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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
September 14, 2008
- Top Stories:Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Permafrost, Morality, Monsoons, Tamino & Grumbine, Late Comments, Open Access
- Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
- Hurricanes, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
- Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts
- Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
- Journals, Misc. Science
- Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
- Politics:International, Security, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Canada
- Ecological Economics, Media, Books
- Energy, High Cost Impacts, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Insurance
- Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
- Shameless Self Promotion, .sig
- 2008/09/11: FergusB: Sea Ice minimum; how close to the record will it go?
- 2008/09/12: TreeHugger: Watch Greenland Melting - on the Icecam
- 2008/09/11: JP(Dk): Watch as Greenland melts
- 2008/09/11: Telegraph(UK): Record number of icebergs off Canadian coast
- 2008/09/11: ADN: Loss of Arctic sea ice nears last year's record -- Researchers say the long-term decline is accelerating.
- 2008/09/10: CBC: Sea ice loss opens route around northern ice pack
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Arctic ice coverage area shrinking faster than expected
- 2008/09/10: KSJT: Sacto Bee: Arctic ice won't break record low. But it's lo-o-o-ow.
- 2008/09/09: McClatchyDC: Low levels of Arctic sea ice signal global warming's advance
- 2008/08/18: CCRed: What most politicians won't talk about: the fate of the Arctic
- 2008/09/08: KSJT: Chr. Sci. Monitor, NYTimes, more: Arctic ice opens Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passages. That's a first.
- 2008/09/07: ClimateP: Arctic shrinks by an Alaska and 3 Arizonas in August
And the geopolitics of the Arctic resources:
- 2008/09/13: CanWest: Russia flexes muscles over Arctic -- Political officials' meeting at Nagurskaya underscores Moscow's determination
- 2008/09/12: TreeHugger: Russia Again Claims That More of the Arctic Should Be Its Domain
- 2008/09/12: Reuters: Russia says it must stake claim to Arctic resources
- 2008/09/11: EurActiv: EU prepares Arctic action plan as ice melts
- 2008/09/11: BBC: New battle over Arctic oil plans
The grey waters of the Arctic Ocean are the scene for a new battle over plans for a huge expansion in the drilling of oil and gas far beyond the Alaskan shore - 2008/09/10: Yahoo: France seeks European 'shared vision' for Arctic issues
- 2008/09/10: BBC: Conflict fear over Arctic borders
A senior US Coast Guard commander has warned of the risk of conflict in the Arctic, unless disputes over international borders are resolved. Speaking to the BBC during an Arctic patrol flight, Rear Adm Gene Brooks, in charge of the Coast Guard's vast Alaska region, appealed for a diplomatic deal. "The potential is there with undetermined boundaries and great wealth for conflict, or competition. "There's always a risk of conflict," Adm Brookes said. He added that this was especially the case "where you do not have established, delineated, agreed-upon borders". Russia is staking the largest claim to the Arctic, after planting a flag at the North Pole last summer, but Denmark, Norway, Canada and the United States are all involved in border disputes as well. The admiral's warning comes as the Arctic sea-ice has, for a second year running, retreated far more dramatically than the long-term average. The latest satellite analysis shows this year's melt closely following last year's record thaw. - 2008/09/10: EUO: Melting ice cap pushes Arctic up EU agenda
- 2008/09/09: TerraDaily: Arctic meeting calls for closer international cooperation
- 2008/09/08: NatureTGB: Polar laws 'not up to scratch'
- 2008/09/08: NewScientist: Thawing Arctic vulnerable without new international laws
- 2008/09/08: PhysOrg: Arctic shipping set to explode in legal vacuum, experts warn
- 2008/09/07: TerraDaily: New laws needed in changing polar regions: experts
- 2008/09/08: SciDaily: New Rules Needed To Govern World's Fragile Polar Regions
A new co-ordinated international set of rules to govern commercial and research activities in both of Earth's polar regions is urgently needed to reflect new environmental realities and to temper pressure building on these highly fragile ecosystems, according to several of the experts convening in Iceland for a UN-affiliated conference marking the International Polar Year - 2008/09/08: Reuters: Thaw of polar regions may need new U.N. laws
- 2008/09/08: ChronicleHerald: Create global treaty for Arctic, group urges UN
While in Antarctica:
- 2008/09/12: Reuters: Antarctic winter ice gets bigger; Arctic shrinks
- 2008/09/12: NewScientist: Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming
More on the Damoclean sword, permafrost:
- 2008/09/: BioScience: Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle by Edward A. G. Schuur et al.
- 2008/09/13: TreeHugger: Permafrost Holds Twice as Much GHGs as Previously Thought: Over 1500 Billion Tons of CO2 and Methane
- 2008/09/13: SMH: Melting permafrost may hasten global warming
- 2008/09/12: PhysOrg: Permafrost carbon content double the old estimates
New research indicates that the amount of frozen organic carbon locked away in the world's permafrost regions -- a major potential source of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) -- is double what has been previously estimated. In a paper published in the latest edition of Bioscience, an international team of scientists says whereas some of the CO2 produced as a result of decomposition of previously frozen vegetation would be absorbed by increased, global warming-induced plant growth, it is likely the net effect would be a significant net increase in atmospheric CO2. Involving collaboration between scientists from Australia, Russia, the US, the UK, Canada and Europe the three-year study concluded that accounting for carbon stored deep in the permafrost more than doubles -- to more than 1500 billion tonnes -- previous estimates of the world's high-latitude carbon inventory. - 2008/09/11: TerraDaily: Thawing Permafrost Holds Vast Carbon Pool
The Moral Angle:
- 2008/09/10: Oxfam(Ca): [link to pdf] Human rights must be put at the heart of fighting climate change, says Oxfam
- 2008/09/10: CBC: Countries abusing human rights by failing to fight global warming: Oxfam
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): We all must support the poorest people
- 2008/09/09: BBC: Climate inaction 'costing lives'
Failure to take urgent action to curb climate change is effectively violating the human rights of people in the poorest nations, an aid charity warns. A report by Oxfam International says emissions, primarily from developed countries, are exacerbating flooding, droughts and extreme weather events. As a result, harvests are failing and people are losing their homes and access to water, the authors observe. They say human rights need to be at the heart of global climate policies. Oxfam will be submitting its report, called Climate Wrongs and Human Rights, to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - 2008/09/09: CBC: Countries abusing human rights by failing to fight global warming: Oxfam
Rich countries are violating the human rights of millions of the world's poorest people by failing to tackle global warming, causing more people to starve, lose their homes and struggle to find clean water, a report released Tuesday says. "Climate change was first seen as a scientific problem, then an economic one. Now we must also see it as a matter of international justice," said Kate Raworth, who authored the report by Oxfam International. In the report, the aid agency pushes for countries to be held legally accountable for the "devastating effects of more frequent and severe climatic events" on people around the world. - 2008/09/12: BBC: Flood victims face caste discrimination
Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless after floods hit the Indian state of Bihar last month. Some of the victims face the additional hardships that come from being members of the low caste dalit community - 2008/09/11: ENN: India's "river of sorrow" brings biblical flood
- 2008/09/08: TerraDaily: Nearly one million evacuated from Indian floods: state
- 2008/09/08: ChinaDaily: Indian flood refugees to spend 6 months in camps
Tamino and Rob Grumbine continue their educational efforts:
- 2008/09/12: Tamino: Alphabet Soup, part 2: MA [moving average]
- 2008/09/12: MGS: Shared Knowledge and Sources
- 2008/09/09: MGS: Science is Always Changing
- 2008/09/04: MGS: The Atmosphere in the Vertical
Late comment on Mann:
- 2008/09/12: McClatchyDC: Study finds recent global warming unprecedented in 1,300 years
- 2008/09/07: Tamino: Brand New Hockey Sticks
Nature did an article on Free Science, so I get to plug a hobby horse:
- 2008/09/12: NatureTGB: Open access: public good or publishers' evil?
- Free Science Sources
The food crisis remains a top story:
- 2008/09/10: UN: Skyrocketing prices continue to threaten the right to food, UN expert says
- 2008/09/11: Asia Times: Food trade's fatal price pendulum
- 2008/09/08: UN: Food security in drought-stricken Ethiopia at alarming levels, warns UN
The conflict between biofuel and food persists:
- 2008/09/09: TreeHugger: "Economic Colonialism" Rears Its Ugly Head in African Biofuel Market
And the troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:
- 2008/09/13: NSBJ: Weather, fuel costs, have farmers at crisis point
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Sodden farmers struggling with a changing climate
A terribly wet summer in the UK has left farmers facing the worst harvest in 40 years and the task of adapting to new conditions - 2008/09/11: WhyFiles: Phosphorus: Running low of an essential fertilizer?
- 2008/09/12: EnergyBulletin: Terra Preta: Biochar and the MEGO effect
- 2008/09/11: UN: High food prices spur expansion in Eastern European crops -- UN food agency
- 2008/09/11: BBC: Wet [UK] harvest may raise food prices
- 2008/09/08: GristMill: U.K. former chief scientist: Green activists 'impoverish Africa' -- Only GMOs and agrichemicals can 'feed the world,' don't you know?
In the hurricane wars, Sinlaku, Lowell & Hanna did their thing:
- 2008/09/14: CNN: Typhoon Sinlaku slams into Taiwan, China waits
- 2008/09/09: CBC: Saint John crews still cleaning up after storm [Hanna] flooding
- 2008/09/08: CBC: Hanna floods P.E.I. streets, highways
And then there was Ike:
- 2008/09/14: PhysOrg: At 13 1/2 feet, Ike's storm surge less than predicted
- 2008/09/14: NakedCapitalism: Ike Forces Shutdown of 20% of US Refineries; $4 Gas May Result
- 2008/09/13: CBC: Ike cleanup starts, storm moves on -- Crews checking on people in Galveston who didn't flee storm
- 2008/09/14: BBC: Rescuers search storm-hit Texas
A huge search and relief operation is under way in Texas, after the US state was hit by powerful Hurricane Ike. Rescuers are using boats, high-wheel lorries and helicopters to bring to safety thousands of people who ignored a mandatory evacuation order - 2008/09/13: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Ike batters Texan coast
- 2008/09/14: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Ike smashes its way across Texan coast and towns
- 2008/09/13: CNN: Ike's aftermath: The return of $4 gas
- 2008/09/13: CNN: Louisiana rescues begin as winds die down
Lafitte councilman: "We've rescued hundreds since yesterday" - Power could be out for weeks in Grand Isle after two storms hit, sheriff says - Southwest Louisiana officials say flooding is worst they've seen in years - Cameron Parish sheriff tells evacuees not to come home yet - 2008/09/13: CNN: Ike wears itself out beating up on Texas
Four deaths in Texas attributed to Ike, now a tropical storm with 60 mph winds - 27 people taken to shelters in Galveston, 17 buildings destroyed - Downtown Houston closed for cleanup of debris - 2.6 million affected by power outages, U.S. Energy Department says - 2008/09/12: ClimateP: Resources for Ike, hurricanes, and global warming
- 2008/09/13: TGBeaver: Do you live in Ontario? Meet Ike.
- 2008/09/12: Maribo: Hurricane Ike's impact on the US, Cuba and Haiti
- 2008/09/13: Wunderground: Ike makes a direct hit on Galveston
- 2008/09/13: ENN: Hurricane Ike punishing Texas coast
- 2008/09/13: CBC: Ike weakens to tropical storm over Texas -- Power outages, at least one death reported
- 2008/09/13: CBC: Waiting out Ike, expat Canucks worry about homes, reflect on blizzards and cows
- 2008/09/13: AFP: Hurricane Ike ravages Texas with massive flooding
- 2008/09/13: AP: Authorities: Many stayed behind on Texas coast [90,000 - 140,000]
- 2008/09/13: Yahoo: Rescue crews comb Texas coast for Ike victims
- 2008/09/13: Reuters: Hurricane Ike rakes Texas coast
- 2008/09/13: CNN: Ike wears itself out beating up on Texas
Hurricane center downgrades Ike to tropical storm as winds fall to 60 mph - Bush declares 29 Texas counties federal disaster area - 2.6 million affected by power outages, U.S. Energy Department says - Trucks, ambulances head out to assist victims - 2008/09/12: AP: Hurricane Ike grows as it closes in on Texas
Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm nearly as big as Texas itself, began battering the coast Friday, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and docks of the nation's fourth-largest city their worst pounding in a generation. But even as towering waves started crashing over the 17-foot Galveston seawall and floodwaters rose in low-lying areas, it became clear that many of the 1 million coastal residents who had been ordered to get out refused to so and were taking their chances. Authorities in three counties alone said roughly 90,000 stayed behind, despite a warning from forecasters that many of those in one- or two-story homes faced "certain death." - 2008/09/13: SMH: Texans flee 'certain death' in storm
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Ike menaces America's Gulf coast
- 2008/09/12: CNN: 'Hurricane chaser' filming Ike's landfall
Storm chasers are in Texas to gather video and other data from Hurricane Ike - Mark Sudduth captures storm footage with remote, battery-powered video cameras - Packed in watertight cases, the cameras train unblinking eyes on storm surges - The cameras shoot live streaming video in conditions too hazardous to film by hand - 2008/09/12: CNN: Texas officials: It's too late to get out, so stay put
Galveston under curfew from 8 p.m. ET Friday until dawn Monday - Official: Galveston is "flooding pretty severely right now" - 200,000 people have fled low-lying areas near Houston, officials say - At 5 p.m. ET, Ike is a Category 2 but is expected to roar in as a Category 3 - 2008/09/12: CNN: Nearly 25% of U.S. fuel production shut
13 of 26 Texas refineries, producing about 3.6 million barrels of fuel a day, are shut down as they brace for Hurricane Ike's impact - 2008/09/12: NatureTGB: Houston we have a (hurricane) problem
- 2008/09/12: KSJT: NYTimes, AP: Hurricane's big, oil rigs many, surge could be high...
- 2008/09/12: DotEarth: A Truly Mighty Storm [Ike]
- 2008/09/12: PhysOrg: With Ike, size matters for killer storm surge
- 2008/09/12: PhysOrg: In Hurricane Ike, bumpy ride with bird's-eye view
- 2008/09/12: MTobis: Midwest Flooding from Ike?
- 2008/09/11: Wunderground: Ike's storm surge an extreme danger to Texas
- 2008/09/12: Wunderground: Ike's record storm surge pushing into Texas
- 2008/09/12: Wunderground: Ike closes in on Galveston
- 2008/09/12: WSJ:EnvCap: Hurricane Ike: Get Ready For Soaring Gasoline Prices
- 2008/09/12: NYT: Texas Coast Residents Flee From Hurricane Ike
- 2008/09/11: TP:WonkRoom: Global Boiling: Hurricane Ike Is A 'Freak Storm' Larger Than Katrina
- 2008/09/12: BBC: Texas faces 'catastrophic' storm -- Texas faces "potentially catastrophic" damage when Hurricane Ike hits in the next few hours...
- 2008/09/12: CBC: Hurricane Ike threatens massive flooding on Texas coast -- Curfew in effect in Galveston, Texas
- 2008/09/12: AFP: Dire warning as deadly Ike rumbles toward Texas
- 2008/09/11: CNN: Galveston, part of Houston evacuated ahead of Ike
Hurricane Ike could make landfall near Galveston Island as early as Saturday - About 100,000 evacuated from Houston; 4 million more told to stay - All of Galveston Island ordered to evacuate; no shelters will be open - Ike could swell to Category 3 hurricane when it hits Texas coast - 2008/09/11: CSW: As Hurricane Ike careens toward Texas, we are reminded of a warning the White House silenced
- 2008/09/10: TerraDaily: Texas girds for the worst as deadly Ike closes in
- 2008/09/10: Wunderground: Ike intensifying explosively
- 2008/09/11: Wunderground: Category 2 Ike is larger and more powerful than Katrina
- 2008/09/11: ENN: Hurricane Ike in Gulf of Mexico, headed for Texas
- 2008/09/11: BBC: Evacuations as Ike approaches US -- Residents in the US state of Texas have begun to evacuate as Hurricane Ike churns through the Gulf of Mexico
- 2008/09/11: CBC: Residents ordered out of homes as Hurricane Ike nears Texas
- 2008/09/11: AFP: Deadly Ike eyes Texas, could strengthen before strike
- 2008/09/10: OilDrum: Hurricane Ike and Oil Refineries/Infrastructure Thread #2
Hurricane Ike's current track predicts landfall between Corpus Christi and Galveston, but has been moving northwards. Within the current NHC storm path lies about 5 million bpd of US petroleum refining capacity. - 2008/09/10: CNN: Ike forecast to be Category 4 hurricane at landfall
Ike expected to swell to Category 4 when it hits Texas coast - Mandatory evacuations ordered for residents with special needs in one county - Hurricane-spawned tornado causes damage in Key Largo, Florida - Texans in low-lying areas and mobiles homes urged to get out - 2008/09/11: AP: Houston-Galveston could face major damage from Ike
- 2008/09/09: Wunderground: Ike has an eyewall, beginning to strengthen
- 2008/09/10: Wunderground: Ike grows in size and strength
- 2008/09/10: ENN: Hurricane Ike over Gulf of Mexico, aims at Texas
- 2008/09/10: Xinhuanet: Hurricane Ike kills 4 people in Cuba
- 2008/09/10: CBC: Hurricane Ike gathers strength as its edges closer to Texas -- Authorities urge Texas residents to brace for impending landfall
- 2008/09/10: Yahoo: Ike gains strength over Gulf, aims for Texas
- 2008/09/09: Wunderground: Ike crossing Cuba; Texas next?
- 2008/09/09: AFP: Deadly Ike cuts across Cuba, eyes US Gulf coast
- 2008/09/09: BBerg: Ike Hits Western Cuba, May Intensify, Spare Gulf Oil
- 2008/09/08: Pravda: Hurricane Ike roars across Cuba
- 2008/09/08: AP: Ike set to bypass Keys, but Gulf Coast worries
- 2008/09/08: CNN: Ike weakens to Category 1 storm
Ike is a Category 1 hurricane, but forecast to strengthen - Mandatory evacuation order for Florida Keys expires - Waves as high as 50 feet batter parts of Cuba - At least 1,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Cuba - 2008/09/08: WSJ:EnvCap: Storm Warning: Ike's Impact Could Go Far Beyond Hurricane Season
Relief operations are struggling in the hard hit island states:
- 2008/09/13: UN: UNICEF brings relief to hurricane-ravaged Cuba, Turks and Caicos Islands
- 2008/09/12: CSM: Food aid arrives in Haiti but delivery is still difficult -- Hammered by a series of storms, thousands of Haitians wait in shelters for help
- 2008/09/12: WSWS: Humanitarian crisis worsens in Haiti
- 2008/09/11: TerraDaily: Desperate Cuba charges US is 'lying' on storm aid
- 2008/09/11: TerraDaily: Haiti death toll from four storms at least 326: gov't
- 2008/09/10: TerraDaily: UN calls for 107 million dollars in aid for storm-struck Haiti
- 2008/09/11: BBC: Paradise flattened in storm's wake...the Turks and Caicos Islands which were battered by Hurricane Ike last weekend
- 2008/09/10: UN: UN appeals for over $100 million to aid Haiti storm-stricken survivors
- 2008/09/10: CBC: Hurricanes raze Ottawa couple's Haiti orphanage
- 2008/09/08: WSWS: Haiti devastated by [4] hurricanes
- 2008/09/09: CNN: Cuba takes second hit from Ike; storm may head to Texas
Ike barely a hurricane at 2 p.m. ET with 75-mph sustained winds - Hurricane Ike slams Cuba, expected to emerge stronger in Gulf of Mexico - Waves as high as 50 feet batter parts of Cuba - At least 1,000 homes damaged or destroyed in in Baracoa, Cuba - 2008/09/10: DemNow: Haiti Struggles with Humanitarian Disaster in Aftermath of Deadly Storms
- 2008/09/08: TerraDaily: Ike death toll in Haiti climbs to 61, including many children
- 2008/09/09: CBC: Hurricane Ike hits western Cuba -- Cuban state TV blames storm for at least 4 deaths on island
- 2008/09/08: Wunderground: Ike pounds Cuba
- 2008/09/08: ChinaDaily: Hurricane Ike weakens to Category 2 over Cuba
- 2008/09/08: CBC: Thousands seek shelter as Hurricane Ike pounds Cuba
- 2008/09/08: AFP: Ike slams Cuba, Haiti death toll passes 600
- 2008/09/08: BBC: Hurricane Ike hits Cuba's coast - Devastating Hurricane Ike has hit the northern coast of Cuba, where mass evacuations have taken place
- 2008/09/08: SMH: Ike and Hanna wreak havoc in Caribbean
- 2008/09/08: Guardian(UK): Worst storm in 48 years batters Caribbean islands - Hurricane wrecks 80% of homes in Turks and Caicos
- 2008/09/07: TerraDaily: Floods bring despair and devastation to storm-struck Haiti
- 2008/09/08: TerraDaily: Ike slams Cuba, Haiti death toll passes 600
While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:
- 2008/09/10: DeSmogBlog: Warmer Surface Waters Trigger More Destructive Hurricanes
- 2008/09/08: NOAANews: NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks Web Site Helps Users Prepare for Big Storms
Ever wonder what it's like to fly through a hurricane?
- 2008/09/07: FlightLevel390: Hanna
- 2008/09/09: Atmoz: Flying through Hanna
As for the temperature record:
- 2008/09/11: NOAANews: Above Average Temperatures in U.S. for August, Summer; Midwest Much Drier than Average in August, South Much Wetter
- 2008/09/09: Tyee: Temps Are Down, So What's Up with Global Warming? Why one chilly summer does not a global cooling make
Here's a feedback that is new (to me, at least):
- 2008/09/10: NewScientist: Melting ice caps could suck carbon from atmosphere
While in the paleoclimate:
- 2008/09/11: SciDaily: Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age
- 2008/09/09: Times(UK): Found after 300m years: rainforest fossils show how climate change could look
- 2008/09/08: BBC: Ancient trees recorded in mines -- Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by a US-UK team of researchers
- 2008/09/08: PhysOrg: Global warming wiped out the first rainforests
Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to evolve on our planet. - 2008/09/11: NOAA: El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
Synopsis: ENSO-neutral conditions are expected to continue through the end of 2008 - 2008/09/08: PhysOrg: Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets
- 2008/09/08: TreeHugger: World Bank and Andean Countries Will Spend $32 Million To Study Glacial Retreat and Create Adpation Plan
- 2008/09/08: Eureka: As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, CU-Boulder study shows
Sea levels are rising:
- 2008/09/04: WhyFiles: Greenland's meltdown: Could it raise sea level faster than expected?
- 2008/09/08: KSJT: Reuters, some Dailies: New estimate says 21st century sea level rise might be six feet, tops (that's less then some say)
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
- 2008/09/12: TreeHugger: New Gravity-Mapping, Climate Predicting Satellite [GOCE] Set to Launch from Russia
- 2008/09/09: Xinhuanet: China's environment monitoring satellites start operation
- 2008/09/11: Guardian(UK): Gravity-mapping satellite will help predict climate change...a more precise picture of the ocean currents
- 2008/09/07: People's Daily: U.S. launches new high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite [GeoEye-1]
- 2008/09/11: ESA: Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA's Envisat
More GW impacts are being seen:
- 2008/09/13: PhysOrg: Group: Global warming could cost Ohio its buckeyes [a tree]
- 2008/09/12: DailyStar: What would a 4 degree rise mean for the planet?
- 2008/09/12: KSJT: Ventura County Star: Global warming cranks up California's cool, onshore breezes
- 2008/09/12: Yahoo: Climate change could devastate Philippines: NASA scientist
- 2008/09/11: Novosti: Over 1 million salmon die in Far East spawning grounds
- 2008/09/12: ODT(NZ): Stark climate warning delivered
Climate change is coming like a runaway freight train, bringing with it the triple blows of starvation, mass migration and war.Gwynne Dyer And Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer fears the seemingly overwhelming impact is likely to be felt sooner than first feared. - 2008/09/11: NewScientist: Honey, climate change is shrinking the species
- 2008/09/10: KSJT: Portland Oregonian, AP: Flip in Pacific oscillation brings bounty to hungry salmon
- 2008/09/10: BBC: 'Extreme waves' worry Australia
Australia's coastline is increasingly being battered by extreme waves that are driven in part by climate change, government scientists say. Research has shown that bigger waves are bearing down on the coastline as severe storms become more frequent. - 2008/09/09: DailyTelegraph(Au): Super funds face climate change risks
And then there are the world's forests:
- 2008/09/11: Nature: [$Letter] Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks by Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.
- 2008/09/11: Nature: [Editor's Summary] Don't cut into old wood
- 2008/09/11: NatureCF: Trees of the Ages
- 2008/09/10: PhysOrg: Old growth forests are valuable carbon sinks
- 2008/09/10: Eureka: Old growth forests are valuable carbon sinks
- 2008/09/08: TreeHugger: Amazon Deforestation Slows Last Year, but 8,147 Square Kilometers Still Chopped Down
Yes we have no wacky weather, except:
- 2008/09/10: ABC(Au): CSIRO study links climate change, wild weather
As for hydrological cycle disruption [floods & droughts]:
- 2008/09/11: PhysOrg: World's water ecosystems under threat
- 2008/09/10: TerraDaily: At least 16 dead in Iran floods
- 2008/09/10: UN: West Africa: 130,000 still need support following severe floods, says UN
- 2008/09/10: WSWS: Stockholm conference told 1 billion people without access to safe water
- 2008/09/09: Guardian(UK): Forecast: dry, becoming drier
There's more than enough fresh water in the world to sate our thirst. The problem is getting it to where it is desperately needed - 2008/09/09: People's Daily: Climate change threatens Himalayan region
- 2008/09/07: CSW: California creates a "water bank" to handle chronic drought: Will it be temporary, or permanent?
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
- 2008/09/14: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Eating less meat won't save the planet
- 2008/09/13: ABC(Au): Spain 'to fight desertification' with 45m trees
The Spanish Government says it will plant 45 million trees over the next four years to counter desertification caused by global warming. - 2008/09/13: PeakEnergy: Terra Preta: Biochar And The MEGO Effect
- 2008/09/10: NatureTGB: Whiter roofs for a cooler planet
- 2008/09/11: KSJT: LATimes, Chr. Sci. Monitor: Buy time against climate change with white roofs (and less asphalt)
- 2008/09/10: NatureTGB: Whiter roofs for a cooler planet
- 2008/09/10: NatureN: Old forests capture plenty of carbon -- Planting a new tree may be a less effective way to sequester carbon than saving an old tree from the axe.
- 2008/09/10: TreeHugger: Lighter Roofs Could Save $1Billion USD Annually
- 2008/09/11: Xinhuanet: White roofs slow global warming
White roofs, which have a massive cooling effect, can slow global warming, newly-released data showed. If the 100 biggest cities in the world installed white roofs and changed their pavement to more reflective materials like concrete instead of asphalt-based material, the global cooling effect would be massive, according to data released at the on-going annual Climate Change Research Conference in Sacramenta, capital of California on Wednesday - 2008/09/08: BBC: Why the West should put money in the trees
Consider transportation & GHG production:
- 2008/09/13: Independent(UK): Warning: 30 airlines will go bust this year
- 2008/09/12: GristMill: Ride, baby, ride -- Expanded transit can lead to energy independence
- 2008/09/12: BaltimoreSun: Still stuck in the '50s -- Maryland and the nation need to move out of the past and adopt a 21st-century transportation policy
- 2008/09/10: EUO: Transport - go green or go under
- 2008/09/09: PhysOrg: Fuel emissions from marine vessels remain a global concern
- 2008/09/09: RIT: Fuel Emissions From Marine Vessels Remain a Global Concern -- New study examines tradeoff among fuel switching and emission control policies
- 2008/09/09: AFP: Gas prices drive millions in US to public transit: report
While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:
- 2008/09/09: ENN: Taking a Bite out of Cement's Global Warming Potential
As for carbon sequestration:
- 2008/09/12: EnergyDaily: EESTech And Dagang Power Sign MOU For Carbon Capture Project
- 2008/09/10: KSJT: AFP, Spiegel, etc: In Germany a shiny new coal plant with a shiny new hose stuck in the ground
- 2008/09/08: Yahoo: 'Emissions-free' coal plant pilot fires up in Germany
- 2008/09/08: PhysOrg: Scientists point to forests for carbon storage solutions
- 2008/09/08: TreeHugger: 9 Tonnes of CO2 Per Hour: Germany Carbon Capture Pilot Project Set to Begin
- 2008/09/08: OSU: Scientists point to forests for carbon storage solutions
Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:
- 2008/09/05: ERW: Cloud-seeding ships could combat climate change
- 2008/09/10: DVoice: Hawking the Technofix: Business as Usual and the Ultimate Genocide
- 2008/09/08: SNftP: Ocean iron fertilisation
- 2008/09/07: RPTT: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
- 2008/09/04: PhysicsWorld: Cloud-seeding ships could combat climate change
And on the adaptation front:
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): A peak into the future - Described as 'a social experiment on a massive scale', the Transition Town movement offers positive ideas for low-carbon living
- 2008/09/07: Guardian(UK): Meet the greenshifters
For the first time in generations, more people are moving to the countryside than are leaving, chicken keeping is the UK's fastest-growing hobby and for many self-sufficiency is no longer a pipe dream - 2008/09/12: TC: Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation by O. Magand et al.
- 2008/09/: BioScience: Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle by Edward A. G. Schuur et al.
- 2008/09/08: TCD: Measured and modelled sublimation on the tropical Glaciar Artesonraju, Perú by M. Winkler et al.
- 2008/09/11: Nature: [$Letter] Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks by Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.
- 2008/09/11: Atmoz: 42 USC 8911: Comprehensive study of projected impact on atmospheric levels of fossil fuel combustion, etc.
- 2008/09/10: ACP: Statistical estimation of stratospheric particle size distribution by combining optical modelling and lidar scattering measurements by J. Jumelet et al.
- 2008/09/09: PNAS: Bergmann's rule and climate change revisited: Disentangling environmental and genetic responses in a wild bird population by Céline Teplitsky et al.
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
- 2008/09/11: NatureN: Africa's climate tied to northern hemisphere -- Ocean temperatures seem to control rainfall in tropical Africa
- 2008/09/11: MongaBay: Study confirms strong link between CO2 and climate over 70,000 years
- 2008/09/11: PhysOrg: Research team proposes new link to tropical African climate
- 2008/09/11: PhysOrg: Ice core studies confirm accuracy of climate models
An analysis has been completed of the global carbon cycle and climate for a 70,000 year period in the most recent Ice Age, showing a remarkable correlation between carbon dioxide levels and surprisingly abrupt changes in climate. - 2008/09/11: Eureka: Ice core studies confirm accuracy of climate models
- 2008/09/09: ENN: New spin on ocean's role
- 2008/09/09: Eureka: Climate: New spin on ocean's role [Southern Ocean gyres]
- 2008/09/08: NOAANews: Department of Energy to Provide Supercomputing Time to Run NOAA's Climate Change Models
- 2008/09/04: NSF: Climate Computer Modeling Heats Up -- New "petascale" computer models lead to better understanding of weather-climate links
On the Kyoto-2 front:
- 2008/09/09: Donga: `Korea Not to Be Subject to CO2 Emission Limits`
- 2008/09/08: Maribo: Is international climate policy a failure?
As for the UN:
- 2008/09/11: EnvFin: Copenhagen 'most important meeting since WWII' -- Stern
The UN climate change meeting to be held in Copenhagen next year is the "most important gathering since the Second World War", according to Nicholas Stern, author of the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change. Progress at the climate talks, Stern said, will depend on rapid progress in domestic US climate change legislation, and the response from China. And he warned that failure to reach agreement in Copenhagen would "badly damage" the carbon markets. The UN climate talks to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009 will mark the culmination of two years of international talks to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012. Progress in the negotiations -- the latest round of which were held in Accra last month - has been painfully slow, raising questions over the future of the international climate regime, and the global carbon markets. - 2008/09/11: NatureCF: IPCC elections
On the carbon trading front:
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Britain's worst polluters set for windfall of millions
A flagship European scheme designed to fight global warming is set to benefit companies in almost all sectors of the British economy, a Guardian investigation has revealed - 2008/09/13: inel: Guardian investigation reveals how ETS benefits UK's worst carbon emitters
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Sandbagged: Dealing a blow to carbon trading -- Bryony Worthington, who has lived and breathed emissions trading every day for the past decade, has had enough.
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Q&A: The European emissions trading scheme -- What the ETS is and why it doesn't work, yet
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): A permit to print money
Far from incentivising emissions cuts, the EU's carbon trading scheme provides a grotesque subsidy for the biggest polluters - 2008/09/10: C411: 11 Carbon Offsets You Can Trust
- 2008/09/10: TreeHugger: Confused Which Carbon Offset Service to Use? EDF Lists Eleven They Trust
- 2008/09/08: IndiaTimes: India will avoid 5mn tonnes of CO2 by 2012
[...] Through carbon trading projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be avoided by 2012 -- cutting back 10% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions every year - 2008/09/04: Sightline: The Fate of BC's Carbon Tax -- What Canada's tax shift means for the U.S.
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:
- 2008/09/08: EnergyBulletin: Cap-and-trade vs. carbon tax: formulating an effective carbon accounting system
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Personal carbon trading is not as simple as swiping an Oyster card
Defra's study concluded that there are more cost-effective forms of emissions trading... - 2008/09/10: ClimateP: The moving Fingar writes: Reduced Dominance Is Predicted for U.S
- 2008/09/09: EurActiv: EU, Africa unveil 'ambitious' energy partnership
As for GW & security:
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Global warming threatens Asia-Pacific security, warns Australian PM
- 2008/09/10: DotEarth: Spy Agencies to Warn New President of Warming's Dangers
And on the American political front:
- 2008/09/12: Reuters: Renewable, efficient energy touted to US lawmakers
- 2008/09/12: ClimateP: Gang-of-10, Part 5, the bill's full text
- 2008/09/12: GristMill: Ready, aim ... WRI updates chart of greenhouse gas targets in 110th Congress
- 2008/09/12: HillHeat: Gang of Ten Reveals Legislation
- 2008/09/12: TreeHugger: Graphic Of The Day: US Federal Energy Subsidies And Support, Fiscal Year 2007
- 2008/09/12: WSJ:EnvCap: Industry to Congress: Renew the Expiring Clean-Energy Credits
- 2008/09/11: GristMill: Power to the pupil -- Power Vote plans to mobilize 1 million young adults to vote on climate change
- 2008/09/10: GristMill: Cheap drills -- Energy set to ignite the Hill for the next three weeks
- 2008/09/11: HillHeat: House Energy Bill On Tap
- 2008/09/11: WaPo: Reimagining Energy
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): US election: Climate scientist aims to get 1m students to vote on presidential candidates' green energy records
- 2008/09/10: ClimateP: California targets sprawl to reduce CO2
- 2008/09/09: ClimateP: House Dems plan vote on offshore drilling, renewables bill this week
- 2008/09/10: NewScientist: $100 billion could yield two million 'green' jobs
- 2008/09/10: GristMill: Can Massey break the law with impunity? Coal vs. wind showdown in West Virginia today
- 2008/09/10: HillHeat: New Report: Stimulus Plan For 2 Million Green Jobs In Two Years
- 2008/09/09: RPI: Leadership for a Comprehensive Energy Roadmap: The First 100 Days
- 2008/09/09: ClimateP: MN GOP candidate and grape-loving denier Barb White responds, sort of
- 2008/09/09: GristMill: You know the drill -- Congress goes back to work on energy
- 2008/09/08: Rabble: Tar sands lobbyists focus on Democrats
- 2008/09/09: DymaxionWorld: Terrifying
David Letterman is about as pessimistic as I am about climate change. But what's terrifying is the crowd's reaction. They think this is just Dave doing a bit... - 2008/09/08: GristMill: A drill stone around the neck -- Where energy/environment issues stand in the Republican Party
- 2008/09/08: BSD: Full remarks of Republican National Convention speakers on climate change
One hears a lot about the campaigns, not so much about their climate & energy policies:
- 2008/09/11: MatterNet: McCain's 50 Votes Against Clean Energy
- 2008/09/11: BSD: More McCain campaign backing away from cap-and-trade
- 2008/09/12: HuffPo: Obama and McCain: Silent on Climate Change
- 2008/09/12: CTB: Climate Change Policy Thoughts, McCain, Palin, Obama, Et al
- 2008/09/12: McClatchyDC: No wonder Gibson was confused by Palin's answer on global warming
- 2008/09/13: Guardian(UK): Palin under fire after grudging U-turn on global warming
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Palin reverses position on climate change
- 2008/09/12: ClimateP: Must see ad: Palin "champions ... savagery"
- 2008/09/11: ClimateP: McCain nuclear energy revival may cost $315 billion, with taxpayers' risking over $100B [nukes & 2008]
- 2008/09/12: GristMill: Defenders take offense -- Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund endorses Obama-Biden ticket
- 2008/09/12: GristMill: Palin v. Palin -- McCain's running mate has offered mixed message on climate change
- 2008/09/12: GristMill: 'Potentially causing some of the changes' -- Palin parries with Charles Gibson on climate change
- 2008/09/12: HillHeat: The Eight Missed Votes -- McCain's record on extending renewable energy production and investment tax credits
- 2008/09/12: Maribo: Regardless of the reason for climate change
- 2008/09/12: ThinkP: ABC fact-checks Palin's false claim that she never denied global warming was 'man-made.'
- 2008/09/11: ClimateP: McCain tells the mother of all lies about the soccer mom
- 2008/09/11: GristMill: A climate change we can disbelieve in -- Sarah Palin's record on climate change
- 2008/09/11: GristMill: McCain on Palin: Epic fail -- She knows 'more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America'
- 2008/09/10: GristMill: Putting science back in the White House -- New Scientist assesses McCain and Obama on science issues
- 2008/09/10: ClimateP: Slick Sarah, the make-believe maverick
- 2008/09/10: GristMill: Transportation stuff
- 2008/09/10: GristMill: Palin and renewables -- McCain's VP pick has a mixed record on supporting renewables in home state
- 2008/09/10: ENN: Sarah Palin's Record on Climate Change
- 2008/09/10: TP:WonkRoom: McCain Surrogate Tim Pawlenty: Human Impact On Global Warming 'Half A Percent'
- 2008/09/09: ClimateP: Truth, Baby, Truth!
- 2008/09/09: ClimateP: Turns out McCain doesn't care about global warming, the greatest threat we face
- 2008/09/08: NGE: What does Obama really think about energy?
- 2008/09/08: ThinkP: McCain campaign belittles climate crisis: Running mates won't 'agree on every single issue.'
The drilling non-issue is being played for all it's worth:
- 2008/09/13: ThinkP: No Energy Expert At Senate Hearing Willing To Say That Oil Drilling Is America's Most Important Issue
- 2008/09/11: C411: Why Drilling in Alaska's ANWR Is a Bad Idea
- 2008/09/11: GristMill: Drill here, drill now -- A pipe dream
- 2008/09/11: TP:WonkRoom: Exposing The Big Oil Lie: 'Drill, Baby, Drill'
- 2008/09/11: TP:WonkRoom: The Drill, Baby, Drill Scandal
Evangelicals, well some of them, are speaking up:
- 2008/09/11: CS Indy: Thou shalt go green -- Rev. Richard Cizik brings his bold 'creation care' message to Colorado Springs
While in the UK:
- 2008/09/11: Guardian(UK): So much hot air
The PM trumpets his energy deal, yet power firms have escaped a windfall tax for a piffling investment in low-carbon homes - 2008/09/11: JEB: Hooray for Gordon [UK pol]
- 2008/09/11: inel: [UK Secretary of State, John] Hutton announces new Office for Renewable Energy Deployment
- 2008/09/11: BBC: Brown unveils £910m fuel measures
Gordon Brown has agreed a £910m package of measures with the big energy companies aimed at helping people with soaring gas and electricity bills - 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Parties 'retreating on the environment', say green campaigners
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Yes, do lag your loft -- The government should be congratulated for choosing energy efficiency rather than a windfall tax
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Meathead mayor -- We could slash our CO2 emissions if we ate less meat. What a pity Boris Johnson isn't getting the message
- 2008/09/10: BBC: Parties 'fail on climate change'
The UK's leading environmental campaign groups have accused the main political parties of failing to prepare for the challenges of climate change. The coalition of nine organisations says Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have switched focus from the green agenda to the economy. - 2008/09/09: Guardian(UK): One nation under water
The rain keeps falling, so why aren't developers or the government preparing for our flooded future? - 2008/09/11: PRWatch: Rebuff for Coal Power Giant [Kingsnorth]
- 2008/09/11: Guardian(UK): Policy, not protesters, should be on trial - Unlike the jury in Maidstone, policy-makers seem unable to grasp that unabated coal burning will lead to climate disaster
- 2008/09/11: Guardian(UK): Kingsnorth on Kingsnorth
Sharing my name with a power station is no source of pride now the link between coal and climate change is clearer than ever - 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Climb every chimney ...
The 'Kingsnorth Six' admitted causing £30,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station - yet a jury still refused to find them guilty. The verdict has left the government's energy plans in the balance, says John Vidal, and given a huge boost to climate change protesters - 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Beyond all reasonable doubt
Each had a job to do, and each did it to perfection. The four key witnesses chosen by Greenpeace to speak in its defence at the Kingsnorth trial were crucial to the environmental group's acquittal. They were chosen not only to "push all the right buttons" with the court, but to answer the very specific questions the judge would ask the jury to answer, says Ben Stewart, Greenpeace's communications director and a defendant in the case. "We wanted a not guilty verdict, but we also wanted to put the government's policy on coal in the dock." - 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): 'If I was E.ON or owned an airport, I'd be very, very worried'
- 2008/09/11: NatureCF: Shock climate change verdict acquits Hansen's heroes
- 2008/09/11: ClimateP: Cool Britannia: Climate change is "lawful excuse" to damage coal plant (with Hansen comments)
- 2008/09/11: GristMill: Trumping old King Coal -- Kingsnorth six aqcuitted in U.K. for coal-plant protest and vandalism [by Dr. James Hansen]
- 2008/09/10: inel: James Hansen: In Defence of the Kingsnorth Six
- 2008/09/10: inel: Greenpeace news: Kingsnorth Six found Not Guilty!
- 2008/09/11: OilChange: Jury: Its OK to break the law to combat climate change
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Kingsnorth trial: Coal protesters cleared of criminal damage to chimney
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Green activists on trial: Previous victories
- 2008/09/11: Guardian(UK): Not guilty: the Greenpeace activists who used climate change as a legal defence
And in Europe:
- 2008/09/12: Guardian(UK): Britain's worst polluters set for windfall of millions
A flagship European scheme designed to fight global warming is set to benefit companies in almost all sectors of the British economy, a Guardian investigation has revealed - 2008/09/11: EnvFin: Europe votes for binding renewable energy targets
- 2008/09/12: EurActiv: MEPs give major boost to renewables industry
The Parliament's Industry Committee has almost unanimously backed EU legislation that paves the way for massive investment in renewables. EU countries are set to back the main elements of the vote, according to Green MEP Claude Turmes, who shepherded the file through Parliament. On 23 January, the Commission put forward proposals designed to boost renewable energy use to 20% by 2020. The plans include individual targets to be achieved by member states, with indicative interim goals to point the way. In its initial proposal, the Commission wanted to encourage the creation of an EU-wide system of trading in virtual guarantees of origin certificates for renewable energy. But these plans were scuppered under pressure from industry and key member states, who complained that such a system would undermine their national renewable energy support schemes. "This is a great day" for renewable energies in Europe, said an emotional and overjoyed Turmes following the committee's vote in Brussels yesterday (11 September). - 2008/09/12: EurActiv: MEPs want clarity on rules for big emitters
- 2008/09/12: EurActiv: Biofuel-makers denounce target downgrade
- 2008/09/12: EUO: MEPs' biofuel vote could bring production to 'standstill'
- 2008/09/12: EUO: Europeans worry but do little about climate change
- 2008/09/12: PlanetArk: Europeans Drag Feet on Tackling Climate Change - Poll
A clear majority of Europeans see climate change as one of the most serious challenges facing the world, but have not changed their personal behaviour to tackle it, a poll showed on Thursday - 2008/09/11: BBC: European Union lawmakers have voted to set a limit on targets to increase the use of road transport biofuels
- 2008/09/11: EurActiv: Forests 'forgotten' in EU climate policy, MEPs warn
- 2008/09/11: PlanetArk: EU Lawmaker Demands Shipping Included in CO2 Caps
A key lawmaker steering reform of the European Union's Emission Trading Scheme through the European Parliament said on Wednesday she had proposed to include the shipping sector in the scheme from 2013 - 2008/09/11: Guardian(UK): EU eyes lower biofuel goal, Malaysia warns unfair
- 2008/09/11: NewScientist: Europe backs downs on biofuels from crops
- 2008/09/11: Yahoo: Most Europeans 'very concerned' by climate change: EU survey
- 2008/09/10: EurActiv: EU could halt energy demand growth, says study
Sweeping improvements in the energy productivity of Europe's economies could prevent the runaway energy demand and consumption currently threatening to undermine the EU's economic growth, says a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) - 2008/09/09: Reuters: Poland says EU climate deal may be delayed
- 2008/09/10: NatureN: Europe's energy funding 'unbalanced' -- International Energy Agency calls for more funds for non-nuclear technologies in Europe.
Meanwhile in Australia:
- 2008/09/13: ABC(Au): The Federal Government has put forward eight possible measures to reduce carbon emissions from Australian cars
- 2008/09/12: ABC(Au): The Tasmanian Government is seeking tenders for companies to identify areas where carbon emissions can be reduced
- 2008/09/12: ABC(Au): Bluescope [Steel co.] wants level playing field on carbon emissions
The head of Australia's biggest steel firm says the introduction of an emissions trading scheme is the most important public policy issue facing the steel industry. Bluescope Steel is one of Australia's biggest polluters, producing about 2 per cent of the country's emissions. The company says it is currently impossible to make steel without producing carbon pollution. It wants free permits to produce emissions under the trading scheme until a global agreement on emissions is reached. - 2008/09/12: ABC(Au): Vic Govt urged to shift state's food bowl
The Victorian Government is being asked to radically rethink the state's agricultural production and shift the bulk of it from the west to east. A submission for the inquiry into future water needs suggests climate change will make western Victoria too dry to continue acting as the state's food bowl and says the Gippsland region should take over responsibility in all future government thinking - 2008/09/11: ABC(Au): Govt to fund Indigenous community climate change study
- 2008/09/11: ABC(Au): Govt urged to back agriculture carbon storage technologies
- 2008/09/10: ABC(Au): [Queensland Premier Anna] Bligh wants changes to Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The Queensland Government is calling for changes to the Commonwealth's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - 2008/09/10: ABC(Au): Tasmania to benefit from climate change research
- 2008/09/10: ABC(Au): Planned wind turbine numbers halved
Energy company Pacific Hydro hopes to halve the number of wind turbines it is building in south-western Victoria because of improvements to the technology. Pacific Hydro received State Government approval five years ago to build 58 turbines near Portland as part of a project worth tens of millions of dollars. Pacific Hydro's Emily Wood says recent improvements in wind turbine technology mean only 27 turbines will be needed to generate the same amount of power... - 2008/09/09: ABC(Au): Greens suggest greenhouse levy
The Greens say a levy of $25 a year on ratepayers would help New South Wales north coast councils reduce greenhouse gas emissions. - 2008/09/09: ABC(Au): Greens 'astounded' CSIRO not involved in Murray rescue plan
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says she cannot understand why the Federal Government has not asked the CSIRO to provide advice on ways to save the lower reaches of the Murray. CSIRO scientists appearing at a parliamentary inquiry say they have not been asked to do modelling on the transfer of water to the Coorong and the lower lakes at the river's mouth. - 2008/09/09: ABC(Au): Green group rallies PM on forest protection
Environmentalists are demanding the Prime Minister take notice of scientific evidence that protecting forests is a way to tackle climate change. - 2008/09/08: ABC(Au): Council seeks carbon emission target help
The Sunshine Coast Regional Council says it supports the Federal Government's green paper on carbon emissions trading, but it wants help to meet targets. - 2008/09/08: ABC(Au): Native plants under threat
The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens says climate change is starting to take its toll on the state's native flora. - 2008/09/09: ABC(Au): Consumers unwilling to pay for green energy: survey
A survey has found consumers are deeply concerned about the environment, but many are unwilling to pay the higher costs that would accompany an emissions trading scheme. The Sensis survey of 1,500 consumers found the environment was the top issue they would address if they were prime minister. But more than half surveyed said they would not be prepared to pay more for energy under an emissions trading scheme. - 2008/09/10: PeakEnergy: Gittins On Garnaut
- 2008/09/11: PeakEnergy: Kohler On Garnaut
- 2008/09/11: SMH: Garnaut turns heat on critics
The Rudd Government's adviser on climate change, Ross Garnaut, has hit back at his critics and written to scientists and leaders of environment groups rejecting their claims that his latest report is weak and pessimistic. United Nations scientific advisers and the heads of WWF, the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Climate Institute confirmed that Professor Garnaut had written lengthy letters to them on Tuesday. In them, he strenuously defended his advice that the world is not yet ready to sign an agreement that will avoid the risk of catastrophic climate change. He maintains it is accurate and realistic. Professor Garnaut unleashed a storm of criticism last week when the latest report from his Climate Change Review argued that Australia should support a new global climate agreement in 2009 that aimed to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at the dangerous level of 550 ppm (parts per million). - 2008/09/10: News(Au): Rudd defends Garnaut in 'argy bargy'
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended his Government's climate change adviser against a scathing critique by scientists, saying such "argy bargy" is to be expected. Three Australian authors with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Bill Hare, David Karoly and Amanda Lynch - say adopting Professor Ross Garnaut's advice would all but guarantee environmental and social disaster. Prof Garnaut's latest report, released last week, recommends the nation cut its emissions by 10 per cent by 2020. The authors say his findings are inconsistent, disappointing and wrong. They argue for a 25 to 40 per cent cut. - 2008/09/10: SMH: Time to aim high on climate change
The latest report on climate change by the economics professor Ross Garnaut is the most disheartening government report I've read. It tells us how hugely destructive climate change is likely to be, but doubts that the world's governments will be able to agree on effective action to halt it. Now you know why economics is called the dismal science. Garnaut quotes an authoritative American study of the consequences if nothing is done to fight climate change and average temperatures rise by 5 or 6 degrees by the end of this century. Such a change would be "catastrophic", posing "almost inconceivable challenges as human society struggled to adapt". "The collapse and chaos associated with extreme climate change futures would destabilise virtually every aspect of modern life," the study concluded. - 2008/09/09: ABC(Au): Garnaut too soft on emissions target: expert
A leading Australian climate scientist says the greenhouse gas reduction targets proposed by the Government's climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut are too weak. David Karoly is a Professor of Meteorology at Melbourne University and was a lead author on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth report. He says Professor Garnaut's proposed emissions cuts of 10 per cent by 2020 is not enough to minimise the dangerous effects of climate change on Australia and the rest of the world. - 2008/09/09: ABC(Au): Rudd unconcerned by Garnaut report criticism
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he is not surprised by criticism of Ross Garnaut's proposed emissions reduction targets. - 2008/09/09: ENN: Australian carbon targets seen too weak
And in New Zealand:
- 2008/09/10: BBerg: New Zealand Parliament Passes Law to Curb Greenhouse Gases [NZ-ETS]
New Zealand's parliament passed an emissions trading law, aimed at reducing greenhouse gases blamed for climate change - 2008/09/11: NatureN: Bangladesh launches climate change action plan -- Billions still needed to finance initiatives
- 2008/09/10: Guardian(UK): Extreme measures
Bangladesh, no stranger to natural disasters, is also on the frontline when it comes to climate change. Now the UK is putting in £75m to help beleaguered communities adapt and survive - 2008/09/08: Guardian(UK): UK gives £50m to Bangladesh climate change fund
And in China:
- 2008/09/09: People's Daily: China pioneers in renewable energy
While in Japan:
- 2008/09/08: Mainichi: Home greenhouse gas reductions eyed in CO2 emission trading system [J-ETS]
In Canada, it's all election, all the time:
- 2008/09/13: AS: Secret Report: Carbon Tax with Income Tax Cut Will Improve GDP
- 2008/09/14: CanWest: [Vancouver-Centre Tory candidate, Lorne] Mayencourt supports, opposes tax -- Conservative candidate says provincial levy differs from Dion's
- 2008/09/14: WpgFP: Grits should fear B.C.'s carbon-tax uneasiness
- 2008/09/10: CarbonFinance: Cap-and-trade, carbon tax at heart of Canadian election
- 2008/09/13: OttawaSun: PM dodging own carbon report: [Green Leader, Elizabeth] May
- 2008/09/13: CanWest: Climate-change policies are both flawed
- 2008/09/12: GAB: Global Warming for Dummies(Conservatives)
- 2008/09/12: GAB: Harper's own government study supports carbon tax
- 2008/09/12: CanWest: Climatologist aims political shots at Tories with new book
When Environment Canada scientists were ordered to refer all media calls to Ottawa earlier this year, climatologist Andrew Weaver denounced the Harper government for "muzzling" federal researchers. After the Conservatives announced "aspirational" targets for reducing Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, the University of Victoria researcher said he could see no scientific rationale for the numbers. Now the colourful and outspoken academic has a new book, Keeping Our Cool, Canada in a Warming World, coincidentally published by Viking Canada the same week Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the election. It is getting high praise in some quarters, but it is not likely to win Mr. Weaver many friends on the Conservative campaign plane. - 2008/09/12: CanWest: Harper trying to 'change channel' on climate issues -- Layton also attacks Dion's stance on environment
- 2008/09/12: NatPo: Carbon taxes reap mixed results in Scandinavia
- 2008/09/12: G&M: Dion's green plan would 'wreak havoc' -- In his sharpest attack yet, Harper says the Liberal environmental platform would destroy jobs and undermine national unity.
- 2008/09/11: Maribo: Climate and the Election (II)
- 2008/09/10: DeSmogBlog: Harper vs. The Warming World
- 2008/09/09: DeSmogBlog: Diesel Cuts Bad for Economy (and Planet) [Can pol]
- 2008/09/11: CPS: Harper sees threats from Green Shift plan
- 2008/09/11: G&M: Green Shift touted as both saviour and damnation
- 2008/09/11: CBC: Dion's Green Shift threatens national unity: Harper
- 2008/09/11: CTV: Dion's carbon-tax will bring recession: Harper
- 2008/09/10: CanWest: Harper's vision fails to protect Arctic: experts
Polar experts attending a UN-sponsored conference in Iceland launched a push yesterday to protect the Arctic from environmental devastation -- possibly through an international treaty that could challenge Prime Minister Stephen Harper's vision of the region as a treasure chest of resources. Earlier this year at a summit in Greenland, Canada, Russia, Norway, the U.S. and host Denmark signed the Ilullisat Declaration, vowing to balance economic and ecological interests in the Arctic, but rejecting the need for a UN-backed international treaty -- similar to one that protects Antarctica -- to govern the Arctic. Delegates gathering this week in Iceland, however, expressed doubt that the five nations with Arctic Ocean coastlines -- and the most to gain from future Arctic oil drilling -- would serve adequately as guardians of the northern polar region, widely seen by scientists as a crucial component of planetwide climate, ocean and biological systems. - 2008/09/10: G&M: Ethanol industry's publicity campaign 'completely inappropriate'
Renewable fuels association denies partisan slant to ads that praise Conservative government's leadership - 2008/09/10: TStar: Excise tax cuts won't fuel climate change, Harper says
- 2008/09/09: OttawaSun: It's the environment, stupid
The shame is that this election will not be about the environment or the Liberal plan for a carbon tax. The irony is a carbon tax is inevitable. As always when times are tougher, the health of the economy takes precedence over the health of the planet. Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has already muddled the party's central platform, the so-called Green Shift plan... - 2008/09/10: TStar: Moving Green Shift into high gear -- If Dion wants to sell his carbon tax plan, he needs a message that is as bold as his party platform
- 2008/09/08: DeSmogBlog: Polar Bear Army Deployed for Canadian Election
- 2008/09/08: CBC: NDP leader calls for oilsands halt until environment concerns met
- 2008/09/09: CanWest: 'Green Shift' trademark fight settled, Liberals say -- 'We have a deal,' spokesman says; owner not so sure
- 2008/09/07: Maribo: Climate and the election (I)
We are, at least, finally fighting an election about how to address climate change and future energy needs. This should have happened many cycles ago - 2008/09/08: CTV: Harper calls Liberal [Green Shift] policies 'untested schemes'
- 2008/09/08: CanWest: Dion's 'green' folly an opportunity for Harper [by Hugh Segal]
A kafuffle over allowing the Greens into the televised debates blew up:
- 2008/09/11: CBC: Green leader allowed into debates, networks confirm
- 2008/09/11: NatPo: Elizabeth May gets her chance
- 2008/09/10: ChronicleHerald: Censoring the Greens
According to the latest Decima poll, that's roughly the number of people -- nine per cent of the more than 23 million Canadian voters -- who now support the Green Party of Canada. Even if one uses the ballot counts from the last election in 2006, when the Greens gained more than 650,000 votes, there's no question a substantial and -- according to the polls -- growing number of Canadians now favour the Green party in the upcoming vote. Yet, say the networks planning the national televised leaders debates on Oct. 1 and 2, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is not invited to take part. Why not? - 2008/09/09: CBC: 4 former PMs join call for climate change action
- 2008/09/09: CanWest: Ex-PMs clear the air on climate change
Want steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Non-partisan group appears clearly dissatisfied with the Conservative government's performance Four former prime ministers - Kim Campbell, Paul Martin, Joe Clark and John Turner - and leaders in academia, science, business and the environment have united to demand the federal government do much more to deal with climate change. The diverse group, which also includes students, steelworkers and authors, is expected to make public a statement in Toronto today calling for "steep cuts" in Canadian greenhouse gas emissions and deployment of "climate-safe technologies at a staggering rate." While the group claims to be non-partisan, it is clearly dissatisfied with the Conservative government's performance on what many consider the most pressing issue facing the planet. - 2008/09/11: BCLocalNews: Cities 'in the dark' on transit plans
Just tell us what the plan is. That's the message Metro Vancouver mayors are sending the provincial government as they struggle to plan their cities around future transit lines that have been promised but are shrouded in uncertainty. - 2008/09/10: Tyee: Carbon tax could be axed for good
The coming federal and B.C. elections could have an impact far beyond our borders, a Vancouver economist says. "If both the federal and B.C. Liberals lose elections on the basis of the carbon tax, it would take carbon taxes off the table for all of North America, potentially forever," said Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. - 2008/09/10: CanWest: Future sunny for solar power in B.C. -- Trial project lighting up Anmore puts green energy on the grid
[...] Day4Energy, a Burnaby-based manufacturer that is cranking out solar panels at a frantic pace. All of the company's output is fully booked through July 2009, even taking into account a planned doubling of manufacturing capacity in the near future. - 2008/09/09: G&M: Harper hits B.C. Premier over carbon tax
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper indirectly attacked B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's credibility Monday during a federal election campaign stop in the Lower Mainland where he lambasted carbon taxes as revenue grabs in disguise. He said that B.C. families are paying more to Victoria through the provincial carbon tax than is being rebated to them --- a statement that challenges Mr. Campbell's pledge that the levy will be "revenue neutral." The Tory Leader also said nobody should believe politicians who say their new taxes are not bids to raise more revenue. - 2008/09/11: RReich: Global Warming, Retiring Boomers, and Who's to Pay the Damages?
- 2008/09/05: Repec: A Comparison of the Limits to Growth with Thirty Years of Reality
As for how the media handles the science of climatology:
- 2008/09/08: ClimateP: NYT editors confused about Arctic warming
Here is something for your library:
- 2008/09/13: ClimateP: Confusing Future Presidents, Part 1 [Book Putdown]
- 2008/09/14: ClimateP: Confusing Future Presidents, Part 2
- 2008/09/12: TerraDaily: New Book Examines Upper US Gulf Coast Climate Change And Sea-Level Rise
Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:
- 2008/09/13: GristMill: Did the Saudis do it again? The oil market can't save us from climate change
- 2008/09/13: PeakEnergy: Geothermal Power In Greece
- 2008/09/13: OilDrum: Implications of a Ten Day Refinery Outage
- 2008/09/13: GEA: Gasoline Shortages And Higher Prices Likely Headed Your Way
- 2008/09/12: CleanBreak: Geothermal power at least on radar in Canada...
- 2008/09/12: EnergyDaily: Raser [Technologies] Wins West Java Geothermal Development Concession
- 2008/09/12: TreeHugger: And the Winner Is...Ormat Buys Geothermal Exploration Rights on Alaskan Volcano
- 2008/09/12: NEN: Utility buying more wind, thank the RES [Renewable Electricity Standard]
- 2008/09/12: CBC: Ike drives gas prices, but oil only inches ahead
- 2008/09/12: BBerg: U.S. Refiners Accelerate Closings as Ike Strengthens
- 2008/09/11: GristMill: The (renewable) electron economy, part 11 -- So how much do renewables cost anyway?
- 2008/09/11: NEN: New ideas in new energy
- 2008/09/11: WSJ:EnvCap: Hurricane Ike: Oil Keeps Falling, But Gasoline Jumps
- 2008/09/10: CBC: IEA cuts oil forecast for developed world
- 2008/09/10: PhysOrg: Oxford turbines to harvest energy from tides
Oxford researchers have developed a new tidal turbine which has the potential to harness tidal energy more efficiently and cheaply, using a device which is simpler and more robust and scaleable than current designs. - 2008/09/10: GristMill: The (renewable) electron economy, part 10 -- Renewables and the 'Cheap Energy Contract'
- 2008/09/10: AP: OPEC decides to curb overall output; prices rise
- 2008/09/10: SciDaily: Manure 'Smells Like Money' As Energy Costs Rise
- 2008/09/10: NGE: Geothermal. That's Hot.
- 2008/09/09: MacroBlog: Hurricanes put energy on center stage
- 2008/09/09: CalcRisk: $100 Oil
- 2008/09/09: TreeHugger: 60% of US Wind Turbines Behind on Maintenance, Not Enough Technicians to Do the Work
- 2008/09/09: NEN: Top scientist notes big good, big bad in the Pickens plan
- 2008/09/08: NEN: Turbine market will keep booming
As for the impacts of high energy costs:
- 2008/09/11: Google:UKPress: Energy cost 'pushing 10% into debt'
- 2008/09/09: BBC: Power bills 'bad news' warning
Consumers face "appalling news" when increases in electricity and gas prices are announced on Wednesday, Northern Ireland's utility regulator has warned - 2008/09/08: BBC: One in four 'facing fuel poverty' - Almost a quarter of the population will be pushed into fuel poverty by the end of next year, a report has suggested
Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:
- 2008/09/11: TreeHugger: Six New Solar Power Plant Plans Pulverize Old Records
- 2008/09/11: CanWest: B.C. village [Anmore] saves with solar -- Refurbished former home of Ma Murray powered for free, thanks to the sun
- 2008/09/09: SpaceRef: Space-Based Solar Power Breakthrough to Be Announced
- 2008/09/09: TreeHugger: Concentrator-Solar Photovoltaic Power at a Quarter the Cost: Morgan Solar Sun Simba HCPV
The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:
- 2008/09/12: PhysOrg: Curbing coal emissions alone might avert climate danger, say researchers
- 2008/09/10: TP:WonkRoom: Coal Crimes: Saving The Planet Or Blowing It Up
- 2008/09/09: inel: No new coal unless its carbon is captured. The domino effect.
- 2008/09/08: NEN: 'Clean' Coal -- Experiment, Hope or Lie?
Biofuel bickering abounds:
- 2008/09/12: Maribo: Biofuels losing luster?
- 2008/09/12: SciDaily: Genetically Engineered Thermophilic Bacterium: Researchers Advance Cellulosic Ethanol Production
- 2008/09/11: NatureN: From fibre to fuel in a flash -- Chemists convert cellulose to potential biofuel without enzymes
- 2008/09/09: NewScientist: New bug ferments green fuel on the cheap
- 2008/09/08: PhysOrg: Researchers advance cellulosic ethanol production
The nuclear energy controversy continues:
- 2008/09/13: Xinhuanet: Brazil plans to build 50 more nuclear power plants
- 2008/09/11: UN: UN agency [IAEA] predicts continued expansion of nuclear power in coming decades
- 2008/09/11: EnergyDaily: Russia To Build Baltic Nuclear Power Plant
Yes we have a peak oil sighting:
- 2008/09/10: GristMill: McLovins -- [Amory] Lovins predicts the coming oil price crash won't be like the last one
- 2008/09/10: NASA: NASA Study Illustrates How Global Peak Oil Could Impact Climate
- 2008/09/10: Eureka: NASA study illustrates how global peak oil could impact climate
- 2008/06/14: darkOptimism: Focus on Climate Change and ignore Peak Oil? Not good enough.
- 2008/09/08: PostCarbon: Is Peak Oil "A Misleading Concept?"
And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:
- 2008/09/04: Economist: The frugal cornucopian -- Amory Lovins began making the case for resource efficiency decades ago, long before it became fashionable. Now things are going his way
- 2008/09/08: ClimateP: Energy efficiency, Part 5: The highest documented rate of return of any federal program
Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:
- 2008/09/11: AfterGutenberg: Finally! Electric Motorcycles from Honda and Yamaha
- 2008/09/12: ClimateP: "The car of the perpetual future" -- The Economist agrees with Climate Progress on hydrogen
- 2008/09/12: TreeHugger: Can UK's Grid Support An All Electric Car Fleet?
- 2008/09/11: BBC: Plug-in hybrid boosts electric motoring
Toyota has launched trials of the UK's first petrol-electric hybrid car that can also be plugged into the mains. Soon drivers should be able to chose between the petrol pump and the electric socket to power one and the same car - 2008/09/10: PhysOrg: 100-mpg plug-in hybrids popping up in US
Although many people would like to drive more fuel-efficient vehicles, most of us have to wait for the large vehicle manufacturers to mass-produce affordable cars that run on alternative power. In the meantime, a handful of smaller companies have begun taking the energy crisis into their own hands. By retrofitting hybrids like the Toyota Prius with a second battery pack, they´re converting these cars into hybrid plug-ins that can recharge from a wall outlet and drive a short commute on all electric power. - 2008/09/09: AutoBG: NYC gets hit with lawsuit over "unsafe" hybrid taxis
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
- 2008/09/11: Reuters: Investors urge mandatory reporting of oil emissions impact
Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:
- 2008/09/11: Guardian(UK): MTV ad attacks 'greenwash' firms
- 2008/09/10: SF Gate: Evil: It's the new good! Shut up and drink your high fructose corn syrup, sucker
- 2008/09/08: EurActiv: UK ruling may set green advertising standard
Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
- 2008/09/08: SwissInfo: Natural catastrophes hit the insurance sector
The world's largest reinsurance company, Swiss, Re, says the insurance branch will probably have to pay much more for natural catastrophes this year than in 2007. The company said at a meeting in Monte Carlo on Monday that insured losses for the first eight months of the year were 20 per cent up on the same period last year. It added that the 2008 figures confirmed a long-term trend towards higher natural catastrophe claims. - 2008/09/13: ClimateP: Gregg Easterbrook still knows nothing about global warming -- and less about clean energy
- 2008/09/11: PRWatch: A Climate Change Skeptic and His Supporters [Sammy Wilson, the Northern Ireland Minister for Environment]
- 2008/09/12: Stoat: Iain Stewart is -ahem- wrong about global cooling
- 2008/09/09: ERabett: Survival Blanket
- 2008/09/08: DeSmogBlog: Oreskes Chronicles Birth of Climate Change Denial
- 2008/09/09: USAToday: Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway
- 2008/09/08: Atmoz: Instrument Error in the Global Mean Temperature Anomaly
- 2008/09/09: Deltoid: The Australian's War on Science XIX
- 2008/09/07: WAH-RC: Khilyuk and Chilingar
- WAH-RC: Reality Check -- How to distinguish reality from propaganda and delusion
- 2008/09/07: ERabett: Rabett Reads -- Interesting things are happening out there...
Coby is updating his How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic series:
- AFTIC: [H2T2aCS] How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic
- 2008/09/12: Ph&Ph: Greenhouse Theory Violates the Laws of Thermodynamics? NOT!
- 2008/09/12: GristMill: [H2T2aCS] Greenhouse theory violates the laws of thermodynamics
- 2008/09/11: AFTIC: [H2T2ACS] Greenhouse theory violates the laws of thermodynamics
- 2008/09/08: AFTIC: [H2T2ACS] Temperatures plummeted in 2008
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
- 2008/09/13: WorldChanging: Waiting for the Whirlwind
- 2008/09/12: McClatchyDC: Nitrogen emerges as the latest climate-change threat
- 2008/09/13: CBC:Q&Q: (link to mp3/ogg) Keeping Our Cool -- [Interview Dr. Andrew Weaver, author of _Keeping our Cool: Canada in a Warming World_]
- 2008/09/12: DotEarth: The Singing Climatologist [Richard B. Alley]
- 2008/09/12: GristMill: The Cost Tic -- Big emissions gains require big investments; get over it
- 2008/09/11: Stoat: Nierenberg, part II
- 2008/09/12: Atmoz: WTF Oreskes: More on the Nierenberg NAS Report
- 2008/09/12: Tamino: Don't Get Fooled, Again
- 2008/09/11: SeattlePI: Global warming: Evidence is much more than hot air
- 2008/09/09: Stoat: Nierenberg
- 2008/09/09: AFTIC: Signal vs Noise
- 2008/09/10: JEB: How not to combine multiple constraints...
- 2008/09/10: Atmoz: The History of Climate Sensitivity
- 2008/09/09: DailyStar: Climate talks in London tomorrow
- 2008/09/09: Maribo: Climate change on the Late Show
- 2008/09/09: MTobis: New Blog on the Block [WAH-RC]
- 2008/09/09: AllAfrica: ZimIndependent: Climate Change, the Nature of the Evidence
- 2008/09/08: Stoat: Agreeing with Hansen
- 2008/09/08: RealClimate: Simple Question, Simple Answer...Not
- 2008/09/04: Wunderground: Roger Pielke Sr. Attacks Messenger, Injures Self
- 2008/09/08: BBC: 'Climate crisis' needs brain gain
The most brilliant minds should be directed to solving Earth's greatest challenges, such as climate change, says Sir David King. The former UK chief scientist will use his presidential address at the BA Science Festival to call for a gear-change among innovative thinkers - 2008/09/07: BBC: 'Climate crisis' needs brain gain - The most brilliant minds should be directed to solving Earth's greatest challenges, such as climate change, says Sir David King
And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
- Dr. Andrew Weaver homepage
- The Why Files
- UNFAO: The State of Food Insecurity in the World
- ERW: Environmental Research Web
- JapanMA: Tropical Cyclone Information
- AFTIC: [H2T2aCS] How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic
- Evangelical Climate Initiative
- Carbon-Climate Interactions Group
- BBC: Climate Change
- AFTIC: A Few Things Ill Considered
- Eli Rabett
- FramingScience
- Carbon Trust
- Carbon Trust: UK Carbon Map
- GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
- UIUC: Cryosphere Today
The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:
Late coverage of the monsoon floods:
While on the ENSO front:
Glaciers are melting:
Meanwhile in the journals:
The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:
Meanwhile on the international political front:
There was a lot of chatter about the Kingsnorth verdict:
Late comment on Garnaut:
While in Bangladesh:
Four former prime ministers demanded the federal government do more to deal with climate change:
Wrangling over the BC climate plan continues:
The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
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Hi, I'd like to speak with you about this blog. Please contact me at your earliest convenience. Thanks! -Dave
The WWF has been stating that they hope the Copenhagen meeting is a huge success in setting a new international standard, but it seems like it's too far away if the north pole melting is a runaway effect. Do you have any hope for that summit?
It's really hard to believe the emissions cuts we need will happen soon enough, the rare accasions when someone states the reality (ie we need to get to 0 net emissions ASAP) they get laughed off the stage.