Climate & Environment Review: May 18, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
May 18, 2007

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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is an organization for research,
independent policy analysis, and public education in global environmental change...>>Read More<<

Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now
Skeptics
Following the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science... >>Read More<<

Does the 2007 IPCC Statement for Policymakers Accurately Present the Observations of Recent Global Temperature Trends?
“Eleven of the last twelve years (1995 -2006) rank among the 12 warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface temperature (since 1850)” [based on “The average of near surface air temperature over land, and sea surface temperature"... >>Read More<<

Scientists Back Off Theory of a Colder Europe in a Warming World
OSLO — Mainstream climatologists who have feared that global warming could have the paradoxical effect of cooling northwestern Europe or even plunging it into a small ice age have stopped worrying about that particular disaster, although it retains a vivid hold on the public imagination... >>Read More<<

Associate State Climatologist Fired for Exposing Warming Myths
University of Washington climate scientist Mark Albright was dismissed on March 12 from his position as associate state climatologist, just weeks after exposing false claims of shrinking glaciers in the Cascade Mountains... >>Read More<<

Liberal ‘Scientists’ Lead Jihad Against Global-Warming Skeptics
On Oct. 30, 2006, Senators John D. Rockefeller (D.-W.Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R.-Maine) wrote an extraordinary open letter to ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson urging him to end his company’s support of “climate-change-denial front groups”... >>Read More<<

Climate messages are 'off target'
Alarmist messages about global warming are counter-productive, the head of a leading climate research centre says... >>Read More<<