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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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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Monday, 21 February 2011 14:53 |
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Summary: A new paper from a group of IPCC authors in conjunction with the re-insurance industry, now claim they have found the Holy Grail; they can definitely say that the year 2000 floods in the British Isles were made worse by global human CO2 emissions and they imply that they can make this attribution for any event in the future.
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Read more... [Playing Climate Games - The Latest Attempt to Blame Carbon Dioxide for Extreme Weather]
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Written by Dr. Christopher Essex
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Friday, 18 February 2011 10:51 |
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Summary: For good or ill, climate has grown to become a central issue over these decades. Claiming that people are poor and helpless beginners who need experts to think for them is years past its best before date. But this claim is just great if you believe that only an elite is capable of making intelligent decisions and the rest should just shut up and do as they are told. Wasn’t that how the aristocracy worked in the 18th century, when the privileged few did the thinking? People thinking with their own heads have always been a problem for those who crave power. Today they can shut those troublemakers down by invoking expertise instead of inherited nobility. Either way you can forget about democracy.
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Read more... [Climate and Thinking with Your Own Head - An Open Letter to the Citizens of Utah]
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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:57 |
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We have seen the end of yet another UN “Climate Fest”, with COP 16 in Cancun. The actual conference, however, is just the “tip of the iceberg” of the massive wheeling and dealing that goes on all year round.
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Read more... [High Level Climate Finance]
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Written by Russell Cook
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:05 |
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The collection of Original Papers at SPPI are authored by people with impressive credentials in science, or at least they have a demonstrated grasp of the various technical aspects of global warming theory through their history of writing on the subject. I must stress on no uncertain terms that I do not share those accomplishments, a fact that will no doubt delight believers of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and prompt them to read no further into this paper, but instead accuse SPPI of issuing papers written by people unqualified to speak about the subject. That would be unfortunate, as the evidence I present here and the questions I ask are things any unqualified, disinterested bystander might find and ask about. Indeed, believers of AGW could have posed the following to each other in order to see if their criticisms about skeptic scientists survive under hard scrutiny.
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Read more... [Are Skeptic Scientists Corrupt?]
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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 12:05 |
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Whilst the continual scientific rebuttals of the climate reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may make many people think that this charade cannot continue much longer, behind the scenes it is quite irrelevant; the long-term process marches relentlessly on as if there had never been any challenges at all. As the advocates throw in yet more spurious claims of the “hottest year on record”, or record cold caused by CO2 emissions, they occupy the debate, and determine the daily agenda in the media, whilst those who know that the claims are spurious, are driven to waste time, effort and resources on refuting them.
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Read more... [The United (Socialist) Nations - Progress on Global Governance via Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Bio-Diversity]
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Written by Robert Ferguson
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:00 |
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In this report, we review the long-term climate history of Utah and find little in the way of evidence that the greenhouse gas build-up in the atmosphere has much altered Utah’s climate. While statewide average temperatures have generally appeared to have risen in Utah over the past 100 years, they have fallen during the past 15 years. Further, there is evidence that the state’s temperature record contains non-climatic influences—such as land use changes, instrument changes, and improper instrument siting—which together add a warming bias to the state’s long-term temperature history, making it seem like the temperature has been increasing more than it actually has been.
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Read more... [Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of Greenhouse-gas Emission Limits in the State of Utah]
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