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Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears
On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age.  Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)

Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference.   Read more here. (2)

Not Evil Just Wrong
Buy the DVD by clicking on the flashing icon above. (1)

Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time …  Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)

Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness.  Read more here. (1)

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Archive for August 3rd, 2007

Asian Brown Clouds

Readers may already have seen the ABC News story ‘Big brown Asian cloud blamed for glacial melting.’ This story is based on a new paper published in the weekly journal Nature, also featured in the News and Views section.
The paper, which looks at the effect of the so-called Asian brown clouds (the aerosols formed by [...]

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Lockwood and Frohlich, Part 2

‘Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature’
There’s nothing really new in this paper, which is a review partly written in response to the controversial Wag TV documentary ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle.’ Not good news from the point of view of being objective, and I doubt [...]