Climate & Environment Review: November 14, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
November 14, 2006

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NIGEL LAWSON: THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
THIS IS A HIGHLY COMPLEX SUBJECT, involving as it does science, economics and politics in almost equal measure. The Centre for Policy Studies has kindly agreed to publish a greatly extended version of this lecture as a pamphlet, in which I will be able to do greater justice to that complexity and to quote the sources of a number of the statements I propose to make this evening... >>Read More<<

Apocalypse cancelled
Discussion, calculations and references... >>Read More<<

ASIA-PACIFIC ENERGY PARTNERSHIP EXPECTED TO BENEFIT INDIA
The Asia-Pacific Partnership (APP) on Clean Development and Climate, which has rolled out around 100 collaborative projects in Ohio, is expected to help India implement cleaner and cost effective energy
technologies.
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A cool head in hot times
ALL of us have felt the heat rising in the climate change debate in recent weeks. The headlines in this newspaper are indicative: "Climate an economic time bomb", "Climate's last chance", "Pulling back from the brink of destruction".
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An INTERVIEW with Dr. Chris Landsea
According to our Special Topics analysis of tropical storms research over the past decade, the work of Dr. Chris Landsea ranks at #2, with 9 papers cited a total of 312 times. His most-cited paper is "The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity: causes and implications,"... >>Read More<<

A Review of World Glacier Trends
Barry "outlines the measurements that are available, new techniques that incorporate remotely sensed data, and major findings around the world," focusing on changes in glacier area... >>Read More<<

British report the last hurrah of warmaholics
NICHOLAS Stern is a distinguished economist. Climate change is a complex, uncertain and contentious scientific issue. Have you spotted the problem with the Stern review yet?... >>Read More<<

Can We Afford to Heed Gore?
Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is already making waves, not surprisingly. Lately, you cannot pick up a newspaper or watch the news without some headline about greenhouse gases, global warming or efforts to combat it... >>Read More<<

BBC VIEWPOINT
As activists organised by the group Stop Climate Chaos gather in London to demand action, one of Britain's top climate scientists says the language of chaos and catastrophe has got out of hand... >>Read More<<

As Climate Changes, Can We?
If there were any remaining doubt about the urgent need to combat climate change, two reports issued last week should make the world sit up and take notice... >>Read More<<

Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance
The authors "analyzed 1.2 x 108 European remote sensing satellite altimeter echoes to determine the changes in volume of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2003." This survey, in their words, "covers 85% of the East Antarctic ice sheet and 51% of the West Antarctic ice sheet," which together comprise "72% of the grounded ice sheet.""... >>Read More<<

Britain's Stern Review on Global Warming: It Could Be Environmentalism's Swan Song
To the accompaniment of much fanfare and hoopla, the British government has released Sir Nicholas Stern's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, a report that it commissioned but that it labels "independent."
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