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Lets start with an analysis of how the UKs electricity was supplied last year. | 0_0 |
swollen majorities that Franklin D. Roosevelt had from the beginning, the sense | 0_0 |
"The implication that I personally, or the club has taken Ms Dhalla's side is totally false" | 0_0 |
a reduction in, their charitable deductions to channel money away from charities | 0_0 |
Whether or not EPA has a policy in place won't matter until the agency is transparent about the data behind its science and decisions, said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. | 0_0 |
The period from January 2001 to May 2013 is now 149-months long. Refer to the following graph of running 149-month trends from January 1880 to May 2013, using the NCDC global temperature anomaly product. The last data point in the graph is the linear trend (in deg C per decade) from January 2001 to the current month. I... | 1_4 |
"The sacred cod." On March 17th, 1784, Mr. John Rowe of Boston arose from his seat in the Hall of Representatives at the Old State House, and offered the following motion: "That leave might be given to hang up the representation of a cod fish in the room where the House sit, as a memorial of the importance of the Cod-F... | 0_0 |
Green alarmist Ticky Fullerton on Lateline Business rings the lepers bell before interviewing warming sceptic Professor Ian Plimer: | 5_2 |
Keep in mind that the longitudes of 120E-80W stretch 160 deg, almost halfway around the globe. For a reminder of width of the equatorial Pacific, see the protractor-based illustration here . | 0_0 |
RSL reflects the actual sea levels, as measured by tide gauges, while the ASL takes out the effect of sinking land. As can be seen, apart from the anomaly at Cambridge, the other stations show ASL of 1.41mm/yr or less, about 5 inches/century. This is a far cry from the headline figures shown for Baltimore of 12 inches/... | 1_6 |
Social pessimism stands in the way of tackling the real challenges facing humanity. Growth skepticism has become a barrier to rediscovering the potential of human progress. | 0_0 |
Excess Canadian crude oil produced from oil sands is expanding at a rate of one million barrels a day every five years. The more that's produced, the less of a market there will be for oil from Venezuela and some other OPEC member countries with similar-quality oil, requiring them to either curtail production or lower ... | 4_5 |
The four Australian researchers report that "significant genotype by environment interactions for both stressors at gastrulation indicated the presence of heritable variation in thermal tolerance and the ability of embryos to respond to changing environments." And they say that "positive genetic correlations for gastru... | 3_2 |
So we have to get better, a lot better, at de-carbonizing our energy. As the Ecomodernist Manifesto correctly notes, " rising energy consumption is tightly correlated with rising incomes and improving living standards. For that reason, any conflict between climate mitigation and the continuing development process throu... | 0_0 |
past changes provides the context for our scenarios of future greenhouse gas | 0_0 |
Well, with oil-for-food finally buried, we knew they'd be on the prowl for new bodies. | 0_0 |
The George C. Marshall Institute believes that public discussion of human-made global warming as a world encompassing problem may be a clear example of multiple "detail solutions" being proposed before a sound scientific definition of the problem, or even a recognition of the problem's existeence, has been established.... | 0_0 |
L1837 0.7 L1918 0.5 L2000 0.4 L2043 0.3 L2126 0.3 L2207 0.3 | 0_0 |
WARNING #1: Do NOT watch this video if you wish to avoid portrayals of extreme violence, genocide, child murders, demonic practice and terrorism all in the name of environmentalism. | 0_0 |
No evidence exists for this claim. The mass-bleaching events of recent decades have coincided with surface water warming resulting from periods of extended calm associated with strong El Nio events. This impedes normal evaporative cooling as well as wave driven mixing. There is no evidence of any increase in the freque... | 3_2 |
Finally, regarding the billboard, after 15 years of being the target of vicious ad hominem attacks, we decided to punch back instead of stand back. Our billboard was factual: The Unabomber was motivated by concern over man-made global warming to do the terrible crimes he committed. He still believes in global warming. ... | 0_0 |
Dr. Gilbert Ross, longtime medical director of ACSH, said Whelan "was a trailblazer, taking on the establishment as a young woman and throughout her life, forcefully but always politely educating anyone of any position on the precepts of sound science, calling out agenda, ideology, and hypocrisy posing as science." | 0_0 |
That group is headed by Congressional energy heavyweights Rep. Ed Markey (D-Ma), poised to succeed John Kerry as senator if the current Massachusetts senator is approved as Secretary of State; Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee; and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Or), the presump... | 0_0 |
(Excerpts) ??? Antarctic sea ice reached record high levels this year. Antarctic sea ice extent broke 20 million kilometers for the first time since satellite recordings began. | 1_1 |
None of these hard realities seems to bother President Obama, though. In fact, he is determined to use the December climate conference in Paris to lock the United States into binding treaty commitments to slash the common folks fossil fuel use, CO2 emissions, economic growth and job creation even further. | 4_1 |
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 07:01:06 PM at epicenter | 0_0 |
Heartland Replies To Matthew England's Ugly and Dishonest Essay | 0_0 |
Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustainable energy. | 0_0 |
The author of yesterday's story, "In Northern France, Warming Presses Fall Grape Harvest Into Summertime," apparently missed the prior story, and gets front-page treatment in the process to go on about the horrors confronting vintners: | 0_0 |
This tallies with what Richard Betts has said in the past, namely that modellers are using the "known unknowns" to get the model into the right climatic ballpark, but not to wiggle-match. However, I'm not sure that users of climate models can place much reliance on them when there is this clear admission that the model... | 5_1 |
Such predictions should prove crucial to American policymakers and energy producers, many of whom have pledged to make wind energy 20 percent of America??s total energy production by 2030. Currently only about 2 percent of American energy comes from wind. | 4_4 |
From Rwanda and Liberia to the Sudan and Uganda, we see every day the horrible effects of war crippled men, widowed women, orphaned children, and frail old people, without hands and legs, with slash marks all over their bodies. They struggle as scavengers, collapse and perish from hunger and disease, while politicians ... | 0_0 |
Although the A123 bankruptcy was the most obvious example of Obama's failed foray into the car business, Romney could have pointed to a number of other reports over the past few weeks to make the same, obvious point: the Obama administration should not be picking winners in the hypercompetitive business of making and s... | 0_0 |
Meet the skeptics at CFACT's COP16 press conference Monckon, Spencer & Rothbard on Climate Science & Policy | 0_0 |
Human ingenuity keeps finding more oil and gas but we are close to running out of IP addresses , at least in the old IPv4 system, which all of your are probably using right now. This does not mean the world will shut down - already, for example, all the computers in your home probably share a single IP address to the o... | 0_0 |
One reason this cannot be contemplated is that it would involve giving up the urgent sense of crisis that still fuels too much of the environmental movement. This is leading to the slow trivialization and marginalization of environmentalism as a general public concern. Serious environmentaliststhe laboratory scientists... | 0_0 |
So that is what we would achieve if we stop the use of all gasoline-powered vehicles in America and if we replace them with a system producing no carbon dioxide. | 0_0 |
EPA has behaved in a similar fashion concerning the RMR&R; exclusion. After approving an expansive interpretation of the exclusion by state permitting agencies for the better part of two decades, in 1999 EPA claimed to be shocked to find some companies "have tried to extend it to activities that are infrequently perfor... | 0_0 |
Here is a corresponding plot for the RSS T2 data. In this case, observations are about halfway between zero and the ensemble mean trend. If someone wishes to argue (a la Santer, Schmidt) that there is no statistically significant difference between observations and the ensemble mean, then they are also obliged to conce... | 0_0 |
Australias ABC News gets rather carried away and headlines with Global warming to cause mass extinction: report | 5_2 |
Tide gauge data for the 20th century indicates that the average sea level rise rate was 1.8 mm/year. Satellite data from 1993 to present indicates a sea level rise rate of about 3 mm/year. This is part 3 of a series of posts looking for the acceleration necessary to reconcile those two facts | 1_6 |
Michael Moore Propaganda Too Much Even for Castro | 0_0 |
John didnt grow rice during the recent drought because while he had a water licence, he didnt have a water allocation. | 0_0 |
We won't spend hours watching the World Cup or the Olympics because they aren't happening in 2015. Most of us won't spend Tuesday, Nov. 3, waiting for election returns, although citizens of Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana will elect governors and state representatives, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will find out i... | 0_0 |
On Earth Day in 2010, Paul Rubin, economics professor at Emory University, wrote an article in the WSJ titled "Environmentalism as Religion: While people have worshipped many things, we may be the first to build shrines to garbage," here's an excerpt: | 0_0 |
One such is George Monbiot, a scribbler for the British Marxist daily propaganda sheet, The Guardian. What is Monbiot's qualification to write about climate science? Well, like Abraham, he is a "scientist". Trouble is, he's a fourteenth-rate zoologist, so his specialization has even less to do with climate science than... | 0_0 |
For Delaware Democrat Chris Coons, it's fitting that Election Day comes two days after Halloween, running as he is against that sometime dabbler in witchcraft, Christine O'Donnell. For hundreds of his partisan brothers and sisters, however, another holiday reference is more appropriate: Mexico's Day of the Dead. Today,... | 0_0 |
Castro's government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it "knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them." | 0_0 |
At least since the energy crisis of the early 1970s, the United States has wrestled with the difficult question of how best to ensure an adequate energy supply while protecting the environment. Today, this question continues to play a role in our political debates. Whether and how public policy might reduce reliance on... | 0_0 |
There are no perfect ways to measure indirect energy use. Some use greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proxy, but this is far from ideal because different forms of energy are more or less GHG-intensive. Still, even a weak measurement is better than no measurement, and the GHG approach is a useful concept of which scien... | 0_0 |
NCDC has turned Marylands sixth coldest January-July into the 36th coldest, through a spectacular hockey stick ofadjustments. | 5_1 |
In the meantime, theres a danger the shift is not only a step back in market delivery but in technology. | 0_0 |
Americans have reason to be optimistic about the nation's environmental progress and its future health, according to the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). This tenth anniversary edition of the Index reveals that envir... | 0_0 |
For example, growth is generally limited in high latitudes by temperature and in deserts by water. But regional limitations can very in their degree of impact on growth throughout the growing season. | 0_0 |
It is true that technologies known as fracking and horizontal drilling have made available huge reserves of natural gas and oil that previously eluded the drill bit. It is also true that inexpensive natural gas is giving foreign petrochemical companies and other companies that rely on that fuel an incentive to invest l... | 0_0 |
Unfortunately for Hansen and McKibben as with so many previous prophets of the end of the world, reality isn't cooperating with their chiliastic fantasies. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased by 4 per cent since the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, but the global mean temperature has been flat since ... | 1_4 |
Pollution was unchecked and mostly unthought-of. Sewage was considered treated if dumped in a river. Personal hygiene was practiced, when at all, on the face, neck, and hands up to the wrists. One thing everybody forgets about old times is how the old-timers smelled. | 0_0 |
Pat??s Comment : The simple GHG-induced temperature projection goes right through the middle of the pack of GCM simulations, and closely tracks the GCM average. As the average of GCM projections is typically accounted to more accurately follow measured climate trends, the same criterion indicates that the simple GHG pr... | 5_1 |
Furthermore, were nowhere near the peak reached by the interglacial of 125,000 years ago, when temperatures were 1-3C higher than today and sea levels up to 20 feet higher, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself. In other words, the Globe might as well have had a headline reading Signs of cha... | 2_1 |
Moreover, there is good research suggesting that conflict in Dafur had nothing to do with climate change. | 0_0 |
Heath Hickory: I dont know, Molly, Im not really into that whole Earth Day thing. Whats it about? | 0_0 |
A lot of theories are being floated for what exactly caused the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. The real answer, of course, should have been clear all along: global warming. At least that's what the Center for American Progress is telling us. | 0_0 |
This week, I turn to the topic of workers comp. insurance. Never in 2 years at one of the more storied business schools in the nation, nor in nearly 20 years at the largest corporations in the world, did I once encounter the topic of workers comp. Now, since I bought my own business, I spend inordinate amounts of time ... | 0_0 |
But there was one player that the White House doesn't seem to have fully taken into account: Vladimir Putin. It's doubtful that at this point President Obama retains many of the optimistic illusions that marked the early stages of his Russia policy: the naive hopes that Medvedev might offer a serious alternative to Put... | 0_0 |
Chris de Freitas , Associate Professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland : There is evidence of global warming. But warming does not confirm that carbon dioxide is causing it. Climate is always warming or cooling. There are natural variability theories of warming. To suppor... | 2_1 |
For this reason, environmental decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty must be understood to raise a mixture of ethical and scientific questions. Yet, the scientific skeptics on global warming or those denying connections between tornadoes and climate change often speak as if it is irrational to talk about duti... | 5_1 |
As the air's CO 2 content increases, it is likely that over-wintering strawberry plants will exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis and starch production, which will support more rapid and extensive growth in the spring. Such increases in carbohydrate availability at this critical time should allow strawberry plants ... | 3_3 |
By Geoff Brown, The Australian Climate Sceptics, Aug 11, 2015 | 0_0 |
Wealthy people who want a Tesla as their third or fourth vehicle can pay the full market price. And they should. | 0_0 |
Baseless nonsense. The summer of 2012 didnt even rank in the top ten for daily record maximums. The summer of 1936 had more than five times as many record daily maximums as summer 2012. | 2_1 |
around," as he told Joe the Plumber, even if there is less wealth to spread | 0_0 |
Now lets examinethe climate change segment of Obamas inaugural speech : | 0_0 |
Climate Disasters: New Baylor Study Explores How People Respond | 0_0 |
The following are town hall meetings being organized by Vice President Gore's office and the White House Office on Science and Technology Policy to "examine the vulnerability of various regions of the US to climate variability and climate change and to aggregate information across regions to support a national scientif... | 0_0 |
Since proving the validity of long-term forecasts is difficult and the ultimate tests would take years, and since many scientists are alarmed at the dire scenarios, my colleagues are beginning to talk about whether it is O.K. to exaggerate and push forecasts that are not currently provable if the only way to get societ... | 0_0 |
Australias antarctic runway melting | Walcha News | 0_0 |
?We had a big drop in 2007, and since we?ve seen that decline continue,? Eicken said. | 0_0 |
I downloaded the latest HadCRUT4 temperature and Mauna Loa CO2 data from Wood for Trees and global coffee bean production from FAOSTAT and it appears that coffee bean trees like warmer temperatures... | 0_0 |
Not too mysteriously, manmade greenhouse gases have had little impact on two (overlapping) portions of the largest ocean on the planet. | 2_3 |
Russia's representative at the G8 and chief economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin, Andrei Illarionov, attacked "Kyotism" in a speech in Moscow on February 19. According to the Moscow Times, Illarionov said, "I have called my speech 'The Return of Gosplan,'" . He went on, "But the proposed mechanism would decreas... | 0_0 |
We were sampling with the largest chain saws we could find a chain-saw bar of seven feet, he said. We were hauling these slabs of wood two meters on a side as far as two kilometers to the road. We were using wheeled litters the emergency rescue equipment for people and put a couple hundred pounds on them. | 0_0 |
Postscript: I just finished reading the Royal Society assessment . Overall, I give it a much higher grade than the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers (SPM). I know about half of the scientists on the Working Group; they are absolutely top drawer. I dont disagree with anything they say for the first 7 pages. Then they chara... | 5_1 |
The slope is flat since November 1996 or 16 years and 11 months. (goes to September) RSS is 203/204 or 99.5% of the way to Ben Santers 17 years. | 1_4 |
EPAs Particulate Matter Rule is Cargo Cult Science, Doctor States | 0_0 |
I think that this is a useful way of looking at information on trends. (I doubt that 30 years is a relevant period to test for long-term persistence under fracdiff for example, theres been pretty much one PDO for the entire period, but have rendered it here as well for comparison.) | 0_0 |
These interest groups define "progress" as ever-expanding laws, regulations, bureaucracies and power, to bring air and water emissions of every description down to zero, to prevent diseases that they attribute to manmade pollutants and forestall "dangerous manmade climate change." Achieving those goals requires control... | 0_0 |
"I think there is a culture of obsessive political correctness" Now Tom Ricks asks some seriously, er, moderate questions at his Foreign Policy blog, "The Best Defense"... Another warning sign: Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut ... | 0_0 |
2) A 2006 study by a team of scientists led by Petr Chylek of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences found the rate of warming in 1920-1930 was about 50% higher than that in 1995-2005, suggesting carbon dioxide could not be the cause of warming. | 2_1 |
The recent admission that natural changes are responsible for the California drought was not news to some of us. What is news is that some pretty big research names that would be assumed to be part of the global warming bureaucracy are the ones now saying it. | 2_1 |
Prevent excessively broad environmental review of coal export terminals. As the EPA makes it harder to use coal as a source of energy for electricity in the United States, there are opportunities to export coal to other nations. Removing excessive environmental reviews can help promote coal exports that will help keep ... | 4_1 |
The ballot measure is one of many facing voters at the 2 November elections which have been sponsored by corporations exploiting a recent relaxation of funding rules by the US Supreme Court, which gave private firms the right to donate money (anonymously, if they want) to single-issue advocacy groups. That ruling has l... | 0_0 |
To review the consequences of the EU's so-called "20-20-20" agenda, that calls for 20% emissions cuts, 20% more energy efficiency, and 20% renewables by 2020, as well as to obtain assurance that the targets will not be made more stringent (i.e., the emissions reduction target will not be raised up to 30% below 1990 lev... | 0_0 |
On Christmas day the expedition radioed for help after the ship became trapped in this years tremendous Antarctic ice, which may set a record. | 0_0 |
However, U.S. land-based surface temp. differences (NASA-GISS) = approx. zero | 0_0 |
Renewable Energy Mandates will continue to failcosting us money and jobs | 4_1 |
Later in his career, he would work on optimization; Pontryagin's minimum principle is behind the bang-bang control. But string theorists primarily know him because of his earlier work on algebraic and differential topology. | 0_0 |
All of the above findings are of a positive nature. Crop growth was enhanced by the experimental doubling of the air's CO 2 content. There was no increase in the evolution of the greenhouse gas N 2 O from the soil. And the three Finnish researchers concluded that the high increase in the below-ground biomass indicates ... | 3_3 |
Just as a brand new book further exposes the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (whose scams I dissected here, and in more disturbing detail here), and on the heels of the weekend surprise of a 2005 memo showing President Obama's cooling/warming/population zealot of a "science czar" John Holdren is t... | 5_2 |
Ive lived through a 7.x quake where lots of the place was out of action for about a week. (We all just pitched in an fixed it ourselves. We didnt bitch about the folks who were already working hard to fix things; we helped.) | 0_0 |
Anders is having a discussion about Ed and Tamsins nature article on the pause in global warming. | 1_4 |
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