Sixth International Conference on Climate Change
The 2011 Sixth International Conference on Climate change, organized by the Heartland Institute, will take place in Washington DC, June 30- July 1 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. We encourage you to attend this event that is co-sponsored by our Center. Details on registering can be obtained by clicking here.
Editorial
Plant Stomatal Responses to Changes in the Air’s CO2 Content: They can occur on three different time scales, driven by three different phenomena, as observed in five woody angiosperms, three conifers and one fern in a recent study.
Journal Reviews
Earth’s Temperature: Deconstructing the Past to Predict the Future: How is it done? And what does it suggest?
Modeling the Pattern of Tropical Ocean Warming: Why is it important? … and how well do state-of-the-art climate models do in this regard?
Black Carbon and the Melting of Himalayan Glaciers: How big a role is played by the infamous BC?
The Disappearing Frogs of Southeastern Peru: What’s the Cause?: Is it climate change? Or is it … ???
Prospects for Sea Urchin Development in Warmed Waters Southeast of Australia: Are they good or not so good?
Heat Tolerance in Antarctic Fish: What was long believe to be true, now turns out to be not so true.
Ocean Acidification Database
The latest addition of peer-reviewed data archived to our database of marine organism responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment is Purple Sea Urchin [Paracentrotus lividus]. To access the entire database,click here.
Plant Growth Database
Our latest results of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature are: Raddish (Schubert and Jahren, 2011) and Scots Pine(Fransson and Johansson, 2010).
Medieval Warm Period Project
Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 971 individual scientists from 562 research institutions in 43 different countries … and counting! This issue’s Medieval Warm Period Record comes from the North Icelandic Shelf. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Project’s database, click here.
World Temperatures Database
Back by popular demand and upgraded to allow patrons more choices to plot and view the data, we reintroduce the World Temperatures section of our website. Here, users may plot temperatures for the entire globe or regions of the globe. A newly added feature allows patrons the ability to plot up to six independent datasets on the same graph. Try it today. World Temperatures Database.
Major Report
Carbon Dioxide and Earth’s Future: Pursuing the Prudent Path: Ten of the more ominous model-based predictions of what will occur in response to continued business-as-usual anthropogenic CO2 emissions are compared against real-world observations. (co2science.org)
Glossed over in their little comparison is that Palisades is indeed only taxed the equivalent of 0.2¢ per kWh – but on 6 billion kWh, totaling $12 million. Despite being massively overpaid for their trivial power output they want yet another concession because they are being hit with a tax bill less than one 400th that of Palisades (although it probably does look expensive when you produce one 27,000th the power output). Even massive subsidies aren’t much good when you have next to no product to sell, eh guys?
