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Another week of GW News, September 5, 2010

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Posted on: September 6, 2010 8:16 AM, by coby

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Another week of Climate Disruption News

September 5, 2010

Chuckles, Geneva, COP16+, Impact Theory, Bryozoans, Alroy, Lee, Pakistan
Bottom Line, Environmental Risks, Grumbine, Cook, Lomborg, Input, IAC, Post CRU
Melting Arctic, Tanker, Methane, Geopolitics, Cairn, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, Pavlovsk Agricultural Station
Food Riot, Rome Meeting, The Scramble, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Clouds, Paleoclimate
Tipping Points, Abrupt CC, State of the Oceans, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Wacky Weather, Extreme Weather, Wildfires
Corals, Acidification, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
Journals, Other Docs , Misc. Science, DIY Science, Trenberth, Curry
UN, Carbon Trade, Carbon Labelling, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
International Politics: Misc., Law & Activism, Activism, Polls, Water Politics & Business, Software, Religioso
National Politics: America, BP Disaster, 2010 Election, Proposition 23
PACE, Cuccinelli, Obama, USAdmin, Congress, Lobbyists, Solar Fiasco
Britain, Europe, Australia, Australian Election, India, China, Japan, Russia
Canada, G20 Policing, Offshore Drilling, Cold War, Pelosi, Pipelines
Tarsands Pollutants, RAMP, Pattern?, BC, Tar Sands, Sask, Quebec
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Courts
Energy, Fracking, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Gee Whiz, Energy Storage
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The IAC Report this week raised a lot of comment (with curiously divergent headlines):

2010/08/30: IAC: [link to 1.6 meg pdf] Climate Change Assessments, Review of the Processes & Procedures of the IPCC
2010/08/30: IAC: InterAcademy Council Report Recommends Fundamental Reform of IPCC Management Structure
2010/08/30: RealClimate: IPCC report card
2010/09/03: CSW: CSW interview on IPCC and recommendations for 'fundamental reform'
2010/08/31: PI:C: External review affirms quality of UN-backed climate research, suggests changes
2010/08/31: WMO: Statement by Mr M. Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization following the report by the Inter-Academy Council of Sciences on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2010/09/03: Stoat: IAC review of the IPCC
2010/09/03: QuarkSoup: On the Interacademy Council Report
2010/09/03: BVerheggen: IPCC troubles in context: Some good Dutch media coverage
2010/09/02: CCentral: Chair of IPCC Review Panel [Harold Shapiro] Backs Climate Science Assessment Process, Despite Flaws
2010/09/02: Guardian(UK): Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must keep its eye on the ball by Myles Allen
2010/09/02: Telegraph(UK): Overhaul of UN climate change body 'could lead to more mistakes'
A major overhaul of how the UN advises the world on climate change could lead to more mistakes on the impacts of global warming, an Oxford academic [Myles Allen] has warned.
2010/09/01: TerraDaily: India backs embattled IPCC chief Pachauri
2010/09/01: CM: Adaptation, IPCC Style
2010/09/01: Guardian(UK): Press continue to hound Rajendra Pachauri despite his innocence
2010/09/01: BVerheggen: IPCC review by InterAcademy Council IAC
2010/09/01: NatureTGB: Pachauri still under fire despite government support
2010/08/31: HotTopic: IPCC report: done well, could do better
2010/08/31: SolveClimate: IPCC Procedures Get Tough Rebuke from Distinguished Panel
2010/08/31: NewScientist: Why it's time for change at the IPCC [Pearce]
2010/08/31: NatureN: Climate panel must adapt to survive -- Review recommends better governance and transparency for the IPCC in the face of more public scrutiny
2010/08/31: NewKerala: UN, IPCC supports independent review
2010/08/31: People's Daily: Independent review proposes fundamental reforms to UN climate change panel
2010/08/30: NYT: Review Finds Flaws in U.N. Climate Panel Structure
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Faulted UN climate panel urged to overhaul working methods
2010/08/30: EarthTimes: Environmental groups welcome reform of UN climate panel
2010/08/30: CSM: IPCC climate change panel needs transparency, review panel finds
2010/08/30: CBC: Big changes proposed to UN climate panel
2010/08/30: Guardian(UK): Rajendra Pachauri, head of UN climate change body, under pressure to resign
2010/08/30: UN: UN-backed climate body says independent review will strengthen its work
2010/08/30: KSJT: Lots of quick ink: World's science academies sniff in distain at sloppy IPCC managers. (Footnote ... um, the science is just fine)
2010/08/30: NewScientist: Climate panel must 'fundamentally reform' to survive
2010/08/31: ABC(Au): Review calls for UN climate shake-up
A major report handed to the United Nations in New York overnight recommends a big shake-up of the way the international body's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is run.
2010/08/30: Grist: U.N. climate panel needs to 'fundamentally reform,' review finds
2010/08/30: ClimateShifts: Interacademy Council report recommends fundamental reform of IPCC management structure
2010/08/30: NatureTGB: IAC review recommends beefing up IPCC structures
2010/08/30: ScienceInsider: Panel Calls for 'Fundamental Reform' of IPCC
2010/08/30: UCSUSA: High-level Committee Issues Recommendations for Improving IPCC Reports
2010/08/30: Reuters: UN climate panel urged to reform, stick to science
Review report: Terms for top IPCC officials too long - IPCC reports included statements that lacked evidence The U.N. climate panel should only make predictions when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy, scientists said in a report on Monday that called for thorough reform of the body.
2010/08/29: ABC(Au): UN hopes science review eases climate scepticism
2010/08/30: TreeHugger: IPCC Did Good Work But Needs Fundamental Reforms, Review Concludes
2010/08/30: EarthTimes: Probe urges deep changes in UN climate panel's working methods
2010/08/30: ENS: Climate Change Panel Needs Fundamental Reform
2010/08/30: SwissInfo: UN climate panel urged to stick to science
A global group of scientists has said a United Nations panel should avoid advocacy and rely only on solid evidence when making predictions about climate change. The InterAcademy Council (IAC) released a report on Monday that said the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs stronger review procedures and "significant reforms" to avoid publishing mistakes. Co-chair of the IPCC, Swiss climatologist Thomas Stocker, said implementing the recommendations contained in the critical review could strengthen confidence the panel's future assessments of the planet's climate.
2010/08/30: BBC: UN climate body 'needs reforms', [IAC] review recommends
Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:
2010/09/04: IJISH: BigCityLib: maybe SwiftHacker wanted to rile up BBC's Hudson but failed; another look at file times
2010/08/30: GreenGrok: Climategate Redux
2010/08/31: ClimateP: WashPost on Climategate, Cuccinelli witch hunt, IPCC review: "The overblown critique of climate science that emerged early this year continues to underwhelm."
The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:
2010/09/05: ASI: Race to Fram Strait 4
2010/09/04: ASI: Sea ice extent update 28: riding the seesaw
2010/09/03: Google:AFP: Shipping companies eye fabled Asia route as ice melts
2010/09/04: WorldChanging: Arctic Round-Up: New Sea Routes Opening Up, New Infrastructure Imagined, and Canada's Taking Action
2010/09/04: PostMedia: Iceberg threatens shipping -- Huge mass broken off Greenland glacier is drifting into Canadian waters
The European Space Agency has released dramatic satellite images of the colossal iceberg that broke away from a Greenland glacier last month and is drifting into Canada's Arctic waters. The 250-square-kilometre Petermann Ice Island -the biggest free-floating frozen mass in the Arctic Ocean in nearly 50 years -has travelled nearly 30 kilometres from its birthplace in a Greenland fjord and is moving into Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island.
2010/09/03: ClimateP: Captain's log from the Chukchi Sea...
2010/09/03: HotTopic: Long way around the sea
2010/09/03: ESA: Earth from Space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait
2010/09/02: PeakEnergy: Russia 1, Icebergs 0 as supertanker takes short cut to China
2010/09/01: ClimateP: Arctic sea ice area and volume drop near record lows
2010/09/01: PhysOrg: Critical polar data flows briskly to researchers
Operation IceBridge -- a NASA airborne mission to observe changes in Earth's rapidly changing polar land ice and sea ice -- is soon to embark on its fourth field season in October. The mission is now paralleled by a campaign to bring data to researchers as quickly as possible and to accelerate the analysis of those changes and how they may affect people and climate systems.
2010/09/01: PeakEnergy: Disaster at the Top of the World
2010/08/31: MGS: Sea ice on the blogs
2010/08/31: NewScientist: Arctic ice: Less than meets the eye
2010/08/30: ASI: End Zone 5: sea ice concentration
2010/08/30: ASI: End Zone 4: sea surface temperature
2010/08/29: ASI: Animation 15: Petermann Glacier revisited
2010/08/29: TCoE: Jeff Masters nails the importance of the Northwest Passage opening
A fuel tanker ran aground in the Arctic:
2010/09/03: ABC(Au): Fuel tanker runs aground in Arctic
A fuel tanker has run aground in Canada's far north, carrying 9 million litres of diesel fuel that risks spilling into the Arctic waters, the Canadian Coast Guard said this morning.
2010/09/03: BBC: Tanker runs aground in Northwest Passage off Canada
2010/09/03: PostMedia: Northwest Passage dilemma: How do you free an oil tanker?
Officials yesterday were puzzled over the best way to refloat a fuel tanker that ran aground in Nunavut, the third such incident in the past month in the rapidly thawing Northwest Passage. No oil is leaking from the tanker, loaded with nine million litres of diesel fuel and trapped since early Wednesday near the community of Gjoa Haven in western Nunavut.
2010/09/02: CBC: Fuel tanker runs aground in Northwest Passage
A fuel tanker carrying 9½ million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed Thursday. Coast guard officials say the merchant tanker Nanny, which is owned by Woodward's Oil Ltd., ran aground on a sandbar Wednesday in Simpson Strait, about 50 kilometres southwest of the community of Gjoa Haven in western Nunavut.

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

2010/09/03: NatureN: What lies beneath Antarctic ice -- Rodolfo del Valle and his team are heading to the Southern Ocean to measure a methane leak.
As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:
2010/09/03: CBC: Northwest Passage tanker could be stuck for days
2010/09/01: NewScientist: Arctic oil and gas drilling ready to take off
2010/09/01: NBF: Arctic Estimated to have 160 billion barrels of oil and 1.67 trillion cubic feet of natural gas
2010/08/30: Grist: With drilling stalled in the Gulf, Big Oil sets its sights on the Arctic
Greenpeace is trying to slow Cairn Energy in the Arctic:
2010/08/31: ENS: Greenpeace Climbers Shut Down Oil Rig in Greenland Waters
2010/08/31: SolveClimate: Greenland's Prime Minister Lambasts Greenpeace for Raid on Arctic Oil Rig -- Environmental campaigners evade Danish navy and scale Cairn Energy oil rig in dawn raid
2010/08/31: Guardian(UK): Weaning the world off oil
Greenpeace's occupation of an Arctic rig carries a simple message: stop drilling for fossil fuels
2010/08/31: CBC: Greenpeace boards [Cairn] drill rig off Greenland
While in Antarctica:
2010/09/03: DWWSJ: Science Journalist Lee Hotz Talks About Antarctica and Climate
The food crisis is ongoing:
FAO: Food Price Indices
2010/09/05: Guardian(UK): Rising wheat prices raise fears over UK commitment to biofuels
Converting up to a fifth of UK wheat into biofuel will force prices even higher at a time of food shortages, warn critics
2010/09/01: FAO: Wheat sends food prices up -- FAO Food Price Index climbs five percent in August
2010/09/04: UPI: U.N. predicts bigger swings in food supply
2010/09/03: BBerg: Wheat Rises on Russian Export Ban; Mozambique Riots for Bread
2010/08/12: EPI: World Carryover Grain Stocks Fall to 72 Days of Consumption
2010/09/03: CBC: Grain prices spark global supply fears
2010/08/24: NYT: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We'll All Be Dieting
[Book Review] The Coming Famine - The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It_ by Julian Cribb
2010/09/02: SeedDaily: Russia to retain grain export ban until 2011 harvest: Putin
2010/09/02: UN: UN agency helps stave off hunger and save farms in southern Bolivia
2010/09/02: PlanetArk: Warmer Temperatures In China To Reduce Crop Yields
2010/09/02: BBC: Russia extends its grain export ban
Russia will consider lifting its grain export ban only after the next year's harvest has been reaped, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said.
2010/09/01: PhysOrg: Climate: Risks loom for China: study
Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.
2010/09/01: PhysOrg: Global warming could spell disaster for corn crops
2010/09/01: NatureN: Ecologists fear Antarctic krill crisis -- Fishing industry threatens to destabilize stocks
2010/08/31: SeedDaily: Russia will not curb soaring food prices: minister
2010/08/31: SeedDaily: Nepal's food supply at risk
2010/09/01: BBC: The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says that world food prices have risen to their highest level in two years
2010/09/01: CBC: World food prices highest in 2 years -- Russian drought drives up the cost of wheat
2010/08/29: JustMeans: Environmental Sustainability, Peak Oil and World Hunger
2010/08/30: CCP: Wheat exports to China triple in deregulated [Aus] market
2010/08/29: TP:WR: Global Boiling: The Coming Food Crisis
The conflict between biofuel and food persists:
2010/08/30: CleanBreak: Canadian company one of several clearing land in Africa to grow biofuel crops
2010/08/29: BBerg: Biofuels Firms Buy Up African Land, Chase EU Goals, Study Says
2010/08/30: Guardian(UK): Friends of the Earth urges end to 'land grab' for biofuels
Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

2010/09/01: PeakEnergy: Biofuel demand driving "land grab" in Africa
2010/08/31: PlanetArk: Biofuel Demand Driving "Land Grab" In Africa: Report
2010/08/30: SolveClimate: EU Land-Grabbing in Africa for Biofuels Is Target of NGO Campaign -- 100 million more people could go hungry, activists say, but industry claims farming models are equitable
Late comment on the Pavlovsk Agricultural Station:
2010/09/04: BLongstaff: Development lunacy in Russia
Food Riots have begun in Mozambique:
2010/09/05: Guardian(UK): Mozambique's food riots -- the true face of global warming
The violence in Maputo is just the latest manifestation of the crippling shortcomings of the global economy
2010/09/04: CCurrents: Food Riots Erupt In Mozambique
2010/09/02: AllAfrica:RFI: Two Children Among Six Killed in Riots
Police opened fire on demonstrators in Maputo marching against rising prices in the capital of Maputo, killing at least six people including two children. On Thursday, police patrolled the streets of Maputo, one day after riots shook the capital, over the rising prices of oil, wheat and bread.
2010/09/03: Guardian(UK): Mozambique bread riots spread as police shoot protesters dead
2010/09/03: BBC: Mozambique police fire rubber bullets at Maputo rioters
Police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters in parts of the Mozambique capital on the third day of riots over rising food prices.
2010/09/02: BBC: The government of Mozambique says price rises which have led to riots in the capital Maputo are "irreversible"
2010/09/02: CBC: Mozambique food price protests continue
2010/09/01: BBC: Deadly riots in Mozambique over rising prices
Six people are reported to have been killed during riots in and around Mozambique's capital Maputo over rising food and fuel prices.
2010/09/01: CBC: Mozambique police kill 6 in food price protest
The FAO is organizing a meeting on the food crisis later this month, probably in Rome:
2010/09/03: UN: UN agency convenes special meeting to examine turmoil in wheat markets
2010/09/03: BBC: UN [FAO] calls meeting on food price concerns
The United Nations' food agency has called a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rise in global food prices. The announcement came after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin extended the country's ban on grain exports on Thursday. This added to fears that prices of food staples would continue to rise. The meeting will take place on 24 September, probably in Rome, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said.

Companies are scrambling for advantage:

2010/09/03: FarmOnline(Au): Scramble for food companies a warning of crisis to come
2010/09/03: BBC: Chinese consider rival Potash bid
Chinese investors have approached a Canadian pension fund about a possible rival bid for the fertiliser giant Potash Corporation
2010/09/02: CBC: Chinese seek Alberta help in PotashCorp bid
Alberta's pension fund manager has been approached by state-owned wealth funds from China to consider joining a bid for fertilizer giant PotashCorp, but it said Thursday it intends to stay on the sidelines for now.
2010/09/02: CBC: Saskatchewan Energy Minister Bill Boyd said Thursday the province has commissioned an independent review of any takeover of fertilizer maker PotashCorp
And how are we going to feed 9 billion?
2010/09/03: EnergyBulletin: We reap what we have sown
2010/09/03: CCurrents: Supreme Court Forces The Govt To Act, To Stop Grains Being Wasted
2010/09/03: PhysOrg: Corn lines resist fungal toxins
Corn germplasm lines developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are scoring high marks in field trials for resistance to aflatoxin produced by Aspergilllus flavus and A. parasiticus fungi.
2010/09/02: PhysOrg: Idaho farmers growing vegetables with geothermal energy
2010/09/01: Eureka: Scientists find organic farms have higher quality fruit, better soil, lower environmental impact
2010/08/31: SciDaily: In Drought-Prone Sahel, Scientists Roll out Innovative System for Producing Vegetables
2010/09/01: ADA: Action Needed to Eliminate Food Insecurity in the U.S.
2010/08/30: BBC: Apple DNA code is cracked by geneticists
A team of 86 global scientists have sequenced the genetic code of the Golden Delicious apple for the first time.

The Atlantic was active this week with Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston and a couple tropical depressions:

2010/09/05: EarthTimes: Diminished Earl unleashes final fury over eastern Canada
2010/09/04: CBC: Earl brings strong winds to P.E.I. -- Tropical storm downs trees, cuts power
2010/09/04: CNN: Tropical Storm Earl hits Nova Scotia
Power outages, watery roads reported in Nova Scotia - Severe weather conditions reported across Nova Scotia - In Massachusetts, things should be 'back to normal soon' - The storm is expected to cause dangerous surf conditions along East Coast
2010/09/04: Wunderground: Earl hits Nova Scotia but spares New England; Gaston still a threat
2010/09/04: EarthTimes: Downgraded storm Earl passes New England with little damage
2010/09/03: EarthTimes: Hurricane Earl heads for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard
2010/09/04: Eureka: NASA satellite and International Space Station catch Earl weakening
2010/09/04: TGBeaver: Tropical Storm Earl - 041200Z Updated 041300Z
2010/09/04: CBC: Earl rattles Nova Scotia -- Downgraded to tropical storm
2010/09/03: Wunderground: Earl's rain bands move over New England; Gaston regenerating?
2010/09/03: KSJT: AP, CP: Earl's close swipe. How about the Fundy bore on Saturday morning?
2010/09/03: PhysOrg: NASA imagery reveals a weaker, stretched out Fiona
2010/09/03: NatureTGB: Hurricane season kicks into high gear with Earl & Co
2010/09/03: Wunderground: Earl spares North Carolina, heads for New England
2010/09/03: Wunderground: Category 2 Earl Heads for Cape Cod
2010/09/03: Wunderground: Category 2 Earl Passes the Outer Banks, Heads for Cape Cod
2010/09/02: Wunderground: Earl significantly weakening
2010/09/03: Eureka: GOES-13 satellite sees Hurricane Earl's clouds covering the US Northeast
2010/09/02: Eureka: NASA sees Depression Nine become Gaston then back to a depression
2010/09/02: Eureka: NASA catches heavy rainfall happening in Category 4 Earl as it approaches the US
2010/09/03: EarthTimes: US East Coast feeling weakened Hurricane Earl
2010/09/02: NASA:JPL: NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's Eye
2010/09/03: BBC: A weakened Hurricane Earl has passed North Carolina and is continuing up the east coast of the US, leading two more states to declare states of emergency
2010/09/03: CBC: Hurricane Earl weakens off U.S. East Coast -- Storm could reach Maritimes by Saturday morning
2010/09/03: CBC: Hurricane Earl targets Maritimes
2010/09/02: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Earl: Obama declares emergency as storm nears east coast
2010/09/02: DM:CCM: Hurricane Earl is Only Getting Stronger -- We'd Better Hope Land is Missed
2010/09/02: Wunderground: Earl: 3rd strongest hurricane on record so far north in U.S. coastal waters
2010/09/02: Wunderground: Category 4 Earl Approaches the East Coast
2010/09/02: NASA:JPL: NASA Images Dissect Hurricane Earl
2010/09/02: CBC: Hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina -- Hurricane warning issued for parts of Massachusetts
2010/09/02: CBC: 3 N.S. counties on Earl watch -- Storm tracks towards southwest N.S. and possibly Bay of Fundy
2010/09/01: TGBeaver: Hurricane Earl, Tropical Storm Fiona and Tropical Storm Gaston - 012100Z
2010/09/01: CNN: Forecasters: Earl could restrengthen before aiming at East Coast
Earl may become Category 4 later Wednesday - Forecasters say they're unsure whether Earl will make a direct hit on East Coast - President Obama talks to the FEMA director about preparations for Earl - Earl is a Category 3 hurricane with 125 mph (200 kph) winds
2010/09/01: Wunderground: Hurricane warnings for North Carolina for Category 3 Earl
2010/09/01: Wunderground: Category 3 Earl Continues Moving Towards the East Coast
2010/09/01: NASA: Infrared NASA Image Shows Strong Convection in New Atlantic Depression 9
2010/09/01: NASA: NASA [Aqua satellite] Infrared Data Sees Convection Building in Fiona's Clouds
2010/09/01: BBC: Hurricane Earl prompts US evacuations
2010/09/01: CBC: Hurricane Earl pushes out tourists in N.C. -- Visitors leave 2 North Carolina islands as storm heads to U.S. East Coast
2010/09/01: CBC: Hurricane Earl has Atlantic Canada braced
2010/08/31: TGBeaver: Hurricane Earl and Tropical Storm Fiona - 312230Z
2010/08/31: DM:BA: Hurricane double whammy
2010/08/31: Wunderground: Category 4 Earl headed for a close brush with North Carolina
2010/08/30: Wunderground: Earl hits Category 4; Fiona forms
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Hurricane Earl threatens US East Coast
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Hurricane Earl threatens US Atlantic Coast
2010/08/31: ENS: Hurricane Earl Batters Caribbean Islands, Heads for U.S. East Coast
2010/08/31: NASA: GOES-13 Catches 3 Tropical Cyclones [Earl, Fiona & Danielle] Thrashing Through the Atlantic
2010/08/31: BBC: Hurricane Earl churns towards US east coast [Cat 4]
2010/08/31: CBC: Hurricane Earl on course for U.S. East Coast
2010/08/31: CBC: Be Earl ready, Nova Scotians urged -- Category 4 hurricane was headed north Tuesday
2010/08/30: CNN: Hurricane Earl grows to Category 4; Tropical Storm Fiona forms
2010/08/29: TerraDaily: Antigua, Caribbean brace for Hurricane Earl
2010/08/30: Wunderground: Category 3 Hurricane Earl pounding northern Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico
2010/08/30: Wunderground: Earl poised to rapidly intensify ; now pounding northern Lesser Antilles
2010/08/29: EarthTimes: Hurricane Earl threatens Caribbean
2010/08/30: BBC: Hurricane Earl gaining strength in eastern Caribbean
2010/08/30: CBC: Hurricane Earl grows to Category 3
The Western Pacific was also active with LionRock, Kompasu & Namtheun, although we didn't hear as much about it:
2010/09/02: Eureka: NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Kompasu transitioning over Korea and China
2010/09/02: TerraDaily: Flights halted, power cut as Typhoon Kompasu hits S.Korea
2010/09/02: EarthTimes: Typhoon Kompasu hits South Korea, kills three
2010/09/02: BBC: Typhoon Kompasu hits South Korea capital Seoul
2010/09/02: CBC: Typhoon Kompasu lashes South Korea
2010/09/01: EarthTimes: Taiwan lifts land warning as tropical storm [Lionrock] heads to China
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Taiwan issues sea and land warnings for Typhoon Namtheun
2010/08/31: NASA: NASA's Terra Satellite Captures Three Tropical Cyclones [Lionrock, Namtheun & Kompasu] in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean
While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:
2010/09/02: CCurrents: Katrina's Destructive Aftermath
2010/09/03: UCSUSA: Global Warming Makes Hurricanes Stronger, But Other Effects Remain Unclear
2010/09/02: PhysOrg: Global Hawk drone aircraft flies over Frank on the GRIP [Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes] hurricane mission
NASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first ever high-altitude flyover of a tropical cyclone with a UAS (unmanned aircraft system).
2010/09/02: CBC: [Cyclonic] Storm forecast accuracy doubled in 20 years
2010/08/31: FAIR: The Katrina Story You Don't See So Much in Anniversary Coverage
2010/08/31: CCurrents: Hurricane Of Inhumanity: Five Years After Katrina
2010/08/31: DM:80B: To Study Storms, NASA Flies a Plane Into Hurricane Earl
2010/08/30: EarthTimes: ASEAN and UN discuss Myanmar cyclone, stress importance of rapid aid
As for GHGs:
2010/09/01: SkeptiSci: Carbon dioxide equivalents by Dr Chris McGrath
And in the carbon cycle:
2010/08/30: SolveClimate: Human Activities Overwhelming Carbon Cycle of Longest River in Texas [Brazos] -- Accounting for carbon in watersheds a method of detecting leaks of sequestered carbon
2010/08/30: TMoS: Living In The World's Greatest Carbon Sink
As for the temperature record:
2010/09/01: TerraDaily: Japan endures hottest summer on record
2010/09/01: QuarkSoup: New Hadley Temperatures
Clouds are one of the major uncertainties in climate. Much research revolves around them:
2010/09/03: ClassM: Cloudy forecast
2010/08/30: Yale360: The Effect of Clouds on Climate: A Key Mystery for Researchers
While in the paleoclimate:
2010/09/02: TerraDaily: The Atlantic And Pacific Climate Connection [17.5 kya]
The cliff, aka tipping points, aka planetary boundaries, put in an appearance:
2010/09/03: MTobis: Rockstrom on Planetary Boundaries
2010/09/01: Guardian(UK): 75 months and counting ...
Quarter of the way in, we are perhaps further from holding back the warming tide than when we began. But there is still time

Abrupt Climate Change put in an appearance:

2010/08/30: Eureka: Dramatic climate change is unpredictable
And the State of the Oceans:
2010/09/03: USGS: New Report Warns of Expanding Threat of Hypoxia in U.S. Coastal Waters
2010/09/03: NOAANews: New Report Warns of Expanding Threat of Hypoxia in U. S. Coastal Waters -- Declining oxygen levels in Nation's waters forming dead zones, destroying habitats
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
2010/09/03: PhysOrg: Water mission reveals insight into Amazon plume
ESA's SMOS water mission has taken another step forward by demonstrating that it will lead to a better understanding of ocean circulation. Using preliminary data, scientists can clearly see how surface currents affect the 'Amazon plume' in the open sea.
2010/09/03: NatureTGB: GOCE lives!
2010/09/01: NOAANews: NASA, NOAA: Newest GOES Satellite Ready For Action
2010/09/01: NASA: NASA and NOAA's Newest GOES Satellite [15] Ready for Action
2010/08/30: PhysOrg: NASA's successful Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation [ICESat] mission comes to an end
More GW impacts are being seen:
2010/08/30: USGS: Climate Change Implicated in Decline of Horseshoe Crabs -- Decline may affect at-risk shorebirds
2010/09/02: PhysOrg: Research: Climate change affecting mussel survival
2010/09/02: Guardian(UK): Tibetan nomads struggle as grasslands disappear from the roof of the world
Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate change
2010/09/01: SeedDaily: More CO2 means more poison ivy
2010/08/30: USGS: Climate Change Implicated in Decline of Horseshoe Crabs -- Decline may affect at-risk shorebirds
And then there are the world's forests:
2010/09/03: ABC(Au): Trees save lives in heatwaves, say experts
Trees are known to give a range of environmental benefits, but new research suggests that they are also playing an important role in saving human lives during heatwaves.
2010/09/02: Stanford: Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher
A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming. But the research team also noted that big agribusiness has largely replaced small farmers in doing most of the tree cutting in Brazil and Indonesia, which may make it easier to rein in the trend.
2010/09/02: TerraDaily: Pakistan floods and the timber mafia
2010/09/02: ScienceInsider: Deforestation Rate Continues to Plunge in Brazil [fires burned 2296 sq km between August 2009 and August 2010]
2010/08/31: SMandia: Global Warming Impact on Forests & Woodlands
2010/09/01: TreeHugger: Amazon Deforestation Down 16% Over Past Year, New Data Shows -- Only 1,488 square kilometers (574 square miles) of forest cleared
2010/08/30: PlanetArk: Analysis: Halt To Forest Road Is Kremlin Damage Control
Climate refugees are becoming an issue:
2010/08/31: EUO: Libyan leader seeks 5 billion euros a year to halt EU-bound migrants
2010/08/31: BBC: Gaddafi wants EU cash to stop African migrants
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a "black Europe".

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

2010/08/30: DM:BA: Another tornado MADE OF FIRE! Waiting now for tornado made of locusts
This week in extreme weather:
2010/08/31: DerSpiegel: Drought and Floods -- A Record Summer of Extremes
It has been a summer of crazy weather, according to the German Weather Service. A searing heatwave in July was followed by the wettest August since records began in 1881.
2010/09/02: QuarkSoup: Does "atmospheric blocking" Explain the Moscow Heat Wave?
2010/09/02: BBC: Huge snowfall caused by rare clash of weather events
Scientists have shown that a severe snowfall in North America and Northern Europe in the winter of 2009-2010 was caused by a rare, once in a century, collision of two weather systems. [...] an El Nino event and the rare occurrence of a strongly negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

2010/09/02: TerraDaily: Russian fires start up again: ministry
2010/09/03: EarthTimes: Eight dead as new Russian fires destroy hundreds of homes
2010/09/03: CBC: Russian wildfires kill 5
2010/09/01: TerraDaily: Wildfires contained in southern France
2010/09/01: OregonLive: Researchers study link between climate, wildfire
2010/09/01: EarthTimes: Wildfires rage on Iberian Peninsula
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Wildfires threaten houses in Portugal
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Thousands of hectares on fire in southern France
Corals are dying:
2010/09/02: PhysOrg: Ancient Australian reef raises hopes for coral as seas warm
2010/09/01: BBC: Ancient coral reef uncovered in South Pacific
An ancient reef found in the Pacific may provide clues to what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise. A team of researchers from Australia and New Zealand have discovered a huge 9,000-year-old reef surprisingly far south. Lord Howe Island is 600km east of the Australian mainland and has a small modern coral reef - the furthest south in the world. The ancient reef however is nearly 30 times as large as the modern reef.
2010/08/29: Time: Our Dying Corals -- and How to Save Them
Acidification is changing the oceans:
2010/09/01: CCP: Modern seawater acidification: the response of foraminifera to high-CO2 conditions in the Mediterranean Sea, JGS 167 (2010), B. B. Dias, M. B. Hart, C. W. Smart & J. M. Hall-Spencer
2010/08/31: UPI: Study: Marine life at risk in CO2 rise
A "natural laboratory" in the Mediterranean revealing effects of carbon dioxide levels in oceans paints a bleak picture for future marine life, researchers say.
2010/08/31: ClimateP: Geological Society: Acidifying oceans spell marine biological meltdown "by end of century"
Glaciers are melting:
2010/08/31: ClimateP: USGS report: Asian glacier retreat, driven by climate change, "increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas"
2010/08/31: TreeHugger: USGS Confirms Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting & Climate Change is to Blame
Sea levels are rising:
2010/09/05: AsianAge: Indian Ocean rising faster than others
2010/09/02: CCP: Historical Sea Level Rise by Neil White
2010/08/30: SkeptiSci: Sea level rise: the broader picture
As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:
2010/09/05: EarthTimes: Worst floods in a decade hit Australia's south coast
2010/09/05: ABC(Au): Hundreds evacuated in Victorian flood disaster
Victoria is experiencing some of its worst flooding in more than a decade and emergency services say the threat is far from over.
2010/09/04: BBC: Heavy rains devastate Guatemala
A state of emergency has been declared in Guatemala, where days of heavy rain have caused widespread flooding and landslides. At least 18 people have been killed...
2010/09/03: Reuters: Amazon may be headed for another bad drought
2010/09/03: JFleck: River Beat: It's the Temperature
2010/09/03: TerraDaily: China landslide toll rises to 12, with 36 still missing
2010/09/02: BBC: Amazon river level in Peru at 40-year low
2010/09/02: UN: UN agency helps stave off hunger and save farms in southern Bolivia
2010/09/02: PhysOrg: Amazon at lowest level in over 40 years in Peru: experts
2010/09/01: DM: Climate Change Gets Wet -- Researchers have recently started to pay more attention to how water vapor in the atmosphere is related to global warming
2010/09/01: TerraDaily: Floods kill 3, displace thousands in northern Nigeria
2010/09/02: EarthTimes: Mekong River rises to near-alarm level in Laos
2010/08/31: TerraDaily: China's flood toll rises to 4,200 dead or missing
2010/08/31: PaysonRoundup: Region [US SouthWest] faces parched future
2010/09/01: BBC: South Sudan's Aweil region swamped by floods
Some 57,000 people have been forced from their homes because of dramatic floods in south-western Sudan over the past month, health officials say. Heavy rains have left Aweil, the main town of Northern Bahr al-Ghazal province, largely under water.
2010/08/31: PlanetArk: U.N. Says 270,000 At Risk As Floods Loom In Ethiopia
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Chinese floods, landslides claimed 3,185 lives in 2010
2010/08/30: UN: UN renews appeal for aid as drought-stricken Niger reels from recent floods
2010/08/27: TerraDaily: Killer rains leave at least 34 dead in Nicaragua
2010/08/28: TerraDaily: Niger floods leave 200,000 homeless: UN
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
2010/09/02: CCP: Columbia University shows planting green roofs can reduce urban heat island effect
2010/09/02: ABC(Au): Scientists and planners consider street trees' benefits -- The benefits are being assessed of diverting rain from gutters to water street trees
2010/09/01: VoxEU: Ambiguity is another reason to mitigate climate change by Simon Dietz et al.
Consider transportation & GHG production:
2010/09/03: CalcRisk: Rail Traffic increases 5.7% in August compared to August 2009
2010/09/01: CalcRisk: General Motors: Sales off sharply from August 2009
[...] GM August U.S. sales down 24.9% to 185,176 units
[...] Ford U.S. August sales slide 10.7% to 157,503
[...] Chrysler U.S. August sales rise 7% to 99,611 units
2010/08/30: Guardian(UK): Few air travellers offset carbon emissions, study finds
2010/08/29: NBF: Global auto sales to hit 70 mln units this year: expert forecasts
As for carbon sequestration:
2010/08/30: PhysOrg: Calcium carbonate and climate change
What links sea urchins, limestone and climate change? The common thread is calcium carbonate, one of the most widespread minerals on Earth. UC Davis researchers have now measured the energy changes among different forms of calcium carbonate, from its messy noncrystalline forms to beautiful calcite crystals that could lock away carbon underground for thousands to millions of years.

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

2010/08/31: CBC: White-roofs law would help cool Earth: prof -- Mayor of Montreal borough proposes bylaw requiring white roofs
While on the adaptation front:
2010/08/30: SolveClimate: Vulnerable Miami Hard at Work on Climate Change Planning
Meanwhile in the journals:
2010/09/02: NERC:NORA: Historical SAM variability. Part II: Twentieth-century variability and trends from reconstructions, observations, and the IPCC AR4 models by Ryan L. Fogt et al.
2010/09/03: ACP: Stratospheric water vapour budget and convection overshooting the tropopause: modelling study from SCOUT-AMMA by X. M. Liu et al.
2010/09/01: OSD: Assessment of the 3-D temperature and salinity observational networks in the Baltic Sea and North Sea by W. Fu et al.
2010/09/02: TC: Local scaling characteristics of Antarctic surface layer turbulence by S. Basu et al.
2010/09/03: TCD: The sea level fingerprint of 21st century ice mass fluxes by J. Bamber & R. Riva
2010/09/02: TCD: Glaciochemical investigations on the subterranean ice deposit of Vukusic' Ice Cave, Velebit Mountain, Croatia by Z. Kern et al.
2010/09/01: TCD: First investigations of an ice core from Eisriesenwelt cave (Austria) by B. May et al.
2010/08/30: CPD: Greenland Ice Sheet model parameters constrained using simulations of the Eemian Interglacial by A. Robinson et al.
2010/09/01: CPD: Oceanic tracer and proxy time scales revisited by C. Siberlin & C. Wunsch
2010/09/02: CPD: Application of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for assessing biogenic silica sample purity in geochemical analyses and palaeoenvironmental research by G. E. A. Swann & S. V. Patwardhan
2010/09/03: Science: (ab$) The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups by J. Alroy
2010/08/30: ACP: Chemical composition of ambient aerosol, ice residues and cloud droplet residues in mixed-phase clouds: single particle analysis during the Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment (CLACE 6) by M. Kamphus et al.
2010/08/30: ACP: Particle size distributions from laboratory-scale biomass fires using fast response instruments by S. Hosseini et al.
2010/09/02: ACP: Intercomparison of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in stratiform orographic mixed-phase clouds by A. Muhlbauer et al.
2010/09/02: ACP: The effects of clouds and aerosols on net ecosystem CO2 exchange over semi-arid Loess Plateau of Northwest China by X. Jing et al.
2010/09/01: ACP: Enhancement of the aerosol direct radiative effect by semi-volatile aerosol components: airborne measurements in North-Western Europe by W. T. Morgan et al.
2010/09/01: ACP: Radiative heating rates profiles associated with a springtime case of Bodélé and Sudan dust transport over West Africa by C. Lemaitre et al.
2010/09/01: ACP: Haze types in Beijing and the influence of agricultural biomass burning by W. J. Li et al.
2010/09/02: ACPD: Californian wildfire plumes over Southwestern British Columbia: lidar, sunphotometry, and mountaintop chemistry observations by I. McKendry et al.
2010/09/02: ACPD: Total cloud cover from satellite observations and climate models by P. Probst et al.
2010/09/02: ACPD: Chemical characterization of aerosols at the summit of Mountain Tai in the middle of central east China by C. Deng et al.
2010/09/02: ACPD: Detecting the influence of fossil fuel and bio-fuel black carbon aerosols on near surface temperature changes by G. S. Jones et al.
2010/09/01: ACPD: Trend and characteristics of atmospheric emissions of Hg, As, and Se from coal combustion in China, 1980-2007 by H. Z. Tian et al.
2010/08/31: ACPD: Aerosol direct radiative forcing during Sahara dust intrusions in the Central Mediterranean by M. R. Perrone et al.
2010/09/02: AGWObserver: Papers on irrigation and climate
2010/09/01: PLoS One: Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems by John P. Reganold et al.
2010/08/30: PNAS: Oil sands development contributes elements toxic at low concentrations to the Athabasca River and its tributaries by Erin N. Kelly et al.
2010/08/31: PNAS: Forest contraction in north equatorial Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period by Christopher M. Wurster et al.
2010/08/31: PNAS: Temperatures and cyclones strongly associated with economic production in the Caribbean and Central America by Solomon M. Hsiang
2010/02/05: GCB: (ab$) Faunal evidence for a late quaternary trans-Antarctic seaway by David K. A. Barnes & Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
2010/08/31: OSD: Absolute Salinity, "Density Salinity" and the Reference-Composition Salinity Scale: present and future use in the seawater standard TEOS-10 by D. G. Wright et al.
And other significant documents:
2010/08/30: IAC: [link to 1.6 meg pdf] Climate Change Assessments, Review of the Processes & Procedures of the IPCC
2010/08/16: FAS: [435k pdf] [from CRS] Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy
2010/08/27: FAS:SN: [link to 211k pdf] Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain (CRS)
As for miscellaneous science:
2010/09/04: PhysOrg: French science vessel to start second leg of climate voyage
The French yacht Tara leaves Sunday on the second leg of a three-year voyage across the world's oceans to chart the effects of climate change on micro-organisms which produce half our oxygen.
2010/08/30: Wired: Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science
[...]
Wired: Why is it so hard to convince people, even when the science is so clear?
Simon Singh: Science has nothing to do with common sense. I believe it was Einstein who said that common sense is a set of prejudices we form by the age of 18. Inject somebody with some viruses and that's going to keep you from getting sick? That's not common sense. We evolved from single-cell organisms? That's not common sense. By driving my car I'm going to cook Earth? None of this is common sense. The commonsense view is what we're fighting against. So somehow you've got to move people away from that with these quite complicated scientific arguments based on even more complicated research. That's why it's such an uphill battle. People start off with a belief and a prejudice -- we all do. And the job of science is to set that aside to get to the truth.
2010/08/30: TCoE: Pondering the role of scientists
2010/09/02: BBC: Technique to trace persistent CFCs
Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help track down persistent sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer.

Sci00:

2010/09/03: CC&G: Mapping Temperature Anomalies with R
2010/09/03: Stoat: climatecode.org
2010/09/01: CC&G: Global Warming in My Lifetime - July's Story
2010/08/31: CC&G: RClimate Tools for Do It Yourself Climate Trend Analysis
Regarding Kevin Trenberth:
2010/08/30: ClimateSight: What Kevin Trenberth Has to Say
Regarding Curry:
2010/09/02: ERabett: Taking it to a new level
2010/08/31: Stoat: Round in circles with Accelerated warming of the Southern Ocean and its impacts on the hydrological cycle and sea ice?
2010/08/29: ERabett: Judy and the INTERTUBES
While at the UN:
2010/09/03: Guardian(UK): If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair?
2010/09/03: Guardian(UK): UN debuts website for tracking climate aid
Fast Start Finance website to provide information on industrialised nations' climate funding commitments
2010/08/30: BBerg: Russia Submits `Breakthrough' Carbon Emissions Reduction Project, UN Says
2010/08/30: Reuters: Russia submits 1st Kyoto CO2 offset project to U.N.
2010/08/29: NYT: Cap-and-Trade Is Beginning to Raise Some Concerns
And on the carbon trading front:
2010/09/01: Reuters: EU carbon permit volumes fall in August, CERs rise
Traded volumes in European Union carbon permits fell by a third last month compared to July, while transactions in Kyoto carbon offsets jumped by 34 percent, Point Carbon said on Wednesday.
2010/09/02: EuropeanVoice: Emissions impossible? UN scheme under fire for lack of effectiveness, while Commission seeks to protect [EU-ETS] emissions scheme
2010/08/31: BBerg: Japan Forsees Starting Carbon-Emissions Trading in 2013, Panel Reports
How will Carbon Labelling work?
2010/08/30: BRitholtz: Proposed New Car Fuel Economy Stickers
2010/08/30: TreeHugger: EPA & DOT Propose Clearer, More Colorful Fuel Economy Labels
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:
2010/09/03: BBerg: GE, Siemens, Vestas Back Call for Australia to Introduce Price on Carbon
2010/08/29: Guardian(UK):Not carbon offsets, but carbon upset
Cap-and-trade has had the perverse effect of subsidising politically dominant industries. We should try something else

On the international political front, this Chinese gambit has the potential of creating conflict:

2010/09/01: Eureka: China's monopoly on 17 key elements sets stage for supply crisis
2010/08/31: EnergyBulletin: The rare earth elements crisis
2010/08/29: Telegraph(UK): Backlash over China curb on metal exports
China's draconian export curbs on rare earth minerals needed by the rest of the world for frontier technologies is escalating into a serious diplomatic and trade clash with the United States and other leading powers.
2010/08/29: BBerg: China Backs Rare Earth Controls as Environmental Step
China defended its controls on exports of rare earth after Japanese officials raised concerns about supplies of the raw materials used in the manufacture of products from cell phones to radar. Restrictions on the rare earth industry will help protect the environment, the state-run Xinhua News Agency cited Chen Deming, China's commerce minister, as saying yesterday at a media briefing during China-Japan economic talks in Beijing. China cut its export quotas for rare earth by 72 percent for the second half of this year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on July 8. Shipments will be capped at 7,976 metric tons, down from 28,417 tons for the same period a year ago.
2010/08/29: BBerg: China Defends Control of Rare Earth Exports as Move to Protect Environment
The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world:
2010/09/02: Guardian(UK): Greenpeace activists arrested after abandoning occupation of Arctic oil rig
Severe weather forces campaigners to give up their perilous position on British-owned rig off the coast of Greenland
2010/09/01: ENS: Police Kill Protester Who Took Hostages in Discovery Channel Building
2010/09/02: EarthTimes: Greenpeace activists abort oil rig protest off Greenland -- The four activists have been detained by Danish police
2010/09/02: ENS: Greenland Police Arrest Greenpeace Oil Rig Demonstrators
2010/09/02: BBC: Greenpeace Cairn rig activists arrested off Greenland
Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after giving up their occupation of a Scottish company's drilling rig off Greenland.
2010/09/01: AlterNet: Radical Eco-Activist Imprisoned for 'Friending' Someone on Facebook
What are the activists up to?
2010/08/31: ENS: Greenpeace Climbers Shut Down Oil Rig in Greenland Waters
2010/08/31: Guardian(UK): Weaning the world off oil
Greenpeace's occupation of an Arctic rig carries a simple message: stop drilling for fossil fuels
2010/08/31: TreeHugger: Sigourney Weaver Deconstructs Disasterous Belo Monte Dam in 'Defending the Rivers of the Amazon' (Video)
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Greenpeace activists scale oil rig off Greenland
2010/08/31: CBC: Greenpeace boards [Cairn] drill rig off Greenland
Polls! We have polls!
2010/08/31: ClimateP: New poll: Americans want EPA action on climate
Regarding Water Politics and Business:
2010/09/04: SolveClimate: Plans Afoot to Ship Fresh Water from Alaska to India -- Company promising tanker deliveries but high cost might make it just a pipe dream
2010/09/03: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Clean Water is Basic Human Right, General Assembly Declares in Under-Reported Vote
2010/09/04: DVoice: "Alternative Nobel Prize" Winners Appeal to Botswana President over Bushmen
2010/08/31: ABC(Au): Desalination plant to be fully functional within weeks
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: Chinese-built hydropower plant opens in Laos
As for SW tools:
2010/09/03: SEasterbrook: What's the pricetag on a Global Climate Model?
2010/09/03: ScienceInsider: Creating Clearer Climate Computer Codes
2010/09/01: SEasterbrook: I never said that!
Among the world's religions:
2010/09/02: Guardian(UK): How Buddhism could be a way out of the environmental mess we are in
And on the American political front:
2010/09/05: TreeHugger: Drought Politics In Colorado - Candidate For Governor Fostering State's Rights Or Ignorant Provocation?
2010/09/04: ClimateP: Chuck Hagel says GOP is not "presenting any alternatives, any new options or any new thinking"
2010/09/04: ClimateP: The big green easy
2010/09/04: AlterNet: The Republican Who Dared Tell the Truth About America's Looming Oil Disaster
2010/09/02: PBS: Double Play for Global Warming
2010/09/02: SolveClimate: Energy Storage Law Would Attract Manufacturers and Jobs to California -- State could become a hub for the energy storage industry
2010/09/02: LA Times: Environmentalists stunned by failures of key measures in Legislature
Activists expected big gains, but a ban on plastic grocery bags, another on a chemical used in baby bottles and a bid to boost alternative energy fell short in the face of heavy industry opposition.
2010/09/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Clearing the track for smart rail investments
2010/09/01: UCSUSA: California 33 Percent Renewable Energy Bill Dies in Legislature
2010/08/31: Grist: California Legislature passes energy storage bill
2010/08/30: Grist: Attention Congress: China is shutting down its old coal plants
The BP disaster continues to roil US politics:
2010/09/04: LA Times: Oil dispersant effects remain a mystery
BP sprayed chemicals massively in confronting the gulf spill, but scientists aren't sure how much good -- or bad -- they did.
2010/09/03: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Extortion And Our Clean Energy Future
2010/09/03: TreeHugger: Banksy Turns Kiddie Ride Into Anti-BP Statement
2010/09/02: ABC(Au): Oil leaking from burning rig in Gulf of Mexico
2010/09/02: NakedCapitalism: WashingtonsBlog: Scientists Say Dispersants May Delay Recovery of the Gulf By Years --- Or Decades
2010/09/01: SolveClimate: Oceana & Greenpeace Send Research Ships to the Gulf -- Three dimensional maps and baseline data-gathering to counter easy answers from NOAA and BP
2010/08/31: WashingtonsBlog: Oil Tests Positive for Dispersants in the Mississippi Sound
2010/08/31: NatureN: The mystery of the missing oil plume -- Confounding reports seed confusion over long-term effects of the spill
So how do you figure the 2010 elections will crack up?
2010/09/05: Kentucky: Coal a 'driving factor' in U.S. Senate race -- Issue is big with Ky. voters in east, west
2010/09/03: Grist: Carly Fiorina fumbles on Prop 23 issue during California Senate debate
2010/09/03: LA Times:PC: Fiorina announces support for Proposition 23 to roll back state's global warming law
2010/09/02: ClimateP: Politico on CA Senate debate: "Fiorina's major stumble came on the issue of Proposition 23."
2010/09/02: Grist: Richard Burr: objectionable and vulnerable
2010/09/01: ClimateP: Ohio Tea Party survey to candidates: "The regulation of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere should be left to God and not government and I oppose all measures of Cap and Trade as well as the teaching of global warming theory in our schools."
2010/09/01: ClimateP: Breaking: Murkowski concedes Alaska primary defeat
2010/08/31: TP: Sharron Angle's Plan For Education: Eliminate All Of It
Speaking at a forum for the right-wing Steamboat Institute last week, Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle effectively declared that public schools should cease to exist.
2010/08/31: Guardian(UK): Tea Party seeks candidates who say no to global warming and gay marriage
In California Proposition 23 is turning out to be a real battle:
2010/09/04: ClimateP: The dirty oil coalition behind the Proposition 23 effort to stop clean energy just got a lot dirtier -- Koch Industries joins Valero and Tesoro to stop climate action
2010/09/04: LA Times: Bid to suspend California global-warming law gets $1 million from billionaire brothers' firm
The donation to the Proposition 23 campaign comes from a subsidiary of Kansas-based Koch Industries, which owns refineries and controls 4,000 miles of oil pipelines.
2010/09/03: ClimateP: California's Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families
2010/09/03: Grist: Koch brothers jump into Prop 23 fight
2010/09/02: LA Times:GS: Billionaire Koch brothers back suspension of California climate law
2010/09/03: DeSmogBlog: Koch Industries Donates $1 Million To Prop 23 Effort To Kill California Climate Law
2010/09/02: KSJT: PBS, SJ Merc-News: A ballot proposition that, some way, would undo California's carbon-frugal ways
2010/09/01: LA Times:GS: Mayor Villaraigosa: 'Go home, Texas oil companies!'
2010/09/01: CSM: Will Texas oil firms succeed in undoing California greenhouse gas laws?
Texas oil firms are backing a ballot initiative that would repeal the state's landmark 2006 greenhouse-gas reduction law. The mayor of Los Angeles is rallying Hispanic groups against the initiative.
2010/09/01: LA Times: L.A. mayor, Latino activists take on oil companies over Proposition 23
They say the ballot initiative to suspend the state's climate change law would hurt low-income communities already suffering the most from pollution.
2010/08/30: TP:WR: Prop 23's Anita Mangels Wants You To Know That Greenhouse Gases Are 'Emissions,' Not 'Pollutants'
In the PACE saga:
2010/08/31: Grist: PACE homeowners must pay up before refinancing, Fannie and Freddie say
Cuccinelli lost one, but he'll appeal to drag it out as long as possible:
2010/09/01: DeSmogBlog: Washington Post Editorial Slams Ken Cuccinelli "Embarrassing" Witch Hunt Against Climate Scientist
2010/08/30: TWM: Court smacks down Cuccinelli...
2010/08/30: TP: Judge Smacks Down Cuccinelli's Global Warming Witchhunt
2010/08/30: ClimateP: Judge rules against Cuccinelli's witch-hunt aimed at Michael Mann and climate science
2010/08/30: ScienceInsider: Judge Blocks Virginia's Request for Global Warming Records
2010/08/30: CSW: Virginia judge tosses out Cuccinelli attempt to subpoena Michael Mann's records
2010/08/30: DM:BA: Cuccinelli's climate change case dismissed
2010/08/30: UCSUSA: Judge Dismisses Ken Cuccinelli's Misguided Investigation of Michael Mann
2010/08/30: WaPo:VP: Judge quashes Cuccinelli subpoena of U-Va. records
2010/08/30: DeSmogBlog: Judge Rules Against Cuccinelli's Witch Hunt Of Michael Mann
The Obama chatter is nonstop:
2010/09/03: TreeHugger: Obama's Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been Green
2010/08/30: EarthTimes: Five years after Katrina, Obama vows to stand with Gulf
2010/08/30: BBC: Obama hails New Orleans spirit on Katrina anniversary
The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:
2010/09/03: Reuters: Interior chief Salazar voices doubt on Arctic drilling
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday he cannot predict whether Royal Dutch Shell, which has invested $3.5 billion in an offshore Arctic oil-development program, will be allowed to drill the five wells it plans next year in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
2010/09/02: Reuters: EPA to issue more rules in climate fight
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse gases and other pollution to help fight climate change, but they will not be as strong as action by Congress, a senior administration official said.
2010/09/02: BWeek: Lisa Jackson's High-Wire Act on Carbon Controls -- The EPA chief is using her authority under the Clean Air Act to control carbon emissions
2010/09/02: DeSmogBlog: EPA Ignores Tennessee and Alabama Coal Ash Victims, Nearest Hearing Is 260 Miles From TVA Disaster Site
2010/09/02: KnoxNews: [Senator Lamar] Alexander asks EPA to hold coal ash hearing in Roane County -- Pending federal regulations of coal ash disposal would be a first
2010/08/31: Houston Chronicle: EPA rejects Texas approach to new plant emissions
2010/09/01: Grist: New rules push oil inspectors to clean up their act
2010/08/30: ENS: Environmental Groups Support U.S. EPA in Texas Air Permit Case
2010/08/30: ENS: New Fuel Economy Label Designs Include Electric Vehicles
2010/08/30: TreeHugger: EPA & DOT Propose Clearer, More Colorful Fuel Economy Labels
2010/08/30: AutoBG: EPA finally issues proposed fuel economy labels for plug-in vehicles
As for what is going on in Congress:
2010/09/02: TEC: Reid Says Passage of Renewable Energy Standard Still Possible
What are the lobbyists pushing?
2010/08/29: PRWatch: American Politics is Getting All Koch'ed Up
2010/08/31: DeSmogBlog: Clean energy drowned out in Washington by a Two Billion Dollar Juggernaut
2010/08/30: CCP: Frank Rich: "The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party"
2010/08/30: DeSmogBlog: The Koch Industry and Americans for Prosperity Machine Exposed
How many of these "hold and don't develop" companies do you think are fossil fuel funded?
2010/09/02: Grist: Feds lease prime solar land, but narry a panel is in sight
2010/09/01: Google:AP: Feds fail to use land for solar power
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. Instead, five years after federal land managers opened up stretches of the Southwest to developers, vast tracts still sit idle. An Associated Press examination of U.S. Bureau of Land Management records and interviews with agency officials shows that the BLM operated a first-come, first-served leasing system that quickly overwhelmed its small staff and enabled companies, regardless of solar industry experience, to squat on land without any real plans to develop it.

While in the UK:

2010/09/04: Scotsman: [Scotland's First Minister] Alex Salmond says renewables will help beat the recession
2010/09/02: BBC: Openness urged on UK's emissions
The UK government's chief environment scientist has called for more openness in admitting Britain's apparent cuts in greenhouse gases are an illusion. Robert Watson says that if emissions "embedded" in imported goods are counted, UK emissions are up, not down. He says the same syndrome is true for other rich nations which offshored manufacturing industry. That means developing countries - particularly China - are blamed for goods they buy for export to the West.
2010/09/02: Guardian(UK): Energy secretary Chris Huhne warned not to cut subsidies for green electricity
2010/09/01: Guardian(UK): Bold action is needed to protect the diversity of life on Earth
Instead of spending taxpayers' money propping up factory farms, UK government should support planet-friendly farming
2010/08/31: TreeHugger: Biofuels Falling Well Short of Green Standards in UK
2010/08/31: BBC: UK biofuels 'falling short' on environmental standards
The Renewable Fuels Agency says it is disappointed that the vast majority of biofuels sold on UK forecourts do not conform to environmental standards.
2010/08/30: Guardian(UK): CBI to host climate change 'clash of the titans' debate [King vs Lawson]
2010/08/30: TreeHugger: Protesters Create "Oil Slick" on Major Roads, or Did They?
And in Europe:
2010/09/03: PlanetArk: Analysis: German Coal Imports To Rise Despite Green Lobbying
2010/08/31: EurActiv: Poland smells German foul play over gas terminal
2010/08/31: EurActiv: Financial taxes top EU economy ministers' agenda
2010/08/31: EUO: Libyan leader seeks 5 billion euros a year to halt EU-bound migrants
It's creative confusion time for German nukes. That means something people won't like is coming:
2010/08/31: PlanetArk: German Ministers Clash On Nuclear Report
Two key German ministers took different positions on Monday on the length of time that nuclear power plants should be extended after Chancellor Angela Merkel reduced expectations for a long extension. Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle and Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen drew differing conclusions from an expert report -- a study of four different scenarios -- aimed at helping the government form its energy policy in late September.
2010/08/31: EarthTimes: German government still not committed to [nuclear] fuel-rod tax
2010/08/30: EurActiv: Merkel: Nuclear plants could run up to 2035
German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out in favour of extending the use of nuclear power plants in Germany in a television interview on 29 August, saying it would be reasonable if they could run another 10 to 15 years.
2010/08/30: EarthTimes: German [environment] minister [Norbert Roettgen]: experts say nuclear power not crucial
2010/08/30: EarthTimes: Merkel's spokesman clarifies nuclear extension terms still open
2010/08/29: EarthTimes: Merkel calls for 10-15 year extension for German nuclear plants
Meanwhile in Australia:
2010/09/05: TheAge: [Victorian Premier John] Brumby's call to arms on climate
2010/09/03: BBerg: GE, Siemens, Vestas Back Call for Australia to Introduce Price on Carbon
2010/09/01: ABC(Au): Greens say higher solar bonus not enough
The Greens say long-term sustainability of the solar industry has been overlooked by the South Australian Government.
2010/08/31: ABC(Au): Desalination plant to be fully functional within weeks
The group that will operate the Gold Coast desalination plant says it should be contributing to the south-east Queensland water grid within weeks.
2010/08/30: ABC(Au): Dump project tackles greenhouse gases
A Coffs Harbour project that extracts gas from landfill is helping tackle climate change in the region.

They're still trying to get a government together:

2010/09/03: JQuiggin: The miracle of democracy, Part III
2010/09/03: Impolitical: Gillard might pull it off in Australia
2010/09/01: BBerg: Australian Greens Announce Agreement to Support Gillard's Labor Party
2010/09/02: BBC: Independent Wilkie boosts Australia PM Julia Gillard
One of four key independent lawmakers has pledged support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard, leaving her just two seats short of the majority needed to form the next Australian government.
2010/09/02: CBC: Aussie PM wins key support in power bid -- 3 independent lawmakers remain uncommitted
2010/09/01: NYT: Australian PM Wins Greens Support In Govt Bid
2010/08/30: ABC(Au): Greens reaped rewards of emissions backflip: poll
An exit poll commissioned by the Climate Institute shows almost one third of Greens voters in key marginal seats would have voted Labor if the introduction of the emissions trading scheme had not been delayed.

While in the Indian subcontinent:

2010/09/03: CCurrents: Supreme Court Forces The Govt To Act, To Stop Grains Being Wasted
2010/09/01: TerraDaily: India backs embattled IPCC chief Pachauri
2010/08/31: CSM: As India looks at cutting carbon, a wind farm scandal
And in China:
2010/08/31: WMO: CMA [China Meteorological Administration] Enhances Meteorological Service in Support of Disaster Prevention and Reduction
2010/09/01: PhysOrg: Climate: Risks loom for China: study
Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.

While in Japan:

2010/09/01: EarthTimes: Japan struggles with hottest summer on record
Tokyo - Japan experienced its hottest summer on record - and a deadly one - as heat exhaustion claimed 158 lives and caused nearly 47,000 people to be rushed to hospitals, the government said Wednesday. A total of 46,728 people were taken by ambulance to hospitals from May 31 to August 29 because of the heat, including more than 5,000 last week alone, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. Those who were 65 or over made up 46.6 per cent of the patients, the agency said.
2010/08/30: Reuters: Japan plans to bind large firms to CO2 caps: draft
Japan's compulsory emissions trading scheme is set to start in April 2013 and cover large CO2 emitting companies, a draft of the government's proposals showed on Monday, but several issues are still open to debate.

And Russia:

2010/08/30: PlanetArk: Analysis: Halt To Forest Road Is Kremlin Damage Control
In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his do-nothing policy:
2010/09/02: PI:C: The weather needs watching
[...] the [internal government] report documents a pattern of underinvestment and cuts that weaken Environment Canada's ability to accurately track the weather. The report says that these problems are accelerating -- to the point that Canada's systems likely fall short of international standards.
2010/09/01: EmbassyMag: Polar Commission without board for almost two years
During his trip to the North last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced with great fanfare that Canada would be building a new world-class Arctic research station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. "This will be a world-class centre for science," Harper told reporters on Aug. 24. "It will be a tangible expression of this government's determination to develop and protect all of our true." Yet Embassy has learned that Canada's lead agency in Arctic and Antarctic research, the Canadian Polar Commission, has been operating without a board of directors for almost two years. Former members and experts say this has left the commission voiceless and without clear research priorities for an area of increasing priority for this country. "I think the government simply mothballed the Polar Commission," said Tom Hutchinson, who served as the agency's last chair from 2005 to 2008. "It is left out to dry, and they have deliberately not appointed a new chair." Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government established the commission in 1991. Its role is to monitor and promote knowledge of the polar regions, increase awareness among the Canadian public about the importance of polar research, and enhance Canada's international profile as a circumpolar nation. More importantly, the commission is mandated to advise the government on polar science policy.

The G20 policing issue grinds on:

2010/09/02: CBC: G20 class-action lawsuit seeks $115M
Two people who were jailed during June's G20 summit in Toronto have launched a $115-million class-action lawsuit against the Toronto Police Services Board, federal Attorney General Rob Nicholson and the Peel Police Services Board. Mike Barber and Miranda McQuade, both of Toronto, are acting as representative plaintiffs for the approximately 1,150 people who were detained, arrested and incarcerated at a temporary detention centre in Toronto's east end after police clamped down on demonstrators during the summit. The suit was filed Thursday at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto and also includes business owners whose property was vandalized.
2010/09/03: TStar: G20 detainees seek $115M in class action
2010/09/02: CBC: Montreal man charged with G20 mischief
2010/09/02: WMTC: innocent, mentally ill man jailed during g20 still in prison
Questions and debate about offshore and Arctic drilling continue:
2010/08/31: CBC: Chevron completes deepsea drilling project
A drilling program at the deepest offshore site in Canada has concluded, three months after it began under a cloud of controversy. Chevron Canada started a test drill in the Orphan Basin in May, less than three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered international alarm over offshore drilling. Chevron told CBC News that its work on the Lona O-55 prospect well wrapped up last Thursday after 106 days, without major incident.
2010/08/30: HillTimes: Offshore oil boards not in conflict of interest with industry -- Senate committee wants claims 'tested,' reassured, says Sen. Mitchell
While federal and provincial governments involved in Canada's East Coast offshore petroleum boards say they are reviewing a recent Senate committee report recommendation noting an alleged conflict of interest in how the boards regulate the industry, governments deny the boards' structure allows for such a conflict. In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout this spring, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia offshore petroleum boards have been set under a microscope. The only oil and gas being pumped from Canadian waters these days comes from areas under their jurisdiction. Three oil production fields operate off Newfoundland where a new well was just drilled, while one gas production project is located off Nova Scotia. They were part of the focus of the Senate Natural Resources Committee's three-month study of Canada's offshore oil and gas industry this spring, sparked by the Gulf spill. In its 77-page concluding report released this month, the committee recommended that the Canadian, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland governments take a deeper look at the offshore boards' structure and role to determine whether there's a conflict within their regulatory roles.

Many Tories are still fighting the Cold War and playing up the Russian Menace is useful for domestic politics, but...:

2010/09/03: PostMedia: Russian planes don't often fly into Canadian territory: Documents
The Conservative government has been warning of the increasing threat of Russian excursions into Canadian airspace, but newly released details about such air patrols show that the majority don't even involve Canadian territory or interceptions by Canadian fighter aircraft. Government officials have raised alarm over what they call "aggressive" Russian patrols, which they say are happening 12 to 18 times a year. In his recent visit to the Arctic, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned that Canada must remain vigilant because of "foreign aircraft probing the skies." But statistics requested by the Ottawa Citizen from the joint Canadian-U.S. North American Aerospace Defence Command show that at their high point in 2008, Russian aircraft only made a total of five flights near Canadian territory.
2010/08/30: TStar: Russian bombers a make-believe threat
Don Quixote is famous for attacking windmills that he imagines are giants. Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay have been tilting at make-believe enemies too, in the form of Russian planes in international airspace.
2010/08/30: ChronicleHerald: The Russians are coming. Just ask Peter
It would appear that when papa Elmer MacKay put his young toddler Peter to bed back in the late 1960s, he must have invoked visions of evil Cold War Russians in his son's head to put him to sleep. How else could one explain our defence minister's phobic fear of all things Russian these days? Twice now in less than a month, MacKay has alerted the national news media to the fact that Canadian fighter jets were scrambled to deter Russian aircraft from entering our territorial Arctic airspace.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is coming north:

2010/09/04: PostMedia: Stelmach will meet U.S. Speaker -- Premier plans to give Pelosi 'facts' on oilsands
Premier Ed Stelmach will meet next week in Ottawa with U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to talk about the oilsands.
2010/09/03: TStar: Pelosi heads north to talk oilsands
The most powerful voice in America's energy debate is coming to Ottawa for a series of meetings to learn more about Canada's controversial oilsands development, the Star has learned. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected in the Canadian capital Wednesday and Thursday for a summit of G8 Speakers. But the journey now will include several high-level meetings focusing on Alberta's energy-intensive oilsands, sources on both sides of the border confirm.

Pipelines are still a hot issue:

2010/09/01: BBerg: Enbridge Says [Michigan] Pipeline Pressure Tests Show No Leaks
2010/09/01: CBC: Mackenzie pipeline talks should be open: panel -- Review body accuses federal government of not being transparent
A regulatory body for the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline says the federal government is not being transparent about the project. The Joint Review Panel says the federal government has asked its members to enter secret consultations about the government's draft response to the panel's own recommendations on the proposed 1,200-kilometre pipeline through the Northwest Territories. The federally appointed panel reviewed the potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of the proposed pipeline. Following five years of review and consultations with concerned northerners and groups, the panel approved the project in December, on the condition that its 176 recommendations are followed. But in a letter dated Monday to Industry Canada, obtained by CBC News, panel chairman Robert Hornal said it would not "engage in a 'consult to modify' or 'clarification' process that is based on a confidential document," referring to the federal government's draft response to the recommendations.
2010/08/31: CBC: B.C. First Nations need more time to review Northern Gateway -- Enbridge's 1,170-kilometre oil pipeline could threaten traditional way of life
An aboriginal leader in British Columbia says First Nations haven't been given enough time to review Enbridge's application to build a pipeline to carry oilsands crude from Alberta to the west coast. The chief councillor with the Haisla First Nation, Dolores Pollard, told a hearing in Kitimat, B.C., on Tuesday that the time and money the Haisla have been given to go over the 8,000-page regulatory application submitted by Calgary-based Enbridge are not sufficient.
2010/08/26: MediaCoop: Enbridge representatives are issued a final trespass notice by the Likhts'amsiyu Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation
So PNAS published a damning report on tarsands pollutants:
2010/08/30: PNAS: Oil sands development contributes elements toxic at low concentrations to the Athabasca River and its tributaries by Erin N. Kelly et al.
2010/08/31: PI: Pembina reacts to study showing oil sands mines contribute heavy metals to the Athabasca River
2010/08/31: NatureN: River metals linked to tar sand extraction -- Researchers find that pollutants in Canada's Athabasca River are not from natural sources
2010/08/31: PlanetArk: Oil Sands Polluting Canadian River System: Study
2010/08/30: Tyee: Oil Sands Pollute with Fish-Killing Toxins, New Study Shows -- Detection of high heavy metals levels in Athabasca River contradicts government claims
2010/08/30: G&M: Elevated levels of toxins found in Athabasca River -- Finding refutes long-standing claims that water quality hasn't been affected by oil sands development
A study set to be published on Monday has found elevated levels of mercury, lead and eleven other toxic elements in the oil sands' main fresh water source, the Athabasca River, refuting long-standing government and industry claims that water quality there hasn't been affected by oil sands development. The author of the study, University of Alberta biological scientist David Schindler, criticized the province and industry for an "absurd" system that obfuscates or fails to discover essential data about the river. "I think they [the findings] are significant enough that they should trigger some interest in a better monitoring program than we have," he said. The Athabasca has increasingly become a flashpoint for debate. Earlier this year, Environment Minister Jim Prentice dismissed Dr. Schindler's previous peer-reviewed work as "allegations."
2010/08/30: TreeHugger: Tar Sands Projects Responsible for Water Pollution in Alberta's Rivers - Despite Industry Claims to Contrary
2010/08/30: Eureka: New study shows that oilsands mining and processing are polluting the Athabasca River
2010/08/30: CBC: Oilsands mining linked to Athabasca River toxins -- Results point to 'serious defects' in monitoring program, study says
High levels of toxic pollutants in Alberta's Athabasca River system are linked to oilsands mining, researchers have found. The findings counter the reports by a joint industry-government panel that the pollutant levels are due to natural sources rather than human development. Mercury, thallium and other pollutants accumulated in higher concentrations in snowpacks and waterways near and downstream from oilsands development than in more remote areas, said a study to be published Monday afternoon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Upstream and undeveloped sites exposed directly to the McMurray Geologic Formation, the natural source of the oilsands, did not show high levels of pollutants. The study led by Erin Kelly and David Schindler of the University of Alberta also found that levels of the pollutants cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, silver and zinc exceeded federal and provincial guidelines for the protection of aquatic life in melted snow or water collected near or downstream from oilsands mining.

Which industry, the Alberta & federal governments promptly denied:

2010/09/01: CBC: Oilsands pollution findings conflict: Prentice
Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice says scientists have consistently told him toxic pollutants in the Athabasca River are not from the oilsands industry.Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice says scientists have consistently told him toxic pollutants in the Athabasca River are not from the oilsands industry. (Canadian Press) Environment Minister Jim Prentice says federal scientists have always told him that any contaminants such as lead or mercury in the Athabasca River are naturally occurring, not from the oilsands industry.
2010/09/01: SOE: Understanding RAMP and its Implications
2010/09/01: TreeHugger: Canadian Tar Sands Industry & Government Maintains Higher Water Toxicity Near Projects is Natural
2010/08/31: CBC: Oilsands water toxins natural, monitor [RAMP] says
And then they wanted to 'study' the question. See a pattern here?
2010/09/02: PostMedia: Premier wants truth about toxins -- Stelmach urges scientists to compare conflicting oilsands data
2010/09/01: CBC: Oilsands water data worth examining: Stelmach -- 'If it means that we have to do something more, we will,' premier says
2010/09/02: Tyee: Nikiforuk to Enviro Ministers: What Are You Guys Drinking? Seems to be Kool-Aid from the tar sands lobby, as Renner and Prentice shrug off a key study.
BC is wrangling over energy and fish:
2010/09/03: NatureN: Canada sees shock salmon glut -- Some 34 million of the fish are thronging British Columbia's Fraser River
2010/09/03: PostMedia: Few B.C. homeowners eager to convert to solar electricity -- High cost of installation and cheap BC Hydro prices reduce demand
Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:
2010/09/02: Tyee: Nikiforuk to Enviro Ministers: What Are You Guys Drinking? Seems to be Kool-Aid from the tar sands lobby, as Renner and Prentice shrug off a key study.
2010/09/02: PostMedia: Oilsands PR machine ready to hit Ontario -- [Alta] Gov't to tout economic benefits
2010/09/01: TreeHugger: Can You Really Boycott Fuel Produced From Canadian Tar Sands?
2010/08/30: CBC: Not boycotting oilsands, 2 U.S. firms say
Two American companies say they aren't boycotting the use of fuels from the Alberta oilsands. On Friday, it was widely reported that Levi Strauss and Timberland had told their transportation companies that preference would be given to those that avoided using oilsands fuels. When contacted by CBC News on the weekend, spokeswomen for both companies said they are not boycotting any particular type of fuel.

In Saskatchewan the question is Potash?

2010/09/03: BBC: Chinese consider rival Potash bid
Chinese investors have approached a Canadian pension fund about a possible rival bid for the fertiliser giant Potash Corporation
2010/09/02: CBC: Chinese seek Alberta help in PotashCorp bid
Alberta's pension fund manager has been approached by state-owned wealth funds from China to consider joining a bid for fertilizer giant PotashCorp, but it said Thursday it intends to stay on the sidelines for now.
2010/09/02: CBC: Saskatchewan Energy Minister Bill Boyd said Thursday the province has commissioned an independent review of any takeover of fertilizer maker PotashCorp
While in la Belle Province:
2010/09/02: CBC: PQ calls for shale gas moratorium
The opposition Parti Québécois is demanding an immediate moratorium on drilling and exploration for shale gas in the province. PQ leader Pauline Marois made the request as she wrapped up a party caucus meeting in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield on Thursday.
2010/08/30: PostMedia: Shale gas hearings set for fall -- Moratorium on drilling necessary, group says
Quebec's policies - or lack thereof - when it comes to regulating its nascent shale gas industry will be the subject of public hearings beginning this autumn, provincial Environment Minister Pierre Arcand and Natural Resources Minister Nathalie Normandeau announced yesterday. But the decision to hand over the debate on the increasingly thorny issue of using water, sand and chemicals -some of them toxic -to force natural gas from shale deposits, to the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement is drawing mixed reviews from groups that have been tracking the industry. Equiterre, an environmental watchdog group, described the announcement that BAPE hearings would be held as a good first step, "But we still believe a moratorium on (drilling) exploration is necessary," said group spokesperson Steven Guilbeault.
2010/08/29: CBC: Quebec shale gas debate heats up -- Ministers shouted down while announcing public hearings
2010/08/30: G&M: Exploration for natural gas causes consternation in Quebec
The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:
2010/09/04: WorldChanging: Untangling the 'Environmentalist's Paradox': Is It All About Speed?
2010/09/04: CCurrents: Debt Compels Growth
2010/08/30: Archein: Broken Politics, Bubble Pricing, Environment, and Agriculture
2010/08/30: EnergyBulletin: Energy consumption and progress
IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:
2010/09/04: SeedMag: All Consuming
With population and per-capita consumption both on the rise, it's hard to believe humanity's impact on the Earth is sustainable. But what would happen if we ate less meat? Or gave women better education and more power?
2010/09/02: MTobis: Demographic Transition: Cause and Effect
2010/08/31: ABC(Au): Councils association to discuss Qld population growth
2010/08/29: AlterNet: Desperate U.S. Women Forced to Go to Mexico to Take Care of Unwanted Pregnancies
Apocalypso anyone?
2010/09/02: Tyee: Phony War -- As in Europe in 1940, we daydream on the edge of cataclysm, this one threatening all civilization
2010/09/03: CCurrents: A World In Collapse? Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty
2010/09/04: DVoice: A World in Collapse? [Robert Jensen interview]
2010/09/03: EnergyBulletin: A world in collapse?
2010/08/30: NewScientist: Slavoj Zizek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse
As for how the media handles the science of climatology:
2010/09/03: ABC(Au):TDU: Balance-bias battle of climate science coverage
2010/09/02: ClimateP: Media Matters: Right-wing media shamefully try to pin Discovery Channel bomber's actions on Gore -- CEI's Chris Horner joins the group shark jump
2010/09/03: PostMedia: Climate change vanishes
One of the inexplicable stories (or non-stories) of the summer is the disappearance of climate change from the political agenda. While many Canadians were sweltering, swatting super-sized mosquitoes, fighting fires, or up to their axles in floodwater, there was nothing but radio silence on the nation's political channel.
2010/09/02: MTobis: Broken Telephone
2010/09/01: MTobis: More for the Misleading Headline File
2010/09/01: SEasterbrook: I never said that!
2010/08/31: DeSmogBlog: On Factual Literacy and Media Responsibility In The Age Of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh
2010/08/30: ClassM: The strange case of Andy Revkin
2010/08/29: ERabett: Andy Revkin's Rent Party
2010/08/29: ClimateP: What's the difference between climate science and climate journalism? The former is self-correcting, the latter has become self-destructive [Revkin]
While activists search for effective communication techniques:
2010/09/01: MTobis: Under the Top
2010/08/25: HuffPo: It's a Communication Challenge, Not a Scientific Challenge
Here is something for your library:
2010/09/04: DM:CCM: The Games Industry Plays [Book Plug] _The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment_ by Benjamin Ross & Stephen Amter
2010/08/24: NYT: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We'll All Be Dieting
[Book Review] The Coming Famine - The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It_ by Julian Cribb
2010/09/03: CCP: [Book Plug] _The Climate War_ by Eric Pooley
2010/09/03: CCP: [Book Plug] _Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save the Earth's Climate_ by Stephen Schneider
2010/09/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: New Book Says Potential for Efficiency Is Much Larger than Previously Thought
[Book Plug] _Invisible Energy: Strategies to Rescue the Economy and Save the Planet_ by David Goldstein

Somebody didn't catch the lesson of Russia's drought, fires and grain ban:

2010/09/05: SciDaily: Global Warming's Silver Lining? Northern Countries Will Thrive and Grow, Researcher Predicts
[Book Plug] _The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future_ by Laurence C. Smith

And for your film & video enjoyment:

2010/09/03: TCoE: The Age of Stupid, again
2010/09/02: CC&G: Climate Change Related Videos Worth Watching
2010/09/02: TWTB: Videobreak: Lee Hotz -- Inside an Antarctic time machine
2010/09/01: HotTopic: The Quadruple Squeeze [video]
2010/08/31: TWTB: Videobreak: Johan Rockström on planetary boundaries
2010/08/30: TreeHugger: Industrial Monoculture Cleans Up: Greenwash, or Mainstreaming Green? (Video)
2010/08/29: EnergyBulletin: "How to Boil a Frog" the movie ... complete!
Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:
2010/09/05: KC: Kansas joins case to head off federal carbon regulation
Attorney General Steve Six has joined Kansas with 10 other states in an effort to head off federal regulation of greenhouse gases. They seek to block federal courts from proceeding with a trial that Six says could lead to more restrictions on carbon emissions by utilities and other industries.
2010/09/02: BizGreen: Legal challenge to drilling ban scores court victory -- White House efforts to maintain ban on offshore drilling will face further days in court
2010/08/31: WVGazette:CT: Judge Chambers orders Patriot to treat selenium
2010/08/31: WVGazette: Judge orders Patriot to clean up selenium discharges
2010/09/01: ENS: Cape Wind Completes Massachusetts Permitting With Legal Victory
2010/08/31: NatureTGB: Massachusetts court propels wind farm forward
2010/08/31: SolveClimate: In Landmark Warming Case, Govt's Argument Gets Scrutiny for Flaws, Self-Interest
Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:
2010/08/30: Tyee: The Republican Who Dared Tell the Truth About Oil -- Matt Simmons understood the wages of addiction and wasn't afraid to sound warnings, even to George W. Bush.
2010/09/01: Scitizen: Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest
The fossil fuel industry often pretends to have the public's best interests in mind. The operative word is "pretends."
2010/09/03: Reuters: IEA exec says dependency on OPEC oil to rise
2010/09/01: GreenGrok: New Energy Report [AER]: There's a Bright Spot
2010/09/03: NewScientist: Edible crystals could store hydrogen fuel
2010/09/03: OilDrum: The Fake Fire Brigade Revisited #3 - The Biggest Part of Business As Usual - Electricity
2010/09/02: TEC: The (not so) green energy race
2010/09/02: NBF: Alphabet Energy has a Thermoelectric Chip that Could convert Waste Heat to Electricity for less than $1 per watt
2010/09/01: DeSmogBlog: The Uneven Energy Playing Field and the Spindoctors who Ignore it
2010/08/31: Grist: Geothermal: Getting energy from the Earth by Lester Brown
2010/08/31: TreeHugger: Tapping the Energy Below the Earth's Surface by Lester Brown
2010/08/31: OilDrum: A Summary of Adam Brandt's "Review of Mathematical Models of Future Oil Supply"
2010/08/31: CBC: Garbage-to-gas plant launched in Edmonton
2010/08/30: PeakEnergy: Asia powers into renewable energy
2010/08/30: REA: Chile Becoming a Hot Geothermal Market
2010/08/29: QuarkSoup: U.S. Energy
Hey! Let's contaminate the aquifer for thousands of years! It'll be a fracking gas!
2010/09/03: PlanetArk: U.S. Test Shows Water Problem Near Natgas Drill Site
2010/09/03: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Flammable tap water--it's a fact, not a myth
2010/09/02: CBC: Parti Québécois calls for shale gas moratorium
2010/09/02: CNN: Why is this town's water flammable? 'Fracking' yields fuel, fear in Northeast
Town residents demonstrate how they can light their well water on fire - They blame hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process to harvest natural gas - Drillers pump water, sand and chemicals deep underground to free trapped natural gas - Residents fear for their water supply; industry says fracking is safe
2010/09/02: SolveClimate: EPA Results Show Contaminated Water in Wyoming Fracking Zone -- Residents told not to drink from contaminated wells
2010/09/01: ProPublica: Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not to Drink Their Water
The federal government is warning residents in a small Wyoming town with extensive natural gas development not to drink their water, and to use fans and ventilation when showering or washing clothes in order to avoid the risk of an explosion. The announcement accompanied results from a second round of testing and analysis in the town of Pavillion by Superfund investigators for the Environmental Protection Agency. Researchers found benzene, metals, naphthalene, phenols and methane in wells and in groundwater. They also confirmed the presence of other compounds that they had tentatively identified last summer and that may be linked to drilling activities.
2010/08/30: PGG: Group touring state to push for Marcellus gas tax
An environmental group [Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, aka Penn Future] is holding a statewide "Keep the Promise" tour that's aimed at enacting a new "severance tax" on Marcellus Shale natural gas producers, and the first stop will be in the Pittsburgh area.
2010/08/30: CCP: Is Fracking Even Worse Than Drilling? by William Fisher
2010/08/30: CCP: Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination
The answer my friend...:
2010/09/01: BNC: Does wind power reduce carbon emissions? Counter-Response
Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:
2010/09/03: PhysOrg: Cheaper, better solar cell is full of holes
2010/09/03: TreeHugger: MIT Creates Self-Assembling Solar Cells That Repair Themselves
2010/09/02: TEC: 7 Baby Steps to Go Solar
2010/08/31: Stoat: Solar power across the Sahara
2010/08/31: REA: SkyFuel's Parabolic Troughs Are 73% Efficient
2010/08/31: REA: The Solar Power Optimization Boom
2010/08/29: OCBJ: Solar Power Shines; Extended Forecast? Panel installations bringing construction work; boom fueled by rebates
2010/08/30: REA: SunPower Develops Projects for U.S. Government
Colorado -- SunPower announced this week that it was chosen by the U.S. government to install 20 MW worth of projects on federal buildings around the country. SunPower, which manufacturers and installs high-efficiency solar modules, has had numerous contracts with the government in the past. The most high profile project was the 14-MW PV array at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

On the coal front:

2010/09/03: TreeHugger: "Clean Coal" Positioned To Be The High End Energy Product No One Can Afford
2010/09/02: BWeek: Ill. regulators: Clean-coal plant to cost plenty
State power regulators say a $3.5 billion coal-fired power plant planned for central Illinois would cost electricity customers a lot of money and has too many uncertainties to know whether its costs could run even higher than expected. The Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday advised state lawmakers to protect customers from price increases from the Taylorville Energy Center and push developers to firm up plans and cost information. The commission says the plant's power would cost roughly twice what wind or nuclear cost to generate.
2010/09/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Patriot Coal slammed on selenium from MTR operations
2010/08/30: BostonGlobe: Low prices stoke coal sales, despite pollution concerns
Biofuel bickering abounds:
2010/09/02: Yahoo:AP: VeraSun asking corn farmers for repayment
Midwest farmers who sold corn to bankrupt ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. have been receiving official letters asking for most of that money back.
2010/09/02: Rutgers: Rutgers-Camden Professor Engineers E. coli to Produce Biodiesel
2010/09/02: ABC(Au): Burger King dumps Indonesian palm oil company
US fast food giant Burger King said it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group's land-clearing practices.
2010/09/01: OilDrum: Ethanol Blend E85 Case Study: Iowa
2010/08/31: TreeHugger: Biofuels Falling Well Short of Green Standards in UK
2010/08/30: PlanetArk: Green Group Slams Cargill Over SMART Palm Oil
2010/08/30: TreeHugger: Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples' Rights: New Survey
The nuclear energy controversy continues:
2010/08/29: Telegraph(UK): Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium
If Barack Obama were to marshal America's vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years.
2010/09/01: TEC: Turkey in $10 billion reactor deal with South Korea
2010/08/29: NBF: South Korea Making Nuclear Reactors for Turkey and New Comanche Peak Reactors for Texas
Yes we have a peak oil sighting:
2010/09/02: RRapier: Leaked [German military] Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global Energy Crisis
2010/09/03: EnergyBulletin: Exponentially on purpose: a century-and-a-half of ignored warnings
2010/09/02: OilDrum: German Military Study Warns of Potential Energy Crisis
2010/09/02: PeakEnergy: Running on empty ? The peak oil debate
2010/09/01: RawStory: German military report: Peak oil could lead to collapse of democracy
2010/09/01: DerSpiegel: 'Peak Oil' and the German Government -- Military Study Warns of a Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis
A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how "peak oil" might change the global economy. The internal draft document -- leaked on the Internet -- shows for the first time how carefully the German government has considered a potential energy crisis.
2010/09/01: EnergyBulletin: The Peak Oil Crisis: Prospects for China
2010/09/01: EnergyBulletin: Points of departure
2010/09/01: EnergyBulletin: German military study warns of a potentially drastic oil crisis
2010/08/30: OilDrum: Where can I find up-to-date rigorous peak oil projections?
2010/08/30: PeakEnergy: A Sign of the Times
2010/08/29: EnergyBulletin: How should progressives respond to the end of the Oil Age?
More people are talking about the electrical grid:
2010/09/02: CNet: Audit finds PG&E smart meters accurate
And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:
2010/08/29: CleanBreak: $20 LED lightbulb at Home Depot a welcome start, but call me when it hits $10 ... even better, $5
2010/08/31: ClimateP: Creating jobs and savings with energy efficiency
Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:
2010/09/02: AutoBG: 2012 Ford Focus Electric to use liquid-cooled lithium-polymer battery
2010/09/03: AutoBG: Consumer Federation of America calls for 60 mpg CAFE standard by 2025
2010/09/02: AutoBG: How EPA's new fuel economy label would grade current cars
2010/08/31: TreeHugger: Lithium-Ion Battery Oversupply to Drive Prices Down Around 20%
2010/08/31: TreeHugger: Life Cycle Analysis of Electric Car Shows Battery Has Only Minor Impact
2010/08/29: NBF: Global auto sales to hit 70 mln units this year: expert forecasts
This week in the Gee Whiz File:
2010/08/30: BBC: Swarms of marine turbines could 'tap the Gulf Stream'
As for Energy Storage:
2010/08/31: REA: Pike Research: Grid Energy Storage a $35B Market by 2020
The stationary energy storage sector will play an increasingly larger role in the electricity grid of the future.
2010/08/30: Eureka: 'Greener' than expected -- The ecobalance of Li-ion rechargeable batteries for electric cars
2010/08/30: REA: Efficient Storage of Wind Energy is in the Bag
Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:
2010/09/01: TPMM: BP Spent $93.4 Million On Advertising Between April And July
Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:
2010/09/03: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 3...
2010/09/02: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 2...
2010/09/01: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 1...
2010/08/31: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for August 31...
2010/08/30: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for August 30...
Other (weekly) lists:
2010/09/03: Grist: A walk through the week's climate news -- The Climate Post: Will the "dead" climate bill become a federal renewable energy standard?
2010/09/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of August 24, 2010 to August 30, 2010
2010/09/01: AGWObserver: Some things I wrote about during summer
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
2010/09/03: OregonLive: Climate in Wonderland
2010/09/03: BBickmore: Fool Me Once
2010/09/03: NatureTGB: Enstrom und drang: Air quality contrarian fights expulsion
2010/09/02: FoolMeOnce: Debunking Monckton's critique of IPCC predictions
2010/09/02: SkeptiSci: New presentation debunking Monckton's critique of IPCC predictions
2010/09/02: CCP: Noam Chomsky: What is the chance that thousands of climate scientists are wrong and Rush Limbaugh is right? [video]
2010/09/01: DWWSJ: Denialism and The Age of Disinformation
2010/08/25: HuffPo: It's a Communication Challenge, Not a Scientific Challenge
2010/08/30: ClimateP: New climate disinformer fad: Ocean acidification denial
2010/08/30: ERabett: Mail, Eli gets mail
As for climate miscellanea:
2010/09/05: Guardian(UK): Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project
Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters precisely. And records of the voyages of the Bounty and Beagle will assist them in their task
2010/09/04: MTobis: The Cozycene
2010/09/03: EnergyBulletin: Peak oil, "Big education" and "Big science"
2010/09/03: MTobis: Trick or Treatment
2010/09/03: GreenGrok: What Do You Think?
2010/09/03: NewScientist: Pakistan's flood weather eased Atlantic hurricanes
2010/09/03: Grist: The environmentalist's paradox: we do better while the earth does worse
2010/09/03: TreeHugger: Does Morality Matter in Saving the Planet?
2010/09/02: MTobis: Fifteen Years Ago
2010/09/02: TCoE: The (lack of) vision thing
2010/09/01: ClimateP: Ohio Tea Party survey to candidates: "The regulation of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere should be left to God and not government and I oppose all measures of Cap and Trade as well as the teaching of global warming theory in our schools."
2010/09/01: PhysOrg: Greenpeace wants Facebook center off coal fuel
Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in the U.S.
2010/09/01: Grist: How bad are the next few years going to suck?
2010/08/31: Grist: We should pay to shut down dirty old coal plants
2010/08/31: Stoat: Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem? [J,N&S]
2010/08/31: AFTIC: Fun with asteroids
2010/08/30: DWWSJ: You do know they just make it up right??
2010/08/30: HotTopic: The secret migration
2010/08/30: KSJT: AP: A Mongolian cabinet's photo op in the scorched Gobi. And not one but two fire tornadoes
And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
FAO: Food Price Indices
Fast Start Finance - Climate funding
UCalgary: David Keith's Preprints
UCalgary: David Keith's Selected Publications on Geoengineering
Wiki: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2013)
Climate Code Foundation
SEWOTHA: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
Amazon Watch
RAMP: Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program [Alta. govt/industry sponsored group]
LDEO: Persistent drought in North America: a climate modeling and paleoclimate perspective
ScienceBlogs
Deltoid - Tim Lambert
Stoat
UK RoyalSociety: Climate change documents
Ross Gelbspan: The Heat is Online

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Another week of GW News, September 5, 2010

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September 5, 2010

Here's a wee chuckle for ya:

There was a minister's meeting in Geneva this week. Result?

Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

The mammoth killing impact theory appears to be toast:

This BAS report on bryozoans in Antarctica raised a bit of a flurry:

The Alroy paper on the Sixth Extinction raised some comment:

The strange sad saga of James Lee:

The Pakistan floods are a monumental disaster:

And on the Bottom Line:

I've got a big grain of salt for this one:

Ron Grumbine is restarting his gentle education series:

John Cook & friends are continuing their Basic and Advanced Versions of their denial counterpoints:

Why anybody pays any attention to this guy, I don't know, but we'll see how the corporate media treats him now that his tune has changed:

One result of ClimateGate was an impulse to make data available proactively:

The IAC Report this week raised a lot of comment (with curiously divergent headlines):

Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

A fuel tanker ran aground in the Arctic:

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

Greenpeace is trying to slow Cairn Energy in the Arctic:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

Late comment on the Pavlovsk Agricultural Station:

Food Riots have begun in Mozambique:

The FAO is organizing a meeting on the food crisis later this month, probably in Rome:

Companies are scrambling for advantage:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

The Atlantic was active this week with Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston and a couple tropical depressions:

The Western Pacific was also active with LionRock, Kompasu & Namtheun, although we didn't hear as much about it:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Clouds are one of the major uncertainties in climate. Much research revolves around them:

While in the paleoclimate:

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

Abrupt Climate Change put in an appearance:

And the State of the Oceans:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

This week in extreme weather:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Corals are dying:

Acidification is changing the oceans:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

Sci00:

Regarding Kevin Trenberth:

Regarding Curry: