harvard propose that American Food production for export is badproduces too much small particulate pollution and too much ammonia yadayadddyaaaayaa. | 0_0 |
The debate over GMOs is often compared to the controversy over global warming, but I don't think the analogy holds. Although most climate scientists agree that man has caused global warming, there are academics who specialize in climate science who disagree, at least in part, with their peers. It's instructive that the... | 0_0 |
Figure 1. Mauna Loa CO2 data (orange circles), and CO2 data from 8 separate ice cores. Fuji ice core data is analyzed by two methods (wet and dry). Siple ice core data is analyzed by two different groups (Friedli et al., and Neftel et al.). You can see why Michael Mann is madly desirous of establishing the temperature ... | 2_1 |
Temperature data from 1079 stations worldwide contributed to the analysis, 134 of them being located in the 50 US states. Data from essentially the same few stations have been used for the past twenty-four months. Many, many hundreds of stations that have historically been included in the record and still collect data ... | 5_1 |
The map also shows a 40 per cent to 60 per cent probability that western England and Wales will be warmer than 3.7C (38.6F), with a much smaller chance of average or below-average temperatures. | 0_0 |
Many critics of exporting shale gas, including Congressmen, are environmental ideologues who have come to believe that natural gas is an unacceptable energy option regardless of its vast potential benefits. Its advanced extraction procedure, hydraulic fracturing, is just too dangerous, they say. The nation should not p... | 0_0 |
I raked Rahmstorf and company over the coals on this point. I ran their own model with the corrected data from their own source (Church and White) and published the results online. The result: vastly lower sea level projections for the 21 st century. Their response: silence. | 1_6 |
Wondering about the credibility of #climatechange #denial attack dog #StephenMcIntyre? @DeepClimate?s got the goods: http://deepclimate.org/?s=McIntyre | 0_0 |
instrumental data ! It is a classic. Our uncertainty estimates are based solely on how | 0_0 |
The conditional part of the registration means that EPA does not have all the legally required toxicity data, but is letting the pesticide on the market anyway, on the condition that the manufacturer, HeiQ, provide it sometime over the next four years. Four years! (More on the registration process from my colleague Mae... | 0_0 |
Geopolitical reasons: When the wind tax credit was put into place in 1992, it was thought that the U.S. needed to be self-sufficient in energy so that the country was not at the economic or geopolitical mercy of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. | 0_0 |
Here we go again. Global warming activists and some warmist scientists are linking the massive blizzard to man-made global warming. | 0_0 |
Get that my fellow Skeptics? CO2 causes Global Cooling. This is the high ground this is the ground from which we should be fighting, not in the swamps of positive and negative feed backs. | 2_3 |
Al proclaimed to his sheeple that they had a crucial part to play in the Waxman-Malarkey vote. To be more accurate they will have more to do after its passage, like getting a 2nd job to pay for the increased taxes on their first job. Until both jobs only exist in China. | 0_0 |
At Monday's opening, South Africa's International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, president of the conference, rolled out the usual boilerplate. She told the delegates that she was hoping for "a balanced, fair, and credible outcome, with multilateralism, environmental integrity, fairness, and common, but dif... | 0_0 |
No other country in the world has an energy policy so utterly mad and unworkable. Yet all our major political parties are equally locked into the same self-deceiving bubble of unreality. Any final hope that we might be saved from this absurdly unnecessary disaster seemed last week to vanish, even as the ice and the sno... | 0_0 |
We have two new entries to the long (and growing) list of papers appearing the in recent scientific literature that argue that the earths climate sensitivitythe ultimate rise in the earths average surface temperature from a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide contentis close to 2C, or near the low end of the ran... | 3_1 |
First of all, let's briefly review just a few real facts: | 0_0 |
Extreme Assumptions Needed for Declining Discount Rates | 0_0 |
100% of the WG2 chapters included at least 1 WWF affiliated scientist | 0_0 |
The full text of this book is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Steven Milloy on how misplaced concerns over tiny doses of radiation have created a $1 trillion mistake. | 0_0 |
Barbara Boxer wants the government to redistribute another 6,700 billion dollars | 0_0 |
The best fit for each instrument is illustrated; as are all the data. Currently, GISS gives the least negative trend; HadCrut gives the most negative trend. Other instruments provide intermediate results with UHA MSU giving results closest to the mean off individual instruments. | 0_0 |
Second climate status report on the Baltic Sea Region: Medieval Warm Period was Half A Degree Warmer Than Today | 2_1 |
Figure 6: Sea level rise around Tasmania over the last 200 years. Sea level rise slowed down during the second half of the 20th century. Source of diagram: Gehrels et al. (2012) . | 1_6 |
Let me show the details. Here are plots of the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (differences from normal) for four critical zones in the topical Pacific. They are warming, with many of them being the warmest over the past year. The usual definition for El Nino calls for a warm anomaly in the Nino 3.4 area of at ... | 0_0 |
Climate Change, Email Privacy, and the CEI Podcast | 0_0 |
"Opinion is now becoming an accurate reflection of reality," said Dr. Hayward. "We're gratified that the Index, now in its tenth edition, has helped contribute to this turnaround." | 0_0 |
The three Indian researchers conclude that " C. ciliaris grown in elevated CO 2 throughout the crop season may produce more fodder in terms of green biomass," which is a colossal understatement, to say the least; especially when a 240-ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration leads to a 193% increase in dry matter p... | 3_3 |
Tom Nelson finds the email that should bury the BBC and any pretense that it isn't hopelessly biased in favor of global warming. | 5_2 |
Update: As expected, Sprite continued to malfunction after the repairs and it was abandoned on day 44 . Hadow conceded that Mother Nature always has the final say. | 0_0 |
It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong . | 0_0 |
No, Greenpeace activists finally began to call out to Gabriel that he would quit, vnde the energy minister to the audience in the hall with the words: | 0_0 |
Did Professor Jones actually read, let alone strove to understand Montford and Newberys submission? That doesnt look likely. By the way, they were not granted a correction. The fact that they are not Lords of the Land has obviously nothing to do with that. | 5_2 |
Comment:In other words, the agency is stilltrying tofigure out how totweak the NSPS in light of detailed legal criticism so thattherulestillputs the kibosh on new coal generation without being tossed out in court. | 0_0 |
Party. The study is based on an impressive array of polling and meteorological data, with careful statistical analysis. | 0_0 |
If you input 1996-2010, the temperature is flat-lined, so the cooling started at least in 1997 in the U.S., and almost certainly everywhere else as well. And, the later you put the end date, the more pronounced is the downward, cooling slant of the temperature line. | 1_4 |
The case for this demand is hollow. It rests, in part, on the false proposition that developing countries have added almost nothing to current atmospheric GHG stocks. The reality is quite different. The group of currently poor countries and the group of currently rich countries have each placed about the same amount of... | 0_0 |
According to Gray is the predominant reason for variations in the tornadoes' upptrdande to be in havsstrmmarnas changes on a flerrig time scale. The thermohaline circulation affects sea surface temperature, which has decisive importance for the Hurricanes arises. | 0_0 |
4. Our research has raised issues with the robustness of the adjustments that are used to homogenize? surface temperature data. This includes adjustments made due to the time of observation, a change of instrument, the change in location, and from urbanization. Pielke Sr., R.A., T. Stohlgren, L. Schell, W. Parton, N. D... | 0_0 |
This renewed production also reduced oil imports even as increasing ethanol mandates and a persistent drought have forced the U.S. to import ethanol from Brazil. So now we're importing oil and ethanol! | 0_0 |
There is a renewed debate in high places over whether university endowments should divest themselves of their stock holdings in fossil fuel companies. Thus far, most universitiesnotably Harvard, Yale and Brownhave opposed the demand for divestment. Others, like Stanford, have taken steps to reduce their holdings in coa... | 0_0 |
By F. Bender, H. Rodhe, R. J. Charlson, A. M. L. Ekman and N. Loeb. | 0_0 |
There are several peaks in the graph. Since 1998 the temperature has neither risen nor fallen, because last year was tied with 1998 for top temperature. Its the same now as it was 12 years ago! | 1_4 |
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