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Another Week of Global Warming News, November 18, 2007

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Posted on: November 19, 2007 9:04 AM, by coby

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup

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Another Week of Global Warming News, November 18, 2007

Sipping from the internet firehose...

The big story of the week is the IPCC meeting in Valencia, Spain that produced the Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report:

The behaviour of the Bush administration -- particularly as it appears the other major Kyoto holdout, John Howard, is going to lose the election in Australia -- has come in for note:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon wrapped up his pre-Valencia, pre-Bali eco-tour:

OPEC held a meeting in Riyadh:

Apparently the direction of Arctic Ocean circulation is changing:

Elsewhere in the Arctic:

CARMA is gonna run over your Dogma:

The USCCSP released the first State Of The Carbon Cycle Report:

A BBC series on deniers got a lot of attention:

A couple of articles on particulates & global dimming:

The ARGO network is up & running:

The Atlantic was quiet, but Sidr ravaged the Bay of Bengal:

Elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

As for the temperature record:

The ozone hole is shrinking:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the tropical rainforests:

Corals are dying:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

We have heatwaves and wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

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:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

Elsewhere in miscellaneous science:

Looking ahead to the upcoming Bali summit:

While on the emissions trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

The debate over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs continues:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

Some US Midwest Governors and a Canadian Premier signed a renewable energy pact:

As for GW & security:

And on the American political front:

State Governors are leaning on the federal government:

What's happening with the climate & energy bills?

The Bush Admin lost another court case:

The 2008 campaign is not making much climate news:

But the Gore-apalooza is bopping along:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

The carbon emissions of European cars by manufacturer raised a ruckus:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And it's all fun & games as the Nov 24th campaign rolls into its last week:

While in China:

A lot of people are focussing on China and energy:

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

There's lots of trial balloons & leaks as BC works out its climate plan:

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

IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:

Apocalypso anyone?

Andrew Revkin & Dave Roberts spun up a little teapot tempest:

Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

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

While among the solar afficionados:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

The nuclear energy controversy continues: