Climate & Environment Review: March 7, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
March 7, 2007

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Phil Jones and the Dutiful Comrades
Beneath the seemingly placid world of U.S. weather co-operatives, recent analysts have found a turbulent world of changing observation times, with regime change after regime change... >>Read More<<

Things more worrisome than Global Warming - Venezuela to Seize Foreign Oil Projects
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez ordered by decree on Monday the takeover of oil projects run by foreign oil companies in Venezuela's Orinoco River region... >>Read More<<

Soil Organic Carbon in Old-Growth Forests
In an attempt to rectify this situation, Zhou et al. say they "conducted a study to measure the long-term dynamics (1979 to 2003) of soil organic carbon stock in old-growth forests (age > 400 years) at the Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve in Guangdong Province, China... >>Read More<<

Two Hundred Years of Forest Fires in Ontario, Canada
In a study designed to see if any of these negative prognostications have come to pass, Girardin et al. reconstructed a history of area burned within the province of Ontario for the period AD 1781-1982 from 25 tree-ring width chronologies obtained from various sites throughout the province, spurred on, perhaps, by the increase in area burned within Ontario that is known to have occurred from 1970 through 1981 (Podur et al., 2002)... >>Read More<<

SURGING TRANSPORT EMISSIONS THREATEN EU KYOTO TARGETS
OSLO (Reuters) - A surge in transport in the European Union is jeopardizing goals for cutting greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Monday... >>Read More<<

Things more scary than AGW
The terrorist threat facing Britain from home-grown al-Qaeda agents is higher than at any time since the September 11 attacks in 2001, secret intelligence documents reveal... >>Read More<<

STRAWMEN AND CLIMATE SKEPTICISM
Andrew Glikson trots out the usual army of straw men in his recent article regarding the effects of climate change "skepticism"... >>Read More<<

The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Natural Tendencies
When coastal engineers decide whether to dredge sand and pump it onto an eroded beach, they use mathematical models to predict how much sand they will need, when and where they must apply it, the rate it will move and how long the project will survive in the face of coastal storms and erosion... >>Read More<<

IRISH GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORT UP 140%
Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from transport remain a key, but avoidable, obstacle to the EU reaching its Kyoto climate change targets, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report, released in Copenhagen today... >>Read More<<

Top scientist wants halt on new coal power plants
WASHINGTON — One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture and bury greenhouse gases... >>Read More<<