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Yeah butthe proponents of anthropogenic global warming repeatedly sayYeah but | 0_0 |
In the Alaska experiment, they warmed the permafrost by 2C over a 20-yr period (10 times the actual rate of warming since the 1800s) and there wasn??t the slightest hint of an accelerated methane release. | 3_1 |
Higher CAFE? Why Would Anybody Ever Want That? | 0_0 |
I was just as confident as Schmidt that CRUs planned publication would feature a chronology that would be more HS-like than the 2006 regional chronology. After all, CRU had ferociously contested production of their calculation, even under FOI. Osborn argued that release of the 2006 regional chronology would result in: | 0_0 |
Above: Danish Meteorological Institute Arctic Sea Ice Extent 30% or greater. Note that while this graph shows 30% concentration at the cutoff point, it is valuable to compare. | 1_1 |
Bill Kininmonth knows a lot about climate science, he is a meteorologist and he was the head of Australias National Climate Centre from 1986 to 1998. He is also a well known global warming skeptic and is particularly critical of the idea that the principles for sustaining the greenhouse effect are well understood. Whil... | 5_1 |
?There are large meanders in the jet stream, and they?re called blocking events because they block off the normal moist, mild winds we get from the Atlantic, and instead we get cold air being dragged down from the Arctic and from Russia,? he says. | 0_0 |
"Throughout his entire presidency," said Kish, "Obama has promoted policies that have discouraged the use of our vast energy resources, including blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, slowing energy development on government lands and water, and forcing new restrictions on all forms of energy that Americans have used to b... | 0_0 |
Review finds crustaceans adapt to ocean warming with increased diversity and range | 0_0 |
Bad news for the IPCC hypothesis. Rather than volcanoes counteracting the expected warming and decreasing the atmospheric transmission of sunshine over the period of record, we had a trend of increasing amounts of sunlight making it to the surface. The trend of this increase was 0.34 W/m2 per decade. Kinda blows holes ... | 0_0 |
Securitya safe environment in which people can pursue opportunity | 0_0 |
Will the Party of No Foil the Half-Baked Greenhouse Machiavellis? | 0_0 |
Edgar L. Gaertner: Oeko-Nihilismus. Eine Kritik der Politischen kologie. ISBN 978-3-00-020598-9. 284p. Euro 24,50. Available from CFACT Europe. | 0_0 |
Schmidt and Osborns most recent comments were on July 2, the last day that comments were open on the thread, otherwise I would have attempted to respond at Real Climate. Unfortunately it takes more time to respond to their fantasies than it does for them to make them. | 0_0 |
Heres some breaking news: Its January and in many parts of America, it snows; sometimes a lot. When I was a kid I got my sled and, together with other kids celebrating the snow day, took to the hills. We threw snowballs and came home soaked and exhausted. Mother would hang my wet clothes on a radiator to dry. | 0_0 |
In the meantime, watch out for those ads that Minister Combet is going to run towards this end. After all, you're paying for them. | 0_0 |
As rainforests are cleared to make way for biofuels, their inhabitants evicted from their ancestral lands, as land is diverted from food to energy production, as hunger grips the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world, as havoc is wrought on the countryside and its wildlife, as money is handed to big business,... | 0_0 |
Some quick background. Early last September, Shukla, Maibach, and 18 other climate advocates sent a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Holdren, urging the administration to launch a "RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupted Organizations Act) investig... | 0_0 |
These tax increases are breaches of Obama's campaign promise not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year, which he earlier broke by signing into law the regressive SCHIP excise tax increase. | 0_0 |
I was almost certain that the moment would eventually arrive. It's here. | 0_0 |
McCook et al. state that, Another important observation emerging from this review is the extent of relevant data that are not published or readily accessible. A full picture of the effects and effectiveness of zoning on the GBR has required extensive use of gray literature, previously unpublished data, and collation of... | 0_0 |
"America has won the lottery," Moore and White wrote. "We have hit the jackpot. ... Achieving energy self-sufficiency will generate enough money in royalties and corporate income taxes to pay off much of the national debt without any other tax revenues." | 0_0 |
EU emissions from international aviation are increasing fast doubling since 1990 as air travel becomes cheaper without its environmental costs being addressed, according to the EC. | 0_0 |
Lawmakers in the House last week added funds to buy those planes, and plus funds to buy an additional two 737s and two Gulfstream V planes. The purchases must still be approved by the Senate. The Air Force version of the Gulfstream V each costs $66 million, according to the Department of Defense, and the 737s cost abou... | 0_0 |
In taking stock of what was found, elevated CO 2 had no negative effects and only one positive effect; but the latter was an important one on growth . Ozone, on the other hand, had multiple negative effects, but they were all alleviated by elevated CO 2 ; and these findings suggest a huge win for CO 2 in its battle wit... | 3_3 |
Alas, this display, too, is mere propaganda. Walking past the tree late at night, we saw not a single eco-zomb pedaling to keep the lights on, but they were burning brightly anyway. The Copenhagen Christmas tree is a monument to the dishonesty of the entire ?global warming? fraud. | 0_0 |
The broad conclusion is that the multi-decadal global climate models are unable to to accurately simulate the linear trends of surface and tropospheric temperatures for the 1979-1999 time period on the regional and tropical zonally-averaged spatial scale. Their ability to skillfully simulate the global averages surface... | 5_1 |
Want to stay in Seattle? Just take the elevator ride to the Columbia Center's observation platform (around 1000 ft high) as Joseph Chan did today: | 0_0 |
MXD has a non-temperature signal in it, and also all pre-1881 or pre-1871 data | 0_0 |
IPCC chief says it will be very difficult to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees C. | 0_0 |
Update- Oct 2012: Journal of Climate now says (h/t WUWT) that the paper has been withdrawn: | 0_0 |
The group goes on to claim that "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors." Therefore, "The need to act now is urgent. Governments, businesses, churches and individuals all have a role to play in addressing climate changestarting now." And the way... | 0_0 |
Polar bears no longer on ???thin ice??: researchers say polar bears could face brighter future: ??? a combination of greenhouse gas mitigation and control of adverse human activities in the Arctic can lead to a more promising future for polar bear populations and their sea ice habitat ?? | 3_2 |
This period of widespread warmth is notable in that there is no evidence that it was accompanied by an increase of greenhouse gases. | 2_1 |
I'd be inclined to adopt a variation on Wallace's catchphrase for whenever energy use or energy policy is being discussed: Numbers don't lie. | 0_0 |
Washington, DC, June 7, 2001 The National Academy of Sciences report, released today, has already been characterized as offering further confirmation of global warming alarmism. The Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the report actually confirms that major uncertainties still remain in the current scientific u... | 5_1 |
What can influence the us in the rich the world is that we may be exposed for an Increased competition may make some of it we need something more expensive, but with continued produktivitetskning will also vr living standards to continue to rise. I want ppeka that this is a mjlig description of how the development will... | 0_0 |
OIRA should recast its review process, seeking to make regulatory review more akin to expenditure review. One approach would be for OIRA to develop better cost estimation procedures, to send to Congress for "advice and consent" all "major" regulations (say initially those costing the economy more than $100 million annu... | 0_0 |
17f. The ability of regional climate models to model precipitation values for the next 50 years | 0_0 |
As currently written, the regulation calls on unelected state environmental agencies to draft their own state plans and submit them directly to EPA for review and approval. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has signed an executive order blocking her state's environmental agency from submitting a plan. Other states have int... | 0_0 |
* Constantly improving hydraulic fracturing technologies continue to increase production. For example, Cabot Oil & Gas refracked a 2013 Pennsylvania well, increasing its output to 30.3 million cubic feet of gas per day; thats four times the output from the best well drilled in 2003. Fracking is even being used in decad... | 4_5 |
The Independent , July 2013 Some people call it a slow-down, some call it a hiatus, some people call it a pause. The global average surface temperature has not increased substantially over the last 10 to 15 years, - Reading University, Scientist Rowan Sutton | 1_4 |
Waxman-Markey sets the ambitious target of reducing total U.S. GHG emissions by 83 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2050 (with intermediate benchmarks at 2020 and 2030). Thus, the cap and the allowances sold pursuant to it will be lowered from a peak of 5.4 billion tons in 2016 to just a little over 1 billion tons... | 0_0 |
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One wonders how this area has changed over time, and how long the car park has been there, and how much it, and the tourist vehicles that park next to the fence have contributed to the Kelburn climate record. Someone familiar with the history of the observatory might be able to shed some light on this. Was the screen a... | 0_0 |
Im watching Dortmund-Munich right now, and Munich looks even worse than Chelsea did against Newcastle. | 0_0 |
The effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent. | 0_0 |
Clearly, there is a pattern here. Once we recognize these indirect criticisms, it should be apparent, even for those sympathetic to growth skepticism, that prosperity is hotly contested nowadays. From television programs to magazine articles to the Internet, we are constantly warned of the supposed downsides of growth.... | 0_0 |
The Island of the Famous, infamous program Rai where some guys of varying fame 'are abandoned (alas, only for pretend) on a tropical island, manages to talk about' with the gossip about who fights with whom, on who It has trouble adapting to life outside the city ', and even of those who divorced' who live on televisio... | 0_0 |
The ice core record is shown as a smooth curve achieved by eliminating extreme readings and applying a 70 year smoothing average. Eliminating variability is done with the Mauna Loa and all current atmospheric readings, which can vary up to 600 ppm in the course of a day. Information is lost with smoothing. Elimination ... | 0_0 |
In fact, Olmert had plenty to say. He and Abbas met for face-to face talks some thirty-five times, with significant progress made on such key issues as the division of sovereignty in Jerusalem along religious lines (with holy places subject to international administration) and a broad right of way in the form of a tunn... | 0_0 |
Climate science, moreover, will do nothing to dispel doubts about whether an agreement would be enforced. Such doubts clearly diminish the perceived value of reaching agreement. And the grounds for such doubts are solid. They are especially so with respect to the developing countries. Today, China's government has a st... | 0_0 |
And finally here is some evidence (from ice core analysis) that we may just still be recovering from a period that could well have been the coldest period in the last 5000 years (notice the regular millennial trend as well). | 2_1 |
If such emissions are taken into account, much of the ethanol produced from corn could fail to meet Congress's requirements. | 0_0 |
Weve recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were disappointed to learn that we had removed our products from the EPEAT rating system. I recognize that this was a mistake, senior vice president of hardware engineering, Bob Mansfield, said in a letter on Apples website. | 0_0 |
The best-known U.S. carbon-cutting legislation provides a good idea of just how costly such plans run. America's Climate Security Act, also known as the Lieberman-Warner bill, called for emission reductions of 63 percent below the 2005 level by 2050 (President Obama's much more ambitious plan is to cut emissions 83 per... | 4_1 |
Thus, I dont see any factual errors or unfairness in my commentary. | 0_0 |
Dont send Coal for Christmas, send Carbon Credits! | 0_0 |
In addition, these two data sets use entirely different measurement techniques. The modern data comes from thermometers and satellites, measurement approaches that we understand fairly well. The earlier data comes from some sort of proxy analysis (ice cores, tree rings, sediments, etc.) While we know these proxies gene... | 5_1 |
For example, the accompanying spreadsheet shows that over the most recent warming period (since the late 1970s), the PDO, AMO, and El Nino/La Nina activity can statistically account for most of the recent warming of global average sea surface temperatures. | 2_1 |
And when it comes to the evidence on the effects of increasing greenhouse concentrations on climate phenomena, Ms. Macfarlane's ignorance is blatant. (Here is a detailed summary of the evidence that I prepared in advance of the Paris COP-21 meeting last December.) | 0_0 |
In fact, said Professor Speight, no caseis recorded of a region of the world in which there are present signs of an advance . | 0_0 |
Finally, there is a drop in household electricity expenditures. This decline is due to the more efficient and less expensive forms of energy dominating the market and becoming a commonplace form of electricity generation for American households. (See Chart 6.) | 4_5 |
Atmospheric radiosonde temperature trend (Angell) = 0.3 F/decade | 0_0 |
The paper presents a detailed overview of the surface temperature measuring stations, with Europe covered for more than 150 years and the US for more than 110 years. From a historical perspective land mass is not well covered and, except for Europe, the US, and eastern China, the bulk of the land mass is not well cover... | 5_1 |
L2248 0.4 L2328 0.5 H1840 5.7 H1959 5.5 H2129 5.6 H2241 5.8 | 0_0 |
Heres why that 184,000 deaths from soda claim is bogus | 0_0 |
If CO2 in the atmosphere tends to provide a heating effect, do feedback effects (e.g. water vapor) tend to amplify (positive feedback) or damp (negative feedback) the resulting temperature change | 0_0 |
The finding that the 20th century was not the hottest of the last millennium is controversial in part because it undercuts the argument that burning oil and other fossil fuels is the leading cause of the current temperature increase. However, if the temperature was even warmer before large-scale use of fossil fuels, pe... | 2_1 |
Farmers object to wind turbines, survey says | 0_0 |
As part of President Barack Obamas push to update the countrys electricity grid, NV Energy got a matching grant of $139 million through the federal stimulus. The utility began installing them in September 2010, after the Nevada Public Utilities Commission deemed them safe, secure, private and accurate. | 0_0 |
Many of the protesters who endured the cold to chant "Stop Global Warming!" said they didn't think the snowfall conflicted with their message. Davey Rogner, a 22 year old student at the University of Maryland College Park, beat on an African Djembe drum to rev up the crowd. He said the snow was a "gift" to remind eveyo... | 1_3 |
The EPA is moving toward imposing these baseless regulations despite the fact that China and India have been building coal-fired plants to provide their nations with the energy to expand and compete in the global marketplace. China's CO2 emissions increased by 167% between 1999 and 2009, while the U.S., the second larg... | 4_2 |
EPAs power grab picks the pockets of every American business and citizen, making it increasingly expensive to fill gas tanks, heat and cool homes and offices, run hospitals and factories, or buy food and consumer goods. The Employment Prevention Agencys $100-billion diktats are killing countless jobs, making America mo... | 4_1 |
Flop Green Passive School Is Suffocating Its Students | 0_0 |
It's SUPPOSED to be a commentary on people who don't believe in AGW killing themselves because the planet is supposedly doomed if we have lightbulbs that work and enjoy life and all its wonders to the fullest, instead of taking civilization back hundreds of years for no reason. | 0_0 |
But it's not just us here in America. How can the human race possibly achieve greater prosperity without bringing electricity to the billions of people on Earth who do not yet enjoy its blessings? The WWF's campaign doesn't say. Instead, it simply relies on the worn-out idea that humans once lived "in harmony" with nat... | 0_0 |
Lead emissions are down more than 90 percent from 1970 levels. | 0_0 |
Pederson also accused Murphy not just of being foolish, but of being unethical as well in spreading climate skeptic lies. | 0_0 |
Lucia tweets out that the SMC's remarks about climate sensitivity make no sense: | 0_0 |
publications). Studies show that peer reviewers are motivated by tribal as well | 0_0 |
Mann, Charles. "Extinction: Are Ecologists Crying Wolf?," Science, Volume 253, pp. 736-738. | 0_0 |
For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you. | 0_0 |
While I am annoyed by many attitudes of the Czechs, similar observations make me happier and prouder. | 0_0 |
In 2006, China passed the United States as the world's biggest carbon emitter, and its lead is growing daily. The EIA projects that China's energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide will exceed American emissions by almost 15 percent in 2010 and by 75 percent in 2030. In 1990, China and India together accounted for 13... | 4_2 |
In Greenland, glaciers with growth rates that have been found to be accelerating during a few years, decelerated in others. Some accelerating glaciers were in proximity to others that were decelerating. A variety of local factors are believed to control these individual behaviors, including: fjord, glacier, and bed geo... | 0_0 |
While it is true that this index has risen from a low point around 1970, it is also clear that it merely returned to values observed in the early 20th century. Did greenhouse gases raise the extremes index in the early 20th century? Obviously not. | 1_7 |
"I've gotta get there," Graham told me. So we dispatched him home with water and supplies and CFACT's own Cajun responder got to work. | 0_0 |
It did: the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change took Saltzman's unified theory and used it in subsequent Reports as the template to blame the fossil fuel emissions of western nations for changing Earth's climate. | 0_0 |
The most important issues mentioned are beyond my own experience, at least to the point where its new information to me. What happened is Dr. Scafetta has noticed a coherence between measured climate data and the suns gravity center velocity which is difficult for me to discount. Im no climatologist and not a solar phy... | 2_1 |
In the fortwo collision, the institute said the Smart, which weighs 1,808 lbs, went airborne and turned around 450 degrees after striking the C Class, which weighs nearly twice as much. There was extensive damage to the fortwos interior and the Smart driver could have faced extensive injuries to the head and legs. Ther... | 0_0 |
One year ago, the Tevatron published a paper ( arXiv , from my birthday) about the associated production of bottom and Higgses (where Higgses decay to taus) and claimed that everything was consistent with the background hypothesis, eliminating a big portion of MSSM. | 0_0 |
Matanuska is clearly in the same climatological zone as Anchorage. This is verified by the correlation between the two records, which is about 0.9. So it would be one of the nearby rural stations used to homogenize Anchorage. | 0_0 |
Thanks to Marc Morano for passing along the news. | 0_0 |
The cooling effect of orbital shifting on the climate has been up to four times as powerful as anthropogenic (human-caused) warming pressures, the study concluded. | 0_0 |
There are many reasons why this COP meeting, like previous ones, was ineffective. For one, of the 189 countries that have representatives, the countries with major emissions did not send high-level officialsthe US President, Chinese Premier, and Indian Prime Minister were not in attendance. Australia sent neither its e... | 0_0 |
In reality, rather than a model, California energy policy is a cautionary tale. Yes, since 1980, per capita electricity consumption in California has remained flat while it has increased in most other states. However, holding per capita consumption flat is not the same as reducing overall consumption or emissions. As C... | 4_2 |
14 I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. | 0_0 |
Could the turmoil and discontent at Heartland eventually prove its undoing? Campaigners would certainly hope so. We are watching the consequences of organisation that acts quite randomly and that is actually an extremist organisation in the end, said Davies. They are not built to be at the hump of the climate denial mo... | 0_0 |
Consider again the graph of global temperatures in Figure1. We cannot tell if global temperatures are significantly increasing just by looking at the graph. Moreover, the process that generates global temperaturesEarth??s climate systemis extremely complicated. Hence determining whether there is a significant increase ... | 5_1 |
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