2011 Mar – The Leading Edge

2011 Mar – The Leading Edge

Energy and Power Subcommittee to Examine Climate Science and EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations; Into ignorance ‘the US Congress has entered the intellectual wilderness’; President Obama’s ‘Shock and Trance’ speech on energy security...
2011 Feb – The Leading Edge

2011 Feb – The Leading Edge

Story: Peak petroleum; Story: Strong negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation (AO); Story:Polar Amplification Effect & Current Polar Conditions; Story: Mass tree deaths in Amazon; Story: GOP pushes to drop climate change research funding; Story: House Energy &...
2011 Jan – The Leading Edge

2011 Jan – The Leading Edge

We begin 2011 with interesting new challenges in the climate debate pertaining to the willingness to address mitigation and adaptation at a policy level. In the US a larger proportion of Republicans in the legislature along with key Republican members having indicated...
2010 Dec – The Leading Edge

2010 Dec – The Leading Edge

2010 Dec – Climate and economics are tied in more ways than one might imagine. The balance of resource economy and socio-economic capacities along with long-term needs are still not well addressed from a state policy level. This months feature article generally...
2010 Nov – The Leading Edge

2010 Nov – The Leading Edge

Report: UN warns of threat to human progress; Transient Middle Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature Variations; Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics; Inaccurate news reports misrepresent AGU climate-science initiative; climate crisis is...
2010 Sep – The Leading Edge

2010 Sep – The Leading Edge

Report: Global Plant Productivity/Net Primary Production = plant life on earth. Plant CO2 take up and release back to the atmosphere. Report: The InterAcademy Council (IAC) has completed it’s review of the IPCC and made recommendations to improve effectiveness...