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Global Warming News

compiled by Bob Webster - Editor at Large

Updated: July 31, 2002

*Current articles: by Bernard Switalski - July 30, 2002

Global Warming - from Fascism, Environmentalism, and the Third Way
Ozone Depletion - from Fascism, Environmentalism, and the Third Way
Environmentalism's Tainted Roots - from Fascism, Environmentalism, and the Third Way
Fascism, Environmentalism, and the Third Way

Current articles from CO₂ Science Magazine, Tech Central Station, and The National Center for Public Policy Research:

Sunny Cali-fear-nia by Willie Soon - California Assembly Bill 1058, authored by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley (D-Woodland Hills), and signed by Gov. Gray Davis "instructs" the California Air Resources Board to come up with regulations that allow "maximum and cost-effective" cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and light trucks by the years 2006-2009. According to Assemblywoman Pavley, "Unless we act, [computer models tell us] California will experience heat waves, droughts, floods and forest fires that could devastate the economy of the state, including agriculture, fishing, timber, real estate, insurance, construction and tourism. ... Climate change is already beginning to impact California, the world's fifth largest economy." Computer climate models say that the largest greenhouse gas heating is supposed to occur in air layers a few miles above the surface. But intensive monitoring by both satellites and weather balloons over the last 22 years have demonstrated no warming in this part of the atmosphere. Thus, the idea of using computer models to confirm the impact of man-made greenhouse gases on California is most likely a futile, if not confusing, effort. - Tech Central Station

Global Warming and Tick-Borne Encephalitis - Will the former lead to more of the latter? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 267: 1741-1744.

Responses of Agricultural Crops to Free-Air CO2 Enrichment - Thirteen years ago, a group of visionary scientists conducted the world's first large-scale free-air CO2 enrichment experiment in an Arizona cotton field; and from that pioneering effort has come a whole new approach to global change research, with upwards of thirty scientific consortiums now employing the same technology to determine how everything from deserts to forests responds to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. A recent review of what has been learned about agricultural crops within this context forms the basis of this week's editorial from CO₂ Science Magazine.

Effects of Warming on the Distribution of Vegetation in the United States: Model Simulations - Simulations from both a static and dynamic model produced similar results with respect to potential climate change effects on vegetation density and carbon sequestration in the conterminous United States. How bad are the results? Actually, they're quite encouraging. Ecosystems 4: 164-185.

A Pitiable Ploy to Promote the Kyoto Protocol: Predicted Shutdown of the Marine Thermohaline Circulation

A Climate Model Reality Check

More Evidence that Algae Help to Regulate Earth's Climate

Organic Vapors from Trees Produce Cloud Condensation Nuclei - CO₂ Science Magazine

Differential Effects of Elevated CO2 on Old and New Soil Carbon Pools - CO₂ Science Magazine

In Defense of James Hansen's "Alternative Scenario" for Fighting Global Warming - CO₂ Science Magazine

Evapotranspiration - CO₂ Science Magazine

Precipitation Trends of the Twentieth Century - CO₂ Science Magazine

Extreme Weather Events in Europe During the Holocene - CO₂ Science Magazine

Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment Reduces Respiration in Wheat - CO₂ Science Magazine

Polar Ice Sheets and Global Sea Level: How Well Can We Predict the Future? - CO₂ Science Magazine

Droughts - CO₂ Science Magazine