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Response: That is a reasonable interpretation, and EPA continues to believe that its BACT guidance is reasonable for the specific purposes for which the guidance is intended. | 0_0 |
Figure 4 shows a clear relationship between GDP and electrical power consumption. If less electricity is generated, the cost of electricity will go up (due to the economic law of supply and demand), less will be used, and GDP will go down. The converse is, of course, more desirable: more power and reducing the cost, wi... | 4_2 |
But then about a week after that study was released Professor Muller was forced to acknowledge that this BEST (Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project) data might also indicate that temperatures have not rise for about 13 years . | 1_4 |
Second, there is fuel-supply risk. The nation barely has enough current sources of fuel to continue to supply the 104 plants already in operation. It's unlikely that banks will offer 20- or 30-year debt to a new nuke project without a corresponding secure supply of fuel. | 0_0 |
Our own reasons for concluding that climate sensitivity is low are set out in some detail in Monckton of Brenchley et al. (2015) Why models run hot (Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60(1), January: go to scibull.com , click on Most Read Articles and ours is the all-time no. 1). Further testing of th... | 3_1 |
California's ability to slow growth in electricity demand is not due to interventions such as its Demand Side Management programs. California is not an appropriate model for other states or for the nation. | 0_0 |
If I am frail and debilitated, and prone to problemsand I get hospitalized and the hospital is going to be dinged for a re-hospitalizationis it possible I will receive inappropriate care or be refused readmission? | 0_0 |
Though the sunspots are affecting the radiation received from the sun, they are not the only thing affecting our climate. Much closer to home, there are thousands of volcanos and volcanic vents spewing volcanic ash and gases into the atmosphere. | 2_1 |
NSW Councils (e.g. Gosford, quoting the best international scientists including CSIRO and ANU) in 2011 was advising residents with water front properties that by 2100 (89 years-time) sea levels would rise by 90cm. This is 10.1mm per year. Error to date is 595%% | 0_0 |
Patriotism: Working-class voters are highly patriotic. They love their country openly in ways that often seem odd and embarrassing to the educated class. They are likelier to express open support of and deference to the military (while simultaneously recognizing that "big military" is wasteful); their children voluntee... | 0_0 |
Figure 2. Top panel regional chronology as shown in CA post, May 6, 2012; bottom panel- regional chronology shown in Briffa et al 2013 GU1 (yamal raw). | 0_0 |
The bottom line remains Ed Hawkins figure that compares climate model simulations for regions where the surface observations exist. This is the appropriate way to compare climate models to surface observations, and the outstanding issue is that the climate models and observations disagree. | 5_1 |
NRG Energy's David Crane: Energy Moralism Miscontrued | 0_0 |
The SPPI has also kept on hand a 37-page 2009 publication edited by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R.-Utah, and titled "UN Climate Scientists Speak Out on Global Warming." It's full of blunt quotes from respected scientists suggesting that global warming is a power grab racket. | 0_0 |
At low nitrogen, elevated CO 2 stimulated nodule numbers and nodule dry mass in nodulated soybeans by approximately 80 and 70%, respectively, while having no effect on these parameters at high nitrogen supply. In addition, it increased total plant dry mass by approximately 40 and 80% in nodulated soybeans grown at low ... | 3_3 |
For the long run, we need more power. The state should move quickly to shorten the licensing procedures for new power plants. Environmental regulations should be reviewed to ensure that they are not unduly slowing the construction of new facilities. Although we would all prefer to avoid a power plant in our backyard, s... | 0_0 |
But as the new year comes in, so has the cold. At times like this I dream of global warming! Please, please, please drive away the cold. | 0_0 |
I find it hard to equate the vast new supplies coming on line from shale gas deposits with the prices hikes we are seeing. | 0_0 |
Its been a frequent debating point from climate sceptics. Recent cold winters in Britain and Europe, they often say, undermine the case that the world is growing warmer. Scientists have tended to reply that that is to mix up the short-term effects of weather in a particular region with long term climate change, and tha... | 1_3 |
William Connolley (Stoat) has a good post on Grijalvi inquisition | 0_0 |
This statement is entirely *false*, and it is so on several levels (including use of poor terminology such as sorted to mean screened). Not only is it false, it shows a phenomenal lack of attention to the most basic of facts, as presented by Mann et al in their 2008 paper in PNAS, both in the main paper and in the supp... | 0_0 |
Limousine liberals? Number of government-owned limos has soared under Obama: | 0_0 |
Dow's AEA appears so desperate to make its case that it's taken to exaggerating its support among high profile energy experts, who are almost universally supportive of expanding LNG exports. It lists Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of HIS, which now owns the firm he co-founded, Cambridge Energy Research Associates. In fac... | 0_0 |
EPA is also giving billions of taxpayer dollars to activist groups, to advance its agenda and dominate our media and hearings with false or misleading information about the costs and benefits of its programs. | 0_0 |
Northrops presentation promised funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation in the amount of $7 million per year. Named in the presentation were 12 participating environmental pressure groups, including theNatural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund a... | 0_0 |
The problem alarmists have is that it is very, very difficult to reconcile past warming to high-sensitivity forecasts. It takes a lot of mathematical contortions, from time-delays to cooling aerosols to ignoring ocean cycles and natural recovery from the little ice age to make the numbers reconcile. Halving the actual ... | 3_1 |
Its a rant so feel free to say what you want, Im wrong a lot. | 0_0 |
For convenience I reproduces entire inlgget below. Dessvrre makes it unable to comment on Roy Spencer's blog, so we might have a little discussion hr in stllet. | 0_0 |
Do you feel like you have been hiding your secret climate fear? | 0_0 |
"There has been none in the past," he said, "and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant 'greenhouse' gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed." | 2_3 |
Zou collected the plant material at low tide in February along the coast of Chinas Nanao Island (if you can point to Nanao Island on a map, you are in a very small minority of Americans). The plants were reestablished in their new home in aquariums with near ambient (360 ppm) and elevated (700 ppm) CO2 levels. The plan... | 3_3 |
Today I found a very interesting inlgg p Dr. Roy Spencer's blog. It's about sea temperature on the occasion of the recent El Nino-related heat. | 0_0 |
However, none of these new designs can benefit the real world without a path to regulatory approval, and today's regulations are tailored for traditional reactors, making it almost impossible to commercialize new ones. | 0_0 |
According to a document deposited at the Geneva-based U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in advance of a planned meeting next month, China now the worlds largest source of greenhouse gases insists that the U.S. and other developed countries endure most of the economic pain of carbon emission cutbacks,... | 0_0 |
Republicans attacked science and egged on conspiracy theories | 0_0 |
The (Aus) weather bureau says the El Nio weather pattern could make a comeback this year. | 0_0 |
???There is no question that natural causes, such as changes in energy from the sun, natural cycles and volcanoes, continue to affect temperature today. Human activity has also increased the amounts of tiny, light-scattering particles within the atmosphere. But despite years of intensive observations of the Earth syste... | 2_3 |
What recent research says about fraud, errors, and other dismaying academic problems | 0_0 |
One wonders if Mann didn??t apply his ??? special Mannomatic math ???, as he did to his ???hockey stick?? to the Box and Colgan (2010) reconstructed data to get the large divergence between accumulation and loss we see in Mann and Rahmstorf??s Figure 6. | 5_2 |
Longer records show strong evidence for a drought that appears to have been more severe in some areas of central North America than anything we have experienced in the 20th century, including the 1930s drought. Tree-ring records from around North America document episodes of severe drought during the last half of the 1... | 1_7 |
He was bragging today that New York has lowered its carbon footprint. Keeping the electricity off in Rockaway is a crime. Mygrandmotherlived there for 70 years until two weeks before Sandy hit. | 0_0 |
Satellite Data Show Clouds Have Cooling Impact | 0_0 |
Walter Starcks response is entitled, The Great Barrier Reef and the prophets of doom: Even the more extreme model projections only depict tropical oceanic warming still well within the limits that thriving reefs tolerate. Dr Walter Starck has a PhD in marine science including post graduate training and professional exp... | 3_2 |
The US Senate's "Gang on Eight" are pictured during a news briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013. | 0_0 |
Climate activists seem to embrace faith and ideologyand are no longer interested in facts. | 0_0 |
The 2013 forest fire count has been the smallest on record, with half of normal burn acreage . | 0_0 |
In a typical "cap and trade" regime, allowable emissions and the initial distribution of credits among emitters are politically determined, making it unlikely either will be based on sound science. If emission credits are not given true protection as property rights, then businesses can be expected to hesitate to risk ... | 0_0 |
Roy Spencer, from the University of Alabama, discovered the error just a few days ago which according to meteorologist Anthony Watts, accounts for 24% of the 0.74 deg C global warming claimed for 1905-2005. | 5_1 |
Detroit 3 automakers hope to reduce health care costs in next UAW contract: | 0_0 |
A.A. Boretti, an Australian scientist who has studied satellite radar altimeter data covering the past 20 years, discovered that the average rate of sea level rise is just under 3.2 mm a year. That rate would cause a sea levels rise of just under 32 cm (12 inches)by the year 2100, not the 100 cm that is currently being... | 1_6 |
Antarctica: Something like 80-85% of the worlds ice is in Antarctica. And no one really thinks it is melting or going to melt. In fact, if you look at the marks on the IPCC chart above for the contribution of Antarctic ice to ocean levels, it has a net negative impact, which means the IPCC actually expects the Antarcti... | 1_1 |
OK, what is a constructor? You study the paper and you find out that it is a meaningless word that may represent anything and that may be inserted into any sentence for pompous fools to look even "smarter". Instead of saying that X does Y, you must say that X is a constructor that is prohibited to do things different t... | 0_0 |
But the drought that began last fall has yet to eclipse the infamous dry spell of the 1950s, a bleak period when the skies stubbornly withheld moisture. It was the states worst drought ever. | 1_7 |
I had to provide medical history information, which probably is not required under Obamacare because of community rating (though I am not sure) | 0_0 |
Yet isn't it remarkable that Al Gore, who has recently become extremely wealthy, has never felt obliged to publicly disclose his large stakes in green market industries through his Generation Investment Management firm, or in Chicago Climate Exchange cap-and-trade legislation interests? Would you trust a financial advi... | 5_2 |
Mr. D??Aleo and Mr. Watts provide some amazing graphs showing that the jumps in measured global temperature occurred just when the number of weather stations was cut. But there is another bias that this change to more urban stations also exacerbates. Recorded temperatures in more urban areas rise over time simply becau... | 5_1 |
But addressed explicitly or not, it was clear that the other panelists simply did not consider this even to be a relevant question; their underlying assumption is that the bureaucracy is not an interest group, and that government- and government-funded researchers try to do research as objectively as possible. That thi... | 0_0 |
The Lake Baikal study shows that warming has occurred in the most recent century, but it is certainly nothing out of the ordinary and possibly to some degree explained by non-greenhouse forcing. The Osborn and Briffa proclamation that the 20th century was somehow out of the ordinary is certainly not confirmed by the in... | 2_1 |
Week after week Boston was hit by blizzards, with literally no rain or warm temps to help melt the snow away. As the plows moved the snow to these farms, they piled up, became compacted, and turned what was once a light fluffy snow into a glacial mess of grand proportions. | 0_0 |
One promising research path is geoengineering. In a recent proposal presented at AEI, Lee Lane and J. Eric Bickel highlighted two methods or reflecting solar radiation back into space. The researchers estimate that for an annual cost of approximately $20 billion to $32 billion, it might be possible to counter a doublin... | 0_0 |
Hard on the heels of the report of the one-day British Parliamentary inquiry into the Climategate scandal comes the report of the grandly-named International Science Assessment Panel set up by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Surprise, surprise, it finds nothing wrong except a few lapses in concentration caused by ... | 5_2 |
I can see that this new Shiny Toy is going to be having me running around for a while Doing a search for an Australian Degree Day map turned up this chart of vintage years degree days: | 0_0 |
held for millennia namely, that you increase food production by | 0_0 |
Most of the key studies in the IPCC report have not archived their data and refuse to release their data or software code to any skeptic for replication | 5_2 |
Bangladesh has certainly played its hand well on the international stage. Politicians have eloquently challenged Western nations to open up their borders to refugees. They write hardhitting op-eds in leading broadsheets and lay responsibility squarely at the feet of polluting nations. And they are at the front of the q... | 0_0 |
SM: (laughs) No comment. I think I'll skip that one. | 0_0 |
My theory is that a natural change in cloud cover has caused most of the recent warming. Temperature proxy data from around the world suggests that just about every century in the last 2,000 years has experienced warming or cooling. Why should todays warmth be manmade, when the Medieval Warm Period was not? Just becaus... | 2_1 |
"Wi-Fi Direct officially became a concrete technology today with several new laptop components certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. That threshold was reached even before most people even understand what Wi-Fi Direct is." | 0_0 |
out an overloaded agenda at the beginning of his presidency, causing gridlock on | 0_0 |
Anthony reports today on a NOAA Talking Points document which purports to rebut Anthonys Is The U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable ?, without deigning to cite | 0_0 |
Greens think these harms are a price worth paying to stop the warming. They want (other) people to bear such sacrifices today so that the people of 2100, who will be up to seven times as rich, do not have to face the prospect of living in a world that is perhaps 0.8 1.2 degrees warmer. And this is the moral high ground... | 0_0 |
Mike's Nature Trick (66) The committee's conclusions are eyewatering: | 0_0 |
Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not increasing. To the contrary. Just go to the website of the National Hurricane Center and check out a table that lists hurricanes by category and decade. The peak for major hurricanes (categories 3,4,5) came in the decades of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, w... | 1_7 |
13. Will the earth's climate change in other ways? | 0_0 |
Gov't apologizes after raising nuclear crisis level to highest: | 0_0 |
I backed up my view with a quote from the December 14 New York Times regarding John Podesta's return to the White House: "His very presence could influence Mr. Obama's thinking on the proposed pipeline from Canada's oil sandseven though Mr. Podesta has said that he will recuse himself from the final decision because th... | 0_0 |
The purpose of this floor show was to vilify and intimidate a hit list for the Democratic drafting committee's unanimously adopted platform calling for the Department of Justice to investigate those who disagree with their jihad against climate alarm-driven energy regulatory policies. | 0_0 |
National Academy of Sciences admits climate debate not over: "Genuine and important uncertainties remain' | 0_0 |
Mr. Berry, 27, said he supported the citys efforts to educate people about the dangers of diabetes, but he said he disagreed with the use of a manipulated image of an able-bodied person, instead of an image of a real victim of the disease. | 0_0 |
This Nashville residents search criteria would be something I can imagine Gore googling. And I can also imagine Gores reaction: | 0_0 |
In describing their findings the four researchers report - quite bluntly and very simply - that "none of the early life-history stages we studied were consistently affected by reduced pH." In light of these favorable findings, Chua et al . conclude - again in very blunt and forceful language - that "there will be no di... | 3_2 |
I know why: Theyre lazy. Instead of digging into the details, most journalists are content to repeat that mantra about consensus among climate scientists. | 0_0 |
Rio+20 is the next, huge, misguided, harmful Green push. | 0_0 |
We were here for spring break. The kids wanted to see the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History. I took them to see the dinosaurs in Congress. | 0_0 |
1901 headline from Lachlander newspaper Mount Hope central New South Wales with modern ring to it An End To The Mining Boom snow reported in July too | 0_0 |
Apparently, in the Vaticans view, there is nothing to discuss only anti-fossil fuel laws and treaties to implement. Computer model predictions and other assertions of looming disaster are all the Pope and workshop attendees seem to need to support this agenda even though they are consistently and completely contradicte... | 0_0 |
According to the Role of Alternative Energy Sources: Natural Gas Power Technology Assessment, because of the existence of shale basins across the US, natural gas will continue to expand as a gas resource, while horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) will guarantee decades of domestic supplies. | 4_5 |
"At the top of the next hour, as I said, the big picture," said Cooper. "These fires are really a piece of it. Fire, drought, global warming, climate change, deforestation, it is all connected. Tonight, 9:00 p.m. Eastern 'Planet in Peril' starts in just 30 minutes." | 0_0 |
Oh boy. BIG problem with Jeff IDs point that you quoted above. | 0_0 |
New York Nanny Fraud: Anti-soda ads of amputee photoshopped | 0_0 |
What is unusual is that were in a state where the Arctic does NOT completely melt during an interglacial. We can only get an interglacial when it is warm enough to melt the arctic ice. This time we barely got it done. (Look up your Milankovitch for confirmation). | 1_1 |
Thank you, Lord Monckton, our champion of Climate-gate! Merry Christmas, sir! | 0_0 |
Here too, Congress is headed in the wrong direction, adding new gas regulations instead of streamlining the existing ones. For example, the pending energy bill contains provisions requiring the addition of ethanol to gasoline. While a boon for Midwestern corn farmers and ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland, a... | 0_0 |
And the final piece of the puzzle is how much to value the premature loss of life. The value of statistical life (VSL) has been variously determined by different researchers and methodologies. It is taken in both the Epstein et al. and the NRC report as being $7.5 million (in 2008 dollars)a value commonly used by the E... | 0_0 |
The Republican majority, on a mostly party-line vote of 244-179, went on record as essentially saying that it no longer wishes to have the IPCC prepare its comprehensive international climate science assessments. | 0_0 |
Quantifying the Lack of Consistency between Climate Model Projections and Observations of the Evolution of the Earths Average Surface Temperature since the Mid-20 th Century | 5_1 |
It may help here to think of prices on the stock market. The Dow-Jones index has more or less been level for the last several weeks, fluctuating between 15,000 and 16,000, showing essentially a zero trend; but it is at its highest level since the D-J index was started in 1896. | 0_0 |
As the continued failure of progressive candidates in Democratic presidential primaries shows, a majority of Democrats are not of this lineage. These moderate progressives place a very different interpretation on what went wrong in the '60s and '70s, and have adopted a very different view of how to engage in and shape ... | 0_0 |
provides valuable insight into this issue. I posted on this paper in | 0_0 |
It really is just politics. To this White House, nuclear power is merely a horse to be traded. If it truly is the case that the administration is casually ambivalent about nuclear power and its potential for generating gobs of green energy, then it would seem Obama and company are even less worried about global warming... | 0_0 |
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