Climate & Environment Weekly: November 17, 2005

Climate & Environment Weekly
November 17, 2005

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A big chill will heat up energy debate
The gas price is rocketing, and suddenly we've all heard of the "Interconnector", the gas pipeline distributing gas between the continent and Britain. Our EU neighbours are preserving their supplies - and their competitive advantage - by state mandate, while letting our much freer market suffer steep gas prices... >>Read More<<

IT'S ALL OVER FOR CLIMATE ALARMISM AS POST-KYOTO REALITY SINKS IN
Environmental campaigners demanded that Tony Blair clarify his comments on global warming last night after the prime minister appeared to signal a shift away from a target-based approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions... >>Read More<<

Bin Laden says sign Kyoto
Osama bin Laden wants the United States to convert to Islam, ditch its constitution, abolish banks, jail homosexuals and sign the Kyoto climate change treaty... >>Read More<<

CHAIRMAN'S CONCLUSIONS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE
Our meeting today marked the first Ministerial meeting of the Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development launched at the G8 Summit at Gleneagles on 6-8 July... >>Read More<<

Climate Shift Tied To 150,000 Fatalities
Earth's warming climate is estimated to contribute to more than 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses each year, according to the World Health Organization, a toll that could double by 2030... >>Read More<<

Commentary on drilling in ANWR
Issue: According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which manages federal wildlife refuges, eleven refuges have active oil and gas production on them... >>Read More<<

Fox News Sells Out On Global Warming Debate
Fox News Reporter Rick Fulbaum signed off at the end of the 60-minute special on "Global Warming" this Sunday Nov. 13, 2005, by repeating the Fox News mantra "We Report, You Decide". Fulbaum and Fox News failed to provide any data upon which to make any decision... >>Read More<<

Does the hockey stick “matter”?
Stefan Rahmsdorf and others (including Roger Pielke, the proprietor of this site) have taken the position that the Hockey Stick is irrelevant to the great issue of the impact of 2xCO2 on global climate. Even the originator of the Hockey Stick, Michael Mann, who received many awards and honors for its construction, ironically has taken the position that it doesn’t “matter”... >>Read More<<

Europe's Kyoto Bill
No matter how clear it becomes that the Kyoto Protocol will not work, the European Union will not admit that its climate policies will do nothing to affect global climate but will have a hugely negative effect on the global economy... >>Read More<<

Global warming cleared on ice shelf collapse rap
The high-profile collapse of some Antarctica's ice shelves is likely the result of natural current fluctuations, not global warming, says a leading British expert on polar climates... >>Read More<<

Global Warming, Global Governance
The European Parliament this week adopted a resolution on a report authored by one of its MEPs. Entitled, "Winning the Battle Against Global Climate Change," it offers a new example of the institutionalized scare-mongering so characteristic of the current climate debate... >>Read More<<

Holes in EPA's Ozone Policy
No sooner has EPA implemented its tough new 8-hour ozone standard, than the agency is considering a substantial new clampdown on federal smog limits... >>Read More<<

Statement by Senator James M. Inhofe On Bringing Integrity Back to the IPCC Process
I have addressed this chamber on the subject of global warming many times over the last few years. In those speeches, I presented well-documented facts regarding the science and economics of the global warming issue that, sadly, many of my colleagues and the public heard for the very first time... >>Read More<<

Rising sea levels threaten New Jersey – study says
Rising sea levels caused by global warming could shrink New Jersey by up to 3 percent in the next 100 years, U.S. scientists warned on Wednesday.... >>Read More<<

Solar Irradiance and Arctic Temperatures
It has long been debated which variable is the dominant driver of 20th-century temperature change in the Arctic: rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations or variations in solar irradiance... >>Read More<<

State alternative mercury regs
Concerned that new federal standards on mercury emissions will not produce more immediate health benefits, two national groups of state and local air quality regulators have developed a plan to yield fewer emissions in less time... >>Read More<<

Study - No Link Between Cell Phones, Tumors
Mobile phone users can dial without concern after another study found no evidence of a link between the ubiquitous devices and brain tumors... >>Read More<<

The Killer That Matters Most
A new study by a University of Wisconsin - Madison research group has concluded that global warming is causing the deaths of about 150,000 people each year... >>Read More<<

The Other Hockey Stick
Disaster losses have increased dramatically in recent decades. Yet as discussed here frequently there is no scientific evidence showing that any part of this increase can be attributed to changes in climate, whether anthropogenic in origin or not... >>Read More<<

Thin green line is bad science
THERE IS A MYTH in the American media. It goes like this: The good scientists agree that global warming is human induced and would be addressed if America ratified the Kyoto global warming pact, while bad heretical scientists question climate models that predict Armageddon because they are venal and corrupted by oil money... >>Read More<<

TONY BLAIR CONFIRMS SHIFT OVER CLIMATE CHANGE
Tony Blair appeared last night to undermine more than 15 years of climate change negotiations when he signalled a shift away from a target-based approach to cutting greenhouse emissions... >>Read More<<

Unanswered questions about Kyoto
An Open Letter to the Hon. Stephane Dion, Minister of the Environment... >>Read More<<

Water builds the heat in Europe
Water vapour rather than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the main reason why Europe's climate is warming, according to a new study... >>Read More<<