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• Climate Audit: Well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. By Steve McIntyre We seem to be having occasional success in getting things archived. CSIRO was shamed into providing the data for their Drought Report and David Stockwell has now reported on this. Earlier this year, we reported a form of academic check kiting by Ammann and Wahl, where they had referred …full story

• TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Japan's cabinet on Tuesday adopted a plan to slash carbon emissions up to 80 percent by 2050 by starting carbon trading and stepping up research on carbon-capture technologies. …full story

• Despite the ironclad unanimous consensus that only totalitarianism can save us from a global warming apocalypse caused by mankind's CO2 emissions, scientists are still coming up with new theories to explain why it got slightly warmer during the twentieth century, and has been getting cooler ever since. Now we're told that 70% of the warming was due to Pacific Ocean oscillations. From NASA, via The Strata-Sphere: …full story

• Sunspot activity leaves an isotope signature in the geologic record. So does temperature, allowing researchers to compare contemporaneous sunspot activity and temperature, going back many thousands of years. On every time scale, the level of solar-magnetic activity (aka sunspot activity, or the solar wind) consistently "explains" statistically about 90% of temperature variation. (The geological evidence is amassed for laymen in Fred Singer’s 2007 book Unstoppable Global Warming, every 1500 years, but none of this is new to professional climatologists.) …full story

• Nigel Hannaford has weighed in again on global warming. He should have checked his facts first. Like Stephane Dion and a carbon tax, Hannaford has changed his opinion on whether people are causing global warming -- in Hannaford's case, from denial to acceptance to ambivalence. Hannaford's current position is that "climate change may be real and humanity may be part of the problem." …full story

• SAINT JOHN - Global warming skeptic and retired chemical engineer Ian McQueen has spent the past 20 months trying to examine the veracity of the threat of global warming. Enlarge Photo Ian McQueen After sifting through reports for hours each day, he attempted to change the public's minds in a lecture at the Saint John Free Public Library Wednesday night. …full story

• A Canadian company says that it has developed a way for makers of precast concrete products to take all the carbon-dioxide emissions from their factories, as well as neighboring industrial facilities, and store them in the products that they produce by exposing those products to carbon-dioxide-rich flue gases during the curing process. Industry experts say that the technology is unproven but holds great potential if it works. …full story

• The G8 leaders from the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Russia, Italy and Canada like to think they are the ones who can take charge of the big global challenges. But as their recent annual summit in Japan showed, this is a pipe dream. Like earlier summits, it cost a great deal of money to put on — over $500 million, according to some estimates — but achieved little beyond another communique of wishful thinking. …full story

• Global climate change, dwindling aquifers, the accelerated loss of species and habitat are symptoms of a bigger disease: human overpopulation. How do we know this? For one, simple arithmetic. If you take the entire area of the earth’s surface, subtract out oceans, deserts, and extreme latitudes, and divide the result by six billion people (our current population), you get about four acres of habitable land per human, of which approximately two are suitable for growing food. The debate, then, is about whether a few acres is enough to sustain each of us — that is, without petroleum. Most people frame the issue in terms of carrying capacity. Some estimates for the carrying capacity of our planet range between eight-hundred million and eight billion people. (Actually, estimates vary more widely because determining what humans need, want, and then actually use, is non-trivial.) The lower number reflects the notion that there is not just a physical carrying capacity, but a social carrying capacity for the planet, …full story

• LOS ANGELES (AFP) — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the Bush administration's decision to delay a decision on regulating greenhouse gases showed that it did not believe in global warming. Schwarzenegger, in an interview with ABC television broadcast Sunday, said it would have been insincere for the administration to take action on the harmful emissions with only six months left in George W. Bush's presidency. …full story

• The National Wildlife Federation says people in the Central United States are not imagining things. The last few decades have brought more heavy summer rainfall, along with increased likelihood of devastating floods. Climate scientist Amanda Staudt said that while no single storm or flood, such as the high water recently in the Midwest, can be attributed directly to global warming, changing climate conditions are at least partly responsible for the trends. Because warmer air can hold more moisture, global warming is expected to bring more and heavier precipitation in the years to come, she said. …full story

• The Bush administration made clear on Friday that it will do virtually nothing to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. With no shame and no apology, it stuck a thumb in the eye of the Supreme Court, repudiated its own scientists and exposed the hollowness of Mr. Bush’s claims to have seen the light on climate change. …full story

• Another after-effect has been added to the already disastrous effects of global warming on the planet. Experts say that global warming is leading to an increase in the number of malaria cases. The irreversible changes occurring in the environment are adding fuel to the spread of the already dreaded disease. It has been found that Europe, North America and North Asia are almost immune from the malaria threat because the temperatures are much lower in these regions. But with the rising temperatures all over the world, this may no longer hold true. …full story

• The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billions of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned Hollywood blockbusters and inspired major political movements. It has given a higher calling to celebrities and built a lucrative industry for scores of eager scientists. In short, ending climate change has become a national crusade. And yet, despite this dominant and sprawling campaign, the facts behind global warming remain as confounding as ever. In climate confusion, distinguished climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer observes that our obsession with global warming has only clouded the issue. Forsaking blindingly technical statistics and doomsday scenarios, Dr. Spencer explains in simple terms how the climate system really works, why man's role in global warming is more myth than science, and how the global warming hype has corrupted Washington and the scientific community. …full story

• Google recently launched Earth Outreach as a benefit to non-profit and public benefit organizations working on global warming topics. …full story

• It's official. Polar bears are now officially endangered. This WSJ piece runs down the details. …full story

• Interesting idea. Hard to imagine it will have much impact overall. …full story

• The Earth's temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade, as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted. This article from BBC Science and Nature expands upon the new modeling predictions from German researchers. …full story

• A partial debunking of the list of "500 Prominent Scientists" said to be denying global warming. Turns out many of these scientists didn't even know they were on the list and most had never argued that global warming was not man-made. Read the EcoGeek article. …full story

• McCain is dancing a fine line these days between protecting free trade and not offending the Bush Administration too much. He did depart from the Bushies today when he proposed a free market solution that includes capping carbon-fuel emissions. He also said he would not let eight more years go by without serious action. …full story