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Entries from March 2008

Global Warming and Economic impact

March 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Clean Air · Environment · Global Warming · Weather

Climate Warming Tipping Point

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve all heard about global warming. The earth’s warming, it’s not — it’s cooling. One thing’s for sure, my head is spinning. It’s gotten hard to keep track of what kind of climate change we’re really in for. James White, Professor of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, talked with [...]

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Tags: Clean Air · Environment · Global Warming · Weather

Bad Weather Instruments + No Monitoring = Global Warming

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

What happens when weather stations produce corrupt data? We get bad science that you can actually see. Unfortunately we’ve also ended up with bad public policies.
Anthony Watts of www.surfacestations.org has a big piece of data to share. 30% of the weather stations here in the United States are flawed. Click on the [...]

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Tags: Environment · Global Warming · Weather

Global Warming… The Climate Models Aren’t What They Used to Be

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Global warming is real. Kind of.
I interviewed Patrick J. Michaels, the author of Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming and we got the real skinny on what’s been going on.
The observed rate of warming (since 1976) has been remarkably constant, and in recent years we’ve seen a leveling off and even a [...]

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Tags: Clean Air · Environment · Global Warming

Biofuels Could Cause More Harm Than Good

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Prof. Steven Hamburg was currently in Washington, DC, attending a biofuels workshop – there was a lot of interest in linking the science and policy to ensure that biofuels help farmers, address climate change, reduce dependence on foreign oil, and protect the environment and economy. That is possible with the right policy instruments.
The move [...]

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Tags: Air Purification · Clean Air · Environment · Global Warming