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A reporter for a national newspaper covering the reaction to the stolen Heartland Institute documents asked me: | 0_0 |
A Review of Garth Paltridge's Book: ?The Climate Caper? | 0_0 |
To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers | 0_0 |
That's how bureaucrats remain powerful, unaccountable and immune from being fired or having to compensate victims for their incompetent or even deliberate falsifications and actions. We end up being protected from exaggerated and fabricated risks, years or decades from now by having jobs, companies, industries, familie... | 0_0 |
Static jet streams induced near-record high temperatures in parts of the United States and Russia, but extreme cold pummeled Seattle, England and much of the Southern Hemisphere. Perhaps Al Gore, Michael Mann and Rajendra Pachauri can turn this hodgepodge into "catastrophic climate change," but most folks understand it... | 1_3 |
Facts, as they say, are facts. On the other hand, untrue representations presented as facts are either uninformed, intentionally disingenuous, or a combination of the two. Secretary of State John Kerry's statements attacking those who challenge the existence of a human-caused climate crisis likely fall into the third c... | 0_0 |
2. You can??t get accurate CO2 measurements from samples taken on the side of an active volcano that is outgassing CO2. | 5_1 |
"Global warming is nowhere to be found," said David Deming, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado, in a January 16 commentary in The Washington Times. "As frigid conditions settled over the nation, global-warming alarmists went into full denial mode," adding that "weather extremes also seem to bring out the luna... | 1_3 |
Climate Models Performing Poorly Compared to Actual Temperatures | 5_1 |
If the Court upholds the Timing Rule it will have lots of explaining to do. The Timing Rule is what triggers the "absurd results" and "administrative impossibility" that the EPA attempts to "tailor" away by playing lawmaker and amending the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction ... | 0_0 |
The top panel shows my emulation of the Mann NH and SH iHAD (land-ocean) reconstructions using the AD800 network (no splicing), together with the Mannian iHad instrumental (I haen??t parsed the relationship of this to HAD and am just using it as is). In the panel below that, I did the same thing using all proxies excep... | 5_1 |
I stopped watching commercial network news in the '80s, but still had PBS' MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and its trademark two-side analysis of major news. Gradually after 2002, the lack of global warming skeptic scientists offering rebuttal to their IPCC guests began bothering me, so I wrote and asked about it, starting in ... | 5_2 |
I have reached my own conclusion a long time ago and I insist it is the right conclusion. | 0_0 |
The total amount of CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere in the last 100 years has upset the radiative energy budget of the Earth by only 1%. How the climate system responds to that small ?poke? is very uncertain. The IPCC says there will be strong warming, with cloud changes making the warming worse. I claim there ... | 0_0 |
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer on how to improve health care for veterans: | 0_0 |
New Jersey's attorney general Zulima Farber is finally out of a job. She was appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine despite having two highly-publicized bench warrants out for her arrest for her driving. Now she has finally been forced to resign after abusing her position to cancel a traffic ticket issued to her ... | 0_0 |
???Water Vapor accounts for the largest percentage of the greenhouse effect, between 36% and 66% for clear sky conditions and between 66% and 85% when including clouds.?? | 2_3 |
The two sceptics highlighted the ongoing hiatus in global warming, which has seen temperatures around the world remain basically the same for more than 15 years, following noticeable warming in the 1980s and early 1990s. | 1_4 |
As the so called pause in global warming continues, space scientists may be giving climate scientists some pause for thought. | 1_4 |
The inhuman acts are pretty much isomorphic to what the Nazis did in the Czech lands in 1942 after the blonde beast of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, also known as the Hangman, was rightfully executed in the Czech capital by the Czechoslovak government in London. His Nazi colleagues started a wave of terror in which two vi... | 0_0 |
A paper published today in The Holocene reconstructs Mediterranean climate over the past 10,000 years and finds evidence for a Sun-climate connection including a ~900 year cycle. According to the authors, "The ~900 yr periodicity has counterparts in numerous North Atlantic and Northern Hemisphere palaeoclimate records,... | 2_1 |
But climate change sceptics do not claim there has been recent global warming. They claim there has been a levelling off, or fall in temperatures, over the last 10 years since the 1998 El Nino-driven peak. | 1_4 |
They then quote an opinion poll commissioned by councils which found ?57 per cent agree that Britain rarely sees weather events as severe as those of 2009/10 and that it would be inappropriate to spend more money preparing?. | 0_0 |
Moderate progressives argued that Brown's election was a wake-up call. Pointing to many polls showing that Americans did not want the health-care bill to pass and that independents were growing more concerned about the deficit and moving against the Democrats, men such as Mark Penn and Doug Schoen argued that electoral... | 0_0 |
Ideas drawn from the works of Douglass North and those of other political economists suggest that institutions limit the extent to which efficient policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are likely to be adopted. Most analyses of the costs of making steep GHG emission cuts conflict with these realities. Probl... | 0_0 |
We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated. | 0_0 |
KIEV, Feb 9 (Reuters) A fierce cold spell has killed most of the winter barley and winter rapeseed crops and seriously damaged wheat in Ukraines eastern and southern regions, while threatening winter crops and slowing exports in Russia. | 1_3 |
Which takes us to Dr. Hansen's presentations in Santa Feprimarily attended by sycophants carrying copies of his book: Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. However, four scientists also attendeda meteorologist, a physicist, a biologist, and a ge... | 0_0 |
It has been severely criticised for deliberately and grossly exaggerating and distorting the issues and I understand that the recently published Summary for Policymakers by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contradicts a number of Mr. Gores major contentions. This, in contrast, has had virtually no p... | 5_2 |
The UKs renewable energy sector has attacked Government plans to change the rules governing the Climate Change Levy a measure which was originally designed to promote the generation of clean energy. RenewableUK, the trade association representing the wind, wave and tidal energy industries, strongly criticised the Chanc... | 0_0 |
The fading of global warming from the political agenda is a mostly American phenomenon, wrote Rosenthal, apparently unaware that the European Union is about to collapse because several of its member nations are so deeply in debt that makes the U.S. look like a paragon of prudent fiscal policy. Rosenthal appears to be u... | 0_0 |
Moreover, these studies are generally supported by studies conducted by government agencies. Mary Novak, Senior Vice President of WEFA Energy Services, evaluated five different government assessments of the costs of the Kyoto Protocol at a conference sponsored by the American Council for Capital Formation on October 13... | 0_0 |
Because the models fail to properly simulate those naturally occurring processes, they have to double the observed rate of warming of the surfaces of the global oceans in order to properly simulate the warming rate of land surface air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and to melt Arctic sea ice. | 5_1 |
Weve been swamped by bad economic news and you dont have to look at our survey results alone to see that the interest and focus on climate change has dissipated somewhat , said Yuen Pau Woo, co-author of the report. | 0_0 |
Professor Calls For Climate Change Deniers To Be Imprisoned | 0_0 |
April 15th Tax Burden Worsened by Hidden Taxes | 0_0 |
Given that the climate debate is about minuscule fractions of a degree, that measurement uncertainty is too large for comfort. It is one reason why we are able to say that over the past couple of decades the measured global warming is statistically indistinguishable from zero. | 1_4 |
Proposing policies related to alternative fuels and other factors related to climate change. | 0_0 |
"In the peer-reviewed literature, they've tried to explain away this lull," said Morano. "In the proceedings of the National Academy of Science a year or two ago they had a study blaming Chinese coal use for the lack of global warming. So, in an ironic twist, global warming proponents are now claiming that that coal us... | 5_2 |
In reality, however, there is no such widespread assumption. Rather, there is a widespread body of knowledge that there is, in fact, a remarkable "CO 2 -induced stimulation of tropical tree growth," much of which body of knowledge may be found in our website's Subject Index, under the heading of Trees (Types - Tropical... | 3_3 |
As goes California, so goes the nation. Nowhere is this adage truer than in environmental policy, thanks to Democrats' eagerness to impose the Golden State's radical eco-agenda on all Americans. Yet it is exactly such policies that have helped lead California to financial ruin. | 0_0 |
The dire economic and social effects of plummeting birthrates remind us that marriage and childbirth are not just private lifestyle choices. A country with fewer children becomes, on average, increasingly older. Cities and towns begin to empty, while the cost of caring for retirees and elderly sick people skyrockets. O... | 0_0 |
Stomata readings are higher with greater variability as Jaworowski and Beck assert. | 0_0 |
Presumably somebody added the line and in doing so provided a general range for the MWP and the LIA. By eyeball the MWP covers A.D. 950 to 1350, and the LIA from A.D. 1350 to 1900. This does not match with the numbers in the text, particularly for the LIA with numbers attributed to Grove of 150 to 450 years ago or A.D.... | 5_2 |
Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS arrested | 0_0 |
Moreover, Abdussamatovs analysis of sun activity data has led him to conclude that the Earth is entering a prolonged cooling phase, because sunspot activity is currently in a phase regarded as a minimum. | 1_2 |
Many advocates have begun crying for more government investment in alternative energy sources. Others push for "energy independence" to supposedly avoid the high costs of oil, not to mention its alleged environmental effects. If these goals are not met, some predict major world wars will be fought over dwindling petrol... | 0_0 |
/s/ Dr. James Visentine JSC Materials Branch, Engineering Directorate, 30 years | 0_0 |
When it comes to thinking about mitigating climate change, scientists such as Andreae, Caldeira, and many others are checking their scientific faculties at the door and unwittingly smuggling in their ideological policy preferences under the guise of dispassionate scientific analysis and authority. | 0_0 |
value in probing for compromise even if nothing materializes because it shapes | 0_0 |
The temperature rise of 0.6C during the 1975-1998 period, which has triggered all the current climate hysteria, was of the same magnitude as the previous increase that occurred in the 1910 to 1940 period, which in turn had nothing to do with CO2 because back then the concentration in the atmosphere rose by only some 10... | 2_1 |
Obama, by contrast, has operated the presidency in his first year in exactly the opposite direction. He wants the executive to be a domestic strongman who can speedily dismiss opposition to his health care and economic ambitions. His decisions to try KSM in federal court and to place the Christmas bomber in FBI custody... | 0_0 |
Examining the Chinese effort to develop an electric vehicle market offers a window into the countrys economics and politics as it confronts these three challenges, write Henry Lee , senior lecturer in public policy and Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School, an... | 0_0 |
Figure 2 illustrates the global SST anomalies from January 1935 to December 1974 for three datasets: HADISST, ERSST.v2 , and ERSST.v3b . The data has been smoothed with a 13-month filter to remove the rough edges. Note how the discontinuity now appears to be a gradual decrease from late 1944 to late 1946. Scaled NINO3.... | 0_0 |
There also are thorny and unresolved questions of how payments of hundreds of billions of dollars from citizens of developed countries would be distributed among the populations of developing ones without creating enormous opportunities for corruption on the part of politicians and bureaucrats of recipient countries. M... | 0_0 |
If you were to hear there was significant planetary warming which is causing a melting of the polar ice caps, you might think you were hearing about global warming. And of course, you would be right just not about earth, but rather Mars instead. This according to the Heartland Institute, which reports how recent NASA f... | 2_1 |
Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real January 19, 2009 | 0_0 |
Projected Job Losses between 2013-2020: | 0_0 |
Its a simple question: What is the temperature of the earth? But for those who live here it has no simple answer, nor ever will haveonly approximations. For it not only depends on where you put the thermometer, but also, apparently, on who interprets it. For if you own the dataset, you can reduce older temperatures and... | 5_1 |
I'm back at the dog shows this weekend, posting will be very light. Share you readers tips here, and I'll be back on Monday. In the meantime, check out the blogs on the sidebar - it always pays to expand your blog reading horizons! | 0_0 |
The survey by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College says 62 percent of those asked in December think the Earth is getting warmer. Thats up from 55 percent in the spring of that year and 58 percent in December 2010. Its the highest proportion in two years. | 0_0 |
Which begs the question: How could it have been warm enough to grow giant trees 1,000 years ago in an area now covered in ice? We dont know why it was so warm 1,000 years agoclimate scientists dont like to talk about it because they cant explain it ??? but for some reason they are sure that your SUV is causing current ... | 2_1 |
It's surprising that Vongehr, a trained physicist whom I know from TASI-99 in Colorado (but I don't really remember him well), decided to argue against reductionism but I have already reduced this surprising attitude to Vongehr's Maoism (which brought us another piece of evidence in favor of reductionism). | 0_0 |
This video link here is an animation of how the windpark was constructed. The video shows how huge mono-piles with a wall thickness of 100 mm are pounded into the seabed . That certainly cannot be very pleasant for any marine wildlife nearby, and certainly represents a major disturbance of habitat. | 0_0 |
Back in the 1970s, when the elites were convinced that overpopulation would destroy the Earth, the Chinese acted as only a one-party autocracy or totalitarian state could: It limited women to one child. The result was that millions of female fetuses were aborted so that China now has about 120 males to every 100 female... | 0_0 |
Anger at being disrespected: This is the flip side of their pride. Working-class voters are very cognizant of their status in American life. They rarely occupy executive positions in their jobs and are consumers rather than producers of ideas. They feel keenly this relative lack of control over important features of th... | 0_0 |
Speaking about books on this topic, I?d like to mention another original Czech publication which just recently came out and which unfortunately ? for reasons I cannot understand ? went almost unnoticed. I?m referring to a book by Miroslav Kut lek, professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, called ?Rationall... | 0_0 |
The feds prefer front-loading washing machines. Government studies conclude that these horizontal axis designs like the machines in Laundromats consume less energy and reduced energy use means reduced carbon dioxide emissions. | 0_0 |
Elevated CO 2 stimulated rates of net photosynthesis by about 60% in the well-watered seedlings. Under drought conditions, however, the relative photosynthetic stimulation increased to as much as 180%, leading to CO 2 -induced increases in seedling dry mass of 33 and 31% for well-watered and water-stressed seedlings, r... | 3_3 |
December 2010 is "almost certain" to be the coldest since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office. ?The Independent, 18 December 2010 | 1_3 |
Recently, a college in Vermont found several students had repeated the same error on exam papers. The misinformation was traced to Wikipedia, and the college outlawed the site for its students' use. | 0_0 |
as an Illinois state senator is also interesting as a preview of his | 0_0 |
Now a one in 20 years rainout is NOT a freak event. Its a 1 in 20 unusual but normal event. What is odd is having a 1 in 20 freak rain event in what is supposed to be a Drought Of Historic Proportions Thus my complaint about the Palmer Drought Index when used with buggered temperature data. | 5_1 |
Some politicians in Washington say adding more carbon dioxide to the air is closing the window at the top of the atmosphere and allowing less heat to escape to space. The answer as to whether this is true or not is not going to come from looking at how much the earth has warmed up in the last 150 years. This planet has... | 2_1 |
Also, note that I have not even addressed any natural sources of warming. If Mother Nature was also involved in the ocean warming during 1955-2010, then this would imply an even LOWER climate sensitivity than I have estimated here. | 0_0 |
The Colorado part of that article has the same end point: giant storms in Colorado are not increasing or decreasing; out in the Rockies it??s all el Nio. More at: | 1_7 |
Denying those men, women, and especially children the ability to improve their lives based on some professed concern about unborn generations doesnt sit well with me at all. The obvious response from their side is Easy for you to say, you made it already. Which is true. The West got wealthy by means which sustainable d... | 0_0 |
If making statements such as The Earths climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming is communicating clearly and objectively, then god help us. Such alarmist and unscientific language give all of us good reason to challenge statements like this. Which is unfortunately what didnt happen, back at the NYT blog. | 5_2 |
Finally, the Yale/George Mason University polls failed to ask the two most important questions in the whole debate: | 0_0 |
Within our federal system . . . the states have the lead responsibility for the protection of the environment and the judicious management of their energy and other natural resources. Regulatory practices should encourage net environmental improvements, while providing a stable planning environment for energy providers... | 0_0 |
Rare indeed, though, is the lie which is both of the mammoth society-destroying type and which has reached the level of Received Wisdom throughout an entire elite leadership structure, and then which suddenly and very publicly is revealed to all as the fraud it is, before extremes of destruction are reached. In fact, o... | 0_0 |
Climategate, and the dishonorable response to its revelations by some official scientific bodies, show that scientists are under pressure to toe the orthodox party line on climate change, and receive many benefits for doing so. That's another reason for suspicion. | 5_2 |
If the good fit between these tree-growth and temperature data is reflected at the longer timescales indicated by the smoothed chronologies (Figures 5c and S20d, available online), we can infer the existence of generally warm summers in the 10th and 11th centuries, similar to the level of those in the 20th century. | 2_1 |
Though globalization has increased the importance of maritime affairs, there has been both a relative and an absolute decline of U.S. seapower, with a U.S. Navy today at its lowest level in the post-World War II era. For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. is in the process of drafting a new maritime strategy, but wit... | 0_0 |
The finding may force scientists to rethink current theories of the impact of global warming, writes Rob Waugh in the MailOnline. | 0_0 |
An example crossed my desk yesterday. (Thanks, Anthony.) | 0_0 |
Many observed that when Hurricane Katrina struck, politicians and the media tried to use images of the tragedy to question the competence of President George W. Bush, yet gave President Obama a pass when Louisianans suffered once again. We know the playing field's not level. That's why we work to level it. | 0_0 |
That experience led me to think Its the water vapor that modulates surface warming and surface UV. Which sent me off to do a literature search. Surely someone else had bothered to look and noticed something similar? | 2_3 |
Millions will get laid off in coal mines, power plants, factories, shops and other businesses. Entire families and communities will be pounded and impoverished. Real people's hopes, dreams, pride and work ethic will be replaced by despair and dependency. Bread winners will be forced to work multiple jobs, commute longe... | 0_0 |
What do you base your views on? Warming will probably lead to a greater | 0_0 |
As two further examples of selection bias from Thomas et. al. plants, the World Wildlife Federation estimates there are 80,000 plant species in the Amazon region (nobody really knows). Thomas et. al. selected 9 (but did not say which 0.01%), and modeled a 69-87% extinction risk for those. Those estimates became part of... | 5_1 |
After years of basking in a green glow as the cleanest fossil fuel and a favorite short-term choice to replace cheap-but-dirty coal, gas now finds itself under attack from environmentalists, filmmakers and congressional Democrats and even from some scientists who raise doubts about whether its total emissions are as cl... | 0_0 |
The answer was devastating. Out of the 95 data series in the latest Mann paper that covered the entire last 1,000 years, only 25 carried the hockey stick signal. Three of these series are lake sediments in Finland which are corrupted by recent urban development and the rest are from bristle-cone pine trees in the US So... | 5_1 |
It appears that the vertical profile of ocean warming could be a key ingredient in getting a better idea of how sensitive the climate system is to our greenhouse gas emissions. The results here suggests the warming has been considerably weaker than what would be expected for a sensitive climate system. | 3_1 |
Willis Eschenbach has an open letter at WUWT which absolutely excoriates Phil Climategate Jones for his lies to the public and to Willis. The letter is quite strongly worded, places the FOI lies in context and is worth a read. The critique is strong enough that it extends not only to Phil, but to his teammembers as wel... | 5_2 |
This piece originally appeared in Chief Executive Magazine | 0_0 |
The authors first derived an estimate of the expected number of North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) that were missed by the observing system in the pre-satellite era (1878-1965), after which they analyzed trends of both reconstructed TC numbers and duration over various time periods and looked at how they may or may... | 0_0 |
Another feature is that the GCHNv3 data is very close to the GISS Homogenised data. So in looking the GISS H data used in the creation of the temperature data sets is very much the same as looking at GCHNv3 that forms the source data for GISS. | 0_0 |
Mr. President, you may remember that several weeks ago I came to the Senate floor to bring attention to a video of EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz admitting that EPA's "general philosophy" is to "crucify" and "make examples" of oil and gas companies. Today, I would like to highlight another video. It's a video... | 0_0 |
My ex-colleague and fellow superhero , condensed matter physicist Subir Sachdev wrote a neat article for a mostly bad magazine called Scientific American , | 0_0 |
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