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Over the past 25 years, there has been no net change in Northern Hemisphere snow cover. The amount of snow in autumn and winter has increased, while spring and summer snow cover has decreased. Note that there has been a large increase in peak snow cover, but no change in the minimum.	1_1
Myneni's dull website is getting hundreds of hits a day. How could it possibly collect one billion signatures? Drudgereport.com hasn't seen a billion of distinct visitors. No website with any content produced by an individual has ever seen a billion of visitors.	0_0
For this reason, I also agree with Steven Mosher, an independent climate skeptic (with experience in graduate studies in literature and management in 3D graphics companies) who has also co-authored a book about Climategate . In a guest blog post,	0_0
"On the contrary, this is the time for international organizations, including the United Nations, to reduce their expenditures, make their administrations thinner, and leave the solutions to the governments of member states," he said.	0_0
Four years ago, other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it. Weve begun to change that. Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So lets generate even more. Solar energy gets cheaper by the year so lets drive costs down even further. As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.	0_0
Abstract: Consumption of all the worlds fossil fuels at any credible rate will not achieve a doubling of the current CO2 level and will increase world temperature by barely one-half degree Celsius. The achievable level of atmospheric CO2 is proportional to its release rate because its dilution by exchange with the land and ocean takes time. An instantaneous release is the worst case and if the entire worlds CO2 from fossil fuels were so released (impossible, of course) it represents an extreme upper bound to the CO2 level. And even that would achieve an increase of less than 3 degrees Celsius. Most significant, however, is the strong evidence that feedback from increased CO2 is negative.	3_1
By reference to the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, skeptics argue that the Earths actual heat transfer occurs not just by radiation alone, a minor player, but also by conduction (contact) and convection (fluid movement). The atmosphere gives off excess heat mainly by conduction and convection because:	2_3
"Where is the beef?" the ladies would surely ask in this case, too. If you try to find any content inside these texts, you will inevitably fail. There is no content. It's just a stupid game with words and a couple of mathematical symbols.	0_0
He stole her shoe with that grab, and probably to this day keeps it in a bell jar by his bed.	0_0
Update on Fight Against EPA's Regional Haze Power Grab	0_0
As can be seen from the aerial video above, shot right after the tornado moved through just south of Mayflower, Arkansas, on Sunday evening, the devastation was wide spread (video credit: Brian Emfinger). As tragic as this event was, and as selfless and heroic as the efforts of Arkansans to help their fellow citizens has been, there are still a number of lowlifes who cannot help but use this disaster to further their own agenda. I am, of course, referring to the human scum who waited less than a day to proclaim global warming as the cause of this tragedy. Let me set the record straight: Tornadoes have not increased in frequency, intensity or normalized damage	1_7
In my mind, we have to accept that it is great if we can reduce the release of CO2 because we are using up a resource the earth will be short of in the future, but we are in error if we claims a global warming caused by CO2.	2_3
Given the positive trends in air quality, the much larger role played by other air quality regulations, and the failure of NSR to significantly reduce net emissions from existing sources, one might ask: Is NSR for existing sources even necessary any longer? We'll return to this question after discussing current NSR policy and its negative effects on businesses, workers, consumers, and the environment.	0_0
New results from a Baylor University study show that different behaviors and strategies lead some families to cope better and emerge stronger after a weather-related event.	0_0
I thought the essay important to give perspective. Modern Americans are remarkably uninformed about history and the current political environment devotes a lot of heat and noise to race. Politically driven junk intellectual inquiry poisons the society. It helps to know the truth.	0_0
And the climate models seem to get the warming rate of sea surface temperatures just about right for the smallest portion of the global oceans, the extratropical Northern Hemisphere (24N-90N). See Figure 9. The extratropical oceans of the Northern Hemisphere cover only about 21% of the surface of the global oceans (about 15% of the surface of the Earth).	0_0
The next morning, in the Conference Centre, I was accosted by a couple of dozen of the Sturmabteilung and Schutz Staffel wannabes, bleating about how upset they were that my comments about their Hitlerian, Fascist tactics had been broadcast right round the world.	0_0
Laccadives Islands (India): "the locals are quite aware of the fact that sea level is not at all in a rising mode today, rather that new land has been added, leaving previous shore to become overgrown and invaded by terrestrial plant climbers (just as in the Maldives)."	1_6
Score one for both science and humor when Milbank asserts "As a scientific proposition, claiming that heavy snow in the mid-Atlantic debunks global warming theory is about as valid as claiming that the existence of John Edwards debunks the theory of evolution."	0_0
In its Annual Energy Outlook, the federal government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) makes projections of energy production, consumption, and prices. The reference case assumes midpoint projections for energy resources and assumes that regulations follow their legislative timelines. As part of its sensitivity analysis, the EIA also produces two side cases where energy resources are assumed to be (a) 50 percent higher and (b) 50 percent lower than the reference case. Though these side cases are not intended to model policy changes, the High Resource Case offers a glimpse of what might be.	0_0
It's Time to Help People Escape Obamacare	0_0
Inside the Lawsuit That Could Ground Deadly CIA Predator Drones:	0_0
Tim Magazine is convinced that global warming is going to kill us all. In 1974, they were sure that global cooling was going to kill us all.	0_0
There was worse still in the programme, with one scientist effectively saying that democracy might need to be suspended in order for governments to successfully prevent a climate catastrophe.	0_0
His explanation doesnt work. Last winter showed the same weather pattern yet sea ice extent was the highest in years and had the latest peak on record.	1_1
Marlo Lewis, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writing on Fox News, identified the political agenda of the climate report "designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and EPA regulatory mandates." Item by item, he noted the inaccuracies put forth by the report.	0_0
trend error 0.05 0.04 0.11 0.08, C / decade (95% confidence interval)	0_0
Similarly, pollen and charcoal evidence recorded two other large droughts: one that occurred some 5,000 to 5,500 years ago and another that occurred around 3,000 years ago.	1_7
And its not just the Sierra Club. The same day their invitation arrived, Friends of the Earth emailed to say The Pacific Northwest is currently engulfed in a struggle over the dirty future of coal and coal exports in the U.S. If the biggest coal companies in the world have their way, we could have 140 million tons of coal barreling through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon each year. Thats up to 60 trains per day in some of our neighborhoods and more than 1,000ships a yearthrough our sensitive waterways! Can you say fear-mongering? Lies about coal? And a total ignorance of the value to the economy of its use and export?	5_2
Blair, too, insisted that the Hamas problem would solve itself under the right circumstances. "I think to deal with Hamas you must create a strong momentum toward progress on the West Bank," he said in our telephone interview. "You must provide Hamas a choice: either get on board the train or the train leaves without them. Hamas's strength works in inverse relationship to the progress of the peace process. I am absolutely sure of this."	0_0
A study by British public relations consultancy CCGroup analysed 138 articles about renewables published during July last year in the five most widely circulated British national newspapers: The Sun, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, which enjoy a combined daily circulation of about 6.5 million.	0_0
However, the Bonn meeting broke up with a repeat performance of the disarray and recriminations between the rich and poor, developed and developing nations that marked the Copenhagen summit. Many observers believe there's zero chance of brokering a meaningful climate deal at November's global summit in Cancun, Mexico.	0_0
Professor Carter's ovial Aussie persona will be sorely missed, but his insights and legacy will live on.	0_0
A version of this article first appeared in Forbes Online (2/24/14).	0_0
State's efforts in renewable power. The idea that windmills will rescue	0_0
was +0.57 deg C above the 1961-90 average, the warmest year yet recorded	0_0
Mr. Cuomo then described his selection of penalizing tools he can use against any utility companies that are overly sluggish in this job.	0_0
In any given second, this energy,1.22 x 1017Joules, falls on one-side of the planet the day-side hemisphere. So, now that we know the total energy falling on the Earth in one second, and we now also know where the energy falls in one second, we can convert the energy value into the units of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation, which are Joules per second per square meter. Therefore if we take the total energy and divide it by the surface area of a hemisphere of the Earth, you get an (linear) average of 480 Joules per second per square meter, or 480 W/m2. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann equation which equates flux to temperature, this is a temperature of +30 degrees C, which is very nice and warm and will melt ice into water on the day-side, etc. It is a reasonable number.	0_0
Unfortunately, too many politicians continue to use the storm to advance agendas, deflect blame for incompetence and mistakes, and obfuscate and magnify future risks from building and development projects that they have designed, promoted, permitted and profited from.	0_0
Now, to the issue at hand: what is the best response to climate variability, both domestically, and internationally?	0_0
In Senate testimony during the summer of 1988, a NASA scientist testified that his GISS climate model's predicted temperatures will accelerate to much higher levels if the world's governments did nothing about reducing CO2 emissions. In reality, as the temperature data above shows, actual temperatures in 2009 were about the same as in 1988, some twenty years later.	1_4
Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday reiterated her assertion that the majority of illegal immigrants are coming to the United States for reasons other than work, saying most are committing crimes and being used as drug mules by the cartels.	0_0
In contrast, short-sighted policies aimed at achieving U.S. energy independence can jeopardize U.S. economic and energy security. By restricting trade or picking winners and losers, government hinders investment and innovation.	4_2
Also, for those who don?t know, we?ve heard that Dr. Mann?s legal bills are being paid by the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, where we?ve been told there are some deep green pockets contributing, so he isn?t facing bankruptcy, at least not yet.	0_0
Friends of Science are concerned about fair reporting on climate change in the media, in light of reports the British Broadcasting Corporation reportedly spent some 20,000 over six years fighting off a Freedom of Information request about a 2006 climate change conference for executives, as reported in the Daily Telegraph of the UK Jan. 12, 2014 and several British newspapers.	5_2
But why stop there? In British India they used to have natives called punkah wallahs, who would pull on ropes that swung a large ceiling fan. Adopting the punkah would massively increase employment!	0_0
The nearest USHCN station to Lubbock is Crosbyton, a mere 33 miles away. The annual mean temperature record is below.	0_0
Now it does not give a likeliest value and admits it is likely it may be as little as 1.5C so giving the world many more decades to work out how to reduce carbon emissions before temperatures rise to dangerous levels.	3_1
"This is a panicked attempt by global warming activists to cover over a scandal the fact that millions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted to address climate change concerns based on unsound data," says Christopher C. Horner, an attorney and senior fellow at CEI.	5_1
The paper can also be found together with his chapter in ESEF's previous book on Global Warming.	0_0
Then this guy goes all geek-wonky and finds a page on Google put up 3 days prior to the event. A United Way page. One wonders if United Way creates a blank page from time to time and then filled them in if an event happens? An interesting date dis-connect, but the frame can be built prior to populating it. Then goes on into the wrong kid on the lap image.	0_0
Roy Spencer, Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA.	0_0
The IPCC alleges 1 Wm-2 increase in radiative forcing causes a 3C/3.7 Wm-2 or .81C increase in surface temperature, but if evaporative cooling from water vapor offsets this by 66% or 0.54C according to Dr. Caliera's paper, only a 0.27C residual warming would remain. Therefore, climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 levels after evaporative cooling from water vapor would only be ~.33*3C = 1C, i.e. not of concern and likelybeneficial.	3_1
The IPCC and CCSP assessments, as well as the science statements completed by the AGU, AMS and NRC, are completed by a small subset of climate scientists who are often the same individuals. This oligarchy has prevented science of the climate system to be properly communicated to policymakers (e.g., see, see and see).	5_2
Victory of the Denialists! says Robert Manne in The Monthly as his Gods of Science fail	0_0
The other thing you can see is that higher degrees of freedom in regparm create a huge step in the data prior to he AWS stations implementation Figure 9 and especially Figrue 6 (three from the end) demonstrate this.	0_0
the entire world's governments, via the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change , agree that 2C is the safe limit."	0_0
The report alleges that the Environmental Resource Trust, an arm of the EDF, is positioning itself to run a greenhouse reduction pool. An ERT memo acquired by NPAP states, "a proposal had been made both to EEI (Edison Electric Institute) and the White House to provide early reduction credits for those companies that participate in a greenhouse gas reduction pool. The GHG reduction pool would: provide the government with a legal entity responsible for monitoring, tracking and reporting upon member companies emissions performance; enforce members' GHG commitments; operate a GHG reduction trading system."	0_0
Food prices will rise even further if the global warming legislation backed by President Obama passes, since it expands ethanol subsidies that reward big corporations for turning food into fuel. Ethanol subsidies damage the environment by wiping out forests, polluting water supplies, and eroding the soil. By converting food into fuel, they cause famines and food riots in the world's poorest countries. That fuels Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and the Middle East.	4_1
(d) The campaign against our directors and donors being conducted by Forecast the Facts, 350.org, and Greenpeace not by anonymous individuals as you strangely suggest in fact is unprecedented because it could not have occurred had not Peter Gleick stolen and revealed our donor list. But we are obviously well on our way to building a new and much larger donor base that is Greenpeace proof.	0_0
At last some evidence that important climate data may have been hidden has emerged from the hacked University of East Anglia email furore. Together with last weeks condemnation by the Information Commissioner of failures to comply with Freedom of Information legislation, it appears to put the position of Prof Phil Jones, the head of its Climatic Research Unit (CRU), at even greater risk. If confirmed and upheld by the official inquiry now being conducted into the affair, Prof Jones who has stepped down while it is carried out will surely decide to go.	5_2
14 April 2010 13:57 Fox replies: "Hi Brian - well he specifically mentioned a leaflet published in 1999 by WMO which used a graph without any of the caveats that used. But to be fair he also cited NGOs and the media as being amongst those who take CRU's work and struggle to include the caveats ... he was specifically asked if governments have mis-used it and he ducked the question"	5_2
In the video in the last post, there was reference to the evidence given by Science Minister, David Willetts some days ago, which apparently again touched on the Climategate affair, and once again at the prompting of questions from Graham Stringer.	0_0
So how can todays disasters, even if less physically powerful than previous ones, have such staggering financial costs? One reason: There are more people and more wealth in harms way. Partly this is due to local land-use policies, partly to incentives such as government-subsidized insurance, but mostly to the simple fact that people like being on the coast and near rivers.	0_0
a two-by-four to understand that little can be accomplished without working with	0_0
The models say that business as usual will lead to A1-type scenarios (turn Earth into Venus and wipe out coffee). The models say that drastic cuts in carbon emissions are required to stay in the B2-type scenario range.	0_0
There are significant flaws with many studies on glaciers, the most significant being a selection bias in those projects that are funded. For the past decade the EU has mainly funded studies that discover receding glaciers, deliberately not studying whether glaciers are receding. Given the number of glaciers in the world, one will always find some, even perhaps a majority, that are receding. But given the inherent selection bias it doesn't prove a great deal when the media talk up studies showing receding glaciers. If one wanted to study Scandinavian glacier expansion, funding by EU Governments would not be so forthcoming. This problem sheds doubt on, and unfairly undermines, well-conducted studies (probably including those done by Drs Collins and Harrison), since one is uncertain what is being omitted in research in Europe.	5_1
Bger and Cubasch report a very high RE statistic for the "nonsense" relationship betwen the number of reporting gridcells and NH temperature.	0_0
The IAC and Hauser precedents should serve as a warning to climate colluders and manipulators. They are also increasing pressure on IPCC Chairman Pachauri to abdicate his throne, and be replaced by a respected climate expert who can bring a degree of integrity to this politicized organization.	5_2
It is crazy how lies about this chemical have made mothers willing to let their children die, rather than spray it on their homes. Malaria has killed millions of people in Uganda and is still the number-one killer disease in Africa. Over 1,000 babies and mothers die every day from this disease. We protect the environment from imaginary problems and die from environmental diseases.	0_0
Later in the section on EPA, Mann??s lawyers went well outside the bounds of acceptablebelligerence, making an accusation that CEI and National Review counsel had made a ???deliberate attempt to hide information?? from the Court (page 24). The ???information?? that the defendants had allegedly attempted to hide was the ???existence of the EPA inquiry?? and that his ???inquiry?? had been requested by CEI. Once again, Mann??s lawyers reproduced the extended EPA Myths versus Facts quotation about ???temperature data and trends?? that they had cited in the Statement of Claim, this time claiming that this quotation demonstrated that EPA had ???categorically rejected the fraud allegations?? against Mann:	5_2
From this point of view, the major achievement from the motion by Senators D'Al, Possa and others is to remind the government and the Italian public in general that there are still people that raise rational arguments before they endorse costly policies. Implicit in the motion and explicit in D'Al and Possa's thinking is a concern for the lack of a democratic debate on the EU energy and climate package. In fact the Italian Parliament, as well as other Parliaments of the EU member states, never had a chance to discuss the consequences of such a wide-ranging, costly, questionable policy. If the Italian Senate's vote may help to raise the awareness of the dangers not just for the European economy, but also for the democratic process in the European Union, it will strike a much more ambitious goal than cutting emissions by a few percentage points.	0_0
4. Actual-to-Future-Actual Methodology. The actual-to-future-potential emissions test would be replaced with the previously used (and still used for utilities) actual-to-future-actual test, which is a more realistic calculation of future emissions. Only emission increases caused by a given modification would be considered. The baseline for calculating current actual emissions would be the highest consecutive 24-month period within the immediately preceding 10 years.	0_0
Weather Forecast Barrow, AK \| Barrow Weather \| Wunderground	0_0
Centuries ago, it was noticed that when there are few sunspots, magnetic storms, the Earth got colder. Thus, climate change is not an unusual event, but rather a reflection of the well-known cycles of warmth or cold that theplanet has passed through for billions of years.	2_1
Speaking at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013 President Barack Obama outlined his second term vision for combating climate change and promoting clean energy production and trade. In that speech, he mentioned Canada once, in acknowledgement of the Keystone pipeline controversy.	0_0
Obviously, things will calm down a bit once the excitement over the police raid drops away, but for now we can enjoy the moment of fame notoriety infamy. Infamy! infamy! theyve all got it infamy! :)	0_0
Pocklington noted that Broecker assumes first a 50% increase in precipitation and also that Central Asia and North America (where river flow into the North Atlantic originates) will get wetter. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), however, projects only a 5%-10% precipitation increase and predicts that the above regions will get drier. Pocklington cautioned that "we really don't know enough about deep ocean circulation to express these ideas as certainties."	0_0
On January 1, emissions from airplanes come under control in the European Trading System, the EU's over-arching greenhouse gas control scheme. Since not much can be done to reduce airplane greenhouse gas emissions, that basically means airlines will be taxed on whatever they emit. And it wouldn't only be European airlines that were taxed, it would, in theory, be any airline that flies to or from the EU. That's not sitting too well with non-EU countries, including the United States.	0_0
It's troubling that a FOIA lawsuit came up empty "no such correspondence in our files" when the old 1995 document was requested from the U.S. State Department late last year. This raises a certain ironic question: If I have a copy of your document, how come you don't?"	0_0
Munich-Chelsea 2-2 (penalties decide) (May 19)	0_0
BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Arctic summers ice-free by 2013	0_0
Whether it is long or short-term, Hansen/NASA models are no better than a Ouija board as a tool to predict global temperatures. This massive failure by Hansen et al can also be seen in his model's prediction of ocean heat content and sea level rise.	5_1
Canadian Oil Sands: More Oil Than Saudi Arabia?	0_0
Yet as the Clean Energy Dialogue completes its second action plan agenda in 2014, it is time for the third action plan to include natural gas as a spur to policy cooperation between Washington and Ottawa on several pressing issues.	0_0
Chris Turney, the leader of the expedition, is a professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales, says CFact. He rounded up a few dozen pals, chartered a Russian ship, and set off on a taxpayer funded junket to Antarctica.	0_0
As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that loblolly pine, which is an economically important timber species, will respond by increasing its photosynthesis and growth. The consequences of these phenomena are far-reaching, as indicated by the authors statement that "projected increases in the atmospheric content of CO 2 may result in increased wood production without a loss in structural strength in loblolly pine." Furthermore, it is conceivable that loblolly pine can even increase its structural integrity by increasing its wood density, if the observed trends for this parameter persist through its juvenile growth phase.	3_3
Leading Expert Lacks A Basic Understanding Of His Profession	0_0
The pumps enable 6,000 litres of water per minute to be pumped on to the flames and to reduce the potential for more wood chips to set alight.	0_0
message that the Government can give on climate change to help them tell their	0_0
As the air's CO 2 content continues to rise, it will likely allow these wheat cultivars and others to experience less stress and growth reductions as a consequence of SO 2 pollution. Indeed, the current study demonstrates that CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis will only be partially offset by elevated SO 2 concentrations, which should allow greater wheat yields to be produced in the future. In addition, since SO 2 -induced reductions in plant water-use efficiency were essentially eliminated by concurrent exposure to elevated CO 2 , these cultivars should be able to grow better in areas with limited water availability or in areas close to industrial complexes emitting large quantities of SO 2 . Also, wheat plants growing in SO 2 -polluted air should not suffer as large reductions in foliar protein content in a future high-CO 2 world as they do currently.	3_3
Plant Growth Database (6 April 2015)	0_0
Update - Harry Potter and the The Christopher Little Literary Agency : the plot thickens... Update 2 - " I was just interviewed by a camera crew, and will apparently be on the CBS Evening News tonight. Given the history of this very blog, I hereby pause for a moment to soak in the irony. Today's events tell me two things: One, CBS doesn't have Google. Two, this must be the slowest news day in the history of the planet, and possibly the universe."	0_0
I have followed Pielke's work for years. In 2007, while editing Energy Tribune, I published an interview with his father, Roger Pielke Sr., who is also a climate scientist. In 2009, I published an interview with the younger Pielke on the same subject. I find both of them to be careful observers and thoughtful writers. Last year, I reviewed one of Roger Jr.'s books for The Weekly Standard.	0_0
This is not the first record-breaking cold snap in recent years. North America hit record lows in 2012 along with record snow falls , and record blizzards and ice storms in 2011 . Before that, 2010 saw record low freezes as well.In fact, according to the UN own data, the planet has been in a global cooling cycle for the last 16 years.	1_3
Zichal, 36, ?? trying to sway those with even greater ties to the GOP ?? recently told an audience of officials from the oil and gas industry, Congress, and states that oil and gas companies are ???incredibly important to our domestic energy portfolio.?? And she said during an API conference on hydraulic fracturing that the administration ???probably could have been doing a lot more outreach from the beginning.??	4_5
Any allegedly scientific document that needs this kind of legal disclaimer is clearly not science. Australian government ministers (and their advisers) claim that their decisions are based on a scientific consensus, yet they only use the advice of IPCC and CSIRO. But both these organisations deny making predictions, and refuse to be responsible for their computer projections. Computers cannot take responsibility, so presumably it is the government, through lack of due diligence, that is responsible for the expensive and ineffective actions it is now implementing to combat the alleged human-induced dangerous global warming or climate change. The argument can be extended to local governments that may be impoverishing citizens by their lack of due diligence and imposing extravagant policies based on a very partial view of the available evidence.	0_0
The Saviour's cry proclaims salvation's dawn.	0_0
How do your reconcile your confidence in the model skill when the hindcast multi-decadal regional climate predictions are so poor, as i reported in my post	5_1
The Post then asked "political and environmental experts whether the record snowstorms buried climate change legislation this year." Here are some excerpts:	0_0

Over the past 25 years, there has been no net change in Northern Hemisphere snow cover. The amount of snow in autumn and winter has increased, while spring and summer snow cover has decreased. Note that there has been a large increase in peak snow cover, but no change in the minimum.

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Myneni's dull website is getting hundreds of hits a day. How could it possibly collect one billion signatures? Drudgereport.com hasn't seen a billion of distinct visitors. No website with any content produced by an individual has ever seen a billion of visitors.

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For this reason, I also agree with Steven Mosher, an independent climate skeptic (with experience in graduate studies in literature and management in 3D graphics companies) who has also co-authored a book about Climategate . In a guest blog post,

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"On the contrary, this is the time for international organizations, including the United Nations, to reduce their expenditures, make their administrations thinner, and leave the solutions to the governments of member states," he said.

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Four years ago, other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it. Weve begun to change that. Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So lets generate even more. Solar energy gets cheaper by the year so lets drive costs down even further. As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.

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Abstract: Consumption of all the worlds fossil fuels at any credible rate will not achieve a doubling of the current CO2 level and will increase world temperature by barely one-half degree Celsius. The achievable level of atmospheric CO2 is proportional to its release rate because its dilution by exchange with the land and ocean takes time. An instantaneous release is the worst case and if the entire worlds CO2 from fossil fuels were so released (impossible, of course) it represents an extreme upper bound to the CO2 level. And even that would achieve an increase of less than 3 degrees Celsius. Most significant, however, is the strong evidence that feedback from increased CO2 is negative.

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By reference to the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, skeptics argue that the Earths actual heat transfer occurs not just by radiation alone, a minor player, but also by conduction (contact) and convection (fluid movement). The atmosphere gives off excess heat mainly by conduction and convection because:

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"Where is the beef?" the ladies would surely ask in this case, too. If you try to find any content inside these texts, you will inevitably fail. There is no content. It's just a stupid game with words and a couple of mathematical symbols.

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He stole her shoe with that grab, and probably to this day keeps it in a bell jar by his bed.

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Update on Fight Against EPA's Regional Haze Power Grab

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As can be seen from the aerial video above, shot right after the tornado moved through just south of Mayflower, Arkansas, on Sunday evening, the devastation was wide spread (video credit: Brian Emfinger). As tragic as this event was, and as selfless and heroic as the efforts of Arkansans to help their fellow citizens has been, there are still a number of lowlifes who cannot help but use this disaster to further their own agenda. I am, of course, referring to the human scum who waited less than a day to proclaim global warming as the cause of this tragedy. Let me set the record straight: Tornadoes have not increased in frequency, intensity or normalized damage

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In my mind, we have to accept that it is great if we can reduce the release of CO2 because we are using up a resource the earth will be short of in the future, but we are in error if we claims a global warming caused by CO2.

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Given the positive trends in air quality, the much larger role played by other air quality regulations, and the failure of NSR to significantly reduce net emissions from existing sources, one might ask: Is NSR for existing sources even necessary any longer? We'll return to this question after discussing current NSR policy and its negative effects on businesses, workers, consumers, and the environment.

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New results from a Baylor University study show that different behaviors and strategies lead some families to cope better and emerge stronger after a weather-related event.

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I thought the essay important to give perspective. Modern Americans are remarkably uninformed about history and the current political environment devotes a lot of heat and noise to race. Politically driven junk intellectual inquiry poisons the society. It helps to know the truth.

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And the climate models seem to get the warming rate of sea surface temperatures just about right for the smallest portion of the global oceans, the extratropical Northern Hemisphere (24N-90N). See Figure 9. The extratropical oceans of the Northern Hemisphere cover only about 21% of the surface of the global oceans (about 15% of the surface of the Earth).

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The next morning, in the Conference Centre, I was accosted by a couple of dozen of the Sturmabteilung and Schutz Staffel wannabes, bleating about how upset they were that my comments about their Hitlerian, Fascist tactics had been broadcast right round the world.

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Laccadives Islands (India): "the locals are quite aware of the fact that sea level is not at all in a rising mode today, rather that new land has been added, leaving previous shore to become overgrown and invaded by terrestrial plant climbers (just as in the Maldives)."

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Score one for both science and humor when Milbank asserts "As a scientific proposition, claiming that heavy snow in the mid-Atlantic debunks global warming theory is about as valid as claiming that the existence of John Edwards debunks the theory of evolution."

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In its Annual Energy Outlook, the federal government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) makes projections of energy production, consumption, and prices. The reference case assumes midpoint projections for energy resources and assumes that regulations follow their legislative timelines. As part of its sensitivity analysis, the EIA also produces two side cases where energy resources are assumed to be (a) 50 percent higher and (b) 50 percent lower than the reference case. Though these side cases are not intended to model policy changes, the High Resource Case offers a glimpse of what might be.

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It's Time to Help People Escape Obamacare

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Inside the Lawsuit That Could Ground Deadly CIA Predator Drones:

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Tim Magazine is convinced that global warming is going to kill us all. In 1974, they were sure that global cooling was going to kill us all.

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There was worse still in the programme, with one scientist effectively saying that democracy might need to be suspended in order for governments to successfully prevent a climate catastrophe.

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His explanation doesnt work. Last winter showed the same weather pattern yet sea ice extent was the highest in years and had the latest peak on record.

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Marlo Lewis, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writing on Fox News, identified the political agenda of the climate report "designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and EPA regulatory mandates." Item by item, he noted the inaccuracies put forth by the report.

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trend error 0.05 0.04 0.11 0.08, C / decade (95% confidence interval)

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Similarly, pollen and charcoal evidence recorded two other large droughts: one that occurred some 5,000 to 5,500 years ago and another that occurred around 3,000 years ago.

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And its not just the Sierra Club. The same day their invitation arrived, Friends of the Earth emailed to say The Pacific Northwest is currently engulfed in a struggle over the dirty future of coal and coal exports in the U.S. If the biggest coal companies in the world have their way, we could have 140 million tons of coal barreling through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon each year. Thats up to 60 trains per day in some of our neighborhoods and more than 1,000ships a yearthrough our sensitive waterways! Can you say fear-mongering? Lies about coal? And a total ignorance of the value to the economy of its use and export?

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Blair, too, insisted that the Hamas problem would solve itself under the right circumstances. "I think to deal with Hamas you must create a strong momentum toward progress on the West Bank," he said in our telephone interview. "You must provide Hamas a choice: either get on board the train or the train leaves without them. Hamas's strength works in inverse relationship to the progress of the peace process. I am absolutely sure of this."

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A study by British public relations consultancy CCGroup analysed 138 articles about renewables published during July last year in the five most widely circulated British national newspapers: The Sun, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, which enjoy a combined daily circulation of about 6.5 million.

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However, the Bonn meeting broke up with a repeat performance of the disarray and recriminations between the rich and poor, developed and developing nations that marked the Copenhagen summit. Many observers believe there's zero chance of brokering a meaningful climate deal at November's global summit in Cancun, Mexico.

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Professor Carter's ovial Aussie persona will be sorely missed, but his insights and legacy will live on.

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A version of this article first appeared in Forbes Online (2/24/14).

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State's efforts in renewable power. The idea that windmills will rescue

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was +0.57 deg C above the 1961-90 average, the warmest year yet recorded

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Mr. Cuomo then described his selection of penalizing tools he can use against any utility companies that are overly sluggish in this job.

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In any given second, this energy,1.22 x 1017Joules, falls on one-side of the planet the day-side hemisphere. So, now that we know the total energy falling on the Earth in one second, and we now also know where the energy falls in one second, we can convert the energy value into the units of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation, which are Joules per second per square meter. Therefore if we take the total energy and divide it by the surface area of a hemisphere of the Earth, you get an (linear) average of 480 Joules per second per square meter, or 480 W/m2. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann equation which equates flux to temperature, this is a temperature of +30 degrees C, which is very nice and warm and will melt ice into water on the day-side, etc. It is a reasonable number.

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Unfortunately, too many politicians continue to use the storm to advance agendas, deflect blame for incompetence and mistakes, and obfuscate and magnify future risks from building and development projects that they have designed, promoted, permitted and profited from.

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Now, to the issue at hand: what is the best response to climate variability, both domestically, and internationally?

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In Senate testimony during the summer of 1988, a NASA scientist testified that his GISS climate model's predicted temperatures will accelerate to much higher levels if the world's governments did nothing about reducing CO2 emissions. In reality, as the temperature data above shows, actual temperatures in 2009 were about the same as in 1988, some twenty years later.

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Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday reiterated her assertion that the majority of illegal immigrants are coming to the United States for reasons other than work, saying most are committing crimes and being used as drug mules by the cartels.

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In contrast, short-sighted policies aimed at achieving U.S. energy independence can jeopardize U.S. economic and energy security. By restricting trade or picking winners and losers, government hinders investment and innovation.

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Also, for those who don?t know, we?ve heard that Dr. Mann?s legal bills are being paid by the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, where we?ve been told there are some deep green pockets contributing, so he isn?t facing bankruptcy, at least not yet.

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Friends of Science are concerned about fair reporting on climate change in the media, in light of reports the British Broadcasting Corporation reportedly spent some 20,000 over six years fighting off a Freedom of Information request about a 2006 climate change conference for executives, as reported in the Daily Telegraph of the UK Jan. 12, 2014 and several British newspapers.

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But why stop there? In British India they used to have natives called punkah wallahs, who would pull on ropes that swung a large ceiling fan. Adopting the punkah would massively increase employment!

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The nearest USHCN station to Lubbock is Crosbyton, a mere 33 miles away. The annual mean temperature record is below.

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Now it does not give a likeliest value and admits it is likely it may be as little as 1.5C so giving the world many more decades to work out how to reduce carbon emissions before temperatures rise to dangerous levels.

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"This is a panicked attempt by global warming activists to cover over a scandal the fact that millions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted to address climate change concerns based on unsound data," says Christopher C. Horner, an attorney and senior fellow at CEI.

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The paper can also be found together with his chapter in ESEF's previous book on Global Warming.

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Then this guy goes all geek-wonky and finds a page on Google put up 3 days prior to the event. A United Way page. One wonders if United Way creates a blank page from time to time and then filled them in if an event happens? An interesting date dis-connect, but the frame can be built prior to populating it. Then goes on into the wrong kid on the lap image.

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Roy Spencer, Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA.

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The IPCC alleges 1 Wm-2 increase in radiative forcing causes a 3C/3.7 Wm-2 or .81C increase in surface temperature, but if evaporative cooling from water vapor offsets this by 66% or 0.54C according to Dr. Caliera's paper, only a 0.27C residual warming would remain. Therefore, climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 levels after evaporative cooling from water vapor would only be ~.33*3C = 1C, i.e. not of concern and likelybeneficial.

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The IPCC and CCSP assessments, as well as the science statements completed by the AGU, AMS and NRC, are completed by a small subset of climate scientists who are often the same individuals. This oligarchy has prevented science of the climate system to be properly communicated to policymakers (e.g., see, see and see).

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Victory of the Denialists! says Robert Manne in The Monthly as his Gods of Science fail

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The other thing you can see is that higher degrees of freedom in regparm create a huge step in the data prior to he AWS stations implementation Figure 9 and especially Figrue 6 (three from the end) demonstrate this.

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the entire world's governments, via the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change , agree that 2C is the safe limit."

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The report alleges that the Environmental Resource Trust, an arm of the EDF, is positioning itself to run a greenhouse reduction pool. An ERT memo acquired by NPAP states, "a proposal had been made both to EEI (Edison Electric Institute) and the White House to provide early reduction credits for those companies that participate in a greenhouse gas reduction pool. The GHG reduction pool would: provide the government with a legal entity responsible for monitoring, tracking and reporting upon member companies emissions performance; enforce members' GHG commitments; operate a GHG reduction trading system."

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Food prices will rise even further if the global warming legislation backed by President Obama passes, since it expands ethanol subsidies that reward big corporations for turning food into fuel. Ethanol subsidies damage the environment by wiping out forests, polluting water supplies, and eroding the soil. By converting food into fuel, they cause famines and food riots in the world's poorest countries. That fuels Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

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(d) The campaign against our directors and donors being conducted by Forecast the Facts, 350.org, and Greenpeace not by anonymous individuals as you strangely suggest in fact is unprecedented because it could not have occurred had not Peter Gleick stolen and revealed our donor list. But we are obviously well on our way to building a new and much larger donor base that is Greenpeace proof.

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At last some evidence that important climate data may have been hidden has emerged from the hacked University of East Anglia email furore. Together with last weeks condemnation by the Information Commissioner of failures to comply with Freedom of Information legislation, it appears to put the position of Prof Phil Jones, the head of its Climatic Research Unit (CRU), at even greater risk. If confirmed and upheld by the official inquiry now being conducted into the affair, Prof Jones who has stepped down while it is carried out will surely decide to go.

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14 April 2010 13:57 Fox replies: "Hi Brian - well he specifically mentioned a leaflet published in 1999 by WMO which used a graph without any of the caveats that used. But to be fair he also cited NGOs and the media as being amongst those who take CRU's work and struggle to include the caveats ... he was specifically asked if governments have mis-used it and he ducked the question"

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In the video in the last post, there was reference to the evidence given by Science Minister, David Willetts some days ago, which apparently again touched on the Climategate affair, and once again at the prompting of questions from Graham Stringer.

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So how can todays disasters, even if less physically powerful than previous ones, have such staggering financial costs? One reason: There are more people and more wealth in harms way. Partly this is due to local land-use policies, partly to incentives such as government-subsidized insurance, but mostly to the simple fact that people like being on the coast and near rivers.

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a two-by-four to understand that little can be accomplished without working with

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The models say that business as usual will lead to A1-type scenarios (turn Earth into Venus and wipe out coffee). The models say that drastic cuts in carbon emissions are required to stay in the B2-type scenario range.

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There are significant flaws with many studies on glaciers, the most significant being a selection bias in those projects that are funded. For the past decade the EU has mainly funded studies that discover receding glaciers, deliberately not studying whether glaciers are receding. Given the number of glaciers in the world, one will always find some, even perhaps a majority, that are receding. But given the inherent selection bias it doesn't prove a great deal when the media talk up studies showing receding glaciers. If one wanted to study Scandinavian glacier expansion, funding by EU Governments would not be so forthcoming. This problem sheds doubt on, and unfairly undermines, well-conducted studies (probably including those done by Drs Collins and Harrison), since one is uncertain what is being omitted in research in Europe.

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Bger and Cubasch report a very high RE statistic for the "nonsense" relationship betwen the number of reporting gridcells and NH temperature.

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The IAC and Hauser precedents should serve as a warning to climate colluders and manipulators. They are also increasing pressure on IPCC Chairman Pachauri to abdicate his throne, and be replaced by a respected climate expert who can bring a degree of integrity to this politicized organization.

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It is crazy how lies about this chemical have made mothers willing to let their children die, rather than spray it on their homes. Malaria has killed millions of people in Uganda and is still the number-one killer disease in Africa. Over 1,000 babies and mothers die every day from this disease. We protect the environment from imaginary problems and die from environmental diseases.

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Later in the section on EPA, Mann??s lawyers went well outside the bounds of acceptablebelligerence, making an accusation that CEI and National Review counsel had made a ???deliberate attempt to hide information?? from the Court (page 24). The ???information?? that the defendants had allegedly attempted to hide was the ???existence of the EPA inquiry?? and that his ???inquiry?? had been requested by CEI. Once again, Mann??s lawyers reproduced the extended EPA Myths versus Facts quotation about ???temperature data and trends?? that they had cited in the Statement of Claim, this time claiming that this quotation demonstrated that EPA had ???categorically rejected the fraud allegations?? against Mann:

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From this point of view, the major achievement from the motion by Senators D'Al, Possa and others is to remind the government and the Italian public in general that there are still people that raise rational arguments before they endorse costly policies. Implicit in the motion and explicit in D'Al and Possa's thinking is a concern for the lack of a democratic debate on the EU energy and climate package. In fact the Italian Parliament, as well as other Parliaments of the EU member states, never had a chance to discuss the consequences of such a wide-ranging, costly, questionable policy. If the Italian Senate's vote may help to raise the awareness of the dangers not just for the European economy, but also for the democratic process in the European Union, it will strike a much more ambitious goal than cutting emissions by a few percentage points.

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4. Actual-to-Future-Actual Methodology. The actual-to-future-potential emissions test would be replaced with the previously used (and still used for utilities) actual-to-future-actual test, which is a more realistic calculation of future emissions. Only emission increases caused by a given modification would be considered. The baseline for calculating current actual emissions would be the highest consecutive 24-month period within the immediately preceding 10 years.

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Weather Forecast Barrow, AK | Barrow Weather | Wunderground

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Centuries ago, it was noticed that when there are few sunspots, magnetic storms, the Earth got colder. Thus, climate change is not an unusual event, but rather a reflection of the well-known cycles of warmth or cold that theplanet has passed through for billions of years.

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Speaking at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013 President Barack Obama outlined his second term vision for combating climate change and promoting clean energy production and trade. In that speech, he mentioned Canada once, in acknowledgement of the Keystone pipeline controversy.

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Obviously, things will calm down a bit once the excitement over the police raid drops away, but for now we can enjoy the moment of fame notoriety infamy. Infamy! infamy! theyve all got it infamy! :)

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Pocklington noted that Broecker assumes first a 50% increase in precipitation and also that Central Asia and North America (where river flow into the North Atlantic originates) will get wetter. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), however, projects only a 5%-10% precipitation increase and predicts that the above regions will get drier. Pocklington cautioned that "we really don't know enough about deep ocean circulation to express these ideas as certainties."

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On January 1, emissions from airplanes come under control in the European Trading System, the EU's over-arching greenhouse gas control scheme. Since not much can be done to reduce airplane greenhouse gas emissions, that basically means airlines will be taxed on whatever they emit. And it wouldn't only be European airlines that were taxed, it would, in theory, be any airline that flies to or from the EU. That's not sitting too well with non-EU countries, including the United States.

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It's troubling that a FOIA lawsuit came up empty "no such correspondence in our files" when the old 1995 document was requested from the U.S. State Department late last year. This raises a certain ironic question: If I have a copy of your document, how come you don't?"

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Munich-Chelsea 2-2 (penalties decide) (May 19)

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free by 2013

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Whether it is long or short-term, Hansen/NASA models are no better than a Ouija board as a tool to predict global temperatures. This massive failure by Hansen et al can also be seen in his model's prediction of ocean heat content and sea level rise.

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Canadian Oil Sands: More Oil Than Saudi Arabia?

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Yet as the Clean Energy Dialogue completes its second action plan agenda in 2014, it is time for the third action plan to include natural gas as a spur to policy cooperation between Washington and Ottawa on several pressing issues.

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Chris Turney, the leader of the expedition, is a professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales, says CFact. He rounded up a few dozen pals, chartered a Russian ship, and set off on a taxpayer funded junket to Antarctica.

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As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that loblolly pine, which is an economically important timber species, will respond by increasing its photosynthesis and growth. The consequences of these phenomena are far-reaching, as indicated by the authors statement that "projected increases in the atmospheric content of CO 2 may result in increased wood production without a loss in structural strength in loblolly pine." Furthermore, it is conceivable that loblolly pine can even increase its structural integrity by increasing its wood density, if the observed trends for this parameter persist through its juvenile growth phase.

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Leading Expert Lacks A Basic Understanding Of His Profession

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The pumps enable 6,000 litres of water per minute to be pumped on to the flames and to reduce the potential for more wood chips to set alight.

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message that the Government can give on climate change to help them tell their

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As the air's CO 2 content continues to rise, it will likely allow these wheat cultivars and others to experience less stress and growth reductions as a consequence of SO 2 pollution. Indeed, the current study demonstrates that CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis will only be partially offset by elevated SO 2 concentrations, which should allow greater wheat yields to be produced in the future. In addition, since SO 2 -induced reductions in plant water-use efficiency were essentially eliminated by concurrent exposure to elevated CO 2 , these cultivars should be able to grow better in areas with limited water availability or in areas close to industrial complexes emitting large quantities of SO 2 . Also, wheat plants growing in SO 2 -polluted air should not suffer as large reductions in foliar protein content in a future high-CO 2 world as they do currently.

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Plant Growth Database (6 April 2015)

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Update - Harry Potter and the The Christopher Little Literary Agency : the plot thickens... Update 2 - " I was just interviewed by a camera crew, and will apparently be on the CBS Evening News tonight. Given the history of this very blog, I hereby pause for a moment to soak in the irony. Today's events tell me two things: One, CBS doesn't have Google. Two, this must be the slowest news day in the history of the planet, and possibly the universe."

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I have followed Pielke's work for years. In 2007, while editing Energy Tribune, I published an interview with his father, Roger Pielke Sr., who is also a climate scientist. In 2009, I published an interview with the younger Pielke on the same subject. I find both of them to be careful observers and thoughtful writers. Last year, I reviewed one of Roger Jr.'s books for The Weekly Standard.

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This is not the first record-breaking cold snap in recent years. North America hit record lows in 2012 along with record snow falls , and record blizzards and ice storms in 2011 . Before that, 2010 saw record low freezes as well.In fact, according to the UN own data, the planet has been in a global cooling cycle for the last 16 years.

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Zichal, 36, ?? trying to sway those with even greater ties to the GOP ?? recently told an audience of officials from the oil and gas industry, Congress, and states that oil and gas companies are ???incredibly important to our domestic energy portfolio.?? And she said during an API conference on hydraulic fracturing that the administration ???probably could have been doing a lot more outreach from the beginning.??

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Any allegedly scientific document that needs this kind of legal disclaimer is clearly not science. Australian government ministers (and their advisers) claim that their decisions are based on a scientific consensus, yet they only use the advice of IPCC and CSIRO. But both these organisations deny making predictions, and refuse to be responsible for their computer projections. Computers cannot take responsibility, so presumably it is the government, through lack of due diligence, that is responsible for the expensive and ineffective actions it is now implementing to combat the alleged human-induced dangerous global warming or climate change. The argument can be extended to local governments that may be impoverishing citizens by their lack of due diligence and imposing extravagant policies based on a very partial view of the available evidence.

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The Saviour's cry proclaims salvation's dawn.

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How do your reconcile your confidence in the model skill when the hindcast multi-decadal regional climate predictions are so poor, as i reported in my post

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The Post then asked "political and environmental experts whether the record snowstorms buried climate change legislation this year." Here are some excerpts:

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