http://on-climate.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:49:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Reuters via the New York Times: NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) — An independent board of scientists will be appointed to review the workings of the world’s top climate science panel, which has faced recriminations over inaccuracies in a 2007 report, a United Nations environmental spokesman said Friday.The board’s work will be part ... http://on-climate.com/2010/02/independent-board-to-review-work-of-top-climate-panel/ From Gautam Naik and Keith Johnson in The Wall Street Journal: The spate of recent controversies about climate research has given fresh voice to a group of scientists who question the mainstream view that human activity is warming the planet to dangerous levels. Very few scientists disagree that the earth's climate has ... http://on-climate.com/2010/02/controversies-create-opening-for-critics/ Dr J.S. Pandey was a Plenary Speaker at the 2009 Conference. Dr. Pandey has been the Deputy Director & Science Secretary at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute in Nagpur, India since May 1987. Dr Pandey’s paper  Inter-disciplinarity of Issues Connected with Climate Change, Food Security and Energy Alternatives has been published as ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/js-pandey-climate-change-food-security-and-energy-alternatives/ The final issue of  The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses has now been published. Some of the papers included in Volume 1, Number 4: Development of Summer Thermocline in the Persian Gulf by Seyed Majid Mosaddad, Abbasali Akbari Bidokhti and Hooshang Basirparsa. The Silence on Climate Change by Accounting’s Top Journals ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/climate-change-journal-volume-1-number-4/ The final issue of the new Journal, The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, has now been published. Some of the papers included in Volume 1, Number 4: Climate Change Impacts: Adaptation Challenges for Pakistan by Saleem Janjua. Inter-disciplinarity of Issues Connected with Climate Change, Food Security and Energy Alternatives by J.S. Pandey. Composition ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/climate-journal-volume-1-number-4-now-available/ From Andrew C. Revkin and James Kanter, The New York Times. The decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest one in the modern record, the World Meteorological Organization reported in a new analysis on Tuesday. The announcement is likely to be viewed as a rejoinder to a renewed ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/no-slowdown-of-global-warming-agency-says/ Dr. Prakash Rao was a Plenary Speaker at the 2009 Conference. Dr Rao has 25 years of experience in the field of biological conservation and ecology related subjects in India and overseas. Dr Rao's paper  Glacial Melt and Climate Change in the Himalayas: Building Adaptive Strategies for the Future has been published ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/prakash-rao-glacial-melt-and-climate-change-in-the-himalayas/ From firedoglake It should be bizarre, but is in fact grimly typical, how the whole phony “climate-gate-scandal” has played out so far. Hundreds of emails between climate scientists were hacked — stolen — from servers at East Anglia University. The stolen materials were then misrepresented, distorted, and lied about, and the ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/lies-and-the-lying-lies-about-science-and-also-the-lies/ The first volume of  The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, is now complete. The volume comprises four separate issues: The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Volume 1, Issue 1 The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Volume 1, Issue 2 The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/climate-change-journal-volume-1-now-complete/ From Leah Germain, University World News. Proposals from China and India for the Copenhagen climate change conference that patent protection should be weakened for green inventions have generated significant concerns in universities, colleges and research centres. Pro-intellectual property activists argue that a patent for their invention could mean the difference between a ... http://on-climate.com/2009/12/copenhagen-dispute-over-ip/