Archive for April 4th, 2008
Lyssa macleayi (II)
Posted by neil, April 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 5
I always enjoy presenting these spectacular moths on night-walks across the course of the year, but manage to locate only three or four per annum.
I found this individual yesterday evening, beginning the long haul towards recovering my fourteen-year-old photographic collection, recently lost in a tragic hard-drive collapse.
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Fish Productivity and Climate Change: New book by Klyashtorin and Lyubushin
Posted by jennifer, April 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 1
‘In Cyclic Climate Changes and Fish Productivity’ L.B. Klyashtorin and A. A. Lyubushin consider the relationships between climate changes and the productivity of ocean ecosystems.
Analyses of climate index fluctuations and populations of major commercial fish species for the last 1500 years allowed the authors to characterize the 50-70 year climate fluctuations and fish production dynamics.
Their [...]
WMO: Global Temperatures in 2008 will be Lower than in 2007
Posted by Paul, April 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 27
Global temperatures this year will be lower than in 2007 due to the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.
The World Meteorological Organisation’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since [...]
Redistributing the Billions from Emissions Trading: A Note from John Roskam
Posted by jennifer, April 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 15
“You can do a lot of damage with $10 billion. It can be used to build a lot of halls of fame and finance a lot of local community groups. In short, $10 billion can fund a lot of porkbarrelling in a lot of marginal seats.
Ten billion dollars is how much (on a conservative estimate) [...]

