Climate & Environment Review: March 20, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
March 20, 2007

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ANOTHER HANSEN SCARE DEBUNKED: ICE SHEET MELTING LESS SIGNIFICANT THAN THOUGHT
Ice shed from the giant sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland is responsible for just 12% of the current rate of global sea level rise, according to a new review... >>Read More<<

Two Decades of Northern Hemispheric Greening
Using a leaf area index data set for the period 1981-2000, which was created from satellite-derived observations of the normalized difference vegetation index parameter for land areas above 25°N latitude, the authors investigated "spatial patterns of mechanisms controlling current enhanced vegetation growth in the Northern Hemisphere," focusing on "how recent changes in precipitation, temperature [and] atmospheric CO2 concentration have influenced vegetation growth"... >>Read More<<

Britain paves the green road to serfdom
Homeowners who refuse to make their properties energy efficient will face financial penalties under drastic government plans to transform Britain into the world's first 'green' economy... >>Read More<<

Atmospheric Methane: The Good-News Trend Continues
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has long predicted that earth's tropospheric methane (CH4) concentration would rise dramatically throughout the 21st century... >>Read More<<

All in a Good Cause – Mann-made global warming
Here's a story you haven't heard, and you should have.
An intelligence source, working for a government agency. He's not a spy, he's an analyst. He uses computers to crunch numbers and at the end of his work, out pops the truth that was hiding in the original data. Let's call him "Mann"... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Fort Bragg, CA
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<<

CAUTION URGED ON HYPING CLIMATE 'RISKS'
Two leading UK climate researchers have criticised those among their peers who they say are "overplaying" the global warming message... >>Read More<<

Storms (Europe) – Summary
Among the highly publicized changes in weather phenomena that are predicted to attend the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content are increases in the frequency and severity of all types of storms... >>Read More<<

Urban CO2 Fluxes in Melbourne, Australia
"Using the eddy covariance approach," in the words of the authors, "fluxes of CO2 were measured at a suburban site (Preston) in Melbourne, Australia from February 2004 to June 2005 to investigate temporal variability," while "a second site (Surrey Hills) with differing surface characteristics (in particular, greater vegetation cover) was also established in Melbourne and ran simultaneously for six months (February 2004 to July 2004)... >>Read More<<

A 1250-Year History of Summer Temperature in the European Alps
An annually-resolved mean summer (June-September) temperature record for the European Alps, covering the period AD 755-2004 and based on 180 recent and historic larch (Larix decidua Mill.) maximum latewood density series, was developed using the regional curve standardization method that preserves interannual to multi-centennial temperature-related variations... >>Read More<<