Climate & Environment Review: March 8, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
March 8, 2007

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OPINION: CONGRESS NEEDS A MARSHALL PLAN IN CLIMATE-CHANGE DEBATE
The recent report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the consequences of increasing greenhouse gases (GHG) is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding climate science... >>Read More<<

UKRAINIAN INDUSTRY LINES UP TO CASH IN $780 MILLION ON EU CARBON CREDITS
Iryna Stavchuk, climate change coordinator at the National Environmental Center in Ukraine, said governmental red tape is stalling approval of many potentially lucrative carbon-credit trading deals... >>Read More<<

NUMERICAL MODELS, INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND GLOBAL WARMING THEORY
Global warming theory is a prediction based on complex mathematical models developed to explain the dynamics of the atmosphere... >>Read More<<

BRITAIN STRUGGLING TO MEET ITS CARBON TARGETS
The government is having difficulty meeting its voluntary goal of cutting carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2010,
raising doubts over its legal target of a 60 percent carbon dioxide cut by 2050, MPs said on Thursday... >>Read More<<

PROBLEM SOLVED: BRISTOL ACADEMICS CLAIM BRANSON'S PRIZE
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(CCNMatthews - March 01, 2007) - Scientists at the University of Bristol have cracked climate change. Less than a month into Richard Branson's five-year competition, academics will take their winning idea to Virgin Earth and walk away with a cool $25 million... >>Read More<<

ON THE CHEAP: ONLY $100 BILLION FOR CANADA TO ACHIEVE KYOTO TARGETS
OTTAWA -- It would cost $100 billion over four years for Canada to meet its Kyoto targets under a plan by Friends of the Earth and Corporate Knights magazine, one of the first attempts to put a price tag on addressing climate change... >>Read More<<

MARS MELT HINTS AT SOLAR, NOT HUMAN CAUSE FOR WARMING, SCIENTIST SAYS
Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural-and not a human-induced-cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory... >>Read More<<

OPINION: ALL THOSE SCIENTISTS MAY STILL BE WRONG
On Sunday, Al Gore's film about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, won two Oscars. Today, the Royal Society starts a two-day event showcasing the science of climate change according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Selma, AL
To bolster our claim that "There Has Been Little Net Global Warming Over the Past 70 Years," each week we highlight the temperature record of one of the 1221 U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) stations from 1930-2000... >>Read More<<