Thursday, April 28, 2011

Business Roundtable Urges EPA to Drop Its U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Regulations - Bloomberg
The Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives officers from companies such as General Electric Co. (GE) and Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), urged the Obama administration to abandon efforts to regulate greenhouse gases from industrial polluters.
Meet Don Brash .. climate sceptic - Carbon News
Don Brash says he’s a climate-change sceptic.

The former National Party leader and Reserve Bank Governor who this week ousted Rodney Hyde to take the Act Party leadership, told interviewer Lindsay Perigo on Saturday that he is does not believe that human activity is altering the climate.
NOAA Scientist Rejects Global Warming Link to Tornadoes - FoxNews.com
A top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rejected claims by environmental activists that the outbreak of tornadoes ravaging the American South is related to climate change brought on by global warming.

Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said warming trends do create more of the fuel that tornadoes require, such as moisture, but that they also deprive tornadoes of another essential ingredient: wind shear.
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Asked if climate change should be “acquitted” in a jury trial where it stood charged with responsibility for tornadoes, Carbin replied: “I would say that is the right verdict, yes.” Because there is no direct connection as yet established between the two? “That’s correct,” Carbin replied.

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