Climate & Environment Review: December 1, 2006

Climate & Environment Review: 2nd Edition
December 1, 2006

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An Inconvenient Debate
It is hard, if not impossible, not to put in parallel the release of Al Gore's documentary film in Europe and the anger of some French climatologists towards Claude Allègre. The film, "An Inconvenient Truth", is acclaimed while attempt is made to discredit Claude Allègre who dared raise his doubts about accepted wisdom over human-induced global warming... >>Read More<<

Canada should breathe easy
Inconvenient truth for pro-Kyoto crowd
That's how much of the world's man-made CO2 Canada produces. Most Canadians don't know that. We are, as the saying goes, the proverbial "drop in the bucket... >>Read More<<

Carbon Dioxide (Urban CO2 Dome - Other U.S. Cities) – 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<<

Africa's Schoolchildren Should Not Have to Study by Candlelight
With only about ten percent of sub-Saharan Africa able to enjoy the enormous benefits of electricity, dozens of schoolchildren from the Kariobangi South Primary School in Nairobi participated this morning in a candlelight ceremony to dramatize the millions of children forced to do their homework by candlelight... >>Read More<<

ANOTHER ECO-SCARE DEBUNKED AS WORLD'S FORESTS EXPAND
For years, environmentalists have been raising the alarm about deforestation. But even as forests continue to shrink in some nations, others grow - and new research suggests the planet may now be nearing the transition to a greater sum of forests... >>Read More<<

Arctic resists warming
RESEARCHERS: New patterns of cooling ocean currents, winds suggest region is struggling to keep its balance... >>Read More<<

Boxer plans Senate hearings on global warming
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is shown in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON - Automakers and manufacturers, beware: There's a new environmental policy boss in town, she scowls a lot, and two of her favorite phrases are "global warming" and "extensive hearings... >>Read More<<

Biogenic Methyl Iodide Production in the World's Oceans
The authors measured trace gas and pigment concentrations in seawater, while identifying and enumerating picophytoprokaryotes during two cruises in the Atlantic Ocean and one in the Indian Ocean, "focusing on methyl iodide production and the importance of a biologically related source... >>Read More<<

Climate change is as serious as WMD - Annan
Annan made the appeal as he launched a three-day gathering of environment chiefs, tasked with stepping up action against global warming... >>Read More<<

EEI Policy Note
An Assessment of Kyoto and Emerging Issues for the 12th Conference of the Parties:
Europe’s Performance, California Dreaming, Trade Wars and Waiting for Godot... >>Read More<<