Thursday, September 10, 2009

Cooling, not warming - Bill Spiva  - Salt Lake Tribune
As a meteorologist for more than 35 years, I say thanks to Richard Flygare for his courage to state his skepticism about the man-made global warming theory ("Evidence abounds that global warming isn't our fault," Opinion, Sept. 2).
The Climate's Warm Future Is Now in the Arctic: Scientific American
In the past 30 years, minimum sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has declined by 45,000 square kilometers annually*—an area twice the size of New Jersey is lost each year.
Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis- Sept '09
Sea ice extent averaged over the month of August 2009 was 6.26 million square kilometers (2.42 million square miles). This is 900,000 square kilometers (350,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, which occurred in August 2007
No Se - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Oh. So that windmill and solar panel binge that’s collapsed upon you wasn’t sustainable, eh? Yes, I think we've covered that here.
The rush for Carbon Credits
A private land owner in Wadena County is now receiving an annual check of $35 for planting trees on seven of his 60 acres. Carbon credits are now selling for about $2 a ton through the Chicago Carbon Credit Exchange. When mandatory carbon dioxide caps are in place, prices for carbon credits could increase from $20 to $40 a ton.

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