Friday, March 12, 2010

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Bias in IPCC AR4 WGIII? A Guest Post by Richard Tol, Part V
In sum, the IPCC made a mistake in SRES. Instead of admitting and correcting the mistake in AR4, the IPCC distorts the literature review to hide the mistake.
For Full Disclosure Of Climate-Change Risks - Investors.com
The recent Securities and Exchange Commission "interpretive guidance" on climate change says companies should disclose not only potential risks from climate change, but also risks from climate-related legislation, regulation, international accords and effects on business trends
Kerry-Graham-Lieberman: The Tax Formerly Known As Cap-and-Trade | GlobalWarming.org
According to earlier reports, Graham et al. may propose to combine an electric utility sector cap-and-trade program with carbon taxes on transportation fuels. If so, then Kyotoism is truly dead. Electric utilities are gung-ho for cap-and-trade only if it’s economy-wide, so they can sell the free emission permits they would get under a bill like Waxman-Markey to other sectors receiving fewer or zero freebies.
An Idea I Had Too Late | Climate Skeptic
The idea I had too late is that three years ago, when I had the time, I should have put the whole IPCC report on the web in some sort of Wiki or 2-column format (almost like a Medieval gloss) we could have linked and collected challenges to each individual statement and attribution. I think a couple of people are working towards this right now, but I kick myself for not thinking of it earlier. What a resource we would have now!
C3: Canadian Research: Medieval Warming Tree Line Over 50 Miles Farther North Than Current One
Forests respond to warmer temperatures by advancing the forest tree line farther north, and when it is colder, the tree line retreats - it's as simple as that. During the Medieval Warming, Canadian forests were established much further north versus the forests of today.
EU Referendum: Is climate change losing us the war in Afghanistan?
The short answer to this seemingly off-the-wall question is yes. British political and diplomatic efforts on the region are not focused on brokering the political deal necessary to secure peace. Instead, they are being subsumed by the seemingly more important need to secure an international climate change treaty.

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