Climate & Environment Review: March 6, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
March 6, 2007

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Hurricanes (Indian Ocean) – Summary
Climate alarmists vociferously contend that global warming promotes increases in both the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. We here explore this claim as it applies to tropical cyclones of the Indian Ocean via a brief summary of the findings of pertinent scientific articles we have reviewed on our website over the past few years... >>Read More<<

Group questions level of energy use at Gore home
High electric billing records show 'green power' also was purchased
A day after a film about his efforts to combat global warming won an Oscar, former Vice President Al Gore was called a hypocrite by a Tennessee group that said his Belle Meade home is consuming too much energy... >>Read More<<

Inconvenient Truths - Novel science fiction on global warming
This Sunday, Al Gore will probably win an Academy Award for his global-warming documentary
The main point of the movie is that, unless we do something very serious, very soon about carbon dioxide emissions, much of Greenland’s 630,000 cubic miles of ice is going to fall into the ocean, raising sea levels over twenty feet by the year 2100... >>Read More<<

HYPOCRITES OF THE WEEK: TIME FOR BRITISH MINISTERS TO GO BACK TO HORSE-DRAWN CARTS
MINISTERS' green credentials were called into question yesterday as new figures showed the government's fleet of chauffeur-driven cars clocked up nearly three million miles last year... >>Read More<<

Forecast Skill Of Season-to-Interannual Climate Prediction"
There are several candid quotes in the article that clearly show the current level of prediction skill on the seasonal time scales. Excerpts from the article that report on this skill include... >>Read More<<

GLOBAL WARMING BUBBLE TO BURST?
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The smartest money in global warming stocks may be scurrying to the exit just when the enthusiasm for alternative-energy companies is at an all-time high... >>Read More<<

Greenhouse sceptics to congregate
HARD-CORE global warming sceptics will descend on Canberra today for the release of a book claiming environmentalism is the new religion... >>Read More<<

'GLOBAL WARMING': AN OFFICIAL PSEUDOSCIENCE
On Nov. 1, 2005, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories announced that "if humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business-as-usual manner for the next few centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar to 14.5 degrees warmer than current day..." >>Read More<<

EUROPE IS NOT AMUSED
In the latest installment of what has become an increasingly sorry drama, the European Union's Ambassador to the United States, former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, has written to Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif)... >>Read More<<

EXCERPT FROM USELESS ARITHMETIC
Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis
According to Greek mythology, Zeus once released two eagles in order to find the center of the earth... >>Read More<<