Climate & Environment Review: November 15, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
November 15, 2006

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Stern: the ecology equivalent of a Blairite dodgy dossier
Economists use a decimal point to prove they have a sense of humour. But Sir Nicholas Stern’s report warning that global warming will cost £3.68 trillion if left untreated shows that economists can also be taken too seriously... >>Read More<<

Stern Climate Report: Orgy of Doom and Gloom
Why do so many scientists as well as lay people love the apocalyptic projections of climate science? I venture the thought that it is the authority of the computer.... >>Read More<<

The real climate change catastrophe
Thousands of activists, journalists, bureaucrats, politicians and scientists are preparing to fly CO2-emitting jetliners to Kenya for the upcoming climate summit... >>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<<

The clean green dream
WHAT a difference a few days makes. Within a week, the debate on climate change in Australia has moved from the science faculty to the school of economics; from how hot it may get to how much it may cost us... >>Read More<<

THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: AN APPEAL TO REASON
The third danger is even more profound. Today we are very conscious of the threat we face from the supreme intolerance of Islamic fundamentalism... >>Read More<<

Solar Forcing of Climate
With respect to the first phenomenon, i.e., solar irradiance variations, de Jager writes that "the fraction of the solar irradiance that directly reaches the earth's troposphere is emitted by the solar photosphere [and] does not significantly vary."... >>Read More<<

Sun's Fingerprints Seen in Northern Hemispheric Temperature Record of Past Four Centuries
In a compelling new paper, Scafetta and West (2006b) used the Northern Hemispheric temperature reconstruction of Moberg et al. (2005), three alternative total solar irradiance (TSI) proxy reconstructions - developed by Lean et al. (1995), Lean (2000) and Wang et al... >>Read More<<

Stern's report scare-mongering
Without gilding the lily, Dr Brian O'Brien, a strategic and environmental consultant, who was the foundation Director and Chairman of the WA Environmental Protection Authority, and previously Professor of Physics and Space Science in the US, has all the credentials necessary to make a reasoned, educated review of such a report... >>Read More<<