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January 11, 2009

• Top Stories:Coal Sludge, Tim DeChristopher Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Grumbine, Late Comments
• Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
• Hurricanes, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
• Impacts, Forests, Corals, Desertification, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
• Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering
• Journals, Misc. Science
• Kyoto, Kyoto-2, UN, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
• Politics:International, Security, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, India, China, Japan, Asia, Canada
• Ecological Economics, Media, Books, Courts, Betting
• Energy, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Insurance
• Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

Laugh. I dare ya:

• 2009/01/11: uComics: (cartoon - Wiley) The Invention of Ideology
• 2009/01/10: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) A Fair C.O.P.
• 2009/01/08: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Honesty and Realism?
• 2009/01/07: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) No Claims Bonus
• 2009/01/06: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Icarus Ascending

  The coal sludge story is ongoing:

• 2009/01/09: PeakEnergy: When Containment Walls Fail [coal sludge]
• 2009/01/08: McClatchyDC: Boxer: EPA should regulate coal-fired power plant waste
• 2009/01/09: ClimateP: Second TVA coal ash pond ruptures -- at Widows Creek coal plant
• 2009/01/09: TreeHugger: What the Heck? Second Coal Ash Spill, this Time in Alabama
• 2009/01/08: PhysOrg: Coal ash spill reveals risks, lapses in waste regulation
• 2009/01/07: CSW: Whistleblower Erin Brockovich to make a truth-digging trip to the TVA coal ash spill site
• 2009/01/08: BBerg: Boxer Calls for Standards on Coal Ash After Tennessee Spill
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: My new favorite utility executive -- Former TVA head rips coal, coal ash, coal industry, kids on his lawn
• 2009/01/07: TreeHugger: Aftermath of the TVA Coal Ash Spill: Get Ticketed for Taking Water Samples (Video)
• 2009/01/06: McClatchyDC: Coal ash spill reveals risks, lapses in waste regulation
• 2009/01/06: TreeHugger: "I don't trust TVA, not after all this:" Interviews With TVA Coal Ash Spill Victims (Video)
• 2009/01/05: ePM: TVA Tennessee Disaster: Much Worse than Imagined and Radioactive!

  The Tim DeChristopher saga unfolds:

• 2009/01/09: BBerg: Utah Student Who Disrupted Oil Bids Says He Can Pay for Tracts
• 2009/01/08: TreeHugger: Utah Student Monkey-Wrencher Raises Funds to Hold Land Leases
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: Bailing out Bidder 70 -- Tim DeChristopher and Utah stand up to Big Oil
• 2009/01/06: ClimateP: Utah public land hero [Tim DeChristopher] appeals for help
• 2009/01/06: OilChange: Bailing out Bidder 70 [Tim DeChristopher]

  More end of the year stories:

• 2009/01/05: BOM: Annual Australian Climate Statement 2008

  The global recession & its impact:

• 2009/01/07: CSM: Green revolution: still possible amid deep recession?
  Economic retreat could hamper green investment -- but it could also spur a drive to move economies away from fossil-fuel dependencies

The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

• 2009/01/11: TSun: Probe into warming
  Researchers are hoping the huge tusks of the walrus and choppers of the beluga whale will help track the increasing impact of global warming on Canadian Arctic mammals and the Inuit communities that eat them.
• 2009/01/05: Google:GE: About Migration of Thick Multi Year Sea Ice from Lincoln Sea and Arctic Basin behind Canada to Beaufort and Chuckchi Seas

  As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

• 2009/01/09: WSJ:EnvCap: Polar Bulls: U.S. Plans to Lay Claim to Arctic Oil Resources

  While in Antarctica:

• 2009/01/07: NatureCF: New Antarctic base could help extend climate record back 1.5 million years
• 2009/01/06: ENN: The mystery of Antarctica's speeding glacier
• 2009/01/05: Telegraph(UK): The mystery of Antarctica's speeding glacier
  The 30 trillion litres of the Pine Island Glacier are melting far faster than the rest of the western Antarctic. Now a British team are sending a robot submarine under the ice to discover precisely why

Rob Grumbine continues his educational project:

• 2009/01/05: MGS: Results on deciding trends

  Late comment on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis:

• 2009/01/08: RealClimate: The Younger Dryas comet-impact hypothesis: gem of an idea or fool's gold?
• 2009/01/05: NatureTGB: Did killer comets bring the bling?
• 2009/01/05: KSJT: Lots of Ink: Some redemption for the bolide hypothesis, BANG!, of N. American mammoth demise

  RealClimate is continuing their climate models FAQ:

• 2009/01/06: RealClimate: FAQ on climate models: Part II

  I missed this story last fall:

• 2008/11/20: KOMO: Jet stream found to be permanently drifting north

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2009/01/09: Science: (ab$) Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat by David. S. Battisti & Rosamond L. Naylor
• 2009/01/08: UWNews: Half of world's population could face climate-induced food crisis by 2100
• 2009/01/11: ClimateP: Half of world's population could face climate-driven food crisis by 2100
• 2009/01/09: TerraDaily: Ten million Kenyans facing food shortages: government
• 2009/01/10: HuffPo: Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times
  Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there lays a largely unnoticed fact: bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible. There is no cure. They all die as it spreads, and it spreads quickly. Soon - in five, 10 or 30 years - the yellow creamy fruit as we know it will not exist. The story of how the banana rose and fell can be seen a strange parable about the corporations that increasingly dominate the world - and where they are leading us.
• 2009/01/09: JFleck: Heat, Not Drought, May Pose Biggest Food Threat Under Climate Change
• 2009/01/09: STimes: Global warming will be a killer for agriculture, UW scientists say
  Forget ice melting and sea-level rise. Global warming's most pressing threat may be heat that wilts crops across much of the globe, says a UW scientist.
• 2009/01/08: CBC: Rising temperatures could create global food crisis by end of century: scientists
• 2009/01/08: BBC: Heat may spark world food crisis
  Half the world's population could face climate-induced food crisis by 2100, a new report by US scientists warns.
• 2009/01/09: Guardian(UK): The outcry is muted, but the food crisis is getting worse
  The financial debacle has drowned out coverage of food shortages. Where are the billion-dollar bailouts for the hungry?
• 2009/01/09: Guardian(UK): Billions face food shortages, study warns
  Climate change may ruin farming in tropics by 2100 -- Record temperatures to become normal in Europe
• 2009/01/08: NatureN: Temperature rises threaten global food security -- Climate changes predicted to trigger food shortages across the world
• 2009/01/08: NatureCF: Adaptation needed to avoid world food crisis
• 2009/01/08: NewScientist: Billions could go hungry from global warming by 2100
• 2009/01/08: SciDaily: Half Of World's Population Could Face Climate-induced Food Crisis By 2100
• 2009/01/06: BizMirror: Recipe for Famine
• 2009/01/06: BBC: Farmers voice food supply concern

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2009/01/06: ABC(Au): Ethanol demands may consume grain crops: farmers
  Farmers say one fifth of New South Wales' grain crop could be eaten up by changes to the proportion of ethanol in unleaded fuel.

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2009/01/06: BBC: Crop diversity: Eat it or lose it
  Centuries of crop diversification are at risk of being lost forever, warns Jeff Bentley. In this week's Green Room, he says a growing dependency on just a few modern, high-yielding varieties is leaving the world's food supplies exposed
• 2009/01/09: Reuters: Farmers scramble for profits as grain boom ends
• 2009/01/09: NatureTGB: Adaptation needed to avoid world food crisis
• 2009/01/07: TerraDaily: World's first 'drought-tolerant' corn ready by 2010: Monsanto
• 2009/01/07: PhysOrg: World's first 'drought-tolerant' corn ready by 2010: Monsanto
• 2009/01/06: GristMill: Stamping out hunger? What's the point of the industrial food system if it no longer provides affordable food?
• 2009/01/05: GristMill: The soil crisis -- Two gray eminences of the food movement lay down the law on farm policy
• 2009/01/05: TreeHugger: Agriculture Needs a Fundamental Rethink in the 21st Century
• 2009/01/05: NBF: Micronutrient Deficiency Problems for Developed and Developing Countries

  In the hurricane wars, Dongo is roaming the Indian Ocean and Charlotte is bopping Northern Australia:

• 2009/01/08: Wunderground: The global tropical cyclone season of 2008: below average
• 2009/01/05: Wunderground: Top weather story of 2008: Cyclone Nargis

  While in the carbon cycle:

• 2009/01/07: SciDaily: Surprise Drop In Carbon Dioxide Absorbed By East/Japan Sea
• 2009/01/05: JFleck: CO2 Basics

  As for the temperature record:

• 2009/01/10: Tamino: 'Tain't Likely
• 2009/01/09: QuarkSoup: RSS Temp Anomaly
• 2009/01/08: NOAANews: NOAA: 2008 Temperature for U.S. Near Average, was Coldest Since 1997; Below Average for December
• 2009/01/06: ABCRadio(Au): [Transcript] Australians swelter as 2008 temperature enters the record books
• 2009/01/05: KSJT: Wall St. Journal: All the real experts agree 2008 was cooler than lately. Still warm though. No ice age stirring etc.
• 2009/01/05: GristMill: [Dessler] The third degree -- Why large future warming is very likely

  And in the paleoclimate:

• 2009/01/07: Cornell: Decline of carbon dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling [33 mya]

  While on the el Niño/la Niña [ENSO] front:

• 2009/01/09: GreenGrok: Updates: Winter Temps [ENSO] and Solar Activity
• 2009/01/08: NOAA:NCEP: El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
  Synopsis: Developing La Niña conditions are likely to continue into Northern Hemisphere Spring 2009
• 2009/01/07: GreenGrok: This Winter's Temperature: Is It a Boy or a Girl?

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2009/01/08: AFTIC: No glaciers left in Glacier National Park soon

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2009/01/10: SMH: King tide brings scientists chance to map the future
  Phil Watson says 9.50am on Monday will be a preview of the state's sea level future. Mr Watson is the team leader of the Department of Environment and Climate Change's coastal unit and is launching the first program to document the flooding effects of the highest tide visible during daylight hours. "It will allow everybody to get a glimpse into the future when mean sea level will be higher than today," Mr Watson says. King tides happen twice a year - at night in winter and during the day in summer. The coming king tide is predicted to peak at more than two metres.
• 2009/01/09: Newspost: Sea level to rise by 1 meter in next 100 years
• 2009/01/08: Eureka: Sea level rise of 1 meter within 100 years
• 2009/01/06: Herald(In): 4-feet sea level rise by 2100 could threaten Goa
• 2009/01/06: Australia: New Forecast: 4ft Sea Level Rise by 2100 -- threatened destinations include Manhattan, Maldives

  And in near earth orbit:

• 2009/01/07: Reuters: Japan to monitor greenhouse gases from space [with GOSAT: Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite]

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2009/01/05: ArcticFocus: Study confirms what is already known: the Arctic polar bear is in trouble
• 2009/01/07: ArcticEcon: Undernourished polar bears
• 2009/01/07: UFlorida: To climate-change worries, add one more: extended mercury threat
• 2009/01/06: CanWest: Polar bears in western Arctic going hungry: study
• 2009/01/05: ABC(Au): Researchers are warning climate change will have a bigger impact on Indigenous people than it will on non-Aboriginal Australians

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2009/01/10: NatureCF: Nature: Reforesting India
• 2009/01/08: Guardian(UK): Time to look at the benefits of growing and using more wood
• 2009/01/08: ENN: Once reducers of CO2, Canada's trees now contribute to global warming
• 2009/01/07: JakartaPost: Disaster looms for rich Wallacea
  Long before climate change had become the hot issue it is today, British biogeographer Alfred Russel Wallace had foreseen the correlation between deforestation and environmental disaster.
• 2009/01/06: SciDaily: Amazon Deforestation Trend On The Increase
  Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures recently released by the country's space agency INPE.
• 2009/01/05: G&M: Out on a limb
  In the face of a plummeting market and the deep-rooted devastation of the mountain pine beetle epidemic, mill owners in B.C.'s most resilient forestry town are now predicting 'a dramatic downturn' in the year ahead and warning residents their jobs may not be safe

Corals are dying:

• 2009/01/09: KSJT: The Australian: Debate whether Great Barrier Reef can survive a warmer ocean
• 2009/01/05: ABC(Au): The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority wants scientists to learn as much they can from coral bleaching in 2009
• 2009/01/05: IndiaTimes: Acidification, climate change killing off corals

  Desertification looms as a threat:

• 2009/01/09: Reuters: Cyprus runs risk of desertification-geophysicist

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2009/01/06: TerraDaily: Ten dead in Mozambique storm: report
• 2009/01/06: EarthTimes: Officials warn of further 'ferocious storms' in eastern South Africa
• 2009/01/06: BBC: Warnings issued amid Arctic chill -- Severe weather warnings have been issued as temperatures in the UK dipped towards -10C (14F) overnight
• 2009/01/02: WSJ: The Warming Earth Blows Hot, Cold and Chaotic -- Subtle Rises in Temperature Make for Wild Weather; 'Exceptionally Unusual' Becomes the New Normal
• 2009/01/05: EarthTimes: South African storm's death toll rises to 18

  We have heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2009/01/08: SMH: The traditional summer scorcher is back
  Firefighters battled to contain three large bushfires as the state sweltered for a third day yesterday. It was hottest in the western suburbs; temperatures at Penrith topped 40 degrees for the second day in a row.

As for disruptions of the hydrological cycle[floods & droughts]:

• 2009/01/09: EarthTimes: Two die in Fiji floods, hundreds evacuated
• 2009/01/09: BBC: After the deluge -- Floods of last summer still afflict India's Bihar
• 2009/01/08: ABC(Au): A proposal to flood the drought-stricken Murray's lower lakes in South Australia with sea water is moving to the next stage
• 2009/01/08: TreeHugger: Big Floods in Northern England Won't Be Freak Events by 2080
• 2009/01/08: Eureka: Sequence matters in droughts and floods -- New study investigates effects of extreme hydrological events on vegetation
• 2009/01/08: Ncl(UK): Floods to become commonplace by 2080
  Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.
• 2009/01/07: USAToday: California's snowpack levels breed new water worries
• 2009/01/06: ABC(Au): 2008 rains ease pain for drought-stricken Australia
• 2009/01/05: NDTV: India's water woes and climate change
• 2009/01/06: ABC(Au): Expert backs lower lakes sea water plan
  A wetlands expert from the University of Ballarat says filling the Murray's drought-affected lower lakes in South Australia with sea water may be the best option to save the region from ecological disaster. Professor Peter Gell has studied sediment core samples in the lakes, looking back to the time before European settlement. He says Lake Alexandrina was a tidal system, which means it was at least partly salty before the barrages were built at the river mouth.
• 2009/01/06: ABC(Au): Low rainfall trend continues -- South Australia has had its 12th consecutive year of below-average rainfall
• 2009/01/04: AbqJournal: Drier Climate on the Way for Southwest

  Washington state & Southern B.C. got whalloped by a one, two -- snow then rain -- punch:

• 2009/01/08: HuffPo: Washington Flood: Rain And Melting Snow Force Residents From Homes
• 2009/01/08: CBC: Southern B.C. battles mudslides, flooding and avalanche risks
• 2009/01/10: CBC: Residents of flooded B.C. community brace for more rain, mudslides
• 2009/01/09: GristMill: Playing the blame game -- Massive flooding in western Washington linked to man-made causes
• 2009/01/08: CNN: Thousands advised to flee Washington flooding
  Flooding 'traumatizing' to Washington state residents - More than 40 evacuated from care home in Puyallup, Washington - Stretch of Interstate 5 between Seattle area and Oregon closed - Up to 15 inches of rain reported in some areas of Washington state

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2009/01/05: NCM: 80% Is the Number -- how much CO2 emissions would have to be reduced to stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide at current levels
• 2009/01/05: ClimateP: The best stimulus, Part 1: What is geo-engineering and adaptation and CO2 mitigation all in one?

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2009/01/08: BBC: First flight of algae-fuelled jet
  A US airline has completed the first test flight of a plane partly powered by biofuel derived from algae. The 90-minute flight by a Continental Boeing 737-800 went better than expected, a spokesperson said. One of its engines was powered by a 50-50 blend of biofuel and normal aircraft fuel.
• 2009/01/07: AFTIC: One day's flights in 72 seconds
• 2009/01/05: NYT: A Pitch for Mass Transit

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2009/01/10: OilDrum: US Housing and the Passive Home Standard
• 2009/01/08: OilDrum: Passive Solar Design Overview -- Part 1
• 2009/01/07: SacBee: New house in Folsom rated one of greenest in U.S.
• 2009/01/05: PhysOrg: California study shows shade trees reduce summertime electricity use
• 2009/01/05: TreeHugger: Dongtan, China's Flagship Ecocity Project, R.I.P.

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2009/01/07: TechRevBlog: Dispelling Carbon Capture's Scaling Myth

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/02/20: BBC: Five Ways To Save The World
• 2009/01/09: NatureN: Ocean fertilization experiment draws fire -- Indo-German research cruise sets sail despite criticism
• 2009/01/09: NewScientist: 'Climate fix' ship sets sail with plan to dump iron
• 2009/01/08: Intersection:CCM: The Turn Towards Geoengineering
• 2009/01/08: TreeHugger: Geo-Engineering Risk Potential Not An Excuse for Inaction, Scientist Says
• 2009/01/07: NewScientist: Can technology clear the air?
• 2009/01/07: PeakEnergy: UK team clears path for massive ocean iron fertilization trial
• 2009/01/06: ClimateP: Geoengineering, adaptation and mitigation, Part 2: White roofs are the trillion-dollar solution
• 2009/01/06: TreeHugger: Ocean Iron Fertilization Test in South Atlantic Given Go Ahead

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2009/01/08: CPD: A few prospective ideas on climate reconstruction: from a statistical single proxy approach towards a multi-proxy and dynamical approach by J. Guiot et al.
• 2009/01/08: CPD: Climate reconstruction from pollen and ?13C using inverse vegetation modeling. Implication for past and future climates by C. Hatté et al.
• 2009/01/08: CPD: Impacts of land surface properties and atmospheric CO2 on the Last Glacial Maximum climate: a factor separation analysis by A.-J. Henrot et al.
• 2009/01/07: CPD: Potential causes of 15th century Arctic warming using coupled model simulations with data assimilation by E. Crespin et al.
• 2009/01/09: Science: (ab$) Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat by David. S. Battisti & Rosamond L. Naylor
• 2009/01/06: ACP: Mixing processes and exchanges in the tropical and the subtropical UT/LS by R. James & B. Legras
• 2009/01/06: ACP: Aerosol and thermodynamic effects on tropical cloud systems during TWPICE and ACTIVE by P. T. May et al.
• 2009/01/05: ACPD: A daytime climatological distribution of high opaque ice cloud classes over the Indian summer monsoon region observed from 25-year AVHRR data by A. Devasthale & H. Grassl
• 2009/01/06: PNAS: Nonlinear threshold behavior during the loss of Arctic sea ice by I. Eisenman & J. S. Wettlaufer
• 2008/12/12: GRL: (ab$) Sudden, considerable reduction in recent uptake of anthropogenic CO2 by the East/Japan Sea by Geun-Ha Park et al.

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

• 2009/01/06: JEB: Comments welcome? [sci]
  [...] we did a more detailed analysis and critique of Chylek and Lohmann's attempt at estimating dust forcing and climate sensitivity using paleoclimate data.
• 2009/01/09: ENN: Harvard's "Hippo" Jet Heads to Pole to Test CO2 Level
• 2009/01/07: PhysOrg: Scientists take off on historic mission to measure greenhouse gases that have an impact on climate
  Starting Jan. 7, 2008, the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) mission will cover more than 24,000 miles as an international team of scientists makes a series of five flights over the next three years sampling the atmosphere in some of the most inaccessible regions of the world.
• 2009/01/05: Eureka: Volcanoes cool the tropics, say researchers -- But global warming may have helped override some recent eruptions
• 2009/01/05: PhysOrg: Volcanoes cool the tropics, say researchers

  Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

• 2009/01/05: EPOnline: Clean Development [Mechanism] Projects Booming Around World

  And on the Kyoto-2 front:

• 2009/01/09: ENN: UN Climate Conference: The countdown to Copenhagen
• 2009/01/06: BSD: The climate treaty won't be the international agreement with teeth [but trade agreements may be]

  While at the UN:

• 2009/01/09: ModernGhana: Ban Ki-moon: The Responsibility to Deliver
  The past year was difficult for us all. I have called it "the year of multiple crises." The next promises to be even more so. The challenges that lie ahead in 2009 -- ranging from climate change to the economic meltdown -- will test our commitments and good intentions as never before.

And on the emissions trading front:

• 2009/01/08: EnvFin: US NOx and SO2 prices rocket after CAIR reprieve
• 2009/01/08: EnvFin: Carbon market value up 84% in 2008 - analyst
• 2009/01/06: WorldChanging: Cap-and-Trade Shuts Down U.S. Coal Plants
• 2009/01/06: BizGreen: Russia suspended from UN carbon trading scheme -- Failure to settle outstanding fees prompts UN to suspend Russia from Joint Implementation offset scheme

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2009/01/06: IR^2: A Simple Climate Tax Scheme
• 2009/01/09: Guardian(UK): Exxon Mobil asks for carbon tax
• 2009/01/08: WSJ:EnvCap: Exxon's Tillerson: Give Me a Carbon Tax, Not Cap-and-Trade
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: Levy carbon taxes upstream -- They affect consumers the same either way, and upstream is simpler and more transparent
• 2009/01/05: NCM: Carbon Taxes - Nice Idea But They Won't Get The Job Done
• 2009/01/06: Stoat: What we should do
• 2009/01/05: GristMill: Will conservatives be Obama's 'best allies' in the climate fight? Conservative icons take to The NYT to tout the magic of a revenue-neutral carbon tax

  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:

• 2009/01/05: Eureka: Tackling climate change with new permits to pollute
  A new way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change had been unveiled by leading economists. Under the proposals, companies would buy what are in effect permits to pollute, but the price of those permits would be controlled because the government would retain enough, at a fixed price, to stop the cost increasing above that level. The economists, whose work is published tomorrow [Tuesday 6 January] along with two other research papers, say it could appeal to supporters of a carbon tax and also to those who favour the alternative, so-called cap-and-trade.
• 2009/01/05: GristMill: Two questions for James Hansen... on the subject of tax-and-dividend
• 2009/01/04: NEN: Cap and trade versus carbon tax in a recession

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2009/01/09: DotEarth: Can U.S., China Team Up on Climate, Energy?

  As for GW & security:

• 2009/01/07: TerraDaily: Australian military warns of climate conflict: report
• 2009/01/07: Guardian(UK): The carbon cost of armed conflict
• 2009/01/07: Reuters: Climate change threatens Pacific, Arctic conflicts
• 2009/01/07: SMH: Defence warns of climate conflict

  And on the American political front:

• 2009/01/10: CSW: White House Science Office finally clears two delayed climate science reports for release
• 2009/01/09: AutoBG: California suspends lower emission school bus program because of budget crisis
• 2009/01/09: GristMill: Meddling environmentalists try to save people money -- New study: Efficiency investment better for Virginia economy and ratepayers than coal plant
• 2009/01/09: AutoBG: Who wins federal dollars race? Ethanol does, by a long shot
• 2009/01/08: TP:WonkRoom: Paper Finds Global Warming Clobbers Third World -- Heritage Looks For Silver Lining
• 2009/01/08: WSJ:EnvCap: Clean Tech Headwinds: Oil, Not Washington, Still Calls the Shots
• 2009/01/07: ClimateP: American Enterprise Institute (!) endorses tax credits for super-efficient, furnace-free homes
• 2009/01/06: GristMill: 'More energy' -- Mississippi governor illustrates how the resource curse works in America
• 2009/01/06: WarmingLaw: The Bonanza Wars Continue into 2009
• 2009/01/06: CSW: Climate change in Vanity Fair's Oral History of the Bush White House
• 2009/01/06: QuarkSoup: Mote for Oregon's Climate Change Research Institute
• 2009/01/06: Yahoo: Timber company drops road deal with Forest Service
• 2009/01/06: AutoBG: Montana gives grant to make great green goo from CO2
• 2009/01/01: NYT: Move to Increase Logging on Oregon Land
  The Interior Department announced a controversial decision late Wednesday to double the rate of logging on 2.6 million acres of federally owned forests in southwestern Oregon. In doing so, it brushed aside the objections of the governor and two federal agencies charged with guarding the quality of the area's water and the health of the fish that depend on it. The decision, which was posted on the Web sites of the Bureau of Land Management's Oregon offices, has revived the battle lines formed during the fight over the extensive logging of old-growth timber in the 1980s, a practice blamed for the rapid decline in populations of the northern spotted owl.

Let the games begin. The 111th Congress is in session:

• 2009/01/09: ENN: Markey to become chair of House environment panel
• 2009/01/08: StarTrib: A second leadership shift on House energy committee signals quick action on climate change
  [...] Rep. Edward Markey, known for his tough stances on environmental issues, will replace Rep. Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat who has been friendly to the coal industry. Boucher had chaired the panel eight years.
• 2009/01/09: HillHeat: Markey Takes Key Energy and Environment Position In House
• 2009/01/08: ClimateP: Markey to take chairmanship of new Energy and Environment Subcommittee
• 2009/01/09: ThinkP: Lamar Alexander: 'Coal is a dirty business.'
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: And they're off -- Senate Environment Committee gets rolling in 111th Congress
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: Musical chairs -- Waxman creating new environment subcommittee
• 2009/01/08: WSJ:EnvCap: Bye, Bye Boucher: Markey to Head House Energy Subcommittee
• 2009/01/08: TP:WonkRoom: Markey Takes Key Energy and Environment Position In House
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: 'Not your grandfather's public works bill' -- Pelosi promises mass transit and energy investments, not just roads and bridges
• 2009/01/07: WSJ:EnvCap: Climate Battle: Congress To Delay Action on Cap-and-Trade?
• 2009/01/06: ClimateP: Pelosi: House can pass cap and trade, but maybe not this year
• 2009/01/06: GristMill: Wait and Pelosi -- House Speaker says she has the votes for a cap-and-trade bill, but ...
• 2009/01/04: NYT: A 50-Year Farm Bill by Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry
• 2009/01/04: AbqJournal:NMS: Groups Push for Greenhouse Emission Regulation
• 2009/01/04: JFleck: NM Greenhouse Effort

  The Bush administration's midnight regulation changes continue to gather opprobrium:

• 2009/01/08: AutoBG: Surprise! Bush administration passes on setting CAFE standards
• 2009/01/07: PhysOrg: Bush administration scraps updated fuel efficiency rules

  The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2009/01/09: NEN: Mr. Obama takes new energy, efficiency to Washington
• 2009/01/05: PRWatch: When [Steven] Chu Chose BP
• 2009/01/09: ClimateP: Senate Dems unhappy with [low] level of energy funds in Obama stimulus plan
• 2009/01/08: ClimateP: Obama: "We will double the production of alternative energy in the next three years"
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: Dear Barack and Michelle and James and Anniek -- An open reply to James Hansen's open letter [from Gar Lipow]
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: Agribusiness as usual -- Obama's campaign ag adviser mounts a weak defense of industrial food
• 2009/01/07: NEN: Record new energy investment bodes well for Obama plan to retool
• 2009/01/07: WSJ:EnvCap: Obama: Energy-Efficient Public Buildings Poster Children for Stimulus Plan
• 2009/01/05: GristMill: Will conservatives be Obama's 'best allies' in the climate fight? Conservative icons take to The NYT to tout the magic of a revenue-neutral carbon tax
• 2009/01/05: GristMill: The Lisa of our concerns -- N.J. enviros deeply divided over record of Obama's EPA nominee
• 2009/01/05: NEN: Obama admin expected to get efficient in economic stim

  While in the UK:

• 2009/01/11: Independent(UK): Giant plasma TVs face ban in battle to green Britain
  New rules will phase out energy-guzzling flatscreen televisions as the EU brings its climate campaign to the living room
• 2009/01/09: Guardian(UK): Party on at Heathrow airport -- Climate Rush's protest at Heathrow next week looks set to be a fantastic party, with a serious message
• 2009/01/10: Guardian(UK): [John Stewart interview] 'Heathrow is a monster. It must be fed'
  For a decade, John Stewart has fought the third runway, creating in the process one of the most formidable civil coalitions Britain has seen
• 2009/01/09: TreeHugger: Ryanair to Sue Protesters for £2 Million (US$3m)?
• 2009/01/08: Guardian(UK): Stansted protesters sentenced to community service amid threat of £2m damages claim
  Ryanair acts over airport closure and missed flights -- 'Honestly-held beliefs' no justification, says judge
• 2009/01/06: BBC: Warning over 'clean' power plans
  New gas and coal-fired power stations should not be approved without guarantees carbon capture technology will work, UK government advisers said. The Sustainable Development Commission has submitted a paper to the Scottish Parliament's climate change committee. It warns carbon capture is not proven to work effectively or efficiently. In their National Planning Framework, Scottish ministers claim carbon capture had the capacity to reduce carbon emissions by up to 90%.

And in Europe:

• 2009/01/08: REA: The German Perspective, Part 3: Training the Future Wind Power Workforce
• 2009/01/07: REA: The German Perspective, Part 2: A Resilient Renewable Energy Leader
• 2009/01/06: REA: The German Perspective, Part 1: Difficulties in Climate Negotiations
• 2009/01/06: EurActiv: European Environment Agency (EEA): Soaring transport demand holds back low-carbon economy

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2009/01/09: SMH: Obama's green plan 'good for Australia'
  Australian environment and union groups want the federal government to follow the green lead of US President-elect Barack Obama's proposed massive economic recovery package. Reforms to double alternative energy production over three years, modernise federal buildings and improve the energy efficiency of two million American homes were among reforms announced by Obama on Thursday. It comes on top of Obama's election commitments to invest $US150 billion ($A210 billion) over ten years to create five million green jobs and reduce carbon pollution by 80 per cent by 2050.
• 2009/01/08: ABC(Au): Garnaut report costing taxpayers twice: Opposition
  The Federal Opposition has hit out at the Government after revelations taxpayers will not receive a cent from sales of the Government's climate change report
• 2009/01/07: ABC(Au): Scientist's singling out of Aust coal industry 'unfair'
  NASA climate scientist James Hansen describes traditional coal plants as 'factories of death' A mining group says a warning to incoming US President Barack Obama about Australia's coal industry is an unfounded exaggeration.
• 2009/01/05: ABC(Au): Petrol plan to fuel food price hike: farmers
  The livestock industry says food prices will rise across Australia because New South Wales is planning to boost the amount of ethanol in unleaded fuel
• 2009/01/05: ABC(Au): Farm practice-coral growth link a political connection: farmers

  And in India:

• 2009/01/06: PeakEnergy: India's will to renewable power

  While in China:

• 2009/01/09: ClimateP: China announces plan to single-handedly destroy the climate
• 2009/01/07: NatureTGB: China joins exclusive coal-to-liquid club
• 2009/01/06: ClimateP: Global recession hits China's power demand
• 2009/01/06: DotEarth: In China, Growth Still Trumping Green?
• 2009/01/06: DotEarth: China's Power Surge Ends (for Now)
• 2009/01/05: TreeHugger: Dongtan, China's Flagship Ecocity Project, R.I.P.

  In Japan:

• 2009/01/07: Reuters: Japan mulls expanding green business market, jobs

  And elsewhere in Asia:

• 2009/01/10: BBC: Power cuts in Nepal are being increased to 16 hours a day starting on Sunday due to an electricity shortage, a senior official says
• 2009/01/08: RGB: Japan, South Korea to Invest Billions in Green Projects Aimed at Economic Resurgence
• 2009/01/06: PhysOrg: SKorea unveils 'Green New Deals' to kick-start economy
• 2009/01/06: Asia Times: Asia on the global warming boil
• 2009/01/04: TheNews(Pk): President's directives about loadshedding fall flat
  Peshawar: Despite directives by President Asif Ali Zardari to end the prolonged power and natural gas suspension, people faced immense hardships as the problems persisted on Saturday. The frequent hours-long electricity breakdown and gas supply-drop and low pressure coupled with severe winter due to downpour have made life miserable for the residents of Peshawar and adjoining areas. The residents of Gulbahar, Charsadda Road, Nauthia, Gulberg, Faqirabad, Hashtnagri and Hayatabad areas of Peshawar were either facing low gas pressure or complete suspension.

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

• 2009/01/08: CanWest: Economic woes crowd out climate concerns
  The new Obama administration has not reacted to a Harper government pitch for a carbon cap-and-trade scheme
• 2009/01/07: CleanBreak: A wake-up call for Canada's cleantech sector

  BC has an election coming up:

• 2009/01/07: TStar: Carbon tax shaping up as key issue in B.C. vote -- Liberals losing support to the New Democrats ahead of May election

  The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:

• 2009/01/09: CBC: Tarsands poll finds distrust of energy executives, doubts of green progress
• 2009/01/08: NatureTGB: Canadian duck-death scandal to get its day in court
• 2009/01/08: BCLSB: Tar Sands Dead? The Upside Of Economic Collapse
• 2009/01/08: G&M: Tar sands admits PR failure [not environmental failure]
• 2009/01/07: CBC: Environmentalists take Syncrude to court over Alberta duck deaths
• 2009/01/07: NYT: The Costly Compromises of Oil From [Tar] Sand
• 2009/01/06: CanBiz: What's next: Oilsands -- The collapse of oil prices has possibly set back Canadian production growth as much as five years
• 2009/01/05: TSun: Sinking sands? Alberta's oilsands project could be a crown jewel of economic activity, or an environmental hell

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

• 2009/01/09: MTobis: Tim O'Reilly Gets It
• 2009/01/08: ClimateP: Economists are part of the problem, Part 1: Robert Stavins can't walk and chew gum at the same time
• 2009/01/07: CanEast: Energy growth is a dead end
  [...] The utopian worldview that says the planet can sustain indefinite growth in energy production is grossly out of touch with the physical realities of the planet. There are very real limits to the supply of non-renewable fuels - fossil-based or uranium. At some point, perhaps not too distant, affordable supplies of non-renewable fuels will be gone. The concept of 'peak oil' has been common parlance in energy circles for years.
• 2009/01/05: KDenninger: There Is No Unicorn That Craps Skittles

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2009/01/07: GristMill: Fair skies return to teapot -- Arianna Huffington clarifies editorial policy around climate skepticism [media]
• 2009/01/06: GristMill: Huff Po blows it -- Skeptic screed on progressive news site recycles familiar myths
• 2009/01/06: GristMill: Why is dirty coal winning? Newsweek once again deceives its readers about energy alternatives
• 2009/01/05: KSJT: Real Climate blog: A brickbat tossed at environmental journalists for sloppy terminology
• 2009/01/05: DeSmogBlog: Harold Ambler's Huffington Post climate misinformation-ganza

  Here is something for your library:

• 2009/01/06: Tyee: Brace for 'Climate Wars' [Book Review] _Climate Wars_ by Gwynne Dyer

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2009/01/08: NatureTGB: Canadian duck-death scandal to get its day in court
• 2009/01/07: CBC: Environmentalists take Syncrude to court over Alberta duck deaths

  The betting meme rolls on:

• 2009/01/09: BSD: Sea level rise - I'd love to bet over it

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

• 2009/01/09: WSJ:EnvCap: WTI [West Texas Intermediate] Signals Something Out of Whack in the Oil Market
• 2009/01/08: BBerg: Norway Sees Oil Production Falling 9.7% This Year
• 2009/01/09: Independent(UK): Era of cheap energy 'will never return' [says former chairman of the UK Environment Agency, John Harman]
• 2009/01/08: Guardian(UK): International Energy Agency 'blocking global switch to renewables' [says Energy Watch group]
  International Energy Agency accused of consistently underestimating potential of wind, solar and sea power while promoting oil, coal and nuclear as 'irreplaceable' technologies
• 2009/01/08: Guardian(UK): Time to look at the benefits of growing and using more wood
• 2009/01/08: KSJT: SF Chronicle, NYTimes, Autoweek: High tech investor says US way behind on clean energy (and even in monster highway trucks)
• 2009/01/08: PhysOrg: Displacing petroleum-derived butanol with plants
• 2009/01/08: NEN: The real costs of coal & nuclear make new energy cheap
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: VRB Power files for bankruptcy -- VRB's long-life flow battery was a reliable electricity storage alternative for renewable energy
• 2009/01/07: Times(UK): Europe begins to freeze as gas taps are turned off in energy war
• 2009/01/07: TreeHugger: Climate Contributes To Lahore Pakistan's Daily Power Blackouts - Australian Coal To The Rescue?
• 2009/01/07: Reuters: Oil prices to top $100 barrel by end of 2010: Pickens
• 2009/01/07: RFERL: Central Asia's Era Of Cheap Gas Comes To A Close
• 2009/01/07: NEN: Record new energy investment bodes well for Obama plan to retool
• 2009/01/05: Guardian(UK): Severn barrage: Row breaks out over UK's biggest renewables project
  A plan to build shallow lagoons fitted with turbines rather than a strip barrier across the Severn would generate equal amounts of electricity at a far lower cost, say campaigners
• 2009/01/07: PeakEnergy: Tidal power gets a boost from propeller and wind turbine technology
• 2009/01/05: SlashDot: Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer?
• 2009/01/04: CommonTragedies: Energy in 2009
• 2009/01/05: PlanetArk: Japan Geothermal Projects Pick Up After 20 Years: Report

  The answer my friend...:

• 2009/01/07: FuturePundit: Method To Reduce Wind Farm Output Variation
• 2009/01/08: Guardian(UK): Blown away -- In the world's largest offshore wind farm...
• 2009/01/07: Eureka: Tilting at wind farms -- Controlling rotor speed smooths wind power supply
• 2009/01/06: CleanBreak: Weakness in wind market may be temporary, but is very real

  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2009/01/07: Oregonian: Solar-cell maker halts construction plans for new plant in Hillsboro
  SpectraWatt Inc., an Intel spinoff that planned to make solar cells in Hillsboro, may leave Oregon because it can't find financing to build a plant. Andrew Wilson, SpectraWatt's chief executive, confirmed Wednesday that the company had suspended construction plans and was searching inside and outside the state for an existing building to retrofit for less money.
• 2009/01/06: Guardian(UK): Tehran looks to the skies for cheap power from the sun
• 2009/01/07: OilDrum: Arizona Solar Power Project Calculations
• 2009/01/06: CleanBreak: Solar PV maker Day4 Energy cuts 34 per cent of staff
• 2009/01/05: Yahoo: [Solar wafer maker] LDK [Solar Co Ltd] shares slide after issues revenue warning
• 2009/01/06: WorldChanging: Tehran Looks to the Skies for Cheap Power from the Sun
• 2009/01/06: NEN: Landmark news for solar power plants
• 2009/01/05: PeakEnergy: Portugal's Largest Solar Farm Opens -- 48 MW installation with over 262,000 polycrystalline solar panels
• 2009/01/05: AutoBG: China could get world's largest solar power facility -- 1 GW crystalline silicon and thin-film solar cell facility

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2009/01/09: TreeHugger: Dark Days For King Coal
• 2009/01/06: ClimateP: Are we approaching peak coal? Part 1
• 2009/01/06: JFleck: Why I Am Skeptical About Successful Greenhouse Gas Reduction Measures

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2009/01/10: GristMill: Straight talk on ethanol -- As mandates and government aid ramp up, the case for ethanol runs out of steam
• 2009/01/09: Reuters: Cellulosic ethanol output could "explode"
• 2009/01/10: AutoBG: How Brazil created the international ethanol boom
• 2009/01/10: IR^2: More Ethanol Plants Going Down
• 2009/01/05: TreeHugger: Future Biofuels Could Be Created Out of Thin Air: Craig Venter & Synthetic Genomics

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2009/01/08: ClimateP: Nuclear cost study 3: Responding to Heritage's staggeringly confused 'rebuttal'
• 2009/01/07: ClimateP: Warning to taxpayers, investors -- Part 2: Nukes may become troubled assets, ruin credit ratings
• 2009/01/05: ClimateP: Exclusive analysis, Part 1: The staggering cost of new nuclear power
• 2009/01/05: YINews: China Aims to Add 60-GW of Nuclear Generating Capacity by 2020
• 2009/01/: FP: Prime Numbers: The Nuclear Option
• 2009/01/05: NBF: Focus fusion $1.2 million two year nuclear fusion project

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2009/01/10: CanWest: The age of oil is ending

  More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2009/01/09: Guardian(UK):Reuters: Factbox-What is a smart grid?
• 2009/01/06: CNN: A $2 trillion bet on powering America
  The stimulus plan might jump-start investments, which could drastically change how we use electricity.
• 2009/01/08: AutoBG: GridWise Alliance says an US smart grid would create 280,000 new jobs
• 2009/01/07: PeakEnergy: Transforming a dumb network into a smart grid

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2009/01/08: TreeHugger: Plan B: Efficiency And Conservation Measures Drop Energy Demand By 2020 [Lester Brown]
• 2009/01/07: GristMill: Building green -- 'Plan B' efficiency and conservation measures drop energy demand by 2020
• 2009/01/05: GristMill: Decoupling comes to Virginia -- Natural gas utility to spend $6.6 million on conservation and efficiency efforts

  Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:

• 2009/01/10: FuturePundit: Pickens Versus FedEx On Natural Gas Versus Electric Cars
• 2009/01/10: PeakEnergy: Affordable electric car to 'hit streets in 2012'
• 2009/01/09: AFTIC: Your Hybrid can double as an emergency generator
• 2009/01/09: TreeHugger: Survey: Do Electric Cars Make Sense?
• 2009/01/08: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: Cars - redux
• 2009/01/08: TreeHugger: 23 Electric Cars Driving the Revolution
• 2009/01/08: TreeHugger: Mitsubishi i MiEV Electric Car to be Sold as Citroën and Peugeot in Europe
• 2009/01/08: AutoBG: Euro-spec Honda Insight rated at 53 mpg (US), 101 g/km CO2
• 2009/01/07: TreeHugger: A123 Systems Wants to Mass Produce Li-Ion Batteries in USA
• 2009/01/06: EconBrowser: December auto sales
• 2009/01/06: TreeHugger: New REVA Electric Car Boosts Range and Speed
• 2009/01/06: TreeHugger: Ouch! Sales of Hybrid Cars Down 42.8% in December
• 2009/01/06: CBC: [Canadian] December auto sales stall [down 19.5%]
• 2009/01/05: CalcRisk: Chrysler Sales Off 53%
• 2009/01/05: CalcRisk: Toyota Sales off 37%, GM off 31%
• 2009/01/05: CalcRisk: Ford December Sales off 32.4%
• 2009/01/05: GEA: Auto Sales Collapse, GM At 49 Year Low
• 2009/01/05: BBerg: U.S. December Auto Sales Dive 36%, Drag Industry to 16-Year Low
• 2009/01/05: BRitholtz: Car Sales in 2008 Were Horrific
• 2009/01/05: BBC: Steep sales drop for US carmakers
  US carmakers have reported sharp falls in December car sales in another sign of the impact of the economic slowdown. Chrysler was the worst-hit of the Big Three US car firms with its monthly sales plummeting 53%, when compared with December the previous year. Ford saw its monthly US sales fall 32%, while General Motors sales dropped 31% - when compared with December 2007. Worldwide car sales are expected to be down 40% in December, as consumers stay away from car showrooms.
• 2009/01/05: PhysOrg: Japan races to build a zero-emission car
• 2009/01/05: CNN: Auto sales plunge again in December -- Sales of cars, trucks and SUVs all plummeted, capping the worst year for industrywide auto sales since 1992
• 2009/01/05: ABS-CBN: An electric future for Nissan
• 2009/01/05: BBerg: Honda Says U.S. December Sales Declined 35% as Industry Plunged
• 2009/01/05: PeakEnergy: 2009: Year of the Electric Car?
• 2009/01/05: WSJ:EnvCap: Hit the Brakes: U.S. Auto Sales Keep Tumbling in December, Even Hybrids
• 2009/01/05: AutoBG: GM sold 2,555 hybrids in December, HUMMER sales cut in half
• 2009/01/05: BBC: Japanese vehicle sales plunge 22% -- Japanese vehicle sales had their worst December on record, with demand plunging 22% compared with the same month of 2007
• 2009/01/05: Google:AP: Ford's Dec. sales drop 32 pct; Toyota down 37 pct

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2009/01/08: EnvFin: Clean-tech VC seen down in '09 after record '08
• 2009/01/08: GreenGrok: Green VC: Another Casualty of Economic Meltdown?
• 2009/01/07: Inc: Cashing In on Clean Technology -- Despite the credit crunch and falling oil prices, venture capitalists say green energy is still a good bet
• 2009/01/05: Reuters: Global energy investment hit by financial crisis

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2009/01/06: Guardian(UK): It will take more than goodwill and greenwash to save the biosphere
  Shell may boast about tackling climate change, but companies tend always to sacrifice good intentions for hard cash

Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2009/01/08: EnvFin: Ironshore moves into environmental insurance

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2009/01/11: JQuiggin: Science vs the Right: state of play
• 2009/01/10: ERabett: The Smiling Lomborg
• 2009/01/10: DeSmogBlog: Rex Murphy Offers Another Superlative Column on Climate Change
• 2009/01/10: 4SW: An English lesson for Climate Change Deniers
• 2009/01/10: ScruffyDan: 650 'prominent scientists' dispute climate change?
• 2009/01/10: MTobis: How to tell different stories with the same numbers
• 2009/01/09: Tyee: Canadian right blogs rejoice in snowy winter
• 2009/01/10: BCLSB: Exxon Supports A Carbon Tax Because...
• 2009/01/10: DeSmogBlog: Global Cooling: Deliberate lies or abject stupidity?
• 2009/01/10: SciDaily: Scientists Refute Argument Of Climate Skeptics
• 2009/01/09: WorldChanging: "It's Too Expensive To Address Climate Change" -- The real cost is the cost of doing nothing.
• 2009/01/07: PRWatch: Hot Air Confuses the Climate Debate
• 2009/01/09: Guardian(UK): The sceptics are skating on thin ice
  Frozen lakes and ponds used as ice rinks are fun, but a brief cold spell is no reason to deny that climate change is taking place
• 2009/01/09: GristMill: Exxon: World is doomed -- Oil giant forecasts continued rise in emissions through 2050
• 2009/01/08: GristMill: 'It's too expensive to address climate change' -- The real cost is the cost of doing nothing
• 2009/01/09: DeSmogBlog: Climate Change Cancelled! (Whew!)
• 2009/01/09: DeSmogBlog: The unequivocal faith of the climate change quibblers
• 2009/01/08: GKSS: GKSS scientists refute argument of climate sceptics -- The global increase of warmer years is no accident
• 2009/01/08: Deltoid: Telegraph refuses to correct misrepresentation
• 2009/01/08: Tamino: Cold Hard Facts
• 2009/01/07: ClimateP: Global Warming Deniers and the English Language
• 2009/01/07: Denialism: Chris Mooney on the deniers
• 2009/01/07: Deltoid: The Australian's War on Science XXXI
• 2009/01/07: TP:WonkRoom: Chamber Of Commerce Claims Global Warming Regulations Would 'Strangle The Economy'
• 2009/01/05: ClimateP: Diagnosing a victim of anti-science syndrome (ASS)
• 2009/01/04: USNews: Sorry, Climate Change Wouldn't Hurt America's Economy
• 2009/01/05: PeakEnergy: Another Award For The Australian
• 2009/01/05: BCLSB: Denialist Bullshit Flies Like Arctic Owl

  An obscure conservative magazine got hoaxed. Nobody much cared:

• 2009/01/09: Deltoid: Windschuttle hoaxed, the update
• 2009/01/09: SMH: The blogs of war: how Quadrant hoaxer was outed
• 2009/01/07: N3xus6: The Windschuttle Hoaxer revealed (II) - Katherine Wilson?
• 2009/01/07: PeakEnergy: Quadrant Falls For Science Hoax
• 2009/01/06: JQuiggin: The great Windschuttle hoax
• 2009/01/06: Deltoid: Windschuttle hoaxed

  Coby updated his How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic series:

• AFTIC: [H2T2aCS] How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic
• 2009/01/08: AFTIC: [H2T2aCS] Insincere, or just sincerely off-base?

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2009/01/10: ERabett: Wisdom from USENET [MTobis clip]
• 2009/01/10: ENN: State of the World 2009: Into A Warming World
• 2009/01/09: NewYorker: Greening the Ghetto -- Can a remedy serve for both global warming and poverty?
• 2009/01/10: SMH: Climate change is more than abstract idea
• 2009/01/09: PhysOrg: Global increase of warmer years is no accident
• 2009/01/09: PhysOrg: 'Understanding Science' Website clarifies what science is, is not
• 2009/01/07: Yahoo: Despite deep chill, global warming is still a peril: scientists
• 2009/01/06: KSJT: blogger takes on a blogger (i.e. Mr. Dot Earth sees a brickbat, and dodges it...)
• 2009/01/06: ClimateP: Earth's leading climate change portal [ClimateArk] turns 10
• 2009/01/05: WorldChanging: Climate Will Change Everything
• 2009/01/04: GristMill: Climate Central -- Scientists and journalists team up to get the climate story straight
• 2009/01/05: Stoat: Horrible English weather
• 2009/01/05: RealClimate: Weblog awards
• 2009/01/04: QuarkSoup: Time to Start Walking
• 2009/01/05: Eureka: Study: Can nature's leading indicators presage environmental disaster?
• 2009/01/05: FP: Think Again: Climate Change by Bill McKibben
  Act now, we're told, if we want to save the planet from a climate catastrophe. Trouble is, it might be too late. The science is settled, and the damage has already begun. The only question now is whether we will stop playing political games and embrace the few imperfect options we have left.

And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:

• SSMI: Remote Sensing Systems
• [video] The Great Squeeze
• ELPR: Environmental Law and Policy Review
• Wiki: Jet Stream
• The Climate Rush
• Understanding Science
• MNN: Mother Nature Network
• Wiki: Arctic methane release
• Carbon-Nation -- Exit Strategies for the Climate Conundrum
• Arctic Focus
• NCM: Nierenberg's Climate Musings

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.

<regards>
-het

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