Climate & Environment Review: November 30, 2006

Climate & Environment Review: 2nd Edition
November 30, 2006

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EU ARGUMENT AGAINST MONEY-TRANSFER TO CHINA? "KYOTO PROTOCOL GOES AGAINST MONTREAL PROTOCOL...."
NAIROBI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Delegates at a U.N.-backed climate change conference have deferred a deal to allow new refrigerant plants in China and India to get lucrative funding under the Kyoto global warming pact, a U.N. official said... >>Read More<<

Galactic Cosmic Rays, Clouds and Climate Change
Harrison and Stephenson explored the robustness of this chain of events by examining relationships between diffuse solar radiation and cloud amount measured at ten United Kingdom solar radiation-recording sites and "a globally representative measure of cosmic ray ion production, the daily average neutron count rate (Simpson, 2000)," which "has been measured by the University of Chicago at Climax, Colorado [USA] since 1951."... >>Read More<<

FRENCH PLAN WOULD TAX IMPORTS FROM NON-SIGNERS OF KYOTO PACT
PARIS, Nov. 13 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of France on Monday proposed introducing punitive taxes on imports from countries that refused to sign the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol, which is aimed at curbing global warming... >>Read More<<

Coldest November day in 100 years
SYDNEY today recorded its lowest minimum temperature in November for more than 100 years - with the mercury dropping as low as 8C today... >>Read More<<

CONSENSUS IS NONSENSUS IN SCIENTIFIC MATTERS
The concept of consensus means little more than a majority of opinions on a given matter. In politics this is the best we can do in making decisions to proceed with political actions. In the scientific world consensus is meaningless, and often unscientific, and worse, often wrong. Even the act of seeking such a consensus as a form of proof is not science... >>Read More<<

Carbon Sequestration Methods Expensive, Complex
SAN FRANCISCO — Policymakers should not take carbon emission reduction policies lightly, according to the new study “Sense and Sequestration: The Carbon Sequestration Cycle Explained” released today by the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California... >>Read More<<

Climate-crisis industry out to cash in on greenhouse gas fears
Kiwifruit is indeed under threat from green fundamentalism - as indeed may be the right of everyone of us to breath out about 2kg of CO2 a day. Jim Anderton, New Zealand minister of agriculture (Letters, November 7), would do better for his country and the world if, rather than plead his case with those who are drafting CO2 rules to curb his economy and impose more taxes, he challenged the false assumptions of global warming ideology... >>Read More<<

Climate Change debate - Warmers in Corners
You don't need a conspiracy to know when its time to make money. So let's be fair, their is probably no more 'conspiracy' among Global warming ideologues than in any field of business, although Al Gore's substantial
investment in 'Green' business (Generation Investment Management) and David Milliband's closeness to the nuclear industry might merit a peek... >>Read More<<

EXPERTS CONFRONT 'FORCES OF DARKNESS' ON WARMING
Nov. 10, 2006 - "We just haven't been doing the hard work of getting across to the public just how serious the situation is!" The speaker was one of 48 American climate experts gathered from around the country and crowded into a small second-floor hotel meeting room for an all-day closed-door strategy session... >>Read More<<

Darn Drought Data
We have all heard the news that droughts will certainly become longer, more frequent, and more severe thanks to global warming. Higher temperatures will surely increase rates of potential evapotranspiration, and even if precipitation patterns remain unchanged, the odds will favor more droughts in the future... >>Read More<<