Climate & Environment Review: September 25, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
September 25, 2006

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GLOBAL WARMING NOT AFFECTING INDIA
Pune, July 7: FORMER scientific adviser to the Prime Minister and eminent scientist Vasant Gowarikar feels that global warming has not affected the Indian climatic system... >>Read More<<

John McLean on NASA’s Arctic Melting release
In a widely reported study (see references below), NASA's Josefino Cosimo and others have claimed that winter sea ice is melting faster than before and that "perennial" (i.e. long term) sea ice is declined 14% "between 2004 and 2005" (to quote the BBC report)... >>Read More<<

Floods (General) – Summary
Climate alarmists predict there will be more frequent and severe flooding around the world in response to global warming... >>Read More<<

Groups says safe drinking water more crucial worldwide than global warming
Issue: The World Health Organization and UNICEF, both agencies of the United Nations, issued a report last week that says access to safe, clean drinking water is unavailable to over 1.1 billion of the world's poor... >>Read More<<

Global Forest Productivity Since the Mid-20th Century
The main objective of the authors was "to review documented evidence of the impacts of climate change trends on forest productivity since the middle of the 20th century."... >>Read More<<

Hockey sticks and hatchets
It's tough dealing with facts as a journalist, but not that much of a problem if you can also lard your work with smears, innuendo, fabrications, distortions, errors, untruths and omissions gross and minor. Armed with the above, a writer named Charles Montgomery managed to get The Globe and Mail to run a piece that attempted to demolish the ideas and reputations of Canada's climate-change skeptics... >>Read More<<

In Vino, non Veritas?
Today’s (September 6th, 2006) Washington Post, features Ben Giliberti’s Wine of the Week—a Tamar Ridge 2005 Pinot Gris from Tasmania. After extolling the virtues of this rich white, peary, with a hint of almond and French oak, Giliberti proclaims it to be “one of the most exciting pinot gris I have tasted from anywhere lately” adding “global warming…appears to working in Tasmania’s favor.”... >>Read More<<

Global warming alarmists trap themselves with scare that summer of 2006 warmest since 1936
Issue: Global warming alarmists have seized on the recent release by the National Climate Data Center that the continental U.S. experienced the hottest summer (74.5 degrees) since 1936 (74.73 degrees) as being the latest
evidence that their wacky computer models predicting global warming caused by man-made emissions are correct... >>Read More<<

GET YOUR PRIORITIES RIGHT: A RATIONALIST CRUSADER DOES THE MATH ON GLOBAL WARMING
NEW YORK -- Bjorn Lomborg is a political scientist by training, but the charismatic, golden-haired Dane is offering me a history lesson. Two hundred years ago, he explains, sitting forward in his chair in this newspaper's Manhattan offices, the left was an "incredibly rational movement."... >>Read More<<