Climate & Environment Review: March 2, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
March 2, 2007

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Cosmoclimatology: A New Perspective on Global Warming
Has recent global warming primarily been caused by increases in the air's CO2 content? Or has it been caused by reductions in low-level cloudiness that have caused less solar radiation to be reflected back to space, thereby permitting more solar energy to warm the earth?... >>Read More<<

African trade fears carbon footprint backlash
"What is global warming?", asks Samuel Mauthike, a small scale vegetable farmer in Kirinyaga, Kenya's central province, as he crouches down compressing the moist soil around his green bean plants... >>Read More<<

Colorado Streamflow: Its Past and Likely Future
Noting that "paleoclimatic studies indicate that the natural variability in 20th century [streamflow] gage records is likely only a subset of the full range of natural variability," and citing in support of this statement the studies of Stockton and Jacoby (1976), Smith and Stockton (1981), Meko et al... >>Read More<<

20 New Ocean Species Found in Indonesia
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday... >>Read More<<

Cheney on Global Warming
Sydney, Australia, Feb. 23, 2007” - In an exclusive interview today, ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Vice President Dick Cheney about the topic of global warming, a subject Mr. Cheney has rarely addressed in the past... >>Read More<<

East Braces for Deadly Winter Storm
DETROIT (AP) - A huge winter storm plowed toward the East Coast on Sunday after dumping as much as 2 feet of snow in the upper Midwest, grounding hundreds of airline flights and closing major highways on the Plains... >>Read More<<

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy... >>Read More<<

Effects of a Warming, Drying and CO2-Accreting Atmosphere on European Forest Productivity
Hoping to shed more light on this important subject, Davi et al. used a meteorological model following "a moderate CO2 emission scenario" - B2 of the IPCC - to calculate a 1960-2100 average temperature increase of 3.1°C and a mean summer rainfall decrease of 27%... >>Read More<<

CLIMATE HYSTERICS ATTACK CLIMATE ALARMISTS
Labour was accused of downgrading its commitment to tackle global warming yesterday as Tony Blair and David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, were charged with reneging on a promise to introduce a Climate Change Bill... >>Read More<<

Coral Bleaching: Probiotic Hypothesis to the Rescue!
The authors of an intriguing paper recently published in Environmental Microbiology (Reshef et al., 2006) develop a case for what they call the Coral Probiotic Hypothesis. This concept, in their words, "posits that a dynamic relationship exists between symbiotic microorganisms and environmental conditions which brings about the selection of the most advantageous coral holobiont"... >>Read More<<