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October 8, 2007 |
| Climate & Environment
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organization. CSPP relies on scientific experts in many nations and the vast body of peer-reviewed literature to help lawmakers, policy makers, and the media distinguish between scientific findings that are agenda-driven and those that are based on accepted scientific methods and practices. In a timely manner, the Center's Science Watch Team alerts policy makers, the media, and the public to unreliable scientific claims and unjustified alarmism which often lead to public harm. We strive for a fair and balanced examination of science. Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore's controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday... The Groupthink Global Initiative NEW YORK -- One would expect some diversity of opinion at a gathering of heads of government, CEOs and nonprofit organizations from different sides of the political spectrum... New York City Hurricanes Scileppe and Donnelly refined and lengthened the hurricane record of the New York City area by first calibrating the sedimentary record of surrounding backbarrier environments to documented hurricanes - including the hurricanes of 1893, 1821, 1788 and 1693 - and then extracting several thousand additional years of hurricane history from this important sedimentary archive... CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, “Finally,” in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to “American Morning,” “it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies'... Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia... Hurricane/Global Warming Link Weakened “Given this state of affairs, projections of changes in [tropical cyclone] intensity due to future global warming must be approached cautiously"... Environmental Advocates Urge the EPA to Reduce Global Warming Pollution from Ships US Supreme Court Decision Clears the Way for EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under Clean Air Act WASHINGTON - October 3 – A coalition of environmental advocates filed a petition today with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asking the agency to set pollution rules for large, ocean-going marine vessels... Late Action By Lame Ducks The administration of George W. Bush seems to have discovered a new interest in the issue of climate change, starting just before the G8 summit last summer in Germany... It’s Tires, Not Global Warming PARIS _ A World Health Organization official has claimed that the current chikungunya outbreak in Northern Italy is the result of climate change: this widely reported absurdity undermines rational debate at a time when world leaders were negotiating climate policy in New York and Washington... Declining Arctic Sea Ice: Has a "Tipping Point" Been Passed? Al Gore and James Hansen talk a lot about "tipping points" in the various climate-change scenarios with which they attempt to frighten the world's inhabitants into adopting their unsavory prescriptions for planetary salvation... NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading to Record Low in 2007 PASADENA, Calif. - A new NASA-led study found a 23-percent loss in the extent of the Arctic's thick, year-round sea ice cover during the past two winters. This drastic reduction of perennial winter sea ice is the primary cause of this summer's fastest-ever sea ice retreat on record and subsequent smallest-ever extent of total Arctic coverage... Corals May Have Defense Against Global Warming Ancient corals may have been more adaptable to changing ocean chemistry than previously thought, a new study shows... President Bush Participates in Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Thank you. Welcome to the State Department. I'm honored to address this historic meeting on energy security and climate change. And I appreciate you all being here... |
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