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But is the Pause perhaps caused by the fact that CO2 emissions have not been rising anything like as fast as the IPCCs business-as-usual Scenario A prediction in 1990? No: CO2 emissions have risen rather above the Scenario-A prediction (Fig. T3). | 1_4 |
I heard that Zichichi has links with the Vatican. A number of other greenhouse | 0_0 |
Under Bill Clinton's leadership in the 1990s, the Democratic Party tried to appeal to culturally conservative white working-class voters without abandoning its liberal convictions. During the middle of the George W. Bush administration, Democrats revived that approach, running candidates opposed to abortion and gun con... | 0_0 |
All over the world, poor people are discovering the blessings of bottom-up capitalism. | 0_0 |
Critics of the article entirely ignored its equally accurate statement that there is mounting evidence the Arctic sea ice retreat has in the past been cyclical: there were huge melts in the 1920s, followed by later advances. | 2_1 |
Obama Administration Declares Green War on India | 0_0 |
Martin won't allow Canadian troops into Iraq to support a post-war fledgling democracy, but he'll send them into Sudan to prop up a post-democratic dictatorship in Canada. So, get out your scorecards. Now that Buzz Hargrove is Finance Motel Minister, and Kilgour is in charge of Foreign Affairs, Chuck Cadman should step... | 0_0 |
Washington sea level data. Click image to start animation in a new window. | 0_0 |
The second part of their global warming definition is that it ?refers to the idea that the world?s average temperature ?may be increasing more in the future.? | 0_0 |
After Man Us shutout yesterday by the Canaries, it would be nice to see Berbatov send Fergie another thank you note for releasing him from the coal mine. | 0_0 |
Thanks to Anthony, Sue and many others who helped out in Newcastle. On behalf of David Stockwell, David Archibald, and myself, I thank you for your hospitality and efforts. | 0_0 |
Many thanks for your very kind comments. Not too much harm was done at Copenhagen. The truth is emerging now, and it will prevail. Christmas morn | 0_0 |
Ferguson concluded that Big Green is "not about to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to try measuring the results of spending billions in mitigation money, because the results are negligible if they exist at all." | 0_0 |
If that turns out to be true, then the actual sensitivity to CO2 doubling would be far less than the 2C to 5C or more projected by the IPCC. Indeed it could be 0.5C, or even less. As current CO2 levels are about 390 ppmv we are about 40% to a doubling from historic 280 ppmv levels, the actual temperature rise due to th... | 3_1 |
Cinema audiences will learn more about the topic through a panel discussion with welcoming remarks by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, headlined by Governor Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and 9th Governor of Alaska, moderated by Bre... | 0_0 |
Finally, the union could find itself weakened by internal factionalism. Thus far, 1199 has been able to rely on the loyalty of its members, but the history of organized labor suggests that rapid growth and ideological mission creep will eventually create challenges to current union leadership. Traces of factionalism ma... | 0_0 |
There is clear, compelling evidence that many of the major conclusions of the IPCC, your new religions constantly-changing Holy Book, are based on evidence that has been fabricated. The hockey stick graph that purported to abolish the mediaeval warm period is just one example. So let me try to lure you away from feeble... | 5_2 |
The reconstructions, in the words of the authors, "show clear evidence of multi-year to decadal variations in spring precipitation." Nevertheless, they report that "dry periods of 1-2 years were well distributed throughout the record" and that the same was largely true of similar wet periods. With respect to more extre... | 1_7 |
The Global Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) is one of the biggest frauds in climate science. They add 3mm/year to sea level rise rates based on the idea that the sea floor is sinking due to glacial rebound. | 5_2 |
A future German power market without nuclear power and significantly reduced coal-fired power capacity both according to government plans and topped with the shutdown of modern gas-fired power plants an unintended consequence of increased renewable energy integration may eventually lead to something resembling the Morg... | 4_1 |
3,200 megawatts from a 250-acre facility (1 km2 or less than mile2) | 0_0 |
Members of Congress, especially those who claim to be fiscally conservative, should take heed of the blow against cronyism that took place this week when an avowed opponent of ethanol mandates and subsidies won the Iowa GOP caucus. Eco-cronyism isn't just bad policy. Increasingly, it is also bad politics. | 0_0 |
Agreement signed at Panama City August 19, 2004; entered into force August 19, 2004. With attachments. | 0_0 |
Recall the discussion of the East Pacific response to El Nio events. | 0_0 |
Alexis de Tocqueville InstitutionAmericans for Tax ReformAmerican Legislative Exchange CouncilAmerican Policy CenterAssociation of Concerned TaxpayersCenter for Security PolicyCitizens for a Sound EconomyCommittee for a Constructive TomorrowCompetitive Enterprise InstituteConsumer AlertDefenders of Property RightsFront... | 0_0 |
The world's boreal forests like rising carbon dioxide levels. Once again the dire warnings of the climate catastrophists have been shown to be exaggerated at best, and often just plain wrong. Rising CO 2 levels make forests grow faster, be more productive and actually use water more efficiently. Those are good things t... | 3_3 |
The soaring prices were actually exacerbated (as the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN confirmed) by the diversion of much of the worlds farmland into making motor fuel, in the form of ethanol and biodiesel, for the rich to salve their green consciences. Climate policies were probably a greater contributor to... | 0_0 |
In summary, the reported land surface temperature trends over the land portions of the globe since 1978 are about +0.5 F/decade if measured directly, and they are around +0.3 to +0.4 F/decade if we use independent methods immune to urban heat islands. Ocean-only and land+ocean temperatures are rising, too, but at a som... | 0_0 |
Free-market watchers might be surprised to find social-welfare and high-tax states at the top of the Prosperity Index. This indeed raises more questions than it answers. For example, do the homogeneous hard-working populations of Northern Europe overcome the high tax rates in those countries? Or do these countries, in ... | 0_0 |
Throwing good money after bad makes even less sensegiven theglobal financial crisis and the cutbacks Spain , Germany , France , Greece , Italy, and Ontario (Canada)have been forced to make in their FITs. Therenewable market increasingly resembles a bubble (over-investment relative to actual market demand). Yeatman caut... | 0_0 |
It?s not just that the quasi-religious, pseudo-scientific ?Gaia hypothesis? ? the belief, taking its name from the pagan Greek goddess of the Earth, that the sum of the parts of the Earth?s ecosystems together make up a living thing ? is popular in certain environmentalist circles. | 5_2 |
Peer-Reviewed Study Indicates Recent Warming Is Natural | 2_1 |
The article reports that over 90 percent of the responders agreed with the statement that mean global temperatures have risen relative to the pre-1800 levels (Question 1). But this is unremarkable. Everyone knows that in the 1700s and early 1800s the world was in the grip of the Little Ice Age, so a recovery toward nor... | 2_1 |
The research was based on outputs from two models, including the Hadley Center Model, which reviewers admitted during the course of the National Assessment on Climate Change performed no better than a table of random numbers in predicting past climate. | 5_1 |
But temperatures have come down after El Nino faded, and now it looks like a La Nina is setting in. Some even expect the so-called "hiatus" in global warming to return after this year's La Nina ends. | 0_0 |
These hidden-forces theories are always popular with the mob, which is expected, but also in the intellectual slums of the academy, which isalso expected. | 0_0 |
Range et al. (2012) : There is no evidence of CO2-related mortalities of juvenile or adult mussels even under conditions that far exceed the worst-case scenarios for future ocean acidification. | 3_2 |
That may be why such institutions often divest slowly, if at all, over 5 to 10 years, to maximize their profits. One is reminded of St. Augustine of Hippo's prayer: "Please let me be chaste and celibate but not yet." The "ethical" institutions selling fossil fuel stocks also need to find buyers who are willing to stand... | 0_0 |
Current global temperatures are significantly below NASA's climate model and "expert" predictions - note the dotted red line on chart. | 5_1 |
The warming that has been estimated to have occurred in response to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is somewhat greater than the observed warming. | 5_1 |
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: | 0_0 |
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) | 0_0 |
It's not at all surprising that the Court drew that conclusion after petitioners assured them that mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act (Title II) are separate from stationary source provisions (Title I).What the petitioners didn't tell the Court is that, although separate, Title I and Title II are linked espe... | 0_0 |
Several weeks after we submitted our contribution (included as PNASsubmission.pdf) we received the following email. | 0_0 |
In response to a video posted by a commenter on WUWT, I noted that Parmesan continues to misrepresent her 1996 study. So I wrote, What I find most disgusting and dishonest in this 2013 video is that she still repeats her old story that her butterfly (Edith Checkerspot) had moved upwards and northwards when 1) No such t... | 5_2 |
PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLIMATE SCIENCE | 0_0 |
Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis writes an open letter to Sen. Feinstein:"Like the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court global warming case (Massachusetts v. EPA, April 2, 2007), you apparently want EPA to issue a finding, under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), that carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions endanger public health and... | 0_0 |
frequency of temperatures above a certain limit (eg 30C) as the whole pdf | 0_0 |
internationally well known newspaper SPIEGEL got the information about these | 0_0 |
As such, CEI also seeks records shedding light on the revolutionary decision to proceed in replacing a treaty with an even more stringent agreement which somehow isn't a treaty -- one which now contains a "Climate Justice Tribunal" and which by its own terms will renew and tighten every five years, unlike Kyoto which h... | 0_0 |
In the week prior to the administration signing what should constitute an international climate treaty, one think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was subpoenaed for casting doubt on the agreement's associated science of climate catastrophe. | 0_0 |
Reprinted by permission of World Affairs. 2010 American Peace Society. All rights reserved. | 0_0 |
No wonder it is consistently a high temperature record breaker! On that day August 10 2003, it was warmer than Heathrow Airport where the temperature earlier registered 37.9C (100.2F). | 0_0 |
In addition to building a giant government funded telescope during a depression, the dear doctor also very much coveted a Nobel Prize. The problem was that at that time, astronomy was not considered a branch of any science that could receive the award. It is hard to speak out against your signature science and simultan... | 0_0 |
It has now been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest period since the Civil War and seven years since our friends started blaming every single weather event on global warming. | 1_7 |
Our scientific method and traditions of free speech and open debate are under assault as never before, by intolerant inquisitors in our media, universities, government agencies, and even Congress and the Vatican. | 0_0 |
Something like 90% of all the radiation from the ground is already stopped leaving 40 left available for additional IR active gases. Lets take a wild guess (based on seeing spectra) that CO2 is active in 10% of all IR bands. That suggests massive increases in CO2 might cause an addition 4 increase in captured radiation... | 2_3 |
Summer is rapidly winding down in Antarctica, and the continent is surrounded by record sea ice. | 1_1 |
Now fading out is not an option. The Republicans with such an open goal left by the Democrats will be setting their phasors to kill and start gunning for it. | 0_0 |
This is not true. There are over 6 million Americans alive today who experienced summers as long and hot, with great periods of extreme heat in the mid-1930s, when the Palmer Drought Index was the same as current periods, and tens of millions more who saw the mid-70s, when drought conditions were almost as high. Drough... | 1_7 |
Two dozen public policy groups (including CEI) co-sign a letter to House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) supporting reform of the Endangered Species Act. | 0_0 |
Average results are those obtained by applying Cochrane-Orcutt to the averaged temperature as my standard for determining the trend. The 95 uncertainty intervals are also calculated using Cochrane-Orcutt; I assume the uncertainty in the mean is t-distributed. (These give very slightly larger uncertainty intervals than ... | 0_0 |
Misleading and incorrect conclusions about income distribution are used to support political demands for increased tax rates on high incomes to redistribute more to others. That's bad advice. The long history of U.S. growth shows that the middle class gains when their productivity increases. And that depends on investm... | 0_0 |
"Putting People First," which had a full agenda for at least four years, if not | 0_0 |
Coincidentally, a Conservative MP described global warming in the following terms today: | 0_0 |
Yet, there were approximately 125,000 people who turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City. Why aren't there even more people marching against the poor economy and unemployment, since those are the biggest concerns? | 0_0 |
And that's why I can't and I don't want to wear my medals from the NATO operations anymore because they have been given to me by a criminal organization led by the U.S. As long as the U.S. and similar countries will be leading NATO, there is no room for these medals on the left side of my uniform. | 0_0 |
Under the bottom line: sea level risehas been pretty much constant over the last 80 years. Using the same rate, sea level can be projected to rise only 20 30 cm by the year 2100. | 1_6 |
I like to explain the preference for natural-gas backups this way. Suppose you are going to cook a hamburger. You can cook it over charcoal or natural gas/propane. To use charcoal, you mound up the charcoal in the grill, soak it in lighter fluid, and toss in a match. You then wait 30 minutes for the coals to get nice a... | 0_0 |
Climate change and other weather related events do, however, present unique challenges that will require us to think in innovative ways. Often project and community-driven approaches like the interventions I mention above are critical to understanding local needs, keeping communities central to decision and planning pr... | 0_0 |
The motion is unlikely to have practical consequences, however, because under Italian law the government may or may not take into account the message it received from the Senate. When asked about its opinion on the motion, the government said it had no opinion, so majority senators were left free to vote according to t... | 0_0 |
Met Office, March 2009: Mean temperatures over the UK were 1.1 C below the 1971-2000 average during December, 0.5 C below average during January and 0.2 C above average during February. The UK mean temperature for the winter was 3.2 C, which is 0.5 C below average, making it the coldest winter since 1996/97 (also 3.2 C... | 1_3 |
Spanish Utility blames renewables for 2.0bn loss | 0_0 |
Fast forward to the past two years, and we can see that this tension within the Democratic party is a factor in every major decision the administration and the congressional leadership has made. From the start, President Obama, with the enthusiastic backing of liberal progressives, declared that his would be a transfor... | 0_0 |
Jerry North told me just last week that he is more convinced than ever that the warming is at the very bottom of the IPCC range, which some top climate economists say makes CO2 a positive externality, not a negative one. We have peer-reviewed articles on how feedback effects are not the big amplifiers that the models (... | 3_1 |
However since the year 2000 a change has occurred: the CET record shows a marked reduction from its high levels loosing all the gains that it has made since 1850, even though at the same time CO2 levels have escalated further to ~400ppm v . | 1_4 |
At a November 13 breakfast presentation on "the unconventional oil and gas revolution," Senior Director, Energy Insight IHS, Chris Hansen said: "I expect to see action on the Keystone pipeline within the next few months." While it is widely believed that Keystone would be an easy win in the Republican-controlled congre... | 0_0 |
After pouring over years of mainstream literature, Johnston discovered numerous scientific uncertainties "which are rarely if ever even mentioned in the climate change law and policy literature" (8-9): | 5_1 |
There did not seem to be any other signs of a pre-revolutionary crisis either, including the other traditionally assigned cause of state failure external pressure. On the contrary, the previous decade was correctly judged to amount "to the realization of all major Soviet military and diplomatic desiderata," as American... | 0_0 |
Comment: This is a distinction without a difference. No commercial coal plants with carbon capture and storage exist, and noneis being built without substantial taxpayer support . The levelized cost of new coal plants already exceeds that of new NGCC plants, and todays CCS technologies would add around 80% to the cost ... | 0_0 |
The High Net Costs of the Draft Bill's GHG Reductions | 0_0 |
Due to the intermittent nature of wind power, traditional power plants have to adjust production in an extremely short time frame to balance the power grid. This "cycling" is inefficient and bad for the environment. Emissions offset by the installation of wind turbines appear to be surpassed by emissions from the need ... | 4_4 |
As the CO 2 concentration of the air continues to rise, it is likely that this invasive mite, which negatively affects more than 150 crop species, will exhibit reduced reproductive success and subsequent colonization of bean foliage. If these results are typical of the mite's relationship with other agricultural plants... | 3_3 |
In a closing statement Casey reiterated, The global warming of the past decades was caused by the Sun. It is now over. It will not return based upon the SSRCs research, for at least thirty years. It will then return only because the Suns repeating cycles of activity are scheduled to pick up again at that time. We shoul... | 2_1 |
Indeed, over the last two decades, 1199 has perfected a brand of politics that allows the union to get most or all of what it wants from New York governorseither by entering into mutually beneficial alliances or by organizing to quash reform plans that might be adverse to its members. George Pataki entered the governor... | 0_0 |
On Monday, Matt Lauer of Today interviewed Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff who's made a national name for himself cracking down on illegal immigration. Lauer noted that Arizona's new immigration bill has the support of 70 percent of Arizonans. "But get this," Lauer added, "53 percent of those same peopl... | 0_0 |
The Mega Millions lottery last month with its whopping $656 million prize captured the intense interest of Americans across the country. Estimates suggest that as many as 100 million people participated. No matter that the odds of winning the jackpot were known to be much less than being struck by lightning twice. Inve... | 0_0 |
Gore can't entirely be blamed for failing to turn into a live wireat 58, the man is what he is. So the fault mainly lies with the filmmakers. Director Davis Guggenheim, who has mostly worked on television series such as "24" and "ER," follows Gore as the former Vice President goes on a world tour with his multimedia pr... | 0_0 |
Replication (47) The committee almost sound like they are singing from the CRU hymnsheet here. Replication is not necessary because there are other groups reaching the same answer. | 0_0 |
Here are some posts at Daily Caller by Herring on the Omaha Tri Faith insanity: | 0_0 |
Interestingly on the sixth page of this document , the Bureau both makes the point that 2013 was the hottest year on record for Queensland, while conceding that the period 2002-2013 shows short-term cooling. | 1_4 |
Also, by the way, global hurricane activity, measured in total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), is actually at a low not encountered since the 1970s . In fact, the U.S. is currently experiencing the longest absence of severe landfall hurricanes in over a century. Wilma, the last Category 3 or stronger storm, occurr... | 1_7 |
A new documentary features warmists and hippies fearlessly acting like spoiled brats. Among the feats celebrated on film climbing the UK parliament buildings and hanging about outside power stations. Actual fearless feats like anti-oil protests in Riyadh are next week, or something. | 0_0 |
The closest USHCN station to Washington is at Lincoln, Virginia. Since the mid-1990s, the thermometers say that Lincoln has cooled about three degrees (blue below) while USHCN carefully adjusts the temperatures in the opposite direction. Note that the adjusted (red) trend is up by two degrees since the mid-1990s. | 5_1 |
The event, according to the Wall Street Journal, set "in motion a process to curb the impact of global warming." The International Business Times said it was "the latest in a series of steps to transform the global accord into an actual tool for combating greenhouse gas emissions and boosting the use of cleaner energy.... | 0_0 |
John: Home entertainment room Brian. A lot of houses have them these days. | 0_0 |
Ebell pointed to EPA whistleblower Alan Carlin, a longtime economist for the agency, who discovered this firsthand in 2009 when a report he co-authored questioned the science behind then-proposed global warming regulations under the Clean Air Act. | 5_2 |
Assuming that the Levitus record of global oceanic heat content increase is anywhere near accurate, what might it tell us about climate sensitivity; e.g., how much global warming we might expect from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations? As we will see, the oceans have not warmed nearly as much as would... | 0_0 |
scientists simply dont have time (and the audience typically doesnt have the interest) to lay out all the evidence, the arguments and counterarguments, in full detail. Isnt it legitimate, then, to simply note that almost all the experts have been convinced of a given point? | 0_0 |
Wind production does not follow demandit follows the wind. When wind production is high, demand is frequently low. | 4_4 |
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