CAR manufacturer Renault has announced a commitment to the production of at least 100,000 electric cars by 2016. The announcement was made at the Frankfurt Motor Show with the cars to be built for drivers in Israel and Denmark. The success … [Read more...] about Israel, Denmark and Renault Commit to Electric Cars
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US Rejects Kyoto Ahead of Copenhagen
Europe has clashed with the US Obama administration over climate change in a potentially damaging split that comes ahead of crucial political negotiations on a new global deal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. US negotiators have told European … [Read more...] about US Rejects Kyoto Ahead of Copenhagen
Warming Hawaii (Part 2): A Note from Tim Curtin
A TECHNICAL paper, Secular temperature changes in Hawai‘i, published just last year in Geophysical Research Letters indicates there has been recent warming on the island of Hawaii and this has been most evident at high elevations. Retired economist, … [Read more...] about Warming Hawaii (Part 2): A Note from Tim Curtin
No Place for Morality in School Science
IN some Australian schools science teachers are being asked to tell about the dangers of global warming and show Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in order to prepare the students for the big vote at http://youthdecide.com.au/ . The vote is … [Read more...] about No Place for Morality in School Science
Official Comment on Temperature Trends
Observations indicate that global temperature rise has slowed in the last decade. The least squares trend for January 1999 to December 2008 calculated from the HadCRUT3 dataset is +0.07±0.07°C decade–1—much less than the 0.18°C decade–1 recorded … [Read more...] about Official Comment on Temperature Trends
Risking the Reputation of Science: Garth Paltridge
"Perhaps the most interesting question in all this business is how it can be that the scientific community has become so over-the-top in support of its own propaganda about the seriousness and certainty of upcoming drastic climate change. Scientists … [Read more...] about Risking the Reputation of Science: Garth Paltridge