Climate & Environment Review: November 1, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
November 1, 2006

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STERN CRITIQUE - THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE IS FAR FROM OVER
The exchange between Sir Nicholas Stern and Ian Byatt and co-authors, in the previous issue of this journal, concentrated on climate science. I would like to add some arguments based mainly on logic, requiring little knowledge of climate science... >>Read More<<

Global warming debate at conference spawns name calling
BOULDER - The planet may be warming, but what started out as a polite discussion about hurricane trends turned plain hot here Wednesday... >>Read More<<

Stern’s Cherry Picking on Disasters and Climate Change
The costs of extreme weather events are already high and rising, with annual losses of around $60 billion since the 1990s (0.2% of World GDP), and record costs of $200 billion in 2005 (more than 0.5% of World GDP)... >>Read More<<

UK signs Gore to sell climate case in US
Britain is to send the author of today's landmark review on global warming to try to win American hearts and minds to the urgent cause of cutting carbon emissions - as it emerged yesterday that the government has already signed up former US vice-president Al Gore to advise on the environment... >>Read More<<

Just Call Me Al (tax)
Al Gore may have failed to carry his home state of Tennessee as a Presidential candidate, but the former Vice President is all the rage in . . . Belgium... >>Read More<<

Newsweek Changes Media Climate 31 Years after Global Cooling Story
It took 31 years, but Newsweek magazine admitted it was incorrect about climate change.. >>Read More<<

Targets in the air
At last, Canada has a Clean Air Act. Or, at least, another Clean Air Act: a law with the same name was enacted back in 1971. But at last we have a government willing to introduce clean air standards... >>Read More<<

Pay up ... or the planet gets it
HARD-WORKING families face crippling new bills as the Government fights global warming with a raft of stinging taxes... >>Read More<<

WISHFUL THINKING - BRITISH GOVERNMENT CLAIMS SCIENTIFIC DEBATE ON GLOBAL WARMING 'NOW CLOSED'…AGAIN
LONDON Global warming is now a reality and the debate about its existence is over, Britain's environment minister said Sunday, before the release of a report on the economic cost of climate change... >>Read More<<