Climate & Environment Review: March 2, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
March 2, 2006

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Uncertainty expressed over global warming
http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006022301040&action=print
Earth sciences professor Eric Posmentier explained the complexities and uncertainties surrounding global climate change on Wednesday in his lecture entitled "A Climatologist's View of Climate Change -- Facts and Fallacies."... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week - Auburn, NE
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... >>Read More<<

WHY THE GLOBAL-WARMING-WATER-WAR HYPE IS BUNKUM
The solution to one of the thorniest problems in the Middle East may be taking shape on an anonymous-looking building site in south-west Israel... >>Read More<<

Battery Breakthrough - A new material could mean batteries that finally make electric cars practical
A new high-capacity battery material could lead to super-efficient hybrid cars and electric vehicles, helping to slash U.S. gas consumption... >>Read More<<

Can the World Produce 40% More Rice by 2030?
What will it take to feed five billion rice consumers in 2030? That is the question that plagues the mind of Gurdev S. Khush (2005) of the International Rice Research Institute in Metro Manila, Philippines... >>Read More<<

Chocolate is good for you
Leave it to the Dutch, known for their luscious candy, to demonstrate the benefits of chocolate. It might be good for you... >>Read More<<

Climatic Implications of Antarctic Ice-Core Sulfate Profiles of the Past Millennium
The authors derived a detailed history of Holocene volcanism from the sulfate record of the first 360 meters of the Dome Concordia ice core that covered the period 0-11.5 kyr BP, after which they compared their results for the past millennium with similar results obtained from eight other Antarctic ice cores... >>Read More<<

Global Initiative Aims To Boost Nuclear Energy, Nonproliferation
Policy shift to allow aggressive technology development, U.S. says
Washington -- The United States has launched an international technology initiative that it hopes will expand the nuclear power industry around the world without raising the risk of nuclear proliferation... >>Read More<<

Researchers find Antarctic ice is thickening
WASHINGTON (AP) — New measurements show the ice in West Antarctica is thickening, reversing some earlier estimates that the sheet was melting... >>Read More<<

Responses of U.S. Ecosystems to Changing Climate
The authors examined the responses of the normalized difference vegetation index integrated over the growing season... >>Read More<<

The Kyoto Bubble?
It is one of the hallmark features of a capitalist economy that investors will react to changes in policy and regulation in order to make money out of new opportunities. It is one the great risks of a capitalist economy that such speculation can be unfounded... >>Read More<<

The Urban CO2 Dome of Mexico City
As the world's second largest city, the capital of Mexico is an urban center with a wide range of direct and indirect CO2 emissions from a mix of commercial, industrial, residential and mobile sources... >>Read More<<

UK'S DEFENCE SECRETARY TURNS GREEN - GLOBAL WARMING MAY CAUSE WATER WARS
Across the world, they are coming: the water wars. From Israel to India, from Turkey to Botswana, arguments are going on over disputed water supplies that may soon burst into open conflict... >>Read More<<