Climate & Environment Review: January 30, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
January 30, 2007

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So what happened at AGU last week?
With thirteen thousand people at a confab of geophysicists and geophysicists-in-training, a few thousand of whom work on something related to the climate system, you expect to hear about climate change. In perhaps a short decade, climate change has rapidly surpassed seismology as the primary membrane between the public and the geophysics research world... >>Read More<<

Rush on Monckton letter to Senators
RUSH: This is fabulous. Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists... >>Read More<<

Sealing the Fate of Antarctic
The scare du jour on global warming is a massive inundation of our coast caused by rapid loss of ice from Antarctica. It's a core point in Al Gore's science fiction movie, and it continues to be thumped by doomsayers around the world, in the echo chamber of the alarmist media. It's also a bunch of hooey... >>Read More<<

The Dupes Of Hazard
Climate Change: Can you fight global warming by paying more for a plane ticket and still drive your Lexus to the airport? It seems that environmentalists and their money are soon parted... >>Read More<<

Some Good News for Christmas–Reptile and Butterflies Flourishing
How many times have you seen articles in newspapers about global warming causing the extinction of some frog, toad, lizard, butterfly, or you name it, specie? If today’s newspaper doesn’t contain such an article, Google “Global Warming and Extinction” and enjoy over two million sites. Repeatedly, if you see “Global Warming” and any specie in the title of an article, heaven help members of that specie, right?... >>Read More<<

Storminess in the Netherlands
Noting that "a great amount of evidence for changing storminess over northwestern Europe is based on indirect data and reanalysis data rather than on station wind data," the authors investigated trends in storminess over the Netherlands derived from hourly records of 10-m wind speed observations made at thirteen meteorological stations scattered across the country that have uninterrupted records for the time period 1962-2002... >>Read More<<

Day Two at AGU
It is impossible to convey the overwhelming number of papers and presentations here. Through the week, my notes have invariably deteriorated. By the time you get home, they are unintelligible. I’ m going to diarize them a little – so I don’t forget totally and to share a bit of the experience. (And since CA readers have in effect paid for the trip, I’ll try to report as well as make my own presentation)... >>Read More<<