Climate & Environment Review: June 22, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
June 22, 2007

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Four Winters of Urban Heat Island Data from Barrow, Alaska (USA)
The authors report that since 2001 for the village of Barrow, Alaska (71.3°N, 156.5°W) - which has a population of approximately 4500 people - screen-level air temperatures have been recorded at hourly intervals by 68 data loggers that were distributed "to form an approximate grid pattern over the 150-km2 study area" in and around the village...>>Read More<<

Read the sunspots
Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover. We are assured by everyone from David Suzuki to Al Gore to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that "the science is settled." At the recent G8 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel even attempted to convince world leaders to play God by restricting carbon-dioxide emissions to a level that would magically limit the rise in world temperatures to 2C... >>Read More<<

China May Delay on Emissions
BEIJING -- China's economic planners say they want to delay nationwide enforcement of more-stringent auto-emissions standards, a decision that could mean greater levels of pollution in already-dirty skies as 24,000 new cars, trucks and buses hit Chinese roads each day... >>Read More<<

China overtakes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter
China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show... >>Read More<<

Documentation Of IPCC WG1 Bias – Part I
“A comprehensive and rigourous picture of the global present state of knowledge of climate change” and “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation”... >>Read More<<