November 2004 global warming news
November 30, 2004
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Northeastern researcher finds missing atmospheric carbon dioxide
Northeastern University, Nov 30 2004
A Northeastern University researcher today announced that he has found that the soil below oak trees exposed to elevated levels of carbon dioxide had significantly higher carbon levels than those exposed to ambient carbon levels. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that elevated carbon dioxide levels are increasing carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems and slowing the build-up of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Kyoto a mixed bag for Russia
UPI, Nov 30 2004
Andrey Illarionov, Putin's economic adviser, was quoted last September by the Russian Interfax news agency as saying Kyoto ratification could mean the country's GDP could lose a total of $1 trillion by 2012.
Nigeria ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change
This Day [Lagos], Nov 29 2004
Nigeria has joined the over 120 parties that have so far ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Unnecessary fretting over climate change
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Nov 30 2004
Environmental alarmists insist that global warming likely will bring massive famines to the Earth over the next hundred years. Yet tangible, recorded history, tells us the real threat of famine will arrive about 600 to 800 years from now. That's when the 1,500-year climate cycle turns cold again.
Kyoto rethink needed after US unmoved - Blair
The Scotsman, Nov 29 2004
The important thing is to get a dialogue with America on how we recognise both the scale of the problem on greenhouse gas emissions and a process that enables us to confront and deal with it.
Kyoto treaty can't be improved without developing nations' participation
National Center for Policy Analysis, Nov 29 2004
Skeptics of the theory that human activity is causing global climate change now have confirmation of their argument that the Kyoto Treaty -- the energy-rationing international treaty to cut greenhouse gases -- was not an end point but only a modest first step, according to an expert with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).
Camelot's congenial climate
Tech Central Station, Nov 29 2004
Recently, Queen Elizabeth II -- whose namesake Elizabeth I put witches to death for allegedly changing climate -- pushed Blair prior to his visit with President Bush after the election to roast the president over climate change.
UN seeks to broaden fight against global warming
Reuters, Nov 29 2004
Officials and ministers will hold an annual meeting in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires from December 6-17 ... "(There will be a discussion on integrating) the developing countries with a high growth rate and the United States," the Executive Director of the U.N. Environment Programe, Klaus Toepfer, told a news conference
Reuters, Nov 29 2004
Officials and ministers will hold an annual meeting in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires from December 6-17 ... "(There will be a discussion on integrating) the developing countries with a high growth rate and the United States," the Executive Director of the U.N. Environment Programe, Klaus Toepfer, told a news conference
Greenhouse effect 'may benefit man'
The Observer [UK], Nov 28 2004
Climate change is 'a myth', sea levels are not rising and Britain's chief scientist is 'an embarrassment' for believing catastrophe is inevitable. These are the controversial views of a new London-based think-tank that will publish a report tomorrow attacking the apocalyptic view that man-made greenhouse gases will destroy the planet.
Sardines cut global warming, pair say
New York Times, Nov 26 2004
When sardines are scarce, the phytoplankton survive uneaten, only to sink to the bottom, decompose and produce methane and hydrogen sulfide gas, which rise to the surface in giant clouds.
Climate change IS economics
Financial Post, Nov 23 2004
Economic projections are an important factor in climate science. Assumptions about how much carbon humans are going to emit into the atmosphere are crucial when predicting future climate. Total emissions of carbon depend on such factors as population growth, World GDP per capita, the energy intensity of the economy and the carbon intensity of energy use.
Arctic nations to make scant promises to slow thaw
Reuters, Nov 23 2004
Eight Arctic countries will make scant promises to slow a rapid thaw of the region linked to global warming at a meeting in Iceland on Wednesday after U.S. opposition to firmer action, delegates said.
EVENT: Climate alarmism: The misuse of "science"
George Marshall Institute, Dec 1 2004
with Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT
When public policy issues become highly politicized, "science" all too often becomes a tool for support instead of illumination.
EU studies adding aviation to emissions scheme
Reuters, Nov 22 2004
The EU has started a study to see if it can curb aircraft pollution by including aviation in its new carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme, said Peter Vis, acting head of the industrial emissions unit at the European Commission on Monday.
Environmental rules create problems for exports to EU
Korea Times, Nov 22 2004
South Korea is expected to face an export growth fear, particularly in the European Union (EU), the nations third largest export market in the world, with the enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming in February next year, an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) said Monday.
Medieval harvests reveal climate change
Toronto Globe and Mail, Nov 18 2004
Harvest dates, worked backward through complex mathematical models, can be used to figure out variations in temperature... the land of the pinot noir had been about as warm as the 1990s in the 1380s, 1420s and 1520s, and then through the 1630s to the 1680s, only to cool off again.
Global warming's back, but so are the as-yet-unsilenced skeptics
Portland Press-Herald, Nov 22 2004
Financial motives work both ways, and those who claim a problem exists (and they alone know how to solve it) can count on increased influence and government funding, while the skeptics get nothing. Except, perhaps, the truth.
John McCain's 'global warming' hearings blasted by climatologist
CNSNews.com, Nov 19 2004
Recent U.S. Senate hearings into alleged global warming, chaired by Arizona Republican John McCain, were among the "most biased" that a noted climatologist has ever seen - "much less balanced than anything I saw in the Clinton administration," he said. Patrick J. Michaels is the author of a new book "Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media."
Cost of Kyoto "five times above EU estimate"
Point Carbon, Nov 19 2004
Implementing the Kyoto Protocol might hit the EU economy five times as hard as predicted by the European Commission, according to research presented by pan-industry lobby group Unice on Thursday. The group called for a radical change in the EU's climate change policy.
Effects of elevated CO2 on the quantity and quality of strawberry fruit
CO2science.org. Nov 17 2004
"Enhancing CO2 concentration in the growing atmosphere would probably improve fruit quality by increasing fruit dry weight, sugar and aroma concentration and decreasing acid content."
Japanese firms eye China's global warming gases
Agence France-Presse, Nov 15 2004
Trading house Sumitomo Corp and two other Japanese firms plan to earn greenhouse-gas emissions rights by reducing the level of global-warming gases in China, a press report said yesterday.
EVENT: Cooler Heads Hill Briefing: Are the UN's global warming forecasts based on faulty economics?
Cooler Heads / Marshall Institute, Nov 19 2004
In 2001, the Third Assessment Report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that the global mean temperature would be between 2.5 and 10.4o higher by 2100. David Henderson and Ian Castles have produced a powerful critique of the economic assumptions used in the IPCCs scenarios.
Russia formally accepts Kyoto Protocol
Associated Press, Nov 18 2004
Russia formally notified the United Nations on Thursday of its acceptance of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, starting a three-month countdown for the long-debated 1997 pact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions to come into force.
Alaska senator disagrees with climate study's conclusion
Associated Press, Nov 18 2004
U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens says he disagrees with a new scientific study's conclusion that the burning of fossil fuels is a major factor in climate change.
U.S. signs $53M deal to control methane gas
Associated Press, Nov 17 2004
The United States signed an agreement yesterday with 13 other nations that calls for investing up to $53 million in companies that could profitably control emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas.
House of Commons: Motion to censure Myron Ebell
Competive Enterprise Institute (UK Parliament), Nov 17, 2004
That this House deplores in the strongest possible terms the unfounded and insulting criticism of Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientist, by Myron Ebell
Rainforest growth a sign of global warming, say researchers
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Nov 17 2004
Northern Territory researchers have found isolated rainforest patches in the Top End have doubled in size in the past 50 years.
The 20th-century wasting of Kilimanjaro's ice cap
CO2science.org, Nov 17 2004
Molg and Hardy conclude that "modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro and in East Africa in general [was] initiated by a drastic reduction in precipitation at the end of the nineteenth century.
McCain pledges to reintroduce greenhouse gas legislation
Dow Jones, Nov 16 2004
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pledged Tuesday to reintroduce legislation to limit carbon dioxide pollution while incorporating new ideas advocated by British Prime Minister Tony Blair on how to limit emissions and slow the earth's warming.
Climate experts respond to Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Tech Central Station, Nov 16 2004
Today 11 climate experts sent a letter to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) who is the Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee and is holding a full committee hearing this morning to hear testimony on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA).
Climate report counters alarmist hearings
Competitive Enterprise Institute, Nov 16 2004
On the occasion of yet another congressional hearing featuring alarmist predictions of future climate disaster, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has released a study on the state of the global warming debate. Today Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-AZ) will hold a hearing on the misleading and unbalanced Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report.
Probably anti-housewarming, too
CEI / Washington Post, Nov 14 2004
It's not often that a Washington lobbyist gets to be the focus of a censure motion in the British House of Commons, but anti-global warming lobbyist Myron Ebell managed that trick earlier this month.
"Global warming" at a glance: October 2004
JunkScience.com, Nov 15 2004
As determined by NOAA Satellite-mounted MSUs Information from Global Hydrology and Climate Center, University of Alabama - Huntsville, USA
Summary of the 22nd session of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change
Earth Negotiations Bulletin, Nov 13 2004
The 22nd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met from 9-11 November 2004, at the Ashok Hotel, in New Delhi, India. During the meeting, delegates discussed: the scope, content and process for an IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Synthesis Report; AR4 products; outreach; the IPCC Programme and Budget for 2005-8; and election procedures.
Cooler Heads newsletter, Oct 27 2004
Hockey stick is an "artifact of poor mathematics"
CO2 rise claim too much for alarmists
Epstein blames hurricanes on warming
Russian Parliament ratifies Kyoto
Administrations climate change policies given a B- grade
IPCC chief abandons pretense of policy neutrality
IEA releases world energy outlook
Niger turns to coal to save rainforest
Scientists push small carbon tax
British price rises reveal premium aspect of renewables
Air Board's greenhouse rule: Raw deal for dealers
CEI / AutoExec Magazine, Nov 12 2004
(Marlo Lewis) -- On September 24, Californias Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted a plan to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new cars and trucks starting in 2009. To sell cars in California, automakers will have to reduce fleet average GHG emissions by 22 percent in 2012 and 30 percent in 2016. CARBs rulemaking is a raw deal for auto dealers in California and any other state that mimics Californias plan.
Polar bear scare on thin ice
FoxNews.com, Nov 12 2004
I'm not quite sure what the future holds for polar bears , but it doesnt appear that any alleged manmade global warming has anything to do with it.
Cooling Blair's climate crusade
CEI / Tech Central Station, Nov 11 2004
Tony Blair is, in a way, as polarizing a figure in the United Kingdom as President George W. Bush is in the United Stateswith one crucial difference. While President Bush has his Republican critics, he incurs nothing like the venomous hatred hurled at Blair from the left wing of his own Labor Party, a party he has led to successive landslide election victories.
Two sides to global warming
Reason.com, Nov 10 2004
So is dangerous rapid global warming merely the new conventional wisdomor a credible forecast of our climatic future?
The Kyoto climate debate: Overview of the state of play
Competitive Enterprise Institute, Nov 10 2004
This much is undeniable: McCain, chief co-sponsor Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), and their advocacy group allies are on offense. They aggressively seek opportunities to publicize their message, expand their support base, and advance their agenda.
Full Study: Launching the Counter-Offensive: A Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on Climate Change [PDF]
IPCC-22 highlights: Wednesday, 10 November 2004
Earth Negotiations Bulletin, Nov 11 2004
In the morning, delegates continued discussions on scope, content and process for an AR4 Synthesis Report. In the afternoon, delegates discussed AR4 products and IPCC outreach.
Arctic sea ice (thickness) -- summary
CO2science.org, Nov 10 2004
It will likely be a number of years before anything definitive can be said about CO2-induced global warming on the basis of the thickness of Arctic sea-ice, other than that its impact on sea-ice thickness is much too small to be detected at the present time.
Peddling a "cure" worse than the disease
Media Research Center, Nov 10 2004
Network reporters are again ringing alarm bells about the climate catastrophe that supposedly awaits.
A new study by the MRCs Free Market Project looked at coverage of global warming...
China's offical greenhouse gas emission figures
CRIENGLISH.com, Nov 9 2004
In a report submitted to the United Nation about ways of stopping climate change, China said it emitted 2.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide, about 35 million tons of methane and 850,000 tons of nitrous oxide in 1994.
IPCC-22 highlights: Tuesday, 9 November 2004
Earth Neogtiations Bulletin, Nov 10 2004
The 22nd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened on Tuesday in New Delhi, India.
Climate change claims flawed, says study
The Guardian, Nov 9 2004
Martin Agerup, president of the Danish Academy for Future Studies and colleagues from Stockholm, Canada, Iceland and Britain say in their report that predictions of "extreme impacts" based on greenhouse emissions employed "faulty science, faulty logic and faulty economics".
Global warming exposes Arctic to gas, oil drilling
Reuters, Nov 8 2004
Rising global temperatures will melt areas of the Arctic this century, making them more accessible for oil and natural gas drilling, a report prepared by the United States and seven other nations said on Monday.
Bush stands by rejection of Kyoto treaty
Associated Press, Nov 6 2004
President Bush is holding fast to his rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.
Russia takes "final" step, again, but not really
CEI / EU Reporter, Nov 5 2004
(Chris Horner) -- For the third time in a month and fifth time in just over two years, media are breathless with Russia's purported ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.
Massive peat burn is speeding climate change
New Scientist, Nov 4 2004
The recent surge in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which made front-page headlines around the world last month, may have been caused in part by smouldering peat bogs in Borneo.
The One-Percent Solution
CEI / EU Reporter Online, Nov 3 2004
(Iain Murray) -- Many of the scientific papers that have contributed to global warming alarmism over recent weeks (such as the study that predicted the ruin of Californias wine industry or the more recent study predicting stronger hurricanes by 2080) have depended on models that assume atmospheric increases of carbon dioxide concentrations by one percent per year from 1990 to the end of the century.
Is global warming always bad?
Apple Daily, Nov 3 2004
Objectively speaking, any environmental change should have both positive benefits and negative effects.
Putin signs bill to ratify Kyoto Protocol
Associated Press, Nov 5 2004
President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill confirming Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the Kremlin said Friday, clearing the way for the global climate pact to come into force early next year.
Blair environment aide panned by US adviser
The Independent [UK], Nov 5 2004
Myron Ebell, director of global warming at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, launched a personal attack on Sir David King, the Government's chief scientist, who has warned that the threat to the environment is more important than the war on terror. He told BBC Radio 4: "We have people who know nothing about climate science like Sir David King, who are alarmist and continually promote this ridiculous claim. Sir David has no expertise in climate science."
Kyoto tree planting credits won't be much help
National Business Review, Nov 5 2004
With the Kyoto Protocol set to come into force, does the New Zealand government have a credible set of policies and measures to meet its obligations?
How a second Bush term will impact International Auto Dealers
American International Automobile Dealers Association, Nov 4 2004
Bushs top science advisor earlier this year effectively reversed the administrations position on climate change in conceding that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases were the only likely explanation for global warming.
National Business Review, Nov 5 2004
With the Kyoto Protocol set to come into force, does the New Zealand government have a credible set of policies and measures to meet its obligations?
How a second Bush term will impact International Auto Dealers
American International Automobile Dealers Association, Nov 4 2004
Bushs top science advisor earlier this year effectively reversed the administrations position on climate change in conceding that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases were the only likely explanation for global warming.
EVENT: A Review of the Economic Foundations of Climate Change Models
American Enterprise Institute, Nov 16 2004
AEI, in association with The Economist magazine, is pleased to announce the Institute's Second Annual Climate Policy Conference. The conference will convene international panels of experts to examine the controversy over emissions forecasting scenarios and methods. The fundamental input of climate change models is derived from forecasts of future emissions of greenhouse gases, but in recent years there has been considerable discussion and dispute over the economic foundation of these scenarios. This conference will review the uncertainties of emissions forecasting.
Government scientist accused of 'alarmism' over climate change
Scotsman, Nov 4 2004
Myron Ebell, director of global warming at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, criticised scientists who fear the planet will be hit by weather extremes due to global warming... He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "... We have people who know nothing about climate science, like Sir David King your Chief Scientific adviser, who are alarmist and continually promote this ridiculous claim."
U.S. wants no warming proposal
Washington Post, Nov 4 2004
The Bush administration has been working for months to keep an upcoming eight-nation report from endorsing broad policies aimed at curbing global warming, according to domestic and foreign participants... State Department representatives have argued that the group, which has spent four years examining Arctic climate fluctuations, lacks the evidence to prepare detailed policy proposals.
Russia keen to link emission trade to EU, North America
Reuters, Nov 4 2004
Russia is keen to link its emissions trading to the European and North American markets to help its firms make money from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a government official told Reuters.
Is it global warming?
FarmWeek, Nov 4 2004
The computerized global climate models predict well get more and bigger storms as the planet warms. The Worldwatch Institute says heat in the atmosphere is the fuel that leads to stormy weather, and weather disasters are occurring with ever-greater intensity and frequency around the world. . . . Worldwatch is blowing smoke, not providing information.
Smart consensus
Tech Central Station, Nov 4 2004
At least on one thing, President Bush and his challenger John Kerry agreed, that the international political consensus forged on global warming as represented by the so-called
Queen opens climate summit
Scotland Evening Times, Nov 3 2004
The Queen is to open a conference on climate change today during her state visit to Germany. Sir David King, the British Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, will deliver the opening address at the conference. Environment Minister Margaret Beckett and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will also be at the meeting. Mr Blair will give a video address.
EDITORIAL: Adopt environment tax
Asahi Shimbum (Japan), Nov 3 2004
The environment tax, also known as carbon tax, is a levy to be imposed on the consumption of electricity and gas as well as fossil fuels such as oil and coal in proportion to the quantity of the carbon dioxide they emit. The Environment Ministry aims to implement the tax next fiscal year. It has already made draft plans to impose it at a relatively low rate of 2 yen per 1 liter of gasoline and kerosene consumed.
Twentieth-Century Climate Change in Iceland
CO2science.org, Nov 2 2004
It is readily apparent from the data presented in this study that Iceland has not experienced any unprecedented warming in the latter part of the 20th century.
Pump up CO2 debate
WardsAuto.com, Nov 2 2004
If auto makers cant convince the Republican Gov. of California to rescind carbon dioxide legislation, the legal wrangling is likely to come down to whether carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant... auto makers claim the new standard for reducing CO2 is really a fuel economy-standard. And dictating fuel-economy standards is something California cant legally do.
Ratification of Kyoto Protocol to bring Russia political gain
RIA Novosti, Nov 1 2004
Ratification of the Kyoto protocol will bring Russia political but not economic gains, Moscow State University teacher Anna Kashirova, economic science candidate, head of the research group Russia and the Kyoto Protocol, told RIA Novosti Monday.
The Kerry Protocol?
Tech Central Station, Nov 2 2004
With the
Poor nations get tough on climate change
SciDev.net, Nov 1 2004
Some of the worlds poorest countries are planning to demand that developed countries adhere to the 'polluter-pays principle' at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Argentina next month.
No to Kyoto treaty
USA Today, Nov 1 2004
(CEI's Marlo Lewis' letter in USA Today.) USA TODAY's editorial fails to make an economic case for U.S. ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.
Queen backs fight on global warming
The Guardian, Nov 1 2004
The Queen will this week support a United Nations conference on global warming in Germany, signalling the royal household's whole-hearted conversion to green issues.
More gas about global warming
Washington Times, Nov 1 2004
With gas prices running around $2 per gallon, our economy is performing a wonderful natural experiment on global warming policy.
Power companies defend against global warming lawsuit
Associated Press, Nov 1 2004
In court papers filed in federal court in Manhattan, the companies said the July lawsuit brought by eight states wants the court to usurp the policy-setting role that Congress and the president have in dealing with global warming.
Climate uncertainty with CO2 rise due to uncertainty about aerosols
PhysOrg.com, Nov 1 2004
Climate scientists agree that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased about 35 percent over the industrial period and that it will continue to rise so that CO2 will reach double its pre-industrial value well before the end of this century. How much this doubled CO2 concentration will raise Earths global mean temperature, however, remains quite uncertain and is the subject of intense research - and heated debate.
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