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six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms." In essence, the fundamental aims of American foreign policy are universal
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Economy In Jeopardy As Budget Deal Affirms EPA Climate Programs
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The global temperature ?savings? of the Kerry-Lieberman bill is astoundingly small?0.043 C (0.077 F) by 2050 and 0.111 C (0.200 F) by 2100. In other words, by century?s end, reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% will only result in global temperatures being one-fifth of one degree Fahrenheit less than they woul...
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Environmental Policy: The administration should work towards extending market institutions that help conservation efforts by shoring up property rights.
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Economic Policy Fellow John Berlau on why the court's verdict is a victory for investors:
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Temperature oscillations recorded in Greenland ice cores over the past 500 years (Fig. 2) are truly remarkable. At least 40 periods of warming and cooling have occurred since 1480 AD, all well before CO 2 emissions could have been a factor.
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But as Aaron Wildavsky, one of the great policy analysts of the 20th Century documented, some risks are unsuited to pre-emptive mitigation. Attempting to head risks off ahead of time generally fails unless the nature of the risk is extremely well known, and the efficacy of the proposed intervention is equally well know...
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New York City is 1199's true power center, however. It's hard to overstate the significance of 1199 to the so-called progressive movement that now controls almost every major city office. City council speaker and leader of the Progressive Caucus Melissa Mark-Viverito is a former organizer for 1199, which has played an ...
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In discussing the findings of their experiment, Hikami et al . say that the upward trend in the calcification of C. gaudichaudii in response to ocean acidification "can probably be attributed to the increase in CO 2 , possibly through enhancement of symbiont photosynthesis, a phenomenon known as the CO 2 -fertilizing e...
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This microbial carbon dioxide production may cause a 2 to 3 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures over the next 100 years. He also says that, "The failure to incorporate animals and their interactions with microbial communities into global decomposition models has been highlighted as a critical limitation in our u...
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Over some multidecadal periods, the sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic warm faster than the rest of the global oceans, and during other multidecadal periods, the North Atlantic sea surface temperatures warm slower than the rest of the global oceans and can cool dramatically. For the period of November 1981 ...
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I have plotted below the numbers of these tornadoes since 1970 using the data from NOAAs Storm Prediction Centre.
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Citigroups Energy 2020 report says the US petroleum industry could add as many as 3.6 million jobs by 2020 and increase the US gross domestic product by as much as 3 percent, while also generating billions of dollars in lease bonuses, rents, royalties and taxes for local, state and federal governments.
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I know someone who was killed doing this, in what I suspect was the same manner. The truck's hydraulics were functional, but the control levers to engage them were not. Thus, the box had to be raised by activating the hydraulics from under the truck. As it did, the weight of the sliding load caused the truck to suddenl...
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GM advocates have been slow to respond, or don't want to counter misinformation at all. A website, GMO Answers, was developed just last year, providing access to at least some experts on the technology. That's years too late for an issue that has been contentious for more than two decades.
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As just explained,GHG regulation of motor vehicles would activate PSD regulation of stationary sources, and PSD isan essential adjunctof the NAAQS program.PSDs central purpose is toprevent significant deterioration of air quality in areas that comply with NAAQS.
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In essence, what we have here is a new satellite using new tools to take measurements. The data recovered is analyzed using guesses and inferences. Their analysis is presented with a margin of error as large as the amount of ice they say is melting from Antarctica. The loss is is less than 1% of the normal annual melt.
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Besides making claims that overstate how much we know about the science of climate change, the Initiative's main claim bases its call for action on the notion that "the consequences of climate change will be significant, and will hit the poor the hardest." This ignores the extreme uncertainty involved, as the consequen...
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While better than the government controlling any of it, one can't help from realizing that the cultural and political views of Americans are somewhat shaped by a tiny group of people.
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Even my most antagonistic critics have nearly always understood that I have not attempted to offer my own reconstruction. Indeed, this annoys many critics e.g. here . On numerous occasions, Ive explained that reconciliation of inconsistencies between proxies especially between seemingly like proxies in the same region ...
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A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported. The 34-year old man, identified only as Martin T, suffocated after the load fell on him while he was dumping it in a field near the western Czech city of Karlovy Vary, news Web Site www.nov...
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We can expect the onset of a deep bicentennial minimum of total solar irradiance (TSI) in approximately 204211 and the 19th deep minimum of global temperature in the past 7500 years in 205511. After the maximum of solar cycle 24, from approximately 2014 we can expect the start of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 2...
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UAW Speaks More Softly, Still Carries Big Stick
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Figure 10 is presenting the depth of the 20 deg C isotherm along a band from 2S to 2N. The positive anomalies, working their way eastward since the beginning of 2014, were caused by the downwelling Kelvin wave, which pushes down on the thermocline (the 20 deg C isotherm). Youll note how the anomalies grew in strength a...
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Images: WA Parliament House Nachoman-au , Cottesloe Beach: WA Tourism
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In January 2015, a Greenpeace activist called for the beheading of a member of the House of Lords on the website of the Guardian. When challenged, he repeated the call, and again. People who questioned the wisdom of these remarks were attacked or banned. The Guardian actively moderates its comments, but even though Gar...
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Not just Damon and Kunens (already mentioned here )by chance, I have found yet another Science paper (this time Broecker from August 1975 ) making it clear that, for a few years up to then, the general consensus among scientists had been that the world was cooling:
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"Staff attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are busy reviewing the legality of the proposed merger between giant wireless carriers AT&T; and T-Mobile."
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Q. Even putting aside the fact that Exponentsresults were not statistically significant, are you
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Tree-ring expert Michael Mann had simply picked up Saltzman's thread. Mann's highly dramatic "hockey stick' graph was to dress the scene very nicely for the launch of the 2001 Third Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Overnight Mann re-wrote the paleoclimatic record to the astonishment of so...
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Our tax code shows what happens when government's power to award special privileges swamps the public interest Let's not compound the error by bribing U.S. companies to acquiesce in the biggest global regulatory regime yet conceived. Kyoto must stand or fall (as we expect it will) on its merits.
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All of which is why I tried (badly) to make the counter argument that if (according to Oreskes) skeptics are motivated by their belief in defence of an ideology of laissez-faire governence, opposition to government regulation (sic), then the opposite might also explain the warmist viewpoint. Now I take your previous co...
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Other left-wing academics who understand the illogic of confident assertion, such as Mr. Obamas, say nothing rather than undermine positions that they personally support, ideals such as environmental protection and social justice. So they sell out philosophically, backing off from the skepticism they would normally pra...
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My name is David Kreutzer. I am Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official position of The Heritage Foundation.
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I asked Professor Hegerl about the now embarrassingly large discrepancy between the IPCCs medium-term interval of temperature predictions made in 1990 and the observed outturn in the subsequent quarter of a century, which was only half the IPCCs central estimate. The IPCC had accordingly halved its predicted interval o...
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KENNETH P. GREEN AND STEVEN F. HAYWARD
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Normally, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are in balance with levels of carbon dioxide in the ocean. However, if water and air were cut off by a thick layer of ice during Snowball Earth, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could have increased drastically. In a phenomenon similar to the climate change Earth is wi...
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Figure 4. Observed global temperature history, 1950-2009 (black). "Corrected" global temperature history (red line). "Corrected" temperature history with general influence of stratospheric water vapor (according to Solomon et al., 2010) removed (green line). "Corrected" temperature history with general influence of str...
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The nitrogen factor. A team of Japanese scientists grew rice at ambient and elevated CO2 with variations in nitrogen (N) solution in the soil. The Yamakawa et al. team found that The dry matter of rice was increased by elevated CO2 and that the amount of N uptake seemed to limit rice growth. Assuming rice farmers of th...
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Since the ice extent dropped to a record level in 2007, heavy snowfall, much more abundant than normal were observed in vast areas of North America, continental Europe and China, according to the article, published on February 27.
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The actual warming has been slightly less than Hansen's Scenario C
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Art exhibit portrays the wildly incoherent message from the climate science community, and the lemmings who follow them .
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What is most interesting about the Conference is the battle part of all this, which Heartland seems to be losing. Joe Bast describes the battle in this recent blog post :
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"Political funding has received the most attention, but the idea has now spread well beyond politics into the larger policy world. The goal is to eliminate business funding not only from politics, but from the entire intellectual world. Many major science and medical journals, for example, now impose financial disclosu...
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Mark Gillar who writes the Hootville Gazette has taken the initiative and arranged a set of radio interviews with the whos who of skeptics, like Lord Monckton, Patrick Michaels, Ann McElhinney, Marc Morano, Chris Horner, Steve Milloy, Joseph DAleo, and yours truly. The first one starts tomorrow morning (US time). You c...
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The Department of Interiorcould list more species as threatened or endangered based on climate change concerns.
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In terms of overall landfast sea ice extent across the entire East Antarctic region (from 10??W to 172??E), as the five Australian researchers describe it, "there has been a statistically significant increase (at the 99% confidence level) of 1.43 0.3% per year," and they say that the regional short-term trends for diff...
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For example, as part of a parallel campaign by 17 state attorneys general to investigate fossil-energy companies for the alleged crime of delaying climate action, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker on April 7 subpoenaed the Competitive Enterprise Institute, demanding ten years' worth of communication...
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www.eyretribune.com .au/story/.../australias-antarctic-runway-melting...
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Short bio: John O'Sullivan is a legal analyst and writer who for several years has litigated in government corruption and conspiracy cases in both the US and Britain. Visit his Website: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/johnosullivan
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More work needs to be done to understand the upward trends in path length and width. The increases lead to an apparent increase in tornado intensity across all EF categories .
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So without having found anything thatsnevertheless they have astatement that begins in their report, therefore.
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The animation below shows how they reduced both the pre-1940 warming, and the post-1940 cooling. Neither are explainable by global warming theory, so government expertsmade both largely disappear.
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The role of capitalism and free markets in raising people out of poverty was acknowledged by Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical "Centesimus Annus" in 1981. He wrote: "The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, ...
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Texas Order in Exxon Case Flagged in CEI's Case Against AG Walker Over Subpoena
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Beaulieu didn't believe in Jesus, so he didn't care. However, the parrot continued:
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on the Vioxx scare and the problems with the Food and Drug Administration's approval process.
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Why does that matter? Because the most powerful greenhouse gas (water vapor) does its thing at the top of the troposphere (around 200 hPa) ??? that??s where it radiates energy out to space. Below that level the energy is effectively ricocheting back and forward ??? bouncing between molecules or causing collisions and g...
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Randy has read your letter. We will seek the advice of one of the experts you approved.
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So, the next question is, what favors unseasonably cool weather over the West during tornado season? This is where the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) comes in.
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Biofuels cannot displace enough of the world oil market to cause economic hardship to enemy regimes (we are actually allies with most of our major suppliers), nor will renewables put a dent in the pocketbook of terrorists. As terrorism expert Colonel G. I. Wilson points out, "most insurgencies are low-tech in nature. T...
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January 2016: the U.S. Becomes a Global Energy Superpower
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The sun is almost completely blank. The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. The sun??s X-ray output has flatli...
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There are some interesting questions being posed at the Which Climate Change Consensus? (Part 2) thread. Following are two questions from Graham Young that interests me. They seems to have been lost amongst the more general policy and economic discussion about Kyoto.
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On the face of it, the scheme seems to be pretty successful. However, much of the downward trend was due to the global economic recession, not to the ETS. Moreover, both climate chaos proponents and climate disaster skeptics agree that the scheme will have no detectable impact whatsoever on worldwide temperatures perha...
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Yet another significant paper finds low climate sensitivity to CO2, suggesting there is no global warming crisis at hand
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The Beijing Normal University Earth System Model (BNU-ESM) (7 April 2015)
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One thing to note here is how little Mike??s position is actually at odds with a solar explanation for late 20th century warming. Suppose the solar activity peak was not in 85, but several years later, as a straightforward reading of the data suggests. (As documented in Part 1 , solar cycle 22, which began in 1986, was...
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When I ran the above graph for EF-5 tornadoes, I had left the zero fields blank. This apparently gives a false trend line, so I have now rerun it with zeros. The result, as below, now shows the true position, which is a declining trend.
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The author concludes that the results of his simulation suggest "much of the observed climatic variability over the past millennium may just be a reflection of natural climatic variability within the actual climate system, with occasional anomalies associated, for example, with volcanic eruptions, being superimposed on...
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Research is beginning to show that climate change mitigation and adaptation actions can increase the risk of armed conflict, as well as compound vulnerabilities in certain populations (Bumpus and Liverman, 2008; Adger and Barnett, 2009; Webersik, 2010; Fairhead et al., 2012; Marino and Ribot, 2012; Steinbruner et al., ...
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As the CO 2 content of the air increases, swards of perennial ryegrass will likely exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and dry matter production. In addition, elevated CO 2 concentrations should favor the growth of belowground organs. Thus, the carbon sequestering prowess of grasslands dominated by perennial ryeg...
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the relationship between obesity and consumption of sugar-sweetened soda:
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In GHG control, the Chinese government would have no real interest in transparency. Could the U.S., especially in that case, accurately determine how much coal China is burning? Could it know if a carbon tax has been enforced on state-owned enterprises in Qinghai? Could it ensure that such a tax had not been offset wit...
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With the above background on nuances of variability, Ill now consider how the analysis in the Wells Report and Snyders criticism.
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If scientists cannot or will not explain the issue, then farmers have very little chance of protecting a technology that has immense value to consumers.
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An analysis of geological records that preserve details of the last known period of global warming has revealed startling results which suggest current targets for limiting climate change are unsafe.
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More Thoughts on Immigration -- Why I Think the Tiberius Gracchus Analogy is Particularly Apt
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Meanwhile, the Obama Administration continues to push to reduce supposed global-warming emissions. Last month, the President even signed an executive order establishing a Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience that could dramatically expand government bureaucrats' ability to restrict Americans' use of their pro...
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In July 2006, 46% of voters said global warming is caused primarily by human activities, while 35% said it is due to long-term planetary trends.
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#5 Pr ( D > P & My patient like before | Trial Results & No Cheating & Patients Character)
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Many organisations in rural Australia behave like turkeys. They are happily taking money from government believing they will keep getting fed. Of course government is handing out a lot of money at the moment.
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Sea ice area is above normal in the Beaufort Sea, and unprecedented below freezing temperatures are forecast for most of the rest of the July.
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More evidence backing up Ball?s position comes from the polar regions. New reports from the National Snow and Ice Data Center suggest Antarctic ice levels are at record highs. Ball said the southern hemisphere has been cooling for some time. He believes the clinching evidence comes from the Arctic Circle.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that Immelt is suddenly saying jobs are his biggest concern now that he's the chairman of the White House's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. If Immelt proved one thing during his long experiment with "ecomagination" it was that he sees no problem with gaming politics as part of his ...
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Someone among them said it would establish a circle of the Northern League in Rosarno: c already in Pantelleria, and a girl of Scilla, Carmela Santagati, 29, the last European elections on 6 and 7 June 2009 with the League's candidate North Calabria and took almost two thousand votes. Probably will be nominated to the ...
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"The real damage caused by these scandals resulted from the lazy reporting done by most journalists on the subject. The media failed to report the real story of "Climategate" that a crime was committed by thieves who stole from a prestigious university in order to further an agenda of harassment against climate scienti...
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An economist, who "got $50,000 from Enron to serve on the company's phantom-like advisory board" - that's that company that invented the global warming industry - derides an economist as having expertise on global warming in a column proclaiming, as an economist, to possess 'the truth' about global warming, unlike thos...
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In the following photograph you can see vegetation black from the 2006-07 Lawsons Long Alley fire which burnt about 14,440 hectares of national park. There has been lots of rain recently and the undgrowth is recovering with many beautiful wildflowers.
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Anderegg, W.R., Prall, J.W. Harold, J.., Schneider, S. (2010) Expert Credibility in Climate Change, Proc Nat Acad Sci.
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This April ??? 2013 ??? is seeing avg. temps at -4.8C! Right now we are a whopping 10 degrees below normal for this time of the year!
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Sen. John Kerry blames global warming for recent tornadoes in the Southeast U.S.
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But considering how much attention would have been lavished on a comparable run of hot weather or on a warming trend that was plainly accelerating, shouldnt the recent cold phenomena and the absence of any global warming during the past 10 years be getting a little more notice? Isnt it possible that the most apocalypti...
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Watch the latest video episode from the Bureaucrash Activist Network: Vodcrash #3.
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One possible cause of the linear increase may be that the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age. World glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have been receding since 1800 or earlier; these are not just recent phenomena. It seems to me that most climate researchers are so caught up in the CO2 effect, the ...
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HAYDEN: Butbutisnt that a formal fallacy? That I should believe you just because you threatened me?
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It is a mistake to then regard the atmosphere as radiating down to the surface because the atmosphere always radiates upward. Instead we should regard the atmosphere as being heated by energy scattering from the surface upward such that it is the temperature of the atmosphere just at or above the surface that passes en...
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Now a new Paris climate treaty says the "ultimate goal" is to stabilize atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gas concentrations at levels that will "prevent dangerous interference with the climate system" under the assumption that CO2 now drives climate change and weather events.
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But we wondered if one could do better than the GHG proxy approach and offer Americans other options for reducing their energy consumption without incurring large upfront costs or giving up major conveniences like roomy houses and cars or even just pretty light fixtures. Using data from the U.S. Department of Commerce'...
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