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Tuvalu – the touchstone of global warming and rising sea level

(Nov. 26, 2010) “…Tuvalu has become “hot news” as the favourite island to be doomed by sea level rise driven by global warming, allegedly caused in turn by anthropogenic carbon dioxide.”
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Lawrence Solomon: Europe’s press (and Canada’s) turns against global warming

(Nov. 28, 2010) More media outlets express their global warming scepticism.

Hockey stick coverup, a sequel

(Dec. 03, 2010) Another scandal surrounding the infamous hockey stick graph comes to light.
More fallout over the University of Virginia’s mysterious conduct concerning the infamous hockey stick graph, the UN icon that purported to show that temperatures were steady over the last thousand years before shooting up in the last century.

Green collapse

(Dec. 04, 2010) Across the world, unsustainable subsidies for wind and solar are being cut back. Ontario is next.
The Ontario government paints itself in extreme green. It has outlawed coal — the only jurisdiction on the continent to have done so. It boasts the world’s biggest solar plant. It boasts the western world’s biggest subsidies to the renewables industry. And now, it also boasts the western world’s fastest-growing renewables industry.

The $7-billion carbon scam

(Dec. 05, 2010) Loopholes in the EU’s carbon credit trading scheme bring $7-billion in profits to scam artists.

Global warming believers increasingly marginalized, and they know it!

Public opinion on global warming is cooling.
Fewer and fewer Americans accept the theory that humans are responsible for global warming, according to the latest Pew Poll. The number of believers across the U.S. population as a whole now stands at 34%.
Fewer than one in three Independents and one in six Republicans hew to the global warming line. A majority of Democrats, 53%, do accept the view that humans are responsible for global warming.

Lawrence Solomon: CO2 blesses China and Tibet

A new study details the benefits of CO2 for China and Tibet.

No Cause For Alarm Over Sea Level Or Ice Sheets

 Professor Cliff Ollier, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, says the alarm over rising sea levels is unfounded.
John Le Mesurier’s recent article in On Line Opinion, “The Creeping Menace”, re-hashes the alarmism about rising sea levels. Much has happened, however, since Al Gore scared the world with visions of metre high seas flooding New York.

Queen’s Third Debate Date

A look back at the first formal debate on the science of global warming in a Canadian academic institution.
In each of the past two years, I have written about the invitations to debate global warming that Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario extended to me, only to see them later withdraw the invitations. This year, Queen’s extended a third invitation and … the debate actually took place this week. It was the first formal debate on the science of global warming in a Canadian academic institution.

Global warming gave us chocolate, says new study touting benefits to tropical forests of a much hotter climate

New study says warmer temperatures may be good for the planet’s tropical forests.
If the planet heats up dramatically, as Al Gore and others fear, the planet’s tropical forests could be a big winner, according to a just-published study in Science magazine that looked at a previous warming period in Earth’s history.