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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 17th, 2009

North Dakota Farmer Comments on Carbon Credits

I have changed my mind about participating in the carbon credit program and I have resolved to give the money I received to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Here is why.

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Skeptical Scientist May Be Tapped as French Environmental Minister: A Note from Marc Morano

A bombshell report from the German publication “ScienceBlogs” reveals that renowned geophysicist and former socialist party leader Dr Claude Allegre –- France’s most outspoken global warming skeptic — may be considered as the next French Environment Minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s administration. 
If Dr Allegre, who has mocked former Vice President Al Gore’s Nobel Prize as [...]

China Sends Tigers to North Korea

The three Siberian tigers from the northeast city of Dalian and two Bengal tigers from Sichuan in the southwest will be sent to a North Korea as “friendship envoys”.  Read more here.

Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere 5-15 Years Only

IF carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels only stayed in the atmosphere a few years, say five years, then there may not be quite the urgency currently associated with anthropogenic global warming.    Indeed it might be argued that the problem of elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide could be easily reversed as soon as alternative fuel [...]