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Written by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow
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Monday, 25 July 2011 23:22 |
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The southern plains drought, followed the second strongest La Niña (behind only 1917/18) according to the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), an atmospheric pressure based measure (standardized Darwin, Australia versus Tahiti surface pressure). Positive values are La Niña, negative El Niños. The April to April SOI showed the 1917/18 peak and 2010/11 close behind.
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Read more... [How It Got So Hot ... Hot It Got So Humid ... How Cooling May Have Played A Role]
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Written by Paul C. Knappenberger
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Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:52 |
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Does a piece of art mean something because the artist intended it to go so, or, rather can the meaning be perceived differently by each viewer?
The artist may want us to think about something when viewing a piece of art, but are we bound to do so? And what if the artist is wrong? Does the art then become nothing but a collection of material with no soul? Does the art cease to be, or can each of us resurrect it again, to fit our own sense and sensibilities?
I ponder these questions as I read about a new art installation being erected at the University of Wyoming. The installation includes an outdoor sculpture by British artist Chris Drury entitled “Carbon Sink.” The piece is to consist of a large horizontal swirl of pine logs from trees that were killed from pine beetle attacks that Drury links to global warming. Amongst the log swirls are to be set chunks of coal, and all will spiral into a black pit of charred logs in the center. You can follow progress at Chris Drury’s blog site.
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Read more... [Global Warming Art?]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:47 |
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The Utah State Legislature produced HJR 12, calling for the EPA to substantiate its claims about carbon dioxide. It's the most obvious of statements, so mundane it shouldn’t even be necessary. How, you wonder, could any scientist complain about that? (What is science if its claims are not substantiated?) Nonetheless, the Utah Legislature have been criticized (and twice) by a small cadre of PhDs at Brigham Young University (BYU). Disturbingly these scientists don't appear to have examined the empirical evidence themselves, and merely repeat the conclusions of others. Worse, their criticisms are filled with logical errors, baseless assertions and mistaken assumptions.
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Read more... [You Don't Need A PhD To Spot Outrageously Bad Science]
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Written by Paul C. Knappenberger
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Sunday, 26 June 2011 10:36 |
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The NAS panel's scientific justification for increasing the price of carbon dioxide does not include new research, but instead draws from the standard set of human-caused-climate-change-is-happening-and-will-be-bad talking points. The climate change science that the NAS found significant for basing their recommendations for increasing the price of carbon dioxide emissions is summarized in Chapter 2 ("Causes and Consequences of Climate Change") of the NAS report.
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Read more... [In-Line Commentary on the Chapter "Causer and Consequences of Climate Change]
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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Friday, 27 May 2011 11:20 |
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In view of the rejection by the EPA of challenges to their endangerment finding, why would we be surprised to find that they have a long-term stake in the IPCC’s climate models and in the continuance of the IPCC itself.
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Read more... [The United Nations-States Environmental Protection Agency]
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Written by Paul C. Knappenberger
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Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:00 |
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A few months ago Judicial Watch, which describes itself as a “a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, [which] promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law” summarized the results of its Freedom of Information request for records concerning Nancy Pelosi’s use of Air Force aircraft for her transportation while Speaker of the House.
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Read more... [Nancy Pelosi's Giant Carbon Footprint]
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Written by Staff
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Monday, 09 May 2011 10:24 |
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SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS
In this report, we examine the historical observations of weather and climate in Montana. We find that climate variability from year-to-year and decade-to-decade plays a significant role in Montana’s climate.
While temperatures have generally appeared to have risen across the state over the past century (although part of this rise may be a result of non-climatic influences on the thermometers), precipitation changes have been largely limited to the early portion of the 20th century, and other climate impacts, such as drought, wildfires, and glacier changes are largely influenced by natural variations and cycles driven in part by decadal variations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Further, “tropical” disease such as malaria or the West Nile Virus are not so much influenced by the climate as they are by the (already extant) and widespread presence of the host species.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of Montana]
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Written by Paul C. Knappenberger
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Thursday, 21 April 2011 09:43 |
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On March 8, 2011, Dr. Richard Somerville supplied written testimony to the U.S House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power. Dr. Somerville’s testimony was an eloquently packaged collection of general alarmist talking points that closely follows his 2009 Copenhagen Diagnosis. It consists of a selective presentation of post-AR4 findings on climate change—carefully groomed to forward his point of view that disaster is imminently upon us if large and drastic cuts in greenhouse gases emissions are not immediately undertaken.
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Read more... [Comments on the Testimony of Dr. Richard Somerville]
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:00 |
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In December of 2008, the environmental organization Environment Ohio released its report “What’s at Stake: How Global Warming Threatens the Buckeye State” in an effort to apply pressure on the government of Ohio to enact legislation to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases from the state. SPPI’s report rectifies a multitude of omissions by performing the types of analyses that Environment Ohio should have performed itself if its goal was to provide a complete picture of climate change and the effects of actions to mollify it.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Effect on Greehouse Gases in the State of Ohio]
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