Climate & Environment Review: April 10, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
April 10, 2007

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Edwards's Energy Plan Proposes a Cap on Heat-Trapping Gases
Saying global warming is an international emergency, John Edwards called on Tuesday for a cap on the emission of heat-trapping gases and stricter standards on automobile emissions... >>Read More<<

WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING ON IPCC REPORT
Press Briefing on the Second International Panel on Climate Change
PARTICIPANTS
Dr. Sharon Hays, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Jim Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality... >>Read More<<

US EMISSIONS LAW COULD STILL FACE HURDLES
Despite a favorable Supreme Court ruling, another suit, the EPA or Congress could still stymie state legislation... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Newnan, GA
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<<

The Court Rules on Warming
It would be hard to overstate the importance of yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court that the federal government has the authority to regulate the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by motor vehicles... >>Read More<<

Range Expansion (Plants - Europe) – Summary
When the atmosphere's CO2 concentration is experimentally increased, the vast majority of earth's plants lose less water to the atmosphere via transpiration while producing more biomass, the latter of which phenomena is generally more strongly expressed in woody perennial species than in annual herbaceous plants... >>Read More<<

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: TIMES EDITORS WORRY ABOUT CLIMATE HYSTERIA
A CLIMATE OF INTOLERANCE
Facts, not emotion, should inform discussion of climate change... >>Read More<<

'Very active' hurricane season predicted
DENVER - The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should be "very active," with nine hurricanes and a good chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast, a top researcher said Tuesday... >>Read More<<

US DEMOCRATS PROMISE MANDATORY, ECONOMY-WIDE CLIMATE BILL BY END OF THE YEAR
Some sections of a grim scientific assessment of the impact of global warming on human, animal and plant life issued in Brussels yesterday were softened at the insistence of officials from China and the United States, participants in the negotiations said... >>Read More<<

Global Warming Heresy
Most climatologists agree that the earth's temperature has increased about a degree over the last century. The debate is how much of it is due to mankind's activity... >>Read More<<

Justices Say E.P.A. Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases
WASHINGTON, April 2 — In one of its most important environmental decisions in years, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases in automobile emissions... >>Read More<<

The Dissenting Opinion
Here is the concluding section of the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Roberts (and joined by Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito) to the Supreme Court’s ruling that carbon dioxide regulation falls under the EPA’s purview under the Clean Air Act... >>Read More<<

Solar Forcing of Holocene Climate
The authors developed what they call "the first complete high-resolution [17-year] climate proxy for the southwest [United States] in the form of δ18O variations in a speleothem covering the entire Holocene," which they derived from a 14-cm-long stalagmite found in Pink Panther Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico... >>Read More<<