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Another Week of GW News, June 8, 2008

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Posted on: June 9, 2008 9:16 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 GW News, June 8, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

Laugh. I dare ya:

In Bonn, Germany the UNFCCC meeting is ongoing:

The G8 energy ministers met in Japan:

And the OECD met in Paris:

The news from Myanmar, post Nagris, remains scarce & dismal:

Meanwhile in the US Senate, the Lieberman-Warner climate bill was debated & killed:

The International Energy Agency startled some by calling for massive investment in energy:

Late comment on the US CCSP & USDA report:

Late comment on the failing CDMs story:

Late comment on buckets & SSTs:

The food crisis remains a top story:

In Rome, the UN FAO sponsored a conference on the Global Food Crisis:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Nakri died unreported in the West Pacific, otherwise it has been quiet in the hurricane wars:

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

As for the temperature record:

Oopsie Daisie. Abrupt climate change:

While on the ENSO front:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Desertification looms as a threat:

Meanwhile in tornado alley:

As for wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

As for 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:

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

More Hansen:

Meanwhile on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

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:

And on the American political front:

The NASA Inspector General reported on the political manipulation of science:

One hears a lot about the campaign(s), not so much about climate:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

The Rudd government is opting to support domestic green automakers:

Meanwhile the solar means testing policy is still drawing fire:

In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his do-nothing policy:

The Harperites led us further into ingnominy, by ignoring the Rome Food Crisis summit:

Ontario & Quebec shook things up by announcing a cap & trade plan:

And they're still arguing over the Liberal's unreleased carbon tax plan:

BC is still wrangling over their climate plan:

The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:

The Tories made another one of those late friday afternoon announcements:

And then there is the miscellaneous Canadiana:

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

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

Apocalypso anyone?

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

A commentary by R. Samuelson raised a storm:

The betting meme rolls on:

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

Meanwhile among the solar afficionados: