Climate & Environment Review: February 13, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
February 13, 2007

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CLIMATE CHANGE THE LATEST DOOMSAYER CALL
ARMAGEDDON is almost upon us if our modern doomsayers are to be believed: if climate change doesn't get rid of us, world terrorism will, or name your choice... >>Read More<<

DISSENT, DENIAL AND THE HOLOCAUST
In a recent column Ellen Goodman says, "I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future"... >>Read More<<

A REPLY TO DANIEL FISCHER
Over the last 30 years we've made significant progress toward cleaner air, water and soil. Support for such efforts is virtually universal. But the global warming movement goes far beyond the logic and common sense of environmental action (it's a bad idea to poison our world) and ventures into the dubious realm of eschatology (the end is near and those who doubt it are heretics)... >>Read More<<

COSMOCLIMATOLOGY - A NEW THEORY EMERGES
Changes in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays alter the Earth's cloudiness. A recent experiment has shown how electrons liberated by cosmic rays assist in making aerosols, the building blocks of cloud condensation nuclei, while anomalous climatic trends in Antarctica confirm the role of clouds in helping to drive climate change... >>Read More<<

COSMIC RAYS BLAMED FOR GLOBAL WARMING
Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research... >>Read More<<

Global-warming skeptics cite being 'treated like a pariah'
Scientists skeptical of climate-change theories say they are increasingly coming under attack -- treatment that may make other analysts less likely to present contrarian views about global warming... >>Read More<<

G7 MEETING Steinbrueck says ministers fail to reach conclusion on climate change
ESSEN, Germany (AFX) - German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said G7 finance ministers and central bank governors were not able to agree a common stance on climate change and energy issues at their weekend meeting... >>Read More<<

GAMMA-RAY BLASTS RE-EVALUATED
Scientists are revisiting the standard explanation for the most energetic explosions in the universe, whose cause was an utter mystery until a few years ago... >>Read More<<

Climate change concerts 'to dwarf Live Aid'
A series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" is being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before an audience of a global audience of 2bn... >>Read More<<

An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change
Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist, says the [global warming] orthodoxy must be challenged
When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works.. >>Read More<<