Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sdgla who wrote (888192)	9/16/2015 11:02:30 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577095

GOP moderates to push to fight climate change Getty Images By Timothy Cama - 09/15/15 12:30 PM EDT A group of moderate Republicans is working on a resolution calling for action to fight climate change. The effort, led by Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) seeks to get at least some in the GOP on the record as agreeing with Democrats and the vast majority of scientists that the climate is changing and that human activity is to blame. But it would stop short of endorsing any particular policy to reduce greenhouse gases, instead calling for research into what could be done about it, according to a GOP aide familiar with the declaration. The lawmakers are planning to introduce their non-binding legislation Thursday, exactly a week before Pope Francis speaks to Congress. Francis is expected to make climate change a major part of his speech, following on the heels of his encyclical earlier this year calling on the world to fight climate change. “As an Eagle Scout and Scoutmaster for many years, I know firsthand why we must all work to strengthen conservation programs and other policies that promote public health, protect our environment and keep our air clean,” Rep. Robert Dold (R-Ill.) said in a statement. “Climate change is occurring and human contributions to this change are important to acknowledge and understand,” he said. “Protecting the environment is not a partisan issue, which is why we must work together to find a sensible path forward that improves our planet for future generations.” ClimateWire first reported on the resolution Friday. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), Dave Reichert (R-Wash.), Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.), Ryan Costello (R-Pa.), Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) told National Journal that they are also co-sponsoring the measure. Republicans have stood united against President Obama’s climate policies, including carbon emissions limits for power plants, saying such rules would hurt the economy and jobs. Some measures in Congress, such as legislation sponsored by then-Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) in 2009 to implement a cap-and-trade system for carbon, have gotten a handful of Republicans on board. But overall, the GOP has not been eager to fight climate change or go on record linking human activity to it. Gibson, who represents a very moderate district, told National Journal that the resolution “is a call for action to study how humans are impacting our environment and to look for consensus on areas where we can take action to mitigate the risks and balance our impacts.” thehill.com

To: Sdgla who wrote (888192)

9/16/2015 11:04:15 AM

From: Wharf Rat

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577095

" the UK MET Office has published a report which suggests the pause in global temperatures might continue for many years to come."

There is no pause.

Putting the pause to a blind expert test

By Stephan Lewandowsky
Professor, School of Experimental Psychology and Cabot Institute, University of Bristol
Posted on 16 September 2015

A new paper that just appeared online in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society examines the idea of a "pause" in global warming in novel ways, including a blind expert test. The paper is authored by Stephan Lewandowsky, James Risbey, and Naomi Oreskes. It is open access and can be found here.

The abstract of the paper is as follows:

There has been much recent published research about a putative "pause" or "hiatus" in global warming. We show that there are frequent fluctuations in the rate of warming around a longer-term warming trend, and that there is no evidence that identifies the recent period as unique or particularly unusual. In confirmation, we show that the notion of a "pause" in warming is considered to be misleading in a blind expert test. Nonetheless, the most recent fluctuation about the longer-term trend has been regarded by many as an explanatory challenge that climate science must resolve. This departs from long-standing practice, insofar as scientists have long recognized that the climate fluctuates, that linear increases in CO2 do not produce linear trends in global warming, and that 15-year (or shorter) periods are not diagnostic of long-term trends. We suggest that the repetition of the "warming has paused" message by contrarians was adopted by the scientific community in its problem-solving and answer-seeking role and has led to undue focus on, and mislabeling of, a recent fluctuation. We present an alternative framing that could have avoided inadvertently reinforcing a misleading claim.

shapingtomorrowsworld.org