Climate & Environment Review: August 9, 2007

Climate & Environment Review
August 9, 2007

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Geocentric sea-level trend estimates from GPS analyses at relevant tide gauges world-wide
The problem of correcting the tide gauge records for the vertical land motion upon which the gauges are settled has only been partially solved...

German car giants pressure EU over emissions
The European Commission is backing away from its draconian plans for curbs on car emissions, bowing to intense pressure from Berlin and the German auto industry...

Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’
Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated...

9000 Years of Central European Winter Temperatures Reference
Extending the work of Mangini et al. (2005), who developed a 2000-year temperature history of the central European Alps based on an analysis of δ18O data obtained from stalagmite SPA 12 of Austria's Spannagel Cave, Vollweiler et al. (2006) used similarly-measured δ18O data obtained from two adjacent stalagmites (SPA 128 and SPA 70) within the same cave to create a master δ18O history...

Synchronized Chaos: Mechanisms For Major Climate Shifts
In the mid-1970s, a climate shift cooled sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean and warmed the coast of western North America, bringing long-range changes to the northern hemisphere...

Global Positioning System Adjustments to Tide Gauge Estimates of Global Sea Level Trend Reference
The authors describe a technique they developed for utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS) data, which they obtained from numerous GPS stations situated in close proximity to various tide gauges around the world, to correct the tide gauge records and thus obtain what they call a "set of 'absolute' or geocentric sea-level trends...

Cirrus Disappearance: Warming might thin heat-trapping clouds
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Aug. 9, 2007) — The widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory that manmade global warming will accelerate itself by creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month in new research from The University of Alabama in Huntsville...

Climate bill shaves $533 bln off economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate bill to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would raise energy prices and also reduce American economic output by more than half a trillion dollars over two decades, according to a government report released on Monday...

North Atlantic Hurricanes
Hurricanes are getting stronger ... at least that's the word from Al Gore, who made this factual-sounding declaration in his 21 March 2007 testimony before the United States Senate's Environment & Public Works Committee. But is this contention true? And if so - or if not - why?...