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IPCC 2007, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and 

DriveNeutral.org   and OneGeology digital image of earth  & Vulcan Project US C02

Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, BuzzFlashClimateCrisis

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska

Goddard Space Flight Center Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland

 
  IEA CO2 emissions report.   US National Snow and Ice Data Centre    Stern Reiview
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PROGRESSIVE  REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
 
  • The Republican platform document is over 90 pages long.  Only one page is devoted to the environment and that pages basically says that no environmental policy should adversely affect business.
  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2 emissions laws.
  • Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, vows to counter any California efforts to control auto emissions
  • American Electric Power Company.
  • American Plastics Council resources, 
  • Ameriplas.org/ info, 
  • CaliforniaRepublic
  • Citizens for a Sound Economy, Less government, lower taxes, economic development, global warming caused by natural fluctuations in climate.
  • Coaltion of Vehicle Choice code words
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute limited government
  • Council on Environmental Quality Whitehouse
  • DTE Energy Company
  • Dynergy
  • Earth Ministry  environmental watch
  • Environmental Defense "Global Warming: Finally a Hot Issue on the Political Agenda Despite Loss, McCain-Lieberman Bill Shows Global Warming Issue Gaining Momentum Posted on: 10/30/2003 The winds of change are blowing through Congress, and they're getting warmer.  Global warming is finally a hot issue on the political agenda, and though the Senate this week rejected the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, the business-friendly bill to curb heat-trapping gases, the loss isn't a disappointment. The 43-55 vote marks a seismic political change on the critical issue of global warming.  In pre-vote debate on the floor, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) spoke strongly about the environmental threat and the need for U.S. leadership on it: "It is a problem that is getting worse because we failed to attend to it. But what bothers me is this idea that somehow America -- the most innovative, creative nation the world has ever seen -- cannot cope with this problem. This defeatism, this pessimism, this fatalism that I hear from the opponents is fundamentally un-American."
  • EPA, Compliance, Enforcement 
  • "Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Barclays Plc and other firms are backing a $26 million development to reduce greenhouse gases from an SRF Ltd. factory in India that makes air-conditioning chemicals. The UN is awarding the project an estimated 311 million euros in permits over five years. Banks are buying them for less than 8 euros apiece, according to World Bank data, about a third of the price in Europe in June." Bloomberg
  • Great Global Warming Swindle
  • High North Alliance Defending Icelandic Whaler, communities
  • Independent Institute saving the environment, friend or foe?
  • International Coalition of Fisheries Associations opposed to global trawler bans
  • International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources stealth pro-biz, anti-regulation
  • Junk Science  Have a Coke and a waistline, Reagan's regulatory reform.
  • Ocean Law reference, Fisheries commissions
  • PacifiCorp
  • Pentagon Environmental Report "a five degree Fahrenheit drop in parts of North America by 2020 and a six degree drop in Northern Europe"
  • Petroleum News
  • PG&E
  • Plastics.org info, environmental info
  • Thoreau Institute responsible  environmental policy
  • Catholic.net
  • EWG
  • Republicans for environmental protection
  • Pick a Project 
Arctic Ice Cap       top
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
  • Boise Cascade
  • Bush Whitehouse silent on Arctic icecap meltdown.
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute limited government
  • Petroleum News
  • Notes :Methane Hydrate Gun Hypothesis" or sometimes the "Clathrate Gun Hypothesis". The Hypothesis is that 55 million years ago an increase in temperature started melting deposits of Methane Hydrate which released Methane (a green house gas more than 20 times more potent than CO2) into the atmosphere and started a positive feed back loop of more warming releasing more gas which created more warming and released more gas and on and on. They believe it raised Earth's average global temperature by about 10 degrees in a very short time (maybe a few decades) and killed off almost every living thing in the lower latitudes
  • CommunicationAgents "Using hydrogen instead of petroleum-derived fuels would be a first step, although we must find a way to produce the gas without burning more of the black stuff. Options range from the relatively inefficient direct-current electrolysis, solar hydrogen production at sea, the use of metal catalysts, high frequency electric currents, ultraviolet light and the action of bacteria which naturally produce hydrogen. It seems none of the technologies are quite ready to use, but there is no room for complacency."
Bees, pollination crisis       top
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  • Bush, White House  ignores and impedes global warming remediation efforts.  Is it because of Pentecostal belief that the world is coming to an end?
  • MaineBee In January (2006), as beekeepers began preparing to place their beehives into California orchards to pollinate almonds, they found that varroa mites had decimated their bees, leaving many of the colonies dead and others severely weakened. The death of so many bees is creating a pollination shortage, threatening the almond crop -- the first to bloom in the spring. Beekeepers and almond growers have trucked in beehives from as far as Florida to meet the demand. To help with the pollination and to re-populate empty beehives, beekeepers have air-freighted bees to California from Australia
Biological Diversity       top
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Carbon Sequestration       top
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  • Sir Richard Branson today offered a $25m (£12.8m) prize for scientists who find a way to help save the planet from the effects of climate change.and Guardian
  • OhmyNews  Methane Hydrate Gun Hypothesis.
  • American Enterprise Institute
  • The Republican platform document is over 90 pages long.  Only one page is devoted to the environment and that pages basically says that no environmental policy should adversely affect business.
Dept of the Interior       top
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
  • CSI-Safetynet Compliance Specialists
End of the World and Global Warming       top
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  • Evangelical Alliance "God is the Creator  of our relationships and our sexuality."
  • Focus on the Family ex-gay men and women, Love Won Out, reparative therapy, Colorado Springs, James Dobson, homosexuality is not innate and can be repaired. 
  • TownHall 
Forests      top    
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 Global Warming       top
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  • LA Times "One example showed how a report originally said the U.S. National Research Council had concluded that "greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures to rise and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise." Edits by ex-oil lobbyist Philip Cooney, the oil lobbyist who became chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, changed that to read: "Some activities emit greenhouse gases that directly or indirectly may affect the balance of incoming and outgoing radiation, thereby potentially affecting climate on regional and global scales." James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said the edits confused public understanding of the issue. "If we push our climate system hard enough, it can pass tipping points," he said. "That is not a situation we want to leave for our children." Hansen decried political interference in climate change science. "Scientists shouldn't be hired to parrot some line."
  • ABC News  Just this month, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and 24 other top Christian conservatives pressured the National Association of Evangelicals to silence its Washington director, the Rev. Rich Cizik. The reason: Cizik tried to convince evangelicals that global warming is real.
Kyoto   top
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  • CDM Watch Clean Development Mechanism watchdog
  • Environmental Defense
  • Global Policy search
  • Green Peace search
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Northern Alaska Environmental Center Boreal Forest, Denali Watch, Mining, Coal Bed Methane
  • The Weather Channel
  • World Wildlife Fund WWF search
  • notes: clathrates, discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy, 1810, other common clathrates are ethane, propane, isobutane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, can cause undersea slumps that spawn tusnamis, generated by bacterial degradation of organic matter in low oxygen environment, complex process requiring the activity of several varieties of bacteria, methanogenesis, mainly restricted to high latitudes and continental margins in the oceans, average thickness of the clathrate stability zone along continental shelf is 500 meters,  eThomas.web,
  • EPA administrator: Mike Leavitt: "Kyoto was a bad treaty..."
  • UN Statistics Division Dept. Economic & Social Affairs
  • Center for International Environmental Law
  • Dept of Energy interested in methane hydrates as fuel source
  • EPA, Compliance, Enforcement 
  • eThomas.web, Weslayan, 
  •  
  • UN Environment Program
  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  • POP's Persistent Organic Pollutants,
  • Wikipedia, Clathrates, search terms: gas hydrates, hydrogen-bonded water molecles, occur in large quantities in outer planets and the earth's deep ocean floor, at Storegga Slide, Norwegian continental shelf, also found in permafrost regions such as Mallik gas hydrate field in the Mackenzie Delta, Canadian arctic, can plug gas pipelines.
  • Wikipedia, Carbon sequestration 
Oceans       top
PROGRESSIVE  REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
  • WayneMadsenReport "According to U.S. maritime industry sources, tanker captains are reporting an increase in onboard alarms from hazard sensors designed to detect hydrocarbon gas leaks and, specifically, methane leaks. However, the leaks are not emanating from cargo holds or pump rooms but from continental shelves venting increasing amounts of trapped methane into the atmosphere. With rising ocean temperatures, methane is increasingly escaping from deep ocean floors. Methane is also 21 more times capable of trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.  In fact, one of the major sources for increased methane venting is the Hudson Submarine Canyon, which extends 400 miles into the Atlantic from the New York-New Jersey harbor. Another location experiencing increased venting is the Santa Barbara Channel on the California coast."
  • Real Climate Methane Hydrates and Global Warming 
  • "Methane bubbling up from the ocean floor is a clear and present danger to shipping and even aviation. By the way, there is something like 10,000 billion tons of methane under the sea in methane hydrate deposits. Furthermore, a theory called the "Clathrate gun hypothesis" or the "Hydrate hypothesis," posits that melting methane hydrate has cause severe episodes of runaway global warming in the past. We are sitting on a bomb. Mankind's emission are the fuse, melting permafrost is the detonator, and melting oceanic methane hydrate is the bomb. Since mankind's emissions is a much larger trigger than past severe episodes, the current unfolding episode of runaway global warming will occur much more rapidly, and therefore be much, much more severe."
  • Chemsoc "Clathrates are gas hydrates. They are crystalline solids that look and behave much like ice but which incorporate a guest molecule as part of their structure. Clathrates have a cubic molecular organisation rather than the hexagonal arrangement of conventional ice. The guest molecule is held within the lattice of water molecules by Van der Waals forces. Chemical bonding in the strict sense does not occur. Different types of clathrate accommodate a variety of guest molecules including several flammable hydrocarbons such as ethane, propane and butane. The most common of the naturally occurring clathrates are methane hydrates.  Methane hydrates can occur as one of several different molecular structures (types, I, II and H) but the most common (type I) is shown above. In this arrangement the water molecules are arranged so that the guest molecule is trapped in the centre of the cage. Each unit cell is composed of 46 molecules of water and up to eight molecules of methane. In practice it is uncommon for all the methane 'slots' to be occupied. As a consequence 1m3 of methane hydrate in nature contains up to 164m3 of methane compared with a theoretical maximum of 170.7m3 (assuming the methane hydrate is near the centre of its stability field).
Atmosphere, Ozone       top
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Permafrost   Methane Hydrate    top
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  • Utopia Springs "As the Methane Ice accumulates and the earth cools, Ice Caps advance and sea level slowly drops. During the last Ice Age, sea level dropped 300 feet. This lowering of sea level by 300 feet is just enough to change the critical pressure necessary for the Methane Ice. When the pressure drops to below a critical level, the Methane Ice effervesces rapidly out of the ocean and floods the Atmosphere with the very powerful greenhouse gas, Methane. The end of the Ice Age then occurs very rapidly, sea level raises rapidly and the methane can then begin to accumulate again in and on the Continental Slope soft sediments. Apparently it is accumulating again and the earth will begin to cool. The slight rise in recent average temperatures has decreased the Ice Caps further and this will raise sea level slightly but then more Methane Ice will accumulate and increase the cooling rate until the next Ice Age begins."
Persistent Organic Pollutants       top
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
  • TruGreen see campaign contributions...formerly ChemLawn
Pittsfield, General Electric, FollowUp       top
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
  • General Electric Pittsfield remediation
Recycling       top
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  • IBM
Rivers       top
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Tourism threat       top
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2
Urban Sprawl       top
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  • ALEC, American Legal Exchange Committee,  actions against CO2

Progressive

Conservatives, Global Warming Skeptics List* climate change skeptics
  • * To be on list -- had to at some point deny global warming existed or facilitated misinformation campaigns about global warming. Otherwise known as climate change skeptics. MORE at NFU Environment page  Global Warming Deniers List
  • SourceWatch Dennis Avery, Sallie L. Baliunas, Tim Ball, Robert C. Balling, David Bellamy, Robert (Bob) Carter, Ian Castles John R. Christy, Ian Clark , Alexander Cockburn, Martin Durkin, Paul Driessen, George Fox, Bill Gray, Andrei Illarionov Aynsley Kellow, William Kininmonth, Lord Lawson, Richard S. Lindzen, Bjorn Lomborg, Stephen McIntyre Ross McKitrick, Patrick J. Michaels, Alan Moran, Alan Oxley, Garth Paltridge, Tim Patterson , Ian Plimer S. Fred Singer, Roy Spencer, Carlo Stagnaro, Philip Stott, Wolfgang Thüne, Jan Veizer, Len Walker  
  • ExxonSecrets:  Climate Change Skeptics List continued:  Accuracy in Academia, Accuracy in Media, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, Africa Fighting Malaria Air Quality Standards Coalition, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Alliance for Climate Strategies, American Coal Foundation American Conservative Union Foundation, American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research American Council on Science and Health, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, American Friends of the Institute for Economic Affairs, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Petroleum Institute, American Policy Center, American Recreation Coalition, American Spectator Foundation Americans for Tax Reform, Arizona State University Office of Cimatology, Aspen Institute, Association of Concerned Taxpayers Atlantic Legal Foundation, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Blue Ribbon Coalition, Capital Legal Foundation Capital Research Center and Greenwatch, Cato Institute, Center for American and International Law, Center for Environmental Education Research, Center for Security Policy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Center for the New West, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Centre for the New Europe Chemical Education Foundation, Citizens for A Sound Economy and CSE Educational Foundation, Citizens for the Environment and CFE Action Fund, Clean Water Industry Coalition, Climate Research Journal, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Communications Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Congress of Racial Equality, Consumer Alert, Cooler Heads Coalition, Council for Solid Waste Solutions, DCI Group, Defenders of Property Rights, Earthwatch Institute, ECO or Environmental Conservation Organization European Enterprise Institute, ExxonMobil Corporation, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, Fraser Institute, Free Enterprise Action Institute, Free Enterprise Education Institute, Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation, George C. Marshall Institute, George Mason University, Law and Economics Center, Global Climate Coalition, Great Plains Legal Foundation, Greening Earth Society, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Hudson Institute, Illinois Policy Institute Independent Commission on Environmental Education, Independent Institute, Institute for Biospheric Research, Institute for Energy Research, Institute for Regulatory Science, Institute for Senior Studies, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Institute of Humane, tudies, George Mason University, Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, International Council for Capital Formation, International Policy Network - North America, International Republican Institute, James Madison Institute, Junkscience.com, Landmark Legal Foundation Lexington Institute, Lindenwood University, Mackinac Center, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Media Institute, Media Research Center, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Mountain States Legal Foundation, National Association of Neighborhoods, National Black Chamber of Commerce, National Center for Policy Analysis, National Center for Public Policy Research National Council for Environmental Balance, National Environmental Policy Institute, National Legal Center for the Public Interest National Mining Association, National Policy Forum, National Wetlands Coalition, National Wilderness Institute, New England Legal Foundation, Pacific Legal Foundation, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, Peabody Energy, Property and Environment Research Center, formerly Political Economy Research Center, Public Interest Watch, Reason Foundation, Reason Public Policy Institute, Science and Environmental Policy Project, Seniors Coalition, Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP, Small Business Survival Committee, Southeastern Legal Foundation, Stanford University GCEP, Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station, Texas Public Policy Foundation, The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Inc., The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, The Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy, The Justice Foundation (formerly Texas Justice Foundation), The Locke Institute, United for Jobs, University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc., US Russia Business Council Virginia Institute for Public Policy, Washington Legal Foundation, Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public, Policy. Western Fuels, World Affairs Councils of America, World Climate Report
American Enterprise Institute, Environment, Global Warming skepticism
2006  No. 5 - The Fate of the Earth in the Balance: The Metaphysics of Climate Change, Steven F. Hayward No. 4 - Climate Policy, by Kenneth P. Green No. 3 - Bringing Down Gas and Oil Prices, by Kenneth P. Green No. 2 - Air Pollution and Health: Do Popular Portrayals Reflect the Scientific Evidence? by Joel Schwartz No. 1 - Fate of the World Redux: Assessing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, by Steven F. Hayward

2005  November-December - The China Syndrome and the Environmental Kuznets Curve, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - Katrina and the Environment, by Steven F. Hayward July-August - A Cross of Green? Reflections on Eco-Theology, by Steven F. Hayward May-June - Air Quality: Much Worse on Paper Than in Reality, by Joel Schwartz March-April - Resurrecting Clear Skies, by Ted Gayer January-February - Climate Change Science: Time for "Team B"?, by Steven F. Hayward 2004

November-December - That Old Time Religion: A Review of Recent Environmental Books, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - Finding Better Ways to Achieve Cleaner Air, by Joel Schwartz July-August - Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions from Developing Countries, by Roger Bate and David Montgomery May-June - "Changing All the Rules," Ignoring All the Facts on New Source Review, by Steven F. Hayward March-April - Climate Change and Mosquito-Born Disease, by Roger Bate January-February - Emissions Down, Smog Up. Say What? by Joel Schwartz and Steven F. Hayward

 

 2003  November-December - Environmental Justice: Where Selma and the Cuyahoga River Fire Meet, by Steven F. Hayward September-October - "Censorship" and the Uncertain Science, by Samuel Thernstrom July-August - Making Sense of "New Source Review," by Steven F. Hayward May-June - Eco-Hysteria Then and Now, by Steven F. Hayward April - New Doubts about the Dominant Climate Change Models, by Steven F. Hayward March - A Blow to Chemophobia, by Steven F. Hayward January - Lomborg Gets the Galileo Treatment, Or, "'Shut up,' They Explained," by Steven F. Hayward

2002  December - Fading Green, by Steven F. Hayward November - The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: A Review, by Steven F. Hayward October - The New Corporate Balance Sheet: Black, Red--and Green, by Steven F. Hayward August - Sustainable Development in the Balance, by Steven F. Hayward July - AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook, by Christopher DeMuth and Steven F. Hayward

 

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California Offshore oil leases blocked 

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