Are the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets in Danger of Collapse?
Much has been made of a possible precipitous collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets due to manmade climate change and the catastrophic sea level rise if such a collapse were to occur...

Greenland Climate: Now vs. Then, Part II. Record Greenland Melt Area?
Recently the press was more ablaze than California with NASA proclamations that the surface area of Greenland had melted in 2007 at a record-high rate. This is true, if the record only extends back only 20 years or so—which is the case of the NASA dataset. If you could peer back a bit further into the past, say back into the 1950s, it is quite likely that the melt area in Greenland then was about the same as it is now, effectively rendering the 2007 melt area hardly newsworthy. Just another NASA climate-change exaggeration?

Global warming 'not linked' to typhoons
A study of intense typhoons in the Pacific has failed to show a link with global warming, instead revealing that their number waxes and wanes naturally over the decades...

Japan's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise 6.4% From 1990 Levels
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's greenhouse gas emissions rose 6.4 percent in the year ended March from 1990 levels, forcing the government to quicken measures to ensure the country meets its Kyoto Protocol target...

Most Britons Aware But Unwilling on Climate Change
LONDON - Warnings about the effects of climate change have made most Britons aware of the crisis, but few are willing to make major changes to the way they live, a survey showed on Friday...

Bjorn Lomborg: Kyoto's cult of 'Institutionalized hypocrisy'
Politicians love to posture as green. But when the time comes to actually make the deep economic cuts necessary to fulfill ambitious climate-change obligations, they invariably pass the buck...

20th-Century and Medieval Droughts: Differences, Similarities and Implications
Using Palmer Drought Severity Index data found in the North American Drought Atlas prepared by Cook and Krusic (2004), which were derived from a network of drought-sensitive tree-ring chronologies (some stretching all the way back to AD 800 and encompassing the Medieval Warm Period), Herweijer et al. (2007) were able to put into longer perspective "the famous droughts of the instrumental record (i.e., the 1930s Dust Bowl and the 1950s Southwest droughts)"...

Cirrus Disappearance: Warming Might Thin Heat-trapping Clouds
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...

Polar Bear Pandering
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California delivered a speech in the Senate last week in which she linked global warming to the San Diego wildfires, Darfur, the imminent loss of the world's polar bears and even a poor 14-year-old boy who died from "an infection caused after swimming in Lake Havasu," because its water is warmer...

Climate Is a Risky Issue for Democrats
All of the leading Democratic contenders for the presidency are committed to a set of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that would change the way Americans light their homes, fuel their automobiles and do their jobs, costing billions of dollars in the short term but potentially, the candidates say, saving even more in the decades to follow...

The deceit behind global warming
No one can deny that in recent years the need to "save the planet" from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our time. As Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, claimed in 2004, it poses "a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism", warning that by the end of this century the only habitable continent left will be Antarctica...