Climate & Environment Review: July 7, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
July 6, 2007

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Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
In 2007, a panel of experts established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United
Nations Environment Programme issued its updated, Fourth Assessment Report, forecasts...

Watts' up? Spotlight shines on local weatherman's latest research
A Chico meteorologist is garnering national attention for his latest project -- checking the condition and placement of hundreds of weather stations used to monitor the nation's climate...

Thieves Fall Out
My colleague Marlo Lewis testified at a painfully comic hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday on “examining global warming issues in the power plant sector”...

Gloom and Doom in A Sunny Day
It was a mild January evening, and people had filled the restaurant's outdoor patio. As our group walked past the tables, one of my friends said, "This terrifies me." I don't know if she was reassured later by the chilly April, but we are all supposed to be terrified of the weather now...

German government's environmental plans may cost 500,000 jobs - ThyssenKrupp CEO
FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - ThyssenKrupp AG's chief executive Ekkehard Schulz said the German government's plans to reduce emissions and exit nuclear power production may result in up to 500,000 jobs being lost as energy-intensive industries relocate abroad, according to Sueddeutsche Zeitung...

'I Have a Problem with the Term Climate Change'
Jürgen Hambrecht is CEO of the largest chemical company in the world, BASF. SPIEGEL spoke with him about German environmental policy, what to do about global warming, and how the 12th century wasn't all that bad...

Put your money where your ‘myth’ is
Meet the Ivy League professor and expert on forecasting who is challenging Al Gore to a $20,000 bet that he is wrong on global warming...

Open mind sees climate clearly
He's the world's most cited climatologist, according to an analysis in the journal of the British Institute of Geographers. He's also the fifth-most-cited physical geographer in the world, and the 11th most cited among all geographers.

News Release: Al Gore Confronted by Own Scientists
(Chicago IL - June 29, 2007) On June 28, in an historic move the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the expert review comments and responses to its latest assessment of the science of climate change. The IPCC report is the primary source of data for Al Gore's movie and book titled "An Inconvenient Truth"...