June 29, 2007 - Jennifer Marohasy

1. Presidential ambition? Report: Gore has cancelled all scheduled events for next six months (From Taipei Times at bottom of page)

Excerpt: “Tien, who invited Gore to visit Taiwan to promote awareness on global warming, told reporters yesterday that she received an e-mail from the Harry Walker Agency, which has the exclusive right to arrange Gore’s speeches, saying that Gore had canceled all his scheduled events in the next six months.”

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/06/27/2003367023

2. Inhofe Praises Bald Eagle Delisting – But Voices Concern Over New ESA-Like Restrictions

Excerpt: “I am concerned, however, about the recent guidelines issued under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA) that will go into effect when ESA protection is removed. It appears that in some cases the guidelines place the same, ESA-like limitations on the backs of landowners under the guise of different law.”

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=72cff9f3-802a-23ad-498c-ccd941285b41&Region_id=&Issue_id=

3. Top Ten Democrat Energy Bill Failures

Excerpt: “The Democrats recently passed Senate Energy Bill will increase the price of gasoline, do nothing for supply and production, and impose new mandates on energy providers which will increase the cost of electricity for all consumers.”

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=7473fba1-802a-23ad-4cfc-6edfdbfc60ff

4. Fred Thompson Report: Thompson calls UN Chief’s linking of Darfur Genocide to Global Warming ‘Absurd’

Excerpt: “Blaming global warming, however, is basically the same thing as blaming America. America is by no means the only major source of greenhouse gases, but we’ve taken the most political heat. The reason is that congress rightfully balked at ratifying the Kyoto international climate treaties during the Clinton presidency.”

http://abcradionetworks.com/article.asp?id=431466&SPID=15663

5. Feds award $20 million to study how farm odors contribute to global warming

[Note: this one $20 million grant to study ‘farm odors’ exceeds all of the money Exxon-Mobile has ever been accused of giving to climate skeptics. (Senators Snowe and Rockefeller accused Exxon-Mobile of spending $19 million on skeptical groups since the 1990’s on October 30, 2006 see: http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=9acba744-802a-23ad-47be-2683985c724e )

Excerpt: “The United States Department of Agriculture has released reports stating that when you smell cow manure, you’re also smelling greenhouse gas emissions.”

http://www.wetmtv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6bcacc50-6aa5-4443-9080-c2f58593d883

6. IPCC Review Comments Now Online – IPCC publishes dissenting opinion

(Early word is that so called “consensus” may be crumbling from IPCC reviewers)

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1790

7. Al Gore’s $100 Million Makeover

(Gore’s net worth jumped from an estimated $1-$2 million in 2000 to over $100 million today)

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-gore.html

8. EPA $100K grant to help make nail salons safer for patrons and workers in King County

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/3e50135a68a71d64852572a00065593b/b99be889f040afad85257307006434a9!OpenDocument

9. Two Climate Scientists issue new Report: Temperatures in the United States, Greenland and the Arctic, Relationship to Ocean and Solar Cycles

Excerpt: When you combine the two effects, you can explain much of the temperature variances of the past 110 years for the United States, Greenland and the Arctic.

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/temperatures_in_north_america_greenland_and_the_arctic_relationship_to_ocea/

10. Sales Slow for Hamburg’s ‘Live Earth’; Blame Snoop

Excerpt: “According to this business report from Germany, only a third of the tickets have been sold for the Hamburg “Live Earth” concert for carbon depletion.”

http://blog.nam.org/archives/2007/06/live_earth_snoo_1.php

11. Digging up the roots of the IPCC
Excerpt: “The UN’s all-powerful climate change panel is no straightforward scientific body. It is a deeply political organization that was born out of disenchantment with progress.”

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3540/

12. Leaning Tower of Pisa is saved from collapse

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/28/wpisa128.xml

13. Researchers find Earth’s internal heat keeps continents afloat

Without It Mile-High Denver Would Be Below Sea Level

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13577729/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news

14. Russian scientist says danger of climate change equal to nuclear war

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20070627/67914064.html

15. Russian Scientists Say the Arctic Is Theirs

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/whats-the-russian-for-santas-workshop/

16. Glaciers Growing in France, Switzerland, and Washington

http://newsbusters.org/node/13798