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Because so small a fraction of global emissions will be abated by the scheme, simple calculations based on the IPCCs central assumptions about how much warming will occur this century (which, for the sake of argument, I simply accepted as correct) show that as a result of the full and successful operation of the scheme... | 4_2 |
Wind power is great, as long as you don??t expect to get jobs, power or return on investment. UK power bills will increase to fund the windy boondoggle. In the US even T. Boone the greenwashing opportunist cut his order for bird shredders by half . | 4_4 |
Among other things, you will find a free chapter from the book on that website much like MP3 files with various interviews. Enjoy! | 0_0 |
3. The modern increase in temperatures since the Little Ice Age represents #19 in the count of climate change swings over the last 10,000 years. | 2_1 |
Climate Science published a proposed test of the multi-decadal global model predictions (see A Litmus Test For Global Warming A Much Overdue Requirement ). Clearly, so far, the models are failing to skillfully predict the rate (and even the sign for the most recent years) of global warming. Andy Revkin should follow up... | 5_1 |
79 percent of all green-jobs funding inObama??s $800 billion stimulus package went to foreign companies,with the largest payment going to a bankrupt Australian company. For example, the Obama Administration spent $1.6 billion on Chineseand other foreign wind power. The practical effect of those subsidieswas to outsourc... | 4_1 |
The increasing dollar cost of storm and other weather-related catastrophic insurance losses, erroneously cited as proof of increases in weather extremes in recent years, can be accounted for by the rise in property values, development and population, especially in hurricane-prone areas because hurricane losses dominate... | 1_7 |
Parameter fitting is a procedure that Im usually chary of. However, in this case each of the parameters has a clear physical meaning, a meaning which is consistent with our understanding of how the system actually works. In addition, there are two findings that increase my confidence that these are accurate representat... | 0_0 |
Although most of the money for such positions may be on the green side. Larry Bell bemoans at Forbes: How can I get some of that big oil anti-global warming money? Given that the budgets at NGOs such as Greenpeace and WWF are almost two orders of magnitude larger than the likes of Heartland, the prospects for climate a... | 0_0 |
Another area where Republicans could bring a positive, market-friendly agenda to the climate change debate involves adaptation, a subject treated like an unwanted step-child by Democrats. | 0_0 |
Nor are we alone in concluding that climate sensitivity will be small. The following is a non-exhaustive list of papers in the reviewed journals of climate and related sciences concluding that climate sensitivity will be less than the canonical interval 3.0 K (Charney, J., Nat. Acad. Sci., 1979; IPCC, 2013): | 3_1 |
With increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, there is an imbalance in energy flows in and out of the earth system at the top of the atmosphere (TOA): the greenhouse gases increasingly trap more radiation and hence create warming (Solomon et al. 2007; Trenberth et al. 2009). Warming really means heating and extra... | 0_0 |
"We would like to apologise to residents for the inconvenience caused and thank South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue and the Environment Agency for their combined support. A full investigation into how the fire started will take place once the situation has been resolved. | 0_0 |
Global warming alarmism is rooted in the idea that ever-increasing manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, cause global temperatures to warm. This idea, however, doesn't match up very well against real-world observations. | 5_2 |
Date: April 21, 2010 Time: 6:30 pm Central DST | 0_0 |
"Good news from Down-Under -- Australia and the Cairns Group are taking the lead in trying to resuscitate the WTO's collapsed Doha Round. It may seem strange that a country on the Pacific Ocean is attempting to bridge the transatlantic gap between the U.S. and the European Union on agricultural issues. But the Cairns G... | 0_0 |
U.S. slips to historic low in global corruption index: | 0_0 |
This is same LA Times which publishes factual inaccuracies about the climate almost every day. They said in August that New Mexico would never recover from the drought right before New Mexico flooded. | 5_2 |
The difference in the radiation temperatures from the highest to the lowest GCMs global control runs (from 16.5C to 11.5C), on the other hand, is 27 watts per square meter ?? clearly, some of them are very, very wrong. Heck, look at the top red line. It changes by 1C, that??s 5.5 w/m2, when the forcings haven??t change... | 5_1 |
A recent re-posting on the SPPI blog from the HockeySchtick site, with the title, The 97% Consensus is only 75 Self-Selected Climatologists was a second look at the claim first made in January 2009, in a paper called Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change by Peter Doran and Kendall Zimmerman, from the dep... | 5_1 |
The main purpose of the interview was to establish if the government thought the recent and continuing pause in global temperatures meant it should re-think its policies in response to global warming. | 1_4 |
During the Cold War, the Atlantic Alliance had two geographic pillars: the Brussels-based Allied Command-Europe (ACE) for continental affairs, the Norfolk-based Allied Command-Atlantic (ACLANT) for maritime affairs. From 1991 to 2001, the maritime dimension, once identified with the Atlantic, became confined to the Med... | 0_0 |
Nicolas D. Loris, "Government Energy-Efficiency Programs Are Subsidy-Laden Paternalism," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2832, August 1, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/government-energy-efficiency-programs-are-subsidy-laden-paternalism. | 0_0 |
There are a number of ways to present how poorly climate models simulate global surface temperatures. Normally they are compared in a time-series graph. See the example here . In that example, GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI) data are compared to the multi-model mean of the climate models stored in the CMIP5 ar... | 5_1 |
It is no use my saying that London Underground and bus networks are performing relatively well ? touch wood ? when Heathrow, our major international airport, is still effectively closed two days after the last heavy snowfall; when substantial parts of our national rail network are still struggling; when there are aband... | 0_0 |
blandished with government money to convert food into energy. Pimentel, | 0_0 |
Click here to read the rest of the original article at the Orange County Register's Orange Punch blog. | 0_0 |
Hunters and gatherers, he says, entered Amazonia from various directions at different times and undertook many activities in the rainforest. They "burned grassland and scrub to flush game and kill small animals, thereby creating more open habitats," and created landscape changes that became more pronounced when "large ... | 0_0 |
Second, the absolute value of the global mean temperature in a free-running coupled climate model is an emergent property of the simulation. It therefore has a spread of values across the multi-model ensemble. Showing the models anomalies then makes the coherence of the transient responses clearer. However, the variati... | 0_0 |
In reading over McCook et al., some 40 such discrepancies were noted and more detailed examination would surely reveal more. However, without going further it should be clear that PNAS has been badly used. The serious and obvious conflict of interest alone can neither be ignored nor credibly explained away. If not addr... | 0_0 |
Whether we've properly safeguarded the freedoms they fought to leave us, may be a discussion best left for another day. Today we struggle to envision or, for a few of us, to remember how the world must have looked on Oct. 26, 1942. | 0_0 |
A screwdriver often comes in handy. But not as a soup ingredient. Black pepper is essential in any cooking. But don't try repairing your bike with it. | 0_0 |
At the U.N. climate conference in Lima, Peru, in December, attendees were told that their countries should cut carbon emissions to avoid future damage from storms like typhoon Hagupit, which hit the Philippines during the conference, killing at least 21 people and forcing more than a million into shelters. Yet the tren... | 1_7 |
Southern and Eastern U.S. - Get ready for the icebox | 0_0 |
Comparing the southern California drought record against the global temperature record reveals the following: | 0_0 |
But for the gusher of new oil and the resulting drop in gasoline prices brought about by the fracking revolution, the political cost of stopping Keystone would have been prohibitive. And while environmentalists are loath to admit it, by unlocking a vast supply of natural gas from shale deposits, fracking is also playin... | 4_5 |
If the ABC (and the report) were not desperate to paint an awful picture of a wasteland ravaged by man-made climate change (which they most certainly are), you could alternatively say that over 90% of the catchment areas were in either moderate or good condition . Well done. | 5_2 |
The key constitutional point, though, is this: We could end up with a regulatory regime more onerous and intrusive than any climatebill Congress has rejected or declined to adopt, yet without the peoples elected representatives ever casting a vote. | 0_0 |
The danger, says Hughes, is that without the right expertise, climate proxies can be mixed and matched to produce inaccurate pictures of the past. "You have to compare like with like and you have to be able to calibrate the data," said Hughes. By calibrate, Hughes means tying tree rings or other climate proxies to real... | 0_0 |
8. For example, the original draft of the 2001 IPCC "Summary for Policy Makers" read as follows: "From the body of evidence since IPCC (1996), we conclude that there has been a discernible human influence on global climate. Studies are beginning to separate the contributions to observed climate change attributable to i... | 0_0 |
FALSE ALARM: Why Almost Everything Weve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong How the Hadley Centre spins the data on non-warming The Hadley Centres spin effort isnt exaggerating the data (far from it), nor is it plain wrong the true figures are on the site. But t he Centre is doing ... | 5_2 |
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Ironically, these are the very people that Obama and EPA claim to care about the most. As African-American author and news analyst Deneen Borelli observes, President Obama "is rewarding his overwhelming support by black voters with an energy policy that will significantly reduce their disposable income." Indeed, she sa... | 4_1 |
I was rewatching Earth: Climate Wars the other day, and laughed at the section on the credibility of climate models, which essentially argued that because Hansen got the global response to Pinatubo correct we should believe what climate models tell us about the climate at the end of the next century. Of course, we'd sh... | 0_0 |
With a changing of the guard in Washington, the question might be: Who's qualified to speak about the future of the Republican Partyand not too shy to do so before too long in Iowa or New Hampshire? | 0_0 |
Ackermann summarizes by writing we do not need a paternalistic, dictatorial state that decides everything for us, thus destroying the individual. Instead, she writes,we need a state that promotes allindividuals, their independence, and thus their pride and self responsibility. Only a society that can produce such indiv... | 0_0 |
Axel Morner concludes that Australian government claims of a 1 meter sea level rise by 2100 are greatly exaggerated, finding instead that sea levels are rising around Australia and globally at a rate of only 1.5 mm/year. This would imply a sea level change of only 0.13 meters or 5 inches by 2100. Dr. Morner also finds ... | 1_6 |
Professor Phil Jones is a leading climate scientist and co-director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Angliain Cromwell country. Jones is part of a climate scientist cabal, not too distant in puritanical fervor from Cromwell's New Model Army. This cabal ignores all counter evidence and regul... | 5_2 |
A review article of solar effects upon climate was published in Nature Climate Change today and finds considerable uncertainlyin estimates of solar forcing of climate based upon the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). The article also suggests that TSI may not be the best indicator of solar variability because solar UV has b... | 2_1 |
As Joanne Nova begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting observes: | 0_0 |
In years to come people will look back and marvel at how primitive our models were... | 0_0 |
National sovereignty meaning the refusal of major powers like India, China and the United States to go along with sweeping global agendas was specifically indicted for the failure of the much ballyhooed Copenhagen summit on climate change. "National sovereignty remains supreme," as one position paper noted. | 0_0 |
As you can see, the sea level rise rate widely varied during the 20th century. It reached about 4 mm/yeararound 1911, and again in the 1930s, 1950s and around 1980.It was much lower in the 1920s, 1940s, 1960s and mid-1980s. | 1_6 |
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Obama: "After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. "We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years": | 0_0 |
"Still in London until the end of the week. The papers here have been chock full of NHS horror stories and health care cautionary tales as the British health care system marks its 63rd birthday." | 0_0 |
Or should we declare that the one and only acceptable solution is drastic worldwide emissions reductions starting now? | 0_0 |
This is a reflection of the fact that the global warming establishment is biased toward high climate sensitivity. It is a specific example of the tendency of natural scientists to view nature as fragile, full of tipping points and hobgoblins. | 5_2 |
Laboratory experiments find that more marine creatures thrive than suffer when carbon dioxide lowers the pH level to 7.8. This is because the carbon dioxide dissolves mainly as bicarbonate, which many calcifiers use as raw material for carbonate. | 3_2 |
I am returning the war decorations because I am deeply ashamed of having served a criminal organization which the NATO led by the U.S. is, and to its malformed interests across the world. | 0_0 |
It could cost them votes in South Australia. So industry and community leaders leave it well alone. | 0_0 |
??? The GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellites are able to measure ocean mass, from which sea-level change can be directly calculated. The GRACE data show that sea level fell slightly from 2002-2007. | 1_6 |
<4141> Minns/Tyndall Centre: | 0_0 |
This approach raises some fundamental questions about the role of non-specialists in critiquing science. Scientists would like to believe that their disagreements can be settled by evidence alone. However, the reality is that science possesses an underlying grammar which includes the rigorous use of opposing evidence, ... | 0_0 |
Whether by land or by sea, according to these results, all will need to be on the fly. | 0_0 |
Models might get it right in some places, but Australia is one of the hardest: | 0_0 |
The MSM do not consider the coming of the new ice age to be news, says Argiris. In the Netherlands we were not informed about the spring snow storms in the USA, but every little heat wave that happens gets a lot of attention because it proves the earth is warming (while it is actually cooling). | 0_0 |
But scientists pick at things, so I will tell him why Le Chatalier?s principle, which he raises there, doesn?t justify the notion of global temperaturenice try Garth. I might even mutter something skeptical about his comments on steady states. He will expect this from me, because he lives by the scientist?s code. I wou... | 0_0 |
In his inline comment , Osborn conceded that this was a reasonable point, but objected that I had raised this example of potential cherrypicking to a panel whose terms of reference including the examination of potential cherrypicking and which had requested submissions. (Not that the Muir Russell panel adequately inves... | 0_0 |
The second article of interest is by a pair of scientists with the School of Earth Sciences at Australias University of Melbourne. Davis and Walsh dare to title the piece Southeast Australian thunderstorms: Are they increasing in frequency? The pair collected thunderstorm data for stations in southeastern Australia, an... | 1_7 |
Now that the Spanish government has dramatically curtailed these subsidies, even retrospectively, more than 50,000 solar entrepreneurs face financial disaster and bankruptcy. | 0_0 |
So-called climate skeptics, practicing proper science by disproving the hypothesis that human CO2 is causing global warming, achieved a great deal. This, despite harassment by formal science agencies, like the Royal Society, and deliberate neglect by the mainstream media. It combined with an active and deliberate Publi... | 5_2 |
Workers compensation insurance covers the cost of medical care and rehabilitation for workers injured on the job. It also compensates them for lost wages and provides death benefits for their dependents if they are killed in work-related accidents, including terrorist attacks. | 0_0 |
That is an unwarranted claim that originally appeared in The Guardian in 2007 and was attributed to the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program ( AMAP ), AMAP itself has distanced itself from that very same claim, for example writing in its 2009 SOAER report that | 0_0 |
Pajamas Media: The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It? | 0_0 |
Historical temperature charts. Other climate history postings. Modern temperature charts. List of peer-reviewed study postings. | 0_0 |
As a general rule, a 300 ppm increase in CO2 improves the productivity of herbaceous plants by 30-50% and of woody plants by 50-80%. Many plants respond even better. For example, lentils, peas and other legumes grown with 700 ppm carbon dioxide improved their total biomass by 91%, their edible parts yield by 150 % and ... | 3_3 |
The warming we have seen in the late-20th century is not unprecedented, says reader Steve Foster. There was another peak temperature between 950-1050 AD. However, many people still believe there are not CYCLES. | 2_1 |
The real mystery, though, is how they arrive at the 1934 number. There are State Climatological Reports available from then, but no direct comparison can be made with current ones because there were less stations then and they were allocated to only three divisions instead of six. Also the majority of stations reportin... | 0_0 |
The analysis in this Backgrounder uses the Heritage Energy Model (HEM), a derivative of the National Energy Model System 2015 Full Release (NEMS). NEMS is used by the EIA in the Department of Energy as well as by various nongovernmental organizations for a variety of purposes, including forecasting the effects of energ... | 0_0 |
What other reasonable conclusion is possible?Building the1,700-mile, shovel-readyproject would create thousands of construction jobs, stimulate tens of billions of dollars in business spending, and generate billions of dollars in tax revenues. Once operational, the pipeline would enhance U.S. energy security, displacin... | 4_5 |
Before we spend anything on mitigating a problem based on models, we need to know what empirical evidence supports the assumptions in the models. (Make no mistake, while CO2 causes warming it is the models that predict how much warming). I??ve been asking for since Jan 2010 and no one can name that mystery paper with s... | 5_1 |
The unrelenting war on carbon fuels has far greater risks, with some zealots advocating Zero Emissions, while also, incredibly, opposing nuclear and hydro-power. They would take us all back to the BC Era (before coal).Already urban environmentalists are polluting city air by burning wood (biomass) and briquetted paper ... | 0_0 |
In a inlgg in February ((.lnk), I wrote that the AR 5 s IPCC has switched to the TCR as the main mttet p klimatknslighet. The BDA parameters have different frtjnster and svrigheter, I do not tnker treat now. Betrffande the BDA, sr the cynical rule of thumb that AGW-anhngare arguing for higher values as and critics fr l... | 0_0 |
- The proposed climate amendment would effectively overturn S. Res. 98, the Byrd-Hagel resolution, by endorsing the Kyoto vision of an impending climate apocalypse, advocating Kyoto-style policies, and urging the United States to rejoin the Kyoto negotiations. | 0_0 |
anyway which I copied onto private storage after the completion of the IPCC | 0_0 |
But the near-surface air temperature is +15 degrees C, and this is different from the global average temperature of -180C. Well, this isnt a big deal. The real global average temperature is measured from outer space, and so it includes all of the atmosphere above 1.5 meters altitude , which the near-surface air tempera... | 0_0 |
"San Francisco's big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink." | 0_0 |
At the same time, other vehicle emissions may increase as a result of greater renewable fuel use. Nationwide, EPA estimates an increase in total emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (VOC + NOx) between 41,000 and 83,000 tons . . . . Areas that experience a substantial increase in ethanol may see ... | 0_0 |
It is not possible to take an average of this flux for the simple reason that it is constantly on the move. So the atmosphere is warming and cooling and shifting incessantly by contact with the earth. The gases of the atmosphere do not warm the Earth the Earth and Oceans warm and or cool the atmosphere. | 2_1 |
An investigation by Dr Benny Peiser, director, Global Warming Policy Foundation, has revealed that only 13 of the 1,117, or a mere 1 per cent of the scientific papers crosschecked by him, explicitly endorse the consensus as defined by the IPCC. Thus the very basis of the claim of consensus on global warming is false. A... | 5_1 |
Insurance Companies Blame Floods on Global Warming | 0_0 |
This approach has a very fundamental drawback the reliability of historical data relating to length and width. In Elsners provisional work , he seems to have used 1985 as his start point, but his paper now uses 1994 instead. Elsner told to me in May that the data had problems before the mid 1990s , a fact which is conf... | 0_0 |
At a time when painful public expenditure cuts are unavoidable, it makes no sense whatever to increase the scale of the cuts required in the public services by committing to spending, wholly unnecessarily and to no practical purpose, increasing sums on non-carbon energy subsidies. | 4_2 |
Which States Lose From the Changes to the EPAs Clean Power Plan? | 0_0 |
Less than two months into his presidency, Obama announced that he would reverse the Bush policies by allowing research on cell lines created after the Bush ban. The president instructed the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop guidelines for the support and conduct of responsible, scientifical... | 0_0 |
As for the declaration that we are experiencing the ???hottest?? year ??? this is a purely political statement. Lawrimore knows that these statistics are merely tenths of a degree or less. (See: MIT??s Richard Lindzen: ???For small changes in climate associated with tenths of a degree, there is no need for any external... | 5_2 |
"As a meteorologist and climate change (what happened to global warming?) investigator, I constantly hear the charge that we who do not kneel at the altar of Al Gore are simply hired hacks for ?Big Oil.? We are clueless stooges who will say anything for money. This old and tired argument is used over and over again by ... | 0_0 |
the panic-evoking extinction-predicting paradigms of the past are rapidly giving way to the realization they bear little resemblance to reality. Earths plant and animal species are not slip-sliding away even slowly into the netherworld of extinction that is preached from the pulpit of climate alarmism as being caused b... | 3_2 |
According to EPA, "Our reforms will remove the obstacles to environmentally beneficial projects, clarify NSR requirements, encourage emissions reductions, promote pollution prevention, provide incentives for energy efficient improvements, and help assure worker and plant safety. Overall, our reforms will clarify and si... | 0_0 |
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