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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 September 13th, 2008

International Whaling Commission Faces Revolt from North Atlantic

 
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is facing a revolt.   The whaling nations of the North Atlantic, in defiance of the IWC, recently approved a quota of 10 humpback whales for Greenland.
 
The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO), established in 1992 to provide international competence on conservation and management of whale and seal stocks in [...]

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US Democrats Poised to Embrace Offshore Oil Drilling

Since Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, became a part of the US Presidential election campaign there has been a change in US Politics with the Democrats now joining what some are describing as a new oil rush. 
 
Writing for the New York Times in an article entitle ‘Demoncrats embrace offshore drilling’ Carl Hulse explains: [...]

Paul Biggs Between Blogs

Hi All,
 
I find myself ‘between blogs’ at the moment – www.climateresearchnews.com isn’t ready yet, so I have set up a temporary blog:
 
http://climaterealist.blogspot.com/
 
You might be intersted in the latest post:
 
‘United States and Caribbean tropical cyclone activity related to the solar cycle.’
 
 
http://climaterealist.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-paper-us-hurricane-counts-are.html
 
Regards,
 
Paul Biggs