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He'll Run America Like They Run Their Party | 0_0 |
The following quotations present what Mr. FOIA said in an explanation note: | 0_0 |
I have sent the first author a copy of our 2012 paper and hope they will move to the complete adoption of the bottom-up, resource-based perspective. | 0_0 |
1992, I was part of a small panel on "Good Morning America," interacting with | 0_0 |
So the newcomers to global warming would see that the climate models perform pretty poorly at simulating past global warming. The global temperature anomaly in 2005 from one model is about 1.17 deg C higher than that of another. In other words, theres a 1.17 deg C spread in the change in simulated global surface temperatures from pre-industrial times to 2005, which is greater than the 1.0 deg C observed rise shown in Kevin Cowtans graph (my Figure 1). | 5_1 |
This years ice on the Hudson Bay is not only doubling and tripling previous years, but quadrupling some years as well,says reader Ralph Fato. Rapid Ice increase in the past week. | 1_1 |
Take, for example, his attempts to dismiss two of the many recent scandals to have befallen the seemingly accident-prone climate-science establishment: | 5_2 |
The results of their analysis suggest, as Sears et al . describe it, that well-known relationships in biophysical ecology show that "no two organisms experience the same climate in the same way," and that "changing climates do not always impact organisms negatively." Hence, they conclude that "when coupled with thermoregulatory behavior, variation in topographic features can mask the acute effect of climate change in many cases," which renders the climate envelope approach to assessing species responses to climate change rather useless, if not even deceptive. Reference | 5_1 |
Studies show they turned out fine, and the experiences of some folks makes me wonder if exposure to DDT actually prolongs your life. Joseph Jacobs was a chemist directing the effort to mass-produce DDT to protect World War II soldiers from insect-borne disease. In the rush to get the first shipment out the door, a valve that Jacobs happened to be standing under was accidentally opened, and Jacobs was soon covered with hot DDT. Jacobs did indeed die more than 60 years later at the tender young age of 88. He would go on to build a top engineering firm, write books, and have a family. But he always considered his role in the early production of DDT as one of his greatest accomplishments. The story is same for others, including one man who is still alive at 97. | 0_0 |
In emerging economies where people do not have access to clean water, adequate food or medical care, the difference is even starker. Using renewables instead of fossil fuels will slow growth, resulting in a higher mortality rate and a lower life expectancy. | 4_1 |
Defenders are making ludicrous and contradictory claims to explain what is happening. They said they were 90+ percent certain warming since 1950 was due to human CO2 with natural causes of little or no consequence. Now theyre saying the lack of warming of the last 17 years is because of natural variability and decreasing solar activity. | 5_2 |
Heres the full image from Panoramio, the Stevenson Screen is clearly visible. Thank you J. Baines, wherever you are. | 0_0 |
The article begins with an account of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to the Bush ranch for a meeting with the "cowboy president." President Bush's plans to take Blair on a tour of the ranch were ruined by severe thunderstorms and golf-ball-sized hail. The article fingers global warming as the culprit. "But that possibility apparently seemed as remote to Bush as the likelihood that the storm was a sign from God," it said. | 0_0 |
Despite launching the plan, Romney, a Republican, said that he remained personally agnostic about global warming, which led to attacks from environmental groups for deviating from the party line (Boston Globe, May 7). | 0_0 |
Now that the government is out of the business of measuring inputs, it will no longer have to make independent judgments about the "best available technology" (BAT) for pollution, which typically "is a case-by-case determination of an emission limit and/or control technique which, taking into account environmental, energy, and economic considerations, represents the maximum emission control achievable by any new or modified source of air pollution." No one knows how to make these determinations, which require deciding whether a reduction of 90 percent pollution at a cost of $1 million is preferable under the law to a reduction of 99 percent of pollution at the cost of $10 million, when the net profits before regulation are $5 million. | 0_0 |
Jimmy says that the spirit of the proposals for work that lmnades over to Gteborgs City Council is to gteborgarna should stpas about. | 0_0 |
To this list, SEPP would add that the IPCC and its parent organization, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), have failed make it explicitly clear in every publication that their mission is not to understand all the influences on climate change, but purely the human one, thus ignoring major natural influences on climate change. | 5_2 |
The Clinton Administration has argued that an international emission trading system would significantly reduce the cost of complying with the Kyoto Protocol. It justifies this claim by pointing to the U.S. acid rain program, which it credits with using emission trading to reduce the cost of lowering the SO2 emissions. A new policy brief by the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that the acid rain program is not as successful as advertised and does not support the contention that emission trading will reduce the costs of emissions reductions. | 0_0 |
In my opinion, it is wishful thinking to think that sufficiently sophisticated reverse engineering could have identified the low replication of the Briffa data set. I don??t rely on this point. Maybe someone can demonstrate that reverse engineering was possible in the case at hand and that, with a little more insight and better reverse engineering, I (and others) could have figured out the poor Briffa replication. If so, so be it. Without the actual Briffa data set, I wasn??t able to figure out that Briffa had used the Hantemirov corridor data set for RCS standardization. Nor was anyone else, including any of the authors who used the poorly replicated Briffa data in important multiproxy reconstructions apparently without inquiring into its replication. | 5_1 |
One dimension of American exceptionalism is the claim that its foreign policy is | 0_0 |
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Doug Bandow enumerates the flaws with the federal government's fuel economy rules: | 0_0 |
I am sure 99.57% of my non-Christian readers will never believe this, but | 0_0 |
Mother Earth has an excellent thermostat system. Even if somehow average humidity should increase to 50% and CO2 goes to 1000 ppm, only about 2 Watts/m2 will be added. This is unlikely in the extreme, and would add a small fraction of a degree to warming. No one would notice. | 2_3 |
Photosynthesis and canopy greenness are maintained for longer in elevated CO2. This is because a CO2 rich atmosphere allows the tree to generate carbon rich compounds that are known to prolong the life of leaves. These compounds may have a positive effect for carbon balance and stress tolerance but may also have a negative effect on the control of dormancy. | 3_3 |
Global warming was also supposed to be killing frogs. But again, new studies indicate that the frogs are being killed by a natural pathogen, the chytrid fungus, and that its spread has been accelerated by the natural weather pattern known as El Nio, and not by some anomalous global warming. | 3_2 |
In addition, the IWG ignored guidance from OMB regarding appropriate discount rates and did not use the most up to date equilibrium climate sensitivity distributions. | 0_0 |
The intolerant Left is "killing free speech," says liberal commentator Kirsten Powers. It is committed to tolerance, pluralism and reasoned debate only for itself, and only to advance its agenda. Otherwise, it applies "authoritarian demands for intellectual conformity," and relentlessly vilifies and tries to silence anyone who speaks up, asks inconvenient questions or challenges the "progressive" worldview. | 0_0 |
As far as that goes, I admit Im not a scientist, though I suspect neither are you, and neither are most of the people who participate in this debate on either side. Still, even us lowly citizens can know a few things. For instance, we can know that the climate on this planet has changed wildly over the course of its existence. Its had tropical periods and icy periods and everything in between, and the vast majority of all of that came before the Industrial Age. In fact, human beings have only been industrialized for a tiny fraction of human history, and weve been driving cars for an even tinier fraction. We can know, therefore, that temperatures and weather conditions have swung dramatically from one side of the spectrum to the other and back again, and, from a historical perspective, when comparing 200 years of industrialization to the 4 billion years the Earths been around, almost all of the warming and cooling happened before any factory was ever built. | 2_1 |
How different it was four years ago. Shortly after Obama's first inauguration, he and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched a bilateral Clean Energy Dialogue to promote technology innovation, policy cooperation, and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in North America. Since then, we've seen two action plans and several announcements from the lead government agencies the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and the lead officials in all four have been changed by cabinet shuffle or resignation. | 0_0 |
Time to Unlock America's Vast Oil and Gas Resources | 0_0 |
This finding, quoted verbatim, was one of the most critical findings of the Wells Report. | 0_0 |
There is also fear of the unknown. As one veteran trade policy analyst queried: "If the WTO talks go into hibernation, there is no telling when, or if, they will wake up." True: but keeping talks alive with no prospect of success will wreak further incalculable damage on the WTO; and in any case, given the realities of the U.S. election cycle, serious negotiations after December will be off the table until well into 2013 or beyond. Whether at some distant time there are ongoing vestigial negotiations or not, new actors and new issues will have moved to center stage, requiring a wholesale recalibration of priorities and tradeoffs. | 0_0 |
The third robbery involves Summary claims that computer models are scientifically sound. Media focus on temperature projections invariably putting the highest increase in the headlines. These projections are predetermined, and always wrong. The Science Report explains why they cannot be correct. Here are 17 quotes from Chapter 8 of the 2007 Science Report. | 5_1 |
The atmosphere has not been warming for over 18 years even though atmospheric CO2 content has been increasing. | 1_4 |
Natural gas is the preferred backup for wind (and solar) energy because, as in the burger example, its production can more easily be increased and decreased to follow the needed outputeven though it operates most efficiently at a consistent level. Coal-fueled electricity generation cannot be simply turned up and down. | 0_0 |
There are other problems with the ice core record. It takes years for air to be trapped in the ice, so what is actually trapped and measured? Meltwater moving through the ice especially when the ice is close to the surface can contaminate the bubble. Bacteria form in the ice, releasing gases even in 500,000-year-old ice at considerable depth. ( Detection, Recovery, Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria in Glacial Ice and Lake Vostok Accretion Ice. Brent C. Christner, 2002 Dissertation. Ohio State University) . Pressure of overlying ice, causes a change below 50m and brittle ice becomes plastic and begins to flow. The layers formed with each year of snowfall gradually disappear with increasing compression. It requires a considerable depth of ice over a long period to obtain a single reading at depth. Jaworowski identified the problems with contamination and losses during drilling and core recovery process. | 5_1 |
It is interesting, however, that those who seek an arrest and conviction for criminal negligence, or voluntary manslaughter, want the crime to be charged before the victims are dead. The usual cry from the alarmists uses the future tense, as polar ice caps WILL melt, and sea levels WILL rise. Or, more often, the conditional form is used, saying sea levels COULD rise by 20 feet in 100 years. | 5_2 |
Then also, why would we want to end a recent lull in harsh weather conditions? Like, for example, the lack of increase in the strength or frequency of landfall hurricanes in the worlds five main hurricane basins during the past 50-70 years; the lack of increase in the strength or frequency in tropical Atlantic hurricane development during the past 370 years; the longest U.S. period ever recorded without intense Category 3-5 hurricane landfall; and no trend since 1950 evidencing any increased frequency of strong (F3-F-5) U.S. tornadoes. | 1_7 |
For those who don't have the ability or money, government help can transition people away from bad building decisions that those same governments often encouraged in their pursuit of growth. The state's My Safe Florida Home Program, which Gov. Crist, inexplicably, decided not to fund in 2009, helped residents of modest means secure their homes against storms and deserves to have its funding restored. Individual cities, towns and private charities should also see what they can do to help residents secure their homes and reinforce public infrastructure against storms. | 0_0 |
Despite the supposedly unprecedented warming of the twentieth century, there has been no increase in the intensity or frequency of tropical cyclones globally or in any of the specific ocean basins. | 1_7 |
A Trump victory, unlikely but far from impossible, would not create a new GOP: The old problems we identified would remain, along with new ones. There is no way to predict how Trump, who has no discernible knowledge of public policy or the governing process but who has made stark pledges on a range of issues, would handle his presidency, but the differences between his stated policy preferences and those of party leaders in Congress are substantial. In any case, Democrats will have enough members in the Senate to filibuster his initiatives. | 0_0 |
Modeling Extreme Precipitation in the Tropics (10 Jul 2013) | 0_0 |
Companies have safely used such processes for decades in the U.S. to extract oil and gas from hundreds of wells across the country. In fact, the technology has improved so dramatically that companies are re-fracking wells to extract even more oil and gas from previously drilled wells. | 4_5 |
My one-time bosses on the U.S. Bureau of the Budget would have called this dominant informationresults so important that they dictate the outcome of an analysis almost regardless of other considerations. | 0_0 |
The cool conditions experienced in autumn 2011 are largely a result of the strong 2010/11 La Nia event which brought heavy rainfall and cool daytime temperatures to Australia, before decaying in late autumn. Of particular significance was March 2011 Australias coldest and wettest March on record for maximum temperatures and third wettest month on record (for any calendar month). | 1_3 |
it is not known with enough certainty what the impacts will be and urgent action by governments and/or substantial government spending (on all or some aspects of mitigation or adaptation) to counter AGW is not necessary. | 5_1 |
Nothing is more Orwellian than quoting Orwell to attack freedom of thought and discussion. Today's ClimateWire (subscription required) provides a case in point. "Scientists need to stop doublespeak on climate, experts say," reports Christa Marshall. By doublespeak, Orwell meant a political orthodoxy so pervasively embraced as a party line that everybody sheepishly repeats and even believes manifest falsehoods: Ignorance Is Strength, Freedom Is Slavery, War Is Peace. | 0_0 |
The UK had its coldest winter for 13 years , bucking a recent trend of mild temperatures, the Met Office has said. | 1_3 |
Homework would not count for more than 20 percent of the quarterly | 0_0 |
The National Weather Service's primary seasonal prediction system, CFSv2, is based on running weather/ocean forecast models out 9 months. Its forecast is emphatic and confident (see below): a strong El Nino will develop this summer and extend into next winter. | 0_0 |
Note: Assumes IPCC A1B baseline emissions path. | 0_0 |
"In the last 80 years, as CO2 emissions have most rapidly escalated, the annual rate of climate-related deaths worldwide fell by an incredible rate of 98%. That means the incidence of death from climate is 50 times lower than it was 80 years ago." | 3_1 |
But Climate Crisis, Inc. is using our tax and consumer dollars to advance six simultaneous strategies. | 0_0 |
"Avatar" director James Cameron double-dared global warming disaster skeptics to debate him then morphed into a chicken and cackled off when they accepted his increasingly ludicrous debate terms, calling his critics "swine" as he headed for the hills. | 0_0 |
Distributed by The Heartland Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan public policy research organization. Nothing in this report should be construed as reflecting the views of The Heartland Institute, nor as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of legislation. Additional copies of this study are available for $10 from The Heartland Institute, 19 South LaSalle Street #903, Chicago, IL 60603; phone 312/377-4000; fax 312/377-5000; email think@heartland.org; Web http://www.heartland.org. | 0_0 |
Actually, according to a peer-reviewed paper just published in Nature Climate Change, there has been no statistically-significant global warming for the past 20 years . | 1_4 |
In short: heat flows from hot to cold but there is no physics corresponding to a flow from cold to hot analogous to "backradiation". Heat can radiate from a hot to a cold body, but not from a cold to a hot. In other words: | 2_3 |
This raises some interesting questions. Is there any difference between cap-and-trade and a carbon tax? Is cap-and-trade the only politically viable approach? And would either have a chance against The Status Quo, who is drawing new fans in the midst of the economic downturn? | 0_0 |
There are two obvious problems with the National Climate Assessment. The first is the fact that the global mean temperature has not increased in the past seventeen years. This means that the Assessment is claiming that the effects (disruption) are preceding the cause (warming). I guess the disruption will really be bad if temperatures do actually start to go up. | 1_4 |
This new wave puts the "sexual' into metrosexuality. In fact, a new term is needed to describe them, these pumped-up offspring of those Ronaldo and Beckham lunch-box ads, where sport got into bed with porn while Mr. Armani took pictures. | 0_0 |
The conference, which took place at the Centrum Prasowe Foksal right in the heart of Warsaw, drew a large crowd of grassroots leaders and interested citizens who came from far and wide to hear a point of view that many of them share, but don't often hear from the media or their elected leaders. CFACT, which co-sponsored the event along with the Institute for Globalization, Solidarity, and Polityka Narodowa (among others), made the keynote address a particularly honor for a U.S. NGO to receive on the eve of Poland's National Independence Day. | 0_0 |
Exhibit A: the Administration's ongoing push to create "Green Jobs." The Administration touts environmental initiatives not only as a way to improve quality of life and discourage climate change, but also as a way to employ more Americans. Accordingly, last week's summit included a breakout session called "The Innovation Agenda and Green Jobs of the Future." | 0_0 |
Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars Overseas Watch Video | 0_0 |
If we can have gas safely in this country that will mean jobs, tax revenue and greater energy security so fracking is not the evil thing that some people try to make it out to be, he said. | 4_5 |
YouTube - Bravo, Tom Fredriksen: Morning Report - Global Warming Bunk - Old Glory Radio BBC: Earth & Mars both having Global Warming Video | 0_0 |
Its emissions rose about 9 percent last year, faster than any other major economy. If sustained that rate "would torpedo efforts for the global 2 degrees target," said Malte Meinshausen, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). | 0_0 |
But the credibility gap with ClimateCounts doesn't end with Hirshberg. The group's executive vice president is Lisa Witter, who is also chairman of Fenton Communications a name that should be very familiar to aficionados of the history of health and environmental scare-mongering. | 0_0 |
3) The biggest increases occurred in the Antarctic before 1980, although the amount of missing data there in the 1930s and 1940s must place a question mark over the accuracy of GISS data. | 0_0 |
Conventional wisdom holds that plants should thrive when temperatures warm and the growing season lengthens under a changing climate. A 2003 study showed that plant growth indeed increased as temperatures warmed between 1982 and 1999. But when researchers at the University of Montana updated the study for the last decade, 20002009, they discovered that even though the decade was the warmest since instrumental recordkeeping began, plant growth slowed. | 0_0 |
The global warming trend since 1900 is equivalent to 0.8 C per century. This is well within natural variability and may not have much to do with us. | 2_1 |
The situation is deeply frustrating for those who know the shuttle program firsthand, like Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan: "This is the first time in a half century we're going to be sitting on our hands and watching the other guys" meaning the Russians "and not being able to get into space. Keeping a shuttle in the garage warm and fueled, and ready to go would be . . . a tremendous signal to the rest of the world that we're still in the ball game." | 0_0 |
My argument has always been that I can find no evidence of a contribution from manmade greenhouse gases to the warming of ocean heat content data (depths of 700 meters) since 1955, and that there is no evidence that anthropogenic greenhouse gases contributed to the warming of sea surface temperatures of the global oceans during the satellite era. For an overview of my findings, see my illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge . The claim that I reject the greenhouse effect clearly misrepresents my position. | 2_3 |
"How can you calmly accept a retarted warmongering coporate...whore like Bush?" | 0_0 |
The Clinton administration, represented by Janet Yellen, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, has provided estimates of the costs of complying with the Kyoto Protocol in several congressional hearings. Though Yellen has not released the analysis she has laid | 0_0 |
And since there is no fingerprint of human- versus natural-caused warming, we might never know the answer to this central question. We might have to just sit back and watch where global temperature go from now on. | 5_1 |
Satellite data has shown thatsea ice around Antarctic has increased in size by twenty percent since imaging of the continent began in 1979. According to this study, though, too much ice requires the penguins to travel further to gather food for their chicks. Too little ice means less krill for the penguins to eat. | 1_1 |
But the researchers were surprised when they entered temperatures and other data from the decade 2000-2010 into the model; climate sensitivity was greatly reduced to a mere 1.9C. | 3_1 |
The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification And Community Revitalization Commission: | 0_0 |
Those same companies have given financial backing to Teri through grants or paid-for consultancy work. | 0_0 |
I?d agree probably 10 years away to go from weather forecasting to ~ annual | 0_0 |
Today we know that this claim should have been a very easy-to-detect gross blunder. | 0_0 |
An important article appeared in the literature recently with some surprising results given the predictions of the climate models. Konstantinos Andreadis and Dennis Lettenmaier of the University of Washington have published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters entitled Trends in 20th century drought over the continental United States, and the results are peculiarin light of climate model projectionsto say the least. In the abstract, they write Droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a small portion of the country over the last century. | 1_7 |
RMS residual error 0.17 0.26 C | 0_0 |
Drawing on Muttart's insights and my own thinking, I believe there are seven salient values or tendencies that are common to working-class voters across the decades. Call them the Seven Habits of the Working Class. They are: | 0_0 |
On another question, 15 percent of strong Democrats thought that global warming would cause none of six undesirable consequences identified by the researchers. Eleven percent of strong Republicans shared this view. In the December-February survey, 4 percent of strong Democrats thought global warming would have none of these effects, but many more Republicans (27 percent) felt this way. | 0_0 |
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For certain reasons, they run the argument backwards and choose a basis composed of entangled states. They probably also want to exclude the possibility that \(E\) is an allowed nonlinear operator but I don't understand how a nonlinear operator would be supposed to behave as an observable so I don't see any value in their converse attitude. | 0_0 |
Laden and al-Qaeda. Later during the presidential primaries, Obama used a | 0_0 |
The Web site will post supporting materials for each segment so viewers who want to learn more will have documents to read and links to other videos and reports posted elsewhere. There will be chat room running during the program on the KUSI page of Facebook. | 0_0 |
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Additionally, as the New York Times, in a story about corporate tax rates, reported last year: "Large oil companies typically pay high rates." It shows that the average tax rate among companies is roughly 29%, while "large oil companies" are paying 37% and utility companies that "benefited from the 2009 stimulus bill, which included tax breaks," have an "overall" rate of 12%. | 0_0 |
"Ethanol subsidies damage the environment by wiping out forests, polluting water supplies, and eroding the soil. By converting food into fuel, they cause famines and food riots in the world's poorest countries. That fuels Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and the Middle East." | 4_1 |
The Coalition is pressing ahead with the CRC despite Conservative pledges to cut red-tape on businesses. | 0_0 |
When Waxman refers to a tipping point, he means that a positive feedback cycle, much like nuclear fission, is created causing temperatures to accelerate rapidly. As an aside, such runaway positive feedback processes are rare among long-term stable natural systems, as at some point, given 5 billion years of history, they should have already run away by now. Why temperatures would reach a tipping point now when they did not in millennia past when both global temperature and CO2 levels were much higher remains unexplained by Mr. Waxman and other tipping point advocates. | 3_1 |
Coming to a conclusion that simply could not be avoided, Barkhordarian et al . state that "the detection of an outright sign mismatch of observed and projected trends in autumn and late summer, leads us to conclude that the recently observed trends cannot be used as an illustration of plausible future expected change in the Mediterranean region," once again illustrating the folly of placing too much faith in even the best of climate model projections. | 5_1 |
Follow the money pushing the ideological AGW lie. If one examines climate science funding from 1986 to 1996 and then from 1996 to the present you may find some amazing numbers. | 5_2 |
"The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday regarding a 2006 case involving a home poker tournament. The discussion centers on whether the state's gaming laws were violated and/or whether poker is a game of skill or chance." | 0_0 |
The next graph shows how they made the past cooler through the magic of homogenization. The 1940s retroactively dropped a full degree! | 5_1 |
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 18 December 2010 | 0_0 |
If Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has his way, Britons will be forced to subsidise renewable energy by approximately 100billion in the next 20 years. Electricity prices are likely to double as a direct result. The Government has to force energy companies to make electricity bills fully transparent so that the ever-increasing level of hidden green taxes are clearly listed for families and households. ??? -Benny Peiser, Daily Mail, 8 July 2011 | 4_1 |