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Learning by Candlelight
As I waited night after night for the electricity to return, candlelight kept teaching me about moving air’s talent for removing heat, hampering any effort to keep warmth “down here” by constantly sending it up and away.   Read more here. (0)

People Powered Gym
A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out.   Read more here. (0)

Flying on Vegetable Oil
A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.  Read more here. (2)

Reef Recovery After Tsunami
Scientists have reported a rapid recovery in some of the coral reefs damaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami four years ago.  Read more here. (0)

Lots of Dinosaur Fossils in China
Scientists in China say they have discovered the world’s largest dinosaur fossil site in the eastern province of Shandong.  Read more here. (0)

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Archive for September 9th, 2008

Climate Case Built on Thin Foundation: John McLean

ROSS Garnaut made it clear in his interim report that his climate change review takes as a starting point - not as a belief but on the balance of probabilities - that the claims made in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are correct.
Had he made even a cursory examination [...]

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Blue Planet in Green Shackles: A Book by Vaclav Klaus

The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, spoke yesterday at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting here in Tokyo.    
He is a well known global warming skeptic and author of a ‘Blue Planet in Green Shackles’.   In the book’s introduction, the President explains,

“The book aspires to be nothing more than lay knowledge of the natural sciences.  Yet I [...]

Not Much Ice at the Arctic in 1818

Dear Jennifer
 
As any internet search confirms, climate change doomsayers use Greenland as a key indicator of “global warming”. At least some of the phenomena they observe are clearly not the effect of greenhouse gases.  Take for example the following item from page 159 of the February 1818 issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine:
 
“Voyage of Discovery. - Government, [...]

Great Book on Arctic Animals

Hi Jennifer,
 
I recently purchased a copy of Christian Vibe’s 1967 monograph ‘Arctic Animals in Relation to Climatic Fluctuation’,  Meddelelser om Grønland (1967) 170(5), pp 1-227. 
 
I have started putting direct quotes on the Environment Wiki that is linked to this blog:
 
The monograph with lots of information including about polar bears is available from Abebooks.
 
Cheers, [...]