Air & Climate Files 
2005

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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

2005

• Pacific Steel Casting: Letter to Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Regarding Pacific Steel - West Berkeley Alliance for Clean Air and Safe Jobs 30dec2005

• Pacific Steel Foundry Settles: Berkeley Neighborhood Complaints About Bad Air Unresolved - East Bay Daily News 29dec2005

• Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming -  New York Times 27dec2005

• Bush's Greenhouse: White House Prevarications - Editorial / Washington Post 27dec2005

• Pacific Steel Casting: West Berkeley Meeting Addresses Pacific Steel Odor -  Berkeley Daily Planet 20dec2005

• Biodiesel Worse Than Fossil Fuel: Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth -  Guardian (UK) 6dec2005

• Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age - New Scientist (UK) 30nov2005

  • Slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 25° N  -  Nature 1dec2005

  • Alarm Over Dramatic Weakening of Gulf Stream - The Guardian 9UK) 1dec2005

  • What causes the Gulf Stream? USA Today 24sep2005

• CO₂ Highest for 650,000 Years - BBC News 24nov2005

• Nearly One-Third Of US In Compliance With Kyoto Accords - SPX 24nov2005

• STARDEX Team Narrow Down Impact Of Global Warming On Specific Regions - SPX 24nov2005

• Warming Threatens Ocean Wildlife -  The Guardian (UK) 19oct2005

• Polar Bears Drown as Ice Shelf Melts -  The Times (UK) 18dec2005

• Global Warming Study Forecasts More Water Shortages: Climate change already affecting Sierra snowpack  -  San Francisco Chronicle 17nov2005

• Pacific Steel Casting: City, Pacific Steel Will Study Noxious West Berkeley Odor -  Berkeley Daily Planet 11nov2005

• Pacific Steel is Installing a Carbon-Absorption System, But More Needs to be Done DOROTHY VRIEND / The Berkeley Voice 11nov2005

• The Debate Is Over: No Serious Scientist Doubts That Humans Are Warming Up the Planet -  Rolling Stone 3nov2005

• Tropical Storm Alpha Breaks Atlantic Hurricane Storm Record - Agence France-Presse 22oct2005

• The Big Melt

  • The Big Melt: 3-Part Series on Global Warming -  New York Times 10-25oct2005

• Amazon Dries Out as Worst Ever Drought Hits Rainforest: Blamed on Gulf Coast Hurricanes -  The Guardian (UK) 1oct2005

• Global Firms Snub Climate Change Survey: Carbon Disclosure Project -  Guardian Weekly (UK) 29sep2005

  • $21 Trillion Investor Coalition Spurs Greater Awareness of Climate Change Among U.S. Corporations -  Carbon Disclosure Project 14sep2005

• Global Warming Past the Point of No Return -  The Independent (UK) 16sep2005

• Pacific Steel: Letter from Brian Bateman (BAAQMD) to Joe Emmerichs (Pacific Steel Casting) Regarding PSC Permits To Operate 9sep2005

• Katrina's Real Name -  Boston Globe 30aug2005

• Air filters for your Car: Common But Come at a High Price -  Wall Street Journal 25aug2005

• Drought Threatens Crops and Shuts River in Midwest -  New York Times 15aug2005

• As Snow Melts, Swiss Alpine Resorts Look For New Paths - Agence France-Presse 14aug2005

• Biggest Global Warming Impact is in the Tropics - Red Nova 13aug2005

• Siberian Permafrost Melts for First Time Since Ice Age

  • Sub-Arctic Palsas as Indicator of Climate Changes -- S. N. Kirpotin et al (undated) 11aug2005

  • Warming Hits 'Tipping Point' -  The Guardian (UK) 11aug2005

  • Thawing Siberian Peat Bog Will Speed Up Global Warming - Moscow News (plus others) 11aug2005

• Contributions of past and present human generations to committed warming caused by carbon dioxide - Friedlingstein et al / PNAS 2aug2005

• Climate Change May be Fueling Storms: Global warming is a probable cause of a dramatic upswing in the power of hurricanes - Miami Herald 1aug2005

• Hurricanes More Powerful, Study Says: Researcher at MIT sees larger storms with stronger winds -  Boston Globe 1aug2005

  • Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years - Kerry Emanuel / Letters / Nature 4aug2005

• 123° in Death Valley: Las Vegas Valley's Temperatures Approach Record Highs -  Las Vegas Sun 14jul2005

• Indian Heat Wave Toll Touches 130 Dead: Up To 50°C/122°F - Agence France-Presse 17jun2005

• Continued Freshening of the North Atlantic Could Slow the Conveyor in the 21st Century - Press Release / WHOI 16jun2005

• Sheila Watt-Cloutier: Canadian Inuit Activist Slams US on Climate Change - Agence France-Presse 15jun2005

• Global Warming & Bush: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Watered Down US Climate Research - The Guardian (UK) 9jun2005

  • Lawmakers Want Probe in Charge White House Doctored Climate Change Reports - Agence France-Presse 9jun2005

  • White House Calls Editing Climate Files Part of Usual Review - New York Times 9jun2005

  • Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming -  New York Times 8jun2005

  • Revealed: How Oil Giant Influenced Bush White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance -  The Guardian (UK) 8jun2005

  • Bush Official Altered Scientific Reports On Global Warming: Report - Agence France-Presse 8jun2005

  • Joint Science Academies’ Statement: Global Response to Climate Change - National Academies 7jun2005

  • US Mayors Snub Bush and Sign Up To Kyoto - The Guardian (UK) 17may2005

• Junk Science: David Bellamy's Inaccurate and Selective Figures on Glacier Shrinkage are a Boon to Climate Change Deniers -  Guardian (UK) 10may2005

• Pacific Steel Casting: Berkeley’s Insidious Incinerator - Berkeley Daily Planet 19apr2005

• Earth To Humankind: Back Off - Say good-bye to your car, computer, everything. We are burning up the planet too fast to hang on -  SF Chronicle 13apr2005

• Changing World Technologies: Innovative Turkey-To-Oil Plant Eats Money, Spits Out Fowl Odor - Kansas City Star 12apr2005
  • Comments by a Chemist on 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil - Paul Palmer, Chemist 9apr2005
• Pacific Steel Casting: Berkeley’s Odious Burnt Pot Handle Smell - Commentary / Berkeley Daily Planet 29mar2005
• Glacier Mass Balance Data 2002/2003 - World Glacier Monitoring Service 21feb2005
• Kyoto Treaty May be Unable to Weather ‘Rich’ Pressures -  Financial Express (India) 18feb2005
• W.R. Grace Indicted Over Mine's Asbestos  - AP 7feb2005
• Dramatic Change in West Antarctic Ice Could Produce 16ft Rise in Sea Levels -  The Independent (UK) 2feb2005

• U.N. Study: Earth's Health Deteriorating - AP 31mar2005

• Global Warming Approaching Point of No Return, Warns Leading Climate Expert -  The Independent (UK) 23jan2005
• America's War on Itself: Bush's wrecking tactics over climate change follow an established pattern of self-destruction - The Guardian (UK) 21dec04
• Rivers of Change: Human Influence on Increasing Arctic River Discharges - Press Release and Abstract / Met Office (UK) 19jan2005
• Toxic Trouble by ZIP Code: Don't Panic, says author of study, But Demand Cleanup of Toxic Sites -  Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 10jan2005

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