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Date of TWTW Key Topics in this TWTW
Dec 31, 2016 Federal funding, climate change, climate science, $26 Billion, ARRA
Dec 17, 2016 Briggs, data manipulation, AGU, sun, nitric oxide, Eschenbach, Watts, endangerment finding, SEPP TOC, political games, Pruitt, Perry, South Australia, inertia, grid, frequency, energized, Tillerson, 92 feet, corps of engineers, interior, harm, administration, 666, water contamination, data free
Dec 10, 2016 Charney, water vapor, confirm or deny, Christy, lines of evidence, understanding, unusual, models, sea surface, calibration, consistency, EPA, reconsider, what, Wallace, ENSO, frequency, acid-alkaline balance, laboratory, field, model runs, Singer, certainty, election, post-normal science, NASA-GISS, 99.98% pipeline
Dec 3, 2016 Pielke, Lysenkoism, extreme weather, censorship, Helmer, Puritans, components, global warming, Charney, laboratory, speculation, anti-science, endangerment finding, EPA lines of evidence, Paris agreement, Bloomberg, China, cost, climate change, corals, OPEC, reversing flow, 1,100 feet
Nov 26, 2016 Obsolete science, Hubbert, assumption, testing, Charney, laboratory, nature, IPCC, past time, Arctic, jet stream, Antarctic, COP-22, US election, Paris agreement, UNFCCC, March 4, 1801, CERN, Svensmark, 5,544 pages
Nov 19, 2016 COP-22, lobbyists, Trump, transition team, UNFCCC, Rep. Cramer, climate models, Curry, verification, validation, predictability, natural, too much warming, climate variability, attributing, evidence, 20 billion barrels
Nov 12, 2016 Charney, myth, hotspot, D-O, Antarctic fault/rift, election, endangerment finding, CEI, Paris, caveats, Palestine, China, coal, 22%
Nov 5, 2016 Svensmark, solar hypothesis, CLOUD, models, numerical, Antarctica, rift, fault, glaciers, heat flow, geothermal, methylmercury, bacteria, Easterbrook, Justice Thomas, technology breakthrough, Paris Agreement, one billion, Holdren
Oct 29, 2016 Constitution, tug of war, convention, ratification, human rights, powers of government, power plan, Rivkin, Tribe, consent of Congress, responsibility, grid, fleeting, accountable, ADA, act of Congress, executive agreements, war-time, congressional approval, Paris Agreement, electricity storage, subsidies, Energy Policy Act of 2005, ninth circuit, models, rulemaking, #1
Oct 23, 2016 Sheahen, laboratory, evidence, influence, CO2, Charney, field, Christy, modelers, Doiron, Santer, RSS, Ridley, Spencer, corn belt, carbon tax, La Nina, power plan, black system, Australia, courts, 88 seconds
Oct 8, 2016 Solar cycles, hot spot, de Freitas, Wallace, PDO, confidence, physics, current skill, history, ENSO, power plan, Tribe, tolerance, deference, methane, dust, ice ages, South Australia, cost, energy security, threat, 4 years
Oct 1, 2016 Hubris, Rapp, ENSO, hot spot, trivial, power plan, Court of Appeals, Morrisey, Paxton, Clean Air Act, stationary, mobile, sources, reliable, South Australia, wind power, carbon taxes, oil prices, comprehensive models, CMIP5, 45,185 feet
Sep 24, 2016 EPA, endangerment finding, hot spot, lines of evidence, Wallace, Christy, DAleo, ENSO, index, MEI, PDO, natural variation, solar index, UN, Paris agreement, federal regulations, federal orders, Singer quote, bears and seals, 4.3 million jobs
Sep 17, 2016 Cohen, trivia, treaties, executive agreement, Paris Agreement, ENSO, blob, standing rock reservation, pipeline, Sioux, NEPA, VP Biden, natural gas, arbitrary power, US competitiveness, stagnating, Harvard, SCC, McKitrick, polar bears, seals, tectonics, Caribbean plate, 2.3 per square mile
Sep 10, 2016 China, treaty, executive agreement, oath, La Nina, global historical climatology network, surface temperatures, maximum, minimum, mean, floods, disposal wells, Feynman, answers, heat transfer, phase change, 540 calories/gram
Sep 3, 2016 Paris, G-20, China, balance game, CO2, aerosols, measurements, models, unlimited solutions, Arctic, D/O events, Thermohaline Circulation, censorship, levelized costs, who benefits, earthquakes, ozone hole, cereal yields, 18.6%
Aug 27, 2016 Feynman, questions, answers, sun, Svensmark, Shaviv, clouds, tropics, forecasting, Spencer, experiments, wind, solar, waste, Germany, hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas prices, exports
Aug 20, 2016 Rapp, energy flows, external, internal, ice ages, oceans, moderate, Caribbean Seaway, thermohaline circulation, federal funding, CRS, UK wind power, battery storage, smart grids, $13 billion
Aug 13, 2016 Federal funding, GAO, FY 2014, PTC, bureaucratic science, CEQ, OSTC, mechanism, control, natural, ignorance, capital costs, dispatchable, unreliable, lifetimes, 4,000 days, hurricanes, thanking
Aug 6, 2016 July temperatures, ENSO, China, monsoons, UAH, Mann, standards, climate science, assessment, temperatures, sea levels, record highs, limestone, Florida, truncated history, footwear, fossil record, greenhouse effect, atmospheric pressure, reduced cooling, NEPA, Katrina, Obama, guidance, USGCRP, models, $80 to $40
Jul 30, 2016 Certainty, Popper, accusation, evidence, Whitehouse, hearsay, climate investigations center, sea level rise, NIPCC, Kaine, truth, political games, democratic platform, existing reliable, electricity, storage, pumped-hydro, replace, fossil fuels, climate change, causes, WW II, Vietnam, Johnson, 17.5 to 75 time more, water vapor
Jul 23, 2016 Spencer, fads, senators, Exxon, GAO, funding, questions, settled, energy flow, ENSO, IPCC, NIPCC, Antarctic Peninsula, cooling, energy subsidies, Bayesian statistics, storing wine, 1 per 10,000
Jul 16, 2016 Seitz award, DDP, Christy, Spencer, atmospheric temperatures, Charney, IPCC, surface, models, BP spill, Whitehouse, AAAS, batteries, California, April Fools award, Canary Islands, 31.6%
Jul 2, 2016 Walker, attorneys general, Kazman, CEI, McDonnell, atmospheric temperatures, California, nuclear, California Duck, Donn Dears, death spiral, Venus, April Fools, 36% in FY2010 to 21% in FY2015, down 42%
Jun 25, 2016 Brexit, UNFCCC, US, funder, linear-no-threshold, LNT, Chevron deference, federal courts, BLM, hydraulic fracturing, atmospheric temperatures, spike, west Antarctic ice sheet, 31,000 years, SCC, Christy, California, blackout, duck, nuclear, 19%, desert
Jun 18, 2016 Fear, CO2, warming, acidification, sea level, the verge, economics, Heller, Friedman, Curry, institutional science, greening, AG Schneiderman, 2.8%, renewables
Jun 4, 2016 Sun, clouds, UV, little ice age, CERN, Moscow, talks, senate judiciary committee, Whitehouse, Venus, diesel, wind speed, EROI, less than 1%, MTOE, solar, oil and gas
May 21, 2016 Feynman, guess, nature, observation, experiment, experience, Charney, Christy, modeling, dominates, OA, Browman, ICES, mechanisms, calcification, biological impacts, NIPCC, genetically engineered, gmo, methane, epa, oral arguments, 600
May 14, 2016 Russian, climate model, 32 models, 102 simulations, ensemble, INM, Bates, tropics, extratropics, Evans, feedback, notch filters, cloud cover, methane, EPA, Carlin, listeners, SCC, Minnesota, climate sensitivity, RICO-20, conspiracy, civil rights, 48%
May 7, 2016 Christy, testimony, observations, models, McIntyre, Curry, certainty, uncertainty, IPCC, forecasts, average, Motl, systematic error, Feynman, emperors nose, witch-hunt, SEPP, Lindzen, Greenpeace, liberal-progressives, solid science, Greenland, EIA, 67%, households, subpoena
Apr 30, 2016 Lindzen, climate science, types, surface measurements, UAH, Christy, McNider, Cook, Oreskes, Paris agreement, de-carbonize electricity, transport, cooling, heating, medical, solar, disruptive, progressive-liberal, progressivism, Cuomo, CEI, green earth, NASA, benefits, haze, EPA, Okefenokee, 70%, scientific regress
Apr 23, 2016 Lindzen, three groups, agreement, predictions, noise, climate profiteers, skeptical, national security, petroleum, Scales, Epstein, Kerry, letter, $500,000,000, UNFCCC, Palestine, mother earth day, Gray, Essex, $315 Billion, foreign exchange reserves
Apr 16, 2016 Freedom from Fear, progressives, Obama, health, White House, investigate, prosecute, suppression, CEI, civil rights, US Code, limited, AGU, modeling, McKitrick, Heritage, 13%, consumption, national security green fleet
Apr 2, 2016 Cooling, Page, Paris Agreement, State Department, credibility, March temperatures, conformity, EU, sub-prime lending, blame, fads, Buffett, compatibility, science and religion, sea levels, CO2, too dogmatic, # 1
Mar 26, 2016 Evidence, EF, hot spot, AR-2, un-validated models. human influence, El Nino, paucity, climate data, models, observations, legal proceedings, racketeering, RICO, grand inquisitor, Whitehouse, retaliation, AMS, poll, sea level rise, Hansen, co2 levels, D-O events, 51%, 41 times
Mar 19, 2016 Witch hunt, Maibach, RICO-20, rigor, science society, Federal funding, Charney, models, verifying, atmospheric, Antarctic, brief, Canary Islands, abrupt climate change, D-O events, natural variation, $500,000,000, Green Climate Fund, State Department
Mar 12, 2016 Precision, Russell, ideologue, false precision, Sheahen, gravitational waves, classical mechanics, models, predict, global warming, sea level rise, imprecision, unreliable, expensive, Canary Island, levelized costs, Europe, discernible human influence, global climate, 16, 45, and 63 times, natural gas
Mar 5, 2016 Atmospheric data, reanalysis, RSS, UAH, orbital decay, NOAA-14, discredited, Charney, range, El Nino, funding, overturning, location, 1997-98, RICO, energy security, Canary Islands, pumped storage, reliability, stay, Buffett, 19.2%
Feb 27, 2016 Power plan, administration, scientists, West Virginia, Texas, stay, lines of evidence, hot spot, record setting, climate models, modern civilization, separation of powers, Constitutional law, Scalia, time-series forecasting, physical models, pause, consensus, sea level rise, 169, sustainable development goals
Feb 13, 2016 Supreme Court, stay, power plan, executive orders, MATS, MACT, mercury, cap-and-trade, Paris agreement, COP-21, funding, natural variation, atmosphere, warming, China, 97%, CSIRO, Reanalysis and Attribution, predictive skill, poor, models
Feb 6, 2016 Feynman, its wrong, hypothesis testing, experiment, Christy, CIMP-5, models, Yale Climate Connections, Mears, RSS, satellites, microwave radiation, orbital decay, diurnal drift, starting point, linear approach, only one, Russian, Paris, treaty, no treaty, 2.5, 3, methane
Jan 30, 2016 Himalayan, glaciers, Raina, Ollier, mass balance, Tibet Plateau, rivers, monsoons, endangerment finding, UK, electricity, 2025, climate change act, 2008, gap, administration, Mann, nature trick, probability of warming, assumptions, genetic fallacy, carbon tax, cherry picking
Jan 23, 2016 Bob Carter, McIntyre, hottest year, weather event, climate trend, El Niño, La Niña, NOAA, atmospheric temperatures, lower, mid-troposphere, 3rd warmest, datasets, NASA-GISS, UAH, selective ignorance, people live, Challenger expedition, ocean heat content, peak oil, electricity, Africa, Pavillion
Jan 16, 2016 Energy plan, big green, reliable electricity, CO2 emissions, social cost of carbon, natural processes, USGCRP, 35 years, Charney report, unreliable electricity, Germany, oil imports, 60%, production, 88%, economic growth, NOAA, Karl, DAleo, Keystone, 0.66%
Jan 9, 2016 Savage controversies, Paris agreement, Lewis, Byrd-Hagel, USGCRP, IPCC, state department, UNFCCC, 13 entities, natural processes, climate change, human cause, social science, climate science, Munich RE, natural disasters, administration, alarmist, two floods, Cumbria, Mississippi, one billion
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