Month: March 2017

Uncategorized 1 Mar 2017

Climate scientists rebut oft-repeated 2016 ‘warmest year on record’ claim

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Recent stories from a variety of sources, including NASA, the Financial Times, and the New York Times report that Earth’s temperature reached a record high in 2016. The high frequency of these claims cast the matter as fact, and paint a grave picture of the problem. Yet, professors who are experts in climate science say […]

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March 1, 2017 at 12:17AM

Uncategorized 1 Mar 2017

German Electricity Price Projected To Quadruple By 2020, To Over 40 Cents Per Kilowatt-Hour!

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Once ballyhooed as a cheap source of energy (“The sun doesn’t send an electric bill”), Germany’s attempted transition to wind and solar energy is rapidly heading towards a full-blown central planning folly of historic dimensions. The German electricity consumer advocacy group NAEB projects that Germany’s electric power rates will continue to soar, possibly reaching an industry back-breaking […]

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February 28, 2017 at 11:47PM

Uncategorized 1 Mar 2017

Oklahoma Supreme Court agrees with state AG, delays release of Pruitt emails

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a win for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, halting the scheduled release of thousands of additional emails from Mr. Pruitt’s time as the state’s attorney general. Earlier this month the attorney general’s office complied with a lower court’s order and made public more than 7,500 pages of emails. Many […]

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February 28, 2017 at 11:17PM

Uncategorized 1 Mar 2017

The Science Behind The GWPF Video ‘Polar Bear Scare Unmasked’

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Announcing the publication today of Version 2 of my paper that tests the hypothesis that polar bear population declines result from rapid declines in summer sea ice, updated with recently available data. Version 2 provides the scientific support for the information presented in the GWPF video published yesterday, “Polar Bear Scare Unmasked: The Sage of a Toppled Global Warming Icon”.

Crockford, S.J. 2017 V2. Testing the hypothesis that routine sea ice coverage of 3-5 mkm2 results in a greater than 30% decline in population size of polar bears (Ursus maritimus). PeerJ Preprints 28 February 2017. Doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2737v2 Open access. http://ift.tt/2jB2S8i [make sure you select Version 2, noted on title page]

Version 2, published 28 February, incorporates additional reviewer comments and suggestions received on Version 1, as well as the updates noted above.

This paper addresses the basic premise upon which predicted population declines linked to modeled habitat loss made by polar bear specialists back in 2006 and 2008 (by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS). It concludes that when assessed as a testable hypothesis against data collected since then (and strengthened in Version 2 by the inclusion of population size estimates for Baffin Bay, Kane Basin and the Barents Sea), the hypothesis must be rejected.

Crockford, S.J. 2017 V2. Testing the hypothesis that routine sea ice coverage of 3-5 mkm2 results in a greater than 30% decline in population size of polar bears (Ursus maritimus).

PeerJ Preprints 28 February 2017. Doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2737v2 Open access. http://ift.tt/2jB2S8i [make sure you select Version 2, noted on title page]

Version 2, published 28 February, incorporates additional reviewer comments and suggestions received on Version 1, as well as the updates noted above.