Climate & Environment Review: April 12, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
April 12, 2007

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What Next on Global Warming?
Now that the Supreme Court has decided that the EPA must deal with global warming under the Clean Air Act, what will happen? Not much, if the past is prologue... >>Read More<<

Call for NIWA to be disbanded
The latest attempt by NIWA to explain away the extreme rain that fell in Northland these past few days provides the strongest argument for the disbanding of NIWA and the return of all weather matters to MetService, according to Professor Augie Auer, a former chief meteorologist and now chairman of the science panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition... >>Read More<<

Global warming shift - Blog post
I’ve also noticed a change. In giving public speeches - usually to charity groups, schools, businesses and political groupies - I’ve noticed more people prepared to publicly confess they are are doubters, too... >>Read More<<

Kerry, Gingrich announce climate showdown
Former House Speaker and possible presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and 2004 Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) are set to square off on climate change next week, their staffs announced Thursday... >>Read More<<

Global Warming Skeptic Challenges Gore to Debate
(CNSNews.com) - A British skeptic of global warming "alarmism" on Tuesday challenged climate change activist and former Vice President Al Gore to a debate on the issue... >>Read More<<

Sydney Blacks Out for Global Warming
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The Sydney Opera House's gleaming white-shelled roof was darkened Saturday night along with much of the rest of Australia's largest city, which switched off the lights to register concern about global warming... >>Read More<<

Leftist hate: Gore fans abuse, threaten Gore foes
NEW YORK -- The Tennessee Center for Policy Research recently generated headlines when it announced that former Vice President Al Gore's Nashville estate "devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours" of electricity in 2006, "more than 20 times the national average"... >>Read More<<

Critic takes longer view of warming
Syun-Ichi Akasofu's greatest successes in a career of studying the aurora came when he questioned the conventional ideas about the phenomenon... >>Read More<<