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What follows is a response by John Christy, who has been producing these datasets with me for the last 20 years: (Roy W. Spencer)	0_0
Neither Ms Wheeler, and worse, nor Ms Morris appear to have been curious enough to verify what they were writing about, and especially concerning such a boggling example. Please publish a correction as soon and as prominently as possible, otherwise your readers will find themselves severely mislead by a demonstrated falsehood.	0_0
Prof Curry said: I suspect that the portion of the decline in the sea ice attributable to natural variability could be even larger than half.	2_1
Fracking fluids are 99.5% water and sand, combined with chemicals that keep sand particles suspended in the liquid, fight bacterial growth, and improve gas flow and production. Most additives used today are vegetable oils and common, biodegradable chemicals found in cheese, beer, canned fish, dairy desserts, shampoo, and other food and cosmetic products. Steadily improving technologies, techniques and regulations will further reduce environmental risks.	0_0
2. But isn't global warming threatening public health by causing a resurgence of diseases like malaria?	0_0
As illustrated in the Evans et al graph below, coastal upwelling can oversaturate the surface waters to 1000 matm, 2.5 times above atmospheric pCO 2 (represented by dashed horizontal line). Within weeks the biological response sequesters and exports that carbon so that concentrations of surface water CO 2 fall as low as 200 matm; a concentration that would still be under-saturated relative to the Little Ice Ages atmosphere. Relative to these rapid seasonal changes in pH, fears that marine organisms cannot adapt quickly enough to the relatively slower changes wrought by anthropogenic CO 2 seem overblown.	3_2
All of this snow has propelled southeast Michigan into the top of the seasonal snowfall records. ???In fact, this winter puts 6 of the last 14 years into the top 20 snowiest winters on record .??	1_3
This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.	1_3
The Yen has largely gone flat, though with a slight residual drop. The general message here is that the dollar is rising, the Euro is having issues (but we already knew that) and the precious metals are not cutting it. It looks like folks are moving into the US dollar. Perhaps out of European banks?	0_0
After the fourth year of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, a detailed analysis indicated that elevated CO 2 reduced needle stomatal density by an average of 7.4%. In contrast, elevated CO 2 increased needle thickness, mesophyll tissue area, and total cross-sectional area by averages by 6.4, 5.7, and 10.4%, respectively. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the average relative area occupied by phloem cells by 4.4%.	3_3
So far, it would appear that the impact of whatever global warming may have occurred over the past few decades -- even in the supposedly more sensitive higher latitudes of the planet -- has been both mild and mixed. Reviewed 18 November 2009	0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting \| Northern Midlands News	0_0
I looked at St-Onge and repeated my frequent prediction that Keystone would not be approved under the Obama Administration. I stated: "We know that Obama doesn't care about Republicans. We know he doesn't care about the oil-and-gas industry. We may even question whether or not he cares about America. But he does care about his baseand, of his base, there are only two groups who care about the Keystone pipeline." I asked the audience who those two groups were. They rightly asserted: "environmentalists" and "unions."	0_0
Proponents of carbon pricing argue it is the least cost way to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Their argument is based on assumptions that are appropriate for a theoretical exercise but unlikely to be achieved in practice, let alone sustained for the time the policies would need to operate (i.e. centuries). Significantly, little research has been done to investigate the probability that carbon pricing can be implemented and deliver the projected benefits in the real world.	0_0
I'm in Whitefish, Montana, this week, where hundreds of trees are just a few inches in diameter, packed in clusters of a half dozen or more, inches from one another perfect kindling for vicious wildfires. Over time, most will get crowded out and die, leaving just a few hardy specimens to grow into hefty 50- to 100-foot beauties assuming they are not engulfed in a super-heated inferno first.	0_0
One recent survey suggested that 53 per cent of executives had not even heard of the CRC and did not know whether their firm was affected.	0_0
Indeed, the paper continues, Their contribution to global mitigation efforts is far greater than that by developed countries.	0_0
Environmentalists have complained about Mr. Modi?s decision. They say rising atmospheric carbon dioxide will cause droughts, melt Himalayan ice, and poison lakes and waterways in the Indian subcontinent.	0_0
CO2 in the atmosphere has some warming effect on Earths climate, but undisputed science shows that each additional CO2 molecule we emit has less warming effect than all its predecessors already in the air.	2_3
"Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare's Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) a $5 billion grant program that's doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees. The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 in taxpayer subsidies and CBS Corporation secured $722,388 worth of Americans' money."	0_0
Over the 55 years from 1958-2012, climate models not only significantly over-predict warming in the tropical troposphere, but they represent it in a fundamentally different way than is observed.	5_1
For summer months, the century scale trend is slightly down. But there is still no large century scale trend in drought.	1_7
UK Businesses Face Wave Of Green Taxes	0_0
Thomas A. Hemphill is associate professor of strategy, innovation, and public policy at the University of Michigan-Flint's School of Management.	0_0
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 13 January 1939	0_0
It was clear from our visit to Goalbari that diversifying the ways people could make a living when the area is under water was fundamental to their long-term adaptation. Developing ways for students to go to school and to keep schools open even during floods seemed equally important. Improving access to services for these communities, like drinking water, health facilities and other types of income generating activities were critical to improving peoples resilience to these weather related challenges.	0_0
Rather this middle class guilt than not being allowed to hold political leaders and governments to account for their actions.	0_0
My shared composure of this exchange is that the IPCC bokfring an seekers hurricane frequency and intensity is doubly incorrect. For the first does not have hurricanes kat significant, and for the second there is no scientific bowl for them to ka is why the average global temperature rises 0.6 C Fr Secondly, I go a supplement. A ndvndig preserve of a hurricane should uppst r frekomsten of hot and humid air. This is however not a tillrcklig frutsttning, without the need to also convection driven by the temperature differences in inlgget I nmnde.	0_0
The last thing we should be doing now, in our state of ignorance about the warming problem and institutional responses, is to rush into an unworkable worldwide policy. That is why we should focus on the quiet work of learning how to build institutions that can effectively address the problem, and not on public grandstanding.	0_0
And by the way, Rush Limbaugh first suggesting that environmentalists sabotaged the oil rig to block any more drilling and then saying that nature would take care of the cleanup by itself demands another Congressional action: a joint resolution demanding that Limbaugh fulfill his public promise to move to Costa Rica if the health care bill were enacted into law.	0_0
El Nino is a naturally occurring warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and tends to warm the planet. Satellite temperatures are extremely sensitive to El Ninos (and La Nina cooling events), so mid-tropospheric readings spiked in early 2016.	0_0
Fredericksburg, a touristy town of slightly more than 10,000, lies in the heart of the Hill Country. It was founded in 1846 by German immigrants and to this day remains true to its German roots. Many businesses still carry their German names, including some great German restaurants. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed one of those restaurants Der Lindenbaum which was recommended by one of my readers.	0_0
Voters have decisively rejected Proposition 1A, which would have raised taxes to cover spending. The Governator will therefore have to become the Terminator again if he wants to avoid the state going bankrupt.	0_0
Ive done a quick read of Dessler (2011). I have the same problem with Desslers paper that I had with S&B; and LC. These analyses dont really tell us anything about cloud feedback, although they are interpreted as doing so. The simple energy balance model upon which equation (1) is useful (at best) only for black box thermodynamics only analyses of the climate system. Cloud feedback is frequency dependent, and the key issue S&B; are trying to address is the role of natural internal variability in modulating clouds, which in turn modulates the radiative balance and surface temperature; it is in this sense that they then refer to clouds as a forcing. This inconsistency arises from trying to use the black box energy balance feedback model to make inferences about the impact of internal dynamical variations on clouds and the energy balance.	5_1
What has struck me in doing this analysis is that looking at individual surface temperature stations becomes nonsensical, as they are grid reference points. Thus comparing the station moves for Reykjavik with the adjustments will not achieve anything. The implications of this insight will have to wait upon another day.	0_0
When one cuts through EPAs propaganda, the health benefits the Agency touts are virtually nonexistent. In reality, Utility MACT is designed to kill coal. As EPA admits, this extension of Obamas cap-and-trade agenda will cost American families up to $11 billion in electricity rate increases (over 11 percent increase, on average), and destroy up to 1.4 million jobs. Workers recently laid off in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia are feeling the devastating impacts of this rule. Sadly, these lost jobs are a part of President Obamas wider war on coal as well as fossil fuels, which he admitted was his goal on the campaign trail in 2008 when he said, if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant they can. Its just that it will bankrupt them and under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.	4_1
Golden eagles are the latest roadblock to establishing wind farms on federally owned land, already an expensive process plagued by years of bureaucratic delay. The projects also have been untracked by other wildlife issues, a sluggish economy and objections by defense and aviation authorities that wind turbines interfere with the country's aged radar system.	0_0
the scientists religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.	0_0
Follow Michael on Facebook and TwitterWeather Channel Founder Says Hurricane Matthew Is "Nature Not Mankind'	0_0
"Reducing farm animals' wind by adding garlic to feed could substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, according to research by West Wales' scientists featured by Euronews.	0_0
Speaking on his appointment Mike Haseler said: "I want to thank everyone in the Sceptic community who has helped me particularly the members of the Scottish Climate and Energy Forum, Andrew Montford who through his blog has inspired everyone in Scotland, Anthony Watts and his team whose quality and quantity of coverage on Climate, Energy and Science in general is a jewel of the internet and everyone else in the Sceptic community. But one person stands out: I often felt that Lord Christopher Monckton really deserved to be called 'the Scottish Sceptic' and I look forward to working closer with him in UKIP"	0_0
We know from the governments national greenhouse and energy reporting scheme data that lists our highest emitting companies that the tax will include energy companies.	0_0
Two Years In, Obama Says Full Recovery Will "Take Us Several Years":	0_0
Many of the Obama administration's actions directly attack these core beliefs. Working-class Americans crave economic security, but they see an administration that talks more about health care and climate change than about jobs. The current recession exacerbates their natural fear of downward mobility, but they see an administration seemingly incapable of providing the very thing they want most from a center-left government. In the Henry Louis Gates and Ground Zero mosque controversies, liberal progressives saw an articulate leader defending individual rights; working-class voters saw someone who questioned the police, perhaps the bedrock institution that provides public order, and showed an insufficient degree of patriotism.	0_0
Global Warming Not Happening Global Cooling Is Real And Now	1_2
We are headed towards a Little Ice Age ?? and the current climate propaganda is pointing us in the wrong direction.	1_2
Al Gore's Plan to Bring Back Dust Bowls	0_0
"At the same time it's apparent that the United States needs more high-skill immigrantsjob creators rather than job seekers."Michael Barone	0_0
(And yes, I do think the Texas Hill Country would be a good place to live as we head into the coming ice age. In fact, I loved it.)	0_0
The latest satellite data on Arctic sea ice extent suggests that there is now a normal amount of sea ice in the Arctic normal is defined as about average for the period 1979 2007.	1_1
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In an open joint letter released today, representatives from 18 conservative, free market, consumer, and taxpayer organizations explain that allowing the federal government to institutionalize the assumptions of global warming alarmism with more officials, reports, and committees will only create the institutional framework and political incentives for the kind of energy rationing called for by the Kyoto Protocol. President Bush has publicly disavowed the global warming treaty and Kyoto-style policies and stressed the damaging economic impact such a path would inflict on the United States with no offsetting benefits.	4_1
Compare the model predictions to the weather balloon measurements below. The graphs are not remotely the same. The models are wrong. The Hot Spot is missing. The net effect of the warming due to man-made CO 2 has been exaggerated.	5_1
In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty, more than two decades will have elapsed without so much as a suspicion of warmer weather throughout the Empire.	1_4
That does not mean that passage of any bill by Congress will result in a surge of popular support. Health care costs are going to rise over the next several years no matter what.	0_0
Because water vapor and clouds are responsible for 6585 percent of the radiative properties of the troposphere, I should have asked Ms. Macfarlane whether water vapor also is a "pollutant"; that discussion would have been amusing. Ocean evaporation certainly is a natural process, but so are volcanic eruptions, and no one denies that the massive amounts of particulates and toxins emitted by volcanoes are pollutants. In contrast to "carbon" or "carbon pollution," the phrase "greenhouse gases" has the virtue of scientific accuracy without, again, assuming the answer to the underlying policy question.	0_0
Scuba divers know that reef creatures already experience acidic conditions near CO2 vents in the ocean floor. These vents bubble CO2 gas amidst coral reefs and grassy ocean pastures in millions of locations. Fish and reefs appear to be doing quite well near these CO2 vents.	3_2
Rainfall events like the type weve seen in Queensland are becoming more likely as the earth warms.	0_0
Behavior Of The US Government Is "Fully Consistent" With That Of The Soviet Union	0_0
The data revealed both long- and short-term temperature fluctuations; and it was noted that during warm periods the temperature was "about 2C warmer than at present." Furthermore, the temperature fluctuations were found to be "closely related" to changes in solar irradiation. What it means	2_1
There was a big conference in Melbourne this week titled Greenhouse 2005: Action on Climate Change . I didnt see much coverage in the national media but The Age ran a feature every day on the perils of climate change to coincide with the event, click here , here and here (and there was more!).	0_0
Washington, May 4, 2011 ? Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group today issued the following statement on the new report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, the scientific arm of the eight-nation Arctic Council.	0_0
This is a questionable path. Even as, naturally, growth and hardship can be linked to environmental factors, it's not the same thing as to say that environmental factors should be regarded as exclusive data in their own right. Further, changing the calculation methods is difficult for several reasons. You need an international consensus, otherwise comparisons will be meaningless. GDP figures are used to calculate changes over time. If you mess with it, you will have to somehow compensate against historical figures.	0_0
Is this the best solution? Certainly, tropical rainforests are a valuable ecological entity. "They provide erosion and flood control, timber and forest products, medicines, wood fuel, outdoor `laboratories' for scientific research, and of course, a habitat for millions of plant and animal species. When developing these areas, it is important to formulate a biodiversity strategy with rational rules " (Dartmouth Review, p.8) But that does not mean all-out preservation is the only answer.	0_0
In 1980, science writer Ron Bailey points out, the U.S. government thought we might have as many as 1,000 nuclear reactors up and running in the United States by now, instead of the 104 aging plants we do have. Our nuclearphobia led us to build hundreds of coal- and gas-fired power plants instead.	0_0
Using the near surface air temperature changes as the climate metric to assess T raises the research questions listed below:	0_0
Last is Figure 4. It compares the modeled and observed temperature differences between the sea surface temperatures and marine air temperatures, where the marine air temperatures are subtracted from the sea surface temperatures. The observed temperature difference (SST Minus MAT) averages about 2.9 deg C, and the difference has been increasing. But the modeled difference averages about 1.25 deg C and has been decreasing.	5_1
11."Mann et al., 2005". The rev. tries to disprove our conclusions citing Mann et al., 2005. That study nicely demonstrates a successful reconstruction of a simulated climate history from sufficiently many pseudoproxies (104, representing the AD 1780 network), which obviously cannot contain any nonsense predictors and which has never been questioned by us. Our focus was on the AD 1400 network with 22 real proxies.	0_0
Obama officials are already trying to hide behind Mass v. EPA, claiming 'the Court made us do it.' This excuse won't wash. President Obama can protect consumers, jobs, and the economy from EPA regulatory excess any time he wants just by introducing stand-alone legislation to exclude carbon dioxide from regulation under PSD, NAAQS, etc.	0_0
Heres the simplest interpretation a small cadre of well paid scientists make ambitious, inept climate models that billions of dollars of decisions relies on.	5_1
Also, occupants of two larger, heavier cars crashing together have more protection than they would have in two smaller, lighter cars in the same type of crash.	0_0
the cute part automatically. Calvin and Hobbes is widely considered the best comic ever, but the few times it featured the parents doing the main action, it	0_0
A prior paper also published by lead author Justin Sheffield examined the period from 1950-2000 and found, " Globally, the mid-1950s showed the highest drought activity and the mid-1970s to mid-1980s the lowest activity."	1_7
With regards to the planetary energy balance equation 12.1:	0_0
Fact-free he began and fact-free he remains.	0_0
In the abstract the IPCC deserves it due. There has never been a large public policy issue as dependent on thorough science as climate change. The effort to get to the bottom of climate change is perhaps the largest scientific inquiry in human history. It requires the coordination of thousands of specialists, the development of whole new scientific techniques, and the refinement of elaborate computer models that need weeks to run on the most powerful supercomputers. Even discounting for the inherent weaknesses of computer models for any subject, this kind of sustained effort is likely to generate valuable and practical knowledge in the fullness of time. Producing coherent reports at regular intervals that combine all this work is an extraordinary feat.	0_0
Harumph. So weve got a downtrend. We take a flat step up on dropping to a single thermometer. Then a final rise in the end. But whats in that rise? A large quantity of missing data:	5_1
Climate science defies this concept by consistently adjusting older temperatures downwards and recent temperatures upwards. The assumption is almost always that older temperatures are defective because they were too high, and newer temperatures are the opposite.	5_1
How did the attorney general respond? In an apparent attempt to avoid being subject to the anti-SLAPP law, Attorney General Walker withdrew only the D.C. subpoena, leaving the original U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena active. He also made it clear that he might reinstate the D.C. subpoena at any point in the future if he wanted to. In short, he can continue his intimidation campaign against us and others who oppose his policy views. The withdrawal only strengthens our claim that the subpoena was illegal from the start. Because of the looming threat of the existing U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena, we have continued to push for relief under the Anti-SLAPP Act. On June 28, we will have our first day in court.	0_0
All this and hippie-mocking goodness galore in your July 4th weekend roundupalooza.	0_0
Many defense technologies satellites, rockets and ballistic missiles, sophisticated guidance systems and delivery vehicles as well as remote computer command and control overlap with space technologies (it's not for nothing that the government agency overseeing the ULA launch is the Air Force). Indeed, many defense technologies grew out of the space program itself.	0_0
Kultti et al. has just been published in Holocene, showing higher medieval treeelines in northern Finland (27 deg E). This is consistent with the more northerly distribution of oak in medieval Finland reported in Hulden discussed here and adds to the growing inventory of articles both demonstrating higher medieval treelines and using this to estimate MWP temperatures locally higher than at present, some of which I??ve posted about from time to time Medieval Category . These ???local?? results from treelines are not limited to the north Atlantic and Greenland, but extend to the Sierra Nevadas (117 W), Sweden, Finland, Polar Urals (65 E) and a Siberian transect (90-100E). I??ll add a comment on Chinese proxies of this type. Kultti et al. also consider information from other proxies and report similar results for all proxies EXCEPT the tree ring width chronology of Helama et al . Here are some extended quotes.	2_1
An alternative is theoretical analysis from first principles. This is something which in my own small limited way I am trying to do, as are others. Another way is to recognise that nature works by rigid adherence to natural law and is thus repeatable. This means that we can look back through the historical record for similar situations. If we can find such situations then the response that occurred then is a good indicator of what might happen in our immediate future. This was exactly the basis for the original carbon dioxide driven global warming claims. Vostock Ice core data showed carbon dioxide levels and temperature rising and falling together. Cause and effect was claimed, proof that rising carbon dioxide caused temperatures to increase. Since then, more accurate dating has shown temperature rises or falls 800 years before carbon dioxide responds. This negates the original claims since it shows that rising temperature causes rising carbon dioxide not vice versa.	2_3
Iain Murray: The President's pushing of trade agreements is in many ways welcome, as protectionism now would be a disaster for America. However, it is telling that he calls neither of the transoceanic agreements a Free Trade agreement. That's because they won't be. They will be so weighed down with agreed restrictions and regulations designed to protect special interests and national champions that the vast and undoubted benefits of genuine free trade will not accrue to all Americans and other trading partners. That is a hugely wasted opportunity.	0_0
At some point Dr. Mann crossed the line from scientist solely in pursuit of truth to activist with a book to sell. The books title is illuminating: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Activists go to war, scientists do not. Through Twitter, he links to liberal websites touting President Obamas electoral prospects as evidence of his perceived persecution. And in one of the Climategate II emails he wrote he gave up on another scientist because she was not firmly committed enough to the cause. But Dr. Manns cause, whether it be selling books, preserving his professional reputation, or obtaining more government funding, is not purely science. And the Virginia Supreme Court shouldnt make us just trust him.	5_2
The close correspondence between the Sphagnum ?? 13 C values of Sharma et al . and the lake level data of Baedke and Thompson bears strong witness to the reality of the millennial-scale oscillation of earth's climate that has brought the world alternating multi-century periods of relative cold and warmth, which in the Great Lakes region of North America are closely associated with concomitant relative wet and dry conditions, respectively.?? It is our belief that this climatic oscillation is also responsible for the development of the Modern Warm Period, which would have occurred when it did even if man had never appeared on the scene. Reference	2_1
More importantly, we haven't gotten the massive warming so long predicted by the computer models. If James Hansen had been correct in his 1988 predictions to congress, the planet would already some 2 degrees warmer today than it is. Nor did the computer models predict the Pacific Ocean's 2008 cold phase shift which is likely to cool the planet for the next 30 years. Let's wait for the current La Nina to fade and see what sort of "warming" we face.	5_1
By Daren Bakst, American Thinker, Aug 11, 2015	0_0
It says the amount by which climate scientists multiply the direct warming from, say, CO2 to allow for temperature feedbacks changes to the climate because it has warmed that make it warm still further is equal to the reciprocal of 1 minus a third of the sum of all the feedbacks.	0_0
Mary Grabar, PhD English U of Georgia, makes the connection with the Terrorist, now pedagogue promoting common core and other socialist programs in the schools, Bill Ayers who was a terrorist with the weathermen but then got a respectable academic job like so many of the creepy anarachists.	0_0
Keep in mind that the model mean, according to the IPCC, represents the anthropogenically forced component of the climate models during the period of 1981 to 2011. Unfortunately for the models and the IPCC, there is no evidence of anthropogenic forcing in the East Pacific Sea Surface Temperature data (90S-90N, 180-80W), Figure 20, or in the Sea Surface Temperature data for the Rest Of The World (90S-90N-80W-180), Figure 21.	5_1
The global warmistsmostly drawn from the leftmay or may not be right about global warming. As they say in their recent bull on Climate Assessment, Climate change, once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present. Well, maybe so, but there is still little we can do to alleviate global warming. America is, mostly for economic reasons, meeting the goals of the Kyoto Protocol without actually having signed the treaty. In fact, we were the first major industrialized nation to do so back in 2012. The problem of global warming resides not with us but with other nations. Led by China, the poorer countries of the world are paying no attention to the Kyoto nonsense, and one should not expect them to. Why should a poor country impede its growing standard of living for the grandiose and highly speculative goal of climate control?	4_2
In E&E News today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is profiled , and he says this: "What if I took something you agree with, that this country had a lot of resources that need to be explored and extracted, and every barrel of oil that we can find off South Carolina with South Carolinas permission, and natural gas deposits, make us more energy independent? he added. What if you married those two things up? And took some of the revenue from oil and gas exploration and put it toward reducing our carbon dependency? I think thats a deal that a lot of people would go for. You dont have to be a true believer of drilling offshore or that climate change is real. Youve just got to be willing to give and take." Can we "reduce our carbon dependency" via extracting "every barrel of oil that we can find"? Does this make sense?	0_0
African dust plays a key role in cloud formation, hurricanes and other global climate phenomena but models cant characterize it well.	5_1
CEOs across the economy are feeling the squeeze of higher power prices, and these prices likely will rise even more if the U.S. government enacts a law to control domestic greenhouse gas emissions. However, high power prices and a push toward power sources that release fewer such emissions mean opportunity for one sector of the economy:nuclear power. But so far, despite perhaps the best environment ever in which to finance deals of all kinds, investment banks, private equity firms, shareholders and other sources of capital aren't interested. The risks of investing in new nuclear power projects, expected to cost as much as $5 billion each, outweigh the potential rewards.	0_0
The most prominent cycles that can be detected in the global surface temperature records have periods of about 9.1 year, 10-11 years, about 20 year and about 60 years. The 9.1 year cycle appears to be linked to a Soli/Lunar tidal cycles, as I also show in the paper, while the other three cycles appear to be solar/planetary cycles ultimately related to the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Other cycles, at all time scales, are present but ignored in the present paper.	2_1
2. Determining what the connection is between Arctic sea ice loss and mid-latitude weather, and the consequential regional effects;	0_0
And Figure 13 presents the Hovmollers of sea surface temperature anomalies. Unfortunately, the Hovmoller of sea surface temperature anomalies is delayed a few weeksthus the purplish line in 2014. But as weve seen in the comparison graphs in Figure 2, the sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region in 2014 are well behind those of 1982, and the sea surface temperature anomalies this year in the NINO1+2 region are in line with those in 1982. As youll note in the Hovmoller for this year, it didnt take long for the La Nia conditions in the eastern equatorial Pacific to disappear. The El Nio conditions also disappeared as quickly.	0_0
Escalation of violence is a two-way street. Why is the homeowner, the innocent party, the one who is made legally responsible for such escalation? Why isn't it the agent of the state who is responsible for any such escalation? And while a homeowner may have plenty of opportunities to protest illegal entry after the fact (though this isdebatablein real life) I would argue that the police officer had plenty of opportunities before the fact to get a freaking warrant.	0_0
For the past 5 years (60 months), there is a statistically significant global cooling in all datasets.	1_4

What follows is a response by John Christy, who has been producing these datasets with me for the last 20 years: (Roy W. Spencer)

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Neither Ms Wheeler, and worse, nor Ms Morris appear to have been curious enough to verify what they were writing about, and especially concerning such a boggling example. Please publish a correction as soon and as prominently as possible, otherwise your readers will find themselves severely mislead by a demonstrated falsehood.

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Prof Curry said: I suspect that the portion of the decline in the sea ice attributable to natural variability could be even larger than half.

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Fracking fluids are 99.5% water and sand, combined with chemicals that keep sand particles suspended in the liquid, fight bacterial growth, and improve gas flow and production. Most additives used today are vegetable oils and common, biodegradable chemicals found in cheese, beer, canned fish, dairy desserts, shampoo, and other food and cosmetic products. Steadily improving technologies, techniques and regulations will further reduce environmental risks.

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2. But isn't global warming threatening public health by causing a resurgence of diseases like malaria?

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As illustrated in the Evans et al graph below, coastal upwelling can oversaturate the surface waters to 1000 matm, 2.5 times above atmospheric pCO 2 (represented by dashed horizontal line). Within weeks the biological response sequesters and exports that carbon so that concentrations of surface water CO 2 fall as low as 200 matm; a concentration that would still be under-saturated relative to the Little Ice Ages atmosphere. Relative to these rapid seasonal changes in pH, fears that marine organisms cannot adapt quickly enough to the relatively slower changes wrought by anthropogenic CO 2 seem overblown.

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All of this snow has propelled southeast Michigan into the top of the seasonal snowfall records. ???In fact, this winter puts 6 of the last 14 years into the top 20 snowiest winters on record .??

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This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.

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The Yen has largely gone flat, though with a slight residual drop. The general message here is that the dollar is rising, the Euro is having issues (but we already knew that) and the precious metals are not cutting it. It looks like folks are moving into the US dollar. Perhaps out of European banks?

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After the fourth year of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, a detailed analysis indicated that elevated CO 2 reduced needle stomatal density by an average of 7.4%. In contrast, elevated CO 2 increased needle thickness, mesophyll tissue area, and total cross-sectional area by averages by 6.4, 5.7, and 10.4%, respectively. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the average relative area occupied by phloem cells by 4.4%.

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So far, it would appear that the impact of whatever global warming may have occurred over the past few decades -- even in the supposedly more sensitive higher latitudes of the planet -- has been both mild and mixed. Reviewed 18 November 2009

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Australias antarctic runway melting | Northern Midlands News

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I looked at St-Onge and repeated my frequent prediction that Keystone would not be approved under the Obama Administration. I stated: "We know that Obama doesn't care about Republicans. We know he doesn't care about the oil-and-gas industry. We may even question whether or not he cares about America. But he does care about his baseand, of his base, there are only two groups who care about the Keystone pipeline." I asked the audience who those two groups were. They rightly asserted: "environmentalists" and "unions."

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Proponents of carbon pricing argue it is the least cost way to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Their argument is based on assumptions that are appropriate for a theoretical exercise but unlikely to be achieved in practice, let alone sustained for the time the policies would need to operate (i.e. centuries). Significantly, little research has been done to investigate the probability that carbon pricing can be implemented and deliver the projected benefits in the real world.

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I'm in Whitefish, Montana, this week, where hundreds of trees are just a few inches in diameter, packed in clusters of a half dozen or more, inches from one another perfect kindling for vicious wildfires. Over time, most will get crowded out and die, leaving just a few hardy specimens to grow into hefty 50- to 100-foot beauties assuming they are not engulfed in a super-heated inferno first.

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One recent survey suggested that 53 per cent of executives had not even heard of the CRC and did not know whether their firm was affected.

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Indeed, the paper continues, Their contribution to global mitigation efforts is far greater than that by developed countries.

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Environmentalists have complained about Mr. Modi?s decision. They say rising atmospheric carbon dioxide will cause droughts, melt Himalayan ice, and poison lakes and waterways in the Indian subcontinent.

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CO2 in the atmosphere has some warming effect on Earths climate, but undisputed science shows that each additional CO2 molecule we emit has less warming effect than all its predecessors already in the air.

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"Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare's Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) a $5 billion grant program that's doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees. The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 in taxpayer subsidies and CBS Corporation secured $722,388 worth of Americans' money."

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Over the 55 years from 1958-2012, climate models not only significantly over-predict warming in the tropical troposphere, but they represent it in a fundamentally different way than is observed.

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For summer months, the century scale trend is slightly down. But there is still no large century scale trend in drought.

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UK Businesses Face Wave Of Green Taxes

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Thomas A. Hemphill is associate professor of strategy, innovation, and public policy at the University of Michigan-Flint's School of Management.

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The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 13 January 1939

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It was clear from our visit to Goalbari that diversifying the ways people could make a living when the area is under water was fundamental to their long-term adaptation. Developing ways for students to go to school and to keep schools open even during floods seemed equally important. Improving access to services for these communities, like drinking water, health facilities and other types of income generating activities were critical to improving peoples resilience to these weather related challenges.

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Rather this middle class guilt than not being allowed to hold political leaders and governments to account for their actions.

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My shared composure of this exchange is that the IPCC bokfring an seekers hurricane frequency and intensity is doubly incorrect. For the first does not have hurricanes kat significant, and for the second there is no scientific bowl for them to ka is why the average global temperature rises 0.6 C Fr Secondly, I go a supplement. A ndvndig preserve of a hurricane should uppst r frekomsten of hot and humid air. This is however not a tillrcklig frutsttning, without the need to also convection driven by the temperature differences in inlgget I nmnde.

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The last thing we should be doing now, in our state of ignorance about the warming problem and institutional responses, is to rush into an unworkable worldwide policy. That is why we should focus on the quiet work of learning how to build institutions that can effectively address the problem, and not on public grandstanding.

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And by the way, Rush Limbaugh first suggesting that environmentalists sabotaged the oil rig to block any more drilling and then saying that nature would take care of the cleanup by itself demands another Congressional action: a joint resolution demanding that Limbaugh fulfill his public promise to move to Costa Rica if the health care bill were enacted into law.

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El Nino is a naturally occurring warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and tends to warm the planet. Satellite temperatures are extremely sensitive to El Ninos (and La Nina cooling events), so mid-tropospheric readings spiked in early 2016.

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Fredericksburg, a touristy town of slightly more than 10,000, lies in the heart of the Hill Country. It was founded in 1846 by German immigrants and to this day remains true to its German roots. Many businesses still carry their German names, including some great German restaurants. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed one of those restaurants Der Lindenbaum which was recommended by one of my readers.

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Voters have decisively rejected Proposition 1A, which would have raised taxes to cover spending. The Governator will therefore have to become the Terminator again if he wants to avoid the state going bankrupt.

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Ive done a quick read of Dessler (2011). I have the same problem with Desslers paper that I had with S&B; and LC. These analyses dont really tell us anything about cloud feedback, although they are interpreted as doing so. The simple energy balance model upon which equation (1) is useful (at best) only for black box thermodynamics only analyses of the climate system. Cloud feedback is frequency dependent, and the key issue S&B; are trying to address is the role of natural internal variability in modulating clouds, which in turn modulates the radiative balance and surface temperature; it is in this sense that they then refer to clouds as a forcing. This inconsistency arises from trying to use the black box energy balance feedback model to make inferences about the impact of internal dynamical variations on clouds and the energy balance.

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What has struck me in doing this analysis is that looking at individual surface temperature stations becomes nonsensical, as they are grid reference points. Thus comparing the station moves for Reykjavik with the adjustments will not achieve anything. The implications of this insight will have to wait upon another day.

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When one cuts through EPAs propaganda, the health benefits the Agency touts are virtually nonexistent. In reality, Utility MACT is designed to kill coal. As EPA admits, this extension of Obamas cap-and-trade agenda will cost American families up to $11 billion in electricity rate increases (over 11 percent increase, on average), and destroy up to 1.4 million jobs. Workers recently laid off in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia are feeling the devastating impacts of this rule. Sadly, these lost jobs are a part of President Obamas wider war on coal as well as fossil fuels, which he admitted was his goal on the campaign trail in 2008 when he said, if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant they can. Its just that it will bankrupt them and under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

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Golden eagles are the latest roadblock to establishing wind farms on federally owned land, already an expensive process plagued by years of bureaucratic delay. The projects also have been untracked by other wildlife issues, a sluggish economy and objections by defense and aviation authorities that wind turbines interfere with the country's aged radar system.

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the scientists religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

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Follow Michael on Facebook and TwitterWeather Channel Founder Says Hurricane Matthew Is "Nature Not Mankind'

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"Reducing farm animals' wind by adding garlic to feed could substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, according to research by West Wales' scientists featured by Euronews.

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Speaking on his appointment Mike Haseler said: "I want to thank everyone in the Sceptic community who has helped me particularly the members of the Scottish Climate and Energy Forum, Andrew Montford who through his blog has inspired everyone in Scotland, Anthony Watts and his team whose quality and quantity of coverage on Climate, Energy and Science in general is a jewel of the internet and everyone else in the Sceptic community. But one person stands out: I often felt that Lord Christopher Monckton really deserved to be called 'the Scottish Sceptic' and I look forward to working closer with him in UKIP"

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We know from the governments national greenhouse and energy reporting scheme data that lists our highest emitting companies that the tax will include energy companies.

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Two Years In, Obama Says Full Recovery Will "Take Us Several Years":

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Many of the Obama administration's actions directly attack these core beliefs. Working-class Americans crave economic security, but they see an administration that talks more about health care and climate change than about jobs. The current recession exacerbates their natural fear of downward mobility, but they see an administration seemingly incapable of providing the very thing they want most from a center-left government. In the Henry Louis Gates and Ground Zero mosque controversies, liberal progressives saw an articulate leader defending individual rights; working-class voters saw someone who questioned the police, perhaps the bedrock institution that provides public order, and showed an insufficient degree of patriotism.

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Global Warming Not Happening Global Cooling Is Real And Now

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We are headed towards a Little Ice Age ?? and the current climate propaganda is pointing us in the wrong direction.

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Al Gore's Plan to Bring Back Dust Bowls

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"At the same time it's apparent that the United States needs more high-skill immigrantsjob creators rather than job seekers."Michael Barone

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(And yes, I do think the Texas Hill Country would be a good place to live as we head into the coming ice age. In fact, I loved it.)

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The latest satellite data on Arctic sea ice extent suggests that there is now a normal amount of sea ice in the Arctic normal is defined as about average for the period 1979 2007.

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In an open joint letter released today, representatives from 18 conservative, free market, consumer, and taxpayer organizations explain that allowing the federal government to institutionalize the assumptions of global warming alarmism with more officials, reports, and committees will only create the institutional framework and political incentives for the kind of energy rationing called for by the Kyoto Protocol. President Bush has publicly disavowed the global warming treaty and Kyoto-style policies and stressed the damaging economic impact such a path would inflict on the United States with no offsetting benefits.

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Compare the model predictions to the weather balloon measurements below. The graphs are not remotely the same. The models are wrong. The Hot Spot is missing. The net effect of the warming due to man-made CO 2 has been exaggerated.

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In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty, more than two decades will have elapsed without so much as a suspicion of warmer weather throughout the Empire.

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That does not mean that passage of any bill by Congress will result in a surge of popular support. Health care costs are going to rise over the next several years no matter what.

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Because water vapor and clouds are responsible for 6585 percent of the radiative properties of the troposphere, I should have asked Ms. Macfarlane whether water vapor also is a "pollutant"; that discussion would have been amusing. Ocean evaporation certainly is a natural process, but so are volcanic eruptions, and no one denies that the massive amounts of particulates and toxins emitted by volcanoes are pollutants. In contrast to "carbon" or "carbon pollution," the phrase "greenhouse gases" has the virtue of scientific accuracy without, again, assuming the answer to the underlying policy question.

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Scuba divers know that reef creatures already experience acidic conditions near CO2 vents in the ocean floor. These vents bubble CO2 gas amidst coral reefs and grassy ocean pastures in millions of locations. Fish and reefs appear to be doing quite well near these CO2 vents.

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Rainfall events like the type weve seen in Queensland are becoming more likely as the earth warms.

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Behavior Of The US Government Is "Fully Consistent" With That Of The Soviet Union

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The data revealed both long- and short-term temperature fluctuations; and it was noted that during warm periods the temperature was "about 2C warmer than at present." Furthermore, the temperature fluctuations were found to be "closely related" to changes in solar irradiation. What it means

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There was a big conference in Melbourne this week titled Greenhouse 2005: Action on Climate Change . I didnt see much coverage in the national media but The Age ran a feature every day on the perils of climate change to coincide with the event, click here , here and here (and there was more!).

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Washington, May 4, 2011 ? Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group today issued the following statement on the new report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, the scientific arm of the eight-nation Arctic Council.

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This is a questionable path. Even as, naturally, growth and hardship can be linked to environmental factors, it's not the same thing as to say that environmental factors should be regarded as exclusive data in their own right. Further, changing the calculation methods is difficult for several reasons. You need an international consensus, otherwise comparisons will be meaningless. GDP figures are used to calculate changes over time. If you mess with it, you will have to somehow compensate against historical figures.

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Is this the best solution? Certainly, tropical rainforests are a valuable ecological entity. "They provide erosion and flood control, timber and forest products, medicines, wood fuel, outdoor `laboratories' for scientific research, and of course, a habitat for millions of plant and animal species. When developing these areas, it is important to formulate a biodiversity strategy with rational rules " (Dartmouth Review, p.8) But that does not mean all-out preservation is the only answer.

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In 1980, science writer Ron Bailey points out, the U.S. government thought we might have as many as 1,000 nuclear reactors up and running in the United States by now, instead of the 104 aging plants we do have. Our nuclearphobia led us to build hundreds of coal- and gas-fired power plants instead.

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Using the near surface air temperature changes as the climate metric to assess T raises the research questions listed below:

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Last is Figure 4. It compares the modeled and observed temperature differences between the sea surface temperatures and marine air temperatures, where the marine air temperatures are subtracted from the sea surface temperatures. The observed temperature difference (SST Minus MAT) averages about 2.9 deg C, and the difference has been increasing. But the modeled difference averages about 1.25 deg C and has been decreasing.

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11."Mann et al., 2005". The rev. tries to disprove our conclusions citing Mann et al., 2005. That study nicely demonstrates a successful reconstruction of a simulated climate history from sufficiently many pseudoproxies (104, representing the AD 1780 network), which obviously cannot contain any nonsense predictors and which has never been questioned by us. Our focus was on the AD 1400 network with 22 real proxies.

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Obama officials are already trying to hide behind Mass v. EPA, claiming 'the Court made us do it.' This excuse won't wash. President Obama can protect consumers, jobs, and the economy from EPA regulatory excess any time he wants just by introducing stand-alone legislation to exclude carbon dioxide from regulation under PSD, NAAQS, etc.

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Heres the simplest interpretation a small cadre of well paid scientists make ambitious, inept climate models that billions of dollars of decisions relies on.

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Also, occupants of two larger, heavier cars crashing together have more protection than they would have in two smaller, lighter cars in the same type of crash.

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the cute part automatically. Calvin and Hobbes is widely considered the best comic ever, but the few times it featured the parents doing the main action, it

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A prior paper also published by lead author Justin Sheffield examined the period from 1950-2000 and found, " Globally, the mid-1950s showed the highest drought activity and the mid-1970s to mid-1980s the lowest activity."

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With regards to the planetary energy balance equation 12.1:

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Fact-free he began and fact-free he remains.

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In the abstract the IPCC deserves it due. There has never been a large public policy issue as dependent on thorough science as climate change. The effort to get to the bottom of climate change is perhaps the largest scientific inquiry in human history. It requires the coordination of thousands of specialists, the development of whole new scientific techniques, and the refinement of elaborate computer models that need weeks to run on the most powerful supercomputers. Even discounting for the inherent weaknesses of computer models for any subject, this kind of sustained effort is likely to generate valuable and practical knowledge in the fullness of time. Producing coherent reports at regular intervals that combine all this work is an extraordinary feat.

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Harumph. So weve got a downtrend. We take a flat step up on dropping to a single thermometer. Then a final rise in the end. But whats in that rise? A large quantity of missing data:

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Climate science defies this concept by consistently adjusting older temperatures downwards and recent temperatures upwards. The assumption is almost always that older temperatures are defective because they were too high, and newer temperatures are the opposite.

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How did the attorney general respond? In an apparent attempt to avoid being subject to the anti-SLAPP law, Attorney General Walker withdrew only the D.C. subpoena, leaving the original U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena active. He also made it clear that he might reinstate the D.C. subpoena at any point in the future if he wanted to. In short, he can continue his intimidation campaign against us and others who oppose his policy views. The withdrawal only strengthens our claim that the subpoena was illegal from the start. Because of the looming threat of the existing U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena, we have continued to push for relief under the Anti-SLAPP Act. On June 28, we will have our first day in court.

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All this and hippie-mocking goodness galore in your July 4th weekend roundupalooza.

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Many defense technologies satellites, rockets and ballistic missiles, sophisticated guidance systems and delivery vehicles as well as remote computer command and control overlap with space technologies (it's not for nothing that the government agency overseeing the ULA launch is the Air Force). Indeed, many defense technologies grew out of the space program itself.

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Kultti et al. has just been published in Holocene, showing higher medieval treeelines in northern Finland (27 deg E). This is consistent with the more northerly distribution of oak in medieval Finland reported in Hulden discussed here and adds to the growing inventory of articles both demonstrating higher medieval treelines and using this to estimate MWP temperatures locally higher than at present, some of which I??ve posted about from time to time Medieval Category . These ???local?? results from treelines are not limited to the north Atlantic and Greenland, but extend to the Sierra Nevadas (117 W), Sweden, Finland, Polar Urals (65 E) and a Siberian transect (90-100E). I??ll add a comment on Chinese proxies of this type. Kultti et al. also consider information from other proxies and report similar results for all proxies EXCEPT the tree ring width chronology of Helama et al . Here are some extended quotes.

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An alternative is theoretical analysis from first principles. This is something which in my own small limited way I am trying to do, as are others. Another way is to recognise that nature works by rigid adherence to natural law and is thus repeatable. This means that we can look back through the historical record for similar situations. If we can find such situations then the response that occurred then is a good indicator of what might happen in our immediate future. This was exactly the basis for the original carbon dioxide driven global warming claims. Vostock Ice core data showed carbon dioxide levels and temperature rising and falling together. Cause and effect was claimed, proof that rising carbon dioxide caused temperatures to increase. Since then, more accurate dating has shown temperature rises or falls 800 years before carbon dioxide responds. This negates the original claims since it shows that rising temperature causes rising carbon dioxide not vice versa.

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Iain Murray: The President's pushing of trade agreements is in many ways welcome, as protectionism now would be a disaster for America. However, it is telling that he calls neither of the transoceanic agreements a Free Trade agreement. That's because they won't be. They will be so weighed down with agreed restrictions and regulations designed to protect special interests and national champions that the vast and undoubted benefits of genuine free trade will not accrue to all Americans and other trading partners. That is a hugely wasted opportunity.

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At some point Dr. Mann crossed the line from scientist solely in pursuit of truth to activist with a book to sell. The books title is illuminating: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Activists go to war, scientists do not. Through Twitter, he links to liberal websites touting President Obamas electoral prospects as evidence of his perceived persecution. And in one of the Climategate II emails he wrote he gave up on another scientist because she was not firmly committed enough to the cause. But Dr. Manns cause, whether it be selling books, preserving his professional reputation, or obtaining more government funding, is not purely science. And the Virginia Supreme Court shouldnt make us just trust him.

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The close correspondence between the Sphagnum ?? 13 C values of Sharma et al . and the lake level data of Baedke and Thompson bears strong witness to the reality of the millennial-scale oscillation of earth's climate that has brought the world alternating multi-century periods of relative cold and warmth, which in the Great Lakes region of North America are closely associated with concomitant relative wet and dry conditions, respectively.?? It is our belief that this climatic oscillation is also responsible for the development of the Modern Warm Period, which would have occurred when it did even if man had never appeared on the scene. Reference

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More importantly, we haven't gotten the massive warming so long predicted by the computer models. If James Hansen had been correct in his 1988 predictions to congress, the planet would already some 2 degrees warmer today than it is. Nor did the computer models predict the Pacific Ocean's 2008 cold phase shift which is likely to cool the planet for the next 30 years. Let's wait for the current La Nina to fade and see what sort of "warming" we face.

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By Daren Bakst, American Thinker, Aug 11, 2015

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It says the amount by which climate scientists multiply the direct warming from, say, CO2 to allow for temperature feedbacks changes to the climate because it has warmed that make it warm still further is equal to the reciprocal of 1 minus a third of the sum of all the feedbacks.

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Mary Grabar, PhD English U of Georgia, makes the connection with the Terrorist, now pedagogue promoting common core and other socialist programs in the schools, Bill Ayers who was a terrorist with the weathermen but then got a respectable academic job like so many of the creepy anarachists.

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Keep in mind that the model mean, according to the IPCC, represents the anthropogenically forced component of the climate models during the period of 1981 to 2011. Unfortunately for the models and the IPCC, there is no evidence of anthropogenic forcing in the East Pacific Sea Surface Temperature data (90S-90N, 180-80W), Figure 20, or in the Sea Surface Temperature data for the Rest Of The World (90S-90N-80W-180), Figure 21.

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The global warmistsmostly drawn from the leftmay or may not be right about global warming. As they say in their recent bull on Climate Assessment, Climate change, once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present. Well, maybe so, but there is still little we can do to alleviate global warming. America is, mostly for economic reasons, meeting the goals of the Kyoto Protocol without actually having signed the treaty. In fact, we were the first major industrialized nation to do so back in 2012. The problem of global warming resides not with us but with other nations. Led by China, the poorer countries of the world are paying no attention to the Kyoto nonsense, and one should not expect them to. Why should a poor country impede its growing standard of living for the grandiose and highly speculative goal of climate control?

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In E&E News today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is profiled , and he says this: "What if I took something you agree with, that this country had a lot of resources that need to be explored and extracted, and every barrel of oil that we can find off South Carolina with South Carolinas permission, and natural gas deposits, make us more energy independent? he added. What if you married those two things up? And took some of the revenue from oil and gas exploration and put it toward reducing our carbon dependency? I think thats a deal that a lot of people would go for. You dont have to be a true believer of drilling offshore or that climate change is real. Youve just got to be willing to give and take." Can we "reduce our carbon dependency" via extracting "every barrel of oil that we can find"? Does this make sense?

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African dust plays a key role in cloud formation, hurricanes and other global climate phenomena but models cant characterize it well.

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CEOs across the economy are feeling the squeeze of higher power prices, and these prices likely will rise even more if the U.S. government enacts a law to control domestic greenhouse gas emissions. However, high power prices and a push toward power sources that release fewer such emissions mean opportunity for one sector of the economy:nuclear power. But so far, despite perhaps the best environment ever in which to finance deals of all kinds, investment banks, private equity firms, shareholders and other sources of capital aren't interested. The risks of investing in new nuclear power projects, expected to cost as much as $5 billion each, outweigh the potential rewards.

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The most prominent cycles that can be detected in the global surface temperature records have periods of about 9.1 year, 10-11 years, about 20 year and about 60 years. The 9.1 year cycle appears to be linked to a Soli/Lunar tidal cycles, as I also show in the paper, while the other three cycles appear to be solar/planetary cycles ultimately related to the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Other cycles, at all time scales, are present but ignored in the present paper.

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2. Determining what the connection is between Arctic sea ice loss and mid-latitude weather, and the consequential regional effects;

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And Figure 13 presents the Hovmollers of sea surface temperature anomalies. Unfortunately, the Hovmoller of sea surface temperature anomalies is delayed a few weeksthus the purplish line in 2014. But as weve seen in the comparison graphs in Figure 2, the sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region in 2014 are well behind those of 1982, and the sea surface temperature anomalies this year in the NINO1+2 region are in line with those in 1982. As youll note in the Hovmoller for this year, it didnt take long for the La Nia conditions in the eastern equatorial Pacific to disappear. The El Nio conditions also disappeared as quickly.

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Escalation of violence is a two-way street. Why is the homeowner, the innocent party, the one who is made legally responsible for such escalation? Why isn't it the agent of the state who is responsible for any such escalation? And while a homeowner may have plenty of opportunities to protest illegal entry after the fact (though this isdebatablein real life) I would argue that the police officer had plenty of opportunities before the fact to get a freaking warrant.

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For the past 5 years (60 months), there is a statistically significant global cooling in all datasets.

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