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While the focus on LOST is over the rules it establishes for ocean travel and deep-seabed mining as well as the submission to United Nations' taxing (fee levying") authority, few are looking at the green pages interspersed among the others. With far less detail there is clearly as much environmental authority included ... | 0_0 |
11. It is generally agreed that if greenhouse warming was occurring, the strongest warming would be in the upper atmosphere above the tropics. Recent research shows this is not occurring, which indicates that warming is not being caused by greenhouse gases: | 2_3 |
Job Openings In IT Support At The CRU And Nature Publishing Group | 0_0 |
From what I have read, you swam in a perfectly normal gap in the ice at the North Pole last year, and got stuck in the ice close to Svalbard this year. While these acts are a testament to your personal strength, athletic ability and courage - they dont shed any light on the historical record or changes to earths climat... | 0_0 |
I'm under no illusions. Free-market supporters will probably always have fewer stars on our side. We will always face a celebrity gap. But we can do a whole lot better in communicating our ideals to people who don't think like economists. | 0_0 |
Why? Because of (2) and (3). AR5s reduction of estimated increase in global average surface temperature 19512010 by nearly half, and its reduction of the lower limit of ECS by one-fourth, reflect huge revisions, first, in how scientists process temperature data from around the world, second, in observations (about 0.0C... | 5_1 |
As long as they continue to practice what is, in effect, climate Realpolitik, the U.S. has only four options for attempting to construct a global GHG control pact. None of them is likely to have a more than marginal impact on emissions. ACESA seems to draw, in varying degrees, on all four approaches. | 0_0 |
Here . Update : Junk Science asks : "A million bucks a head to relocate a subsistence village"? | 0_0 |
b) Ordinary Least Squares ( OLS )with the number of degrees for freedom adjusted using N eff /N = (1-)/(1+), where is the correlation of the residuals for the OLS fit. | 0_0 |
Highest Court in DC Allows Second Amendment Challenges to Long-Ago Convictions for Violating D.C. Handgun Ban: | 0_0 |
This one mentions, obliquely the Kuznets curve of improvememnts in enviro conditions following economic prosperity. | 0_0 |
What's the Strange, Snake-Like Image Captured by Radar Off the Australian Coast? | 0_0 |
In the U.S., federal regulators are mandating power plants emit less CO2. Policymakers have also offered a slew of subsidies to make green energy attractive to investors. | 0_0 |
NASA has repeatedly altered global temperature data, causing a net doubling of 1880-1980 global warming since their 1981 version. Pre-1965 years keep getting colder, and post-1965 years keep getting warmer. (Note that prior to 2003, NASA did noteven pretend to know pre-1950 ocean temperatures.) | 5_1 |
Note that in this context applies concentrations not mngder. (Exception is the treatment of compartmental kinetic exchange of components between avgnsade behllare, such as living cells and surrounding vtska. Dr. INFR man from the gray modeling is more supple concentrations of reactants and products by entering their mn... | 0_0 |
By Timothy Cama, The Hill, Aug 12, 2015 | 0_0 |
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she is "committed" to keeping a $400 million program that reimburses states for jailing illegal immigrants, a task she called "a total federal responsibility." | 0_0 |
Under Article 12 (the clean development mechanism), the U.S. may earn credits by reducing emissions in developing countries. But such reductions may count only against "part" of our Kyoto obligation, and how large a part will not be determined until after the Protocol enters into force.27 Also, a project may qualify fo... | 0_0 |
18 Dec: Guardian: The Guardian lays claim to Antarctica in pictures Journalists Alok Jha and Laurence Topham have landed in Antarctica with the 2013 Australasian Antarctic Expedition Documentary filmmaker Laurence Topham lines up a shot from the bows. Photograph: Alok Jha/Guardian | 0_0 |
One of the fundamental principles, championed by Blair, and also in Rumsfelds famous known knowns speech, is the Precautionary Principle, which needs no further explanation here. It was this which allowed mere speculation to be presented as clear and present risk. Mitigation of risk being the thing which the terror and... | 0_0 |
In December, as Climategate was developing, TWTW referred to a Russian report stating the CRU was ignoring data from colder regions of Russia, even though these stations were still reporting data. Thus, the data loss was not due to just the closing of stations as earlier thought, but due to decisions by the CRU to igno... | 5_1 |
MOOSE: I dont know why I like smacking you around so much. Its that look on your face. Now say it again. | 0_0 |
Bangladesh Cyclone, November 1970. The greatest tropical system disaster this century occurred in Bangladesh in November 1970. Winds coupled with a storm surge killed between 300,000- 500,000people. These cyclones usually cause the most misery, loss of life, and suffering in low lying areas in Bangladesh and coastal In... | 0_0 |
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For his part, Mr. Coles can't understand the hostility. "I tell these groups that my concerns are your concerns. I have been protecting the environment here for decades, long before any of them became interested in this land." He's received offers to buy his land for sums that would make him incredibly wealthy, but has... | 0_0 |
Remember the next time team warming tries to hype a hot summer's day, drought or flood as climate, rather than weather. | 0_0 |
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters which scientists are attributing to global climate change produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries. | 0_0 |
Svensmark has laid out observational evidence of this chain of events in a paper that he and his colleagues published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in 2009 and he is currently involved in the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUdoor Droplets) experiment being conducted at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CE... | 2_1 |
Denning: It is the amount of heat that goes in, relative to the amount of heat that goes out, that causes changes of temperature (Heat in minus heat out equals change of heat.) Likewise, it is the amount of cold that goes in, relative to the amount of cold that goes out, that changes temperature. This accounts for why ... | 0_0 |
In terms of the broader audience, I have to say that I hope that this book leads to the discontinuation of the IPCC after the AR5 report (which is already well underway, and is arguably sufficiently tarnished that it is likely to have much less influence than previous reports.) | 0_0 |
Climate change is an area where consistent attempts are made to communicate the certainty of the science. As a result, a spotlight on scientific uncertainties may be seen as unwelcome. However, in the run-up to the United Nations climate summit in Paris, making climate change meaningful remains a key challenge and our ... | 5_1 |
Roska and Arum wrote, "This lack of engagement is as troubling as their financial difficulties it can hardly be a good sign for a democratic society when many of its citizens, including highly educated ones, are not aware of or engaged with what is going on in the nation and world." | 0_0 |
Sen. John McCain delivers a major speech on global warming. | 0_0 |
As far as we can determine, during the period from 1943 to 1975 the Earth cooled by nearly a degree Celsius (although anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide were rising sharply), and this trend precipitated fear of a new ice age. However, following the switch in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from cool to warm in 1... | 2_1 |
Arctic sea ice extent hasnt changed for several days, and remains just below the 2006 minimum. | 1_1 |
"Mainstream environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the Natural Resources Defense Council, have been largely mute, having traded the picket line for a seat at the table when development plans were drawn. | 0_0 |
Whelan, Robert; Kirwan, Joseph, and Haffner, Paul. The Cross and the Rainforest: A Critique of Radical Green Spirituality. Grand Rapids, MI: Acton Institute, 1996. | 0_0 |
Here is his plot comparing 19th century readings with ice core and Mauna Loa data. | 0_0 |
It was coal, and later oil, which created and still largely supports the populations, prosperity and industry of developed nations. With a backdrop of freedom under the law, they can do the same for the whole world. | 4_5 |
Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., pointed out to Jackson, who was also called to testify, that Congress had rejected federal regulation of greenhouse gases on no fewer than three occasions. "Do you object to an up or down vote in Congress?" he asked her. | 0_0 |
Posted by Hockey Schtick on 25 Oct 2013 | 0_0 |
Th e hockey stick graph dealt with all those by eliminating the MWP and the LIA. It inappropriately tacked on, as the blade of the stick, an upturn in temperature in the 20th century. Phil Jones produced the upturn that claimed a 0.6C 0.2C increase in 120 years. They claimed this rate of increase was beyond any natural... | 5_1 |
"I wonder how this rhetoric squares with his standard condescending line about Republican-leaning voters not thinking clearly because their minds are clouded by economic anxiety. Does economic anxiety also explain why Latino turnout isn't quite where the Democrats need it to be (although, per this new Politico poll, it... | 0_0 |
If the Chronicle editorial board wants to know the weaknesses in the scientific case for climate alarmism, several hours of concentrated effort is all that it will take. If the editorial board wants to understand how Waxman-Markey is very expensive regulation for its own sake, without appreciable benefits, that is ther... | 5_1 |
All of these projects are denigrated in their own country because they have one thing in common they rely heavily on carbon fuels such as coal and gas and thus are all threatened by the toxic carbon tax. None of these activities will cease because of our carbon tax. They will either pay foreign spivs for carbon credits... | 0_0 |
Now what? The right to voice your opinion on important public policies is entitled to the highest level of constitutional protection. That's why we are vigorously fighting this unlawful attack. We hope the court will agree by honoring our request for relief from Attorney General Walker's campaign of retaliation. This i... | 0_0 |
Lindzen and Choi implies that the models are exaggerating climate sensitivity: warming from a doubling of CO2 would only be about 1C This modest warming is much less than current climate models suggest for a doubling of CO2. Models predict warming of from 1.5C to 5C and even more for a doubling of CO2( paper ) | 5_1 |
Vancouver will experience one of its coldest winters on record. | 0_0 |
"This ruling is welcome news for GHG emission sources, particularly large sources such as the electric power plants involved here, who are already facing EPA regulations of GHG next year, as EPA limits conventional air pollutants like mercury and microscopic particulate matter. | 0_0 |
Now, these days, there is getting to a lot made of the difference between the satellite, deep-layer measurements, and the surface thermometer measurements. Note that the surface thermometer measurements, point one-three is starting to approach the predicted warming of point one-eight degrees C per decade. The deep-laye... | 0_0 |
Samet J.The Clean Air Act and healtha clearer view from 2011. | 0_0 |
However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event"... | 0_0 |
On October 12, 2011, Environment Ohio issued a reprehensible ad suggesting that Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) hand fed a baby a jar full of poison. According to the left-wing eco group Environment Ohio, Rep. Stivers' wrongdoing was his vote for legislation that would "gut" the Clean Air Act. In fact, Rep. Stivers' had vo... | 0_0 |
...so it would seem churlish not to remind readers of an excellent book for the geek in your life... | 0_0 |
No major action on climate is likely until after the Senate confirms McCarthy. But shes run into a brick wall among Republicans, who stalled a committee vote on her nomination and may filibuster her on the floor. | 0_0 |
U.S. Office of Management and Budget, "Regulatory Analysis," Circular A-4, September 17, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars a004 a-4/ (accessed September 11, 2014). | 0_0 |
Dr JENSEN (Tangney) (8.30 pm)The Prime Minister is a coward. He is a leader who takes his shots at people from a protected position yet lacks the courage to actually debate people directly. A little over a week ago the Prime Minister delivered one of the most outlandish speeches ever uttered by a senior politician in A... | 0_0 |
Er, no, it cant. Im not sure that even the holy books of IPeCaC have ever suggested that runaway temperature feedback is even a possibility. In any event, elementary considerations in the mathematics of feedback amplification make runaway feedback an impossibility. | 3_1 |
Environmental News informs that it was nominating an end on January 12. Now, the jury along with the Environmental Aktuellts subscribers (* anml your interest by sending an email with a nice motivation for why you want to join the mikael.salo@idg.se later than 12 February) to review and rank the nominees utifrn FOLLOWI... | 0_0 |
To avoid any potential confusion, I stated this non-advocacy as clearly as I could in a post that took notice of Briffas initial response to the Yamal controversy: | 0_0 |
Al Gore's "Tragic Indifference to the Human Consequences" | 0_0 |
Antarctic sea ice underestimated by 50%. | 1_1 |
Scientists looked at 13 polar bear subpopulations and found "much of the scientific evidence indicating that some polar bear subpopulations are declining due to climate change-mediated sea ice reductions is likely flawed by poor markrecapture sampling." This means researchers aren't able to put together accurate "demog... | 3_2 |
From CEI: Research Associate Adam Chamberlain on Canada's vast and underappreciated oil reserves. | 0_0 |
That??s an efficiency gap greens can??t account for. The coal and steel industries became far more efficient as they matured. Solar panels may yet become more efficient, it??s possible they might attain 40% efficiency soon. But they need to be replaced every 20 years, and they don??t make sense without generous subsidi... | 4_4 |
They published this graph, which shows that sea level rise has not accelerated since the 19th century. I added the red trend line. | 1_6 |
As the atmosphere's CO2 concentration continues to rise, most plants tend to exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and biomass production, including those of various grassland ecosystems. This increase in productivity should increase the amount of forage available for grazing animals and possibly reduce the land ar... | 3_3 |
One could never read a Ken Smith column without learning something valuable. In meeting his end with calm and grace, Ken taught us a valuable and inspiring lesson about death and facing up to its inevitability with dignity and without fear. | 0_0 |
The contentious issues still on the table include three global warming titles in the Senate version of H.R. 4, the Senate's renewable portfolio standard for privately-owned electric utilities, differing versions of new CAF (Combined Automobile Fuel Efficiency) standards, the Senate's expanded ethanol mandate, and the H... | 0_0 |
It's just far more effective for gunmen to act individually if they want to achieve a similar "goal". Without backups, some of them may fail but indeed, they sometimes do. But if someone wants to have a decent enough chance to kill the president of the U.S., the best strategy is simply to try. Individually. It may even... | 0_0 |
The emissions limits the White House wants and continues to impose would constitute less than a faction of a single degree Fahrenheit over the course of a decade or more. In short, nothing. | 4_2 |
The full paper, Does the Agulhas Current amplify global temperatures during super-interglacials?, appears in the latest edition of the Journal of Quarternary Science . It can be viewed here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.1423/abstract | 0_0 |
The glacier claim proved to be based on a 2005 World Wildlife Fund pamphlet, which in turn was based on a 1999 New Scientist interview with Indian scientist Syed Hasnain (see his joint interview with Richard North). | 0_0 |
Looks like a cooling trend see plot in antarctic-sea-ice-sets-new-high-in-may | 1_1 |
Record temperatures hot and cold are set every day around the world; that's the nature of records. Statistically, any given place will see four record high temperatures set every year. There is evidence that daytime high temperatures are staying about the same as for the last few decades, but nighttime lows are gradual... | 1_4 |
The red line shows the trend over the ~ 13 years of the record which is 0.01 W/m2 per decade, statistically no different from zero. | 0_0 |
To Gorbachev's prime minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, the "moral state of the society" in 1985 was its "most terrifying" feature: | 0_0 |
Singer noted that it is the Policymakers Summary, not the science, that is the impetus behind proposals to negotiate binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 (PR Newswire, June 23, 1997). | 0_0 |
It is generally accepted that sea levels increased during the 20thC at a rate of about 185mm or about 7. Furthermore studies suggest that there was no acceleration in this rate during that time. One of the best known studies was by Bruce Douglas , who produced the above graph from Tide Gauge records for 23 geologically... | 1_6 |
Obama Says He Has No Tolerance For Non-Believers In The State Sanctioned Religion | 0_0 |
It is not for a non-climatologist such as me to say which climate-sensitivity value is correct. On this brief analysis, however, it is evident that the models on which the IPCC relies are little better than expensive guesswork, and that no great reliance can be placed upon the IPCCs central estimates, still less on its... | 5_1 |
John fails to see that such conflicts of interest compromise balanced assessments in climate science, and, presumably also in other fields where we do not have expertise. | 5_2 |
New York Times: Remember when we told you that global warming causes warmer winters? We should have said that global warming causes "colder' winters | 0_0 |
A federal court strikes down efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the hedge fund industry. | 0_0 |
Ra ko hutu d dekotu ely trebomu emusohe, vdegar yd, stro reny er gryk kendy, alyv zvyde dezu, kvyndal fer teknu sely. Degto yl tre entvester kyleg gh: orka epyl y bodur depty-depe emete. Grojto af xedob yd, kyzem ner osonfterte ylem kho dent de det detrym gynfer bro enomuz fechtal agni laj kys defyj rokuroch bazuk suhe... | 0_0 |
Marlo, first of all, what potential significance does this Supreme Court decision to review the case have? Does it indicate evidence of a shift within the Court with regard to statutory boundaries of the EPA's regulatory authority? | 0_0 |
Children just arent going to know what snow is, he said. | 0_0 |
New York Times estimate $ 21.0 billion 1997 USD or about $ 13.0 billion in 1982-1983 dollars. | 0_0 |
In other words, President Obama looks like he has been played for a fool by the Chinese, or that he played the role all by himself. | 0_0 |
NASA's James Hansen has estimated that the greenhouse gases already emitted into the atmosphere are likely to deliver about 1 of additional warming by the year 2100, regardless of what we do to slow the growth in greenhouse gas emissions today. That additional warmth could have a broad range of impacts, from slightly h... | 0_0 |
For example, the visibility program applies to facilities based on their emissions of ?any pollutant.? 42 U.S.C. 7491(g)(7). In the context of that program, EPA has interpreted the term ?any pollutant? to mean ?any visibility-impairing pollutant,? which obviously does not include greenhouse gases. 40 C.F.R. pt. 51, App... | 0_0 |
Building a Better Canada U.S. Energy Dialogue with Natural Gas | 0_0 |
[Editor?s note: The following material was supplied to us by Dr. Richard Lindzen as an example of how research that counters climate-change alarm receives special treatment in the scientific publication process as compared with results that reinforce the consensus view. In this case, Lindzen's submission to the Proceed... | 5_2 |
In the next 50 years there would be no temperature increase, but rather a slight temperature decrease is expected. In the decades before and after the year 2300 a powerful temperature drop could occur because both the 230-year cycle and 100-year cycle would be dropping rapidly together in parallel. | 1_2 |
One is gas turbines, to function as backup generators that can supply power whenever winds are not blowing at usable speeds. But unless shale gas development proceeds apace, this would increase Europes dependence on Russian gas supplies. It would also result in inefficient gas use and higher carbon emissions, as genera... | 4_4 |
4) Meteorologists Blame Jet Stream For Unusual Weather Pattern | 0_0 |
The Preamble of the U.N. Biodiversity Treaty admits there "is a general lack of information and knowledge regarding biological diversity," but says "where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures ... | 0_0 |
Whether or not you believe that the burning of fossil fuels significantly affects the earth??s temperature, the ice core data offers no evidence to support that ??? no matter how big the graph is. | 2_3 |
we need to have the ability to tell fact from fiction. This last mailing is an excellent example of fiction. | 0_0 |
28.a. How much do you think the potential impact of global climate change is one of the leading problems for eco-systems | 0_0 |
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