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For both CT data and Jeff Ids NSIDC data presentation we see that its in fact it is mostly the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 that shows a large dip in global sea ice extent. Take away those years, and where is the decadal declining trend? | 1_1 |
When all was said and done, therefore, Yang and Wu were forced to conclude that (4) "it remains a great challenge to improve model ability in simulating and predicting the North Atlantic climate variability." | 5_1 |
Comparison between global surface temperature anomaly datasets Take 2 | 0_0 |
Precisely because the system of natural liberty excludes violence, theft, or fraud, the only way any individual can acquire from others what he desires is by applying his own knowledge, abilities, and resources in a manner that enables him to produce and offer to others what they desire, so they will give in trade what... | 0_0 |
When Gregg Easterbrook's voluminous book A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism was published in 1995, it received the predictable reaction from the environmental community: outrage. Despite or probably because of Easterbrook's bona fides as a mainstream-liberal writer for The New Republic, The... | 0_0 |
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? | 0_0 |
Microsoft is bankrolling the inaugural. How generously? We don't know. The software giant was Obama's top corporate source of funds in the 2012 election employees and executives of the company gave $815,000 to his re-election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. | 0_0 |
"The most significant atmospheric component in the radiative balance is water: as a homogeneous absorbing and emitting vapor, in its heat transport by evaporation and condensation; as clouds, snow and ice cover, which have a major effect on the albedo, and as the enormous circulating mass of | 0_0 |
Tornadoes have been at a record low for the last two years, and US hurricanes are close to a record low. This has greatly reduced disaster costs. | 1_7 |
NOTE: A version of this content was originally published at Breitbart.com. | 0_0 |
It's official: Global warming is a Republican party issue, too, now that the Bush Administration has acknowledged its gravity. So something will be done. But what? To address global warming, we're going to do something that may surprise many in the save-the-planet camp: burn more fossil fuel less efficiently. Big oil w... | 0_0 |
The emails were unearthed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Republican officials are calling for an investigation; House Energy Committee ranking member Joe Barton sent a letter with pointed questions to Mrs. Jackson, which she's yet to answer. The EPA has issued defensive statements, claiming Mr. Carlin wasn't ... | 0_0 |
A third problem I have with Ron??s article: he uses ???falsifiable predictions?? of the future as evidence supporting his case! Really? Well, we??ve already had abundant predictions of what would happen by now from modelers like James Hansen that have turned out to be wrong. There you go, skeptics have real falsified p... | 5_1 |
You can see the moisture (precipitable water total water in inches in the atmospheric column) in this early Saturday analysis with the radar showing showers and thunderstorms. | 0_0 |
The most generous rewards will go to people who install solar panels. This will earn you 41.3 pence per kilowatt hour (kWh) generated, plus an extra 3p for every kWh sent back to the National Grid. | 0_0 |
So why are we pouring all this taxpayersmoney to solve a the non-existing problem as currently defined when the world is near financial collapse and there are so many more pressing problems in our world today? Any prudent leader should see we need to change our priorities. | 0_0 |
The dry period in the 1960s, and again in the 1970s is evident, but the longer view shows that there is nothing unusual about recent years. | 1_7 |
roughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, less severe, and cover a smaller portion of the country over the last century. | 1_7 |
Successful science fiction requires at least a sliver of plausibility based on circumstances we think might be possible in the distant future. Soylent Green was the perfect expression of the mood of its time, which was suffused with the fear of the "population bomb." Indeed, Soylent Green might well be described as the... | 0_0 |
There is a discussion whether koda should be producing more upscale cars or sporty cars than so far. There may be different paths to success. koda's historical track record is undoubtedly more luxurious than Volkswagen's just recall what the word Volkswagen means but on the other hand, it's been successful thanks to th... | 0_0 |
For two decades, scientists have recorded the collapse of massive ice shelves in the Antarctic but the study by Laval University researchers published recently is the first evidence of a similar climate effect in the northern polar region. The Arctic is one of the few areas on the planet where there has been consistent... | 0_0 |
These people are cynics, he says. Its clear to me that Morano doesnt mean me personally. He only wants to intimidate me. He wants to intimidate an entire field. Mann speaks softly, his face is pale. | 0_0 |
Think about that! The fifth largest ice field in the entire Western Hemisphere is growing ,, and no one is bothering to report it. | 1_1 |
Northern hemisphere winter snow extent has been steadily increasing to record levels since the geniusesat the UN made their forecast. | 1_1 |
Vinalhaven Electric Rates: Gone Up Since Wind Turbines Turned On | 0_0 |
Let's start this discussion with a simple fact. Since 1960, Democrats have simultaneously controlled the White House and Congress with large supermajorities four times: 1965-66, 1977-80, 1993-94, and 2009-10. In each of the three previous instances, Democrats suffered landslide reversals in Congress within four years o... | 0_0 |
The Independent's chart basically shows what the Thompson et al. paper describedabout a +0.3 C correction after about 1945 slowly declining to zero by the mid-1960s. | 0_0 |
NYTimes: Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide | 0_0 |
3) The carbon-dioxide issue is not about the United States anymore. Sure, the U.S. is the world's second-largest energy consumer. But over the past decade, carbon-dioxide emissions in the U.S. fell by 1.7%. And according to the International Energy Agency, the U.S. is now cutting carbon emissions faster than Europe, ev... | 0_0 |
Figure it out, if 60 Minutes ran a story which gave exactly equal time to Michael Mann and Steven McIntyre, would the public become more, or less, convinced about the dangers on offer thanks to carbon? Precisely. If the Climate Establishment thought Michael Mann would win that debate, they would have organized it years... | 0_0 |
Either way, past support for cap-and-trade is a liability with a clear majority of GOP voters. | 0_0 |
"Contrary to the dominating hypotheses in the literature," in the words of Hargrave et al ., " e CO 2 might have positive, bottom-up effects on secondary production in some stream food webs." As a result, they conclude that their experimental findings, as well as "the large literature from terrestrial and marine ecosys... | 3_3 |
Fifty-two members of the global warming expedition which has been ice-bound off Antarctica since Christmas Eve have been airlifted to safety by a Chinese helicopter. | 0_0 |
An article at the Live Science website says that we sceptics are putting far too much emphasis on the current high levels of Antarctic sea ice. The title is a bit of a straw man: | 0_0 |
It turns out the rights found to be violated by Dutch climate policy are rooted in: (1) an assortment of international agreements and the statutory and constitutional responsibility of the Dutch government to provide a "healthy and safe living environment," (2) previous Dutch policy projected to cut emissions by 30 per... | 0_0 |
Today, however, the world's increasing connectedness, combined with the modern regulatory state's power to crush innovation, make ideas like this more dangerous than ever. Want to eat locally grown food, ride your bike to work, avoid unnecessary travel, eschew fossil fuels, unplug labor-saving devices, and generally co... | 0_0 |
When I refer to the IPCC dogma, it is the religious importance that the IPCC holds for this cadre of scientists; they will tolerate no dissent, and seek to trample and discredit anyone who challenges the IPCC. Some are mid to late career middle ranking scientists who have done ok in terms of the academic meritocracy. O... | 5_2 |
If so, can trace amounts (370ppm) of CO2 in the Earths atmosphere be enough to absorb meaningful amounts of radiation and if so, how much? | 2_3 |
The data on sea levels are more ambiguous: Sea levels have been rising at a more-or-less constant rate (about 3.3 mm per year) since the early 1990s despite increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. And even that observation rather begs the question, because the end of the little ice age around 1850 ha... | 1_6 |
Obama's policies leave Democrats weak candidates in 2016, except maybe Hillary Clinton | 0_0 |
What are the odds of a three foot wave hitting an island in the middle of the Pacific? A million to one maybe? This never used to happen before *you* started generating CO2. | 0_0 |
Professor Jacobson; There has been a lot of attention paid to Arbys announcement that it no longer would advertise on the Limbaugh show. It was particularly interesting because Arbys did not advertise to begin with, so it purely was a political statement, and was the subject of a Limbaugh tweet on Friday. That has caus... | 0_0 |
Onemajorconclusion that should be reached from the unpredictedwide ranging severe cold and snow this winter, is that multi-decadal global climate modelshave demonstratedno skill in predicting such regional events which clearly have a major impact on society and the environment. | 5_1 |
The top graph in Figure 9 compares the evolution of the SOI values this year to those in 1982 and 1997, the development years of the strong 1982/83 and 1997/98 El Nios. The Southern Oscillation Index this year is lagging well behind the values in 1982 and 1997. Because the SOI data is so volatile, Ive smoothed them wit... | 0_0 |
Regulatory Reform: Along with curtailing the ballooning federal budget and deficit, the administration should also make it a priority to scale back the $800 billion annual federal regulatory burden hampering the growth of the economy and small businesses. | 0_0 |
Obama inaugural donor United Therapeutics is a leading biotechnology company. Obamacare gave special lengthy exclusivity to biotech drugs, keeping generic versions off the market for 12 years. The law also directs billions in subsidies toward all prescription drugs. | 0_0 |
Like these "environmental" activists, African leaders do not care about the well-being of our citizens. They are incompetent, greedy, callous criminals, driven by ideologies and a love of power over people. | 0_0 |
Alarmists dont want to talk about that or about what is happening in Asia. BPs Energy Outlook 2035 report forecasts that Chinas oil, natural gas and coal use will increase by some 50% and its carbon dioxide emissions by 37% over the next 20 years. Indias energy production will soar 117% with fossil fuels accounting for... | 4_2 |
Kimoto's prior papers & posts also discuss additional false assumptions of climate models including a mathematical error in calculation of the Planck response parameter, and limitations of the potential greenhouse warming of the top ocean layer due to penetration depth, and others, proving the climate models are overhe... | 5_1 |
NASA satellites have reported wide spread melting across Greenland which has the climate change alarmists all atwitter. But the NASA satellites are providing data never before available, so it is hard to say if the summer melting pattern is unusual. Meanwhile, some 80 year old scientific data has revealed that this is ... | 2_1 |
The low tide of 0.7m was reached late in the afternoon, about 5:34PM. | 0_0 |
Whitmore, T.C. and Sayer, J.A. Tropical Deforestation and Species Extinction. London: Chapman and Hall, 1992. | 0_0 |
The U. S. lacks pawns to be a leader in the foreign policy chess gameinsufficient oil and natural gas production. Years of neglect in pushing fossil fuel production left the country unable to assist allies in times of emergency. | 0_0 |
Noting that such warmer and drier conditions "can already be found today in areas experiencing significant drought," the five researchers analyzed the width of the yearly growth increments laid down in the otoliths (earstones) of populations of a native fish species (the golden perch) living in two artificial impoundme... | 0_0 |
The achievement of the human race and the last 5,000 years of so-called civilization is the way we have learned to adapt to Nature by creating habitats from villages to cities in which to survive and because we have devised a vast global agricultural and ranching system to feed seven billion of us. | 0_0 |
Jane advises she gets relief from going to a chiropractor. I told her to keep going and I would get to approve those visits, which said she would. | 0_0 |
A few years ago in the late 1980s, professor Aaron Wildavsky published the results of a class project for graduate public policy students at the State University of New York (SUNY). Each was required to pick an environmental topic and pose the question, ?Yes, but is it true?? The results were so interesting and uniform... | 0_0 |
The authors report that "the optimal temperature of photosynthesis (Topt, the value where the photosynthetic rate was maximum) was significantly higher at elevated CO 2 : it ranged from 22 to 34.5C with an average value of 28.9C at ambient CO 2 , and from 29.5 to 37C with an average value of 33.5C at elevated CO 2 ." A... | 3_3 |
Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical | 0_0 |
There is no shortage of unpopular Obama policies. Obamacare, for starters, is unpopular and may be headed for a train wreck when it goes into effect next month. Blocking the Keystone pipeline irritates most everyone except hardline environmentalists. Then there's James Carville's phrase the economy, stupid. Big governm... | 0_0 |
That amount of oil can satisfy U.S. oil demand for 250 years at current usage rates or it can fuel every passenger car in the United States for 430 years. It is also more oil than the entire world has used in all human history. | 4_5 |
Senator Wong said Australians faced a range of risks, including higher rates of infectious diseases, an increase in bushfire-related injuries, and more heat-related death and illness . By 2020, the number of heat-related deaths in our capital cities is projected to double to 2300 a year, we are likely to see more food-... | 0_0 |
This statement is untrue even if Osborn and Briffa are granted the one stated qualifier and another unstated qualifier. The ???high temporal?? resolution qualifier is not defined; this qualifier excludes several series from Crowley and Lowery and Moberg et al 2005 and prefers tree rings. The second (unstated) qualifier... | 5_1 |
Mitch did us all a service by calling attention to this most significant Farewell Address by that underappreciated "dull, non-intellectual General." His first warning has done much to restore an understanding of our Founders' skepticism toward centralized power and crusades to remake the world. Here Ike's words recall ... | 0_0 |
If this is stock prices (or anything), before I gamble, Im going to want an idea of risk. So, even though Roger asked for a naive, I added uncertainty intervals. Of course, Im also going to give naive uncertainty intervals; Ill compute them using the same assumptions I applied to the least squares fit. | 0_0 |
Pachauri's February 24 speech invited traditional scientific give and take, yet Hansen refused additional discussion with the scientists. When Endlich showed data from the Vostok and the Greenland ice cores, Hansen blew him off, saying: "you are wrong!" End of discussion. | 0_0 |
It would mean that the probabilistic distribution for \(\Phi(y)\) would have to depend on whether or not we made the the measurement of \(\Phi(x)\). However, it doesn't depend because \[ | 0_0 |
Hansen an accident-prone academic who has been something of an international scientific laughing-stock ever since he wrote an article in a UK scandal-sheet last year that sea level might rise 246 feet was not fired by NASA for saying, in effect, that the growing body of scientists who do not agree with his ill-founded,... | 0_0 |
It is stunning that they parallel CO2 with a blanket, when anybody with a basic grasp of physics knows that the effect of a blanket, and indeed an actual greenhouse, is to block CONVECTION, which is a major process of cooling. | 5_1 |
My sister, Elizabeth, publishes a newspaper in the vicinity of Yellowstone and theyve got a very comprehensive piece on he caldera. In fact, my sisters nickname is Caldera Girl. So she really knows her Calderas. | 0_0 |
More to the point, I can?t help but suspect that these calls for sacrifice are, like the Gaia hypothesis, quasi-religious in nature, and at times plainly religious. | 0_0 |
The 1990 IPCC Report contains an explanation as to why they knew the effect of greenhouse gases on climate: "measurements from ice cores going back 160,000 years shows the earths temperature closely parallels the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere (see Figure 2). Although we do not know the details ... | 2_3 |
on Saturday, February 12th, 2011 at 8:31 am and is filed under Uncategorized. | 0_0 |
That is since 1940 Canberra Airport data started in 1939 I can not find daily data from the Canberra city area before that can anybody help ? | 0_0 |
Q - Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical? | 2_1 |
Why are polar bears populations higher today than in 1960 and Inuit children now in more danger from the bears than are the bears from climate change? | 3_2 |
Had I read everything I had on Podesta, I couldn't have started with: "This is an exciting time to be alive!" I couldn't have been my usual, positive, cheerleading self. | 0_0 |
The participants at Bonn issued their call as a clutch of post-Copenhagen financial hassles have left UN climate officials frustrated. Numerous states are accused of backtracking on their pledge to raise US$30 billion for poorer nations by 2012, particularly European states who have been forced to make swingeing domest... | 0_0 |
The basis for the Engangerment Finding is contained in the EPA's Technical Support Document for Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (TSD). The TSD does not describe any new, independent research carried out by the EPA (because they did not underta... | 0_0 |
Not only did the 3.1 inches of snow in Omaha break the previous May record of 2.0 inches from 1945, but also marked the city??s first measurable snow in 46 years. | 1_3 |
Furthermore, as of January 1, 2012, many foreign airlines are enraged at being forced to pay a new carbon-offsetting tax when entering EU airspace. The Chinese and Indian governments are both refusing to let their national airlines pay this tax to the EU, and other nations are set to join this boycott. | 0_0 |
In other words, "quite different model physics" of convection are used in high-resolution models to simulate clouds vs. the over-simplified physics of convection utilized by low-resolution global general circulation models (GCMs). The IPCC uses GCMs to create its global warming projections, and thus it is not reassurin... | 5_1 |
Easterling and Parmesans paper had also reported, Examination of drought over the 20th century in the United States shows considerable variability, the droughts of the 1930s and 1950s dominating any long-term trend. Recent investigation of longer term U.S. Great Plains drought variability over the past 2000 years with ... | 1_7 |
But the UN's official verdict that the Medieval Warm Period had not existed did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclopedias, and other scholarly sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that the band members didn't have if they were to save the globe from warming. | 0_0 |
Almost enough to get me to shut off the electricity here completely. Almost. | 0_0 |
With activists and politicians continuing to push draconian energy control schemes even with no net increase in temperature over the past decade, it is ever more important for the public to understand the myths being presented as facts. | 1_4 |
University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police: | 0_0 |
A period of high global temperatures near the beginning of the last millennium closely matches the warming witnessed, about one degree Fahrenheit, during the 20th century, according to a new study in the March 22 issue of Science. | 0_0 |
Northern Hemisphere CO2 levels undoubtedly continued to climb monotonically on an annual scale over the period 1982 2006 and we can reasonably presume was accompanied by no significant attendant global warming since about 2000. | 1_4 |
The eastern slopes of the Cascades is a very beautiful and bountiful place (fragrant pine forests, apples, wind power and more), but it also has its vulnerabilities, including intense thunderstorms, powerful downslope winds, and lightning-induced wildfires. | 0_0 |
Of note is that the adjustments in the early 1890s and around 1930 is about three times the size of the change in trend. This might be partly due to zero net adjustments in 1903 and partly due to the small downward adjustments in post 2000. | 0_0 |
Ethanol and Fresh Water Consumption. What may surprise many people is how much fresh water it takes to produce ethanol. In December 2006, scientists at Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico issued a report, Energy Demands on Water Resources, explaining that virtually all forms of energy production consume a lot of w... | 0_0 |
ulse-like variation in local SST conditions and high SST (>1.0C) anomalies in the Midriff do not equate to global warming. In fact, the data provided by Velarde et al. contradict the press release. | 0_0 |
Hypocrisy Alert: Dont do as I do, do as I say, and thats especially true of the IPCC which wants us all to dismantle our economies in order to save the planet. Except those edicts dont apply to the IPCC head himself, old Pachy, as he clocks up half a million air miles in 19 months: | 0_0 |
Western Forests Recovering from Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation | 0_0 |
We must ensure that regulatory agencies and their advisory councils become more honest and transparent; represent a broader spectrum of expertise, viewpoints, and interests than they do now; fully assess evidence for and against alleged "dangerous man-made climate change"; and carefully evaluate the impacts of regulato... | 0_0 |
Sadly though for Joe, even Greenland has turned exceptionally cold this month. No place left for alarmists to hide. | 1_3 |
The United Mine Workers of America has estimated that the rule will result in 187,000 direct and indirect job losses in the utility, rail, and coal industries in 2020 and cumulative wage and benefit losses from these sectors of $208 billion between 2015 and 2035. The EPA rules hitting industry in rapid succession creat... | 0_0 |
Due to a decline in solar activity and other factors, the Earth is cooling and has been since 1998. And a peer-reviewed study published in April by Nature predicts the world will continue cooling at least through 2015. | 1_2 |
15d. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of sea ice | 0_0 |
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