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Torinesi et al . report that, on average over the last 20 years, "the cumulated product of the surface area affected by melting and the duration of the melting event, called cumulative melting surface ... has decreased by 1.8% 1% per year, a result that is consistent with a mean January cooling of the continent recentl...
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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 8th 2010 The Daily Bayonet
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Source: Richard Tol, 2012, Global climate talks: If at the 17th you dont succeed
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Missing Ocean Heat Study Reported On By Climate Wire Response From Josh Willis
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The allegedly sustainable energy sources championed by the Presidentare not self-sustaining. The main reason isthat theyare inferior to fossil fuels in terms of energy density ( bang for buck ) and in the case of wind and solar power reliability and dispatchability .
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Addressing Criticisms of the UAH Temperature Dataset at 1/3 Century
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US Tornado Count Plummeting to Record Low Levels Three Consecutive Years
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The academic at the centre of the ?Climategate? affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ?keeping track? of the information.
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One can't unambiguously experimentally disprove the existence of a wormhole
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Aussies refuse to dump beer fridges for sake of global warming Putting forth a list of "practical actions for NT households,'' the Government urges residents "retire the second fridge or freezer''. According to a Power and Water Corporation brochure, Territorians can save up to 200 dollars a year by getting rid of thei...
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BECAUSE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR BACK RADIATION FROM A COLDER ATMOSPHERE TO HEAT UP A WARMER EARTHTHATS WHY!
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PART IV: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLIMATE POLICY
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If current patterns continue for the next six weeks, a lot of 1-2 ice will become MYI in mid-September, and we will once again see an increase in MYI as we have every year since 2008. It appears that there may be a large increase in 3+ year old ice.
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for the explanation of current global temperatures as in Fig 2.23. since
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If the science were as certain as climate activists pretend, then there would be precisely one climate model, and it would be in agreement with measured data. As it happens, climate modelers have constructed literally dozens of climate models. What they all have in common is a failure to represent reality, and a failur...
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A pollutant must be something that is not only emitted, but something that renders the air impure, which can hardly be said of carbon dioxide.
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Model.ar1 = mle2(ar1.lik, start = list(b=.01),data=list(y=x,t=Year) );
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Not surprisingly, the USDA concluded that commercial use would have no significant environmental impacts. Departmental scientists prepared an Environmental Assessment for both varieties explaining their rationale, and the USDA approved them. That was not enough, however, for two federal judges in San Francisco who rule...
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To enter into force, at least 55 nations representing 55 percent of the industrial world's 1990 emissions must ratify the agreement. The United States is the pivotal actor. If the U.S. does not ratify, neither Japan nor the European Union will do so. In July 1997, the U.S. Senate passed, 95-0, a resolution sponsored by...
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The IPCC structure was designed to ensure one outcome warming due to human CO2. Working Group I of the IPCC is limited by definition and terms of reference to that result. They focus almost exclusively on human CO2 and assume an increase in CO2 causes a temperature increase. Their computer models are so programmed, whi...
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"Solar panels have always been expensive. As a result, only a small number of people have decided that the potential energy savings are worth the initial cost of buying and installing them.
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Western countries also need to remove obstacles such as IPRs to promote, facilitate and finance the transfer of technologies and know-how to developing countries in advance of any future climate deal;
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Although we usually don't associate energy with morality, Alex Epstein has. His book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels ($27.95, Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Group), is the finest case for the role coal, oil and natural gas has played in our lives and the positive, emancipating impact they have had on humanity. E...
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"U.S. single-family home prices fell for a fifth straight month in November and could plumb new lows soon, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday."
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On the heels of that Economist story came a piece at the Huffington Post byDaniel Souweine, the campaign director for Forecast The Facts a recently cooked-up astroturf outfit that has engaged in a social media and letter-writing campaign against some of Heartlands corporate donors.
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Teira et al .'s final words on the implications of their findings are that the responses of both marine bacterial families "would tend to increase the pH of seawater, acting as a negative feedback between elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations and ocean acidification." And, of course, they also reveal the identities ...
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Although the four data sets employed in this study all show short-term accelerations in sea level rise near the end of the 20th century, the century as a whole was one of decelerating sea level rise, which is not exactly in harmony with the climate-alarmist contention that the 20th century experienced a warming that ro...
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Bathurst News, sport and weather | Western Advocate
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IPCC Second Report (1995), Summary for Policy Makers, p.23. Sea levels will rise by 95cm by the year 2100 (105 years-times). This is 9.0mm per year. Error to date is 532%
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More from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office activism files. This is a comment from Hannah Wood , the FCO climate officer last seen showing "green" movies to the natives in her posting in Tanzania. In this episode, she reports on a visit by Met Office staff:
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The extra heat found for Hadcrut US stations in comparison with both Hansen et al. 1999 and the results from the present paper amounts to approx. 0.42 K since the 1930ies. Far most of the Hadcrut temperature stations (77 out of 87 stations) are available unadjusted from GHCN, and thus it was possible to estimate that o...
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Next to the left is a wee and poo plant, also tends to be warm stuff. I expect the sludge is tankered into the outer estuary for disposal. (used to be the case)
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Graham Beduze is a Louisiana native and member of CFACT's crack student organizing staff. I was with him at our recent "Eco-Summit" in Minnesota.
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Historically, there have been many tornado outbreaks that occurred well before climate change was on anyone??s radar. Here??s a few:
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The wonderful properties of water. People are a lot water. Water can be ice and liquid and vapor and it produces big time energy absorption and release with changing states. Water vapor is the most important Green house Gas, at 20 % of the green house gas presence and effect. And modelers cant model it? You cant make t...
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In summary, the GMT data for the last 130 years does not show any evidence of accelerated warming due to human emission of CO2. This is because the cyclic cooling & warming swing of 0.5 deg C shown in Figure 2 is obviously natural; and the persistent global warming of 0.06 deg C per decade is also natural, because it e...
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There are huge uncertainties in the model outputs which are recognized and unmeasured. They are so large that adjustment of model parameters can give model results which fit almost any climate, including one with no warming, and one that cools.
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"Historically, humans everywhere have interacted with and `disturbed' forests In purely economic terms, the actual stock of forestlands exceeded the stock desired by humanity, while the actual stock of farmland was less than desired. Thus there were incentives for adjusting those stocks by converting forestlands into m...
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Less ice in the Antarctic, it is mans fault for burning fuels
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11 Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare, 1999; Thomas Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: War in the 21st Century, 2004.
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Toxic Releases have declined since 1988, a sign of increasing efficiency and the "de-materialization" of our economy.
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29 Aug 2012 The arctic is melting, the 3rd runway remains on the agenda and the .... In the meantime, Australia will probably globally offset those German ...
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Of course sea level is going to rise. It has been rising for 20,000 years mostof that time faster than now. Sea level will stop rising when we enter the next ice age.
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This past summer was one of the coolest on record in the US. There is no drought in the midwest, and only a complete imbecile would believe that cold is caused by heat.
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As a 20-year veteran of the environmentalists' war against high-yield farming, I have become suspicious of "progressive" motives. The food yields from organic fields are only about half as high as those from high-yield farming. The first impact of an organic-only world would be massive famine. The second impact, says R...
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Finally, it is doubtful whether the acid rain program can be credited with SO2 reductions. Demographic changes in electricity demand, according to one researcher, may have lead to reductions even in the absence of the acid rain program. Others have pointed out that railroad deregulation greatly reduced the costs of usi...
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T(k) = F(k)(1 exp(-1/ ) + T(k-1) * exp(-1 / )
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You might think the blogs in your usual science circle are not Education, Topical, Group, Secret, or Business blogs, but when you look at the past finalists (eg for Education: Science is beauty , or AMS Graduate Student ) you will see that science blogs easily fit. In terms of science education, skeptical bloggers are ...
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Where is the test of the hypothesis that sulfates are indeed responsible for the lack of warming? In this paper, it?s simply ?modeled-in? as it fits the data well. That?s correlation, not causation.
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We can be sure, I think, that environmentalism studiously avoids a focus of attention on its cause not because speculative action can simply be brushed aside as being (interchangeably) outrageously immoral or unacceptably risky as is breathlessly claimed but because the application of such a required and reciprocal lev...
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Now former Vice President Al Gore has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. If he wins that and the Academy Award for his documentary based on his Power Point presentation, just think what his resume will look like. Who knows he may run for president.
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Each dispute added contentious pages to the climate text under discussion, which must now be whittled back down in the Tianjin talks in October. This "tit for tat" diplomacy, as the European Union's co-lead negotiator Artur Runge-Metzger described it, caused the working draft to double in size from 17 to 34 pages.
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Yet the U.S. federal government essentially subsidizes electric-car buyers with up to $7,500. In addition, more than $5.5 billion in federal grants and loans go directly to battery and electric-car manufacturers like California-based Fisker Automotive and Tesla Motors . This is a very poor deal for taxpayers.
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Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels Mocks Heat Causing Cold Claims: "It is the core problem of climatology attempting to explain everything even when everything becomes contradictory'
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The description President George H.W. Bush applied to his 1988 election opponent, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, also applies to Obama: "He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe."
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The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel. Read the rest here . This blog has relocated . You can sign up to receive an e-mail each time a new post is added under the "Email sub...
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George Osborne spent an hour in front of the 1922 this evening. 40 Tory MPs took the opportunity to promote their own Budget ideas to him. A big theme was the cost of living with three MPs including Rob Halfon pushing the Chancellor on fuel duty. Interestingly, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee Andrew Tyrie...
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If the White House and the EPA is permitted to implement the MATS regulation, the economy will dramatically decline. Life in America will resemble that of third-world nations. It is entirely based on lies.
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The animation below shows their little problem. It alternates between the blue error map, and their current trend map. In their claimed high sea level rise areas, the error is almost as big as the trend in some places it is greater than the trend.
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One may take issue with various cost projections, but what is beyond dispute is that laws or regulations that put a high price on carbon will necessarily lead to higher energy prices. Penalizing (higher carbon) conventional energy sources in favor of (lower carbon) renewables forces businesses to divert resources to le...
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The Oceans Biological Deserts Are Expanding by Richard A. Kerr ScienceNOW Daily News 25 January 2008
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Economist Mag. slapped down for 'clearly biased and misleading' climate reporting
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Remember too, that the tropics are relatively stable as far as temperatures go so if the worlds atmosphere cools, the potential energy transfer from tropics to poles increases. On the other hand, if the atmosphere is warmer than has historically been the case, then you can expect reduced wind speeds and less extreme pr...
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6 Jan 2012 Meltdown cuts Antarctic flights WARM weather has drastically cut the number of flights to Australias $45 million Antarctic ice runway. ... cut to just four flights over three weeks this summer as the runway surface keeps melting.
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The study by climate change experts at the University of Exeter has important implications for international negotiators aiming to agree binding targets for future greenhouse gas emission targets.
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there seems to be a weather disaster programme on every night these days
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The implication of choosing to allow any of these faulty assumptions to go unchallenged particularly the core proposition that wind energy is a technically sound, economically competitive and environmentally beneficial means of producing electrical energy is that it deprives us of the opportunity to question the fundam...
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Everything implying that the MAXIMUM wrong / misunderstood. He has not now, ochargumentet saknarnd importance for the actual sakfrgan despite marginal corrections (which also discussed the MAXIMUM) is the decay of C-14 to this approximativastady-stateniv remains characterized by a rate constant corresponding livslngden...
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Furthermore, the situation is changing rapidly. The balance ten years from now will be much different than that which prevails today. The latter is simply irrelevant to decisions about who should pay to reduce future emissions. To the contrary, attempting to interject claims about the historical record is more likely t...
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One such "utility scale solar" company is Abengoa. The Spanish solar company was the single largest recipient of taxpayer funding through Obama's 2009 Stimulus Bill$2.8 billionbut has been beset with corruption and allegations that it routinely violates U.S. immigration, environmental, and workplace safety laws. The co...
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Ironically, settling with As You Sow buys businesses little. Settlements typically involve businesses agreeing to be continuously monitored by As You Sow and the posting of As You-Sow-drafted warnings to scare customers. Rather than enduring a brief public relations battle, As You Sow's targets sign-up for a permanent ...
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Prof Steffen said there was evidence that extreme weather events appear to be increasing.
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In the past century the sea level has risen twenty centimetres. There is no evidence for accelerated sea-level rise. It is my opinion that there is no need for drastic measures. Fortunately, the time rate of climate change is slow compared to the life span of the defense structures along our coast. There is enough time...
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A fuels-management project to log and thin 4,800 acres in the Bozeman, Mont., watershed exemplifies the problem. This project has been held up since 2010 on grounds that the environmental-impact assessment did not adequately protect the habitat of the Canadian lynx and the grizzly bear, both listed as threatened specie...
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The Little Ice Age lasted about 500 years, but the most severe period during the Little Ice Age occurred in Europe between 1550 and 1700, says Dr Baliunas. That was also probably the harshest period of weather in the last 1,000 years, if not longer.
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The process of discovery of this station was a long one, aided by a global discussion at Tallblokes Talkshop. This Bing Maps aerial view I found and posted at TBs confirmed to me that there was in fact a Stevenson Screen there:
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New Scientist for 12 December 2009 wrote an editorial comment supporting the Climategate emailers and saying they were not part of any kind of conspiracy.
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In the words of the researchers, "contrary to expectations, this US Corn Belt summer climate appeared to cause sufficient water stress under ambient CO 2 to allow the ameliorating effects of elevated CO 2 to significantly enhance leaf net CO 2 assimilation." Hence, they conclude that "this response of Z. mays to elevat...
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Not bullying? I doubt the Senators are so thick as to think that using the word "demand" twice at the top of an official government document constitutes a gentle suggestion. (Have I said "government" enough times?) Moreover, Piltz seems to see scientists as political advocates,
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arma1 1.lik<-function(b,y=x,t=Year) arima(y-b*t, order=c(1,0,1),method="ML")$loglik
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I dont have much patience for people who deny climate change
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Religion brings with it unbelievers, apostates, and radicals. The debate on climate policy has long been polarized. Asking an utterly sensible question which of the many options is the best course of action is met with howls of derision from both sides. Some protest the idea of taking climate change at all serious. Oth...
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The researchers then ran the data through a climate model, both a control run and a run with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcings, which did a decent job of simulating short-term, monthly changes in lapse rate, but failed to simulate decadal scale changes. The model shows a tighter long-term coupling between the surface...
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on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 9:02 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
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Note that with considerable smoothing of the data, we see a peak imbalance around 0.6 W m-2 during the maximum warming rate around the year 2000.
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Does anyone think that Kerry Emanuel and Judith Curry each have an obligation to issue a report in Nature and/or Science on the 2006 hurricane season? Corporations can??t just issue financial statements when they have good years; they have to issue reports in bad years. And let there be no doubt ??? 2006 was a ???bad??...
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Also, when it came to enforcing the Syria red line, he was worried about UN inspectors on the ground. And he was ticked that British Prime Minister David Cameron had failed to rally his Parliament behind military action. Finally, he couldn't be sure of total success. And then there's this gem: "This falls in the catego...
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The smell of smoke is harmless but we are asking affected residents to keep their doors and windows closed to keep the smell out of their homes.
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Its also deep seated, which means that the fire is burning far below the surface.
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The mess is forcing struggling utilities to contemplate even more radical solutions. E.ON, Germany?s biggest energy company, is thinking of dismantling some of its European gas power plants, mothballed because they are no longer profitable, and relocating them outside the EU. Such farcical considerations become symptom...
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Those also aren't as large as the surface data would indicate, but TLT represents the average temperature in the lowest three miles or so of the atmosphere, not at ground level. Still, climate models predict that the TLT values ought to have a slightly higher warming trend than the surface temperatures, not the lower t...
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We all know, at junkscience.com that education is the key to functional adults.
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In many statistical applications, there is a balance between minimising random sampling error and minimising systematic error (i.e. a trade-off between variance and bias). This issue arises in tree-ring chronology construction too, balancing the inclusion of more data to reduce the noise (i.e. the sampling error) again...
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I dont care much for Facebook which is filled with trivia, nevertheless some eminent Skeptics have made use of it. So I must admit that I was both amused and flattered to be invited to be a Friend with Jim Peden, the Astrophysicist, and one of my absolute heroes. So two days ago I was lead by Jim on Facebook to an essa...
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In 1946 he opened the Laboratory of Climatology in New Jersey and worked there until his death in 1963. John Mather joined him and they produced a revised system in 1955 that is the basis of most practical applications of climate work in the world today. Everyone from irrigators to hydrologists use variations of the mo...
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Photograph taken at the Great Barrier Reef in April 2006 by Dave.
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However, as President Obama stated, despite the many differences there is an underlying "spirit of partnership between our nations, that even as we honor the histories which in different times kept us apart, even as we preserve what makes us unique in a globalized world, we can recognize how much we can achieve togethe...
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