Climate & Environment Review: March 23, 2006

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BRITAIN DECLARES KYOTO A "DEAD-END STREET"
TONY BLAIR was accused last night of caving in to American pressure by proposing a watered-down replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding greenhouse gas cuts as the solution to climate change... >>Read More<<

Evidence for a Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in Central Japan
Noting that instrumental climate records are insufficient to be used alone in understanding natural climate variability, the authors analyzed the total organic carbon, total nitrogen and sand content of lake sediment cores extracted from Lake Nakatsuna in central Japan (36°30'N, 137°51'E) to produce a proxy record of climate for this region that covers the past 1300 years... >>Read More<<

The Anthropogenic Global Warming Doctrine
The major part of Phil Maxwell’s “Paleo Potpourri” in July’s Newsletter was a diatribe against Michael Crichton and Bjørn Lomborg, two people who dared to criticise certain beliefs of environmentalists, especially the doctrine of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming)... >>Read More<<

AND HERE IS HOW IT'S GOING TO WORK: INVENT LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGY - THEN SELL IT AROUND THE WORLD AND MAKE A FORTUNE
FRANKFURT - Utility RWE plans to invest a billion euros (US$1.20 billion) in the world's first large-scale power station based on clean-coal technology, Germany's biggest electricity producer said on Thursday... >>Read More<<

Blair in talks on climate deal
AUSTRALIA has held talks with Tony Blair on forging a post-Kyoto accord to cut carbon emissions, with the British Prime Minister calling for a "real dose of realism" in the debate over greenhouse gases... >>Read More<<

Government accused of pitiful failure to meet target for greenhouse gas emissions
Scientists, environmental campaigners and opposition politicians yesterday issued a scathing response to the government's admission that it will fail to meet a key target to cut greenhouse gas pollution. They called the results of an 18-month review of climate change policies "pitiful" and accused ministers of lacking the political will to tackle global warming... >>Read More<<

Green Gold and Cargo Cults
CURITIBA, Brazil -- The biggest environmental meeting of the year will run until the end of March in Curitiba, Brazil. If you ever wondered why efforts in the UN to protect the environment rarely succeed, all the reasons are on display. It is a case study for the Harvard Business Review... >>Read More<<

Highly Over-Hyped - Greenland's and Antarctica's Impacts on Sea Level
In the 24 March 2006 issue of Science, a number of commentaries heralded accelerating discharges of glacial ice from Greenland and Antarctica, while dispensing dire warnings of an imminent large, rapid and accelerating sea-level rise (Bindschadler, 2006; Joughin, 2006; Kerr, 2006; Kennedy and Hanson, 2006)... >>Read More<<

Initial Growth Stimulation of Sunflower Seedlings by Elevated CO2
Noting that "the size and growth rate of a seedling is critical for its competitiveness and survival," the authors studied the developmental history of well watered and fertilized sunflower (Helianthus annuus L., cv. Sanluca) plants for the first 15 days after their initial imbibition of water while growing in pots of washed quartz sand in growth chambers maintained at atmospheric CO2 concentrations of either 200 or 1000 ppm... >>Read More<<

Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus
Most of the literate world today regards "global warming'' as both real and dangerous. Indeed, the diplomatic activity concerning warming might lead one to believe that it is the major crisis confronting mankind... >>Read More<<

Nature Admits Lack of Interest in Own Accuracy
Encyclopaedia Britannica has boldly conducted extensive research on its own accuracy. The study was in response to an article in the prestigious journal Nature which claimed that the Wikipedia internet site, which has no quality controls, is as accurate on scientific issues as the Encyclopaedia Britannica... >>Read More<<

North Atlantic Regime Shift - Is It Déjà Vu All Over Again?
The author says the objective of his paper is "to provide a review of the changes to the marine ecosystems of the northern North Atlantic during the 1920s and 1930s and to discuss them in the light of contemporary ideas of regime shifts," where he defines a regime shift as "a persistent radical shift in typical levels of abundance or productivity of multiple important components of the marine biological community structure, occurring at multiple trophic levels and on a geographical scale that is at least regional in extent."... >>Read More<<

Oceans (Storm Surges) – Summary
One of the many aspects of climate catastrophism that are said by climate alarmists to be sure to occur in response to CO2-induced global warming is the heaving of the world's seas beyond their normal bounds in more frequent and increasingly violent storm surges... >>Read More<<

Opinion – Climate Alarmism
Dear Sir,
Over the last few years your columns, and those of other leading British newspapers, have carried a steady stream of alarmist letters and articles on hypothetical, human-caused climate change... >>Read More<<