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How not to science

Real Climate

It’s a fascinating story of technology, creativity, hubris, error, imagination, rivalry, politics, and (for some) a search for scientific consilience – worthy of movie script perhaps? Instead, they chose to hide the structural uncertainty in the MSU retrievals (the TMT trends for 1979-2013 in UAH v5.5 and RSS v3.3

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Setting the scene for a quantum marketplace: where quantum business is up to and how it might unfold

Physics World

It wasn’t an auspicious start to the commercialization of quantum information technologies (QITs). But that’s not unusual for a new technology. The UK’s National Quantum Technology Programme (NQTP) kicked off in 2013 with around £1bn promised over a 10-year period, and is now entering its second phase.

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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Paul O. Swartz - From Photojournalist To Susquehanna River Basin Commission

PA Environment Daily

He went on to serve as the SRBCs Executive Director from 1992-2013. Consequently, consistent with the Compact principle of equal and uniform treatment of all users of water and water-related facilities without regard to political boundaries, the City of Baltimore was required to adhere to SRBCs regulations.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward.

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Too hot to handle? The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme & the Northern Irish meltdown

Environmental Europe

The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme was a policy instrument set up to increase uptake in a variety of renewable heat technologies – from biomass boilers to solar thermals, biogas, heat pumps – for use by businesses from 2012 and in homes from 2014. A political scandal. To political interference within one party?

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Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi from President Michael Shellenberger Expressing Concern Over Denial of Right to Respond to Personal Attacks

Environmental Progress

I understand that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theatre that violates basic civility. I am told that Members from both sides sometimes act this way. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

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EU Parliament Vote Renews Hope for Future of EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Law Columbia

There were up to two billion surplus of allowances as of the beginning of the EU ETS’s third phase of operation (running from 2013-2020), according to European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action. euros a ton in April 2013, compared to its peak near 30 euros in July 2008.

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