Climate & Environment Review: November 17, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
November 17, 2006 - 1st Edition

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Hurricanes and Global Warming
An interdisciplinary team of researchers survey the peer-reviewed literature to assess the relationships between global warming, hurricanes, and hurricane impacts... >>Read More<<

The Economics and Politics of Climate Change: An Appeal to Reason
THIS IS A HIGHLY COMPLEX SUBJECT, involving as it does science, economics and politics in almost equal measure... >>Read More<<

FROM GREEN HYSTERIA TO SALVATIONIST VIOLENCE
One of Britain's largest power stations was running at a quarter of its output today after Greenpeace activists breached the site and chained their bodies to facilities... >>Read More<<

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<<

Cold weather's 25,000 deaths toll is scandal, say charities
More than 25,000 people died in England and Wales last winter as a direct result of cold weather and the illnesses that accompany it, official figures disclosed yesterday... >>Read More<<

Carbon Dioxide (Urban CO2 Dome - Cities Outside U.S.) – Summary
Following the discovery and characterization of the urban CO2 dome of Phoenix, Arizona, USA, studies of urban CO2 domes began to be conducted in many other parts of the world... >>Read More<<

Hockeysticks, the tragedy of the commons and sustainability of climate science
The "hockey stick" was elevated to an icon-status by the IPCC. While in the technical part of the TAR, the reconstruction of the last millennium's temperature was presented with the proper caveats and uncertainties, in the publicly more visible parts of the TAR these caveats were less and less emphasized... >>Read More<<

Emissions of CO2 Continue to Rise Despite Pledges
A United Nations agency said most industrial nations continue to increase their emissions of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases thought to be warming the Earth's atmosphere, despite pledges under the Kyoto Protocol during the next six years to make a 5% cut... >>Read More<<

Full Stern Ahead to Much Waffle and Weeping, Hype and Hubris....
My apologies for not having commented on the Stern report - I have been immensely busy, including broadcasting and writing about the report in the press... >>Read More<<

Chaotic world of climate truth
Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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<<

Climate chaos? Don't believe it
The Stern report last week predicted dire economic and social effects of unchecked global warming. In what many will see as a highly controversial polemic, Christopher Monckton disputes the 'facts' of this impending
apocalypse and accuses the UN and its scientists of distorting the truth... >>Read More<<