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The Wall Street Journal today ran a top-fold, front page news item about how China's insatiable demand for energy has stimulated a boon in the international trade of coal. This is more evidence that globalization makes a mockery of the best laid plans to fight climate change. So while Congress deliberates, and enviros ... | 4_2 |
Heid, T. and Kaab, K. 2011. Worldwide widespread decadal-scale decrease of glaciers speed revealed using repeat optical satellite images. Cryosphere Discussions 5 : 3025-3051. | 0_0 |
Nine million containers enter U.S. ports each year, and 80 percent of U.S. port facilities these days are owned by foreign companies. It is estimated that the detonation of a 10-to-20 kiloton nuclear weapon in a container would cause a disruption of trade valued at $100 billion to $300 billion, property damage of $50 b... | 0_0 |
Writing in Commentary, Jonathan S. Tobin, said that the new regulations on carbon emissions will have a potentially devastating impact on Americas more than 600 coal-fired power plants noting that the move was made possible by Supreme Court decisions that ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the right to ... | 4_1 |
According to a Sierra Club press release, the ad's goal was to ward off any attempt by Congress to rein in EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases. The ad tries to achieve this by linking climate change to childhood asthma. The climate-asthma association, in turn, is based on a hypothesis that global warming will cause lo... | 0_0 |
He has argued in his ???previous papers that the available climatic data would suggest an astronomical modulation of the cloud cover that would induce small oscillations in the albedo which, consequently, would cause oscillations in the surface temperature also by modulating ocean oscillations?? | 2_1 |
On the topic of multi-billion pound con tricks the UK is waking up to the news that wind turbines dont work well . Giant bird shredders have been sold on the easily misunderstood but optimistic capacity number rather than the actual generating performance. How does 22% efficiency sound . Anyone? Wind farms also do not ... | 4_4 |
Cars are most vulnerable in side impact collisions. According to the institute, in fatal collisions involving cars that are hit on the side by SUVs, the relative risk that the death will be in the car rather than the SUV is an apparently lopsided 27-to-1. But when this relative risk is broken down by car weight categor... | 0_0 |
Ice cores reveal that CO2 levels rise and fall hundreds of years after temperatures change | 2_3 |
Previous investigations of the Climategate affair were pretty much whitewashes. Another one, led by Muir Russell, is expected to report soon. However, it is not charged with investigating the science either. | 5_2 |
Location Length Trend Cook Is. 64 +13.7Samoa 64 -9.7Tonga 65 +29.1Tuvalu 62 -34.3Fiji 69 +10.3Kiribati 62 -21.4Marshall Is. 58 -11.7Vanuatu 55 +12.1Nauru 59 -26.4Solomon Is. 45 -41.3Papua NG 32 -43.6 | 0_0 |
For addition commentary on Al Gore's approval of gas taxes, please contact Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming Policy, or Emily McGee, Director of Media Relations, at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. | 0_0 |
Coal, oil and natural gas are labeled ?dirty? for propaganda purposes, but what the Sierra Club and others do not tell you and will never tell you is that they account for most of the electricity generated in America, along with nuclear and hydropower. Wind and solar power provide approximately 3% of the electricity an... | 4_5 |
Molly: Really, Heath? Really? That sounds kinda biophobic to me. | 0_0 |
Their next target perhaps the ideal target of CO2 was in their sights. Noise about global warming started in the late '80s, but it didn't really get much traction until the mid- to late '90s right after the CFC ban was a done deal. | 0_0 |
This issue was made very explicit by the title of the Scientific American article entitled Climate Heretic: Judith Curry turns against her Colleagues . Of all the issues raised by Climategate and the points I had been trying to make about overconfidence and uncertainty, transparency, engaging with skeptics, etc., the m... | 5_2 |
The conclusion is stark the contribution of power from solar panels during winter months is effectively worthless, regardless of how many solar farms are built. | 4_4 |
Yet, there are some people out there who think that humanity as a disease on the earth that, unchecked, will use up all of its resources. They want you to turn off your lights for an hour this Saturday for "Earth Hour" in a show of support for enforced energy conservation. It's your right to choose to do this if you wa... | 0_0 |
Such candidates have not fared well beyond Democrats' demographic clusters, especially since voters have seen the handiwork of the Obama administration. Republicans now hold majorities of governorships, Senate and House seats and control of state legislatures. Target states in presidential races have produced few if an... | 0_0 |
Professor Niklas Mrner, who was told in 2004 by a sea-level specialist at the University of Colorado that the data from the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason satellites were tilted to create an artificial impression of a rate of sea-level rise that is not in fact occurring, says his central estimate is that sea level will rise ... | 1_6 |
Singer and the Marshall Institute complained to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and to writer Sharon Begley, but Newsweek has never corrected its story. On the contrary, Sharon Begley has gone on to write other poorly founded stories about global warming and its skeptics. | 0_0 |
So has global temperature not increased? It has not, if by not increased we meanetc., etc. | 1_4 |
> >> inter-decadal variability (very large for the Sahel) and multi-decadal | 0_0 |
I fear that we??re headed into such a period of great cooling and repetitive catastrophic flooding right now. | 1_2 |
Photoshop, not diabetes from drinking soda caused Cleo Berry to lose his leg. | 0_0 |
Notice that the Obama administration has been unable to induce even a Democratic Congress to enact "carbon' policies. | 0_0 |
8. How much would you be willing to pay to forestall the risk of catastrophic climate change? | 0_0 |
86. The historical increase in the airs CO2 content has improved human nutrition by raising crop yields during the past 150 years on the order of 70 percent for wheat, 28 percent for cereals, 33 percent for fruits and melons, 62 percent for legumes, 67 percent for root and tuber crops, and 51 percent for vegetables. | 3_3 |
Your site, Spiked and a few others are very good at exposing the fallacious and fatuous logic of the Warmists arguments on CO2 and trends, and in revealing the strong links between politicizing scientists and global warming. As you point out above, one distinguished scientist postulates a link between obesity and globa... | 5_2 |
Double counting is prone to occur in a natural gas-to-electricity production chain where the same fuel is counted twice. Of course, natural gas is the major competitor to green power. Cap and Trade is supposed to work in the long-term by withdrawing permits, thus forcing industries to either buy increasingly higher-pri... | 4_2 |
But UKIP members are a bunch of fruit cakes, loonies and closet racists? Well done for swallowing an establishment lie . Such people exist in all parties, though UKIP members are much more widely reported. We are the only party to ban anyone who has ever been a member of any extremist group from membership which is mor... | 0_0 |
The Briffa 2000 reconstruction, as shown below, has a highish MWP, whichis just a titch less than the modern values. The medieval values (averaged) are just a titch lower than 20th century and some years look as high. | 2_1 |
In discussing their findings, Winkler et al . report that lower rather than higher temperatures adversely affected Symbiodinium recruitment by reducing larval survival and settlement. Also, they found that low temperatures reduced Symbiodinium habitat choice and initial symbiont densities, both of which impact post-set... | 0_0 |
In his party conference speech on Tuesday, Ed Miliband, as well as promising to create a million new green jobs (perhaps he can wave his magic wand and create 1 million blue and red ones too!), also said, and I quote (from the New Statesmans full transcript): | 0_0 |
In short, the Grand Cherokee and Viper prove that an Italian auto executive is more in touch with the American people than their own president. What Marchionne & Co. realized is that SUVs and muscle cars are what Americans do best. And they are exporting them to the world. The Viper will go on the international sports ... | 0_0 |
Restricting greenhouse gas emissions, whether unilaterally or multilaterally, would result in significant economic costs for the U.S. economy. This is a serious decision with grave consequences. The U.S. should not unilaterally assume these burdens as a symbolic gesture hoping that other countries might emulate our exa... | 4_1 |
Editor's note: Roger Bezdek coauthored this piece. | 0_0 |
Ordinarily, she added, without fresh air coming in, it would become harder and harder for living things to thrive, ???yet in the case of the corals in Palau, we??re finding the opposite. Coral cover and diversity actually increase from the outer reefs into the Rock Islands.?? | 3_2 |
Learn more:The strange silence about climate policy and the looming apocalypse | 0_0 |
To produce that biofuel, we're also using massive quantities of pesticides, fertilizers, fossil fuels and water. The U.S. Department of Energy calculates that fracking requires 0.6 to 6.0 gallons of fresh or brackish water per million Btu of energy produced. By comparison, corn-based ethanol requires 2,500 to 29,000 ga... | 0_0 |
These include small airborne particles known as aerosols from volcanic eruptions that have a cooling effect as they reflect sunlight back into space; the impact of the regular cycle of solar activity; the sensitivity of the climate to greenhouse gases, and the way the oceans absorb heat. | 0_0 |
"That wasn't the only nonsensical idea he presented," the scientists told me. | 0_0 |
It seems that each side felt there were things that they could not afford to lose and last year's bill contained them. On the Republican side, as well as certain measures to promote affordable energy, there was the consideration of giving the President some sort of energy bill to sign. On the Democrat side, Minority Le... | 0_0 |
The standstill is a reality and is not the result of cherry-picking start and end points. Its commencement can be seen clearly in the data, and it continues to this day, said Dr David Whitehouse, the author of the new report. | 0_0 |
The July 2008 package is a stepping stone on the way to concluding the Doha Round. Consultations took place among a group of ministers representing all interests in the negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, from Jul. 21 to Jul. 30, 2008. | 0_0 |
The precision achieved by the most advanced generation of radiation budget satellites is indicated by the planetary energy imbalance measured by the ongoing CERES (Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System) instrument (Loeb et al., 2009), which finds a measured 5-yr-mean imbalance of 6.5Wm 2 (Loeb et al., 2009). Beca... | 0_0 |
As researchers have come to a better understanding of the workings of climate, the projections have changed substantially. For example, the middle-range estimates of global temperature increase over the next 100 years from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have dropped significantly, ... | 0_0 |
Several bills related to global warming are being promoted on Capitol Hill. The most recent is the Administration's package of energy efficiency taxes, introduced by Rep. Bob Matsui (D-Cal.). The bill is a $3.6 billion plan to give tax breaks to consumers who buy energy efficient homes, cars, water heaters, and rooftop... | 0_0 |
Of course, there's nothing new about actors taking political stands. It's been going on at least since John Wilkes Booth. But lately the whole thing seems to have reached a new level. Just look at the last election. Carl Sagan would have had trouble counting the stars in Gore's campwhich included Cher, Ben Affleck, Mar... | 0_0 |
Pauses as long as 15 years are rare in the simulations, and we expect that warming will resume in the next few years, the Hadley Centre group writes. Researchers agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer. | 1_4 |
The article, by Walter Pincus and R. Jeffrey Smith, purported to summarize the conclusions of a report by the Pentagon's inspector general, beginning with the news that.. | 0_0 |
As a footnote, an impact with the ice sheet and its catastrophic effects could explain the other primary explanation of the source for the Younger Dryas. An asteroid strike leaving one or more craters in the Great Lakes area could have resulted in a rush of fresh water flowing either north into the Arctic or out the St... | 0_0 |
News: Rumors denied by the Fermilab's spokesgirl | 0_0 |
As the models have improved, the amount of predicted global warming has gone down. In 1990, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), using then state-of-the-art models, forecast a 3.2 C warming by 2100. In 1995, the IPCC lowered that forecast to 2.0 C. | 5_1 |
Back in February 2009, when everyone thought a deep depression was imminent, Keynesian economists and their political boosters demanded big government spending. According to their calculations, a timely, targeted, and temporary infusion of taxpayer money would defibrillate our moribund economy, the growth of which woul... | 0_0 |
"Since there is no permanent disposal facility, spent fuel from the nation's nuclear reactors"enough to fill a football field 17 meters deep' according to a 2012 Government Accountability Office reportis currently being stored at dozens of above-ground sites. The GAO expects the amount of radioactive waste to double to... | 0_0 |
Top: Mann/IPCC view, bottom historical view | 0_0 |
The Houston Chronicle editorial page is one of the most biased in the nation when it comes to climate alarmism and associated public-policy activism. And it maintained that unenviable reputation with last Sundays op-ed, Cap-and-Trade-Off . | 5_2 |
Czech army physician returns NATO medals | 0_0 |
5) Because of environmental issues, and the fact that it is not carbon free anyway, biomass is regarded as only a short term solution, and it seems unlikely there will be any more significant expansion beyond those already planned. | 0_0 |
Evie Hudak resigns: Colorado state senator avoids recall election The Denver Post | 0_0 |
This post addresses why they peak at that time. But in order to show it, we have to discuss sea surface temperatures, not anomalies. Keep that in mind, please. | 0_0 |
This makes it pretty useless to the great unwashed who still have not worked out how to program their video recorders. | 0_0 |
It is well known that Enron was a keen enthusiast for limits on carbon dioxide emissions under the aegis of a cap and trade scheme, which would enable companies to trade permits for the right to emit carbon dioxide. Enron documents released to the public reveal that executives thought such restrictions would, "do more ... | 0_0 |
THE WORD religion is often used, rather effectively, to demonise a category of people who hold a strong conviction about something and propose to translate that belief into action. Global warming is a new religion and blasphemy against that religion is not a laughing matter, Lord Lawson has said, adding that there is a... | 5_2 |
Ocean Currents : Are the major ocean currents, such as the THC (Thermohaline Circulation), understood? Well we do know a lot about them ??? we know where they go and how big they are, and what is in them (including heat), and we know much about how they affect climate ??? but we know very little about what changes them... | 5_1 |
Carbon capture project is a big risk, says SSE boss | 0_0 |
Check out the latest from the Salt Guru about the claim that 2.3 million die annually because of their dietary salt intake. | 0_0 |
Herein lies an opportunity " for Republicans " who should recognize that Democrats are overreaching. It s not simply that Democrats are missing the big issue " the feverish rise of health-care costs " but that they are prescribing a series of unhelpful measures. | 0_0 |
The Natural Resources Defense Council, for instance, was able to get an injunction on the U.S. Navy's use of ship-tracking sonar technology in training exercises because the noise allegedly disturbed whales and dolphins, and this adversely affected NRDC members' "scientific, recreational, and ecological interests." (Th... | 0_0 |
The above chart plots the NOAA/NCDC U.S. dataset decade-end temperature changes, including the change over the 10-year period ending 2013. Stating the perfectly obvious, the infamous consensus experts' "unequivocal" warming is anything but. In spite of massive human CO2 emissions, a recent state of cooling changes domi... | 1_4 |
Lord Monckton said: ?The entire monthly satellite temperature record since January 1979 is 422 months long. For almost the entire second half of the record ? 210 months ? there has been no global warming.? | 1_4 |
A British father has reportedly found copies of an unreleased Harry Potter novel in a field in southern England. | 0_0 |
18) How Important are Computerized Climate Models? I consider climate models as being our best way of exploring cause and effect in the climate system. It is really easy to be wrong in this business, and unless you can demonstrate causation with numbers in equations, you are stuck with scientists trying to persuade one... | 5_1 |
Many of the devastating floods that occur in parts of Southeast Asia are also associated with typhoons or tropical systems. See the typhoon section for more information. | 0_0 |
Buy Climate Hustle on DVD or Blu-ray now! | 0_0 |
Epstein's book is more than just philosophical opinion. It is based on documented facts regarding fossil fuel use. At one point he quotes Paul Ehrlich who, in his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, declared that "the battle to feed humanity is over." Epstein notes that in 1968 the world's population was 3.6 billion people... | 0_0 |
"When the sea of societal ills is so shallow that "phone calls I don't like" is scraped from the bottom and added to the legislative agenda, when the public tolerance for disagreeable things has dropped so low that "I have to hold my breath" is a complaint worthy of the commiseration of 100,000 radio listeners, we have... | 0_0 |
Quoting the six scientists, "among the 35 CGCMs, 14 models erroneously produce an upwelling dome in the eastern half of the basin whereas the observed Seychelles Dome is located in the southwestern tropical Indian Ocean." In addition, they report that "the annual mean Ekman pumping velocity in these models is found to ... | 5_1 |
The oil spill, of course, has even broader implications than climate change. There will be major economic fallout, which will add substantially to government costs for disaster relief and to ameliorate the economic effects of the spill, especially if it spreads across the Gulf and potentially up the East Coast. This wi... | 0_0 |
Secondly, as I said in my talk, but as Abraham very carefully failed to point out in his, both sides of this particular argument have been carefully heard in the impartial forum of the British High Court. The British Government, unsuccessfully attempting to defend Gore on this point, had eventually been compelled when ... | 0_0 |
The Democratic party is comfortable talking about the issue and well positioned to address it. In some ways, the current debacle seems to vindicate their failed efforts of the early 1990s. Moreover, the party is by far the more trusted in this area: In the last Wall Street Journal/NBC poll on issues, Americans choose D... | 0_0 |
The model mean does not present that additional warming in the North Atlantic, which indicates that the recent additional warming of the North Atlantic has occurred naturally; that is, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is not a process forced by factors that are used to make the oceans warm in the models. Well disc... | 0_0 |
Now, after the Clean Power Plan was announced, Abengoa is trying revive a project that previously failed to pass permitting in time to qualify for subsidies. With more money available, it likely wants the additional funding the Palen Solar Power Project would provide. | 0_0 |
The black line, on the other hand, is the change in downwelling radiation expected from the change in CO2 from 2000 to 2012, calculated at 21 W/m2 per doubling of CO2. As you might imagine because of its steady increase, there is little difference between the CO2 data and the CO2 trendline, so Ive left it off. For the ... | 0_0 |
Palls of smoke can still be seen billowing from the premises , which are based at the former Hepworth ironworks off the A616. | 0_0 |
Lost in this arithmetic is the reality that anything is toxic in too large a dose, including salt and sunlight. ?The dose makes the poison,? as Paracelsus told us 500 years ago. | 0_0 |
SEIU Local 1000 exec argues for contract ratification: | 0_0 |
This diminishing influence of a new CO2 molecule over time is actually a function of known climate physics - the logarithmic effect of carbon dioxide. Essentially, from lab testing it was determined that increasing levels of CO2 caused a diminishing returns effect, which is better described here . | 2_3 |
I caught up with Fayyad on a Saturday morning in the village of Salfit, high in the hills east of Nablus. Accompanied by a caravan of perhaps a dozen vehicles, he was hopping from one small village to another, announcing government grants and sharing his hopes for better times ahead. He invited me to join him for the r... | 0_0 |
Raymond had "an unabashed skepticism about the potential of alternative energy sources like wind and solar." He saw "Spending shareholders' money to diversify into businesses that aren't yet profitableand that aim to solve a problem his scientists believe may not be significant" | 0_0 |
tan beta := H 0 u / H 0 d | 0_0 |
Yet the videos have things in them I cant explain. Too many folks wiping a tear from dry eyes. Laughing until on camera to a camera that was already on. A photo that sure looks like the wrong dead girl quite alive on Obamas knee | 0_0 |
So, the simple question for Miliband is where will this back up come from, if not gas or other fossil fuels? Demand management, where heavy industrial users are paid to switch off during periods of high demand, may save a small amount of energy, but it is unlikely to be much. DECC statistics show that electricity suppl... | 0_0 |
Climate change also had a role in Spains drought and torrential New Zealand rains, though natural weather variation was a leading culprit in each case, and no strong connection was found in other prominent 2012 weather events such as the US drought. | 1_7 |
Although "sovereignty" has many often contradictory meanings, for Americans, the idea is actually quite straightforward: Sovereignty rests in the Constitution's opening phrase "We the People," meaning our control over our own government. | 0_0 |
World Bank Climate Change web site | 0_0 |
Yes, that is "the real question," and apparently, BP got the answer. Without subsidies, renewables cannot compete and so BP is bailing. Addressing wind energy's future, Amy Grace, a New York-based analyst at New Energy Finance, said: "There's limited visibility beyond 2014 about what the assets will be worth as a tax c... | 0_0 |
It made perfect sense. The Czech industry was screwed after 42 years of communism. Cheap labor has been the main comparative advantage that the Czechs had and the wages are still substantially lower than those in Germany. But can this paradigm of a "cheaper sister" work permanently? The evidence that VW simply shouldn'... | 0_0 |
We tend to be warmer than normal with less snow in the mountains (and much less snow in the lowlands). Less stormy. The good thing is that a typical strong El Nino year generally has more snow than the freaky year we just finished. But this is not good news for ski areas. On the positive side, El Nino years tend to bri... | 0_0 |
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