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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species there has been a 70 percent decline in the global population of female Leatherbacks in one generation. | 0_0 |
This effect can be seen in "desired fertility" statistics, a measure of the number of children people say is ideal. Among non-religious Americans, 21 percent say three or more children make the ideal family size. Among weekly churchgoers, 41 percent do. Last concludes, "Religion helps marriage and marriage helps fertil... | 0_0 |
High on the list of government agencies that engage in this is the Environmental Protection Agency, but others include Transportation, Agriculture, and Defense, along with the Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. One recent victory touted by Friends of the Earth is an EPA air pollution regulation i... | 0_0 |
Second, the vertical structure of the atmosphere was relatively stable (little mixing), with a stable layer (in this case one with temperature staying the same with height) from from roughly 925 hPa (about 2500 ft) to 850 hPa (around 5000 ft). Below is a vertical sounding at Quillayute on the Washington coast, provide ... | 0_0 |
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, "Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." | 0_0 |
For "most" I'll assume "more than half." For "observed increase in global temperature" I'll assume the linear least-squares regression trend through the most recent version of the global temperature dataset compiled jointly by the U.K.'s Hadley Center and Climate Research Unit (dataset HadCRUT3). There are other global... | 0_0 |
One of the components discussed above is presented correctly: the volcanic aerosols component. After the two major explosive volcanic eruptions, global sea surface temperatures did cool and then warm back up gradually over a few years. Those dips and rebounds are tough to find in some parts of the global oceans, but in... | 0_0 |
Agreement signed at Mexico City June 13, 2006; entered into force June 13, 2006. | 0_0 |
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2008 The tax burden borne by Americans goes well beyond April 15th's infamous income taxes. | 0_0 |
A new U.S. Geological Survey study predicts where 50 bird species will breed, feed and live in the conterminous U.S. by 2075. While some types of birds, like the Bairds sparrow, will likely lose a significant amount of their current U.S. range, other ranges could nearly double. Human activity will drive many of these s... | 3_2 |
Already, the crops we have now, the herbicide-tolerant and the insect-resistant crops ... getting what amounts to higher yields. You can raise more food on less land, and all of that is good for ecology in general and the climate particularly. | 0_0 |
Kevin Fay, executive director of the International Climate Change Partnership, claimed that early action would not hurt small business. "A successful early action program will reduce the overall level of reductions required under any regulatory program. Companies that don't make early reductions will thus have fewer re... | 0_0 |
New satellite data are starting to show but are quite convincing, I must say that both the Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet are losing net mass , not on the margins but as an ice sheet, he said. | 0_0 |
Now to the second fib. The Renewable Fuel Association (2013 budget: $8 million) says it wants to help America become "more energy independent." The reality: Ethanol has done effectively nothing to reduce oil imports. Over the past ten years, oil imports have fallen by more than half. But that decrease is due almost sol... | 0_0 |
In this not quite friendly interview with Giuliani, Fox News' Megyn Kelly joined the Obama personality cult. Thankfully, Giuliani didn't behave like Matt Taylor after the feminists criticized his shirt. | 0_0 |
In referring to the current global warming alarms, Bastardi asks: | 0_0 |
In Italy many choices sullenergia, you would not be accepted dallopinione public, if it were not for the theory of greenhouse gases to make them plausible. For example, the Minister THE ENVIRONMENT A. Pecoraro Scanio has provided a plan of 100 million Euros for solar energy. Unfortunately, solar energy costs 10 to 20 t... | 0_0 |
Energy reality continues to set in for the government-dependent energy sector, industrial windpower. Part of the reckoning is economic???the increased competitive gap between electricity generated from natural gas versus wind. But the bigger part is the looming expiration of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind. Tw... | 4_4 |
But this is not meant to be a blog post focusing on speculations. It's possible that these speculations are wrong and even if they are right, they don't really change much about the picture. Even if the basic biography is what we are told, it is very clear that Barack Obama grew up in an environment with lots of extrem... | 0_0 |
In and of itself, though, this rebalancing will not bring the kind of maritime domain awareness that is so crucial for an understanding of both the Great Game and the Long War. Outside the Anglo-Saxon world, to be sure, Western policymakers and opinion leaders have rarely been literate when it comes to naval strategy. ... | 0_0 |
Companies that fail to register their energy use by next month will be hit with fines that could reach 45,000 under the little-known rules. Those that do participate in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) initiative by declaring their energy use will face charges for every ton of greenhouse gas they produce. These pa... | 0_0 |
Since humans began adding CO2 to the planets atmosphere, taking plants off their starvation rations by creating a planet-wide greenhouse, plants have thrived. Data from NASA satellites, which since the early 1980s have been tracking the amount of biota on Earth, vividly demonstrate the results. As CO2 emissions grew in... | 3_3 |
Teamster, teacher, auto and service employee unions are paying their own employees minimal wages and benefits, and sacking them for trying to unionize, columnist Deroy Murdock chronicles while preparing to pump $50 million and legions of campaigners into ruling class Democrat reelection campaigns. | 0_0 |
Chapter 2, by Dennis AverySaving the Planet with Pesticides: Increasing Food Supplies While Preserving the Earth's Biodiversity | 0_0 |
In the words of the authors, "acorns from CO 2 springs contained significantly higher sulphur concentrations than controls (0.67 vs. 0.47 mg g -1 dry weight in Q. ilex cotyledons and 1.10 vs. 0.80 in Q. pubescens )," indicative of the fact that the trees were indeed significantly affected by the H 2 S- and SO 2 -enrich... | 3_3 |
Image by Darren Wamboldt / Bergman Group | 0_0 |
Planet Gore on National Review Online What is it with Al Gore? Why is he compelled to exaggerate climate change (excuse me, the climate crisis), and then to propose impossible policy responses? Its like hes inventing the Internet all over again! OK, its pretty much standard rhetoric in Washington to say that if you don... | 5_2 |
Eric Shawn investigates the hit on Hoffa: 38 years later, the mystery endures | Fox News | 0_0 |
"Never use human beings as a means to end" is a fundamental principle of ethics. This imperative is especially strong with regard to children, who are the most vulnerable to manipulation. It is shameful that the most prominent environmentalist special interestsincluding the Sierra Club and the American Lung Association... | 0_0 |
Matt Dempsey Matt Dempsey@epw.senate.gov (202) 224-9797 | 0_0 |
5. As discussed in the weblog of December 16, 2005 the raw surface temperature data from which global surface temperature trend analyses are derived are essentially the same. The best estimate we have seen is that 90-95% of the raw data is the same. That the four analyses produce similar trends should come as no surpri... | 0_0 |
Sure, he is large enough that he tends to play parts reserved for big and tall men, including Horton the elephant in a touring company of Seussical, the musical. But he says he is healthy and agile. | 0_0 |
How Do You Differentiate Between CO2 Cold And Non-CO2 Cold?' "Given the incontrovertible evidence that evil humans made the weather cold (by making the earth hot) I was wondering how you tell the difference between -20C caused by CO2 and -20C caused by a lack of CO2. Do they make a thermometer which can tell the differ... | 0_0 |
By Liz Hartman, US Department of Energy, Breaking Energy, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
Sure, this is GISP ??? one ice core from Greenland and not global temperatures. The truth is we have no idea whether the current level of ???extreme?? hot days is much different to the hot spells 1,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, or 7,000 years ago. It is completely disingenuous to pretend that a 15 year trend in a dat... | 5_1 |
Also there will be a 10% efficiency loss in the inverters necessary to convert the DC solar energy generated by the PV arrays to the AC supply connected to the distribution grid. In addition there will be a further charge-discharge round trip Coulombic efficiency loss in the batteries of about 5%. To be generous, lets ... | 4_4 |
Publishing in the American Meterological Societys Journal of Climate , a new paper called An improved, objective Bayesian, approach for applying optimal fingerprint techniques to estimate climate sensitivity , Nicholas Lewis applies objective Bayesian techniques and uses more up-to-date observational data to derive his... | 0_0 |
And yet, some of the most exciting technological developments and significant reductions in U.S. and Canadian GHG emissions since 2009 have come from outside the process: from the natural gas industry. | 0_0 |
Beyond mere organizational problems are more fundamental factors. The nature of the issue and the history of past environmental alarms (e.g., the population bomb, resource scarcity, and so forth) meant that early on the issue broke down into rigid categories of "true believers" or "alarmists," and "skeptics"terms that ... | 5_2 |
That range in modeled energy imbalances was so great, not only did I double check all of the spreadsheets and downloads, but I cross-checked the extremes. Those extremes in the modeled energy imbalances come from two modeling groups, the two highs from one and the two lows from another. To cross-check the results, I do... | 0_0 |
Five crews and around 25 firefighters from South Yorkshire and Skelmanthorpe initially attended and four crews are still at the scene, due to the deep-seated nature of the fire, which is burning far below the surface of the huge stacks. | 0_0 |
Fred Dardick reported in 2011, We are in the midst of the convergence of three major solar, ocean, and atmospheric cycles, all heading in the direction of global cooling. Last year the Southern Hemisphere experienced its coldest winter in 50 years and Europe just went through two particularly cold winters in a row; the... | 1_2 |
At a breakfast talk, Michigan's deeply unpopular governor | 0_0 |
And heres the link to Jon Samets declaration that there is no safe level of air pollution. | 0_0 |
Germany, in 2002 and 2003. I just refused to give an exclusive interview to | 0_0 |
which of course also the BDA is temperature dependent and d jmviktskonstanten. Someone might now associate with the concept of law of mass action, which one p my time had served p grundskoleniv. | 0_0 |
Eliot A. Cohen, a member of AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, argues that the United States has only two choices in this situation: to live with a nuclear Iran or strike against Iran now. Neither decision seems palatable. "Understandably, the U.S. government has hoped for a middle course of sanctions, negotiations, a... | 0_0 |
A new paper provides more evidence for the reality of the Little Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as its increased storminess compared to that of the Medieval and Current Warm Periods?? | 2_1 |
Selig told reporters at HoHoKam Park that it was a "dangerous precedent" to tax all ticket buyers primarily to benefit one team and that Major League Baseball has taken over negotiations for a new Cubs spring home. | 0_0 |
It's time for America to have its long overdue debate over global warming science and the painful economic impacts of anti-hydrocarbon cap-and-trade policies. A little honesty, transparency and robust debate would do wonders for the integrity of the legislative process and Americans' trust in Congress. | 0_0 |
Listing the bears under the Endangered Species Act is the wrong move at this time. My decision is based on a comprehensive review by state wildlife officials of scientific information from a broad range of climate, ice and polar bear experts. | 3_2 |
Despite a balmy February winter that many in the U.S. would consider a global warming benefit, the overall cooling trend during the last 15 years persists. | 1_4 |
Mikhail Metzel/AP/File | 0_0 |
And here you already see three fans of the U.S. next to the Greenpeace Totem : that's exactly the place where the radar should be built. | 0_0 |
I guess I should not make too much fun of our local paper, I know it must be hard to fill all those pages every day. But I have to laugh at the statistical insights our reporters provide: | 0_0 |
Steer, a UK national, returns to the World Bank after three years as Director General, Policy and Research at the UK Department of International Development (DFID) in London. In earlier years at the World Bank he held a number of positions including Country Director for Indonesia and Vietnam and Director of the Environ... | 0_0 |
I chose the lectures title largely in reaction to the sanctimonious tone employed by so many of those who advocate quite substantial, and costly, responses to what they see as irrefutable evidence that the worlds climate faces catastrophe, against people who do not share their view. To them the cause has become a subst... | 5_2 |
The scale of the challenge in the 450 Policy Scenario is immense: the 2030 emissions level for the world as a whole in this scenario is less than the level of projected emissions for non-OECD countries alone in the Reference Scenario. In other words, the OECD countries alone cannot put the world onto the path to 450-pp... | 0_0 |
First, the IPCC has already been compelled to reduce the radiative forcing at CO2 doubling by more than a sixth, from 4.4 W/m2 in the 1995 climate assessment report to 3.7 W/m2 in 2001. The CO2 forcing in the atmosphere cannot be measured directly. Also, laboratory experiments are of limited value because they cannot r... | 5_1 |
story. They want the story to be a very strong one and don?t want to be made | 0_0 |
Here . Excerpt: One of my intuitive objections to the theory of global warming has been the role of carbon dioxide as a trigger mechanism, the driver of changes in the earth's atmosphere. Yes I recognize that levels of carbon dioxide have risen from around 260 ppm to 360 ppm, but I still can't grasp how a gas that repr... | 2_3 |
Europe can and should produce more of its own oil and gas. It has vast petroleum potential waiting to be tapped via fracking. Opposition to producing this petroleum is no more ethical than environmentalist demands that the United States keep its own enormous untapped petroleum supplies locked up, while we deplete other... | 0_0 |
Policymakers should look for win-win policies in order to improve the environment that we live in (e.g., see). The costs and benefits of the regulation of the emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere need to be evaluated together with all other possible environmental regulations. The goal should be to seek politically and ... | 0_0 |
In an attempt to answer these important questions, Wahl et al ., as they describe it, "investigated sea level changes in the North Sea region based on 30 tide gauge records and 19 years of altimetry data." Based on their analysis of all the available data, the four researchers determined that "linear long-term trends i... | 1_6 |
In the new CEI Podcast, Warren Brookes Fellow Kathryn Ciano interviews Carrie Lukas from the Independent Women's Forum about the male-female pay gap. | 0_0 |
Sorry climate propagandists, floods are not increasing. Check out the facts at Climate Depot. | 1_7 |
The Executive Order therefore seeks to increase efficiency and cost savings in the work performed by parties that contract with the Federal Government by raising the hourly minimum wage paid by those contractors to workers performing on covered Federal contracts to: $10.10 per hour , beginning January 1, 2015; and begi... | 0_0 |
The Environmental Defense Fund (www.edf.org) is claiming that New York City could experience serious problems resulting from climate change. For example, sea level rise could threaten lower Manhattan with "frequent flooding by the end of the next century." The report gets even more specific. "The foundations of Battery... | 0_0 |
Comcast, NBC deal opens door for online video: | 0_0 |
"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's warning that refusing to increase the debt ceiling would plunge the nation into fiscal catastrophe is unfounded, at least according to some congressional Republicans." | 0_0 |
In Alaska glaciers had been retreating from 100 to 200 years , the average rate of recessionbeing about 50 feet a year. The Antarctic ice- sheet also showed signs of recent retreat. | 0_0 |
The study's authors, Drs. Jan Esper and Fritz Schweingruber at the Swiss Federal Research Institute, and Edward Cook at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, state that "Much of the current debate on the Earth's climate variability is driven by the observation of a modern, century-long temperature increase, culminating... | 0_0 |
According to NOAAs new publication, Explaining Extremes of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, there is no discernible connection between global warming and 2013 extreme weather events such as the California drought, Colorado floods, the UKs exceptionally cold spring, a South Dakota blizzard, Central Europe floods, a nort... | 1_7 |
I dont know how much a Tropical Airport exceeds the temperatures of nearby forests nor how much they exceed a Scandinavian Woods, but I do know they will be much warmer Certainly far warmer as a local phenomenon than the tenths and hundredths of a degree of AGW that we are supposed to be panicked about. Far more than a... | 5_1 |
Top two graphs show temperature proxies from two different lakes in Iceland. Bottom graph is a composite of the two lakes, and shows ~12C temperature decrease from 8,000 years ago to the end of the record in the year 2000. | 2_1 |
"What bookworm doesn't love the idea of Google's new project, Google Library? The ability to search the entire contents of the world's greatest libraries online seems to fulfill one of the greatest potentials of the Internet. Unfortunately, Google has glossed over some inconvenient details. Unless Google is willing to ... | 0_0 |
GDDs may be calculated using either Celsius or Fahrenheit, though they must be converted appropriately; 5 GDDC = 9 GDDF | 0_0 |
In other words, as I said, the warming of 1975-2000 was only half caused by man-made emissions and half by natural causes, according to their conclusions, and natural causes were enough to cancel man-made forcing in the years after 2000. | 2_1 |
Except that it isnt science, its fiction. Science fiction; it takes a vaguely plausible scientific possibility, extrapolates it, and makes it the situation in which some form of drama plays out. For every one degree rise in temperature, Lynas considers what might happen to life on Earth. | 0_0 |
Polluted Drinking Water Was No. 1 Concern Before AP Report | 0_0 |
There is also something unfunny about this issue, which has now been taken up by a tabloid blog . There is much hilarity among commenters there about how anyone could be gullible enough to believe that a seemingly troubled and challenged person was actually, well, a troubled and challenged person. By some leap of logic... | 0_0 |
Surprisingly, similar movement rates are needed to out-run climate change. On land, movement of 2.7 kilometers (1.6 miles) per year is needed and in the oceans, movement of 2.2 kilometers (1.3 miles) per year is needed. | 0_0 |
Insecurity Blanket: Greens Preparing Kinder, Gentler Guilt Campaign | 0_0 |
has found that recent floods associated with the Indian monsoon are not linked to global warming, and that such events have occurred throughout the 200 year history of the monsoon. | 1_7 |
The government says that it wants a sustainable, secure and affordable energy system. Unfortunately, week-by-week since the general election, and now with the budget, it has made statements or policy changes that take us further away from that goal, and put us increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. Govern... | 0_0 |
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose! Dr. Eric Fleegler: Conclusions and Relevance - A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually. John Hinderaker: Conclusions and Relevance - ote that Fleegler's s... | 0_0 |
Under the most favourable assumptions for wind power, the Government??s wind policy will reduce emissions of CO2 at an average cost of 270 per metric ton (at 2009 prices) which means that meeting the UK??s renewable energy target would cost a staggering 78 billion per year in 2020. | 4_1 |
So even those most worried about the possibilities of climate change are beginning to realize that the Chicken Little attitude isn't working. Al Gore, call your office. | 0_0 |
the level of uncertainty in the ocean data has not been emphasized. This post is to highlight this issue with respect to modeled uncertainty ofocean heat content changes. | 0_0 |
18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year | 0_0 |
Since just before the start of the 21st century, the Earths average global surface temperature has failed to rise despite soaring levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and years of dire warnings from environmental advocates. | 1_4 |
Most of the data series in most of the plots have just appeared on the CRU web site. | 0_0 |
"In the geologic past, atmospheric CO2 concentrations can be at least 2 to 5 times larger than 400 ppm. Therefore, crossing such a CO2 level in 2013/2014 is not unprecedented," Soon said. | 2_3 |
"Now with the tobacco settlement, there was an actual basis for that case. The tobacco industry had concealed things, it knew about the health effects of smoking tobacco for a long time, and it had lied under oath," Mr. Ebell said. "This is entirely different, but you can see we're going down the same road here." | 0_0 |
In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court legislated from the bench, authorizing and indeed pushing EPA to control emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) for climate change purposes. This is a policy decision of immense economic and political magnitude that Congress never intended or approved when it enacted and amended... | 0_0 |
Because Sterns conclusions endorsed policies adopted by both government and opposition and its highly tendentious assumptions were not explicit, it was initially accepted without public scrutiny. | 0_0 |
As vilification of Soon demonstrates, however, climate politics wont accommodate alternative views. With their motivating theory increasingly challenged by observation, proponents of extreme precaution have gone from name-callingdeniers, Neanderthalsto character assassination. Their tactics exude desperation and underm... | 5_2 |
DOT Exempts Maker of "Flying Car' From Road Vehicle Safety Specs: | 0_0 |
Of course, big-government does not like its climate orthodoxy challenged. That is why attorneys general across the country have begun focusing on those who challenge climate-change "consensus." CEI is the latest victim of the witch-hunt on climate change skeptics, but CEI is fighting back. | 5_2 |
With regards to climate science, IMO the key issue regarding academic freedom is this: no scientist should have to fall on their sword to follow the science where they see it leading or to challenge the consensus. I?ve fallen on my dagger (not the full sword), in that my challenge to the consensus has precluded any fur... | 0_0 |
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