Climate & Environment Review: June 11, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
June 11, 2007

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World climate predictors right only half the time
“The open admission by a climate scientist of the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Dr Jim Renwick, that his organisation achieves only 50 per cent accuracy in its climate
forecasts, and that this is as good as any other forecaster around the world, should be a wake-up call for world political leaders,” said Rear Admiral Jack Welch, chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition...>>Read More<<

Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: Separating Scientific Fact from Personal Opinion
If there is any human enterprise that should be free of appeal to authority, it is science, where observation and impartial analysis are supposed to reign supreme... >>Read More<<

Abuse and incompetence in fight against global warming
A Guardian investigation has found evidence of serious irregularities at the heart of the process the world is relying on to control global warming... >>Read More<<

On Global Warming Heresy
I am frequently asked to describe my experiences as a contrarian about global warming. I still find the request somewhat annoying, and in this piece I would like to explain why. For starters, to be a contrarian generally implies an automatic tendency to go against popular wisdom. That is not my position... >>Read More<<

Bush to Tout Climate Concessions, Balk at G-8 Targets (Update2)
President George W. Bush will defend his call for a new roundtable on combating global warming at today's Group of Eight summit, resisting European pressure to set binding targets now for emissions cuts... >>Read More<<

Carbon trade scheme 'is failing'
An investigation by BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme has found that after two and half years the scheme has yet to cut in carbon dioxide emissions... >>Read More<<

They call this a consensus?
"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled"... >>Read More<<

Corals Show Recent Hurricane Spike Might Be the Norm
The recent upsurge in the number of major Atlantic hurricanes may be the rule and not the exception, a new report suggests. The findings of this and other studies call into question recent assertions that global warming is behind the burst in hurricane activity seen since the mid-90s... >>Read More<<

THE END OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
European leaders have expressed dismay over U.S. President George W. Bush's June 1 call for the creation of a long-term dialogue among the 15 largest greenhouse gas-emitting countries... >>Read More<<

Dems drafting bill that could derail state warming law California officials upset -- Pelosi aides say plan needs work
House Democrats, in their first draft of new energy legislation, would wipe out California's landmark global warming law -- despite their California speaker's promises that her party would use the state as a model to combat climate change... >>Read More<<