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Focuses on research papers regarding two global-warming skeptics who questioned an influential climate study and prompted a congressional inquiry as of October 26, 2005.

YOU reduce, reuse and recycle. You turn down plastic and paper. You avoid out-of-season grapes. You do all the right things. Good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on a paper published by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) that analyzes the potential impact the of the America's Climate Security Act of 2007 on national and state economies. The purpose of the bill is to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 63% below 2005 levels by the year 2050 through a cap-and-trade system. According to the paper, the bill would have a profound negative economic impact on U.S. businesses, families and economies in all 50 states.

The anonymous hacker who shook the world of climate science two years ago by posting a trove of stolen e-mails delivered a new batch on Tuesday, stirring up climate-change contrarians a little more than a week before global negotiations on greenhouse gases are to begin in Durban, South Africa. The new e-mails appeared remarkably similar to the ones released two years ago just ahead of a similar conference in Copenhagen. They involved the same scientists and many of the same issues, and some of them carried a similar tone: catty remarks by the scientists, often about papers written by others in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents information pertaining to climatology, emphasizing the concerns about the carbon sink that retains tons of carbon dioxide each year in Siberia, Russia. Suspicions that the Russian larch trees could be the source; Definition of carbon sink; What the Russian larches symbolize; Indepth information on the absorption of carbon dioxide; Who presented papers and research on the issues.