November 26, 2002
Energy analyst Glenn Schleede has once again exposed the problems with wind power in comments he has submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is conducting an economic and environmental analysis of a proposed offshore wind farm.
November 26, 2002
A new empirical study in the November 15 issue of Science fails to confirm this feedback hypothesis.
November 12, 2002
In a major challenge to the conventional wisdom, a team of scientists has delivered a devastating blow to the Kyoto Protocol in a review of energy technologies published in the November 1 issue of Science.
October 29, 2002
A draft "Delhi Declaration on Climate Change," which is to be adopted at the Eighth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-8) currently underway, is being attacked by both the European Union and the G-77 and China.
October 29, 2002
Two new studies suggest that the increases in storminess and rainfall that have been measured in the U.S. may be due to causes other than anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
October 17, 2002
With the November publication of a paper in the English scientific journal, Energy and Environment, Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have called into question one of the most highly publicized scientific papers supporting global warming alarmism.
October 15, 2002
Dr. Harlan Watson, the U.S. senior climate negotiator, said in Brussels on October 9 that it is possible that the U.S. could face trade disputes due to its unwillingness to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, but that such challenges were unlikely to succeed.
October 15, 2002
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT, gave a presentation "On the Meaning of Global Warming Claims" at a congressional briefing sponsored by the Cooler Heads Coalition. Lindzen is one of the leading critics of the claim that increasing atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases have "ominous implications" for mankind or the environment.
October 15, 2002
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants his country to make greater use of its coal reserves, which are estimated at 3 trillion tons. But this would make it difficult for Russia to meet its Kyoto target.
October 1, 2002
Friends of the Earth Europe (FoE-E), an environmental pressure group, has called on European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy to impose trade sanctions on U.S.-exported genetically-modified foods and energy-intensive products in retaliation for the U.S.s violation of World Trade Organization rules governing taxation of Foreign Sales Corporations.
October 1, 2002
A study in the Journal of Climate (September 2002) finds that global warming is not the cause of melting sea ice, but that melting sea ice is causing the warming.
September 17, 2002
New Yorkers should also be aware that there is growing opposition to wind farms wherever they are proposed, in Europe, Australia and in nearly every state in the U.S.
September 17, 2002
A new study in the Journal of Climate takes a look at the discrepancy in temperature trends between the surface, measured by ground-based thermometers, and the troposphere, measured by satellite-borne instruments, and concludes that we dont know why there is a discrepancy.
September 3, 2002
A study in the August 28 issue of Geophysical Research Letters finds that there is a serious error in the global circulation models when it comes to predicting temperatures in the Earths polar regions.
August 20, 2002
"Heat waves come on subtly, raising summer temperatures just a little higher than normal and then receding," opined the Times. "But they kill more people in the United States than all other natural disasters combined."
July 23, 2002
A new study appearing in Geophysical Research Letters proposes an explanation for the discrepancy between surface and satellite temperature data. It also argues for lower climate sensitivity than is generally assumed.
July 23, 2002
The so-called wind power boom is entirely the creation of government mandates in a dozen states, which typically require that between 3 and 8 percent of their electricity be supplied from renewable energy sources. Without them, it is doubtful that a single windmill would be constructed in the U.S.
July 9, 2002
Two studies appearing in the July issue of Global Change Biology have concluded that increasing CO2 levels will have negative effects on insects, but positive effects for plants.
June 25, 2002
As President George W. Bush has rightly pointed out, the Kyoto targets "were arbitrary and not based upon science" and "no one can say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided."
June 22, 2002
At a briefing in Capital Hill on October 5 Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, once a member of Greenpeace, argued that predictions of the world heading for ruin are wrong.
