Sampling of Stories for past few days

Round up for June 27 , 2007 (Environmental News):

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Sampling of articles in last day – Round Up – June 27, 2007The media tide is turning. See below from left leaning Slate Mag. writer published in Washington Post:

Excerpts: 'I think it's wrong to let our children believe they'll be swept away before they get a chance to fret about college admissions.'

"There must be a limit to how many calamitous films, books and television shows we, and our children, can absorb… I, however, refuse to see the apocalypse in every balmy day. And I think it's wrong to let our children believe they'll be swept away before they get a chance to fret about college admissions. An article in The Post this spring described children anxious, sleepless and tearful about the end; one 9-year-old said she worried about global warming "because I don't want to die…Usually we want to protect our children from awful events, adjusting the message to suit their age. Certainly we tried to do that after Sept. 11. But an essential part of the global warming awareness movement is the belief that scaring us to death is the best way to spur massive change. Gore explicitly compares warming to the Nazis of the last century and terrorists of this one."

Excerpt: First, he came out wearing a giant wind turbine hat claiming that he's now gone off-grid and is producing his own energy. "Dave, I've gone green," he told Letterman. "I'm completely off-grid. In fact, I can't even see the grid anymore." "This whole global warming thing -- I'm not convinced. I'm a little skeptical. I'm thinking that the problem isn't global warming, but 'global humidity'".

Excerpt: "In a remarkable contribution to Nature magazine's Climate Feedback blog, [IPCC scientist Kevin] Trenberth concedes GCMs cannot predict future climate and claims the IPCC is not in the business of climate prediction. This might be news to some people."

'Alarmist IPCC statements about human-caused global warming are unjustified.'

Excerpt: "The Gentlemen at RealClimate.ORG have decided that my article about climate sensitivity and similar articles by others are too dangerous because they show that every new molecule of CO2 causes smaller greenhouse effect than the previous molecule: the absorption gets saturated. Such a conclusion could diminish the holy power of the enhanced greenhouse effect and undermine the global efforts of scientists of good faith - and their friends, politicians of good faith, lawyers of good faith, singers of good faith, and publishers of good faith - to globally regulate the greenhouse effect."