Climate & Environment Review: February 21, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
February 22, 2007

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Global warming skeptics adrift in a tide of dissent
John Christy has seen what happens when there is not enough energy available for people to use for their daily needs. "Life is brutal and short," says Christy, a renowned atmospheric scientist who spent a hard decade in the '70s as a Baptist missionary in Africa teaching science in rural villages... >>Read More<<

Cleveland's weather wizards downplay global warming
Sure, a panel of 2,500 scientists this month declared that it is "unequivocal" that global warming is occurring and at least 90 percent certain that humans are responsible... >>Read More<<

The politics of global warming
Timothy Ball is no wishy-washy skeptic of global warming. The Canadian climatologist, who has a Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years, says that the widely propagated “fact” that humans are contributing to global warming is the “greatest deception in the history of science”... >>Read More<<

AGW Nanny report - Prince Andrew taking the piste
PRINCE Andrew landed in trouble last night after taking a private jet to go skiing on his way home from a conference on GLOBAL WARMING... >>Read More<<

Inconvenient Kyoto Truths
Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there?... >>Read More<<

EU ENERGY MINISTERS CAN'T AGREE ON CLIMATE CHANGE TARGET
PARIS: In a sign that even the fight against global warming may not be enough to unify fragmented European energy policies, EU energy ministers backed away Thursday from agreeing on a binding target for using renewable energy... >>Read More<<

Al Gore to hold "Live Earth" global warming concerts around the world
Issue: Reuters reports that Al Gore and several other activists plan a series of global warming concerts to be held in July simultaneously in Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, London and several other cities in the U.S
and Japan that have not yet been announced... >>Read More<<

ANTARCTIC TEMPERATURES DISAGREE WITH CLIMATE MODEL PREDICTIONS
A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models... >>Read More<<

Chinese horde menaces IPCC
The highly touted IPCC opinion that humanistic climate change is very (90%) likely masks a non-consensual reality. Seems there was a 5 hour debate behind the closed green doors before this compromise figure was settled on. The usual suspects wanted an even higher figure -- 99% or virtually certain. (While this no doubt accurately measures their conviction it does not reflect the dramatically divided science, but that is another story)... >>Read More<<

Gore announces climate-change concerts
Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi... >>Read More<<