Climate & Environment Review: March 21, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
March 21, 2007

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Does a Global Temperature Exist?
Physical, mathematical, and observational grounds are employed to show that there is no physically meaningful global temperature for the Earth in the context of the issue of global warming... >>Read More<<

More Eco-elitism
Trudie Styler: One rule for her, and another for the rest of us
It's one rule for them, and another for the rest of us.
Trudie Styler, wife of Sting and self-styled eco-warrior, recently took a helicopter to travel 80 miles from Wiltshire to Devon, a journey that would have taken less than two hours by train... >>Read More<<

Kerry's new book hails everyday people saving the environment
WASHINGTON --Sen. John Kerry was dealt a bitter loss in 2004, but he also found inspiration for a new book during the long, grueling presidential campaign... >>Read More<<

GLACIERS AND ICE-SHEETS
To understand the relationship between global warming and the breakdown of ice-sheets it is really necessary to know how ice-sheets work. Ice-sheets do not simply grow and melt in response to average global temperature... >>Read More<<

GLOBAL WARMING: UNGRATEFUL GREENS BEAT UP ON THE NEW YORK TIMES
On Tuesday, The New York Times carried a story that could signal a turn in the global warming debate. It said that many scientists believed that Al Gore and his allies were guilty of exaggerations and overstatements... >>Read More<<

IMPLICATIONS OF TEMPORAL CHANGE IN URBAN HEAT ISLAND INTENSITY OBSERVED AT BEIJING AND WUHAN STATIONS
Temporal change in urbanization-induced warming at two national basic meteorological stations of China and its contribution to the overall warming are analyzed... >>Read More<<

Nuclear Power Industry Wins First Site Approval in 30 Years
WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2007 (ENS) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Thursday approved the first Early Site Permit for a nuclear power plant - demonstrating a new and previously untested licensing process for locating new nuclear plants in the United States. Critics say new nuclear plants are not needed if energy conservation is implemented... >>Read More<<

New species of leopard with largest fangs in cat world discovered
It is a modern-day sabre-tooth tiger with fearsome fangs capable of killing its prey in a single bite.
This clouded leopard which feasts on monkeys, deer and pigs has been discovered living deep in the Borneo rain forest... >>Read More<<

How one number touched off big climate-change fight at UW
The number is eye-popping, and it was repeated so often it became gospel.
The snowpack in the Cascades, it was said, shrank by 50 percent in the last half-century. It's been presented as glaring evidence of the cost exacted by global warming — the drying up of a vital water source... >>Read More<<

No Evidence that Climate Warming is Manmade: Then why all the fuss?
In Paris last month the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its scientific report on global warming. Its main conclusion was that the current warming trend is “very likely” caused by human activities, principally the release of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels... >>Read More<<