Another Week of GW News, June 18, 2012

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk(which includes some quotations), An overview of my writing is available here.

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

I notice moyhu has set up a monster index to old AWoGWN on AFTIC.

"We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We're going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be." -John Holdren

Another Week of GW News, June 18, 2012

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Only the darkest of dark humours for you:

And for those who enjoy challenging Poe's Law:

The preliminaries of Rio+20 have already begun:

Several NGOs are posting (daily) reports from Rio:

Looking ahead to COP18 and future international climate negotiations:

BP released their 2012 Statistical Review of World Energy this week:

Another one of those weird fish kills in Japanes coastal waters:

Late comment on the Barnosky et al. paper:

A bleak note on the now unlikely 2C limit:

Who's getting the subsidies, tax exemptions, loan guarantees & grants?

So, If we put a price on nature, will it deal with externalities and lead to greater conservationor will it lead to greater exploitation or what?

The world inches toward creating a global legal framework for ecological crime:

John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:

A note on theFukushima disaster:

Not much good news coming out of Fukushima:

Post Fukushima, nuclear policies are in flux around the world:

The Arctic melt continues to garner attention:

As for the charismatic megafauna:

More on that weird weather and Arctic warming link:

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The state of the world's fisheries is a concern:

Food Prices are still problematic:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

Regarding the genetic modification of food:

Regarding labelling GM food:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion?

In the Eastern Pacific, a couple of numbered storms faded and Carlotta spun up:

In the Western Pacific, Tropical Storm 05W became Guchol and looks to be headed for Japan:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Yes we have feedbacks:

While in the paleoclimate:

In the attribution debate:

And on the ENSO front:

What's new on the extinction front?

What's new in proxies?

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Emerging diseases accompany ecological change:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

This week in the New Normal -- extreme weather:

On the tornado front:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Acidification is changing the oceans:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

On the mitigation front, consider transportation & GHG production:

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

As for carbon sequestration:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

What's new in models?

What developments in the ongoing struggle for Open Science?

Regarding Lovelock:

Regarding Nielsen-Gammon:

Regarding Mann:

Regarding Tol:

And on the carbon trading front:

The Robin Hood tax, aka the Tobin tax, aka the Bank tax, aka the Financial Transaction tax keeps coming up:

On the international political front, tensions continue as the USA and Israel lean on Iran:

South China Sea tension persists:

As the EU-ETS is applied to airlines, we will see who is serious about reducing carbon emissions:

And in miscellaneous international political jousting:

The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world:

What are the activists up to?

Polls! We have polls!

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

So, If we put a price on nature, will it deal with externalities and lead to greater conservation
or will it lead to greater exploitation or what?

A note on the Fukushima disaster:

It started with a Queensland and Federal fight over coal mining and the Great Barrier Reef, then
the Gillard government set out a plan for a marine park network around the continent: