Climate & Environment Review: April 21, 2006

Climate & Environment Review: 2nd Edition
April 21, 2006

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Neuropsychological and Renal Effects of Dental Amalgam in Children
No randomized trials have been published that address the concern that inhalation of mercury vapor released by amalgam dental restorations causes adverse health effects... >>Read More<<

VANITY FAIR – WRONG ON THE SCIENCE; DISGRACEFUL IN SUPPORTING PERSONAL ATTACKS
The campaign of personal destruction propagated by environmental advocacy groups hit a new low with the release of the May issue of Vanity Fair and the subsequent press conference today by the National Environmental Trust... >>Read More<<

Sunrise for renewable energy?
Energy: Renewable energy may not appear to be competitive with oil and gas at the moment, but the gap is closing... >>Read More<<

Media Darling on 'Global Warming' Assailed by Colleagues
(CNSNews.com) - NASA scientist James Hansen, profiled by the New York Times, "60 Minutes" and other media titans as a renowned scientist with unassailable credibility on the issue of "global warming" and a victim of White House censorship, is actually a loose cannon at NASA who lied about the alleged censorship, according to one of Hansen's former colleagues as well as a current co-worker... >>Read More<<

THE LAST INTERGLACIAL: WHEN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC WAS 5-10°C WARMER THAN TODAY
Midge remains (Insecta: Diptera: Chironomidae and Chaoboridae) from two upland lake basins on the Cumberland Peninsula of Baffin Island were analyzed and the results used in a transfer function to reconstruct paleotemperatures... >>Read More<<

The World's Water Problems
In a "Forum" article in the November 2005 issue of the Ecological Society of America's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, five people intimately informed about the enormous problems we face in finding sufficient water to supply our current and future needs discuss the many challenges that confront us in this regard (Glennon et al., 2005)... >>Read More<<

Response to Richard Lindzen - Climate of Fear
Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT is one of the world's most respected climate scientists or, if you at least allow me to use the alarmists' words, he is considered by them to be the world's most respectable climate skeptic... >>Read More<<

Vanity Scare
The headline was certainly eye-grabbing. "Scientist Who Spearheaded Attacks on Global Warming Also Directed $45M Tobacco Industry Effort to Hide Health Impacts of Smoking."... >>Read More<<

A little warming, a lot of hysteria
Al Gore has been looking for work for five years now, and he's still steamed about the warm weather. Somebody has even made a movie about it, though it won't necessarily be opening soon at a theater anywhere near you... >>Read More<<

Flight of fancy?
HYBRID cars—powered by a mixture of novel electrical and conventional fossil-fuel technologies—are flourishing. So what about hybrid aircraft? The idea is not as far-fetched as it might sound... >>Read More<<

Cover Me Vanity
I have decided I want to be on the cover of Vanity Fair. Here's why, and here's how... >>Read More<<

AND FINALLY – “WOE TO YOU, HYPOCRITES! FOR YOU CLEAN THE OUTSIDE OF THE CUP AND OF THE PLATE, BUT INSIDE YOU ARE FULL OF GREED AND SELF-INDULGENCE"
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of hypocrisy for lecturing politicians on global warming while the Church of England reaps millions of pounds from shares in oil firms... >>Read More<<

A climate of uncertainty
The same week California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sought to reposition himself on global warming with a proposal for new greenhouse-gas cuts, a funny thing happened: A paleoclimatologist said that global warming actually stopped in 1998... >>Read More<<

A Meta-Analysis that Claims to Support the PNL Hypothesis
The authors studied the effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on soil C sequestration via a meta-analysis based on the results of 41 published and unpublished studies... >>Read More<<

The debate is over
Now that Time magazine has declared that humans are responsible for global warming, what do we do next?... >>Read More<<

Going Nuclear - A Green Makes the Case
In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of my compatriots... >>Read More<<

Global warming sparks a scramble for black gold under retreating ice
Unlike the Antarctic continent spread around the south pole, the Arctic has no formal international treaty to regulate activities... >>Read More<<

Error discovered in the BBC Climate Change Experiment
I regret to announce that we've recently discovered a major error in one of the files used by the climate model... >>Read More<<

Pulling the plug on standby power
Energy: Billions of devices sitting idle in “standby” mode waste vast amounts of energy. What can be done about it?... >>Read More<<

Little Ice Age (Solar Influence - Temperature) – Summary
How much influence the sun has exerted on earth's climate over the past century or more is a topic of heated discussion... >>Read More<<

HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS DRIVING TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY
The first complex, highly organised, state-level societies emerged in the Afro-Asiatic monsoon belt and northern South America during the 6th and early 5th millennia BP... >>Read More<<

Industry Twisting Climate Debate, Environmentalists Say
The debate about global warming is being manipulated by a deliberate industry funded campaign to cast doubt on climate science — similar to past attacks on the science of acid rain and the dangers of smoking — climate change advocates charged in a briefing last week... >>Read More<<

Hurricane cycle won't wane, researcher says
For South Florida, the 1970s and '80s were the time that hurricanes forgot: The storms came along once a decade or so, inspired a momentary craving for plywood and left far less damage than originally feared... >>Read More<<

The bugs are back
AFTER some two decades of misery, it is only fair that gold bugs should enjoy themselves. Enthusiasts for the shiny, yellow, metal are delighted that gold futures passed $600 a troy ounce on Tuesday, April 11th, up by 16% so far this year... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Camden, SC
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<<