Another Week of GW News - May 27,2007
H. E. Taylor
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2085595,00.html>
2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): CO2 emissions rise outpaces worst-case scenario
<http://climateprogress.org/2007/05/22/the-growth-rate-of-carbon-emissions-has-tripled/>
2007/05/22: ClimateP: The growth rate of carbon emissions has TRIPLED
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052207EA.shtml>
2007/05/22: TruthOut: Global Carbon Emissions in Overdrive
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1929683.htm>
2007/05/22: ABC(Au): Dire warning on carbon emissions
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=world-growth-spurs-faster&chanID=sa003&modsrc=reuters>
2007/05/22: SciAm: World growth spurs faster climate change: [CSIRO] report
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/5/22/154833/830>
2007/05/22: GristMill: The growth rate of carbon emissions has tripled
<http://consciousearth.blogspot.com/2007/05/co2-rising-faster-than-worst-case.html>
2007/05/23: TCE: CO2 Rising Faster Than Worst Case Predictions
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/CO2_Emissions_Increasing_Faster_Than_Expected_999.html>
2007/05/23: TerraDaily: CO2 Emissions Increasing Faster Than Expected
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0522/p01s03-wogi.htm>
2007/05/23: CSM: Global carbon emissions in overdrive
<http://www.desmogblog.com/reality-swamps-ipccs-worst-case-scenario>
2007/05/22: DeSmogBlog: Reality Swamps IPCC's "Worst Case Scenario"
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42095/story.htm>
2007/05/23: PlanetArk: US Says World CO2 Output to Rise 59 Pct by 2030
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42093/story.htm>
2007/05/23: PlanetArk: World Carbon Emissions Speed Up Since 2000 - Study
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/ca-cei052107.php>
2007/05/21: Eureka: CO2 emissions increasing faster than expected
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels have accelerated globally
at a far greater rate than expected over recent years
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42090/story.htm>
2007/05/23: PlanetArk: World Growth Spurs Faster Climate Change - [CSIRO] Report
<http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/2007/05/co2-rising.html>
2007/05/23: NEN: CO2 Rising
<http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11899.html>
2007/05/21: NewScientist: Recent CO2 rises exceed worst-case scenarios
The world's recent carbon dioxide emissions are growing more rapidly than
even the worst-case climate scenario used by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say researchers.
<http://www.physorg.com/news98989202.html>
2007/05/21: PhysOrg: Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/ci-aai051607.php>
2007/05/21: Eureka: Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
Between 2000 and 2004, worldwide CO2 emissions increased at a rate that is over
three times the rate during the 1990s -- the rate increased from 1.1% per year
during the 1990s to 3.1% per year in the early 2000s.
GreenPeace has leaked a draft of the G8 declaration:
<http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/G8%20Summit%20Declaration%20-%20US%20comments%20May%2014-1.pdf>
2007/05/: GP: (154k pdf) Leaked G8 draft
<http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/26/1479/>
2007/05/26: CDreams: AFP: Greenpeace Posts Leaked US Objection to G8 Climate Statement
<http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/070526155056.219oe85e.html>
2007/05/26: AFP: Greenpeace posts leaked US objection to G8 climate statement
<http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/05/g8-pact-us-wants-to-cut-text-not.html>
2007/05/23: NewScientistBlog: G8 climate pact: the missing text
The upcoming G8 summit continues to get a lot of play:
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1843191.ece>
2007/05/26: Times(UK): US dashes hopes for "Kyoto II" deal
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2089314,00.html>
2007/05/27: Guardian(UK): G8 leaders fight over global agreement on climate change
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052501952_pf.html>
2007/05/26: WaPo: U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal -
Germany Urges Limiting Emissions, Temperature Increase
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1934146.htm>
2007/05/26: ABC(Au): US 'rejects' G8 emissions targets
<http://www.physorg.com/news99382868.html>
2007/05/26: PhysOrg: US objects to G8 global warming declaration: report
<http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2007/05/us-to-sink-g8-summit-climate-change.html>
2007/05/26: GWWatch: US to sink G8 Summit climate change deal, not CO2
<http://www.desmogblog.com/as-us-obstructs-progress-the-climate-heads-toward-the-cliff>
2007/05/26: DeSmogBlog: As US Obstructs Progress, The Climate Heads Toward the Cliff
<http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-spat-creates-major-us-german-rift>
2007/05/26: DeSmogBlog: Climate Spat Creates Major US-German Rift
<http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/26/us-to-reject-g8-climate-deal/>
2007/05/26: ThinkP: U.S. to reject G8 climate deal
<http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2007/05/us_harpoons_g8_climate_languag.html#more>
2007/05/25: GPBlog: US harpoons G8 climate language in leaked document
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/6694227.stm>
2007/05/26: BBC: US 'opposes' G8 climate proposals
The US appears to have rejected draft proposals by Germany for G8 members
to agree tough measures in greenhouse gas emissions, leaked documents have shown
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/06be7a10-0ae1-11dc-8412-000b5df10621.html>
2007/05/25: FTimes: US and Berlin clash on G8 climate text
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2088785,00.html>
2007/05/26: Guardian(UK): US rejects all proposals on climate change -
Embarrassment for Blair as G8 draft covered in red ink
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070522.wclimate22/BNStory/International/>
2007/05/22: Globe&Mail: U.S. aims to stop G8's tough push on global warming
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052507EB.shtml>
2007/05/25: TruthOut: US Rejects - In Red - G8 Climate Draft --
"Fundamental opposition" to German goal of mandatory cuts, trading.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42139/story.htm>
2007/05/25: PlanetArk: Targets Still Out, Bali Back in G8 Climate Draft
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42146/story.htm>
2007/05/25: PlanetArk: Merkel Unsure G8 Will Clinch Climate Breakthrough
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/904bfef8-0a1c-11dc-93ae-000b5df10621.html>
2007/05/24: FTimes: Merkel plays down G8 climate deal hopes
<http://priceofoil.org/2007/05/25/merkel-plays-down-hopes-of-g8-climate-deal/>
2007/05/25: OilChange: Merkel Plays Down Hopes of G8 Climate Deal
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42091/story.htm>
2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Bush Sees G8 Climate Change Principles Possible
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42085/story.htm>
2007/05/23: PlanetArk: G8 Summit is "Litmus Test" for US on Warming - UN [UNEP head, Achim Steiner]
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42081/story.htm>
2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Britain Sees No Talk of Emissions Targets at G8
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42083/story.htm>
2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Public Opinion Could Swing G8 Climate Success - Expert
<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=10&ItemID=12877>
2007/05/23: ZMag: G8: U.S. Cooling Off to Summit
The United States appears to be cooling off to some key concerns at the G8 heads
of state summit next month. The United States is evidently not interested in
an international consensus on environmental policy against global warming.
Nor does it appear keen on new regulations to control financial speculation.
The U.S. government withdrew participation of treasury secretary Henry Paulson
at the preparatory summit of finance ministers in Potsdam near Berlin May 18-19.
James Hansen has posted an article on sea-level rise:
<http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1748-9326/2/2/024002/erl7_2_024002.html>
2007/05/24: ERL: Scientific reticence and sea level rise by J E Hansen
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/5/25/151415/931>
2007/05/25: GristMill: Yet another must-read by James Hansen
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/speaking_out_on_global_warming.php>
2007/05/26: TreeHugger: Speaking Out on Global Warming
<http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/26/sea-level-rise/>
2007/05/26: ThinkP: Top U.S. Climate Scientist Issues New Warning
On Catastropic Sea Level Rise
<http://climateprogress.org/2007/05/25/yet-another-must-read-by-james-hansen/>
2007/05/25: ClimateP: Yet Another Must Read by James Hansen
And his previous paper is still raising comment:
<http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2559>
2007/05/22: OilDrum: Implications of "Peak Oil" for Atmospheric CO2 and Climate
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/5/22/115929/860>
2007/05/22: GristMill: Peak oil and climate change
<http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/05/will-peak-oil-save-us-from-global.html>
2007/05/21: CasaubonsBook : Will Peak Oil Save us from Global Warming?
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Bonzo
news:4659FC...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca...
> The big story of the week has to be the accelerating rise in CO2
concentration:
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2085595,00.htm
l>
> 2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): CO2 emissions rise outpaces worst-case
scenario
And no corresponding global temperature increase.
Ergo CO2 is not the culprit!
Too bad for you that temperatures have PLATEAUED since 1998 despite
soaring CO2 levels!
Global temperatures were dropping from 1850 to 1910 DESPITE RISING CO2
LEVELS!
Global temperatures were dropping from 1940 to 1980 DESPITE RISING CO2
LEVELS!
Global temperatures have PLATEAUED from 1989 to 2007 DESPITE RISING
CO2 LEVELS!
NO ACCELERATION IN TEMPERATURES EVIDENT DESPITE ACCELERATING CO2 LEVELS!
Regards
Bonzo
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of
Meteorology MIT and Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Usenet-Admin.US
> "H. E. Taylor" <h...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca> wrote in messagenews:4659FC...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca...> The big story of the week has to be the accelerating rise in CO2
>
> concentration:
>
> <http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2085595,00.htm
> l>> 2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): CO2 emissions rise outpaces worst-case
>
> scenario
>
> And no corresponding global temperature increase.
> Ergo CO2 is not the culprit!
Has all the ICE melted yet? That's soaking up 79 calories of heat per
gram of ice melted without temperature change.
Have all the winds been the same? Heat converted to kinetic energy
cannot be measured on thermometers.
Bill Taylor
California tomorrow in a nationally televised ice hockey game is proof that
Global Warming is a sham!
Bonzo
message news:1180322734....@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On May 27, 8:08 pm, "Bonzo" <boo...@optusnt.com.au> wrote:
> > "H. E. Taylor" <h...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca> wrote in
messagenews:4659FC...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca...> The big story of the
week has to be the accelerating rise in CO2
> >
> > concentration:
> >
> >
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2085595,00.htm
> > l>> 2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): CO2 emissions rise outpaces worst-case
> > scenario
> > And no corresponding global temperature increase.
> > Ergo CO2 is not the culprit!
>
> Has all the ICE melted yet?
Ice in Antarctica still there and GROWING!
> Have all the winds been the same?
Actually 2006 was a very quiet year for storm activty.
--
Regards
Bonzo
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of
Meteorology MIT and Member of the National Academy of Sciences
--
Usenet-Admin.US
> "Usenet-Admin.US" <T.O.S_Enforcement...@Usenet-Admin.US> wrote in
> messagenews:1180322734....@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...> On May 27, 8:08 pm, "Bonzo" <boo...@optusnt.com.au> wrote:
> > > "H. E. Taylor" <h...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca> wrote in
>
> messagenews:4659FC...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca...> The big story of the
> week has to be the accelerating rise in CO2
>
> > > concentration:
>
> <http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2085595,00.htm
>
> > > l>> 2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): CO2 emissions rise outpaces worst-case
> > > scenario
> > > And no corresponding global temperature increase.
> > > Ergo CO2 is not the culprit!
>
> > Has all the ICE melted yet?
>
> Ice in Antarctica still there and GROWING!
Has ALL of the ICE MELTED YET? 79 calories of heat is consumed
liquifying ice into water without any change in temperatures on
thermometers.
>
> > Have all the winds been the same?
>
> Actually 2006 was a very quiet year for storm activty.
Have ALL OF THE WINDS been the SAME? Heat energy converted into
kinetic energy will disappear off of thermometers without leaving the
closed system.
You ducked the questions or provided deceptively localized examples
which are not representative of the total system.
Peter White
I hear Billy Taylor's mother is going to buy her first refrigerator next
month!
That ought to be an eye opener for little Billy.
Patrick
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"During the past century, global surface temperatures have increased
at a rate near 0.06°C/decade (0.11°F/decade) but this trend has
increased to a rate approximately 0.18°C/decade (0.32°F/decade) during
the past 25 to 30 years."
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2006/ann/global.html#Gtemp