Another Week of GW News, October 28, 2007

By illconsidered on October 28, 2007.

Sipping from the internet firehose...

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Melting Arctic, California Wildfires, Catch Up
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Impacts, Rainforests, Corals, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Cereal Production
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"Like it or not, we are the brains and nervous system of Gaia. We have now assumed responsibility for the welfare of the planet. How will we manage it?" -James Lovelock

Another Week of GW News, October 28, 2007

Sipping from the internet firehose...

More in the GW black humour department:

Ted Glick has now been fasting 50+ days:

A string of unsettling reports and articles this week. First the change in the rate of CO2 absorption by the ocean:

UNEP released its GEO-4 report:

An article on past coincidences of global warming & mass extinctions raised the stakes:

And just to top off your cup of woe, a report on current primate extinctions:

Roe & Baker's article on climate sensitivity and certainty garnered a lot of attention:

Prins & Rayner stuck a pin in Kyoto:

And the InterAcademy Council [IAC] released a report on global energy policy:

The big Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

And the California wildfires raged:

Coby spent some time catching up with parts of the blogosphere:

How do we get off this roller coaster?

We have a tropical depression in the Caribbean & a Cat 1 in the Northwest Pacific:

More on GHG sources:

Yes we have bubbling methane lake feedbacks:

Glaciers are melting:

Pine Island glacier calved:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

The campaign to uncover DSCOVR [Deep Space Climate Observatory] rolls on:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the tropical rainforests:

Corals are dying:

We have heatwaves and wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

The Georgia drought - Lanier Lake conflict goes back a while:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

UN special rapporteur Jean Ziegler has suggested a five year moratorium on food feedstock biofuel plants:

And the troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

Before we get into politics, there was some science done:

A Steve Running interview:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 front:

Preparations are being made for the Bali meeting:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

And in the dreaming in technicolour department:

The GW security meme:

And on the American political front:

Marking the stages of a climate bill's progress:

The Bush administration severely redacted some CDC testimony and a controversy ensued. First, the before & after documents:

Then the commotion:

White House spokesperson Dana Perino distinguished herself by touting the benefits of GW:

California was going to sue the EPA over the delayed waiver, but the fires intervened:

The 2008 campaign is ticking along:

The Gore-apalooza is alive & well:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

In France, the neocon Sarkozy is developing a greenish tinge:

Meanwhile in Australia:

Rumours, leaks and obfuscation are the order of the day in the Nov 24th federal election campaign:

While in New Zealand:

And in Chile:

While in China:

While in Japan:

And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues to do as little as possible:

BC floated a carbon tax trial balloon:

The tricky question of the tar sands (& royalties) looms:

The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:

Another IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] sighting:

Apocalypso anyone?

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

The Landsburg tempest in a teapot:

Here is something for your library:

And for your film & video enjoyment:

While among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

And in the "mother nature doesn't sue, she extincts" department:

The betting meme rolls on:

Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:

Meanwhile among the solar afficianados:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home: