Climate & Environment Review: December 13, 2006

Climate & Environment Review
December 13, 2006

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Climate police should chill
Stop the ark, I want to get off. Al Gore was Oprah's guest this week, and she sweetly referred to him as our "Noah" of global warming... >>Read More<<

Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow... >>Read More<<

A march of middle-class miserabilists
‘Trees don’t rape.’ Daubed in a red scrawl on a green placard, and held aloft by someone marching behind a giant papier mâché hare (under the banner ‘Hare today, gone tomorrow…’), this protest slogan captured the tenor of Saturday’s march in central London against climate change chaos... >>Read More<<

CLIMATE ALARMISTS REJECT SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON HURRICANES AND GLOBAL WARMING
Now that the WMO has issued a consensus statement on the state of climate science, scientists should be careful in how they characterize the overall state of the science. I have complete respect for scientists who have strong views on what the data, models, and theory shows, and fully expect them to make their case to their colleagues and others. However, scientists also should be careful not to represent their own views as in fact representing a consensus of the community when they do not, especially when making arguments for political action... >>Read More<<

ARE HUMANS INVOLVED IN GLOBAL WARMING?
A recent issue of Environmental Geology contains an article entitled "On global forces of nature driving the Earth's climate. Are humans involved?" by two scientists at the University of Southern California. Before we examine the article, let's get a few things on the table... >>Read More<<

CHINA-INDIA TSUNAMI OF CONSUMER DEMAND LOOMING
Hundreds of millions of new Chinese and Indian consumers are set to shake off poverty and fuel a multi-decade investment and spending boom... >>Read More<<

CHINA REAPS THE BENEFITS OF EUROPE'S CARBON CREDITS
BEIJING - China stands to benefit from the booming global greenhouse-gas market. Foreign investors are flocking to pay Chinese energy companies and factories to reduce pollution instead of spending far more to cut emissions at home... >>Read More<<

CO2 EMISSIONS ACCELERATING
SYDNEY, Australia: The rate at which humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has more than doubled since the 1990s, according to Australian research... >>Read More<<

CAN WE GO ON BUILDING ROADS AND RUNWAYS AND SAVE THE PLANET?
Concern about climate change is dominating the discussion of transport policy. But what course is policy now likely to take? Social anthropologist Benny Peiser says politicians will find it impossible to deliver policies that match the threat that they say climate change presents. Andrew Forster went to meet him... >>Read More<<

A Conversation with Bjorn Lomborg
Editor's note: TCS Contributor Jason Miks recently interviewed Danish statistician and author Bjorn Lomborg... >>Read More<<

BRUSSELS CAPS CARBON QUOTAS - ELECTRICITY PRICES SET TO RISE STEEPLY
The European Commission imposed swinging cuts in permitted carbon emissions by industry yesterday, provoking a storm of protest from European governments and warnings that the cost of Europe's emissions trading system (ETS) would drive up electricity prices... >>Read More<<

Chatter from the Blogshpere on NSTA/L aurie David case
You may have heard that NSTA has turned down Laurie David’s offer of 50,000 free DVDs of the movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” What we didn’t hear is what Laurie David left out of her editorial in the Washington Post. In a recent press release Gerald Wheeler, Executive Director of the NSTA, explains that NSTA did not outright reject the opportunity... >>Read More<<