Another week of GW News, March 28, 2010

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Here's a wee chuckle for ye:

• 2010/03/24: MRC: (cartoon - Roberts) Mr Creosote
• 2010/03/25: MRC: (cartoon - Roberts) Substantial Abuse
• 2010/03/25: MRC: (cartoon - Roberts) Museum Piece
• 2010/03/25: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Museum Piece
• 2010/03/06: GraphJam: (funny graph - GJB) Popular Thoughts About Global Climate Change
• 2010/03/24: MoD: (cartoon - TomTom) Quote of the day, with comic!
• 2010/03/23: D-HW: (cartoon - TomTom) As I was saying . . .

  More COP15 finagling:

• 2010/03/25: UNEP: Copenhagen Accord pledges take world a long way towards 2C path, but should go further
• 2010/03/21: Belfer: Opportunities and Ironies: Climate Policy in Tokyo, Seoul, Brussels, and Washington

  Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

• 2010/03/26: TheAge: Climate can-do in Cancun?
• 2010/03/26: EUO: EU leaders look outside UN process to push forward climate talks
  European Union leaders have for the first time officially endorsed moving beyond the United Nations in order to push forward the international climate negotiations process. At the EU's spring summit, the bloc's premiers and presidents embraced the G20 as a possible forum more amenable to climate discussions than the UN process, long bogged down by mistrust between rich and poor countries, while at the same time not completely abandoning the UN as some in the US have called for. While stressing that the European Council "remains firmly committed" to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the conclusions of the EU summit also say: "It supports ongoing efforts to make it more effective." "It is it is now necessary to bring a new dynamic to the international negotiation process." "Given the short time available before Cancun, this process could usefully be complemented and supported by discussions in other settings and on specific issues." The EU will address "climate change at all regional and bilateral meetings, including at summit level as well as other fora such as the G20."
• 2010/03/26: People's Daily: Ethiopia calls for common stand from developing countries at climate change negotiations in Mexico
  Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday that developing countries should have common stand at the climate change negotiations expected to be held in Cancun, Mexico. Meeting here with Xie Zhenhua, the vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, Meles said that developed countries have to pay compensation to developing countries under the common but differentiated responsibilities initiative.
• 2010/03/25: EurActiv: De Boer: UN climate deal 'possible in 2011'
  The UN conference in Cancún next December needs to set the basis for a new climate change treaty in 2011, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told EurActiv in an exclusive interview.
• 2010/03/25: Hindu: India suggests RTI for climate change bodies
  Introduce the "Right to Information" to the U.N.'s climate change system, India has suggested to the body (Inter Academy Council) charged with bringing credibility and accountability to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), the climate science panel which has been in the eye of a storm over the last few months. India wants the IPCC to make greater efforts to enhance the participation of developing country scientists to improve the geographical balance of its reports. Every IPCC report should include a separate chapter including all divergent views. In fact, the entire draft report should be sent to all known "climate sceptics" during the review process, says the Indian note. It also suggests an extra tier of scrutiny to review the "conclusions" emerging from the facts, in order to ensure objectivity, especially with regard to the influential Summary for Policymakers.
• 2010/03/23: BBerg: UN's Climate Chief [Yvo de Boer] Calls for Urgent Aid for Poorest Nations
• 2010/03/23: EurActiv: China climate chief: EU should not backtrack on Kyoto
  Urging Europe to maintain its leadership in ongoing global climate talks, China's top climate negotiator said the EU should not step back but instead put pressure on other developed countries that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol to make comparable emission cuts. Speaking to journalists yesterday (22 March) in Brussels, Su Wei, general director of the climate change department at the Chinese Development and Reform Commission, stressed countries should continue negotiations under the two-track approach embodied by the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• 2010/03/23: EUO: China tells EU: 'Put pressure on US over climate, not developing countries'
  China's chief diplomat on climate action, Su Wei, has said that the European Union must "seize the time" and increase its climate ambition to a 30 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions. "The EU should raise its target to 30 percent. It's achievable," Mr Su told reporters in Brussels on Monday (22 March) after he and a delegation of Chinese climate officials led by Xie Zhenhua, the vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, met with EU climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard.

Monday was World Water Day:

• 2010/03/22: UNWater: World Water Day
• 2010/03/23: CJR: Stories Percolate on World Water Day -- National Geographic dives in with special issue
• 2010/03/22: Guardian(UK): Taking action for World Water Day
  There are still 900 million people who don't have a safe water supply -- and not always in the places you expect
• 2010/03/22: UN: Unsafe water kills more people than war, Ban says on World [Water] Day
• 2010/03/22: NRDC:SwitchBoard: World Water Day - California's Embarrassment of Water Riches?
• 2010/03/22: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Water Woes of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• 2010/03/22: NRDC:SwitchBoard: The Changing Threat to Water: Global Warming & World Water Day
• 2010/03/22: CSM: World Water Day: Dirty water kills more people than violence, says UN

  Upcoming meetings:

• 2010/03/27: WMO: International Workshop on Addressing the Livelihood Crisis of Farmers: Weather and Climate Services -- Belo Horizonte, Brazil -- 12-14 July 2010
• 2010/03/24: IGBP: Major global change conference focusing on solutions announced
  The UK has successfully bid to host a major international science conference in 2012. The London conference, Planet Under Pressure: new knowledge, new solutions, aims to attract 2500 of the world's leading thinkers on global-change research. The four-day conference is sponsored by the International Council for Science's (ICSU) global environmental change research programmes. It will bring together natural, physical and social scientists, together with economists. It will also involve engineers, health specialists and many others disciplines, plus with national and international policymakers, industry representatives, technologists, NGOs and development experts. The event, provisionally booked for 7-10 May 2012, will take place prior to the next UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, also scheduled for that year. Presenting the latest research findings, the London conference is anticipated to provide a solid scientific foundation for the summit.
• 2010/03/21: Xinhuanet: Bangladesh to hold regional climate conference on May 19-20
  A two-day Regional Climate Conference will be held in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on May 19-20 bringing more than 15 Asian, African and Small Island States to raise their common issues with regard to the climate change. The regional climate conference in Dhaka will be one of the four similar conferences of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) across the globe, mostly vulnerable to climate change, the Bangladeshi State Minister for Environment and Forests Hasan Mahmud was quoted as saying by national news agency BSS Sunday.

Oh Look! Another of those "Oh Oh" moments:

• 2010/03/23: SciDaily: World Has Underestimated Climate-Change Effects, Expert Argues
  The world's policymakers have underestimated the potential dangerous impacts that man-made climate change will have on society, said Charles H. Greene, Cornell professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. As one of the authors of "A Very Inconvenient Truth," published in the peer-reviewed journal Oceanography (March 2010), Greene said that he and his co-authors conclude that the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 4th assessment report underestimates the potential dangerous effects that man-made climate change will have on society.

The Anthropocene is back:

• 2010/03/26: KSJT: Wired News: The ways we change Earth -- and start a new geologic epoch
• 2010/03/26: SciDaily: Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch? Earth Has Entered New Age of Geological Time, Experts Say
• 2010/03/26: Eureka: The dawn of a new epoch? Researchers show how world has changed
  Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner -- who suggest that the Earth has entered a new age of geological time. The Age of Aquarius? Not quite - It's the Anthropocene Epoch, say the scientists ... And they add that the dawning of this new epoch may include the sixth largest mass extinction in the Earth's history.

A paper by F. Mitloehner kicked up a bit of a storm:

• 2010/03/22: Eureka: Eating less meat and dairy products won't have major impact on global warming [says Frank Mitloehner]
• 2010/03/22: TreeHugger: Michael Pollan Admits He Was Wrong
  [...]
  Way back in 2005, Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin from the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago published a paper that compared the carbon footprint of both a meat-based and a plant-based diet. As Reuters reported:

  They found that the difference between an heavy meat-eating diet and a vegan diet was about 2 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per person per year. The difference between a Prius and an SUV (they used a Suburban, which gets about the same mileage as a Hummer) was 4.76 tons per year.

• 2010/03/27: Time: Meat-Eating Vs. Driving: Another Climate Change Error?
• 2010/03/25: QuarkSoup: Does Eating Meat Contribute to Global Warming?
• 2010/03/25: KSJT: BBC, Guardian, etc: Is meat worse on climate than vehicles? An ag chemist says NO. So what? Is it meatgate?
• 2010/03/24: CNN: Scientist: Don't blame cows for climate change
• 2010/03/24: Guardian(UK): Do critics of UN meat report have a beef with transparency?
  Bloggers and sceptics leaping all over a UN report that 'exaggerated' the link between meat and climate change are not revealing that the scientist challenging the figures has been funded by the livestock industry
• 2010/03/24: BBC: UN to look at climate meat link
  UN specialists are to look again at the contribution of meat production to climate change, after claims that an earlier report exaggerated the link.

The Mclean et al. controversy is growing:

• 2010/03/26: ABC(Au): Climate 'deniers' accuse journal of censorship
• 2010/03/26: Stoat: Selective quotation
• 2010/03/25: ERabett: It's always the third goddamn reviewer that screws us over
• 2010/03/25: JEB: McLean's whine part 2
• 2010/03/24: ClimateShifts: McLain et al respond and the saga heats up
• 2010/03/24: JEB: Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, it runs deep in the icecap too
• 2010/03/23: ClimateShifts: John McLean still manipulating data
• 2010/03/22: HotTopic: Carterist science meets its Cartergate
• 2010/03/21: ClimateShifts: How Bob Carter diddled his data
  "We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century."
  That is how Bob Carter described the implications of the paper he coauthored last year (McLean et al. 2009). But a new rebuttal to the paper (Foster et al. 2010) describes how McLean et al diddled their data to create a bogus and very strong positive relationship between the ENSO index and global atmospheric temperature.
• 2010/03/21: Deltoid: Cartergate

  Earth Hour went down yesterday:

• 2010/03/27: EarthTimes: New Zealand kicks off Earth Hour lights-out event
• 2010/03/27: ABC(Au): Lights out in Sydney as world begins Earth Hour
• 2010/03/27: Reuters: Tuvalu to Taiwan; nations switch off for Earth Hour
• 2010/03/27: QuarkSoup: Another Earth Hour
• 2010/03/27: EarthTimes: Sydney dims the lights for Earth Hour observance
• 2010/03/27: CanWest: Keep your lights on
  [...]
  Earth Hour is not designed to be scientific, rational, or even constructive. It is designed to inspire fear and assuage guilt.
• 2010/03/27: CBC: Calgary issues Earth Hour challenge to Edmonton
• 2010/03/27: CBS: Lights Out! 120 Nations Marking Earth Hour
  Some 4,000 Cities Expected to Unplug Lights to Reduce Energy Consumption While Drawing Attention to Climate Change
• 2010/03/27: CBC: Lights out for Earth Hour
• 2010/03/26: Guardian(UK): Why WWF thinks flicking the switch for Earth Hour is worth it
  Over 125 countries will take part in Earth Hour. But how can the collective switch-off really make a difference?
• 2010/03/26: Guardian(UK): Earth Hour - climate change campaigners urge global switch-off
  The fourth annual lights-out event expects 1 billion participants, and counts for the first time international landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State building and the Burj Khalifa
• 2010/03/26: UN: Ban appeals to world's citizens to dim lights to combat climate change
• 2010/03/26: PhysOrg: One hour a world of difference to energy awareness
• 2010/03/26: Grist: From Pyramids to Paris, landmarks to go dark for Earth Hour
• 2010/03/25: USAToday: Will you turn off the lights for Earth Hour? Millions plan to flip switch Saturday

  And on the Bottom Line:

• 2010/03/25: IPSNews: IMF Proposes 100-Billion-Dollar Climate Fund
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the first details of a proposed financing framework, dubbed the 'Green Fund', intended to mobilise 100 billion dollars a year by 2020 to help developing countries cope with the consequences of climate change and mitigate further emissions.
• 2010/03/25: Reuters: IMF member countries reject [US$100 billion/year] green fund plan
• 2010/03/23: Malaya(Ph): Climate change to cost 6% of GDP each year: IMF
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday said that countries in the Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, are more vulnerable to climate change, whose threat to food security and increased health risks may possibly result in the loss of more than 6 percent of gross domestic product each year. John Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the IMF, said: "Southeast Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change, given its long coastlines, its concentration of people and activity along the coast, and its reliance on agriculture, natural resources, and forestry." "If nothing is done, Southeast Asia could lose the equivalent of 6.75 percent of GDP each year by 2100, more than twice the global average loss," Lipsky said. Southeast Asia encompasses the Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• 2010/03/22: FinEx: Climate change funding raises little hope

  Carbon Tariffs still have people on edge:

• 2010/03/26: NYT:GreenInc: Taxing CO2 Emissions at Europe's Borders

  How to Manage Risk from the people who brought you the Global Financial Crisis...:

• 2010/03/22: Guardian(UK): Climate change uncertainty is no reason for inaction since we can't rule out risk

  The UN CFG is meeting next week:

• 2010/03/28: Guardian(UK): The trillion-dollar question is: who will now lead the climate battle? [UN CFG]
  Political and business leaders gather this week in an attempt to revive the world's faltering challenge to global warming. But they face a battle to lift the cloud of scepticism that has descended over climate science and chart a new way forward Some of the planet's most powerful paymasters will gather in London on Wednesday to discuss a nagging financial problem: how to raise a trillion dollars for the developing world. Those charged with achieving this daunting goal will include Gordon Brown, directors of several central banks, the billionaire philanthropist George Soros, the economist Lord (Nicholas) Stern and Larry Summers, President Obama's chief economics adviser. As an array of expertise, it is formidable: but then so is the task they have been set by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. In effect, the world's top financiers have been told to work out how to raise at least $100bn a year for the rest of this decade, cash that will be used to help the world's poorest countries adapt to climate change.

China is leading the USA in the clean green energy race:

• 2010/03/: Pew: [link to 2.8 meg pdf] The Clean Energy Economy
• 2010/03/25: Grist: China overtakes U.S. in green investment, study finds
• 2010/03/25: NRDC:SwitchBoard: China leading the Clean Energy Race -- Check out the Facts
• 2010/03/25: LA Times: China takes lead in clean-power investment
  U.S. falls to No. 2 in funding for such alternative sources as wind and solar.

Simon Lewis has filed a formal complaint against UK Sunday Times:

• 2010/03/26: HotTopic: Amazongate closes on Sunday Times: Simon Lewis fights back
• 2010/03/25: DeSmogBlog: Forest Scientist Simon Lewis Files Formal Complaint Against UK Sunday Times Over Dishonest Reporting On "Amazongate"
• 2010/03/24: SolveClimate: Scientist Files Official Complaint Over 'Distorted' News Story on IPCC Errors -- Says Newspaper Suggested IPCC Made False Claims about Amazon Rainfall
• 2010/03/25: ClimateP: Sunday Times tells Simon Lewis, "it has been recognised that the story was flawed" -- Forestry experty asks paper to take down IPCC/Amazon story
• 2010/03/24: ClimateP: Forest scientist fights back against 'distorted' UK article on Amazon and IPCC
  Simon Lewis files 31-page official complaint, paints devastating portrait of Sunday Times journalist Jonathan Leake
• 2010/03/24: Guardian(UK): Forests expert officially complains about 'distorted' Sunday Times article
  Press Complaints Commission told that newspaper story gives impression that IPCC made false Amazon rainfall claim
• 2010/03/24: Deltoid: Leakegate: Scientist fights back

  IPCC Support:

• 2010/03/28: HotTopic: IPCC's Pachauri fights back
• 2010/03/26: Guardian(UK): Don't hound the climate scientists by Rajendra Pachauri
  One regrettable mistake about glaciers doesn't alter the vast evidence there is of climate change
• 2010/03/26: Guardian(UK): Rajendra Pachauri: Climate scientists face 'new form of persecution'
  IPCC chair accuses politicians and sceptics of portraying scientists as 'criminals' through attacks on their credibility

The CRU Scientific Assessment Panel was struck this week:

• 2010/03/23: ScienceInsider: University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit Panel Named
• 2010/03/23: NatureTGB: New 'climate-gate' inquiry head already under fire
• 2010/03/23: Times(UK): Lord Oxburgh, the climate science peer, 'has a conflict of interest' [say deniers]
• 2010/03/22: Guardian(UK): Lord Oxburgh to head new UEA inquiry
  Former chair of the science and technology select committee will lead a panel to reassess the scientific papers produced by the Climatic Research Unit
• 2010/03/22: NatureCF: Are climate scientists ignoring the lessons of climategate?
• 2010/03/22: NatureCF: Another day, another 'climate-gate' inquiry
• 2010/03/22: UEA: CRU Scientific Assessment Panel announced
  Lord Oxburgh FRS, a former chair of the Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, is to chair an independent Scientific Assessment Panel to examine important elements of the published science of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.
• 2010/03/22: BBC: Chair announced for climate probe [CRU Scientific Assessment Panel]
  A chairman has been appointed to an independent review into the science published by the research unit at the centre of the "Climategate" row. Lord Oxburgh is a former chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. "The shadow hanging over climate change and science more generally at present makes it a matter of urgency that we get on with this assessment," he said. The Lord's appointment was made on the recommendation of the UK Royal Society.

Late coverage of Samanta et al.:

• 2010/03/21: MoD: Amazonian contradictions

  The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2010/03/27: HotTopic: Greenland ice melt spreads northwest
• 2010/03/24: USAToday: Study: Greenland ice loss accelerating
• 2010/03/24: CCP: Animation depicting the spread of ice loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE from 2003 through 2009, by John Wahr
• 2010/03/24: CCP: S. A. Khan, J. Wahr, M. Bevis, I. Velicogna & E. Kendrick, GRL, Spread of ice mass loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE and GPS
• 2010/03/23: Eureka: Greenland ice sheet losing mass on northwest coast
• 2010/03/23: ClimateP: New study of Greenland under "more realistic forcings" concludes "collapse of the ice-sheet was found to occur between 400 and 560 ppm" of CO2
• 2010/03/23: Stoat: Sea ice, briefly
• 2010/03/23: SkeptiSci: What CO2 level would cause the Greenland ice sheet to collapse?
• 2010/03/22: CCP: John Cook: What CO2 level would cause the Greenland ice sheet to collapse?
• 2010/03/22: ClimateP: Misreported study: "It is clear ... that the precipitous decline in September sea ice extent in recent years is mainly due to the cumulative loss of multiyear ice."
• 2010/03/22: Guardian(UK): Wind contributing to Arctic sea ice loss, study finds
  New research does not question climate change is also melting ice in the Arctic, but finds wind patterns explain steep decline
• 2010/03/25: NASA:JPL: NASA's Grace Sees Rapid Spread in Greenland Ice Loss

  As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

• 2010/03/27: CanWest: Canada seeks end to sea dispute -- Boundary battle with Denmark over Lincoln Sea
  Canada and Denmark have begun discussions aimed at resolving a decades-old boundary dispute in the Arctic Ocean, Canwest News Service has learned. The disagreement over a 200-square-kilometre section of the Lincoln Sea emerged in the early 1970s when the countries were first delineating the offshore boundary north of Canada's Ellesmere Island and Danish-controlled Greenland. While another dispute to the south over Hans Island has received considerable attention in recent years, the Lincoln Sea issue has remained a low-profile irritant in Canadian-Danish relations.
• 2010/03/25: Pravda: Climate Change, the Arctic and Russia's National Security

  While in Antarctica:

• 2010/03/23: NatureN: Teams set for first taste of Antarctic lakes -- Samples could reveal unique life forms from beneath the ice

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2010/03/25: PlanetArk: Giant Ethiopian Dam To Make 200,000 Go Hungry: NGO
• 2010/03/23: CCurrents: Farming: Going The American Way
• 2010/03/22: NatureTGB: North Korea faces devastating famine

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2010/03/24: UIllinois: Biofuel mandates would make corn shortfall costly, experts say
  Grocery shoppers face hefty price increases if bad weather withers a U.S. corn crop that is now tethered to grain-intensive renewable fuel mandates, a new University of Illinois study warns. A corn shortage, coupled with surging demand to meet government-ordered ethanol standards, could push cash prices to $7 a bushel, the study found, squeezing livestock producers and driving up prices for meat, milk, eggs and other farm staples.

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2010/03/24: GNA: WFP buys local rice from Ghanaian farmers
• 2010/03/26: FAO: Vietnam to help Chad improve food security -- South-South Cooperation accord signed at FAO
• 2010/03/26: CCurrents: Let Us Aim At Making 600,000 Villages Hunger-Free
• 2010/03/26: UN: Viet Nam to help Chad bolster food security under UN scheme
• 2010/03/26: PlanetArk: Greens Fear Indonesia Forest Loss For Food Estate
  Indonesia would have to clear about 700,000 hectares of forest, an area 10 times the size of Singapore, if it proceeds with plans for a vast agricultural estate in Papua province, an activist group said on Thursday. Indonesia wants to develop the 1.2 million hectare (3 million acres) food estate in the Papua district of Merauke, the eastern-most part of Indonesia, to shore up supplies of rice, sugar, corn, soybean and beef and ensure more stable food prices.
• 2010/03/25: Guardian(UK): China sends emergency food to drought-stricken provinces
• 2010/03/25: Eureka: 'A-maize-ing' discovery could lead to higher corn yields for food, feed and fuel
  Research published in the journal Genetics allows scientists to overcome barrier for effective crossbreeding of tropical and temperate strains of corn
• 2010/03/25: BBC: Food push urged to avoid hunger
  A big push to develop agriculture in the poorest countries is needed if the world is to feed itself in future decades, a report warns. With the world's population soaring to nine billion by mid-century, crop yields must rise, say the authors - yet climate change threatens to slash them. Already the number of chronically hungry people is above one billion. The report was prepared for a major conference on farming and development that opens next week in France. The first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) will bring scientists, policymakers, aid experts, businessmen and pressure groups together in an attempt to plot a way out of the hunger crisis.
• 2010/03/24: Eureka: Chance discovery leads to plant breeding breakthrough -- Offspring with genes from one parent
• 2010/03/23: SeedDaily: CSIRO Helps Unmask A Devastating Crop Disease [Fusarium fungus]
• 2010/03/21: UN: Muslim philanthropists gather at UN-backed event to discuss hunger, development

  Tropical Storm Imani blew around the South Indian Ocean:

• 2010/03/26: Eureka: Imani on the weakening on weekend
• 2010/03/25: PhysOrg: Imani reaches cyclone status 'by the tail'
• 2010/03/24: NASA: Tropical Storm Imani Making a Question Mark in the Southern Indian Ocean
• 2010/03/23: PhysOrg: NASA's Aqua Satellite sees a tight Tropical Storm 21S

  Tropical storm Omais blew around the Western Pacific:

• 2010/03/26: Eureka: Winds blow off Omais' thunderstorm tops
• 2010/03/25: PhysOrg: Tropical storm Omais weakens and doubles in size
• 2010/03/24: NASA: 02W Renamed Tropical Storm Omais, Staying at Sea
• 2010/03/23: PhysOrg: Tropical Storm 02W leaves Guam and Micronesia with high surf and swells
• 2010/03/22: Eureka: Tropical Depression 02W forms in northwestern Pacific

  Ului zapped Queensland last weekend:

• 2010/03/25: NASA: TRMM Sees Cyclone Ului Bring Heavy Rain to Queensland, Australia
• 2010/03/21: CBC: Cyclone batters Australian coast -- Storm knocks out power to 60,000 homes
• 2010/03/22: Eureka: NASA's TRMM Satellite measures Cyclone Ului's Australian rainfall from space

  While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2010/03/23: TerraDaily: Death toll from Madagascar storm [Hubert] rises to 78: authorities

  As for GHGs:

• 2010/03/23: UNEP: Cities Get Common Standard for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 2010/03/26: SolveClimate: UN, World Bank Approve Carbon Emissions Standard for Cities
• 2010/03/24: UCAR:HIPPO: HIPPO III Research Flight 01 :: Colorado to Alaska
• 2010/03/25: Guardian(UK): UK greenhouse gas emissions drop by 8.6%
• 2010/03/25: DECC: 2009 provisional UK figures
• 2010/03/25: BizGreen: UK greenhouse gas emissions fall 8.6 per cent in 2009
• 2010/03/24: Inquirer(Ph): UN launches global greenhouse gas emissions calculator
• 2010/03/22: ABC(Au): Emissions down despite summer heat
  Figures released by The Climate Group show emissions from energy use across New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria fell 1.6 per cent over the past three months, to 74.8 million tonnes.

And in the carbon cycle:

• 2010/03/25: ClimateP: Nature review of 20 years of field studies finds soils emitting more CO2 as planet warms
• 2010/03/24: TCoE: Even dirt is out to get us
• 2010/03/24: NatureN: Soils emitting more carbon dioxide -- Trend could exacerbate global warming
• 2010/03/24: Eureka: Even soil feels the heat -- Soils release more carbon dioxide as globe warms

  As for the temperature record:

• 2010/03/24: UNDispatch: World Meteorological Organization: 2009 Was the Fifth Warmest Year on Record
• 2010/03/24: UN: The past decade was the warmest on record, UN weather agency says
• 2010/03/23: EarthTimes: UN: 2000s was hottest decade on record
• 2010/03/22: DWWSJ: NASA & NOAA- Despite what you heard, it's still getting warmer
• 2010/03/22: TreeHugger: Canada Has Warmest (7.2 °F Above Normal) and Driest (22% Below Normal) Winter on Record

  Aerosols are making their presence felt:

• 2010/03/23: UCAR: Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric heights
• 2010/03/25: CBC: Asian monsoon spreads pollution
  Air pollution from Asia, India and Indonesia is transported into the global stratosphere by the summer monsoon season, a study using a Canadian satellite has found. Researchers tracked the movement of hydrogen cyanide in the atmosphere using satellites and found the monsoon is an effective way for pollution from Asia to circulate around the world. Hydrogen cyanide is a pollutant produced in the burning of biofuels and biomass, such as trees and grass. It's often used to track pollution from wildfires.
• 2010/03/25: PhysOrg: Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric heights
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the global nature of air pollution and its effects far above Earth's surface.
• 2010/03/24: TerraDaily: Nigeria shrouded in dust, flights cancelled
• 2010/03/23: PlanetArk: Hong Kong, Taiwan Suffer From Chinese Sandstorms
• 2010/03/23: Wunderground: Massive duststorms suffocate China
• 2010/03/22: CBC: China sandstorms prompt health warnings
  Sandstorms whipping across China shrouded cities in an unhealthy cloud of sand and grit Monday, with winds carrying the pollution outside the mainland as far as the island of Taiwan. Overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and drought have expanded deserts in the country's north and west. The shifting sands have gradually encroached onto populated areas and worsened sandstorms that strike cities, particularly in the spring.

In the paleoclimate:

• 2010/03/25: SciDaily: Summers Were Wetter in the Middle Ages Than They Are Today
• 2010/03/26: SciDaily: Prolonged Climatic Stress Main Reason for Mass Extinction 65 Million Years Ago, Paleontologist Says
• 2010/03/25: CBC: Microbes breathe life into oxygen theory
  A new study of methane-munching microbes adds weight to the idea that bacteria were producing oxygen on Earth before photosynthesis evolved. Margaret Butler of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland, and colleagues, report their study of a new kind of bacteria this week in the journal Nature.
• 2010/03/24: NatureN: Methane-eating microbes make their own oxygen -- Bacteria may have survived on Earth without plants, thanks to unique metabolism

  While on the ENSO front:

• 2010/03/24: SciDaily: El Niño's Last Hurrah?

  Regarding the solar hypothesis:

• 2010/03/23: CCP: Nope! For the thousandths time, it is not the Sun!

  The cliff, aka the tipping point, aka the planetary boundaries, put in an appearance:

• 2010/03/26: TCoE: Earth's boundaries, the video
• 2010/03/25: TP:WR: Global Boiling: Past The Tipping Point

  As for ocean currents:

• 2010/03/26: SciNow: Steady as She Goes for Ocean's Conveyor
• 2010/03/26: PhysOrg: NASA Study Finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing
• 2010/03/25: NASA:JPL: NASA Study Finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing
• 2010/03/25: CCP: NASA study finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' not slowing overturning circulation of the global ocean

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2010/03/27: BBC: Frustration for Meteosat project
• 2010/03/25: ESA: New boreal forest biomass maps produced from radar satellite data
• 2010/03/25: NASA:JPL: NASA's Grace Sees Rapid Spread in Greenland Ice Loss

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2010/03/26: ABC(Au): Scientists have been meeting in Perth to look at how the changing climate could affect rock lobster numbers in WA.
• 2010/03/24: SeedDaily: Climate: Poor nations most at risk from plant loss
• 2010/03/24: NEFSC: Scientists Link Climate Change and Atlantic Croaker Fishery -- Model Could be Used to Forecast Climate Impacts for Other Fisheries
• 2010/03/24: Eureka: Warmer summers could create challenges for nesting Arctic seabirds -- Birds uniquely adapted to cool, dry summers
• 2010/03/23: ABC(Au): Research shows that climate change could be good for the little penguin populations in Bass Strait

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2010/03/26: UCSUSA: New U.N. Report Shows Deforestation Slowing Worldwide; Helped by Aid from Developed Countries to Tropics
• 2010/03/26: PlanetArk: Greens Fear Indonesia Forest Loss For Food Estate
• 2010/03/25: FAO: World deforestation decreases, but remains alarming in many countries -- FAO publishes key findings of global forest resources assessment
• 2010/03/25: UN: Deforestation in decline but rate remains alarming, UN agency [FAO] says
• 2010/03/25: EarthTimes: UN: Destruction of forests slows down, but remains alarming
• 2010/03/25: ESA: New boreal forest biomass maps produced from radar satellite data
• 2010/03/24: Reuters: Global deforestation slowed over last decade: U.N.
• 2010/03/25: BBC: Forest loss slows as China plants
  The world's net rate of forest loss has slowed markedly in the last decade, with less logging in the Amazon and China planting trees on a grand scale. Yet forests continue to be lost at "an alarming rate" in some countries, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Its Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 finds the loss of tree cover is most acute in Africa and South America. But Australia also suffered huge losses because of the recent drought.
• 2010/03/23: SolveClimate: Drivers of Deforestation: In the Tropics, Urbanization Plays a Key Role -- The Shift to Urban Living Changes Agriculture and Consumption Patterns
• 2010/03/22: TerraDaily: Forests Critical For Slowing Climate Change
• 2010/03/22: SciDaily: Rapid Increases in Tree Growth Found in US
• 2010/03/22: Eureka: How will tree diseases react to climate change? New project helps land managers understand interactions of climate change, pathogens and forests

  Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

• 2010/03/26: TEC: New Movie: "Climate Refugees"
• 2010/03/22: SciDaily: Environmental Refugees and Global Warming
  Climate change and environmental degradation are likely to trigger increased migration in Sub-Saharan Africa with potentially devastating effects on the hundreds of millions of especially poor people, according to a paper in the International Journal of Global Warming.

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2010/03/23: TerraDaily: Chaos as freak storm batters Australia's Perth

  As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2010/03/25: People's Daily: Draught causes thousands of wildfires in Cuba
  A thousand forest fires burnt through Cuba in the first quarter of 2010 alone, Lt. Col. Sergio Zubizarreta, deputy chief of the Cuban fire department, said Wednesday. Zubizarreta said the fires were mainly caused by draught in the dry season which usually runs from February to May.

Corals are dying:

• 2010/03/27: SciDaily: Polynesia's Coral Reefs Wiped out by Cyclone Oli
• 2010/03/25: ChicagoTrib: Death of coral reefs could devastate nations
• 2010/03/25: TCoE: Coral reefs in danger
• 2010/03/24: TerraDaily: Climate change puts Australian [Lord Howe Island] reef on 'knife edge'
• 2010/03/24: ABC(Au): Bleaching leaves Lord Howe reef 'on knife-edge'
  Parts of the world's most southerly coral reef are under threat after it suffered its largest-recorded bleaching event. Lord Howe Island is well known for its pristine environment and natural beauty.
• 2010/03/21: Eureka: Governments fail to protect red and pink coral
  Scientists, conservationists and industry representatives decry move as politically motivated; urge industry to act where governments have failed International governments today failed to grant trade protection to the unique and valuable red and pick corals (Coralliidae) used in jewelry and home décor, despite sound science showing that regulation is needed for their continued survival. SeaWeb, an ocean conservation organization whose campaign Too Precious to Wear had called for governments to protect Coralliidae under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), called the decision "a major step backward for the long-tem survival of red and pink coral and the industries that depend on them." Intensive lobbying by coral industry interests occurred in the days leading up to the vote.

Glaciers are melting:

• 2010/03/26: Xinhuanet: Climate change threatens Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
  The "roof of the world" is getting warmer, and people on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau region clearly feel the changes. "The past few winters have been quite unusual," says Hou Fusheng, 83. "It's getting warmer every year."
• 2010/03/25: EnergyBulletin: As Glaciers Melt, Bolivia Fights for the Good Life

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2010/03/25: JEB: OMG we're all going to drown!!!111!!11
• 2010/03/25: NatureCF: Climate change stops fighting between India and Bangladesh
• 2010/03/24: Guardian(UK): Island claimed by India and Bangladesh sinks below waves
• 2010/03/25: ABC(Au): An island in the Bay of Bengal, claimed for years by both India and Bangladesh, appears to have vanished beneath rising seas
• 2010/03/24: TreeHugger: Climate Change 'Solves' Political Dispute As Bay of Bengal Island Vanishes Under Rising Seas
• 2010/03/24: BBC: Bay of Bengal island 'disappears'
  A tiny island claimed for years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say. The uninhabited territory south of the Hariabhanga river was known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis. Recent satellites images show the whole island under water, says the School of Oceanographic Studies in Calcutta. Its scientists say other nearby islands could also vanish as sea levels rise.
• 2010/03/23: HotTopic: What makes sea level rise uneven
• 2010/03/23: JEB: Sea level rise prediction cage fight
• 2010/03/21: Telegraph(UK): Wildlife havens to be abandoned to the sea
  Protected wildlife havens that are home to rare birds, plants and insects, are to be lost to the sea under government plans to abandon coastal flood defences.

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

• 2010/03/24: GreenGrok: Rains Come and Come Again the Next Day
• 2010/03/24: PhysOrg: Northeastern U.S. Flooding 'GOES' to the Movies Via Satellite (w/ Video)
• 2010/03/25: BBC: Severe drought hits China region
  Severe drought is hitting China's south-west region and in some places it is the worst drought for a century. More than 60 million people are affected and it is estimated that billions of dollars worth of crops are now ruined. The Chinese authorities have mobilised the armed forces to help get water to local people. Large areas of south-west China have not had proper rainfall since October last year.
• 2010/03/24: EarthTimes: Dry rivers cut power supply in south-west China
• 2010/03/22: TerraDaily: West African farmers call for help as drought hits
• 2010/03/22: MongaBay: Drought crippling southwest China, millions without drinking water
• 2010/03/22: PlanetArk: China Says Drought Now Affecting 50 Million People
  A severe drought across a large swathe of southwest China is now affecting more than 50 million people, and forecasters see no signs of it abating in the short term, state media said on Friday. The drought began last autumn, and is the result not only of less rainfall but also unseasonably high temperatures, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing a central government meeting on the situation.
• 2010/03/22: Eureka: Changes seen in rainfall trends in March, June and October since 1945 in Spain

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2010/03/26: NRDC:SwitchBoard: It's official -- dirty diesel ships must clean up their act along all U.S. coasts
• 2010/03/26: TreeHugger: Big Victory for Clean Air! Emission Control Area Created Around U.S. and Canadian Coastlines
• 2010/03/25: PlanetArk: Ships Can Cut CO2 By Slowing Down: Study
• 2010/03/22: PlanetArk: Cruise Lines Hope To Sink U.S.-Canada Pollution Plan
  Cruise companies are balking at a proposal to create a low-emissions buffer zone around the United States and Canada, saying it sets arbitrary boundaries based on faulty science that overstates the health benefits. The proposed Emissions Control Area would extend 200 nautical miles, which is 230 statute miles, around the coast of the two nations and set stringent new limits on air pollution from ocean-going ships beginning in 2015. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the U.N. agency that sets regulations for ships operating internationally, is expected to adopt the proposal at its weeklong meeting that begins on Monday in London. Cruise executives at an industry meeting in Miami said the plan would force them to switch to low-sulfur fuels that would dramatically drive up costs.

While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:

• 2010/03/26: TreeHugger: And the US City With the Most Efficient Buildings is...
• 2010/03/25: CSM: Want to save money on a green home renovation? Hire a HERS rater.
• 2010/03/23: BizJo: Portland rises on EPA's 'energy efficient buildings' list
• 2010/03/22: PhysOrg: New 'smart' roof reads the thermometer, saves energy in hot and cold climates
• 2010/03/22: CBC: Cooking-oil roof coating can cut costs

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2010/03/26: CanWest: CO2 capture likely to increase price of coal-fuelled electricity generation
  The cost of electricity generated from coal will increase relative to renewable energy as the world develops and implements technologies that curtail carbon dioxide emissions at coal-fired generating plants, international experts said on Thursday in Vancouver. Panellists at Globe 2010 sessions on carbon capture and storage said the cost of removing CO2 from the emission stacks at coal plants adds to the price of power production -- and that it's important for both government and the public to accept higher energy costs as part of the price for managing climate change.
• 2010/03/24: Eureka: New CO2 'scrubber' from [aminosilicones] ingredient in hair conditioners
• 2010/03/23: TEC: Oxburgh: CCS or death
• 2010/03/22: KSJT: NYTimes: Biz writer catches up on carbon-capturing cement plan long after science writers had it -- and sprints past them.
• 2010/03/22: ClimateP: Does carbon-eating cement (still) deserve the hype?
• 2010/03/21: NYT: Mixing In Some Carbon
  It seems like alchemy: a Silicon Valley start-up says it has found a way to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from coal and gas power plants and lock them into cement. If it works on a mass scale, the company, Calera, could turn that carbon into gold. Cement production is a large source of carbon emissions in the United States, and coal-fired electricity plants are the biggest source. As nations around the world press companies to curb their greenhouse-gas emissions, a technology that makes it profitable to do so could be very popular. Indeed, Calera's marketing materials may be one of the rare places where glowing quotes from a coal company and the Sierra Club appear together.

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2010/03/26: AFTIC: Could Tiny Bubbles Cool the Planet? - ScienceNOW
• 2010/03/26: ACS: Talking About Geoengineering -- Climate Intervention: California conference calls for research that is responsible and open
• 2010/03/26: TCoE: Earth: Now with cooling bubbles!
• 2010/03/26: SciNow: Could Tiny Bubbles Cool the Planet?
  "Since water covers most of the earth, don't dim the sun, Brighten the water." says Russell Seitz
• 2010/03/23: CDreams: We Cannot 'Techno-Fix' Our Way to a Sustainable Future
• 2010/03/19: AgriPulse: 'Geoengineering' could be needed to backstop carbon emissions regulations
• 2010/03/24: BSD: Friends of Earth UK's questionable support for chemical open air carbon capture
• 2010/03/24: BizGreen: "Mad scientist" talks up geo-engineering vision
  Leading contributor to IPCC report calls for increased support for geo-engineering research, reveals European Research Council is considering funding pledge One of Britain's top climate scientists and a leading contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yesterday issued an impassioned plea for greater research into so-called geo-engineering technologies capable of altering the climate. Speaking at an event hosted by Lloyd's of London and Exeter University, professor Peter Cox argued that projects capable of reducing global temperatures may be necessary if world leaders are serious about their stated goal of limiting average temperature rises to two degrees.
• 2010/03/21: WorldChanging: Geoengineering: Plan B, Triage Method or Dangerous Illusion?

  There was some chatter about the Asilomar Conference:

• 2010/03/26: NatureTGB: 'Climate intervention' conference winds down with solemn assessment
• 2010/03/26: ScienceInsider: Full Text of 'Asilomar 2' Statement
• 2010/03/26: ScienceInsider: [Asilomar Conference] Scientists Call for 'Climate Intervention' Research With 'Humility'
• 2010/03/22: ClimateP: On the eve of [Asilomar] landmark climate manipulation conference, chief sponsor moves to quell criticism

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2010/03/24: NERC:NORA: Regionalised impacts of climate change on flood flows: hydrological models, catchments and calibration. Milestone report 1 by S.M. Crooks et al.
• 2010/03/25: NERC:NORA: Contributions from transport, solid fuel burning and cooking to primary organic aerosols in two UK cities by J.D. Allan et al.
• 2010/03/25: NERC:NORA: Characterising inter-annual variation in the spatial pattern of thermal microclimate in a UK upland using a combined empirical-physical model by J.J. Bennie et al.
• 2010/03/25: NERC:NORA: Can carbon offsetting pay for upland ecological restoration? by Fred Worrall et al.
• 2010/03/25: AGWObserver: Papers on formal attribution
• 2010/03/26: ACP: Lidar characterization of the Arctic atmosphere during ASTAR 2007: four cases studies of boundary layer, mixed-phase and multi-layer clouds by A. Lampert et al.
• 2010/03/26: ACP: Characterization of a large biogenic secondary organic aerosol event from eastern Canadian forests by J. G. Slowik et al.
• 2010/03/26: ACPD: Temporal variability of mineral dust concentrations over West Africa: analyses of a pluriannual monitoring from the AMMA Sahelian Dust Transect by B. Marticorena et al.
• 2010/03/26: ACPD: Novel method of generation of Ca(HCO3)2 and CaCO3 aerosols and first determination of hygroscopic and cloud condensation nuclei activation properties by D. F. Zhao et al.
• 2010/03/26: ACPD: Moisture effects on carbon and nitrogen emission from burning of wildland biomass by L.-W. A. Chen et al.
• 2010/03/25: TCD: Comparison of glaciological and volumetric mass balance measurements at Storglaciären, Sweden by M. Zemp et al.
• 2010/03/25: TCD: Determination of length, area, and volume changes at Storglaciären, Sweden, from multi-temporal aerial images (1959-1999) by T. Koblet et al.
• 2010/03/24: TCD: Increasing runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet at Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord) in a 30-year perspective, 1979-2008 by S. H. Mernild et al.
• 2010/03/23: CP: Effects of orbital forcing on atmosphere and ocean heat transports in Holocene and Eemian climate simulations with a comprehensive Earth system model by N. Fischer & J. H. Jungclaus
• 2010/03/23: CP: The reconstruction of easterly wind directions for the Eifel region (Central Europe) during the period 40.3-12.9 ka BP by S. Dietrich & K. Seelos
• 2010/03/26: EST: The New World of the Anthropocene by Jan Zalasiewicz et al.
• 2010/03/26: QSR(via doi): (ab$) Tree-ring indicators of German summer drought over the last millennium by Ulf Büntgen et al.
• 2005/03/25: Nature: (ab$) Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms by James C. Orr et al.
• 2010/03/25: ACP: On retrieval of lidar extinction profiles using Two-Stream and Raman techniques by I. S. Stachlewska & C. Ritter
• 2010/03/24: ACP: Effects of resolution on the relative importance of numerical and physical horizontal diffusion in atmospheric composition modelling by M. D'Isidoro et al.
• 2010/03/23: ACP: First climatology of polar mesospheric clouds from GOMOS/ENVISAT stellar occultation instrument by K. Pérot et al.
• 2010/03/23: ACP: Atmospheric nitrogen budget in Sahelian dry savannas by C. Delon et al.
• 2010/03/25: ACPD: Impact of biomass burning on surface water quality in Southeast Asia through atmospheric deposition: eutrophication modeling by P. Sundarambal et al.
• 2010/03/25: ACPD: Impact of biomass burning on surface water quality in Southeast Asia through atmospheric deposition: field observations by P. Sundarambal et al.
• 2010/03/25: ACPD: African biomass burning plumes over the Atlantic: aircraft based measurements and implications for H2SO4 and HNO3 mediated smoke particle activation by V. Fiedler et al.
• 2010/03/23: ACPD: Brown carbon and water-soluble organic aerosols over the southeastern United States by A. Hecobian et al.
• 2010/03/23: ACPD: Feedback between dust particles and atmospheric processes over West Africa in March 2006 and June 2007 by T. Stanelle et al.
• 2010/03/23: ACPD: The influence of biomass burning on tropospheric composition over the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Equatorial Africa during the West African monsoon in 2006 by J. E. Williams et al.
• 2010/03/23: ACPD: Long-term record of aerosol optical properties and chemical composition from a high-altitude site (Manora Peak) in Central Himalaya by K. Ram et al.
• 2010/03/22: ACPD: Geoengineering by stratospheric SO2 injection: results from the Met Office HadGEM2 climate model and comparison with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE by A. Jones et al.
• 2010/03/22: ACPD: Western african aerosols modelling with updated biomass burning emission inventories in the frame of the AMMA-IDAF program by C. Liousse et al.
• 2010/03/22: AGWObserver: Papers on ecosystem response to past climate
• 2010/03/23: PNAS: Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions by Steven J. Davis & Ken Caldeira
• 2010/03/23: PNAS: Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behind late Pleistocene musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) population dynamics by Paula F. Campos et al.
• 2010/03/23: PNAS: Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes by Oliver Korup et al.
• 2010/03/23: PNAS: Optimized low-level liquid scintillation spectroscopy of 35S for atmospheric and biogeochemical chemistry applications by Lauren A. Brothers et al.
• 2010/03/23: PNAS: Two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality and implications for Norse colonies by William P. Patterson et al.
• 2010/03/22: TCD: Monitoring of active layer dynamics at a permafrost site on Svalbard using multi-channel ground-penetrating radar by S. Westermann et al.
• 2010/03/16: PLoS Biology: Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change by Taylor H. Ricketts et al.

  And other significant documents:

• 2010/03/27: TCoE: [link to 214k pdf] Doc alert: Preliminary Observations on Geoengineering Science, Federal Efforts, and Governance Issues
• 2010/03/26: CBO:DB: [link to 3.9 meg pdf] Federal Climate Change Programs
• 2010/03/: Pew: [link to 2.8 meg pdf] The Clean Energy Economy
• 2010/03/25: FAO: [link to 4.9 meg pdf] Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010
• 2010/03/24: GreenPeace: [link to 355k pdf] Dealing in Doubt

  As for miscellaneous science:

• 2010/03/26: PhysOrg: Advanced Analysis Tools Aim to Reduce Uncertainty in Climate Data
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have developed a new, advanced data-reduction method -- Stochastic Proper Orthogonal Decomposition -- that will greatly improve the capability to deal with uncertainty in the high-dimensional noisy data from random simulations.
• 2010/03/25: Eureka: 11 questions for the next decade of geographical sciences identified
• 2010/03/23: SciAm: Can Climate Models Predict Global Warming's Direct Effects in Your City?
  The U.S. government is launching a $50-million effort to enable supercomputer-powered climate models to deliver regional impacts
• 2010/03/21: JFleck: '70s Cooling Myth Paper Grows Legs

  More DIY science:

• 2010/03/23: CC&G: RClimate Script: Global Mean Sea Level Trend by Month

  Statistics! We have Statistics!

• 2010/03/21: Stoat: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
• 2010/03/21: Tamino: The Power -- and Perils -- of Statistics
• 2010/03/24: Tamino: Bad Bayes Gone Bad
• 2010/03/22: Tamino: Good Bayes Gone Bad

  While at the UN:

• 2010/03/25: UNDispatch: The Race to Replace the Outgoing Top UN Climate Negotiator
• 2010/03/26: JakartaPost: RI insists on bid to chair UN climate body
• 2010/03/25: Guardian(UK): Developing world candidates eye UN climate chief role
• 2010/03/23: UN: On World Meteorological Day, UN spotlights crucial role of weather prediction
• 2010/03/23: People's Daily: Costa Rica introduces nomination for top UN climate change post
• 2010/03/22: SolveClimate: Costa Rican Emerging as Leading Candidate for UN Climate Chief
  Carbon Market Experience, Trust Building Wins Christiana Figueres Accolades from Public & Private Sectors
• 2010/03/22: EarthTimes: Costa Rica nominates diplomat to head UN climate change body

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2010/03/25: Economist: Carbon markets -- The wrong sort of recycling -- Hungary's sale of used carbon credits damages investor confidence
• 2010/03/24: PlanetArk: Factbox: Unravelling The Voluntary Carbon Market
• 2010/03/22: EurActiv: Hungary's sale of 'used' CO2 credits worries carbon traders
  Hungary's sale of 'used' carbon credits - or 'hot air' as environmentalists call them - had harmed the reputation of cap and trade, an industry lobby said on Friday (20 March), but analysts expected little price impact.
• 2010/03/21: Times(UK): Hunt for 'rogue trader' over recycled carbon credits
  A tiny London trading firm is at the centre of a shadowy chain of international deals involving the carbon market's first "rogue trader". A mystery investor made a £1.8m profit last week by selling invalid carbon permits to unwitting buyers in Europe -- which caused a temporary trading freeze at two of the main carbon trading exchanges. Microdyne, a firm registered in Cyprus but based in Edgware, northwest London, confirmed this weekend that it bought and sold the permits to the mystery trader. Bluenext, the exchange where the permits were sold has launched an investigation.

Is this a defeat or a strategic retreat to go for a Europe-wide carbon tax?

• 2010/03/24: ABC(Au): Sarkozy backs down on carbon tax plan
• 2010/03/23: BBC: France backs down on carbon tax
  The French government has signalled that it is dropping a plan for a tax on domestic carbon dioxide emissions. Jean-Francois Cope, parliamentary leader of the governing UMP party, was quoted as saying the tax "would be Europe-wide or not (exist) at all".
• 2010/03/23: Guardian(UK): Nicolas Sarkozy under fire after carbon tax plan shelved
  French president accused of pandering to eco-scepticism after government backs down over carbon tax
• 2010/03/23: Grist: France to abandon plans for carbon tax
  France is to abandon its planned carbon fuel tax, which aimed to curb global warming, members of parliament quoted the prime minister as saying on Tuesday. A tax would have to be introduced at a European level in order "not to harm the competitiveness of French companies," Francois Fillon was quoted as saying by several MPs of the governing UMP party who attended a meeting with him.

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:

• 2010/03/22: ClimateP: Stavins on the global irony of cap-and-trade -- Climate policy in Tokyo, Seoul, Brussels, and Washington

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2010/03/25: SolveClimate: China, Germany Lead the Race Toward a Low-Carbon Economy -- Without National Policies, U.S. Will Lag Behind in a Growing Industry
• 2010/03/25: PlanetArk: EU Yields To Canada Over Oil Trade "Barriers": Sources
• 2010/03/23: Xinhuanet: Chinese envoy urges EU to raise its emission cut target [to 30%]

  As for GW & security:

• 2010/03/22: Scotsman: Drought, refugees, revolution and war -- military prepares for climate doomsday
  Military chiefs are holding "back room" discussions on how to cope with the threat of a world ravaged by wars provoked by uncontrolled climate change, an expert has warned. Gwynne Dyer, an influential lecturer in international affairs, said if the climate continues to change at its current rate there will be global conflict in decades. Tens of millions of climate refuges unable to feed themselves in their own dried-up countries will aim for places like Scotland where conditions will remain favourable. These countries will in turn use their military powers to barricade their borders, leading to wars over land, food and water. Mr Dyer was speaking to The Scotsman ahead of the Edinburgh International Science Festival next month, when he will give a talk called "Climate Wars".

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

• 2010/03/22: BBC: Met admits G20 unlawful arrests
  The Metropolitan Police has paid damages to protesters it unlawfully arrested during the G20 protests. The force paid £6,000 in damages to Hannah McClure and Andrew Rubens who were held during a raid on a squat. The arrests came about when officers in riot gear broke up a meeting of some 60 climate camp activists during the April 2009 global summit in London. Solicitors for the pair said that others demonstrators held during the same operation would now sue. The Climate Camp anti-global warming group was one of the key protest groups involved in two days of G20 demonstrations centred on the City of London financial district.

As for the God Machine:

• 2010/03/25: CSM: Conservative Evangelicals embrace God and green
• 2010/03/25: TreeHugger: Christian Coalition Has Senator Graham's Back on Climate

  Polls! We have polls!

• 2010/03/24: TCoE: What does enviro-polling mean?
• 2010/03/25: ABC(Au): A New South Wales Government survey has found Hunter residents rate mining as one of the biggest environment issues facing the state
• 2010/03/23: MoD: US Public still favours limiting CO2 emissions
• 2010/03/23: PlanetArk: [US] Public Support For Nuclear Power At New Peak

  Regarding Water Politics and Business:

• 2010/03/25: DVoice: Bushmen Mark Eight Years without Water
• 2010/03/22: UNEP: Time to Cure Global Tide of Sick Water
  Turning Two Millions Tons of Waste - Equal to Over Two Billion Tons of Wastewater - into Economic Resource Could Benefit Human Health, Agriculture and the Environment
• 2010/03/22: NRDC:SwitchBoard: U.N. Report: "Sick Water?"
• 2010/03/22: TerraDaily: Over 155 million without potable water in West, central Africa: UNICEF
• 2010/03/23: NBF: New water desalination approach from MIT and South Korea could lead to efficient small, portable units
• 2010/03/23: AlterNet: The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy California, and Enrich Its Billionaire Farmers
• 2010/03/22: NatureN: Purifying the sea one drop at a time -- Microfluidic channels offer promise of cheap, portable desalination
• 2010/03/22: WorldChanging: The Story of Bottled Water [video]
• 2010/03/22: Eureka: April issue of National Geographic magazine takes in-depth look at fresh water
• 2010/03/22: AlterNet: Are Greedy Water Bottlers Siphoning Your City's Drinking Water?
• 2010/03/22: BBC: Why business needs to worry about water
  "Global water requirements ... will be 40% greater than what can currently be sustainably supplied" -Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmanthe

And on the American political front:

• 2010/03/26: NRDC:SwitchBoard: California, Exercising Abundant Caution, Delays Cool Cars Rule
• 2010/03/27: TPMCafe: U.S. Green Dreams Pricked By Tough International Realities
• 2010/03/25: Reuters: Waste issue hurting U.S. nuclear revival-panel
  The lack of a permanent home for the nation's radioactive waste is dampening prospects for a resurgence of the U.S. nuclear industry, federal commissioners said at their first public hearing on the subject. The Energy Department set up the panel of former Congressmen, academics, and business leaders after deciding to scrap the long delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. Commissioners said nuclear waste does not pose an immediate threat to the nation, but a plan on its disposal must be hatched to address the concerns average Americans have about expanding nuclear power.
• 2010/03/26: PhysOrg: 'Cash for refrigerators' kick-starts appliance sales
  Americans are lining up to snap up rebates for "cash for refrigerators" and "dollars for dishwashers," as part of a government program aimed at both economic stimulus and reduced emissions.
• 2010/03/25: Grist: Why are we propping up corn production, again?
• 2010/03/26: Grist: Cap-and-trade is dead, just like healthcare reform -- Reminder: the U.S. already has cap-and-trade ...in the Northeast
• 2010/03/25: NYT: 'Cap and Trade' Loses Its Standing as Energy Policy of Choice
• 2010/03/26: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Energy Star Under Fire: Are the Fixes Coming Fast Enough?
• 2010/03/26: LA Times: Massachusetts tribes aim to take the wind out of a wind farm
  Wampanoag Indians, citing cultural grounds, mount a spirited fight against America's first planned offshore wind turbine development.
• 2010/03/25: TEC: California Adopts Tradeable Renewable Energy Credits
• 2010/03/26: SacBee: Schwarzenegger takes side of business in implementing global warming law
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, facing a ballot initiative that could derail his cherished global warming law, is urging a go-slow, pro-business approach on a key mechanism used to reduce greenhouse gases. The law, AB 32, requires California to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 15 percent by the end of the decade. Scheduled to take effect in 2012, it is a centerpiece of Schwarzenegger's governorship. But a conservative group is pushing a November ballot initiative that would put the law on ice until unemployment falls below 5.5 percent, on the grounds that AB 32 would cripple an already fragile economy with tens of billions of dollars in new costs. The initiative is being bankrolled by a group of Texas oil companies. In a letter to the California Air Resources Board this week, the Republican governor sided with business interests on a key piece of the law, saying California's industries must be given "sufficient time" to scale back their carbon emissions gradually.
• 2010/03/26: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Clean Energy Jobs: the Real China Syndrome
• 2010/03/26: OilDrum: Energy Security Populism: Oil Prices, American Leaders, and Media
• 2010/03/25: Economist: America's biofuel muddle -- Coming up empty
  America will have trouble meeting its ambitious goals for biofuels
• 2010/03/25: Guardian(UK): How China overtook the US in renewable energy
• 2010/03/25: Guardian(UK): Pew report: China overtakes US as top clean tech investor
• 2010/03/25: PlanetArk: California Says Climate Change Law Won't Hurt Economy
• 2010/03/25: PlanetArk: Lawmakers Seek To Keep Yucca Nuclear Waste Dump
  The U.S. Energy Department's push to scrap a long-planned national nuclear waste dump in Nevada has run into stiff opposition as lawmakers on Wednesday questioned the Obama administration's decision. A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a resolution of disapproval in the House of Representatives on Tuesday aimed at making the department stop efforts to shelve the project and maintain all records relating to the proposed storage site. Lawmakers on a House Appropriations subcommittee grilled Energy Secretary Steven Chu about plans to cancel the repository at Yucca Mountain. These moves may signal trouble for the administration's pledge to scrap the Yucca site, fiercely opposed in Nevada and by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who represents the state. A panel of experts that the administration named to devise a strategy for handling nuclear waste has been preparing to hold its first public meetings on Thursday and Friday.
• 2010/03/24: TEC: Is America becoming a third world country with first world emissions?
• 2010/03/25: NPR: How Republicans Learned To Reject Climate Change
• 2010/03/23: Grist: American Enterprise Institute accidentally makes the case for climate legislation [US pol]
• 2010/03/23: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Investigation Exposes Coal Industry Influence over Tennessee Politicians
• 2010/03/24: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Halting Tropical Deforestation is in the US Interest -- just ask US farmers and ranchers
• 2010/03/24: UCSUSA: Proposed Increase in Wisconsin's Renewable Electricity Standard is Easily Achievable, Report Finds
• 2010/03/24: LA Times: Climate law won't hurt California economy, report says
  Many sectors will prosper under the greenhouse gas limits, an analysis by the state air board finds. A business group disputes the findings.
• 2010/03/23: NatureCF: Climate in the classroom
• 2010/03/23: DenverPost: Ritter signs bill requiring greater use of renewable energy [30%] by 2020
• 2010/03/22: ClimateP: Passage of healthcare security bill gives momentum to bipartisan climate and energy security bill -- If only progressives had a clue about messaging!
• 2010/03/21: AutoBG: Bid to block California's A.B. 32 emission standards funded by big oil
• 2010/03/21: PRWatch: Burning Tires: Illinois' "Renewable Energy"?

  Here's a late blossoming gift from the Bush era:

• 2010/03/24: OnEarth: Bush Administration's Secret Nuclear Deals Will Cost Taxpayers Billions
  In its final days, and with no fanfare, the Bush Administration signed 21 contracts with nuclear power companies promising to store high level radioactive waste from plants that had not yet been built, even though no federal repository for such waste exists, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER). At least one of the contracts is dated January 22, 2009 -- two days after President Barack Obama had been sworn into office. The contracts were made public by the IEER during a press conference today, on the eve of tomorrow's first meeting of President Obama's "Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future."

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2010/03/25: C411: EPA Proposes New Rules for Reporting Methane Emissions
• 2010/03/27: TP: Citing 'irreversible damage,' EPA nears veto of mountaintop removal permit
• 2010/03/26: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EPA Moves to Block Massive WV Mountaintop Mining Permit [for Spruce No. 1 Mine]
• 2010/03/25: NYT: Audit Finds Vulnerability of EnergyStar Program
• 2010/03/25: ScienceInsider: Chu Comes Out Swinging in Defense of Energy Hubs
• 2010/03/24: PlanetArk: EPA Seeks Carbon Data From Oil, Natgas Sectors
• 2010/03/23: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Putting Energy Star to the test -- DOE/EPA to beef up testing of Energy Star products
• 2010/03/23: US EPA: Proposed Rules under the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule
• 2010/03/24: Eureka: Improving predictions of climate change and its impacts
  New interagency [NSF, DOE & USDA] program to generate high-resolution tools for addressing climate change
• 2010/03/23: NYT: E.P.A. to Seek More Data on Emissions
  The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the oil and gas sector and facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground to the greenhouse gas sources that are required to report their annual emissions to the government. The agency already requires 31 industries, representing 85 percent of the annual production of climate-altering gases in the country, to track and report emissions. The new rule, if accepted after a public comment period, would also try to track emissions of methane and fluorinated gases, which have a much more powerful impact on the atmosphere than carbon dioxide does.
• 2010/03/23: ClimateP: OMB puts its thumb on the scale against the environment
• 2010/03/22: CSW: EPA takes heat over Endangerment Finding for greenhouses gases at House Science Committee hearing
• 2010/03/22: NYT: U.S. Bolsters Chemical Restrictions for Water
  The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that it would overhaul drinking water regulations so that officials could police dozens of contaminants simultaneously and tighten rules on the chemicals used by industries. The new policies, which are still being drawn up, will probably force some local water systems to use more effective cleaning technologies, but may raise water rates.

As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2010/03/27: HillHeat: Drilling For Votes: Senators Stake Out Climate And Energy Stances
• 2010/03/26: PlanetArk: House Bill Extends Ethanol Tax Breaks To 2016
  The U.S. government would extend ethanol tax breaks and a hefty tariff on imports until 2016 under a bill unveiled by two dozen lawmakers on Thursday, reigniting the "food vs. fuel" debate. Unless Congress acts, three of the four incentives will expire at the end of 2010. Sponsors say a long-term extension will assure a home-grown fuel supply and bring cellulosic ethanol, tabbed as the new-generation biofuel, into commercial production. Foodmakers, meatpackers, environmentalists and budget hawks attacked the bill as a wasteful subsidy and a contribution to higher food prices by using food crops to make fuel. Brazilians said they can make ethanol cheaper and deserve a shot at the U.S. market. The tax breaks are worth $6 billion a year, say critics. They include a 45-cent a gallon tax credit for gasoline blenders, a 54-cent a gallon tariff on imports, a $1.01 a gallon credit to cellulosic ethanol producers, and a 10-cent a gallon small-producer tax credit for ethanol. Ethanol makers distilled more than 10.75 billion gallons of the renewable fuel in 2009. The largest makers are Archer Daniels Midland Inc, privately owned POET and Valero Energy Corp.
• 2010/03/25: TP:WR: Drilling For Votes: Senators Stake Out Climate And Energy Stances
• 2010/03/24: AutoBG: Biodiesel tax credit likely won't be renewed until mid April at the earliest
• 2010/03/24: HillHeat: Senate Watch: Baucus, Boxer, Conrad, Kerry, Feinstein, Graham, Klobuchar, Lieberman, Murkowski, Reid, Mark Udall, Voinovich

  Kerry-Boxer, Waxman-Markey, KGL or whatever -- the future climate bill -- defines a battleline:

• 2010/03/27: QuarkSoup: Is Climate Change Legislation Next?
• 2010/03/27: TP:WR: KGL Update: Big Oil Wants A Big Fracking Deal
• 2010/03/26: BWeek: Senators Outline U.S. Utility Carbon Market for Climate Bill
  Senators Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman outlined U.S. climate-change legislation that would have power companies buy and sell pollution rights in a carbon market and force oil companies to pay fixed fees for emissions. While the bill is "a work in progress" and won't be ready until next month, emissions from utilities will be regulated through a restricted trading system for pollution rights, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told reporters after meeting with industry representatives in Washington yesterday.
• 2010/03/25: Grist: Climate bill to debut in mid-April, says Sen. Graham
• 2010/03/26: Grist: Sen. Tom Udall: "My goal would be to get 10 Republicans on the climate bill"
• 2010/03/25: NYT:GW: Senator Bids to Ease Tensions Over Competing Climate Bills
  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tried to defuse simmering tensions today over competing climate change bills that threaten to upend the global warming debate before it can even reach the floor. In an interview, Graham said he welcomes legislation from Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) that takes an alternative approach for setting up a pricing system on industrial releases of greenhouse gases. Cantwell and Collins yesterday criticized Graham and Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) for taking some of their ideas and also for spending months in closed-door talks on the issue but not yet producing any official legislative text.
• 2010/03/25: Yahoo:AFP: Cap-and-trade 'dead' in US Senate: lawmaker [Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)]
• 2010/03/25: Reuters: Big Oil seeks shale gas deal in climate bill
  Three oil majors want U.S. senators crafting the climate bill to keep the federal government from regulating shale gas drilling methods that have made vast domestic reserves accessible but have been criticized for polluting water supplies.
• 2010/03/24: TheHill: Senate climate update: Meetings and meetings but no text in sight
• 2010/03/25: NYT:CW: Obama Aides Meet With Senate Dems to Map April Strategy for Climate Bill
  President Obama's top aides huddled yesterday with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democratic committee leaders to map out a strategy for cobbling together 60 votes on a comprehensive energy and climate change bill once lawmakers return next month from their spring break. The hour-long meeting in Reid's office included White House legislative affairs director Phil Schiliro and Obama's energy and climate adviser, Carol Browner. According to a Senate Democratic leadership aide, the Obama officials pledged to work with the committee leaders once Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) release their bill next month.
• 2010/03/25: TreeHugger: Christian Coalition Has Senator Graham's Back on Climate
• 2010/03/24: TEC: What's the Alternative to KGL?
• 2010/03/25: Reuters: Senators at odds over climate bill
  Two U.S. senators who have been part of negotiations on climate change legislation this year said on Wednesday they disagree with the carbon emissions reduction approach being developed in a compromise bill. Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell and Republican Senator Susan Collins late last year offered a streamlined "cap and dividend" bill to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. It is competing against a more complex "cap and trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives last June and a more limited cap and trade compromise being worked on by a bipartisan group of senators.
• 2010/03/25: TP: Kudlow: 'The Chamber Of Commerce Is A Very Negative Force,' 'Absolutely Negative And Absolutely Wrong'
• 2010/03/23: Reuters: US Senate climate bill details still unfinished
• 2010/03/24: MoJo: Climate Bill: Outlook Cloudy -- Can Sens. Kerry, Graham and Lieberman get big business on board without scrapping key environmental goals?
• 2010/03/23: NatJo: Reid Weighs Options On Energy Agenda
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will meet with Senate committee chairs on Wednesday to decide how to move energy and climate change legislation this spring. Reid's staff confirmed that among the options under consideration is to provide floor time for the bipartisan energy bill passed last year by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
• 2010/03/23: NatJo: Senate May Not Debate Climate Bill Until June
• 2010/03/23: ClimateP: Twenty-two Democrats petition Reid for action on bipartisan climate and clean energy jobs bill
• 2010/03/23: ClimateP: The proof is in the pudding -- New England, Mid-Atlantic states show how pollution pricing works
• 2010/03/23: Grist: Kerry-vs.-Bingaman power struggle lurks beneath 'what next?' question in Senate
  [...]
  Anyway, I think this what's-next talk is obscuring a more interesting and consequential dynamic. I'm talking about the tension between John Kerry and Jeff Bingaman over whether to pass a comprehensive bill or an "energy-only" bill. They're supposedly going to meet with Reid to fight it out today.
• 2010/03/22: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Key Moderates Urge Senate Action on Clean Energy and Climate Bill
• 2010/03/23: NYT:CW: Sen. Graham Peeved on Health Care but Will Stick With Climate Bill
• 2010/03/22: Grist: Coalition of 22 Democratic senators urges floor vote on climate bill this year

  What are the lobbyists pushing?

• 2010/03/24: TP:WR: Auto Industry Supports 'Landmark' EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulation
• 2010/03/23: SolveClimate: Coal Industry Well Positioned for Climate Bill Battle -- Acquiescence on the Left, Pressure from the Right Shape Climate Bills
• 2010/03/24: SolveClimate: Oil & Industry: Connecting the Dots in the War Over California's Greenhouse Gas Law
• 2010/03/22: NatJo: Chemical, Steel Lobbies Urge Pre-emption
  If the climate and energy bill being drafted by the Senate trio does not include language that pre-empts EPA and state regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, then two major industry organizations will not support the bill, their leaders said today. Cal Dooley, president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council, and Thomas Gibson, president and CEO of the American Iron and Steel Institute, told reporters today in a conference call that the pre-emption language is essential for their support.
• 2010/03/23: ClimateP: Farm, timber, and enviro groups demand forests and farms be part of climate bill, reject "energy-only" bill
• 2010/03/23: TreeHugger: Best Buy: Chamber of Commerce Doesn't Speak For Us On Climate Change
• 2010/03/22: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Best Buy Isn't Buying the US Chamber Line on Climate

  While in the UK:

• 2010/03/26: WWF: Heathrow judge slams runway policy
  The government's Heathrow policy is in tatters this morning after the High Court ruled that ministers' decision to give a green light to the proposed third runway does not hold any weight. The judge dismissed the government's claims to the contrary as "untenable in law and common sense".
• 2010/03/26: Guardian(UK): How Heathrow runway plans came unstuck
  The government tried to fix the case for Heathrow's third runway but couldn't spin away the economic and environmental realities
• 2010/03/26: BBC: Heathrow opponents win challenge
  Campaigners have won a High Court battle over plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Councils, residents and green groups had said the government's approval of the runway was flawed by "conspicuously unfair" public consultations. The group argued that the decision was at odds with climate change targets.
• 2010/03/25: Guardian(UK): The new parliament must innovate to build a low-carbon economy
• 2010/03/25: ScienceInsider: Objecting to Science Advice Principles on Principle
• 2010/03/25: BBC: Step up climate efforts, MPs say
  Far more needs to be done by the government to help the UK adapt to climate change, MPs have said. The Environmental Audit Committee says a programme to "retrofit" homes to make them more energy and water efficient and resilient to flooding is required. Its report says adapting to climate change needs to become as much of a priority as cutting emissions.
• 2010/03/24: BBC: Harrabin's Notes: Funding energy reform
  In his regular column, BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin says that energy reform is meeting economics across the UK's political parties.
• 2010/03/24: Guardian(UK): Budget 2010: Chancellor announces green investment bank
• 2010/03/24: Guardian(UK): Budget 2010: pale green measures that could bring 80m-tonne cut in CO2
• 2010/03/24: NatureTGB: 'Terms of engagement' between scientists and [UK] governments released
• 2010/03/21: Telegraph(UK): Next Parliament 'last chance' to stop climate change
  The next Parliament will be the last chance for politicians to stop runaway climate change, business, charity and environmental leaders warned on Monday.
• 2010/03/21: Guardian(UK): Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil
• 2010/03/22: BNC: The problem with "Generating the Future: UK energy systems fit for 2050"

  And in Europe:

• 2010/03/27: BBC: Frustration for Meteosat project
  European nations like the scope of a multi-billion-euro project to upgrade their weather satellites, but they have not been able to push the scheme ahead. A meeting of the Eumetsat organisation failed on Friday to approve all the documents related to the proposed Meteosat Third Generation programme. Two of the agency's 26 member-states said they would reserve their votes. The key dissenter is thought to be Germany which has ongoing issues with the share-out of industrial work. Until all nations approve the content of the MTG programme, it cannot be opened for funding and cannot be implemented. Angiolo Rolli, Eumetsat's director of administration, declined to name the two countries that withheld their votes at a special Council gathering, although he did acknowledge that the issue of work sharing was a factor. "We hope the member-states will be able to resolve their reservations by the end of June," he told BBC News.
• 2010/03/26: EarthTimes: EU's climate ambitions squeak through summit row
• 2010/03/24: PhysOrg: Germany got 10% of energy from clean sources in 2009: official
  Germany got more than 10 percent of its energy last year from renewable sources, a "delightful" step towards a 2020 goal of 18 percent, Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen said on Wednesday.
• 2010/03/25: EurActiv: EU leaders to back conditional climate aid pledge
  European Union leaders meeting in Brussels today (24 March) are set to confirm their commitment to providing 2.4 billion eurosin immediate support to help poor nations tackle global warming, but only if other industrialised nations also make similar contributions, according to draft summit conclusions obtained by EurActiv.
• 2010/03/25: EurActiv: EU wary of framing global carbon market
  There is a need for renewed debate on creating a worldwide emission-offsetting mechanism under a new climate treaty, but the EU will proceed with caution without prescribing solutions for other countries, the EU's top climate official said yesterday (24 March). Speaking at a conference in Brussels, Jos Delbeke, director-general of the European Commission's new climate action department, said that despite difficulties in different parts of the world in setting up cap-and trade systems, the EU is still confident that it is possible to put a linked-up OECD-wide carbon market in place by 2015.
• 2010/03/25: NatureTGB: Sweden eyes new nuclear power after 30-year ban

  Choose your spin:

• 2010/03/26: EurActiv: EU biofuels target borderline sustainable, report finds
  Going beyond a 5.6% share of biofuels in transport fuel could harm the environment, found a new report made public by the European Commission yesterday (25 March), suggesting that the EU's current target [10%] is only borderline sustainable.
• 2010/03/26: EarthTimes: EU summit reinstates ambitious climate goal, diplomats say
• 2010/03/26: EarthTimes: EU summit cools ambition on global warming

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2010/03/27: PeakEnergy: Plug pulled on Victorian smart meter plan
• 2010/03/27: PeakEnergy: Tasmania's lesson: when Labor attacks the Greens, it threatens itself
• 2010/03/26: ABC(Au): Joyce not wading into Murray spat yet
  The Federal Opposition's new water spokesman, Barnaby Joyce, has declined to show support for Tony Abbott's plan to take over control of the Murray-Darling Basin. The Opposition Leader's policy is to hold a referendum to refer full control for the system to the Commonwealth if the states do not agree. Nationals Leader Warren Truss has indicated the party does not favour that approach. And Senator Joyce, the Nationals Senate Leader, has today declined to show support for the plan.
• 2010/03/26: ABC(Au): Swanbank coal-fired power station to close
  An ageing coal-fired power station at Ipswich west of Brisbane will be progressively shut down over the next two years. The Queensland Government-owned corporation CS Energy plans to close 'Swanbank B' by 2012. It opened in 1971.
• 2010/03/26: ABC(Au): Australia lagging in clean energy investment
  A global analysis of clean energy investment has found that Australia ranks 14th on the list of G20 countries, behind Mexico and Turkey. The US-based Pew Foundation study found China was the biggest investor in projects such as renewable energy plants - including solar and wind - investing $34 billion last year. Australia invested $1 billion, which is up by 50 per cent on 2008, while the United States spent $18 billion.
• 2010/03/26: ABC(Au): [New South Wales Environment] Minister unaware of emissions target axing
  The New South Wales Environment Minister has been caught by surprise by his government's decision to axe the emissions reduction target for 2025. The target has been cut in a revised version of the State Plan that was published on the internet this week ahead of today's leaders' debate. Greens MP John Kaye says the Government had to make the change after approving two new power stations.
• 2010/03/23: TheAge: Brown coal emissions rise 10% in a decade
  Greenhouse gas emissions from Victoria's brown-coal fired power stations increased nearly 10 per cent over the past decade despite government programs designed to promote renewable energy. It reflects that more than three-quarters of the new electricity generation in Victoria to meet increasing national demand since 2000 comes from burning brown coal, the dirtiest major source of electricity. An analysis by consultants Green Energy Markets found generation at the four major Latrobe Valley brown-coal fired plants has grown steadily despite the advent of renewable energy targets.
• 2010/03/25: ABC(Au): A New South Wales Government survey has found Hunter residents rate mining as one of the biggest environment issues facing the state
• 2010/03/24: ABC(Au): The Brumby Government has thrown its support behind a plan to build a bio-ethanol plant in Victoria
• 2010/03/23: ABC(Au): The logging industry is refuting claims that a timber processor on the New South Wales far south coast is a major contributor to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
• 2010/03/23: ABC(Au): Paper products go carbon neutral
  A Shoalhaven-based paper company says it has made one-third of all its specialised products carbon neutral. Australian Paper, which owns a mill near Nowra, says the products are independently certified to comply with international standards.
• 2010/03/23: ABC(Au): The Western Plains Landscape Guardians group has accused the state Member for Ripon, Joe Helper, of not listening to people's concerns about wind farms
• 2010/03/22: ABC(Au): Dump hearing snub a 'slap in the face'
  Tennant Creek residents are angry with the decision not to hold local public hearings on the proposed nuclear waste dump for Muckaty Station. The Senate committee in charge of the inquiry into the Federal Government's proposed site has opted to conduct hearings in Darwin and Canberra.
• 2010/03/22: ABC(Au): The first shipment of coal to be loaded from Newcastle's newly-built third loader has been delayed by climate-change protesters
• 2010/03/22: ABC(Au): Emissions down despite summer heat
  Figures released by The Climate Group show emissions from energy use across New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria fell 1.6 per cent over the past three months, to 74.8 million tonnes.
• 2010/03/22: PeakEnergy: Australia's Looming Power Crisis

  And in New Zealand:

• 2010/03/22: EarthTimes: National park mining plan sparks row in New Zealand

  While in the Indian subcontinent:

• 2010/03/24: PlanetArk: Energy Security Worry To Drive India's Low-CO2 Plan
  Worries over energy security will drive India's goal to slow the growth of its carbon emissions, the head of a government panel tasked with developing the country's low-carbon strategy said on Monday. Reserves of fossil fuels such as coal were fast running out, making it imperative for India to improve efficiency and accelerate renewable energy sources to keep the economy growing at a projected 8 to 9 percent annually, Kirit Parikh said. India, the world's fourth-largest carbon emitter, is under pressure to cut pollution in the fight against climate change. While per-capita emissions are still low, demand for electricity and fossil fuels is increasing as the middle class clamors for more cars, TVs and better housing.

And China:

• 2010/03/26: SolveClimate: China's Rush Toward Green Development Suffers from Lack of Planning
• 2010/03/26: BBC: China steams ahead on clean energy
  China overtook the US during 2009 to become the leading investor in renewable energy technologies, according to a new analysis. Researchers with the Pew Charitable Trusts calculate that China invested $34.6bn (£23.2bn) in clean energy over the year, almost double the US figure. The UK emerges in third place among G20 nations, followed by Spain and Brazil. The most spectacular growth has come in South Korea, which saw installed capacity rise by 250% in five years. Globally, investment has more than doubled in the last five years, Pew finds, with the recent economic turmoil generating only a slight dip.

In Japan:

• 2010/03/24: BBerg: Japan Proposes Wind, Geothermal Power Feed-in Tariff [to match existing solar FIT]
• 2010/03/22: Asahi: Companies in a race for renewable energy
  A cap-and-trade emissions trading program the Tokyo metropolitan government will introduce in April is ushering in a new era for businesses.

And elsewhere in Asia:

• 2010/03/27: PeakEnergy: S.Korea to invest $1 billion in tidal power plants
• 2010/03/22: NYT:CW: World Bank Helps Indonesia Increase Geothermal Energy
• 2010/03/23: MongaBay: Nestle fiasco continues: Indonesian oil palm planters threaten boycott too
• 2010/03/23: MST: Southeast Asian economies vulnerable to climate change
• 2010/03/22: PlanetArk: Indonesia To Review Forest Carbon Laws: Official
• 2010/03/22: NYT:CW: Indonesia Walks a 'Tricky' Path Toward Growth and Sustainability

  While in Africa:

• 2010/03/23: EarthTimes: Group begins campaign against hydroelectric dam project in Ethiopia

  And South America:

• 2010/03/22: WMO: Central America and the Caribbean to Strengthen Cooperation for Reducing Risks of Natural Disasters
• 2010/03/22: MongaBay: El Niño in Venezuela: Hugo Chávez's "Katrina" Moment?

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

• 2010/03/27: ChronicleHerald: Prof: Climate change threat to water
  Environment Minister Jim Prentice boasted to a room of water experts Friday about Ottawa's efforts to clean up Canada's lakes and rivers, but not everyone was buying it. One academic at the conference said the government is failing to protect Canadian water bodies from a much bigger threat: climate change. "As we've heard at this conference, water interacts very dramatically with climate change," said Peter Brown, a professor at McGill University's school of environment. "The Canadian portfolio on climate change is dismal and Mr. Prentice has been one of the principal designers of it."
• 2010/03/25: MoD: Canada's Bush style climate policy

  Harper is muzzling scientists. Sigh:

• 2010/03/25: Tyee: Harper's Humiliating Muzzle on Scientists -- Canada is becoming a global joke as our world-class experts are prohibited from speaking.
• 2010/03/22: IoD: The problem with Canada
• 2010/03/21: DeSmogBlog: Harper Government Stifles the Truth

  After Harper's twisting and turning on the family planning issue, the Liberals shot themselves in the foot:

• 2010/03/23: AD: The reviews are in - Liberal Supporters Edition -- own party's MPs torpedoed a motion supporting family planning
• 2010/03/24: AD: The reviews are in - Non-Lib Edition -- own party's MPs torpedoed a motion supporting family planning
• 2010/03/24: CBC: Ignatieff: dissenters face 'internal discipline'
  Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says members of his caucus who helped defeat the party's own motion on maternal health in the House of Commons will face "internal discipline." Ignatieff's leadership is being heavily criticized over an embarrassing showing Tuesday in the House, where a motion tabled by Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae was defeated by a 144-138 vote.
• 2010/03/23: CBC: Include contraception in G8 health plan: Liberals -- Tories slam Rae's motion for 'rash, extreme anti-American rhetoric'
  The Opposition Liberals have tabled a motion that calls on the federal government to ensure it includes contraception in its new maternal health initiative for developing countries and refrains from the "failed right-wing ideologies" of former U.S. president George W. Bush. The motion, tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Bob Rae, also calls for Canada's foreign aid proposal to G8 nations to include "the full range of family planning, sexual and reproductive health options, including contraception" and be based on "scientific evidence, which proves that education and family planning can prevent as many as one in every three maternal deaths." The Liberal motion comes after an embarrassment for the government last week over Prime Minister Stephen Harper's maternal health initiative, in which Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon was forced to reverse himself after initially declaring that Canada's proposal to the G8 would not include family planning.

Don't you just love these conflicting headlines?

• 2010/03/26: CleanTech: Report: Cleantech driving Canada's economy
• 2010/03/26: PlanetArk: Canada Needs Policy Fix For Green Growth, Studies
  Canada needs a clear, sustained climate policy to help its nascent green energy sector cash in on a rapidly growing global market for climate-friendly technologies, two reports said on Thursday. Governments must set stable policy and incentives, invest in research and remove trade barriers to make Canada an attractive play to develop, sell and adopt green technology, the Conference Board of Canada said. It noted that the Climate Change Business Journal estimates the sector's size at over US$600 billion in 2008, and said some observers forecast it will become the world's third-largest in a decade. Canada ranked fourteenth among countries exporting green technology in 2008, with exports valued at about C$4 billion, the Conference Board said. That 2 percent market share trailed Italy, France, Britain, Mexico, Belgium and Denmark. Germany was the top exporter, followed by China, the United States and Japan.
• 2010/03/25: CBC: Green market squandered by Canada: study
  Canadian business is failing to take advantage of the exploding global market for green technology, according to a study by the Conference Board of Canada. The report -- Global Climate-Friendly Trade: Canada's Chance to Clean Up -- said world trade in climate-friendly technologies grew by an average of 10 per cent annually from 2002 to 2008. But it said Canada's exports in that area didn't grow at all during that period.

Out at UBC, Dr. Simon Donner is pushing an opt-in climate policy:

• 2010/03/24: TEC: The opt-in climate policy for Canada: Some detail
• 2010/03/24: Maribo: The opt-in climate policy for Canada: Some details
• 2010/03/23: Maribo: The Mark: A new climate change policy for Canada
• 2010/03/23: TheMark: Working Around Alberta on Climate Change -- If Canada wants to reduce emissions, an opt-in program might be the best way forward.
• 2010/03/23: TEC: The Mark: A new climate change policy for Canada

  Activists took aim at the tarsands with a Tar Nation videogame this week:

• TarSandsWatch: Tar Nation - Play the Game Now
• 2010/03/22: WaPo: Activists unveil anti oil-sands game
  Activists launched an online video game on Monday to attack leading politicians' support for development of Canada's oil sands, which greens portray as a crime against nature. Tar Nation, which is set on the grounds of a dirty refinery, allows players to spray oil at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and opposition leader Michael Ignatieff "to get them out of the tar sands". Once the two men have been blasted with enough oil, the game ends and up pops an pre-written protest email addressed to the two leaders.
• 2010/03/23: OilChange: Go and Play Tar Nation!
• 2010/03/22: CBC: Tar Nation game lets players target Harper, Ignatieff
  Alberta's oilpatch is fuming over an online game that allows players to spray oil at two federal leaders who pop up behind rocks. Tar Nation, released on Monday, features caricatures of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff bouncing up and down against a backdrop of an oilsands refinery. Players use a gun to shoot crude oil at them. The game is hosted on a site owned by the Polaris Institute, a public interest group based in Ottawa.

The sale of NB Power's generation assets to Hydro-Québec was killed this week:

• 2010/03/24: CBC: NB Power sale cancelled
  The proposed deal to sell NB Power's generation assets to Hydro-Québec fell apart over Quebec's concerns about unanticipated costs, according to the two provincial premiers. New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham announced in the legislative assembly on Wednesday that the deal to sell NB Power's generation assets to Hydro-Québec for $3.2 billion was dead.
• 2010/03/24: G&M: New Brunswick kills controversial power deal with Hydro-Québec

  In BC, energy policy dominates:

• 2010/03/25: G&M: 'Green-energy' project to burn railway ties stymied by Kamloops protesters
• 2010/03/22: Tyee: Former Accenture Execs Score Big in BC Hydro Clean Power Call -- Struggling penny stock firm with light cash reserves lands major wind power agreements.
• 2010/03/24: Maribo: Climate policy on campus: UBC sets aggressive greenhouse gas targets

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2010/03/25: SolveClimate: Coastal First Nations Oppose Canada Tar Sands Pipeline
• 2010/03/24: Reuters: [Ron Liepert, Alberta Energy] Minister says EU was behind oil sands opposition
  Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday that the European Union is the organization he referred to when he asserted that some international groups were using the environment as a guise to erect trade barriers.
• 2010/03/25: PlanetArk: Native Groups Vow To Fight Pipeline
  Aboriginal groups on Canada's Pacific Coast vowed on Tuesday to block Enbridge Inc's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to carry oil sands crude to export markets including China. The groups said the environmental danger of oil tankers traveling through the coastal waters of British Columbia is too great, and the announcement could set the stage for a protracted legal and political fight over the pipeline.
• 2010/03/24: Reuters: Oil sands environmental debate seen more divisive
  Canada's oil sands producers have pledged to improve their environmental records and do a better job communicating their efforts to the public, but environmentalists say they see no commitment to real change.
• 2010/03/25: PlanetArk: EU Yields To Canada Over Oil Trade "Barriers": Sources
  The European Union has yielded to Canadian demands it remove possible trade barriers to polluting oil sands to avoid further damage to ties, according to sources and leaked documents. Relations are already strained after the European Union banned imports of seal products last July on animal welfare grounds, a move Canada is challenging at the World Trade Organization. Canada warns that draft EU standards to promote greener fuels are too unwieldy and will harm the market for its oil sands -- tar-like oil that is trapped in sediment and forms the world's second-largest proven crude reserves after Saudi Arabia.
• 2010/03/24: CBC: EU oilsands penalties dropped: activists
  The European Union appears to have backtracked on a proposed policy that would have discriminated against oil produced from Alberta's oilsands. Last fall, the EU released draft guidelines that distinguished between fuel derived from the oilsands and from conventional sources as part of efforts to fight climate change. That distinction would have allowed regulators in the 27 EU member countries to penalize users of oilsands-derived fuel or reward non-users. Environmentalists who have seen the most recent draft of the guidelines say that distinction is now gone. Documents obtained by The Canadian Press suggest the change came as a result of heavy lobbying by the federal government.
• 2010/03/24: NewScientist:CL: Petropolis: Filming Canada's tar sands
• 2010/03/24: PlanetArk: Native Groups Vow To Fight Enbridge Pipeline
  Aboriginal groups on Canada's Pacific Coast vowed on Tuesday to block Enbridge Inc's proposed Gateway pipeline to carry oil sands crude to export markets including China. The groups said the environmental danger of oil tankers traveling through the coastal waters of British Columbia is too great, and the announcement could set the stage for a protracted legal and political fight over the pipeline.
• 2010/03/24: CanWest: Ontario, Quebec sing different oilsands tune when cash beckons
  After months of publicly denouncing the oilsands for its environmental footprint, the Quebec and Ontario governments are in Alberta this week with entrepreneurs looking to land supplier contracts with companies developing the resource.
• 2010/03/23: CBC: B.C. First Nations oppose Enbridge pipeline
  A large coalition of B.C. First Nations has publicly declared opposition to a proposed pipeline that would deliver oil from the Alberta oilsands to waiting ships on the coast of British Columbia, saying it will do whatever it takes to halt the project. Coastal First Nations from Vancouver Island to the B.C.-Alaska border announced their decision Tuesday, on the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. The Enbridge pipeline would stretch more than 1,000-kilometres from the oilsands near Edmonton to the northwestern B.C. coastal town of Kitimat, before crude would be loaded onto tankers for export across the ocean.
• 2010/03/14: C&C: New Film Exposes Dirty Canadian Oil -- trailer for Dirty Oil, a film about the Alberta Tar Sands

  And in Manitoba:

• 2010/03/23: CBC: Manitoba won't reopen winter roads -- Aboriginal leaders predict higher costs for supplies
• 2010/03/22: CBC: Manitoba road rescues hit 139 -- Early thaw turns seasonal roads into mucky mess that trapped travellers

  Ontario has it's Green Energy Act, now comes the implementation:

• 2010/03/26: REA: More Utility-Scale Solar Planned for Ontario
• 2010/03/24: TEC: Buyer beware as (publicly traded) companies move to exploit hype around Ontario FIT program

  In the Maritimes:

• 2010/03/26: CBC: N.B. reactor may be delayed into 2012 -- Uncertainty over Point Lepreau helped fuel collapse of NB Power deal
• 2010/03/25: CBC: Federal money needed for P.E.I. hydrogen plan
  The P.E.I. government is looking for Ottawa to extend its assistance with a project to use wind power to generate hydrogen to run transit buses in Charlottetown. The buses are part of an ambitious project announced in 2005 to develop a community that was self-sufficient in wind power. As part of the plan, electricity from wind turbines at North Cape would be used to create hydrogen to fuel vehicles. The original plan for the hydrogen village has been drastically scaled back, but the province hopes to continue with the plan to develop technology to operate the buses, which began running in 2007, more cost effectively. But funding from Ottawa for the buses runs out March 31. The province is looking for another $400,000 to $500,000 to extend the project for another two years.

In the North:

• 2010/03/23: CBC: N.W.T. caribou decline questioned at hearing
  The Northwest Territories government's estimates on the Bathurst caribou herd's population came under fire Monday, as a weeklong hearing began into the herd's management. The territorial government wants to halt the hunting of Bathurst caribou, citing a sharp decline in the herd. But the proposal, and an interim hunting ban imposed this year in the herd's winter grounds -- in the territory's Tlicho region -- have outraged Dene leaders and hunters who have long relied on caribou.

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

• 2010/03/26: Tyee: Our Future Remade by 'Maker Culture'
  Do-it-yourself robots, weapons, even human organs. Open source tech makes it possible, but do we want this?
• 2010/03/26: Rabble: MakerCulture: What's the new world order?
• 2010/03/25: EnergyDaily: Green economy could save planet: experts
  The planet is overheated, under-resourced, and almost out of time, but technical innovation and green economics could still save the day, experts and leaders told an international conference here. Video-linked panels from Beijing, London, Mexico City, Monaco, Nairobi and New Delhi painted an alarming picture of environmental degradation and mass poverty at Thursday's conference in New York. They called on the United States and other rich countries to show leadership, for example by investing in carbon capture technology and other long-term methods of reducing greenhouse gasses. But developing countries, where pollution is growing rapidly, can also play a big role while also lifting their populations from poverty, they said.
• 2010/03/25: DVoice: That Vision Thing
• 2010/03/26: AlterNet: We Are in the Middle of Transformational Change: It's Time the Debate Matches up with the Huge Challenges Ahead of Us
• 2010/03/25: TreeHugger: Richard Heinberg on Life After Growth
• 2010/03/24: Eureka: The solution both to the economic crisis and to climate change is sustainable economic degrowth
• 2010/03/24: OilDrum: What is the Minimum EROI that a Sustainable Society Must Have? Part 2: The Economic Cost of Energy, EROI, and Surplus Energy
• 2010/03/22: CCurrents: The Ultimate Revolution
• 2010/03/23: BBC: Restoring natural capital in degraded landscapes
  The interests of farmers are often perceived to be in conflict with those of both the ecosystems and the markets in which they operate, says Mark Chandler. In this week's Green Room, he argues that ongoing, directed efforts can create profitable, sustainable situations for everyone.

And in the Transition movement:

• 2010/03/25: AlterNet: Stop Hand-Wringing About Peak Oil and Climate Change and Do Something

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

• 2010/03/26: BobPark: What's New?
  3. Climate: there is only one way to reduce the carbon footprint.
• 2010/03/24: TerraDaily: Population growth should be curbed: British expert Goodall
• 2010/03/24: Grist: Population growth should be curbed, argues Jane Goodall
• 2010/03/22: AlterNet: Can You Get Arrested For Carrying Condoms?
• 2010/03/17: C&C: 'I=PAT' means nothing, proves nothing
  Quoting a mathematical formula might look smart, but algebra is only meaningful when it is given a meaningful content

Apocalypso anyone?

• 2010/03/24: IoD: The language of sacrifice
• 2010/03/23: CCurrents: The U.S. Is On A Precipice

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2010/03/27: ERabett: The two cultures
• 2010/03/26: HotTopic: Defending the indefensible: Guardian responds to RC critics
• 2010/03/25: DawgsBlawg: What to do when you don't have science.
• 2010/03/24: RealClimate: The Guardian responds [Re Pearce articles]
• 2010/03/22: ERabett: Andy Revkin, out in the cold
• 2010/03/21: ClimateP: Revkin: "The idea that we're going to fix the climate change problem or solve global warming has always been a fantasy, totally wishful, from my standpoint."

  George has found himself another controversy:

• 2010/03/19: Monbiot: Jonathan Porritt's Strange Slurs
• 2010/03/18: JPorritt: The war of words over home-produced electricity feed-in tariffs could cost dearly

  Here is something for your library:

• 2010/03/27: ClimateShifts: Clive Hamilton and the Global Change Institute: It's all in your head
• 2010/03/27: AlterNet: Are We Selfish Individuals or an Empathic Society? The Answer Could Determine Whether We Have a Future
  [Book Excerpt] _The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis_ by Jeremy Rifkin
• 2010/03/23: WiredSci: [Book Excerpt] _Hack the Planet_ by Eli Kintisch
• 2010/03/23: EnergyBulletin: [Book Review] _Whole Earth Discipline An Ecopragmatist Manifesto_ by Stewart Brand
• 2010/03/22: HotTopic: [Book Review] _Solar_ by Ian McEwan

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2010/03/26: OilChange: Welcome to Gasland (Just Don't Drink the Water!)
• 2010/03/26: TEC: New Movie: "Climate Refugees"
• 2010/03/14: C&C: New Film Exposes Dirty Canadian Oil -- trailer for Dirty Oil, a film about the Alberta Tar Sands

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2010/03/25: CBC: Ecuadorans in court over Canadian mine
  Three Ecuadoran villagers were in a Toronto court Thursday, trying to preserve their lawsuit against a Vancouver-based copper mining company. Villagers filed a $1 billion human rights lawsuit last year against Copper Mesa Mining Corp., two of its directors and the Toronto Stock Exchange. They accuse the company of hiring armed security forces that have intimidated, threatened and assaulted villagers who have complained the proposed open pit mine would destroy the delicate habitat surrounding their cloud forest community. The lawsuit claims getting a listing on the TSX allowed the company to raise more than $10 million -- money used, in part, to hire security. The lawsuit's allegations have not been tested in court and if the defendants have their way, they won't ever be. The TSX and the company say the suit should be dismissed now before it gets to trial. The company has said its business practices are ethical and responsible. It's not clear when a ruling on the dismissal motion will be made.

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

• 2010/03/24: GovTech: Geothermal Power Projects Pick Up Steam
• 2010/03/25: PugetSoundB: 'Geothermal' heating does not require a geyser
• 2010/03/25: EnergyBulletin: Will enhanced oil recovery be an oil supply savior?
• 2010/03/25: SolveClimate: China, Germany Lead the Race Toward a Low-Carbon Economy -- Without National Policies, U.S. Will Lag Behind in a Growing Industry
• 2010/03/25: PhysOrg: Blueprint for 'artificial leaf' mimics Mother Nature
  Scientists today presented a design strategy to produce the long-sought artificial leaf, which could harness Mother Nature's ability to produce energy from sunlight and water in the process called photosynthesis. The new recipe, based on the chemistry and biology of natural leaves, could lead to working prototypes of an artificial leaf that capture solar energy and use it efficiently to change water into hydrogen fuel, they stated. Their report was scheduled for the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), being held here this week.
• 2010/03/24: NYT:CW: The Quest for Cheap, Clean Power -- Science Tries to Mimic Plants
  Dan Nocera is a salesman who doesn't need the sale. For his entire career, he's pursued a simple question: Just how do plants take sunlight, combine it with water and get energy out of it? After 25 years of study, he's begun to mimic the process in a small, cheap gadget. It runs on just a bottle of water a day. He regularly stumps for the technology at energy conferences, where audiences bubble with curiosity at its many merits. His startup company, Sun Catalytix, is already building prototypes. Last year, it received a $4 million award from the Energy Department's Advanced Projects Research Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program -- proof that someone thinks it could be a breakthrough technology in waiting. And if the whole concept fizzles, well, Nocera has a day job: He's a chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• 2010/03/24: BBC: Project to turn CO2 into car fuel
  Researchers in Bath and Bristol are working to discover if carbon dioxide extracted from air could be turned to car fuel. A project aims to develop porous materials that can absorb CO2 and convert it into chemicals that can be used to create fuel. The idea is that the process would be powered by renewable solar energy.
• 2010/03/23: EnergyBulletin: Software: The Unsung Hero of the Energy Revolution
• 2010/03/23: PhysOrg: Hydrokinetic proposal for Mississippi river
• 2010/03/23: PhysOrg: Cheap and green -- new Nottingham spin-out to revolutionize sustainable energy [with compressed air]
• 2010/03/22: UMich: Mini generators make energy from random ambient vibrations
  Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor.
• 2010/03/22: EnergyDaily: Lockheed Martin Selected To Advance Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Utility Power Plans
• 2010/03/22: TEC: Energy Security Populism: Oil Prices, American Leaders, and Media
• 2010/03/22: PeakEnergy: Australia's Looming Power Crisis
• 2010/03/22: PeakEnergy: China Developing 'Combustible Ice' as New Energy Source

  Hey! Let's contaminate the aquifer for thousands of years! It'll be a gas!

• 2010/03/27: NRDC:SwitchBoard: States acknowledge weaknesses in their oil and gas programs
• 2010/03/26: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Thanks to EPA for investigating contaminated drinking water in Pennsylvania
• 2010/03/26: Reuters: Philadelphia seeks ban on natgas-drilling method
  Philadelphia officials asked a state regulator on Thursday to ban the natural-gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing until its environmental effects, especially on drinking water, are studied.
• 2010/03/26: OilChange: Welcome to Gasland (Just Don't Drink the Water!)
• 2010/03/23: NYT:GW: BP, Others Push Against Federal Regulation of [Hydraulic] Fracturing
• 2010/03/24: ClimateP: A double standard for natural gas?

  The answer my friend...:

• 2010/03/26: PlanetArk: GE To Invest $453 Mln In European Offshore Wind
• 2010/03/23: BBC: [Westray] Island [in the Orkney Islands] hopes for a windy bounty
• 2010/03/21: BWeek: Wind Energy Investment of $65 Billion May Curb Fossil Fuel Use
  China WindPower Group Ltd., Iberdrola SA and Duke Energy Corp. will lead development of an estimated $65 billion of wind-power plants this year that let utilities reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. The estimate from Bloomberg New Energy Finance assumes a 9 percent increase in global installations of wind turbines this year, adding as much as 41 gigawatts of generation capacity. That's the equivalent of 34 new nuclear power stations.
• 2010/03/21: SolveClimate: European Offshore Wind Capacity Reaching Critical Mass
• 2010/03/22: PhysOrg: Iberdrola to build [400 mw] offshore wind farm in Germany

  Occasionally the motivation of the corporate deniers is made clear:

• 2010/03/25: OilChange: Anti-Wind Study Linked to Climate Sceptics
• 2010/03/19: CphPost: Oil industry behind critical wind energy report
  Conservative think tank admits that report critical of Denmark's wind power industry was commissioned by US think tank A controversial report critical of the wind energy industry from conservative think tank CEPOS was commissioned and paid for by an American think tank with close ties to the coal and oil industries, according to trade journal Ingeniøren. The report, which was published last September and concluded that Danish wind energy figures were misleading, was taken by CEPOS members to the US media in the months leading up to the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen. The message behind the report indicated that the Danish wind turbine industry model was not effective. Numerous experts have since strongly criticised the report's conclusions, challenging many of the figures and the means in which those figures were obtained. But now it appears that the report was indirectly commissioned and paid for by the American coal and oil lobby.
• 2010/03/22: DeSmogBlog: Institute for Energy Research Admits It Was Behind Anti-Wind Study

  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2010/03/26: PlanetArk: SolarWorld [Germany's No.1 solar company] Sees Soaring Demand In 2010
• 2010/03/26: TreeHugger: Robot Builds & Tests Thin-Film Solar: Huge Gains in Efficiency & Speed
• 2010/03/24: PhysOrg: New PV cell generates electricity from IR and UV light
  A prototype of a new type of photovoltaic (PV) cell that generates electricity from visible, infrared and ultraviolet light has been demonstrated by a group of Japanese scientists. It could lead to the development of a highly-efficient PV cell in the future, without needing multijunction cells.
• 2010/03/23: SF Gate: Chevron unveils [Project Brightfield] solar panel test site
  Chevron Corp. has turned the site of a former Bakersfield oil refinery into a test bed for advanced solar panels, letting the company compare how well different cells perform over time. The facility, unveiled Monday, includes 7,700 solar panels from eight companies. Over the next three years, Chevron will see how well each technology performs, compared to the others. The experiment, dubbed Project Brightfield, will help San Ramon's Chevron decide which kinds of panels to install on its own properties, as well as other businesses.
• 2010/03/22: LA Times: Chevron is putting solar technologies to the test
  The oil giant is checking out possible candidates to power its global operations. To gauge performance, an 8-acre site near Bakersfield has been filled with 7,700 solar panels from seven firms.
• 2010/03/22: Reuters: Enel, Saint Gobain join Desertec project
  Italian power provider Enel and French building materials maker Saint Gobain have joined the Desertec solar power project, which hopes to supply 15 percent of Europe's power by 2050 via a network of renewable energy sources.
• 2010/03/22: Bakersfield: Cost of solar going down, industry says

  More on the Leggett - Monbiot imbroglio:

• 2010/03/25: Guardian(UK): Jeremy Leggett: caught between low carbon and high-voltage rows
  Former scientific director at Greenpeace is at the leading edge of a green energy revolution, and under fire from environmentalists
• 2010/03/27: PeakEnergy: Jeremy Leggett: caught between low carbon and high-voltage rows

  On the coal front:

• 2010/03/24: NYT:GW: Don't Risk 'Clean Energy' Future to Save Coal Jobs, Says BP's CEO
• 2010/03/22: WaPo: Why coal is the best way to power South Africa's growth by South African FM Pravin Gordhan
• 2010/03/22: ClimateP: Another coal plant bites the dust -- Game-changing through natural gas, wind, and solar in Colorado

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2010/03/26: TEC: Gasoline from Sugar
• 2010/03/25: Economist: America's biofuel muddle -- Coming up empty
• 2010/03/25: PhysOrg: More economical process for making ethanol from nonfood sources
• 2010/03/23: PhysOrg: New research says corn is most profitable cellulosic biofuel crop in Michigan
  When deciding which crops to grow for cellulosic biofuels, return on investment is one variable farmers must consider. Currently, corn stalks and leaves offer the most profit according to new research by Michigan State University scientists. But that could change if federal policy offers incentives to grow crops that offer more environmental benefits than corn. Cellulosic biofuels use the leaves, stems and other fibrous parts of a plant to make fuels.

The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2010/03/26: NBF: World Uranium Demand Could be Up 400% by 2040 and Japan Plans on Adding at Least 14 or More Nuclear Reactors by 2030
• 2010/03/26: CCurrents: Bhopal Legacy Haunts Nuclear Liability Bill
• 2010/03/25: Reuters: Waste issue hurting U.S. nuclear revival-panel
• 2010/03/24: ScienceInsider: Japan Nears Restart of Experimental Fast [Breeder] Reactor
• 2010/03/24: DM:80B: Gates Goes Nuclear: Billionaire Backs Fledgling Mini-Reactor Technology
• 2010/03/23: PlanetArk: Reviving The U.S. Nuclear Industry Could Get Hung Up On How To Handle Waste
• 2010/03/22: NatureITF: ACS: Cold fusion calorimeter confusion
• 2010/03/22: Reuters: China 2020 nuclear capacity to double from earlier plan
  China's nuclear power generating capacity will grow to at least 70 to 80 gigawatts (GW) by 2020, an energy official was quoted as saying on Monday by the Xinhua News Agency, twice the level in earlier plans.
• 2010/03/22: Reuters: Sweden eyes nuclear revival 30 years after ban
• 2010/03/22: CSM: The nuclear waste problem: Where to put it?
  Currently, the US has no permanent disposal site for nuclear waste. A new presidential commission is exploring ways to solve the problem of storing highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.
• 2010/03/23: NBF: China Officially Approved the Construction of 28 More Nuclear Reactors by 2020
• 2010/03/22: SlashDot: Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste
• 2010/03/22: SolveClimate: Plan for Uranium Mining in Virginia Draws Opposition -- Concern for water supply of Roanoke River basin
• 2010/03/22: PhysOrg: 'Cold fusion' moves closer to mainstream acceptance

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2010/03/25: CCurrents: The Peak Oil Crisis: A Breakthrough?
• 2010/03/26: SciDaily: World Oil Reserves at 'Tipping Point'
• 2010/03/25: OilDrum: UK Telegraph Reports, "Oil Reserves 'Exaggerated by One Third'"--An Analysis
• 2010/03/25: AutoBG: Oil reserves in the news: new discovery and a question of inflated numbers
• 2010/03/24: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: a breakthrough?
• 2010/03/24: OilChange: Oil Reserves "Exaggerated by One Third"
• 2010/03/22: Telegraph(UK): Oil reserves 'exaggerated by one third'
  The world's oil reserves have been exaggerated by up to a third, according to Sir David King, the Government's former chief scientist, who has warned of shortages and price spikes within years. The scientist and researchers from Oxford University argue that official figures are inflated because member countries of the oil cartel, OPEC, over-reported reserves in the 1980s when competing for global market share. Their new research argues that estimates of conventional reserves should be downgraded from 1,150bn to 1,350bn barrels to between 850bn and 900bn barrels and claims that demand may outstrip supply as early as 2014. The researchers claim it is an open secret that OPEC is likely to have inflated its reserves, but that the International Energy Agency (IEA), BP, the Energy Information Administration and World Oil do not take this into account in their statistics.
• 2010/03/23: EnergyBulletin: Oxford report: World oil reserves at tipping point
• 2010/03/22: EnergyBulletin: Non-OPEC Oil Production Hits the Wall
• 2010/03/21: Guardian(UK): Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil
• 2010/03/22: OilDrum: Tipping Point: Near-Term Systemic Implications of a Peak in Global Oil Production - Part 1 - Summary
• 2010/03/22: PeakEnergy: UK Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil

  More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2010/03/26: Reuters: California grid preparing for greener future
  Six or more major new transmission lines will be needed to meet California clean air and clean water standards that affect the changing production and use of electricity, the state's Independent System Operator said in its five-year outlook on Thursday. The grid agency's strategic plan "addresses the dramatic changes required of the electricity industry in California over the next decade," said ISO Chief Executive Yakout Mansour.
• 2010/03/26: PhysOrg: Report: 'Smart' meters have security holes
• 2010/03/25: TreeHugger: This is Important: What Would 1 Million Electric Cars do to the Grid?
• 2010/03/24: AutoBG: Grid managers debate the effects of charging 1 million new electric vehicles
• 2010/03/23: SolveClimate: The Smart Grid Is Dumb without Smart Consumers -- New Industry Group Launches to Educate, Engage People on Smart Grid
• 2010/03/22: TEC: California Smart Grid: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2010/03/26: NewScientist: Insulation nation: Cutting the cost of cosy
• 2010/03/25: NewScientist: Babbage nanomachine promises low-energy computing
• 2010/03/23: Grist: Tapping the power of energy efficiency
• 2010/03/23: TreeHugger: Ford Saves $1.2 Million and Reduces CO2 Emissions by Around 20,000 Tons by Turning Computers Off

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

• 2010/03/26: KSJT: Science News, ScienceNow, Nature : GM chemists show they are smart, invent potential cheap car catalyst. GM p.r. people seem to show they are dumb
• 2010/03/25: SciNews: Building a cheaper catalyst -- Less costly than platinum, perovskite may do even better at cleaning diesel exhaust
• 2010/03/25: NatureN: Cheaper catalyst [perovskite, fortified with the metals strontium and palladium] cleans diesel-car fumes -- Platinum-free material means fuel-efficient engines at lower cost
• 2010/03/24: AutoBG: Super wheel motor from stealthy Australians soon to surface?
• 2010/03/23: TCoE: Electric transportation roundup
• 2010/03/23: PhysOrg: Five myths about electric cars
• 2010/03/21: BendBulletin: For electric car batteries, Nissan bets on leasing
• 2010/03/22: CalcRisk: DOT: Vehicle Miles Driven decline in January

  If I could dredge up the heart to care, this EEStor saga would be painful:

• 2010/03/23: PeakEnergy: ZENN Motors and Mystery of The EEStor Ultracapacitor
• 2010/03/22: TreeHugger: Zenn Closes Doors on Factory, Concentrating on EEstor

  As for Energy Storage:

• 2010/03/27: PeakEnergy: Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Sodium Sulphur Battery
• 2010/03/24: PeakEnergy: Energy Storage's Quiet Revolution
• 2010/03/22: AutoBG: MIT: Carbon nanotubes could make lighter, more powerful batteries
• 2010/03/22: TreeHugger: 5 Battery Breakthroughs that Could One Day Power Electric Cars

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2010/03/25: CCurrents: Globe 2010: Climate Change Denial
• 2010/03/25: BBerg: GE Says European, U.K. Policy Drove Offshore Wind Investment
• 2010/03/25: ABC(Au): The impact of green investing

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2010/03/23: TEC: 100 Best Corporate Citizens? What a CROck!
• 2010/03/22: TP:WR: David Koch Bought Smithsonian Greenwashing For The Equivalent Of $86

  Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:

• 2010/03/26: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for March 26...
• 2010/03/25: ClimateP: The Energy and Global Warming News for March 25...
• 2010/03/24: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for March 24...
• 2010/03/23: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for March 23...
• 2010/03/22: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for March 22...

  Other (weekly) lists:

• 2010/03/25: Grist: A walk through the week's climate news -- The Climate Post: Once more unto the breach, dear friends
• 2010/03/26: GreenGrok: Environmental News Countdown

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2010/03/27: CIP: A Pyramid of Hokum (From Comments) [Motl alert]
• 2010/03/27: TPL: A.S.S. [Anti-Science Syndrome]
• 2010/03/27: BCLSB: Anthony Watts In Australia
• 2010/03/22: QuarkSoup: Spot On
• 2010/03/25: ClimateP: Can Big Oil buy a watered-down climate exhibit at the London Science Museum?
• 2010/03/26: DeSmogBlog: Greenpeace Releases 20-Year History of Climate Denial Industry
• 2010/03/25: DeSmogBlog: Shell Oil Behind London Science Museum Decision to Take Anti-Science Stance on Global Warming?
• 2010/03/26: TP:WR: The Alliance For Energy And Economic Growth Is A Bunch Of Right-Wing Pollutocrats
• 2010/03/25: Deltoid: Leakegate: Leake caught cherry picking to make wind power look bad
• 2010/03/25: DeSmogBlog: Monckton in Utah: Hitlerian hyperbole and deviations from the truth
• 2010/03/25: OilChange: Anti-Wind Study Linked to Climate Sceptics
• 2010/03/24: CC&G: Meteorologist Misreads Arctic Sea Ice Extent Trends
• 2010/03/25: HotTopic: Dealing in doubt: 20 years of attacks on climate science
• 2010/03/24: SolveClimate: Greenpeace Says Climate Denialism a 20 - Year Industry -- Internet, Monckton-Style Deniers Changing the Game, Report Says
• 2010/03/24: ClimateP: Avatar's James Cameron: "Anybody that is a global-warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their ass I'm not sure they could hear me."
• 2010/03/24: ClimateP: Joe Bastardi can't read a temperature anomaly map and so spins another conspiracy theory
• 2010/03/24: TreeHugger: Senator James Inhofe Vs. Physicist Joe Romm: Does ClimateGate Disprove Global Warming?
• 2010/03/24: HotTopic: Business Roundtable lies about climate, according to The Economist
• 2010/03/22: CSW: The Koch Hall: What could you buy for less than 1/1,000th of your net worth?
• 2010/03/22: TPL: States of Denial: Anti-Science Policy in Canada and the US
• 2010/03/22: DM:BA: Stepping off the narrow path of reality
• 2010/03/22: DeSmogBlog: Monckton Denial Circus Booked into Utah
• 2010/03/21: AutoBG: Bid to block California's A.B. 32 emission standards funded by big oil
• 2010/03/19: GTM: Can Climate Skeptics Be Convinced?
  With climate change occurring faster than ever, some new persuasive techniques are needed.
• 2010/03/21: TP:WR: David Koch Project Admits Manmade Global Warming Is An 'Experiment' That Is 'Likely To Create Entirely New Survival Challenges' For Humanity
• 2010/03/21: BCLSB: By Day He Denies...
• 2010/03/21: EnergyBulletin: Perry Mason and the climate change deniers
• 2010/03/21: ClimateWTF: GISTEMP attacked again
• 2010/03/22: PhiladelphiaInquirer: Climate scientists face political barbs

  Meanwhile in the 'clean coal' saga:

• 2010/03/12: AlterNet: An Author's Incredible Environmental Journey After a Coal Company Destroyed His Family's Ancestral Home and Land

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2010/03/26: SciAm: Climate Change Imperils the State of the Planet--Will the World Act?
• 2010/03/26: ClimateP: Memo to media, science museums, homo 'sapiens': Enough with the online polls!
• 2010/03/26: SkeptiSci: How you can support Skeptical Science
• 2010/03/25: ClimateSight: Academic Culture From the Inside -- a Guest Post by Steve Easterbrook
• 2010/03/25: DWWSJ: Just how thin is the shell of air that surrounds us? This thin!
• 2010/03/25: TWTB: Take a Breath -- Correlation, Causation, Carbon, and Common Sense
• 2010/03/25: Wunderground: The Biggest Control Knob: CO2 in Earth's Climate History
• 2010/03/24: BRitholtz: Interactive Climate Data Map [Vizworld]
• 2010/03/25: BNC: The gentle art of interrogation
• 2010/03/24: KSJT: The Economist: Are you a house-of-cardist, or a jigsaw-puzzle-ist? (Climate Change Department)
• 2010/03/24: ClimateP: Smoke gets in your eyes: US News pits me vs. Big Oil on climate science
• 2010/03/24: SkeptiSci: Is the science settled?
• 2010/03/24: TP: Avatar director wants to 'shoot it out' with 'asshole' Glenn Beck and climate-denier 'boneheads.'
• 2010/03/24: HotTopic: Talk in the town
• 2010/03/23: IoD: Jigsaw puzzle or house of cards? The Economist's take on climate change
• 2010/03/22: MoD: The case for global warming is stronger than ever
• 2010/03/22: TCoE: got facebook?
• 2010/03/22: ScienceInsider: Tackling Human-Relevant Climate Change

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

• The Cartoons of Marc Roberts -- Cantankerous Frank and friends, from Throbgoblins International [change of address]\
• CRF: Climate Response Fund
• Neverending Audit
• NOAA: COPEPOD Plankton Database
• Wiki: Plankton
• Wiki: Photosynthesis
• Wiki: Biogeochemical Cycle
• Wiki: Oxygen Cycle
• NASA:JPL: News
• CFCAS: Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
• Wiki: Ocean Acidification
• Wiki: pH
• NBN: Nature Blog Network
• TarSandsWatch: Tar Nation - Play the Game Now
• UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists

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.

P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking." -Wangari Muta Maathai

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