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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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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:03 |
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Whilst everyone has been occupied with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s defense before Congress of the EPA’s attempts to regulate CO2 emissions, the Administration has continued to move towards International Ocean Governance with the establishment of a Governance Coordinating Committee for the National Ocean Council, (NOC). The NOC has been long in the making and earlier history of Ocean legislation can be found here, going back to the 1969 Stratton Commission and beyond. However the current impetus dates to the Pew Oceans Commission in 2003 and the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy - An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century in 2004, mandated by the Oceans Act 2000.
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Read more... [UN Agenda 21 Will Rule The US Waves]
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Written by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow
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Thursday, 14 April 2011 09:16 |
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The US congress sub-committee on Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on whether to restrict in some way the EPA’s regulatory authority relative to greenhouse gas emissions.
There were 7 scientists invited to testify. Three of the four who argued not to restrict the EPA played a key role in the last IPCC report (and will also in the next one) and generally started with the position that IPCC science was sound and there was a consensus of all real scientists.
In the attached analysis we take a look at the IPCC based science.
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Read more... [Ten Major Failures of Consensus Science]
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Written by Mark Gibbas
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Monday, 04 April 2011 11:07 |
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Climate change in Utah is often quantified by measures such as the statewide temperature history as aggregated from the historical records of local observing sites scattered around the state. However, we show that there are many influences on these local thermometers that make them inappropriate for use “as is” in contributing to the establishment of reliable temperature records to be used in gauging the character and magnitude of fluctuations and/or trends in state, regional or global climate.
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Read more... [An Investigation of Temperature Trends from weather station observations representing various locations across Utah]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 01 March 2011 12:27 |
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Globally, in 2009, humankind emitted 30,303 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (mmtCO2: EIA, 2011a), of which emissions from Australia accounted for 418 mmtCO2, or a 1.38% (EIA, 2011a). The proportion of manmade CO2 emissions from Australia will decrease over the 21st century as the rapid demand for power in developing countries such as China and India rapidly outpaces the growth of Australia’s CO2 emissions (EIA, 2010).
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Read more... [Impacts of Climate Mitigation Measures in Australia]
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Written by Robert P. Smith, Ph.D., P.E.
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Monday, 28 February 2011 15:49 |
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America urgently needs a rational energy policy. Such a policy should be based upon economics and reliability, yet options favored by our current government provide no real solutions to meeting future energy needs in a responsible and cost effective way.
Science & Public Policy’s readers are aware of the abundant empirical evidence that the earth’s climate is predominantly driven by natural forces, and that manmade carbon dioxide emissions do not significantly affect climate in a negative way. Recommendations herein are based upon that premise. Carbon dioxide is regarded by the author as a natural and beneficial constituent of our atmosphere, and that no harm would result from burning all of earth’s economically recoverable fossil fuels.
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Read more... [Toward Rational Energy Planning]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:21 |
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The observations we have detailed herein illustrate that climate variability from year-to-year and decade-to-decade plays a greater role in Virginia’s climate than any long-term trends. Such short-term variability will continue dominating Virginia’s climate into the future.
At the century timescale, Virginia’s climate shows no statically significant trend in statewide average annual temperature, statewide total annual precipitation, or in the frequency and/or severity of droughts. The same is true for tropical cyclones impacting Virginia and the United States — there is a great degree of annual and decadal variability that can be traced long into the past, but no 20th century trends in frequency, intensity, or damage (when adjusted for demographic changes).
Global sea levels are rising at a pace that is not dissimilar to that experienced and adapted to during the 20th century.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of Virginia]
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