Climate & Environment Review: February 21, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
February 21, 2007

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Former Greenpeace leader Calls for Nuclear Energy
In 1971, Patrick Moore set sail with 11 other men in a leaky old halibut trawler from Vancouver, British Columbia, to protest against U.S. underground nuclear-weapons testing off the west coast of Alaska -- creating what would become the environmental activist group Greenpeace... >>Read More<<

President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity
Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis... >>Read More<<

Experts question theory on global warming
Believe it or not. There are only about a dozen scientists working on 9,575 glaciers in India under the aegis of the Geological Society of India. Is the available data enough to believe that the glaciers are retreating due to
global warming?... >>Read More<<

Lord Monckton responds to Ellen Gooodman’s Global Warming Diatribe
Dear Ms. Goodman - I saw your political piece about climate in the Globe. I should like to mention of the science.
The IPCC's latest report is in fact appreciably less alarming than its predecessors. The high-end sea-level forecast to 2100 has been cut by half, and the best estimate is that the rate of increase in sea level will be no greater than in the past century - i.e. between a third and a quarter of the average rise in sea level since the last Ice Age ended 10,000 years ago. Nothing to worry about there... >>Read More<<

Is the Global Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation Decreasing?
Noting that "variations of the MOC on multidecadal and longer time scales are accompanied by a characteristic inter-hemispheric SST anomaly pattern, with anomalies of opposite signs in the North and South Atlantic, Latif et al. investigated this question by means of an Atlantic dipole sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly index that "was computed from 1900 onward using observations (Rayner et al., 2003)"... >>Read More<<

Global warming hearing postponed due to freezing weather in D.C.
Issue: A House Subcommittee was scheduled to have a hearing today discussing whether greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are contributing to global warming. However, due to freezing rain and expected ice accumulations of one-half to three-quarters of an inch in the nation's capital, the hearing was postponed... >>Read More<<

Global Dimming and Brightening
Gerald Stanhill of the Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences at the Volcani Center in Bet Dagan, Israel, raises some questions of real concern in the 30 January 2007 issue of EOS - the "Newspaper of the Earth and Space Sciences" that is published weekly by the American Geophysical Union - which questions are intended, in his words, "to draw attention to the challenge that recently reported changes in solar radiation at the earth's surface, Eg↓, pose to the consensus explanation of climate change"... >>Read More<<

GERMANY'S MERKEL SAYS SHE WILL FIGHT AGAINST GENERAL AUTO EMISSION REDUCTION
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she would try to block any European Commission attempt to impose a general emission reduction on the auto sector and will oppose including the car industry in the CO2 trading program... >>Read More<<