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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 April 4th, 2008

Lyssa macleayi (II)

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

‘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

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

“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) [...]