Air & Climate Files 
2004

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The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion - Energy Bulletin 11jan05
Boulder Glacier Photos in 1932 and 1988  -  witness the drastic change in only 56 years

• Humans Raise Risk of Europe Heatwaves -  Reuters (+Nature abstract) 1dec04
  • Human Contribution to the European Heatwave of 2003 P.A. Stott et al / Nature 2dec04
• Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb:  Arctic Clathrates Contain 3,000 Times More Methane Than in Atmosphere - Baltimore Sun 16dec04
• Respiratory disease in relation to patient residence near to hazardous waste sites R. Kudyakov et al / Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 01dec2004
• Evidence for cooler European summers during periods of changing meltwater flux to the North Atlantic - (abstract) Heiri et al / PNAS 26oct04
• Companies Get Ready For Greenhouse-Gas Limits -  Wall Street Journal 26oct04
• Global Warming: Nature's Pressure Points -  The Guardian Weekly (UK)  22oct04
• Global Warming Effects Faster Than Feared - Experts -  Reuters 21oct04
• NASA Researchers Find Arctic Warming may Accelerate Climate Change - Capitol Reports 19oct04
• Kyoto: U.S. Failing on Pollution Policy - Editorial / Denver Post 6oct04
• Why Aren't Insurers More Scared of Hurricanes? -  Fortune 4oct04
• Kyoto: UN Chief Welcomes Russian Cabinet's Approval of Kyoto Protocol - Xinhuanet (China) 1oct04
• Kyoto Protocol Comes In From The Cold -  Independent Online (S Africa) 1oct04
• Kyoto: Russian Cabinet OK's Kyoto Pact - Boston Globe 1oct04
• Kyoto: Russia Backs Kyoto Treaty - The Russia Journal Daily (Moscow) 1oct04
• Kyoto: Russia Backs Kyoto Treaty: Participation would bring climate cuts into force -  Nature News (UK) 30sep04
• Kyoto: UN Secretary-General Welcomes Russian Cabinet’s Measure on Kyoto Protocol - UN Press Release 30sep04
  • Text of the Kyoto Protocol at UN website
• California Air Board's Tough Smog Rules Defy Auto Industry: Earth warming acknowledged as serious threat -  SF Chronicle 25sep04
• Glaciers Surge When Ice Shelf Breaks Up - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 21sep04
  • West Antarctic Glaciers Speed Up - BBC 24sep04
  • Glaciers are Flowing Faster: As its fringes collapse, the ice of Antarctica is slipping into the sea -  Nature 23sep04
• Canada Blocks Asbestos Type from Global Toxic List -  Reuters 20sep04
• Do Genes Respond to Global Warming?  - PLoS 7sep04
• Stabilizing the Global 'Greenhouse' May Not Be So Hard - Christian Science Monitor plus press releases 13aug04
• Global Warming Hits UK Birds -  The Independent (UK) 30jul04
• A Giant Ecosystem That Has Functioned For Millions Of Years Has Begun To Break Down -  The Independent (UK) 30jul04
• Climate Warning From The Deep -  BBC News 12jul04
• North Sea Birds Dying as Waters Heat Up: Scientists warn that warmer conditions could have a catastrophic effect on east coast ecosystem -  The Guardian (UK) 20jun04
• Common Indoor Air Pollution Chemicals Around You (Lot's of great links) - SF Chronicle 19may04
• Pollution Alters DNA in Mice, Study Finds - AP 18may04
• Livestock Industry Finds Friends in EPA: Documents detail lobbyists' impact on air-quality plan -  Chicago Tribune 16may04
• Air Pollution May be Causing Global Dimming -  Knight Ridder 8may04
• Scientists Claim New Evidence of Warming -  The Guardian (UK) 6may04
• World Trade Center Air 'Intensely Toxic' - Newsday 4may04
  • Health and Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Disaster -  Environmental Health Perspectives 1may04
• Trouble In The Air: Nonattainment Triggers Constraints on Expansion of Polluting Industries -  US News & World Report 19apr04
• Global Warming Spirals Upwards -  The Independent (UK) 28mar04
• Lawyer Who Challenged EPA Case Had Social Contacts With Judges -  Wall Street Journal 23mar04
• Car Makers Secretly Lobby EC to Reduce Air-Pollution Targets: Leaked memo reveals pressure on environment commissioner -  Sunday Herald (UK) 21mar04
• Los Angeles: Trains Are Targeted in Smog Fight - LA Times 7mar04
• Mercury: Testimony by Robert Shimek / Indigenous Environmental Network / USEPA Public Hearing on the Mercury Power Plant Rule 2mar04
• Environment Looms as Major Security Threat - Reuters 29feb04
• Asthma Prevalence and Control Characteristics by Race/Ethnicity — United States, 2002 - MMWR Weekly 27feb04
• Report Sparks Hullabaloo in Europe SF Chronicle 25feb04
• Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us -  The Observer (UK) 22feb04
  • Pentagon-Sponsored Climate Report Sparks Hullabaloo in Europe -  SF Chronicle 25feb04

  • Pentagon Study: An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security - Schwartz & Randall / GBN 1oct03

• Cargo Ships: Where There's Smoke, There's Pollution -  NY Times 21feb04
• Fuel Cells: Report Questions Bush Plan for Hydrogen-Fueled Cars - NY Times 6feb04
• Clean Air Act: Key Stakeholders’ Views on Revisions to the New Source Review Program - GAO Report to Congressional Requesters - GAO-04-274 2feb04
• Asbestos: US Government Knew of Threat from Asbestos at Plant Here -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 24jan04
• Fort Wayne, Indiana Region Tops EPA List of Mercury Pollution -  Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette 11jan04
• Study Warns of Global Warming Extinctions -  AP 7jan04
  • Extinction risk from climate change - Nature 8jan04
• 3 Top Enforcement Officials Say They Will Leave EPA -  NY Times 6jan04
• Bush Plans On Global Warming Alter Little Voluntary Programs Attract Few Firms -  Washington Post 1jan04

Incinerators

• Long-range Air Transport of Dioxin from N.  American Sources to Ecologically Vulnerable Receptors in Nunavut, Arctic Canada  Barry Commoner CBNS Sep00
• Is Dioxin Destroyed by Extremely High-Temperature Incineration?  Comments on Rigo et al.
• Children living near Incinerators & Landfills More likely to get Cancers - (3 separate abstracts) 

• "New Car Smell" - Volatile Organic Compounds In a New Automobile Scientific Instrument Services 23dec99

• Ban the Burn Barrels! Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Household Waste In Barrels - Report No. EPA-600/R-97-134a. Nov97

• Dioxin: EPA Collusion with Industry: A Very Brief Overview   -  Synthesis/Regeneration 7-8 Summer 1995

• Hazardous Waste Combustion in Cement Kilns - Introduction to Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Burning Hazardous Waste in Cement Kilns Apr95

• Substances in Diesel Exhaust Listed by Cal EPA as Toxic Air Contaminants

• What's Wrong With Incineration Of Medical Wastes -  Huff, MJ, and deFur, P., Virginia Commonwealth University- Center for Environmental Studies (undated)

• Incinerators & Landfills - Cancers in Proximity to Incinerators (3 separate abstracts) Jun00

• Incinerators & Landfills - Childhood cancers, birthplaces, incinerators and landfill sites  -  International Journal of Epidemiology Jun00