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I disagree with liberals on most issues, but I do believe that many of them care deeply about people. So they should be alarmed when environmental leaders put the welfare of animals and plants ahead of people.	0_0
Figure 1. Conventional oil leaking out of the ground near McKittrick, CA.	0_0
But according to the FSHP, the only way a Cuban can get access to the hospital is through a bribe or contacts inside the hospital administration. "Cubans are reportedly very resentful that the best hospital in Havana is 'off-limits' to them," the memo reveals.	0_0
Marine ecologist Larry Crowder from Duke University in the US is reported at BBC News Online claiming that leatherback turtles face extinction within 30 years if there are not dramatic changes to fishing practices.	0_0
Having endured hundreds such diasters, the villagerswith the help of local Jesuitsorganized the pilgrimage, to be held annually on July 31: the Catholic feast day dedicated to the Jesuits founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola.	0_0
The new study indicates that thats quite wrong, with the current warming less serious than the Romans and others since have seen and the overall trend actually down by a noticeable 0.3C per millennium.	0_0
Dan Lashof, director of NRDC's Climate Center, tried to rebut Joel's critique. He did not challenge Joel's central points--emissions are already well below 1996 levels, current policies ensure emissions will continue to drop, and, therefore, air quality predictions assuming that 1996 emissions will persist into the 2050s and beyond are completely unrealistic. Instead, Lashof argued that Heat Advisory presents "projections," not "predictions," and that the researchers had to use emissions data from an actual year, such as 1996, because "there are no reliable estimates of precursor emissions extending to the mid-21st Century." Moreover, holding emission levels constant is the only way to isolate the effect of global warming on ozone concentrations.	0_0
There is another way to address the potential problem: geoengineering. It would be less disruptive of business activity, less threatening to employment, and it promises to be relatively inexpensive.	0_0
"A 2006 law effectively blocks all types of Internet gambling by Americans, largely to prevent a rise in gambling addiction that online betting can easily lead to. Strong attempts to overturn the law have so far failed. Now a bill in Congress aims to open a crack in that wall. It would legalize only one type: online poker."	0_0
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After Andy Strominger explained his profound consternation by the fact that we had not been able to analyze the civilization of native Americans who lived in Northern America as recently as 800 years ago, Frank Wilczek hypothesized that no future historian would be able to learn that on Monday, March 13th, 2005 AD, Frank Wilczek was sitting at the end of the table in Eliot House, Harvard University, next to Bert Halperin on his left side (followed by your humble correspondent) and David Elmer on his right side, and they were discussing ancient Greek music and history.	0_0
The bottom line is that claims that these pH changes are unprecedented, fast or unnatural are overstating things dramatically. Typical estuarine environments have an inflow from rivers (with a lower pH) that fluctuates wildly, so do areas with upwelling, and even the pH in kelp forests varies dynamically.	3_2
Parameters NST=330, Nph=362, Dmin=409.7 km, Rmss=1.26 sec, Gp= 14,	0_0
Dear Robert, No, you werent defeated by a wall of money. You lost, despite your wall of money.	0_0
As farmers and others speaking for the hundreds of millions of people who will benefit from this technology attempt to mount a defense, we cannot depend upon science and reason to win the argument. The people who understand the science are often absent or ineffective when they do speak up. Reason fails miserably in reaching those whose faith system has focused all of their discomfort with change and technology on the breeding of seeds.	0_0
Next Mr Weyler tells us Precipitation has increased in eastern Americas, northern Europe, and Asia. So what? Natural variability will cause more rainfall in some places and less in others. Overall, as even the IPCC admits both in its 2012 report on extreme weather and in its 2013 Fifth Assessment Report, there is no evidence yet that precipitation patterns or quantities are being affected by global warming which is not really a surprise given that there has hardly been any. We are not told that the worlds oldest national annual rainfall record, the Met Offices England and Wales series, shows that the annual rainfall trend has increased by just 2 inches in a quarter of a millennium, which is well within natural variability:	1_7
Those who disagree with him are not merely mistaken, they are malevolent, unworthy even of persuasion through honest debate. Instead, "denialists" deserve only to have their homes razed.	0_0
The proposals range from encouraging the construction of "green" schools and buildings to developing a trading market for emissions within Massachusetts. Additionally, the state will implement a greenhouse gas inventory in order to track greenhouse gas emissions.	0_0
We can compare the charcoal and tree-ring fire records. It confirms that the charcoal is a good indicator of past fires, Swetnam said.	0_0
The easiest way for car makers to meet ever-rising CAFE standards has been through continued car downsizing. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration itself noted, "weight reduction is probably the most powerful technique for improving fuel economy. . . . Each 10 percent reduction in weight improves the fuel economy of a new vehicle design by approximately 8 percent." The result was a CAFE-driven downsizing of approximately 500 pounds per car.	0_0
According to Bill McKibben in an op-ed in The Washington Post, the biggest news of the year is that Jim Hansen has spoken. According to Hansen, who has risen in recent years from astronomer to wizard and now to high priest of a doomsday cult, the safe level for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be no more than 350 parts per million. So since it's now 380 or 390 ppm, we're already doomed and can stop worrying about it.	5_2
In June 2007, two Colorado scientists, Jan F. Kreider, an engineering professor at the University of Colorado, and Peter S. Curtiss, a Boulder-based engineering consultant, determined that carbon dioxide emissions from corn-based ethanol are worse than those of conventional gasoline and diesel fuel. They concluded that carbon emissions in the life-cycle sense are about 50 percent higher for ethanols than for traditional fossil fuels; such fuels are not the answer to global warmingthey make it worse.	0_0
Maine high court overrules state PUC approval of huge wind energy deal	0_0
Most of the Left wants to measure access to health care by the percentage of people who have health insurance,implyingthat those without insurance have no access to care. But in fact the uninsured in the US have access to better health care than most other people in the world.	0_0
Pielke goes on to deconstruct the study, but just compare the two bolded statements. First, that there is not sufficiently extensive and accurate observational data to test a hypothesis. BUT, then we will create a model, and this model is validated against this same observational data. Then the model is used to draw all kinds of conclusions about the problem being studied.	5_1
"Well, son. I voyaged up to the Arctic Circle in a nice big boat with a bunch of installation artists, mime practitioners, YouTube cat short specialists and climate scientists on an all-expenses trip to make a documentary called The Earth Is Weeping: Feel Her Pain. My contribution was a Concerto for Gamelan and Nose Flute entitled Swan Song Of The Melting Polar Bear."	0_0
Part of the resistance to a clean break comes from trade diplomats and some political leaders who recoil at the supposed stigma of presiding over the first failed trade round since GATT was established after World War II. This is understandable but in the end misguided. For those who care about the future of the multilateral trading system and the institution of the WTO, nothing could be worse than a continuation of the debilitating stalemate, combined with increasingly feckless calls by world leaders at every summit gathering for negotiators to settle their differences and wrap up the round. The lack of "political will" starts right at the top of the political ladder.	0_0
Why should you be interested? As noted in the post, the sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and Ive searched ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the data indicates the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.	2_1
The IRS repeatedly abused its power in targeting conservative groups. But then Lois Lerner's emails mysteriously disappeared, she took the Fifth and retired with full pension, "two employees on the night shift" deleted the email backup tapes (with no repercussions) and Mr. Koskinen steadfastly refuses to cooperate with congressional investigators. No Park Doctrine for any of them.	0_0
cap and dividend, in which the proceeds of auctioning pollution permits are rebated to taxpayers	0_0
Initially, they might start addressing the unprecedented warming that took place during the 1930s well before the large human CO2 emissions. The fact that the 1930s had a much larger impact on U.S. temperatures than either 1990s or the 2000s should be of interest; also very germane to the modern "unprecedented" warming deception foisted on them by climate scientists more interested in fame and fortune. (click on image to enlarge)	2_1
How can natural variations, of which there are plenty, be distinguished from purported man-made ones?	0_0
The best data we have on such Halloween sadism is compiled each year by University of Delaware professor Joel Best. His conclusion is simple:	0_0
Yet only a year ago, Mr. Obama's 2010 Budget contained no mention of nuclear power. Nor did the 1,400-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - cost: $820 billion over the next decade - sponsored by liberal Democrats Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, which passed the House last June.	0_0
Over at BNA Energy and Environment Blog, Dean Scott has an interview with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). At one point, the discussion turned to a 2009 cap-and-trade bill co-authored by then-Rep. Markey and the formidable Rep. Henry Waxman. According to Scott:	0_0
After reviewing the scientific literature the reports concludes that the standstill is an empirical fact and a reality that challenges current climate models. During the time that the Earths global temperature has remained static the atmospheric composition of carbon dioxide has increased from 370 to 390 ppm.	1_4
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plans to control your home appliances when youre not there.	0_0
"The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing in their own models."	5_1
A dispute over the status of a small species of mouse threatens development across large parts of Colorado and Wyoming.	0_0
In Canada, Action Plan 2000 earmarked $210 million in government funding to promote technologies that reduced greenhouse gas emissions in industry and transportation and gave $125 million to cities to encourage use of such technologies. Another $100 million went to promote foreign demand for these Canadian solutions. Despite these efforts, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions in 2002 were the highest ever. This puts Canada well off the mark of reducing emissions by 5.2 per cent from 1990 levels as called for in the Kyoto Protocol.	4_2
From that we can make a simple time-dependent model to calculate the change in temperature throughout the night. This simple spreadsheet model Ive provided here will allow you to change assumed parameters to see how to get a realistic temperature decline over 12 nighttime hours. What you will find is that the temperature falls to unrealistically cold levels unless you assume a large downwelling energy flux from the sky into the soil (also adjustable in the model).	0_0
All of this says, we have no idea how much carbon dioxide nature is adding to the atmosphere. The models used to justify the war on carbon start with dream-time forecasts of world economic activity. These figures drive forecasts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to assumptions and complex formula in a big black box that spits out forecasts of global temperature for a century ahead. No one but an Australian Climate Commissioner could take any notice of these forecasts.	5_1
Our analyses of ice cores from the ice sheet in Antarctica shows that the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere follows the rise in Antarctic temperatures very closely and is staggered by a few hundred years at most, ??? Sune Olander Rasmussen	2_3
The American Energy Alliance (AEA) and the Institute for Energy Research (IER) have created a new platform, American Products. American Power. to educate the nation about the critical role that energy plays for our economy and in our daily lives.	0_0
The scenarios in which coffee beans might be threatened, forecasted 1.8 to 4.0 C of warming in the 21st century based on business as usual carbon emissions. The actual warming since 1998 has been less than the scenario in which atmospheric CO2 levels stopped rising at the beginning of this century.	0_0
Public education is biting us back. Schoolteachers cant be trusted with children, having been indoctrinated in John Dewey socialism and worse. They certainly cant teach because they are too busy with political correctness and socialist/post modernist/relativist brainwashing.	0_0
To illustrate the point further, at any given time, some parts of earth are actually in cooling trends while others are in warming trends. By averaging temperature anomalies across the globe, the IPCC and consensus science has concluded that there is an overall positive warming trend. The following is a simple example of how easily anomaly data can report not only a misleading result, but worse, in some cases it can report a result the OPPOSITE of what is happening from an energy balance perspective. To illustrate, lets take four different temperatures and consider their value when converted to w/m2 as calculated by Stefan-Boltzmann Law:	5_1
The Politics, If Not The Science, Is Settled At The EPA. Alan Carlin, Global Warming And Trouble	0_0
is a non-pollutant, and is necessary for life on earth. Concentrations of the others are negligible compared with their Threshold Limit Value . Methyl mercury can be dangerous in high concentrations, but volcanoes are responsible for half of all mercury emissions. Eruptions usually result in a 4-6x increase in atmospheric mercury.	3_3
As much of the northern hemisphere last week froze under the snows of the fourth unusually cold winter in a row, our ministers, led by David Cameron and Chris Huhne, the Climate Change Secretary, laid out a blueprint that promises to inflict on Britain a social and economic catastrophe unique in the world. They chose this moment to announce what Mr Huhne called ?a seismic shift? in Britain?s energy policy, the purpose of which, according to Mr Cameron, is to replace our ?clapped-out? electricity supplies by making Britain ?the greenest economy in the world?.	0_0
When a president of the United States starts talking about wood chips and switch grass, you know that a substance has reached front and center in the national discourse. Both of our current presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, support ethanol as well, though McCain's support for ethanol seems to have been an epiphany on the eve of the Republican primary in Iowa and the corn belt.	0_0
Today, we are facing rising carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere through human activities, and the amount of oxygen in the ocean may drop correspondingly in the face of rising seawater temperatures, Lyons said. Oxygen is less soluble in warmer water, and there are already suggestions of such decreases. In the face of these concerns, our findings from the warm, oxygen-poor ancient ocean may be a warning shot about yet another possible perturbation to marine ecology in the future.	0_0
Also collaborating on the project as a co-investigator is Dr. Susan Stonich, professor of anthropology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.	0_0
willing to make billion-and trillion-dollar decisions for adaptation to the	0_0
Re-examining Schmidts complaint: Schmidt argued that it would be unfair to take a statement that he had made on May 11, 2012 pointing out that Briffa et als results would be different from what McIntyre had put up (on May 6 2012 ) (as the figure below demonstrates), and then using a calculation made on May 15 2012 to claim I was wrong .	0_0
Paeth et al 2006 Improving Seasonal Forecasting in the Low Latitudes,	0_0
The corpus of climate legislation was already cooling before Snowmageddon. The cold wind that buried its chances this year didn't come off the snow burying Washington: It came off horrific unemployment reports, lackluster economic growth, massive Tea Party rallies and vicious town hall meetings. After the breakdown in Copenhagen, the explosion of "Climategate" and the election of Scott Brown, the Democrats' rapid pivot to focus on jobs was inevitable.	0_0
In conclusion, as ever more relevant evidence is acquired, the case for an equivalent or warmer-than-present Medieval Warm Period grows ever stronger, continually weakening the climate-alarmist claim that the planet's current warmth can only be explained by including the warming they believe to have been produced by the increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases that were experienced over the course of the 20th century, all of which gases' concentrations were much reduced back at the time of the equal or greater warmth of the Medieval Warm Period."	2_1
Please join me in support for poor, beleaguered gas station owners, the victims of unconscionable price gouging by ruthless consumers who are taking advantage of market conditions to reduce their demand for gasoline, riving down the price by nearly $2 per gallon over the last four months. Fortunately, governments are swinging into action. Georgia governor Sonny Perdue issued this statement :	0_0
The plan will result in higher electricity costs for businesses and families, lost jobs, lower incomes, higher poverty rates, reduced living standards, and diminished health and welfare, our exhaustive recent study found. This damage will be inflicted at the national level and in all 50 states. The CPP will impact all low-income groups, but hit America's 128 million Blacks and Hispanics especially hard.	4_1
Norman G. Loeb, John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Richard P. Allan, David R. Doelling, TakmengWong, Brian J. Soden & Graeme L. Stephens, 2012:	0_0
North Pole temperatures in 2013 have fallen below freezing way in advance of where they normally do this year. This is the coldest ever recorded by the Danish Meteorological Institute since they started looking at this in the late 1950s.	1_3
While Grantham might be correct about some harder-edged libertarian places, he paints with an overly broad brush. The libertarian think tank of which I am a part, for example, has published several papers calling for government policies to address climate change, including investing more in geo-engineering research. And while there's difference of opinion among the scholars on some specifics, one paper even recommends a tax on carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.	0_0
Point out this blog on the situation in Rosarno, written by Peppe Caridi. I do not agree on all the details but the conclusion and extraordinary in its center lantico problem of Calabria:	0_0
As NIPCC explains , if we are going to use models to overhaul our economies we would hope they do better at predictions than being low or absent in skill, yet thats exactly what Kiktev et al found when they compared five GCMs with observations:	5_1
And it will soon become apparent that the converse is not true either - even with insurance, in a top-down rules-driven government-controlledhealth care system, one may not have access to health care. For example, one of my employees was complaining that she was having trouble with workers comp getting care for her injury. This is a follow-up email Ireceivedtoday from my insurance agent (redacted only for privacy issues):	0_0
Seems like the Professor joins a growing list of senior academics who have fallen foul of their local political correctness crowd. How many other cases of perhaps lesser mortals could be going unreported?	0_0
A good example of this is equating climate skeptics to pedophiles , something else Lewandowsky was involved in (via an ABC radio show, but he didn??t actually make the claim, the announcer did) but note that he??s made the claims about HIV and AIDS here, even before his latest paper was published . Predetermined conclusion anyone?	5_2
The fact that the warmest portions of the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods in the vicinity of the northeast Atlantic were so much warmer than the warmest portion of the Current Warm Period - and at times when the air's CO2 content was so much less than it is currently - strongly suggests that the atmosphere's CO2 concentration had little to no impact on the late-Holocene climatic history of that part of the planet.	2_1
seasonal and annual temperatures for the entire CET seriesshow unprecedented warmth during the 1990s, but earlier decades such as the 1730s and 1820s are comparable.	0_0
Energy Bill Requires Scientific Fact, Not Courage	0_0
Columnist Tim Carney notes that BP, responsible for the massive oil spill, is "a close friend of big government whenever it serves the company's bottom line." It lobbied for President Obama's $800 billion stimulus package, the "cap-and-trade" global-warming bills backed by Obama, and "the Wall Street bailout" that Obama voted for. "BP has more Democratic lobbyists than Republicans." Obama is the biggest recipient of campaign cash from BP executives.	0_0
"The Earth is not "unusually" warm. It is the application of the predictive equation that is faulty. The ability of common substances to store heat makes a mockery of blackbody estimates. The belief that radiating trace gases explain why earth's surface temperature deviates from a simple mathematical formula is based on deeply erroneous assumptions about theoretical vs. real bodies."	0_0
Antarctica set a new record for ice extent in 2014, and continues to set records for how much ice covers the oceans surrounding this southern hemisphere continent as 2015 progresses.	1_1
Sadly for the US, most experts dont expect a new reactor to be operating there before late 2016 or early 2017. Many experts see the future of nuclear power in smaller, modular reactors being developed around the world. Unfortunately, the US Department of Energy continues to drag its feet on certifying new reactor designs, sending American nuclear entrepreneurs offshore to China and elsewhere. If the Obama administration is really serious about green energy and getting the US off of fossil fuels, they need to clear the bureaucratic logjam that is keeping the nuclear renaissance from spreading to America.	4_5
Power infrastructure provider Alstom estimated that across Asia close to half of the 600 gigawatt of new power generators to be built over the next five years will be coal-fired, Giles Dickson, a vice president at the company said.	0_0
Now be clear here, the greenhouse effect is premised upon a -18C solar input being amplified to +15 degrees C by the atmosphere trapping or back-radiating heat. None of this is correct because 1) the solar input is not -18 degrees C, 2) reality doesnt function like this in any case heat cant amplify its own temperature.	0_0
Mark Pollock on September 1, 2008 at 6:33 am	0_0
Robock Seeks Audience with Christie, Invited to Debate Global Warming	0_0
Attachment1.pdf is, as already noted, simply a statement of the policy of PNAS. The actual letter concerning our submission is Attachment2.pdf. This attachment begins with what we regard as a libelous description of our choice of reviewers. Will Happer, though a physicist, was in charge of research at DOE including pioneering climate research. Moreover, he has, in fact, published professionally on atmospheric turbulence. He is also a member of the NAS. M.-D. Chou and I have not collaborated in over 5 years, and Chou had absolutely nothing to do with the present manuscript. There then followed a list of other reviewers that we felt were all inappropriate.	0_0
Alarm, Alarm. Lets increase the growth of data. Or, to speak like Honecker (leader of former communist regime East Germany): Always higher, never lower! And if its not possible to increase the current data, then lets just reduce the data of the past. Just like some climate scientists also want to reduce the temperature of the hottest year since instrumental measurements began, namely 1998, just so that this decade can once again appear to be on the rise. Or just like Michael Mann tried with his infamous hockey stick but failed.	5_2
?Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.?	0_0
Glenda Kwek, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2010	0_0
In fact, polar bears have likely survived past ice-free periods in the Arctic. Scientists recently found there's no evidence of marine life extinctions in the Arctic in the past 1.5 million years, despite the Arctic going through periods of prolonged periods with no summer ice cover.	3_2
Can anybody see any 100 year events in the last 5 years? Or any increase in extreme rainfall patterns? Good, because I cant either.	1_7
In fact, the temperature of planet today is almost the same as it was when satellites first started measuring it in 1979. No one under the age of 32 has experienced global warming. Some of us predate that and remember the heavy frosts of the nineteen seventies. Those frosts are returning, and worse. Solar activity is weakening, and will remain weak for another 22 years.	1_4
Never too early to worry about water? :: Peter Foster ...it's a sign of the grim times for our planet when pre-schoolers are worrying about something as basic as water, a commodity which my generation never even thought about at his age. When I look at my kids like my son and wonder what kind of place the world will be when they are my age - about 2050 - I find myself wondering if me and my family shouldn't just open the balcony doors of my 16th floor apartment and do the planet a favour by jumping out.	0_0
For the scenario with lower -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 emissions and air temperature, the NEP of the globe increased from a positive (carbon-sequestering) value of 0.8 Pg C yr -1 in 1990 to 1.3 Pg C yr -1 in 2100, for a rate increase of 62% over the 110-year period. For typically -assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, corresponding NEP values were 0.8 and 2.6 Pg C yr -1 , yielding a rate increase of 225%. And for higher -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, NEP values of 0.8 and 3.4 Pg C yr -1 were obtained, for a rate increase of 325%. What it means	3_3
These papers all report anomalously increased OLR associated with tropical surface warming. Models, by contrast, fail to show such an increase. Presumably that is why it is referred to as anomalous. One can (though the authors dont) infer a negative feedback factor from the observations, and it is at the high end of what LCH estimate. Moreover, the anomaly is associated with reduced upper level cirrus. However, the same papers insist that what they see is not the Iris Effect, but rather the result of a change in the large scale circulation. However, there is something seriously wrong with this attribution.	5_1
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said before the Copenhagen summit in 2009 that we have 50 days to save the world. Copenhagen was of course a complete flop and yet we are all still here, although his government is no longer with us. Similar predictions of impending doom have come and gone.	0_0
Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing Germanelectric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book.In an interview with SPIEGEL, hearguesthat the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by weak science.	0_0
And that lead commenter Caz to make the discovery of the photo:	0_0
"Net neutrality proposals are driving a wedge between service providers like AT&T; and content providers like Google. Strange, is it not? Their interests are actually closely aligned. If AT&T; upgrades its network, Google benefits from the increased bandwidth. If Google improves its products, AT&T; benefits from increased demand for broadband. Net neutrality proposals give companies the incentive to seek rents at each other's expense when they could be benefitting from each other's innovations instead. This must be music to the ears of lobbyists, but how sad for consumers."	0_0
>A Discontinuity In 1945 Or A Missing ENSO Event?	0_0
The meeting hopes to restore credibility to the talks after the last summit in Copenhagen a year ago, which failed to agree on any binding measures to rein in emissions of global-warming gases. A nonbinding political document, the Copenhagen Accord, outlined important compromises among key players, including the United States and China, but its adoption was blocked by a handful of dissident nations.	0_0
A funny thing happened this week. Humanity did a low-orbit bypass of a totalitarian world government, and pulled away, but only a few noticed the near miss.	0_0
SUV owners have perfectly good reasons for their vehicle choices. Even Consumer Reports praises their "roomy interiors, commanding view of the road, and go-anywhere ability." The fact that NHTSA has trained its sights on SUVs hasn't kept its administrator, Ricardo Martinez, out of one. He puts his family in a Ford Explorer, though he declares that he bought it for safety, to distinguish himself from "some teenager" trying "to be cool." Too bad his regulatory approach doesn't do much for other people's safety.	0_0
Here is a discussion about how to stop common core, from the heartland, at the grass roots, Ms. Crossin.	0_0
As Webster et al . describe it, "the interval in our record from AD 750 to 1150 was the most prolonged dry phase in our 3300-year record," which period of time can be seen from the Interactive Map and Time Domain Plot of our Medieval Warm Period (MWP) Project to correspond well with the MWP's mean time of occurrence around the globe, which period, in their words, "coincided with the collapse of the Maya civilization." More specifically, they say their data depict "a series of droughts centered at about AD 780, 910, 1074, and 1139," with "successive droughts increasing in severity." What it means	2_1
'24' Executive Producer Howard Gordon Turns Green	0_0

I disagree with liberals on most issues, but I do believe that many of them care deeply about people. So they should be alarmed when environmental leaders put the welfare of animals and plants ahead of people.

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Figure 1. Conventional oil leaking out of the ground near McKittrick, CA.

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But according to the FSHP, the only way a Cuban can get access to the hospital is through a bribe or contacts inside the hospital administration. "Cubans are reportedly very resentful that the best hospital in Havana is 'off-limits' to them," the memo reveals.

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Marine ecologist Larry Crowder from Duke University in the US is reported at BBC News Online claiming that leatherback turtles face extinction within 30 years if there are not dramatic changes to fishing practices.

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Having endured hundreds such diasters, the villagerswith the help of local Jesuitsorganized the pilgrimage, to be held annually on July 31: the Catholic feast day dedicated to the Jesuits founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola.

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The new study indicates that thats quite wrong, with the current warming less serious than the Romans and others since have seen and the overall trend actually down by a noticeable 0.3C per millennium.

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Dan Lashof, director of NRDC's Climate Center, tried to rebut Joel's critique. He did not challenge Joel's central points--emissions are already well below 1996 levels, current policies ensure emissions will continue to drop, and, therefore, air quality predictions assuming that 1996 emissions will persist into the 2050s and beyond are completely unrealistic. Instead, Lashof argued that Heat Advisory presents "projections," not "predictions," and that the researchers had to use emissions data from an actual year, such as 1996, because "there are no reliable estimates of precursor emissions extending to the mid-21st Century." Moreover, holding emission levels constant is the only way to isolate the effect of global warming on ozone concentrations.

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There is another way to address the potential problem: geoengineering. It would be less disruptive of business activity, less threatening to employment, and it promises to be relatively inexpensive.

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"A 2006 law effectively blocks all types of Internet gambling by Americans, largely to prevent a rise in gambling addiction that online betting can easily lead to. Strong attempts to overturn the law have so far failed. Now a bill in Congress aims to open a crack in that wall. It would legalize only one type: online poker."

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After Andy Strominger explained his profound consternation by the fact that we had not been able to analyze the civilization of native Americans who lived in Northern America as recently as 800 years ago, Frank Wilczek hypothesized that no future historian would be able to learn that on Monday, March 13th, 2005 AD, Frank Wilczek was sitting at the end of the table in Eliot House, Harvard University, next to Bert Halperin on his left side (followed by your humble correspondent) and David Elmer on his right side, and they were discussing ancient Greek music and history.

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The bottom line is that claims that these pH changes are unprecedented, fast or unnatural are overstating things dramatically. Typical estuarine environments have an inflow from rivers (with a lower pH) that fluctuates wildly, so do areas with upwelling, and even the pH in kelp forests varies dynamically.

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Parameters NST=330, Nph=362, Dmin=409.7 km, Rmss=1.26 sec, Gp= 14,

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Dear Robert, No, you werent defeated by a wall of money. You lost, despite your wall of money.

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As farmers and others speaking for the hundreds of millions of people who will benefit from this technology attempt to mount a defense, we cannot depend upon science and reason to win the argument. The people who understand the science are often absent or ineffective when they do speak up. Reason fails miserably in reaching those whose faith system has focused all of their discomfort with change and technology on the breeding of seeds.

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Next Mr Weyler tells us Precipitation has increased in eastern Americas, northern Europe, and Asia. So what? Natural variability will cause more rainfall in some places and less in others. Overall, as even the IPCC admits both in its 2012 report on extreme weather and in its 2013 Fifth Assessment Report, there is no evidence yet that precipitation patterns or quantities are being affected by global warming which is not really a surprise given that there has hardly been any. We are not told that the worlds oldest national annual rainfall record, the Met Offices England and Wales series, shows that the annual rainfall trend has increased by just 2 inches in a quarter of a millennium, which is well within natural variability:

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Those who disagree with him are not merely mistaken, they are malevolent, unworthy even of persuasion through honest debate. Instead, "denialists" deserve only to have their homes razed.

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The proposals range from encouraging the construction of "green" schools and buildings to developing a trading market for emissions within Massachusetts. Additionally, the state will implement a greenhouse gas inventory in order to track greenhouse gas emissions.

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We can compare the charcoal and tree-ring fire records. It confirms that the charcoal is a good indicator of past fires, Swetnam said.

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The easiest way for car makers to meet ever-rising CAFE standards has been through continued car downsizing. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration itself noted, "weight reduction is probably the most powerful technique for improving fuel economy. . . . Each 10 percent reduction in weight improves the fuel economy of a new vehicle design by approximately 8 percent." The result was a CAFE-driven downsizing of approximately 500 pounds per car.

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According to Bill McKibben in an op-ed in The Washington Post, the biggest news of the year is that Jim Hansen has spoken. According to Hansen, who has risen in recent years from astronomer to wizard and now to high priest of a doomsday cult, the safe level for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be no more than 350 parts per million. So since it's now 380 or 390 ppm, we're already doomed and can stop worrying about it.

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In June 2007, two Colorado scientists, Jan F. Kreider, an engineering professor at the University of Colorado, and Peter S. Curtiss, a Boulder-based engineering consultant, determined that carbon dioxide emissions from corn-based ethanol are worse than those of conventional gasoline and diesel fuel. They concluded that carbon emissions in the life-cycle sense are about 50 percent higher for ethanols than for traditional fossil fuels; such fuels are not the answer to global warmingthey make it worse.

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Maine high court overrules state PUC approval of huge wind energy deal

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Most of the Left wants to measure access to health care by the percentage of people who have health insurance,implyingthat those without insurance have no access to care. But in fact the uninsured in the US have access to better health care than most other people in the world.

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Pielke goes on to deconstruct the study, but just compare the two bolded statements. First, that there is not sufficiently extensive and accurate observational data to test a hypothesis. BUT, then we will create a model, and this model is validated against this same observational data. Then the model is used to draw all kinds of conclusions about the problem being studied.

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"Well, son. I voyaged up to the Arctic Circle in a nice big boat with a bunch of installation artists, mime practitioners, YouTube cat short specialists and climate scientists on an all-expenses trip to make a documentary called The Earth Is Weeping: Feel Her Pain. My contribution was a Concerto for Gamelan and Nose Flute entitled Swan Song Of The Melting Polar Bear."

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Part of the resistance to a clean break comes from trade diplomats and some political leaders who recoil at the supposed stigma of presiding over the first failed trade round since GATT was established after World War II. This is understandable but in the end misguided. For those who care about the future of the multilateral trading system and the institution of the WTO, nothing could be worse than a continuation of the debilitating stalemate, combined with increasingly feckless calls by world leaders at every summit gathering for negotiators to settle their differences and wrap up the round. The lack of "political will" starts right at the top of the political ladder.

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Why should you be interested? As noted in the post, the sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and Ive searched ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the data indicates the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

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The IRS repeatedly abused its power in targeting conservative groups. But then Lois Lerner's emails mysteriously disappeared, she took the Fifth and retired with full pension, "two employees on the night shift" deleted the email backup tapes (with no repercussions) and Mr. Koskinen steadfastly refuses to cooperate with congressional investigators. No Park Doctrine for any of them.

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cap and dividend, in which the proceeds of auctioning pollution permits are rebated to taxpayers

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Initially, they might start addressing the unprecedented warming that took place during the 1930s well before the large human CO2 emissions. The fact that the 1930s had a much larger impact on U.S. temperatures than either 1990s or the 2000s should be of interest; also very germane to the modern "unprecedented" warming deception foisted on them by climate scientists more interested in fame and fortune. (click on image to enlarge)

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How can natural variations, of which there are plenty, be distinguished from purported man-made ones?

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The best data we have on such Halloween sadism is compiled each year by University of Delaware professor Joel Best. His conclusion is simple:

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Yet only a year ago, Mr. Obama's 2010 Budget contained no mention of nuclear power. Nor did the 1,400-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - cost: $820 billion over the next decade - sponsored by liberal Democrats Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, which passed the House last June.

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Over at BNA Energy and Environment Blog, Dean Scott has an interview with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). At one point, the discussion turned to a 2009 cap-and-trade bill co-authored by then-Rep. Markey and the formidable Rep. Henry Waxman. According to Scott:

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After reviewing the scientific literature the reports concludes that the standstill is an empirical fact and a reality that challenges current climate models. During the time that the Earths global temperature has remained static the atmospheric composition of carbon dioxide has increased from 370 to 390 ppm.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plans to control your home appliances when youre not there.

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"The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing in their own models."

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A dispute over the status of a small species of mouse threatens development across large parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

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In Canada, Action Plan 2000 earmarked $210 million in government funding to promote technologies that reduced greenhouse gas emissions in industry and transportation and gave $125 million to cities to encourage use of such technologies. Another $100 million went to promote foreign demand for these Canadian solutions. Despite these efforts, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions in 2002 were the highest ever. This puts Canada well off the mark of reducing emissions by 5.2 per cent from 1990 levels as called for in the Kyoto Protocol.

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From that we can make a simple time-dependent model to calculate the change in temperature throughout the night. This simple spreadsheet model Ive provided here will allow you to change assumed parameters to see how to get a realistic temperature decline over 12 nighttime hours. What you will find is that the temperature falls to unrealistically cold levels unless you assume a large downwelling energy flux from the sky into the soil (also adjustable in the model).

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All of this says, we have no idea how much carbon dioxide nature is adding to the atmosphere. The models used to justify the war on carbon start with dream-time forecasts of world economic activity. These figures drive forecasts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to assumptions and complex formula in a big black box that spits out forecasts of global temperature for a century ahead. No one but an Australian Climate Commissioner could take any notice of these forecasts.

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Our analyses of ice cores from the ice sheet in Antarctica shows that the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere follows the rise in Antarctic temperatures very closely and is staggered by a few hundred years at most, ??? Sune Olander Rasmussen

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The American Energy Alliance (AEA) and the Institute for Energy Research (IER) have created a new platform, American Products. American Power. to educate the nation about the critical role that energy plays for our economy and in our daily lives.

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The scenarios in which coffee beans *might* be threatened, forecasted 1.8 to 4.0 C of warming in the 21st century based on business as usual carbon emissions. The actual warming since 1998 has been less than the scenario in which atmospheric CO2 levels stopped rising at the beginning of this century.

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Public education is biting us back. Schoolteachers cant be trusted with children, having been indoctrinated in John Dewey socialism and worse. They certainly cant teach because they are too busy with political correctness and socialist/post modernist/relativist brainwashing.

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To illustrate the point further, at any given time, some parts of earth are actually in cooling trends while others are in warming trends. By averaging temperature anomalies across the globe, the IPCC and consensus science has concluded that there is an overall positive warming trend. The following is a simple example of how easily anomaly data can report not only a misleading result, but worse, in some cases it can report a result the OPPOSITE of what is happening from an energy balance perspective. To illustrate, lets take four different temperatures and consider their value when converted to w/m2 as calculated by Stefan-Boltzmann Law:

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The Politics, If Not The Science, Is Settled At The EPA. Alan Carlin, Global Warming And Trouble

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is a non-pollutant, and is necessary for life on earth. Concentrations of the others are negligible compared with their Threshold Limit Value . Methyl mercury can be dangerous in high concentrations, but volcanoes are responsible for half of all mercury emissions. Eruptions usually result in a 4-6x increase in atmospheric mercury.

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As much of the northern hemisphere last week froze under the snows of the fourth unusually cold winter in a row, our ministers, led by David Cameron and Chris Huhne, the Climate Change Secretary, laid out a blueprint that promises to inflict on Britain a social and economic catastrophe unique in the world. They chose this moment to announce what Mr Huhne called ?a seismic shift? in Britain?s energy policy, the purpose of which, according to Mr Cameron, is to replace our ?clapped-out? electricity supplies by making Britain ?the greenest economy in the world?.

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When a president of the United States starts talking about wood chips and switch grass, you know that a substance has reached front and center in the national discourse. Both of our current presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, support ethanol as well, though McCain's support for ethanol seems to have been an epiphany on the eve of the Republican primary in Iowa and the corn belt.

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Today, we are facing rising carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere through human activities, and the amount of oxygen in the ocean may drop correspondingly in the face of rising seawater temperatures, Lyons said. Oxygen is less soluble in warmer water, and there are already suggestions of such decreases. In the face of these concerns, our findings from the warm, oxygen-poor ancient ocean may be a warning shot about yet another possible perturbation to marine ecology in the future.

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Also collaborating on the project as a co-investigator is Dr. Susan Stonich, professor of anthropology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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willing to make billion-and trillion-dollar decisions for adaptation to the

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Re-examining Schmidts complaint: Schmidt argued that it would be unfair to take a statement that he had made on May 11, 2012 pointing out that Briffa et als results would be different from what McIntyre had put up (on May 6 2012 ) (as the figure below demonstrates), and then using a calculation made on May 15 2012 to claim I was wrong .

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Paeth et al 2006 Improving Seasonal Forecasting in the Low Latitudes,

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The corpus of climate legislation was already cooling before Snowmageddon. The cold wind that buried its chances this year didn't come off the snow burying Washington: It came off horrific unemployment reports, lackluster economic growth, massive Tea Party rallies and vicious town hall meetings. After the breakdown in Copenhagen, the explosion of "Climategate" and the election of Scott Brown, the Democrats' rapid pivot to focus on jobs was inevitable.

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In conclusion, as ever more relevant evidence is acquired, the case for an equivalent or warmer-than-present Medieval Warm Period grows ever stronger, continually weakening the climate-alarmist claim that the planet's current warmth can only be explained by including the warming they believe to have been produced by the increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases that were experienced over the course of the 20th century, all of which gases' concentrations were much reduced back at the time of the equal or greater warmth of the Medieval Warm Period."

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Please join me in support for poor, beleaguered gas station owners, the victims of unconscionable price gouging by ruthless consumers who are taking advantage of market conditions to reduce their demand for gasoline, riving down the price by nearly $2 per gallon over the last four months. Fortunately, governments are swinging into action. Georgia governor Sonny Perdue issued this statement :

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The plan will result in higher electricity costs for businesses and families, lost jobs, lower incomes, higher poverty rates, reduced living standards, and diminished health and welfare, our exhaustive recent study found. This damage will be inflicted at the national level and in all 50 states. The CPP will impact all low-income groups, but hit America's 128 million Blacks and Hispanics especially hard.

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Norman G. Loeb, John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Richard P. Allan, David R. Doelling, TakmengWong, Brian J. Soden & Graeme L. Stephens, 2012:

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North Pole temperatures in 2013 have fallen below freezing way in advance of where they normally do this year. This is the coldest ever recorded by the Danish Meteorological Institute since they started looking at this in the late 1950s.

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While Grantham might be correct about some harder-edged libertarian places, he paints with an overly broad brush. The libertarian think tank of which I am a part, for example, has published several papers calling for government policies to address climate change, including investing more in geo-engineering research. And while there's difference of opinion among the scholars on some specifics, one paper even recommends a tax on carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Point out this blog on the situation in Rosarno, written by Peppe Caridi. I do not agree on all the details but the conclusion and extraordinary in its center lantico problem of Calabria:

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As NIPCC explains , if we are going to use models to overhaul our economies we would hope they do better at predictions than being low or absent in skill, yet thats exactly what Kiktev et al found when they compared five GCMs with observations:

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And it will soon become apparent that the converse is not true either - even with insurance, in a top-down rules-driven government-controlledhealth care system, one may not have access to health care. For example, one of my employees was complaining that she was having trouble with workers comp getting care for her injury. This is a follow-up email Ireceivedtoday from my insurance agent (redacted only for privacy issues):

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Seems like the Professor joins a growing list of senior academics who have fallen foul of their local political correctness crowd. How many other cases of perhaps lesser mortals could be going unreported?

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A good example of this is equating climate skeptics to pedophiles , something else Lewandowsky was involved in (via an ABC radio show, but he didn??t actually make the claim, the announcer did) but note that he??s made the claims about HIV and AIDS here, even before his latest paper was published . Predetermined conclusion anyone?

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The fact that the warmest portions of the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods in the vicinity of the northeast Atlantic were so much warmer than the warmest portion of the Current Warm Period - and at times when the air's CO2 content was so much less than it is currently - strongly suggests that the atmosphere's CO2 concentration had little to no impact on the late-Holocene climatic history of that part of the planet.

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seasonal and annual temperatures for the entire CET seriesshow unprecedented warmth during the 1990s, but earlier decades such as the 1730s and 1820s are comparable.

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Energy Bill Requires Scientific Fact, Not Courage

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Columnist Tim Carney notes that BP, responsible for the massive oil spill, is "a close friend of big government whenever it serves the company's bottom line." It lobbied for President Obama's $800 billion stimulus package, the "cap-and-trade" global-warming bills backed by Obama, and "the Wall Street bailout" that Obama voted for. "BP has more Democratic lobbyists than Republicans." Obama is the biggest recipient of campaign cash from BP executives.

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"The Earth is not "unusually" warm. It is the application of the predictive equation that is faulty. The ability of common substances to store heat makes a mockery of blackbody estimates. The belief that radiating trace gases explain why earth's surface temperature deviates from a simple mathematical formula is based on deeply erroneous assumptions about theoretical vs. real bodies."

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Antarctica set a new record for ice extent in 2014, and continues to set records for how much ice covers the oceans surrounding this southern hemisphere continent as 2015 progresses.

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Sadly for the US, most experts dont expect a new reactor to be operating there before late 2016 or early 2017. Many experts see the future of nuclear power in smaller, modular reactors being developed around the world. Unfortunately, the US Department of Energy continues to drag its feet on certifying new reactor designs, sending American nuclear entrepreneurs offshore to China and elsewhere. If the Obama administration is really serious about green energy and getting the US off of fossil fuels, they need to clear the bureaucratic logjam that is keeping the nuclear renaissance from spreading to America.

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Power infrastructure provider Alstom estimated that across Asia close to half of the 600 gigawatt of new power generators to be built over the next five years will be coal-fired, Giles Dickson, a vice president at the company said.

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Now be clear here, the greenhouse effect is premised upon a -18C solar input being amplified to +15 degrees C by the atmosphere trapping or back-radiating heat. None of this is correct because 1) the solar input is not -18 degrees C, 2) reality doesnt function like this in any case heat cant amplify its own temperature.

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Mark Pollock on September 1, 2008 at 6:33 am

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Robock Seeks Audience with Christie, Invited to Debate Global Warming

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Attachment1.pdf is, as already noted, simply a statement of the policy of PNAS. The actual letter concerning our submission is Attachment2.pdf. This attachment begins with what we regard as a libelous description of our choice of reviewers. Will Happer, though a physicist, was in charge of research at DOE including pioneering climate research. Moreover, he has, in fact, published professionally on atmospheric turbulence. He is also a member of the NAS. M.-D. Chou and I have not collaborated in over 5 years, and Chou had absolutely nothing to do with the present manuscript. There then followed a list of other reviewers that we felt were all inappropriate.

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Alarm, Alarm. Lets increase the growth of data. Or, to speak like Honecker (leader of former communist regime East Germany): Always higher, never lower! And if its not possible to increase the current data, then lets just reduce the data of the past. Just like some climate scientists also want to reduce the temperature of the hottest year since instrumental measurements began, namely 1998, just so that this decade can once again appear to be on the rise. Or just like Michael Mann tried with his infamous hockey stick but failed.

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?Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.?

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Glenda Kwek, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2010

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In fact, polar bears have likely survived past ice-free periods in the Arctic. Scientists recently found there's no evidence of marine life extinctions in the Arctic in the past 1.5 million years, despite the Arctic going through periods of prolonged periods with no summer ice cover.

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Can anybody see any 100 year events in the last 5 years? Or any increase in extreme rainfall patterns? Good, because I cant either.

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In fact, the temperature of planet today is almost the same as it was when satellites first started measuring it in 1979. No one under the age of 32 has experienced global warming. Some of us predate that and remember the heavy frosts of the nineteen seventies. Those frosts are returning, and worse. Solar activity is weakening, and will remain weak for another 22 years.

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Never too early to worry about water? :: Peter Foster ...it's a sign of the grim times for our planet when pre-schoolers are worrying about something as basic as water, a commodity which my generation never even thought about at his age. When I look at my kids like my son and wonder what kind of place the world will be when they are my age - about 2050 - I find myself wondering if me and my family shouldn't just open the balcony doors of my 16th floor apartment and do the planet a favour by jumping out.

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For the scenario with lower -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 emissions and air temperature, the NEP of the globe increased from a positive (carbon-sequestering) value of 0.8 Pg C yr -1 in 1990 to 1.3 Pg C yr -1 in 2100, for a rate increase of 62% over the 110-year period. For typically -assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, corresponding NEP values were 0.8 and 2.6 Pg C yr -1 , yielding a rate increase of 225%. And for higher -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, NEP values of 0.8 and 3.4 Pg C yr -1 were obtained, for a rate increase of 325%. What it means

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These papers all report anomalously increased OLR associated with tropical surface warming. Models, by contrast, fail to show such an increase. Presumably that is why it is referred to as anomalous. One can (though the authors dont) infer a negative feedback factor from the observations, and it is at the high end of what LCH estimate. Moreover, the anomaly is associated with reduced upper level cirrus. However, the same papers insist that what they see is not the Iris Effect, but rather the result of a change in the large scale circulation. However, there is something seriously wrong with this attribution.

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Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said before the Copenhagen summit in 2009 that we have 50 days to save the world. Copenhagen was of course a complete flop and yet we are all still here, although his government is no longer with us. Similar predictions of impending doom have come and gone.

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Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing Germanelectric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book.In an interview with SPIEGEL, hearguesthat the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by weak science.

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And that lead commenter Caz to make the discovery of the photo:

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"Net neutrality proposals are driving a wedge between service providers like AT&T; and content providers like Google. Strange, is it not? Their interests are actually closely aligned. If AT&T; upgrades its network, Google benefits from the increased bandwidth. If Google improves its products, AT&T; benefits from increased demand for broadband. Net neutrality proposals give companies the incentive to seek rents at each other's expense when they could be benefitting from each other's innovations instead. This must be music to the ears of lobbyists, but how sad for consumers."

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>A Discontinuity In 1945 Or A Missing ENSO Event?

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The meeting hopes to restore credibility to the talks after the last summit in Copenhagen a year ago, which failed to agree on any binding measures to rein in emissions of global-warming gases. A nonbinding political document, the Copenhagen Accord, outlined important compromises among key players, including the United States and China, but its adoption was blocked by a handful of dissident nations.

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A funny thing happened this week. Humanity did a low-orbit bypass of a totalitarian world government, and pulled away, but only a few noticed the near miss.

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SUV owners have perfectly good reasons for their vehicle choices. Even Consumer Reports praises their "roomy interiors, commanding view of the road, and go-anywhere ability." The fact that NHTSA has trained its sights on SUVs hasn't kept its administrator, Ricardo Martinez, out of one. He puts his family in a Ford Explorer, though he declares that he bought it for safety, to distinguish himself from "some teenager" trying "to be cool." Too bad his regulatory approach doesn't do much for other people's safety.

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Here is a discussion about how to stop common core, from the heartland, at the grass roots, Ms. Crossin.

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As Webster et al . describe it, "the interval in our record from AD 750 to 1150 was the most prolonged dry phase in our 3300-year record," which period of time can be seen from the Interactive Map and Time Domain Plot of our Medieval Warm Period (MWP) Project to correspond well with the MWP's mean time of occurrence around the globe, which period, in their words, "coincided with the collapse of the Maya civilization." More specifically, they say their data depict "a series of droughts centered at about AD 780, 910, 1074, and 1139," with "successive droughts increasing in severity." What it means

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'24' Executive Producer Howard Gordon Turns Green

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