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The most interesting part of the agreement was the reopening of Santa Barbara’s coastline to off-shore drilling. That will raise $100 million a year, which the Drill Here - Drill Now contingent has insisted would help the state balance its budget while lowering the cost of energy and providing jobs. The state has finally agreed, albeit very reluctantly. Ironically, it was a 1969 oil spill off of Santa Barbara that put the effort to ban off-shore drilling in the US into high gear. If California sees a big revenue spike from the new leases, perhaps they will open the entire coast and revive the oil-production industry in the state, and keep that cycle of jobs and energy going.

A Natural Limit to Anthropogenic Global Warming by William Kininmonth | Climate Realists

In response to an earlier email, it has been brought to my attention that William Kininmonth presented a paper to the 2009 Heartland Conference.

I attach it for those who - like me - had not seen it. It is good stuff.
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Richard Courtney

From the paper mentioned above:

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and interacts with the Earth’s infrared radiation, both the emission to space and the downward radiation at the surface. Contrary to popular explanations, it is not the reduction in radiation to space across the CO2 bands that are important for enhancing the greenhouse effect; it is the increase in downward radiation at the surface that is important.
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The computer models on which the IPCC based its fourth assessment projections have been shown to significantly underestimate the rate of increase of evaporation with temperature. As a consequence, surface temperature rise from CO2 forcing is grossly exaggerated. Suggestions that global temperature might pass a ‘tipping point’ and even go into a phase of ‘runaway global warming’ are an outcome of the flawed computer models and are not a realistic future scenario. The extensive oceans and the hydrological cycle are a natural constraint on global temperature and dangerous anthropogenic global warming is not a feasible outcome.

Canada - Taber corn lovers will have to wait

Taber Corn Fest Aug. 27-29 shouldn’t be short of the area’s famous sweet corn this year despite one of the latest crops on record.
The cool spring and snow and cold weather in June has set the corn crop back as late as veteran growers can remember. Traditionally, the sweet corn is ready for market around July 24.
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“I have never started corn harvest later than Aug. 14 in my 35 years with the crop,” said Jensen. “The regular corn crop will be later than that this year.”
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He blames unseasonable temperatures the last few years — something that makes him wonder about global warming — a major factor in slow development of heat-loving corn plants.
“It seems the springs are getting colder every year,” said Jensen.

Coolest July 21 recorded in Nashville as cool wave continues in Tenn. - WHNT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cool weather has broken a previous low temperature for July 21 in Nashville that was set when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.

When the temperature at the National Weather Service station dipped to 58 degrees at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it wiped out the previous record low for the date of 60 degrees, which was set in 1877.

NWS forecaster Bobby Boyd noted it was the third consecutive morning when Nashville either tied or broke a daily low temperature record.