The Week That Was (Sept. 22, 2007)

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IMPORTANT: Comments invited to AGU Panel on ‘Human Impacts on Climate’

AGU has appointed a panel to update the 2003 AGU Statement on GW, for consideration by the AGU Council in Dec. 2007 [see Eos, Vol 88, No 35, 28 Aug 2007, p. 345]

Comments are being invited from AGU members only. My own comment [see TWTW Sept 8] is found at http://www.agu.org/fora/eos Click on ‘Comments,’ and then add your own.

[To see the six Figures cited in my Comment, go to

http://science-sepp.blogspot.com/2007/09/contribution-to-agu-panel-drafting.html]

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Quote of the Week:

This [GW] is an example of religious fervour unmitigated by rational investigation. It is the triumph of superstition over reason. Ray Evans (Melbourne)

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The Montreal Protocol is 20 years old. Why we should NOT celebrate [ITEM #1]

Biofuels may emit more GH gases than they save [ITEM #2]. Even the NY Times is skeptical of ethanol – as a contributor to world hunger [ITEM #3]

Facts on urban mobility: We need less driving, not just more efficient cars [ITEM #4]

California GW lawsuit fails: Congress not courts must set car emission standards {ITEM #5]

Greens trying to stop GW science debate [ITEM #6]

Climate Change – A Common Sense Approach [ITEM #7]

Finally, academia awards conformity not original thinking [ITEM #8]

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Shutting down debate on climate change is one of the principal objectives of many of today’s environmentalist crusaders. They have written numerous tracts denouncing the ideals of journalistic balance and objectivity, since applying such ideals to climate change assumes that there is more than one legitimate viewpoint on the subject. Journalists who seek balance on climate change are labelled ‘cowards’ for refusing to take a stand against Evil. Exhorting the media to take sides on climate change, instead of upholding balance, green crusaders resort to cheap and superficial comparisons between climate change and slavery or the Holocaust.

[Frank Furedi, author most recently of Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right]

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BBC NEWS: The European Union's goal of keeping the global temperature rise to 2C is unlikely to be met, a leading climate researcher has warned. Professor Martin Parry told BBC News that millions, if not tens of millions, would be at increased risk to their lives from a rise above 2C (3.6F). He co-chairs the impacts working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

SEPP Comment: So EU and US will cause mass deaths unless we switch to fluorescent light bulbs?

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Fox News, 5 September 2007 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295768,00.html

It's a good thing Leonardo DiCaprio made so much money from "Titanic" a decade ago. His environmental documentary, "The 11th Hour," has been a total bust at the box office.

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In his new book “Cool It,” Danish scholar Bjorn Lomborg calculates that about 200,000 people die in Europe each year from excessive heat, and 1.5 million from excessive cold.

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Fred Singer’s Hillsdale talk in Imprimis

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2007&month=08

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For German readers: SEPP director Dr Klaus Heiss in major Austrian newspaper

http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3946&Alias=wzo&cob=301034