Climate Weekly: June 30, 2005

Climate & Environment Weekly
June 30, 2005

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S Fred Singer: Censoring Debate On Global Warming: A serious and growing problem
Real science is based on the precept that constructive, intelligent debate is not only welcome but essential to progress. However, as you can see from the Daily Telegraph article at <http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/Censorship.htm>, censorship is now rampant by important science journals and governmental organizations, such as the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)... >>Read More<<

Sustainability and the issue of climate change
Here is an argument calling for a change in the culture of climate science. Before advancing our point of view, we will describe climate science as a social process that does not match the conventional image of science. Yet, in this sense, climate science is like many other sciences. In the past three decades, the perspective of anthropogenic climate change has been based on solid science... >>Read More<<

CRACKS IN THE KYOTO CONSENSUS
The latest budget argument between Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac is pure theatre. Mr Chirac is trying to distract attention from the disastrous (for him) referendum, while Mr Blair is seizing the opportunity to look tough and Eurosceptic. But both must be somewhat rattled by the implication from their electorates that the privileged political elites need to pay a little more attention to their constituencies. So a nice global warming summit where they can emote with their "subjects" on the new religion and blame George Bush should make them feel better... >>Read More<<

Dark Ages Cold Period (South America) – Summary
The previous cycle of the millennial-scale oscillation of climate that brought the planet the Little Ice Age and Modern Warm Period introduced the world to the Dark Ages Cold Period and Medieval Warm Period. We here report on this phenomenon as it occurred in South America, focusing on the Dark Ages Cold Period...
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The Psychology Of Climate Doomsters
[...] Speaking of which, there has been some rethinking about global warming that has made me squirm. I am not talking about whether climate change is happening - there seems to be just too much solid evidence that it is. No, the question is whether it is a disaster or a good thing, overal... >>Read More<<

WILL GLENEAGLES LEAVE KYOTO BEHIND?
Climate change is both political and scientific. The political side attacks capitalism, globalization and the USA. The scientific side identifies previous glacial cycles including the present one which began 10,000 years ago. The Earth was warmer 1,000 years ago, and the natural part of present warming seems to dwarf human contribution. This does not stop us acting to influence it if we want to... >>Read More<<

Academies call for greenhouse gas reductions
LONDON, England (AP) -- Science academies of the G-8 countries joined Tuesday in a call for prompt action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and warning that delays will be costly. Lord May, president of Britain's Royal Society, said in releasing the statement that U.S. President George W. Bush's policy on climate change was "misguided" and ignored scientific evidence... >>Read More<<

LEADING SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS 'ARE CENSORING DEBATE ON GLOBAL WARMING'
Two of the world's leading scientific journals have come under fire from researchers for refusing to publish papers which challenge fashionable wisdom over global warming... >>Read More<<

Britain Considers Energy Rationing to Meet Kyoto Obligations
London (CNSNews.com) - British residents could face a form of energy rationing within the next decade under proposals currently being studied to reduce the U.K.'s carbon dioxide emissions to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Under the proposals, known as Domestic Tradable Quotas (DTQs), every individual would be issued a "carbon card," from which points would be deducted every time the cardholder purchased fossil fuel, for example, by filling up a car or taking a flight... >>Read More<<

Living with risks
It looks like an eye-grabbing statistic: a report that infants living near overhead high-voltage power cables have a nearly 70% higher risk of developing leukemia than other children, according to research from Oxford University published in the latest British Medical Journal. Figures such as 70% sound dangerously high and demand action - and yet, as is so often the case with statistics as with electricity cables, they must both be handled with extreme care... >>Read More<<

Flooding and Drought in the US Northern Great Plains
To determine the historical context of the rising lake levels, the authors developed a 1000-year hydroclimate reconstruction from local bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) tree-ring records and lake sediment cores, analyses of which involved the shell geochemistry of the ostracode Candona rawsoni... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Mountain Park, NM
To bolster our claim that "There Has Been No Net Global Warming for the Past 70 Years," each week we highlight the temperature record of one of the 1221 U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) stations from 1930-2000. This issue's temperature record of the week is from Mountain Park, NM. During the period of most significant greenhouse gas buildup over the past century, i.e., 1930 and onward, Mountain Park's mean annual temperature has cooled by 0.67 degrees Fahrenheit. Not much global warming here!... >>Read More<<

KYOTO TARGETS UNLIKELY TO BE MET
Europe is failing to tackle climate change, putting further pressure on Tony Blair to come up with a fresh initiative at the G8 summit and embarrassing the European commission, which is floundering over budget cuts and the constitution treaty... >>Read More<<

Earth's Temperature History: How Well Is It Known?
The primary empirical evidence (as opposed to the theoretical predictions derived from climate models) for believing that "business as usual," with respect to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, will produce unprecedented global warming and lead to a host of catastrophic consequences (which are typically claimed to be more serious than nuclear warfare and global terrorism) is the temperature history of the planet over the past millennium, which is typically depicted by climate alarmists as slowly declining for approximately nine hundred years and then rising dramatically to unprecedented levels over the course of the 20th century... >>Read More<<

The Urban Heat Island of Debrecen, Hungary
The authors examined the influence of built-up areas on the near-surface air temperature field of Debrecen, Hungary -- which sits on nearly flat terrain in the Great Hungarian Plain with a population of 220,000 -- via mobile measurements made under different types of weather conditions between March 2002 and March 2003... >>Read More<<

Kyoto by Degrees
Something strange is happening in the U.S. Senate -- or at least stranger than usual. The world's greatest deliberative body is hurtling toward passage of limits on greenhouse gases, even as the scientific case for such a mini-Kyoto Protocol looks weaker all the time... >>Read More<<