I would think if were a Head Liberarian, that simply avoiding Edwin Mellen Press products, would avoid imperiling my institution. My libarians wouldn't be able to critique Edwin Mellen Press, if they didn't have any.
The paper that shown the results your are refering to was published when the project was only 80% complete; because the project was volunteer driven, the statistical accuracy of that paper is highly questionable, volunteers have a strong tendency to survey the easiest sites first rather than a true random sampling. Fall, S., A. Watts, J. Nielsen-Gammon, E. Jones, D. Niyogi, J. Christy, and R.A. Pielke Sr. on the other hand found
We found that the poor siting of a significant number of climate reference sites (USHCN) used by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) to monitor surface air temperatures has led to inaccuracies and larger uncertainties in the analysis of multi-decadal surface temperature anomalies and trends than assumed by NCDC.
I've also noticed your lack of comment about the spatial and temporal sparcity of the data.
That may work in cases where the facts under debate are hard to discern by direct measurement.
And that is the case in climate studies, thermometers are frequently placed in locations that introduce errors, so the data has to be adjusted; the locations are not spatially uniform so the data has gridded; and on top of all that, the thermometers recorded Tmin and Tmax so historically the data point, Tave was the midpoint between Tmin and Tmax. The reality is any real direct measurements is very remote to climatology.
Freedom of speech implies that the speech is true. If big donors are bribing scientists to falsify information then that's fraud.
The US government has provided over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, foreign aid, and tax breaks.
Despite the billions: “audits” of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity of the theory and compete with a well funded highly organized climate monopoly. They have exposed major errors.
Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks are calling for more carbon-trading. And experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 – $10 trillion making carbon the largest single commodity traded.
Meanwhile in a distracting sideshow, Exxon-Mobil Corp is repeatedly attacked for paying a grand total of $23 million to skeptics—less than a thousandth of what the US government has put in, and less than one five-thousandth of the value of carbon trading in just the single year of 2008.
The large expenditure in search of a connection between carbon and climate creates enormous momentum and a powerful set of vested interests. By pouring so much money into one theory, have we inadvertently created a self-fulfilling prophesy instead of an unbiased investigation?
I can guarantee that when EVs are more than a novelty, we will not only have to pay for the electricity to charge them, but will have to pay the road fuel taxes that the EVs are presently avoiding.
If the car is modern enough to have a start/stop botton, it's modern enough to have a rev-limiter, just shift the tranny into neutral and you wouldn't even blow the engine.
Yeah a while back I downloaded AFPAM 47-107v1, a pdf and it was ugly as sin. I moved it over from my windows laptop to my Linux desktop and opened it in Okular, still ugly as sin, but okular's title banner said "Microsoft Word - Front Cover.doc"! The military had written a 594 page book in Word then converted it to a PDF. The difficulties encountered are mind-boggling.
I've never had trouble with mail-merge in either OO or LO, but the result are blah to me, Word borders on ugly; if your going to do that and want good looking results it's hard to beat writing a Perl script to query the database and generating real LaTeX documents and compiling those!
E10 has no effect on automotive engines except an imperceptable power reduction, and cleaner exhaust emissions. Small engines are more finicky on E10, especially the low compression flat-head designs. It helps to keep fresh fuel in the tank because it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere and wet alcohol can turn into acid, vinegar actually.
I get tired of the "a nuke is powerful enough to do anything!" thinking. I blame Bruce Willis.
My Organic instructor was a real math geek, one day she demonstrated that a quarter inch of rain falling on Manhattan resulted in the same release of energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, she was good at estimating cube roots of 4 digit numbers in her head too.
I am an environmentalist and founder member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood and misapplied. We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs. We need take care that the spinning windmills do not become like the statues on Easter Island, monuments of a failed civilisation. Statement for the Torridge District Co, James Lovelock
The sad part is what the billions that have been squandered at the Alter of Apocalyptic Global Warming could have done if spent wisely on real ecological problems.
Maybe a few mountain climbers wouldn't mind... would maybe make Everest a bit more comfortable to summit - then again, such drastic change would likely F*** up the world's weather patterns so much that it's hard to tell what the result would be.
Probably not much, elevation effects trumps sealevels temperatures at that elevation
Correction: an oil-producing country that's cold like hell, and can gain a lot from both its land getting more habitable and from it's main competitors' land getting less habitable.
If Earth got 40 degrees warmer, people at the south pole wouldn't complain.
I don't think that,
January 27, 2013 weather report for LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD
Weather report as of 72 minutes ago (15:50 UTC): The wind was blowing at a speed of 6.7 meters per second (15.0 miles per hour) from Southeast in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The temperature was -15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit). Air pressure was 1,005 hPa (29.68 inHg). Relative humidity was 71.3%. There were a few clouds at a height of 213 meters (700 feet), scattered clouds at a height of 488 meters (1600 feet) and broken clouds at a height of 1524 meters (5000 feet). The visibility was >11.3 kilometers (>7 miles). Current weather is Light Shower(s) Snow.
a couple degrees one way
HAMMERFEST, NORWAY
Weather report as of 15 minutes ago (16:50 UTC): The wind was blowing at a speed of 1.0 meters per second (2.3 miles per hour) from variable directions in Hammerfest, Norway. The temperature was -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit). Air pressure was 994 hPa (29.35 inHg). Relative humidity was 85.2%. There were a few clouds at a height of 335 meters (1100 feet). The visibility was >11.3 kilometers (>7 miles).
or the other is
January 27, 2013 weather report for TROMSØ, NORWAY
Weather report as of 17 minutes ago (16:50 UTC): The wind was blowing at a speed of 6.2 meters per second (13.8 miles per hour) from Southwest in Tromsø, Norway. The temperature was -7 degrees Celsius (19 degrees Fahrenheit). Air pressure was 996 hPa (29.41 inHg). Relative humidity was 85.6%. There were a few clouds at a height of 244 meters (800 feet) and scattered clouds at a height of 914 meters (3000 feet). The visibility was >11.3 kilometers (>7 miles).
going to impress the Norwegians
January 27, 2013 weather report for NARVIK, NORWAY
Weather report as of 21 minutes ago (16:50 UTC): The wind was blowing at a speed of 2.1 meters per second (4.6 miles per hour) from East/Southeast in Narvik, Norway. The temperature was -8 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit). Air pressure was 995 hPa (29.38 inHg). Relative humidity was 85.4%. There are no clouds below 1,524 meters (5,000 feet). The visibility was >10 kilometers (>6.2 miles).
The point is the estimates previously made by the Alarmists have included the recent natural cyclical temperature increases of the nineties, which were exagerated by poorly documented adjustments and thermometer siting issues, while minimising historical temperatures. This has lead the Alarmist's to much gnashing of teeth looking for missing Heat, which hasn't been found simply because they are looking for twice as much as actually exists because they grossly over-estimated climate sensitivity. Because of this more realistic climate sensitivity level, future warming wouldn't even make it into the minor inconvenience level, even with a big push from natural variability. Looking at the current trends, not only has there been no statistically demonstratable temperature increase for the past 16 years, there is a decline over the last 5 years. The Cult of Apocolyptic Global Warming just isn't ready for primetime and no amounts of croney-reviewed journal articles or Glieck-esque wire-fraud and forgeries are going to change reality.
You can't increase profits by making charitable contributions to achieve deductions and thereby reducing the tax burden, at least as long as your tax rate isn't greater than 100%. Even if you were getting a tax credit, the best you could do is break even. Every time I hear a story about "How Much Money I Lost in Amway" it always a variation of some fool thinking "increase profit, by lowering tax "burden"."
Our dear Nerd Governor, Rick Snider was all set to sign into law an amendment to our weapons free school zone law that would allow persons to take extended training to be allowed to carry a Concealed Carry Weapon in our schools, churches and other places, additionally it would prohibit Open Carried Weapons, when Sandy Hook happened. So now in Michigan it is still quite legal to sling an assault rifle over your shoulder and walk into any school or church in Michigan, because of the current anti-gun hysteria!
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True, but while there is no guarantee you will not sponatiously combust, that doesn't mean you should bathe in gasoline.
I would think if were a Head Liberarian, that simply avoiding Edwin Mellen Press products, would avoid imperiling my institution. My libarians wouldn't be able to critique Edwin Mellen Press, if they didn't have any.
The paper that shown the results your are refering to was published when the project was only 80% complete; because the project was volunteer driven, the statistical accuracy of that paper is highly questionable, volunteers have a strong tendency to survey the easiest sites first rather than a true random sampling. Fall, S., A. Watts, J. Nielsen-Gammon, E. Jones, D. Niyogi, J. Christy, and R.A. Pielke Sr. on the other hand found
I've also noticed your lack of comment about the spatial and temporal sparcity of the data.
That may work in cases where the facts under debate are hard to discern by direct measurement.
And that is the case in climate studies, thermometers are frequently placed in locations that introduce errors, so the data has to be adjusted; the locations are not spatially uniform so the data has gridded; and on top of all that, the thermometers recorded Tmin and Tmax so historically the data point, Tave was the midpoint between Tmin and Tmax. The reality is any real direct measurements is very remote to climatology.
Freedom of speech implies that the speech is true. If big donors are bribing scientists to falsify information then that's fraud.
While I agree, I have to be careful, Dr. Mann has a tendency to sue people for saying fraud.
I'd use TARPIT instead.
I can guarantee that when EVs are more than a novelty, we will not only have to pay for the electricity to charge them, but will have to pay the road fuel taxes that the EVs are presently avoiding.
I've never seen a car that locks the steering wheel without the transmission being in park.
If the car is modern enough to have a start/stop botton, it's modern enough to have a rev-limiter, just shift the tranny into neutral and you wouldn't even blow the engine.
Yeah a while back I downloaded AFPAM 47-107v1, a pdf and it was ugly as sin. I moved it over from my windows laptop to my Linux desktop and opened it in Okular, still ugly as sin, but okular's title banner said "Microsoft Word - Front Cover.doc"! The military had written a 594 page book in Word then converted it to a PDF. The difficulties encountered are mind-boggling.
I've never had trouble with mail-merge in either OO or LO, but the result are blah to me, Word borders on ugly; if your going to do that and want good looking results it's hard to beat writing a Perl script to query the database and generating real LaTeX documents and compiling those!
Those 50 year old cars really weren't designed to run on unleaded fuels anyways.
Michiigan collects road taxes on AV-gas so it doesn't matter here, except for it being illegal to put leaded fuel in a nolead street vehicle.
E10 has no effect on automotive engines except an imperceptable power reduction, and cleaner exhaust emissions. Small engines are more finicky on E10, especially the low compression flat-head designs. It helps to keep fresh fuel in the tank because it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere and wet alcohol can turn into acid, vinegar actually.
They wouldn't if Shaywer had independently produced something that Boeing had already developed as part of a black project.
I get tired of the "a nuke is powerful enough to do anything!" thinking. I blame Bruce Willis.
My Organic instructor was a real math geek, one day she demonstrated that a quarter inch of rain falling on Manhattan resulted in the same release of energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, she was good at estimating cube roots of 4 digit numbers in her head too.
Well actually any element heavier the Iron is from supernova remnants, so even that is solar, just not our Sol.
The sad part is what the billions that have been squandered at the Alter of Apocalyptic Global Warming could have done if spent wisely on real ecological problems.
You say that like an Insurance Company doesn't have a financial incentive to raise rates to compensate for imaginary risks.
Maybe a few mountain climbers wouldn't mind... would maybe make Everest a bit more comfortable to summit - then again, such drastic change would likely F*** up the world's weather patterns so much that it's hard to tell what the result would be.
Probably not much, elevation effects trumps sealevels temperatures at that elevation
Correction: an oil-producing country that's cold like hell, and can gain a lot from both its land getting more habitable and from it's main competitors' land getting less habitable.
If Earth got 40 degrees warmer, people at the south pole wouldn't complain.
I don't think that,
a couple degrees one way
or the other is
going to impress the Norwegians
very much.
The point is the estimates previously made by the Alarmists have included the recent natural cyclical temperature increases of the nineties, which were exagerated by poorly documented adjustments and thermometer siting issues, while minimising historical temperatures. This has lead the Alarmist's to much gnashing of teeth looking for missing Heat, which hasn't been found simply because they are looking for twice as much as actually exists because they grossly over-estimated climate sensitivity.
Because of this more realistic climate sensitivity level, future warming wouldn't even make it into the minor inconvenience level, even with a big push from natural variability. Looking at the current trends, not only has there been no statistically demonstratable temperature increase for the past 16 years, there is a decline over the last 5 years. The Cult of Apocolyptic Global Warming just isn't ready for primetime and no amounts of croney-reviewed journal articles or Glieck-esque wire-fraud and forgeries are going to change reality.
This could be the first post from you that I completely agree with.
You can't increase profits by making charitable contributions to achieve deductions and thereby reducing the tax burden, at least as long as your tax rate isn't greater than 100%. Even if you were getting a tax credit, the best you could do is break even. Every time I hear a story about "How Much Money I Lost in Amway" it always a variation of some fool thinking "increase profit, by lowering tax "burden"."
Our dear Nerd Governor, Rick Snider was all set to sign into law an amendment to our weapons free school zone law that would allow persons to take extended training to be allowed to carry a Concealed Carry Weapon in our schools, churches and other places, additionally it would prohibit Open Carried Weapons, when Sandy Hook happened. So now in Michigan it is still quite legal to sling an assault rifle over your shoulder and walk into any school or church in Michigan, because of the current anti-gun hysteria!