Public Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency
Read our Public Comment (in PDF format) submitted to the EPA on 24 November 2008 in Response to the Environmental Protection Agency's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0318.

Editorial
An Eighteen-Hundred-Year Climate Record from China: What does it suggest about the uniqueness of late 20th-century warmth?

Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week
Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 650 individual scientists from 380 separate research institutions in 40 different countries ... and counting! This issue's Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week comes from Southern California, USA. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Project's database, click here.

Subject Index Summary
Animals (Insects - Butterflies): Are the planet's butterflies being driven to extinction by increases in the air's CO2 content and temperature?

Plant Growth Data
This week we add new results (blue background) of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature for: Garden Bean, Kentucky Bluegrass, Little Bluestem, and Marine Diatom.

Journal Reviews
On the Stability of the Planet's Permafrost: Is it greater or less than what climate alarmists have long contended?

4000-Year δ¹⁸O Histories of New Zealand's North and South Islands: When do they indicate that the warmest periods of the two records occurred?

The Last Glacial Termination in Tropical Southeast Africa: What role did the air's CO2 content play in the event?

Vector-Borne Diseases and Global Change: How is the incidence of these diseases impacted by concomitant increases in the air's CO2 content and temperature?

Soybean Photosynthesis: Elevated CO2 vs. High Temperatures and Ozone Concentrations: Can atmospheric CO2 enrichment protect the key plant process from the negative effects of the two environmental stresses?

CO2 Truth-Alerts

New DVDs!


Avoiding Plant and Animal Extinctions: NASA's James Hansen claims that in response to CO2-induced global warming, "polar species can be pushed off the planet, as they have no place else to go," and that life in alpine regions "is similarly in danger of being pushed off the planet," while England's Sir John Houghton says "we are in danger of losing thousands, if not millions, of species because of climate change." These ominous words of warning sound logical enough, but are they true?

Doing the Right Thing: Climate alarmists are striving mightily to convince us that we have a moral responsibility -- if not a religious duty -- to do all in our power to reduce our CO2 emissions and thereby "save the planet" from a catastrophic warming that they claim will otherwise lead to the extinctions of millions of species of plants and animals. If this unfortunate fate would indeed result from continued "business as usual" anthropogenic CO2 emissions, their "proselytizing" on this issue would be justified. But what if they are wrong? And, what if their policy prescriptions actually cause the very catastrophe they claim they will cure?

Meetings
The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change: The Conference will take place in New York City on March 8-10, 2009 (Sunday - Tuesday), at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY. Sponsored by the Heartland Institute. For more information, click on the link above.

Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Since 2001, our organization has provided companies with professional assistance in filing greenhouse gas (GHG) reports with the U.S. Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (Section 1605(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992). We hope that others of you will also turn to our Center for your GHG reporting needs. Together, we can help you prepare an accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting of your emission and sequestration activities.

Tell Your Friends!
When was the last time you referred someone to the Center's website? We challenge you to introduce two new people to CO2 Science each week. More...