Climate & Environment Review: November 30, 2006

Climate & Environment Review: 1st Edition
November 30, 2006

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When Two Minds Think Alike
Simon Baron-Cohen discusses how a powerful new idea may give us valuable insights into the cause of autism.
Over the years I've been struck by a pattern among the parents of children with autism. The mothers often say things like "my child is a lot like my husband—just writ large. My husband has to watch the weather forecasts every night, and my son has to watch them every hour." When I ask about their parents, the mothers comment, "Well, my father was rather similar to my husband—he collected model trains and knew everything there was to know about each one... >>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<<

This "global warming" thing... what Watt is what?
In global warming and climate studies, figures are often given in Watts per meter squared (Wm-2) -- what does that mean... >>Read More<<

UN Global Warming Treaty Restrictions Would Spread Misery and Poverty in Africa, Policy Groups Say
Nairobi, Kenya - Citing the harm the United Nations' global warming treaty brings to developing nations, The National Center for Public Policy Research and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) are distributing "Kyoto Protocol Survival Kits" containing items that symbolize life in an energy-restricted world at the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Nairobi... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week - Bainbridge, NY
To bolster our claim that "There Has Been No Net Global Warming for the Past 70 Years," each week we highlight the temperature record of one of the 1221 U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) stations from 1930-2000... >>Read More<<

UN climate pact unlikely until after Bush: experts
(1) The Chinese are not spurning Kyoto type carbon caps because of U.S. policy, but because of their own desires for rapid economic growth:... >>Read More<<

THE PRICE OF CLIMATE ALARMISM: "GREEN POLICIES THREATEN UK ECONOMY, MILLIONS OF JOBS"
British Airways has warned that businesses will quit Britain if the battle against global warming dictates the government's aviation policy and plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport are delayed... >>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<<