Another Week of GW News, August 23, 2009

By illconsidered on August 24, 2009.

Sipping from the internet firehose...

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Another week of Climate Disruption News

Information overload is pattern recognition

August 23, 2009

Chuckle, Alberta Clipper, RET, World Water Week, Bonner, API, Costs
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Methane, Carbon Tariffs, World Bank Misdirection, Late Comments
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Desertification, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering
Journals, Misc. Science, E. O. Wilson, Alia negati
Copenhagen, UN, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:International, Security, Law & Activism
America, Obama, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan, Asia, South America, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Courts
Energy, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Joe's List
Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
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Another Week of GW News, August 23, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose...

Another week of Climate Disruption News

Information overload is pattern recognition

August 23, 2009

Here's a wee chuckle for ya:

The Obama administration has approved construction of the Alberta Clipper bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Wisconsin:

Australia has passed a law aiming at 20% renewable energy by 2020:

The World Water Week conference went down in Stockholm:

Controversy over the duplicitous clean coal campaign continues:

The oil companies liked the coal campaign so much they cloned it:

Meanwhile on the bottom line:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

Damocles sword hangs by an unravelling thread:

Regarding Carbon Tariffs:

The World Bank is wedded to growth and barely acknowledges conservation:

Late comment on the APA:

Late comment on Bonn:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Hurricane Bill skirted Bermuda and the US mainland, but may yet strike Eastern Canada:

China & Taiwan are dealing with the impacts of Typhoon Morakot:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

As are the temperatures:

Yes we have feedbacks:

Aerosols are making their presence felt:

While in the paleoclimate:

While on the ENSO front:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile in orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

Desertification looms as a threat:

A series of tornadoes zapped Ontario:

Yes, we have heatwaves and wild fires:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

On the mitigation front, consider transportation & GHG production:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

E. O. Wilson interview:

Regarding Lindzen:

Regarding Chilingar :

Klotzbach again:

The Pielke fan clubbe, alas:

And on the road to Copenhagen:

While at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

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

Meanwhile on the international political front:

As for GW & security:

The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world as nations scramble to deal with climate change:

And on the American political front:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress:

What are the lobbyists pushing?

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And New Zealand:

While in India:

And China:

In Japan:

And elsewhere in Asia:

And South America:

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

The Tories made their annual trip to the Arctic this week:

Our neocon-just-like-George-PM likes to play tin-soldier:

I'll believe this when the Tories are out of office:

The Canadian cash for clunkers program is a minimalist affair:

BC is wrestling with energy and impacts: