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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
- Top Stories:Wilkins Ice Sheet, Melting Arctic, Earth Hour, Soot, Poll, Solar Cycle 23/24, Late Comments
- Hurricanes, Keeling Curve, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Satellites, DSCOVR
- Impacts: Forests, Corals, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
- Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
- Journals, Misc. Science, Pielke, Hansen
- Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
- Politics:International, Security, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, Canada
- Ecological Economics, Apocalypso, Media, Betting
- Energy, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Insurance
- Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
- Shameless Self Promotion, .sig
- 2008/03/25: BAS: Antarctic ice shelf "hangs by a thread"
- 2008/03/29: EconBrowser: "Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World"
- 2008/03/26: FergusB: There goes another ice field
- 2008/03/28: CSM: Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf eroding at an unforeseen pace
- 2008/03/29: CJR: Separation Anxiety...the Antarctic Way - Did the media 'hype' the latest ice shelf crumble?
- 2008/03/28: CNN: Ice shelf collapse: What does it mean?
Biologist says polar animals are incredibly sensitive to temperature changes - Expert: Changes "should be taken as warning of what may be coming elsewhere" - The temperature in the western Antarctic is up .9 degree Fahrenheit - Krill may be among the first animals to have to adapt to warming temperatures - 2008/03/28: NatureCF: Antarctic ice breakup caught on tape
- 2008/03/28: TruthOut: Broken Ice in Antarctica
- 2008/03/27: QuarkSoup: Ice Shelves
- 2008/03/27: NatureTGB: If an ice shelf breaks up and no one alerts the media, has anything really happened?
- 2008/03/26: TruthOut: Massive Chunk of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses
- 2008/03/27: Intersection:CCM: Of Frogs and Ice Shelves
- 2008/03/26: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Breaks Into The Sea
- 2008/03/27: SMH: Ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'
- 2008/03/26: Guardian(UK): Giant Antarctic ice shelf breaks into the sea
- 2008/03/26: KSJT: Lots of Ink: A chunk of ice shelf on Antarctic Peninsula big as (your yardstick here) falls apart, more may follow
- 2008/03/26: ABC(Au): Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by a thread'
- 2008/03/26: TerraDaily: Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegrating As Result Of Climate Change
- 2008/03/26: TreeHugger: Antarctic Ice Chunk 7 Times Bigger than Manhattan Collapses
- 2008/03/26: DeSmogBlog: Video of Wilkins Ice Shelf Breakup in Antartica
- 2008/03/26: ENN: Slab of Antarctic ice shelf collapses amid warming
- 2008/03/26: PeakEnergy: Massive Ice Shelf Collapses
- 2008/03/26: OilChange: The Ice Shelf Hanging by a Thread
- 2008/03/26: CCurrents: Antarctic Shelf 'Hangs By Thread'
- 2008/03/26: WaPo: Warming Is Blamed for Collapse of Huge Chunk of Antarctic Ice
- 2008/03/26: People's Daily: Scientists: Antarctic ice shelf collapsing as result of climate change
- 2008/03/25: NSIDC: Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World
- 2008/03/26: AFP: Big chunk of Antarctic ice shelf falling apart
- 2008/03/26: Times(UK): Vast iceberg breaks off Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctic
- 2008/03/25: CNN: Massive ice shelf on verge of breakup
A large chunk of the Wilkins ice shelf in Antarctica broke away last month - Only a narrow strip of ice is protecting the shelf from further break-up - "I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly," scientist says - 2008/03/25: ClimateP: Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World
- 2008/03/25: DotEarth: Earth in Flux: An Antarctic Ice Shelf Crumbles
- 2008/03/25: NewScientist: Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by a thread'
- 2008/03/25: PhysOrg: Antarctic ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'
- 2008/03/25: PhysOrg: Western Antarctic Ice Chunk Collapses
- 2008/03/25: PhysOrg: Antarctic ice shelf disintegrating as result of climate change, say scientists
- 2008/03/25: GristMill: Meanwhile ... Not looking good for ice shelf in the Antarctic
- 2008/03/25: CSW: 6,000 square mile Wilkins Ice Shelf on Antarctic Peninsula "hangs by a thread"
- 2008/03/25: Wunderground: Connecticut-sized ice shelf disintegrating in Antarctica
- 2008/03/25: SciDaily: Huge Iceberg Breaks Away, Antarctic Ice Shelf 'Hangs By A Thread'
- 2008/03/25: Eureka: Antarctic [Wilkins] ice shelf disintegrating as result of climate change, say scientists
- 2008/03/25: Eureka: Antarctic [Wilkins] ice shelf 'hangs by a thread'
- 2008/03/25: BBC: Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread'
A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to break away from Antarctica in what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate. Satellite images suggest that part of the ice shelf is disintegrating, and will soon crumble away. The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been stable for most of the last century, but began retreating in the 1990s. Six ice shelves in the same part of the continent have already been lost, says the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Professor David Vaughan of BAS said: "Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened. "I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly. The ice shelf is hanging by a thread - we'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be." - 2008/03/25: CBC: Huge iceberg collapse threatens Antarctic shelf: British scientists
At the other pole, the Arctic still gets a lot of coverage:
- 2008/03/27: BBerg: Greenland Thaw May Replace Dog Sleds With Oil Drills
- 2008/03/26: BarentsObserver: Hottest Arctic winter ever
This winter might become the mildest winter in Northern Norway ever registered. So far the average temperature in parts of the region has been up to eight degrees Celsius above the normal - 2008/03/27: C411: Arctic Sea Ice a Thin "Facade"
- 2008/03/27: OilChange: Greenland Joins the Oil Rush
- 2008/03/26: ENN: Ice shrink in Arctic sea may attract oil firms
- 2008/03/26: OilChange: Land Deal Could Open Alaskan Refuge to Drilling
- 2008/03/24: TruthOut: US Firm Lays Claim to "Potentially Vast" Arctic Oil Resources
Earth Hour made a lot of news. So when does Earth Year start?
- 2008/03/29: CBC: Canadians go dark with world for Earth Hour - CN Tower, Peace Tower join lights-out landmarks around globe
- 2008/03/30: Canoe: Cities worldwide switch off lights to raise awareness of global warming
- 2008/03/30: SMH: How we switched on by turning it all off
- 2008/03/29: PhysOrg: Earth Hour blackout highlights global warming
- 2008/03/29: TreeHugger: Earth Hour Update: Fiji and Christchurch, NZ
- 2008/03/29: TreeHugger: Earth Hour: Get Out and Party Like it's 1799!
- 2008/03/28: WSJ:EnvCap: Lights Out on Global Warming
- 2008/03/27: Oikos: Earth Hour this Saturday night - is it all just a waste of time?
- 2008/03/28: CDreams: AAP: Earth Hour Turns Spotlight on Emissions
- 2008/03/29: ThinkP: Turn off the lights!
- 2008/03/30: ScruffyDan: What did earth hour accomplish?
[...] Earth Hour has also produced another positive effect: It has helped to identify clearly those who, despite being grown-up physically, still maintain the mind and brain of a two-year-old... - 2008/03/29: WMTC: The anti-earth hour
- 2008/03/29: BuckDog: The Right Wing 'Retard-o-Sphere' Will Be Turning ON All Their Lights At 8:00 Tonight
- 2008/03/29: RedTory: Earth Hour
- 2008/03/29: BCLSB: Then Don't Participate, Rex
- 2008/03/29: Xinhuanet: NZ becomes first country for Earth Hour lights out
- 2008/03/29: BBC: Cities dim lights for environment
- 2008/03/29: AFP: Earth Hour blackout highlights global warming
- 2008/03/29: CTV: Across Canada, people prepare to mark Earth Hour
- 2008/03/29: SMH: Amid the dark, millions keep an idea alight
- 2008/03/29: SMH: A movement that spans the world
- 2008/03/29: SMH: From solar-powered hats to candlelit concerts, Sydney flicks the switch
- 2008/03/29: SMH: Strum for the planet inspired by a rural life
- 2008/03/29: SMH: Pedal-powered rock in Tel Aviv
- 2008/03/28: NatureTGB: Oz papers go to war over Earth Hour
- 2008/03/28: ClimateP: March 29, 8 pm - Earth Hour
- 2008/03/28: TruthOut: Lights Out, Action! It's Earth Hour
- 2008/03/29: ABC(Au): Tasmanians urged to switch off for Earth Hour
- 2008/03/29: ABC(Au): Lights out: Earth Hour goes global
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): Bendigo to power down for Earth Hour
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): SA urged to 'switch off' for Earth Hour
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): Wollongong looks to Earth Hour energy savings
- 2008/03/28: CSM: Earth Hour: U.S. cities to dim lamps, illuminate climate-change - Twenty-five cities around the world will participate in the World Wildlife Fund campaign
- 2008/03/28: IPSNews: Lights Out, Action! It's Earth Hour
- 2008/03/28: AFP: 'Earth Hour' to plunge millions into darkness
- 2008/03/27: Atmoz: Earth Hour: Whatever Happened to Earth Day?
- 2008/03/27: ABC(Au): Castlemaine to dine by candlelight for 'Earth Hour'
- 2008/03/27: TreeHugger: Canada Goes Nutso Over Earth Hour
- 2008/03/25: PhysOrg: Earth Hour lets city dwellers see stars: Astronomers
- 2008/03/26: ABC(Au): Vic govt switches off for Earth Hour
Regarding the impact of black carbon [soot] on climate:
- 2008/03/26: DotEarth: Soot in the Greenhouse, and Kitchen
- 2008/03/25: NatureCF: Carbon dioxide - not the only culprit [soot]
- 2008/03/24: MongaBay: Black carbon pollution has big impact on climate
- 2008/03/25: TruthOut: Soot May Play Big Role in Climate Change
- 2008/03/25: OilChange: The Dangerous Legacy of Soot
- 2008/03/25: SMH: Reducing soot could help slow climate change
- 2008/03/23: PhysOrg: Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming
- 2008/03/24: Guardian(UK): Scientists warn of soot effect on climate - Coal and wood 'more damaging than thought'
- 2008/03/24: ENN: Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming
- 2008/03/24: SciDaily: Black Carbon Pollution Emerges As Major Player In Global Warming
- 2008/03/23: Eureka: Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming
Polls are notoriously susceptible to manipulation, so I would first like to see this result replicated, but the notion does give one pause:
- 2008/03/27: PhysOrg: Increased knowledge about global warming leads to apathy, study shows
Remember solar cycle 24?
- 2008/03/28: PhysOrg: Old Solar Cycle Returns
Late comment on our la Nina winter:
- 2008/03/27: QuarkSoup: Cold Winters and Greenhouse Gases
- 2008/03/24: C411: Short-Term Cooling from La Nina
Late comment on the Auto X-Prize:
- 2008/03/24: CSM: $10 million quest for a practical 100-mpg car
Late comment on ECO:nomics:
- 2008/03/25: GristMill: ECO:nomics: A chat with Jim Rogers - Duke Energy CEO defends the need for free permit allocations
There was no coverage of Pancho in the Indian Ocean, but some Katrina angst:
- 2008/03/26: CSW: FEMA's toxic-trailer ineptitude in housing Katrina victims raises concern about climate preparedness
- 2008/03/26: CPunch: Dreams Turned into Rubble in New Orleans
- 2008/03/24: UN: Nearly a million Southern Africans hit by floods, cyclones this season - UN
In the carbon cycle, the Keeling Curve had a birthday:
- 2008/03/28: KSJT: San Diego Union: The Keeling Curve of global CO2, generation II
- 2008/03/27: MongaBay: Scientists mark 50th Anniversary of the Keeling Curve
- 2008/03/27: JFleck: Happy Birthday to the Keeling Curve
As for the temperature record:
- 2008/03/30: SciDaily: American West Heating Nearly Twice As Fast As Rest Of World, New Analysis Shows
- 2008/03/27: ENN: U.S. West warming faster than rest of world: study
- 2008/03/28: OilChange: Western US is Fastest Warming Region
- 2008/03/26: Tamino: Recent Climate Observations Compared to (IPCC) Projections
While in the paleoclimate:
- 2008/03/26: Eureka: Low oxygen and molybdenum in ancient oceans delayed evolution of life by 2 billion years [paleo]
- 2008/03/23: PhysOrg: Stinking seas not to blame for 'mother of all mass extinctions' [Permian 250 mya]
Glaciers are melting:
- 2008/03/30: PhysOrg: Austrian glaciers shrink the most in five years [22 metres (24 yards) on average last year]
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
- 2008/03/25: PhysOrg: Satellites help map soil carbon flux
The campaign to uncover DSCOVR [Deep Space Climate Observatory] rolls on:
- 2008/03/28: DeSmogBlog: Government Insider Document Shows Critical Importance of DSCOVR Climate Satellite
- 2008/03/27: DeSmogBlog: DSCOVR on the Celsias Show
More GW impacts are being seen:
- 2008/03/30: Guardian(UK): Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line
- 2008/03/29: ABC(Au): Climate change threatens human rights: UN
- 2008/03/28: KSJT: Mountain Pine Beetle News from all over: They're rampaging in Colorado, starving in BC (...cause they already ate it), poised to conquer Alberta - what's next?
- 2008/03/27: PhysOrg: Warming Affects Trees, Streams in [US] West
- 2008/03/25: DeSmogBlog: Global warming threatens millions in teeming South Asia, study finds
- 2008/03/26: SciDaily: Global Warming Could Radically Change Lake Tahoe In Ten Years
- 2008/03/26: Eureka: Climate change threatens Amazonian small farmers
- 2008/03/26: CanWest: Global warming causing stronger allergies - Farmers concerned about bigger weeds and increased pollen
- 2008/03/25: NatureTGB: Climate change "threatens Oz wildlife"
- 2008/03/25: KSJT: Western US papers: Lake Tahoe so blue, so deep, so well-mixed and clear -- no, scratch that. It's global warming, again.
- 2008/03/25: ABC(Au): Climate change could devastate Australian fauna: report
- 2008/03/24: DotEarth: Vanishing Frogs, Climate, and the Front Page
- 2008/03/25: PhysOrg: Insects take a bigger bite out of plants in a higher CO2 world
- 2008/03/22: CSW: The alarm clock that all the plants and animals are listening to is running too fast
- 2008/03/25: ENN: Australian wine industry feels heat from climate change
- 2008/03/25: BBC: S Asia in climate change 'crisis'
A Greenpeace report on climate change says that if greenhouse gas emissions grow at their present rate, South Asia could face a major human crisis. "More than 120 million people from India and Bangladesh alone will become homeless by the end of this century," the report says. It estimates that 75 million people from Bangladesh will lose their homes. It predicts that about 45 million people in India will also become "climate migrants". - 2008/03/25: NYT: Link to Global Warming in Frogs' Disappearance Is Challenged
- 2008/03/25: SMH: Pests will thrive on warming
- 2008/03/24: PhysOrg: Warming Could Radically Change Lake Tahoe in 10 Years
And then there are the world's forests:
- 2008/03/29: IR^2: How Corn Ethanol Destroys Rain Forests
- 2008/03/28: CDreams: OneWorld: Report: Local Control Saves Forests
- 2008/03/27: TerraDaily: Nigeria's forests to disappear by 2020: expert
- 2008/03/27: TruthOut: Million Acres of Guyanese Rainforest to Be Saved in Groundbreaking Deal
- 2008/03/27: Eureka: Can you rescue a rainforest? The answer may be yes
- 2008/03/27: CDreams: Independent(UK): Million Acres of Guyanese Rainforest To Be Saved In Groundbreaking Deal
- 2008/03/24: ClimateP: Strike a blow against Palm Oil Madness
- 2008/03/25: TruthOut: Save the Climate by Saving the Forests
- 2008/03/25: KSJT: NPR: Do Trees Worsen Droughts?
- 2008/03/25: TreeHugger: Rainforest Action Network on Palm Oil
Corals are dying:
- 2008/03/23: PhysOrg: Giant Waves Break Up Caribbean Coral
Unusually large waves churned by an Atlantic storm system have littered the beaches of Barbados with broken coral in what could be a sign of damage to reefs across the region... - 2008/03/29: TreeHugger: Drought Around The World: Atlanta In Perspective
- 2008/03/28: KSJT: AP, not much else: UN worriers say water footprints are up there with carbon footprints on their worry list
- 2008/03/28: AP: Arkansas Flooding Drowns Fields, Futures
- 2008/03/25: CNN: Volunteers hold back Arkansas flood
100 people with sandbags keep levee from breaching - White River expected to crest Friday at Clarendon, Arkansas, at 33.5 feet - 35 counties -- almost half the state of Arkansas -- declared disaster areas - More rain forecast to hit saturated Missouri - 2008/03/24: CNN: Forecast calls for more floods as rivers rage
Sheriff in Des Arc says of flooding, "I'd never seen it come up so fast" - Arkansas suffers estimated $2M in damage; 35 counties declared disaster areas - Mississippi River well above flood stage in parts of Arkansas, Illinois - It could be midweek before rivers recede -- "they're still rising," official says - 2008/03/23: UN: Namibian flood victims need more than $1 million of assistance - UNICEF
- 2008/03/25: TerraDaily: Floods, cyclones, devastate southern Africa: UN
The conflict between biofuel and food persists:
- 2008/03/27: CDreams: LasVegasSun: Food Without Borders - Bush administration policy contributes to decline in aid to struggling nations
- 2008/03/24: ABC(Au): Biofuel boom 'threatens world's food supplies'
- 2008/03/23: PhysOrg: Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
- 2008/03/23: EnergyDaily: Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
And the troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:
- 2008/03/29: CCurrents: Global Food Prices Rise And Famine Increases
- 2008/03/29: CCurrents: In Booming India, Hunger Kills 6,000 Kids Daily
- 2008/03/24: CNN: Food prices rising across the world
Weather, demand from Asia, fuel prices all pushing food prices, analysts say - U.N. expects higher food prices for next 10 years - Analysts believe prices will stabilize as farmers plant more crops - 2008/03/28: Gourmet: Betting the Farm
- 2008/03/28: Guardian(UK): [Rosie Boycott] Only a radical change of diet can halt looming food crises
Costs are high now, but rising oil prices will bring enormous problems for a world with appetites that it simply can't sustain - 2008/03/28: BBC: India rice export prices up again
India has raised the minimum price at which it exports non-basmati rice in a renewed effort to discourage exports and control domestic food costs - 2008/03/28: TreeHugger: Grain is the New Copper
- 2008/03/28: PeakEnergy: Food Prices On The Rise
- 2008/03/27: FTimes: Jump in rice price fuels fears of unrest
Rice prices jumped 30 per cent to an all-time high on Thursday, raising fears of fresh outbreaks of social unrest across Asia where the grain is a staple food for more than 2.5bn people. - 2008/03/27: SciDaily: Climate Change Threatens Amazonian Small Farmers
- 2008/03/27: FTimes: The rising cost of food - Potatoes seen as answer to high cereal costs
- 2008/03/27: CSM: Grain prices soar globally - Rice shortages are appearing across Asia. In Egypt, the Army is now baking bread to curb food riots.
- 2008/03/27: SMH: Arroyo on boil over shortage of rice
The President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has ordered a crackdown on rice hoarders, as her government tried to blunt the impact of rice shortages that could fuel public unrest. - 2008/03/26: PhysOrg: Climate change threatens Amazonian small farmers
- 2008/03/26: TerraDaily: Are Organic Crops As Productive As Conventional?
- 2008/03/26: CCurrents: World Food Program Issues "Emergency Appeal" For Funds
- 2008/03/25: CCurrents: Patronizing Terror? [Bangladesh food crisis, rice]
- 2008/03/25: SMH: Opportunity knocks in fertiliser boom
- 2008/03/26: Guardian(UK): Bangladesh is speaking up on global warming
- 2008/03/25: CDreams: LA Times: World Food Program Issues "Emergency Appeal" For Funds
- 2008/03/24: UN: UN food aid agency [WFP] appeals for $500 million to offset soaring prices
- 2008/03/24: NewScientist: Major food source [rice] threatened by climate change
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
- 2008/03/27: TruthOut: For Carbon Emissions, a Goal of Less Than Zero
- 2008/03/25: ClimateP: The biggest source of mistakes: C vs. CO2 [cost per ton of what?]
As for transportation & GHG production:
- 2008/03/30: AFP: New transatlantic aviation pact takes off
The high cost of fuel is driving a movement toward conservation & efficiency:
- 2008/03/27: IR^2: Truckers Back Speed Limit
- 2008/03/26: Reuters: Americans drove less in 2007 for first time: government [Federal Highway Administration]
- 2008/03/28: QuarkSoup: Conserving Gas
While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:
- 2008/03/30: Guardian(UK): New building rules 'will raise carbon emissions'
- 2008/03/29: NewScientist: San Francisco to boast the greenest buildings
And if you itemize who is actually using energy:
- 2008/03/28: DerSpiegel: Massive Computer Centers Worse than Air Traffic
As for carbon sequestration:
- 2008/03/28: DeSmogBlog: Is Burying Carbon in the Ground the Answer to the Woes of Coal?
- 2008/03/27: DeSmogBlog: 100,000 Wells Needed to Store US Carbon Emissions
- 2008/03/24: AutoBG: The emerging skepticism about carbon capture
Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:
- 2008/03/30: RealClimate: Air Capture
- 2008/03/25: TechRev: Weather Engineering in China
How the Chinese plan to modify the weather in Beijing during the Olympics, using supercomputers and artillery. - 2008/03/29: JFleck: Gristmill Scorecard
- 2008/03/29: JFleck: Tail Wags Dog [adaptation-mitigation discussion]
- 2008/03/27: JFleck: Adaptation v. Mitigation, Episode XVI
Meanwhile in the journals:
- 2008/03/27: ACP: Investigating the sources and atmospheric processing of fine particles from Asia and the Northwestern United States measured during INTEX B by R. E. Peltier et al.
- 2008/03/28: ACPD: How small is a small cloud? by I. Koren et al.
- 2008/03/27: ACPD: The Quasi-biennial Oscillation and annual variations in tropical ozone from SHADOZ and HALOE by J. C. Witte et al.
- 2008/03/27: ACPD: Basic characteristics of atmospheric particles, trace gases and meteorology in a relatively clean Southern African Savannah environment by L. Laakso et al.
- 2008/03/27: ACPD: Emulating IPCC AR4 atmosphere-ocean and carbon cycle models for projecting global-mean, hemispheric and land/ocean temperatures: MAGICC 6.0 by M. Meinshausen et al.
- 2008/03/28: CPD: Millennial-scale climatic variability between 340,000 and 270,000 years ago in SW Europe: evidence from a NW Iberian margin pollen sequence by S. Desprat et al.
- 2008/03/05: Science: Impact of Artificial Reservoir Water Impoundment on Global Sea Level by B. F. Chao et al.
- 2008/03/25: ACP: Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies by P. K. Quinn et al.
- 2008/03/25: ACPD: Airborne dust distributions over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas derived from the first year of CALIPSO lidar observations by Zhaoyan Liu et al.
- 2008/03/25: PNAS: Photosynthetic maximum quantum yield increases are an essential component of the Southern Ocean phytoplankton response to iron by Michael R. Hiscock et al.
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
- 2008/03/26: PhysOrg: New approach to measuring carbon in forests
- 2008/03/19: CSIRO: Giant ocean eddy shadows Sydney
- 2008/03/24: SciDaily: Iron Gets Into The North Pacific In Unexpected Ways, Will Impact Climate Change Predictions
Regrettably, the Pielke Fan Club has put in another appearance:
- 2008/03/28: ClimateP: The adaptation trap and the nonskeptical delayers (like Roger Pielke) - Part 1
- 2008/03/27: KSJT: Los Angeles Times: We got our global warming activists, our skeptics, and "over here, accomodationists"
- 2008/03/27: GristMill: Down the rabbit hole with Roger - L.A. Times mischaracterizes Pielke Jr.'s arguments in such a way as to make them newsworthy
- 2008/03/26: WSJ:EnvCap: Climate Change "Heretics": Adapt While You Can
More on Hansen:
- 2008/03/24: AlterNet: What the Government Doesn't Want You To Know About Global Warming
- 2008/03/30: AngryBear: Climate control issues
- 2008/03/26: WorldChanging: Yes, really, 350 ppm
- 2008/03/24: ClimateP: NASA's Hansen responds to NYT's Revkin
On the carbon trading front:
- 2008/03/19: CarbonFinance: CDM problems "temporary" -- EB chair
Rajesh Kumar Sethi, the new chair of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board, told Carbon Finance that problems over the past year are "temporary phenomena" which will decline soon. "The CDM is a continually evolving process," Sethi said, and added that he expects problems to "taper down soon" The mechanism has come under fire, both from within and outside the carbon market, over the past 12 months for an array of problems such as delays in project registrations, increased requests for review of projects, questions over the additionality of some CDM projects and a lack of communication with developers. - 2008/03/27: EnvFin: Trading Emissions builds carbon credit portfolio
- 2008/03/27: EnvFin: JPMorgan buys carbon offset firm ClimateCare
- 2008/03/27: Guardian(UK): JP Morgan buys British carbon offset company [ClimateCare]
- 2008/03/26: WSJ:EnvCap: The Climate on the Street: More Banks Smell Money in Carbon [trading]
The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:
- 2008/03/28: AngryBear: Phil Kerpen's Disingenuous Claims About the Cost of Carbon Taxes
- 2008/03/28: C411: Carbon Tax Doesn't Always Lower Emissions
- 2008/03/28: TMoS: Carbon Taxes to Level Playing Field
- 2008/03/27: GristMill: Prasad responds - Carbon taxes work when there's substitutability and revenue is locked down for environmental goals
- 2008/03/25: WSJ:EnvCap: A Taxing Dilemma: What To Do With Carbon Tax Revenues?
The debate over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets, auction vs. allocation, and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs continues:
- 2008/03/28: GristMill: Notable quotable
- 2008/03/28: GristMill: Carbon policy details: Part 3 - Carbon taxes vs. carbon trading
- 2008/03/27: GristMill: Carbon policy details: Part 2 - Does 'additionality' matter?
- 2008/03/26: GristMill: Carbon policy details: Part 1 - Carbon policy is close to getting the macro right, but plenty of smaller decisions remain
- 2008/03/27: GristMill: Windfalls - Why consumer protection means selling carbon permits
- 2008/03/25: WorldChanging: Why Giving Away Carbon Permits is a Bad Idea
- 2008/03/25: NYT: On Carbon, Tax and Don't Spend
Meanwhile on the international political front:
- 2008/03/27: ClimateP: Breaking the U.S.-China Suicide Pact
- 2008/03/29: GristMill: Report: carbon tariffs could bring manufacturing jobs back from China
- 2008/03/27: GAB: Carbon Tariffs can save N.A. Jobs and the environment
- 2008/03/26: UIUC: Military action to influence oil-producing nations ineffective, expert [Professor Clifford Singer] says
As for GW & security:
- 2008/03/24: CSM: U.N. Security Council must act preemptively -- on climate change - This global threat requires a war-room mentality
And on the American political front:
- 2008/03/29: GristMill: Survey says ... environment and economy not mutually exclusive! Americans favor conservation and see economically sound opportunities in protection
- 2008/03/29: JFleck: New Mexico's Climate Change Initiative
- 2008/03/24: FGuide: Hidden taxes and even more hidden subsidies [US pol, CAFE]
- 2008/03/26: TWN: Climate Wars: What to Do With the New Set of "Climate Change Have-Nots"?
- 2008/03/27: HillHeat: The Auto Industry's New "Alliance"
- 2008/03/27: HillHeat: Report Vindicates Sebelius: Coal's Cost Puts Kansans 'At Significant Risk'
- 2008/03/27: WarmingLaw: Minnesota Miracle Men: The Auto Industry's New "Alliance"
- 2008/03/26: WarmingLaw: Grover Norquist, Meet the Facts
- 2008/03/26: UMissouri: Despite Awareness of Global Warming Americans Concerned More about Local Environment
- 2008/03/27: DeSmogBlog: Business Climate Campaign an Attack on Democracy
- 2008/03/26: TP:WonkRoom: Report Vindicates Sebelius: Coal's Cost Puts Kansans "At Significant Risk"
- 2008/03/25: TP:WonkRoom: Norquist: "More People Will Die" Because Bush Raised CAFE Standards
- 2008/03/24: TP:WonkRoom: Interior Secretary [Dirk Kempthorne] Attempts To Evade Congressional Oversight On Polar Bears
- 2008/03/26: DeSmogBlog: Sunflower Power President's [Earl Watkins Jr.] "No Fuel Bias" Questionable in Kansas
- 2008/03/25: ThinkP: Norquist: "more people will die" because Bush raised CAFE standards
- 2008/03/24: GristMill: Brown Dogs - Dirty energy industry preemptively padding the pockets of key Democrats
- 2008/03/25: WarmingLaw: Bush Administration Signals Involvement in Vermont Clean Cars Lawsuit
- 2008/03/22: CSW: Homeland security will require readiness against climate change.
- 2008/03/25: EconView: Should We Mimic Denmark's Energy Policy?
- 2008/03/24: HillHeat: [Senator Barbara] Boxer (D-Calif) Requests Hearing with Interior Secretary [Dirk Kempthorne] over Polar Bear Delays
- 2008/03/24: WarmingLaw: CAFE Society: DOJ Phones In an Appeal
- 2008/03/24: TreeHugger: Imagine: Another "New Deal" - Greener Than The First
- 2008/03/24: OilChange: Follow the Oil Money
- 2008/03/23: BillingsGazette: [Montana Gov. Brian] Schweitzer backs national car rules
In California, the CARB has changed the rules for zero emission vehicles (again):
- 2008/03/30: ClimateP: California Cuts Zero Emission Vehicles 70-79%
- 2008/03/28: PhysOrg: California Lowers Auto Emissions Rule
California air regulators on Thursday slashed the number of battery-powered and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that must be sold in the state, a setback for environmentalists and health advocates. The decision is expected to affect 12 other states that had adopted California's target for zero-emission vehicles. The California Air Resources Board voted to lower by 70 percent the number of those vehicles that automakers must sell here and in the states that intended to follow California's get-tough rules for vehicle emissions. Instead, the air board said the six largest automakers must sell nearly 60,000 hybrid vehicles while they develop the more advanced technology that will allow mass production of pure zero-emission vehicles. - 2008/03/28: AutoBG: Not as bad as it coulda been, but still bad: CARB cuts ZEV mandate by 70 percent
- 2008/03/27: PhysOrg: Calif. Grapples With Auto Emissions Rule
In a classic delay tactic, Stephen Johnson has put off acting on the finding that greenhouse gases are a danger and opened a public comment period instead:
- 2008/03/29: BSD: Will Stephen Johnson be rewarded by the fossil fuel industry?
- 2008/03/28: PRWatch: EPA's Glacial-Speed Approach to Global Warming
- 2008/03/28: TruthOut: EPA Chief Bides Time on Court's Emissions Order
Shelving his agency's findings that greenhouse gases are a danger, he says he'll open a long public comment period - 2008/03/27: GristMill: Climate stall - Bush administration finally responds to Supreme Court case on global warming
- 2008/03/28: WarmingLaw: More on the ANPR for the Endangerment Finding [EPA]
- 2008/03/28: TreeHugger: EPA: Eternally Postpone Action; Nuclear Ghosts
- 2008/03/28: DeSmogBlog: Bush's EPA: 'Greenhouse Gases May Be Just Dandy!'
- 2008/03/28: WSJ:EnvCap: EPA: Eternally Postpone Action?
- 2008/03/28: WSJ:EnvCap: EPA's Delay: All About Heritage [Foundation]
- 2008/03/28: TWM: EPA Follies...EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson deep-sixed the scientific findings and opened up a "lengthy public comment period"
- 2008/03/28: TPMM: EPA chief, Stephen Johnson, calls for public comment on regulating greenhouse gases
It's official: no Bush Administration official, current or former, can hold a candle to EPA chief Stephen Johnson when it comes to chutzpah - 2008/03/27: WarmingLaw: Silver Linings to "Procrastinational Rulemaking"
- 2008/03/27: WarmingLaw: EPA Goes Tanning Down Under, Leaves a Mess Behind for President ______
And in other EPA news:
- 2008/03/28: WarmingLaw: Business Groups Intervene In EPA's Appeals Board Utah CO2 Case
- 2008/03/28: WarmingLaw: NHTSA Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS for CAFE Standards
More on religion turning green:
- 2008/03/28: SMH: Where being green goes beyond pieties
God is green, and always has been, according to a parish in southern Sydney. The day after Earth Hour last year, parishioners at St Mark's Anglican Church in South Hurstville began drawing up plans to transform their congregation into an "eco-church", and the more traditional sermon topics have had to make room for messages about global warming. A year on, the parish is preparing to take part in its second Earth Hour, from 8pm tomorrow. The leader of the flock, the Reverend Chris Albany, said several Christian denominations had reinterpreted the Bible in recent years, including re-examining translations from Hebrew, which rendered humankind's "dominion" over the world to "stewardship". It is a radical revision, and it means Christians who subscribe to that reading of the Book of Genesis now see caring for the planet as central to their faith. - 2008/03/27: GristMill: A Southern Baptist conversion to concern about climate change - Young theologian discusses denomination's recent declaration
One hears a lot about the campaign(s), not much about climate:
- 2008/03/24: ClimateP: Campaign stunner: McCain "might take [new CAFE standards] off the books"
- 2008/03/24: HillHeat: McCain Adviser Questions CAFE, Energy Policies Other Than Cap-and-Trade
The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:
- 2008/03/29: TStar: Gore heads north for some Truth troops
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore is amassing a new Canadian army to spread his Nobel-winning message on climate change - and two Liberal MPs are among the recruits - 2008/03/28: DeSmogBlog: Lend Your Name to Gore's "We Can Solve It" Campaign
- 2008/03/27: CBS: Gore's Message To Climate Change Skeptics - Tells 60 Minutes That Doubting Global Warming Is Manmade Is Akin To Believing Earth Is Flat
- 2008/03/27: WSJ:EnvCap: Blood and Gore: Veep's Firm To Spend Big on VC [venture-capital funding]
- 2008/03/26: FPB: Al Gore refuses to gamble on the environment
While in the UK:
- 2008/03/30: ABC(Au): British climate bill to clear first parliament hurdle
Britain's landmark Climate Change Bill, which for the first time sets a legal requirement on a government to cut carbon emissions, is expected to pass its first parliamentary hurdle on Monday but has a rocky ride ahead. The House of Lords is expected to vote in its third reading on Monday on the bill which, in a departure from normal practice, was introduced in the upper house of parliament before the House of Commons to try to speed up the legislative process. The Government had hoped to get the bill into law by May, but amendments forced through in its passage through the House of Lords against strong government opposition could now delay that until October or November, climate campaigners said - 2008/03/25: Guardian(UK): Public servants clocked up 306m air miles last year, Conservatives say
Muddling towards an energy policy:
- 2008/03/29: Guardian(UK): Britain seeks loophole in EU green energy targets - Government wants clean power projects abroad to count towards UK quota
- 2008/03/26: Guardian(UK): Nuclear is UK's new North Sea oil - minister [UK Business Secretary, John Hutton]
- 2008/03/27: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Hutton's nuclear fantasy
- 2008/03/26: OilChange: "Nuclear is UK's new North Sea oil"
- 2008/03/25: Guardian(UK): Top scientists warn against rush to biofuel - Brown plans to resist EU plans for increased quotas as doubts multiply
- 2008/03/24: BBC: Call for delay to biofuels policy
The UK's chief environment scientist has called for a delay to a policy demanding inclusion of biofuels into fuel at pumps across the UK. Professor Robert Watson said ministers should await the results of their inquiry into biofuels' sustainability. Some scientists think biofuels' carbon benefits may be currently outweighed by negative effects from their production - 2008/03/25: Guardian(UK): Livingstone puts environment at heart of campaign
- 2008/03/26: Guardian(UK): Livingstone puts green issues at heart of his mayoral campaign
I wonder which set of carbon books they are using:
- 2008/03/27: Guardian(UK): UK on track to meet Kyoto emissions targets, says Benn
- 2008/03/28: Guardian(UK): Cut in coal burning brings UK emissions down by 2%
- 2008/03/27: KSJT: Reuters, etc: UK on track, it says, to meet Kyoto emission reduction
While in Europe:
- 2008/03/25: EUO: EU accused of heavy reliance on industry lobbyists
An alliance of environment groups, trade unions and academics has accused the European Commission of relying too heavily on business and industry lobbyists when drawing up EU legislation. - 2008/03/26: Oikos: Garnaut review - emissions trading scheme discussion paper
- 2008/03/29: SMH: How green is my pollie: powers that be to lead by example
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): [Bob] Katter [MP, Kennedy] wants carbon, energy council
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): Company appointed to assess Tas Govt's carbon footprint
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): Push US to sign Kyoto: Opposition
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): Carbon offsets to expand national parks
The Queensland Government will channel more than $10 million a year into a new 'Eco Fund' to expand the state's national parks - 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): [Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul] Henderson admits to green failings
The Northern Territory Government has conceded it hasn't done enough to tackle climate change and has announced a development firm to formulate new policies - 2008/03/27: ABC(Au): Water price surge: 'We have no choice'
The New South Wales Government says it has no choice but to increase water charges for Sydney households by more than A$200 a year so it can pay for the city's costly desalination plant - 2008/03/27: SMH: Desalination plants in 50-year plan
One desalination plant is on the way and five more may be built to accommodate a booming population and climate change in south-east Queensland. A draft 50-year plan released yesterday seeks to increase the water supply and cut demand to ensure a "sustainable and prosperous lifestyle". - 2008/03/26: ABC(Au): Carbon permit revenue could 'remove inefficient taxes'
Federal Opposition treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says new government revenues from proposed carbon permits offer an opportunity to further reform the Australian tax system. - 2008/03/25: ABC(Au): Solar Cities audit keen to target business
- 2008/03/25: PeakEnergy: Carbon Emissions and the Cooper Basin
The Vision 2020 conference next month is shaping up:
- 2008/03/29: SMH: Rudd's brainy bunch named [2020]
- 2008/03/28: ABC(Au): 2020 participants announced
While in China:
- 2008/03/26: People's Daily: [China's largest power producer] Huaneng [Group] to boost renewable energy
- 2008/03/24: JFleck: Yet Another Thing the IPCC Gets Wrong [Chinese GHGs]
- 2008/03/24: Google:AP: China Facing Renewed Fuel Shortages [in diesel and gasoline]
- 2008/03/24: ChinaDaily: Efforts urged for better energy efficiency
China should become a global leader in energy efficiency by 2050 when nuclear power and renewable energy is likely to account for at least half of the country's energy mix. A senior State leader yesterday urged policymakers to come up with strengthened efforts to draw up such a long-term "strategic roadmap" for China's energy industry while focusing on clean energy development. [...] In another development, latest research has shown that China's energy consumption is very likely to reach 3.1 billion tons of standard coal equivalent by 2010, 100 million tons more than the earlier ceiling. And by 2020, when China is expected to realize its goal of becoming a well-off society, the country's energy consumption will reach 4.3 billion tons of standard coal equivalents. - 2008/03/24: ChinaDaily: Share of nuke energy increased [to 5% by 2020]
- 2008/03/25: ChinaDaily: China to spend 78% more on emission reduction
While in Japan:
- 2008/03/26: TerraDaily: As Japan toasts spring, experts feel heat
In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his do-nothing policy:
- 2008/03/30: TStar: Harper snubs Earth Hour
- 2008/03/29: CBC: 511 weather hotline put on hold
- 2008/03/26: CanWest: Discarded opinions: Back to the future on clean, cheap power
Former cabinet minister Pat McGeer wants B.C. to renew its commitment to big hydro dams and their legacy of "cheap, clean, renewable" electric power - 2008/03/25: BuckDog: Wheat Board Director Challenges Comments By Ag Minister Ritz
The Conservative climate policy is largely discounted:
- 2008/03/27: Far-n-Wide: Calling John Baird
- 2008/03/26: TMoS: Is Harper On To Something or Just On Something?
- 2008/03/26: SeanInSask: "Clean Coal", Saskatchewan, and Harper
- 2008/03/26: G&M: Harper warns higher energy bills ahead [as new technologies such as the underground storage of carbon dioxide develop and come online]
- 2008/03/24: CanWest: Environmentalists' fears
The idea behind "carbon capture and storage" (CCS) is elegantly simple. Industries that generate carbon dioxide shouldn't pump it into the air. They should "capture" it. And then pump it back underground - which is where it likely came from in the first place - where it will stay. We keep churning out energy, products, money and jobs; we stop making the planet's fever worse. One would think environmentalists would find this quite satisfactory. But one would be wrong. - 2008/03/25: CanWest: Canadians warming to emissions cap: poll
Four of five Canadians disagree with the Harper government's approach to protect economic growth in Alberta's oilsands sector while allowing its annual global warming-causing emissions to triple over the next decade, a new survey has revealed. - 2008/03/25: CanWest: Canadians want oilsands capped - Poll shows most oppose plan to let emissions rise
The Radarsat-2 decision is allegedly still being debated:
- 2008/03/25: TSun: Lost in space - Sale of Canada's MDA could be the Avro Arrow disaster revisited
- 2008/03/24: G&M: Sale of Canadarm maker to U.S. company threatens Arctic sovereignty, [Marc] Garneau says
- 2008/03/24: NatPo: Keep Radarsat-2 in Canada
The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:
- 2008/03/27: PRWatch: BP Greenwashes Tar Sands Exploitation
The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:
- 2008/03/27: MTobis: Bill Clinton Accused of Violating Taboo [growth addiction]
- 2008/03/27: CSM: How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Even when experts look at the same data, they can come to vastly different conclusions
- 2008/03/26: PeakEnergy: Nearing The Brink
- 2008/03/26: NEN: Emissions cuts and economic growth - that works [See For Yourself]
- 2008/03/24: GPM: (transcript) Climate Code Red - The Case for a Sustainability Emergency, Part II
Apocalypso anyone?
- 2008/03/29: DotEarth: Polar Cities a Haven in Warming World?
- 2008/03/28: CasaubonsBook: Dissecting the Long Emergency
- 2008/03/24: TruthOut: New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears
- 2008/03/25: NYT:PK: Malthus was right!
- 2008/03/24: KSJT: Daily Mail: James Lovelock, climate Cassandra - crackpot or visionary
As for how the media handles the science of climatology:
- 2008/03/25: QuarkSoup: ThinkProgress
The betting meme rolls on:
- 2008/03/23: TreeHugger: Placing Bets on Alaska's Ice Melting
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
- 2008/03/28: GristMill: Small hydro, big potential - 'Run of river' projects set for a boom?
- 2008/03/28: WSJ:EnvCap: Wind Power: Crunch Now, Clear Skies Ahead
- 2008/03/28: EnergyDaily: NRG Energy Begins Construction On Second West Texas Wind Farm
- 2008/03/28: TreeHugger: 15 Algae Biofuels Startups to Watch
- 2008/03/27: GristMill: Casten gospel reaches NYT
- 2008/03/27: TruthOut: New Record: Wind Powers 40 Percent of Spain
- 2008/03/27: NEN: The carbon tax lesson: Invest in new energy
- 2008/03/27: NEN: New Energy: Good for the farmers
- 2008/03/27: WSJ:EnvCap: Celtic Bet: Little Ireland Puts Big Money Into Renewables
- 2008/03/26: ClimateP: Clean tech soars in 2007
- 2008/03/26: NEN: Why tax credits are needed, why oil subsidies are not
- 2008/03/25: NEN: Ohio wants wind but when? As spew worsens & coal kills
- 2008/03/24: UN: UN-backed biomass gas project provides clean power for rural areas in India
- 2008/03/24: PeakEnergy: Can the Smart Grid Save the Economy?
- 2008/03/24: NEN: X Marks the electric future
Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:
- 2008/03/27: FuturePundit: Solar Start-Up [1366 Tech] Expects Cost Competitive With Coal By 2012
- 2008/03/29: TreeHugger: Californian Utility to Blanket Rooftops with Nation's Largest Solar Collector Cell Installation
- 2008/03/28: PhysOrg: Edison International In Process of Launching Photovoltaic Project on Roof Tops
- 2008/03/28: NEN: DOE Tips solar research a dime
- 2008/03/27: DotEarth: All Energy Roads Lead to the Sun
- 2008/03/27: TreeHugger: 1366 Technologies is Bringing Solar Power Closer to $1/Watt
- 2008/03/27: TreeHugger: Turning Big Box Stores into Solar Power Plants in California
- 2008/03/26: GristMill: Another entrant in the $1/watt solar sweepstakes
- 2008/03/26: TreeHugger: Allco Wants to Turn Former [Coventry, Rhode Island] Toxic Waste Dump into Solar Energy Farm
- 2008/03/26: TreeHugger: 19.9%: New [CIGS] Thin Film Solar Efficiency Record
- 2008/03/26: PeakEnergy: Solar Paint [BIPV]
- 2008/03/26: NEN: Nevadan: bet on solar
- 2008/03/25: NEN: The newest in solar cells
- 2008/03/24: TreeHugger: German and Algerian Researchers Collaborate Over Large-Scale Solar Thermal Power
The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:
- 2008/03/25: AfterGutenberg: Zombies at Princeton use Accounting Gimmicks
- 2008/03/26: TMoS: More Thoughts on Clean Coal
- 2008/03/25: ClimateP: Risky Business: Coal to Cost Kansas
- 2008/03/25: GristMill: Coal is not cheap: Kansas edition - Independent financial analysis finds that coal is a stinker of an investment for Kansas
- 2008/03/25: GristMill: Why FutureGen had to die - The blind alley of more coal
- 2008/03/25: GristMill: Run your car on coal? Maybe not - CTL fuels: still a bad idea
- 2008/03/25: DeSmogBlog: Kansas Coal Power Proposal a Significant Risk to Ratepayers
- 2008/03/24: WSJ:EnvCap: Coal's New Battleground: Business vs. Enviros in the Desert
- 2008/03/24: NEN: Kansans stand up to big coal
Biofuel bickering abounds:
- 2008/03/28: AutoBG: Opposition to ethanol plants on the rise
- 2008/03/27: OilChange: Nobel Peace Prize Winner [Rajendra Pachauri] Warns Against Biofuels
- 2008/03/27: AutoBG: Carter-Era research finally comes good as algae biodiesel gets a push
- 2008/03/25: TEB: Petrosun to Start Commercial Operation of 4.4 MGY Algae Oil Plant
- 2008/03/25: OilChange: The "Insanity" of Biofuels
- 2008/03/24: WSJ:EnvCap: Elementary, Watson: Are Biofuel Policies "Insane?"
The nuclear energy controversy continues:
- 2008/03/28: GristMill: Déjà nuke
- 2008/03/28: WSJ:EnvCap: Nuclear Ghosts: On Anniversary, Three Mile Island Still Haunts Industry
Yes we have a peak oil sighting:
- 2008/03/27: ClimateP: Peak Oil? Bring it on!
- 2008/03/27: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: Load shedding
- 2008/03/25: OTF: Peak Oil vs. Global Warming
- 2008/03/26: PeakEnergy: Peak oil vs Global Warming
- 2008/03/25: IEET: Peak Oil vs. Global Warming
And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:
- 2008/03/25: Scitizen: Why Energy Efficiency Won't Matter Without Energy Caps [Jevon]
- 2008/03/26: ClimateP: Please don't use incandescent bulbs for heating
Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:
- 2008/03/29: AutoBG: Martin Eberhard [of Tesla] talks up EVs, clean energy on Maui
- 2008/03/29: TreeHugger: Who Killed the Electric Car (Again)?
- 2008/03/29: AutoBG: ZENN claims they will launch EEStor-powered EV in fall 2009
- 2008/03/28: NEN: Plug-in Vehicles: Diabolic Sabotage and Dastardly Perfidy
- 2008/03/28: AutoBG: Le Monde: The future of cars is electric
- 2008/03/28: AutoBG: ACEA [European Automobile Manufacturer's Association] loves CO2 taxing schemes, with conditions
- 2008/03/27: AutoBG: "I Miss My EV1" :Dr. Gloria Duffy
- 2008/03/27: AutoBG: Reagan's Ex-Secretary of State [George Shultz] asks Gov. Schwarzenegger to bring back the electric car
- 2008/03/27: AutoBG: Blade Runner: Australia's first zero-emissions car
- 2008/03/25: ClimateP: No U.S.-made car meets China fuel standards
- 2008/03/25: AutoBG: Officially official: Th!nk City electric car on sale in the UK this fall
- 2008/03/24: TreeHugger: Hyundai to Mass Produce Hybrids in 2009, Starting with Elantra Hybrid
- 2008/03/24: AutoBG: Smart cars selling strong, distributor could do with 15,000 more this year
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
- 2008/03/27: EnvFin: Environment is a 'top 10' risk to business
- 2008/03/27: EnvFin: Merrill Lynch, SocGen launch carbon indexes
- 2008/03/26: JFleck: Phase Three: Profit!
- 2008/03/27: NewScientist: Investor puts his money in the rainforest
- 2008/03/24: WSJ:EnvCap: Reality Bites: Wachovia on the Cost of Going Green
Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:
- 2008/03/29: ABC(Au): Lawyers challenge company 'carbon neutral' claims
Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
- 2008/03/30: SwissInfo: Severe weather damage payouts increase
A Swiss insurer [Swiss Hail] against hail and other weather damage paid out 22 per cent more than the premiums it earned in 2007. - 2008/03/25: CanWest: Climate change to hike insurance premiums - Warming planet called greatest threat to insurers
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
- 2008/03/29: Tamino: Get Real! ...the utterly ridiculous...attempt to justify the garbage analysis by Jim Goodridge.
- 2008/03/27: Tamino: How Not to Analyze Data, part 1
- 2008/03/28: ERabett: Speak some ill of some dead
- 2008/03/29: CDreams: TAP: The Manufacture of Uncertainty
- 2008/03/27: ERabett: Link - John Mashey's take on Schulte's E&E paper...
- 2008/03/27: ERabett: Uben! Uben! Uben! (Calibrate, Calibrate, Calibrate)
- 2008/03/26: PBS:WiredSci: Continental Drift and Global Warming
- 2008/03/27: Deltoid: Monckton declares Mashey's study "unlawful"
- 2008/03/27: QuarkSoup: [Roy] Spencer's Exaggeration
- 2008/03/26: DeSmogBlog: Even Big Coal finds CEI ad offensive
- 2008/03/27: ScruffyDan: Why are climate change deniers so blatantly dishonest?
- 2008/03/26: Atmoz: Lawrenceville, New York: The Perfect Surface Station?
- 2008/03/25: BSD: Apples and oranges comparison of sacrificing today for a better future climate
- 2008/03/26: BCLSB: On Why They Deny
- 2008/03/26: TSun: So much for global warming - With Ontario's economy slowing, 'mankind's greatest crisis' suddenly becomes an afterthought [Goldstein]
- 2008/03/25: Atmoz: Good Metadata Necessary for Corrections?
- 2008/03/24: Atmoz: I Guess I Don't Understand the Time of Observation Correction
- 2008/03/25: Deltoid: The Disinformation Cycle
- 2008/03/25: DeSmogBlog: S. Fred Singer and the Global Warming Denial Machine
- 2008/03/25: DeSmogBlog: Wall Street Journal: Still Promoting Debate
- 2008/03/24: DeSmogBlog: Skeptics' Journal Publishes Plagiarist's Paper
- 2008/03/25: NEN: News on global cooling while satellite sites hot spots
- 2008/03/23: DeSmogBlog: ICSC: International Climate Science Confusion
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
- 2008/03/30: SwissInfo: Saving the planet the Swiss way
- 2008/03/27: GreenBang: Dr Kate Rawles: Why the climate change debate has gone wrong
- 2008/03/28: TreeHugger: Yale Professor Democratizes Climate-Action Cost Models
- 2008/03/27: JEB: More Chylek on sensitivity
- 2008/03/26: ABC(Au): Act local for climate change: activist [Threatened Species Network - Kat Miller]
- 2008/03/25: MTobis: Neutrality vs Advocacy: Must Read
- 2008/03/25: Far-n-Wide: The Sound Of Settled Science
And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
- GreenBang
- NOAA: Mauna Loa Observatory
- Worldwide Energy Shortages
- Oil Change International - Follow the Oil Money
- Coeruleus: She Flies With Her Own Wings
- CAG: The North Atlantic Oscillation Thematic Web Site
- NuclearInfoNet - Everything you want to know about Nuclear Power
- ConserveMag
- ClimatePolicy
- UN Foundation: Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- CEJ NewsViews
The big story of the week has to be the disintegration of the Wilkins ice shelf:
And speaking of floods & droughts:
For some reason an adaptation vs. mitigation tempest in a teapot boiled over:
While in London's mayoral campaign:
Meanwhile in Australia:
A recent poll has shown the Tories to be a way out in right field:
Low Key Plug
My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk. An overview of my writing is available here.
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