Climate & Environment Review: November 28, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
November 28, 2006

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The Hydrologic Cycle on the Tibetan Plateau - 1961-2000
Monthly potential evapotranspiration estimates for the Tibetan Plateau (TP) were calculated by the Penman-Monteith equation using meteorological data from the Meteorology Center of the National Meteorology Bureau of the Peoples' Republic of China for 101 stations having records for the 40-year period 1961 to 2000... >>Read More<<

The Medieval and Roman Warm Periods in Antarctica
The authors collected skin and hair - and even some whole-body mummified remains - from Holocene raised-beach excavations at various locations along Antarctica's Victoria Land Coast, which they identified by both visual inspection and DNA analysis as coming from southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina), and which they analyzed for age by means of radiocarbon dating... >>Read More<<

The Indian Summer Monsoon-Solar Activity Link
The authors examined variations in angular-asymmetrical forms of benthic foraminifera and planktonic foraminiferal populations in a shallow-water sediment core obtained just off Kawar (14°49'43"N, 73°59'37"E) on the central west coast of India, which receives heavy river discharge during the southwest monsoon season (June to September) from the Kali and Gangavali rivers... >>Read More<<

SENATOR INHOFE REACTS TO UN CLIMATE CONFERENCE IN KENYA & COMMENTS ON UPCOMING 110th CONGRESS
Statement by Chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.)... >>Read More<<

Past Solar Effects on Climate
The author reviews what we know about past climatic responses to solar forcing and their geographical coherence based upon proxy records of temperature and the cosmogenic radionuclides 10Be and 14C, which provide a measure of magnetized plasma emissions from the sun that impact earth's exposure to galactic cosmic rays, thereby altering cloud formation and climate... >>Read More<<

Report to Offer Climate Change Evidence
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A long-awaited report by an international scientific network will offer much stronger evidence of how man is changing Earth's climate, and should prompt balky governments into action against global warming, the group's chief scientist said Monday... >>Read More<<

In Second Coal Rush, New Mind-Set in the Mines
COULTERVILLE, Ill. -- Billy Vandom was 220 feet underground, but to him, it was the top of the world. He is a coal miner, a species of well-paid American worker that was on the verge of extinction in these parts for more than a decade... >>Read More<<

Scholars learn to communicate plainly the science of climate change
The Woods Institute for the Environment this month launched the Inter-University Scholars Training Program to improve understanding and communication between university researchers and California policymakers working on climate change... >>Read More<<

Oil tumbles to lowest level since June 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil briefly dropped below $55 Friday to its lowest level since mid-2005 amid fund selling across commodity markets on worries of an economic slowdown in the world's largest energy consumer, the United States... >>Read More<<