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New
Research Suggests that Emissions Reductions Are
a Risky and Very Expensive Way to Avoid Dangerous Global Climate
Changes
Proponents of greenhouse gas emissions reductions have long assumed
that such reductions are the best approach to global climate change
control and sometimes argued that they are the least risky approach...
Push
For Climate Control Action Gains In Senate, But How Much?
A group of mostly moderate senators has rallied around a bill to cap
carbon emissions, raising the still-long odds that Congress could act
on global warming in 2008...
IPCC
too blinkered and corrupt to save
Vincent Gray has begun a second career as a climate-change activist.
His motivation springs from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, a body that combats global warming by advocating the
reduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Dr. Gray has
worked relentlessly for the IPCC as an expert reviewer since the early
1990s...
Japan
Needs Measures to Avert $10.5 Billion Carbon Credit Cost
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Japan needs to implement measures to lower
greenhouse gas emissions and avoid a bill of as much as 1.2 trillion
yen ($10.5 billion) to buy carbon credits in global markets, a
government report says...
The
Fires This Time
Blame California's mega-fires on global warming. Or at least that's
what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said last week in the
Hill...
My
Nobel Moment
I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC). But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC
participants, I don't think I will add "0.0001 Nobel Laureate" to my
resume...
Climate
is too complex for accurate predictions
Climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise
prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, according to a
new study...
Government
'puts the economy before the environment' with transport plan
Ministers were accused of downgrading the drive to cut carbon emissions
from Britain's transport network after revealing a long-term strategy
for increased road, rail and air travel...
The
ABCs of Global Warming
In an observational program that studied this phenomenon as it has
never been studied before, Ramanathan et al. employed "three
lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles that were vertically stacked
between 0.5 and 3 km over the polluted Indian Ocean," which "deployed
miniaturized instruments measuring aerosol concentrations, soot amount
and solar fluxes" within the infamous atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs)
that have been demonstrated to envelop "most of Asia and the adjacent
oceans" during "the six-month-long tropical dry season," when
"convective coupling between the surface and the troposphere is weak
[and] aerosol solar heating can amplify the effect of greenhouse gases
in warming the atmosphere while simultaneously cooling the surface."
Palin
says polar bears not endangered
JUNEAU -- Gov. Sarah Palin has reiterated her administration's
opposition to a proposed listing of polar bears under the Endangered
Species Act...
Al
Gore Wins Peace Prize
Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Roomful of Monkeys.
So Al Gore gets the Nobel Peace Prize, and my wife says to me, "Wow.
First time they ever gave the peace prize for religion"...
Arctic
Sea-Ice: Another Hockey Stick?
This figure, labeled as “Sea-ice Extent: Northern
Hemisphere” was presented by Al Gore in the book version of
his science (fiction) movie An Inconvenient Truth. But is this
depiction of the Arctic sea ice extent over the course of the 20th
century even close to reality?...
Barbara
Kay: Score a point for the global warming 'deniers'
Despite enviro-warriors’ best efforts to suppress dissent
from “deniers,” the debate continues: Nagging
questions keep arising over the causes of global warming, its long-term
effects and whether in fact humans can influence environmental
outcomes, no matter how many billions we spend...
Biofuels:
a tale of special interests and subsidies
Energy security and climate change are two of the most significant
challenges confronting humanity. What we see, in response, is the
familiar capture of policymaking by well-organised special interests. A
superb example is the flood of subsidies for biofuels. These are farm
programmes masquerading as answers to energy insecurity and climate
change. Not surprisingly, they have the depressing characteristics of
such programmes: high protection, open-ended support to producers, and
indifference to economic rationality...
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