Another Week of GW News, October 7, 2007

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It's always nice to start with a smile:

• 2007/10/07: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Cap'n Trade
• 2007/10/03: Denialism: (cartoon - Wiley) Wiley Miller on think tanks
• 2007/10/02: Denialism: (cartoon - Wiley) A cartoon summary of the Denialist Deck of Cards

  Ted Glick is still fasting:

• 2007/10/06: ZMag: Activist Ted Glick on 32nd Day of "Climate Emergency Fast" to Protest Washington Inaction on Global Warming

  Here's a thought for the day:

• 2007/10/05: CanWest: Innovation cheaper than oil
  One of the greatest failures of leadership in the modern era can be summed up with two numbers: In the United States, public funding for energy research and development came to $8 billion in 1980; in 2005, it was $3 billion.

The UN has issued a warning that climate change disaster is here now:

• 2007/10/06: TCE: Record Setting Year for Climate Disasters
• 2007/10/05: OilChange: UN Warns Climate Change "Mega-Disaster" is Here
• 2007/10/05: Guardian(UK): Climate change disaster is upon us, warns UN
  Emergency relief chief calls for swift action - 12 out of 13 'flash' appeals in 2007 related to weather

It's not getting a lot of coverage, but the African floods are major:

• 2007/10/03: VOA: Widespread Sub-Saharan Flooding Threatens 18 African Countries
• 2007/10/03: UN: UN continues to provide support for flood-ravaged Ugandans

  In Australia, CSIRO & BOM have released a dire report:

• 2007/10/02: CSIRO: Climate change in Australia: technical report 2007
• 2007/10/03: ClimateP: Australian Report: The dry will get drier
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): Climate change will affect security, scientist [Dr Graham Pearman] warns
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): Expert warns of NT [Northern Territory] heat surge
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): WA warned environment and agriculture will be devastated by climate change
• 2007/10/02: CSIRO: New projections for Australia's changing climate
• 2007/10/03: SMH: Climate control: the heat is on
• 2007/10/03: SMH: Hot, parched and sinking - apocalypse Sydney
• 2007/10/02: Atmoz: Global Warming in Southern Hemisphere Too
• 2007/10/02: ABC(Au): Scientists: South West will be hardest hit by global warming [CSIRO & BOM]
• 2007/10/02: ABC(Au): Warming 'inevitable' in Australia
  The most comprehensive assessment of climate change in Australia has predicted the country could be 5 degrees Celsius hotter and 40 to 80 per cent drier by 2070
• 2007/10/02: PhysOrg: Australia getting hotter and drier
  A new climate change study [by CSIRO & BOM] in Australia predicted the country will be 5 degree Celsius hotter and 40-80 percent drier by the year 2070
• 2007/10/02: GWWatch: Climate Change in Australia -- CSIRO and the BOM put their heads together...

  The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

• 2007/10/05: CDreams: IPS: Climate Change and Entire Landscapes on the Move
• 2007/10/05: KSJT: Toronto Star, AP: Two quickies from the warming Arctic
• 2007/10/04: ABC(Au): Arctic heat wave worries scientists
• 2007/10/04: inel: Welsh connection: Bangor University, Sir John Houghton on Arctic sea ice
• 2007/10/04: C411: Arctic Ice Shrinking Unexpectedly Fast
• 2007/10/04: TerraDaily: Arctic Sea Ice Shatters Record Low: Diminished Ice Leads To Northwest Passage Opening
• 2007/10/04: ENN: Fact sheet: Perennial Ice, Sometimes thick enough to Defy Icebreakers, May be Key to Predicting Arctic Thaw
• 2007/10/03: Independent(UK): From the air, the evidence of climate change is striking [Greenland]
• 2007/10/04: Globe&Mail: Dragonflies, open water reveal rapid Arctic change
• 2007/10/03: TStar: Arctic area `torn to pieces' as heat triggers landslides
• 2007/10/02: HuffPo: News from the Arctic: Are We on the Edge of a Climate-Change Cliff?
• 2007/10/02: MTobis: Don't Major in Sea Ice
• 2007/10/03: Independent(UK): Record 22C temperatures in Arctic heatwave
• 2007/10/03: OilChange: Arctic Suffers Record Temperatures in Heatwave
• 2007/10/03: CanWest: Widening Arctic meltdown chills Canadian scientists - This year may be seen as 'tipping point' in march of climate change, official says
• 2007/10/01: Atmoz: Arctic Sea Ice Anomaly
• 2007/10/02: TruthOut: Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
• 2007/10/02: NewScientist: Arctic ice shrinks to record low
• 2007/10/02: DeSmogBlog: Arctic Tipping Point?
• 2007/10/02: SciDaily: Arctic Sea Ice Extent May Have Fallen By 50 Percent Since 1950s
• 2007/10/01: Yahoo: Scientists see dramatic drop in Arctic sea ice
• 2007/10/02: OilChange: Arctic Ice Island Breaks in Half
• 2007/10/02: NYT: Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
• 2007/10/01: FergusB: Summer sea ice; NSIDC press release
• 2007/10/01: Eureka: Arctic sea ice shatters record low: diminished ice leads to Northwest Passage opening
• 2007/10/01: BBC: The giant Ayles Ice Island drifting off Canada's northern shores has broken in two - far earlier than expected

  NorthWest Passage speculation:

• 2007/10/06: CanWest: Canada's rights of Arctic passage - Ottawa may be forced to give way on major interests
• 2007/10/04: Reuters: Ships to shun Northwest Passage
  While there has been much talk that Arctic trade routes will open up as northern ice melts, shipping companies and experts say using the fabled Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago would be too difficult, too dangerous and totally impractical.
• 2007/10/04: MSNBC: As Arctic ice melts, U.S. moves to OK sea treaty - Bush wants Law of the Sea approved, but some conservatives balk
• 2007/10/03: ENN: Despite Warming, Ships to Shun Northwest Passage
• 2007/10/02: PhysOrg: Arctic Sea Ice Shatters All Previous Record Lows: Diminished Ice Leads To Northwest Passage Opening

  Ramifications of a melting Greenland:

• 2007/10/04: KSJT: Guardian, New Statesman: Greenland's melting. That means there's money to be made
• 2007/10/04: Guardian(UK): Melting ice cap brings diamond hunters and hopes of independence to Greenland
  Arctic Ministers hope potential mineral wealth and hydro-electricity will allow nation to break free from Denmark

Partitioning the seabed resources:

• 2007/10/04: TerraDaily: Lomonosov Ridge Could Bring Russia 5 Billion Tons Of Extra Fuel
• 2007/10/01: TerraDaily: Analysis: Cold War over North Pole? [resource war?]

  Late comment on the Clinton Global Initiative conference:

• 2007/10/02: TreeHugger: Clinton Global Initiative 2007: Overall Impact
• 2007/10/02: GristMill: Working with cities to build markets - [Bill] Clinton's 21st century climate philanthropy

  Late comment on Washington meeting:

• 2007/10/01: ClimateP: Bush-like doubletalk from Chinese foreign minister
• 2007/10/01: TruthOut: The Skunk at His Own Garden Party
• 2007/09/30: ERabett: Jaw droppers [Wash meeting]
• 2007/10/01: OilChange: Bush's Climate Plan "Discredited"
• 2007/09/29: IPSNews: The Skunk at His Own Garden Party

  Late comment on several polls:

• 2007/10/05: SciDaily: Majority Of Americans Want Local Action On Global Warming, Says Poll [Yale]
• 2007/10/04: AFTIC: Developed and Developing Countries Agree [PIPA]
• 2007/10/04: Eureka: Majority of Americans want local action on global warming, says poll
• 2007/10/03: TreeHugger: Americans Want Climate Change Leadership ... Or Do They?
• 2007/10/01: Eureka: Americans consider global warming an urgent threat, according to poll [Yale]

  Still quiet in the Atlantic, although Lekima & Krosa have been deadly in the West Pacific:

• 2007/10/07: DailyIndia: Typhoon Krosa hits China
• 2007/10/07: AFP: Deadly storm Krosa weakens, but still lashes China
• 2007/10/07: BBC: Mainland China is bracing itself for heavy wind and rain as Tropical Storm Krosa heads towards eastern coastal provinces and cities
• 2007/10/07: SMH: Typhoon [Lekima] death toll now 32, more fatalities expected
• 2007/10/06: Wunderground: Atlantic tropical update; Category 4 Typhoon Krosa slams Taiwan
• 2007/10/06: GallopingBeaver: Typhoon Krosa [Cat 4] landfall Taiwan
• 2007/10/06: SwissInfo: Flooding cuts off thousands in Vietnam [after Lekima]
• 2007/10/06: BBC: Powerful typhoon [Krosa] pummels Taiwan
  A typhoon packing sustained winds of 185km/h (115mph) has battered Taiwan, forcing schools and businesses to close and cutting electrical supplies
• 2007/10/04: TerraDaily: Typhoon Lekima pounds Vietnam, 3 dead
• 2007/10/05: Wunderground: Atlantic disturbances not much of a threat today
• 2007/10/05: ENN: Strong Typhoon [Krosa] Targets Taiwan and China Over Weekend
• 2007/10/04: TerraDaily: Warning issued as Typhoon Krosa heads towards Taiwan
• 2007/10/04: TerraDaily: Typhoon Lekima pounds central Vietnam
• 2007/10/04: Wunderground: Not much change to the three Atlantic disturbances
• 2007/10/04: ENN: Typhoon Lekima Kills 12 in Southeast Asia
• 2007/10/04: BBC: At least three people have been killed and dozens more injured after Typhoon Lekima lashed central Vietnam...
• 2007/10/03: BBC: Vietnam battens down for typhoon [Lekima]
  Vietnamese officials have begun to evacuate around 400,000 people as a typhoon with winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) approaches
• 2007/10/03: Wunderground: Three Atlantic disturbances to watch
• 2007/10/02: Wunderground: Gulf of Mexico disturbance 90L slowly getting organized
• 2007/10/01: Wunderground: Bahamas tropical disturbance a threat to the Gulf of Mexico
• 2007/09/30: ENN: Tropical Storm Juliette forms in Mexican Pacific

  Updated 2007 hurricane outlook:

• 2007/10/02: TerraDaily: Two more Atlantic hurricanes expected this year: experts [Klotzbach & Gray]
• 2007/10/02: PhysOrg: Two more Atlantic hurricanes expected this year: experts
• 2007/10/02: Wunderground: Little change to 90L; first half of October hurricane outlook
• 2007/10/02: MSNBC: One more big hurricane predicted by November - Team sees "very active" weeks ahead, and longer season due to La Nina
• 2007/10/01: CCM: The Schizo 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season

  Canada has posted a dismal GHG record:

• 2007/10/01: EnviroCanada: Canada's 2005 Greenhouse Gas Inventory - A Summary of Trends - National Inventory
• 2007/10/01: CanWest: Emission levels at record high, data show -- Greenhouse Gases; 32.7% above Canada's Kyoto target

  Regarding the "emission intensity" metric:

• 2007/10/02: DeSmogBlog: Suncor Puts the Lie to Energy Intensity Promises
  In a half-page ad in the Globe and Mail, Tuesday, Suncor boasted that it had reduced GHG emission intensity in its Alberta oil sands development by 51 per cent between 1990 and 2006. The ad failed to mention that - thanks to huge increases in production - the company's absolute emissions increased by 131 per cent over the same period

The ozone hole is smaller this year:

• 2007/10/03: PhysOrg: 2007 ozone hole 'smaller than usual'
• 2007/10/03: ESA: 2007 ozone hole "smaller than usual"

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2007/10/02: Missoulian: Melting into history: Glacier Park's glaciers shrinking, streams drying up

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2007/10/03: Google:AP: Island Nations Warn of Warming Threat
• 2007/10/03: SMH: Effects of sea-level rise only just beginning
• 2007/10/02: C411: Worries Rise with Rising Sea Levels

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/10/05: BBC: Europe's new Metop satellite has revealed the extent of ozone thinning over Antarctica this year
• 2007/10/02: TerraDaily: NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading To Record Low In 2007

  Regarding those NASA security checks:

• 2007/10/06: PhysOrg: Background Checks at NASA Lab Blocked
  A federal appeals court on Friday approved a request by some NASA workers to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information that they allege amounts to an invasion of privacy
• 2007/10/04: PhysOrg: Judge Won't Block NASA Background Checks
  A federal judge denied a request Wednesday by more than two dozen workers at one of NASA's research labs to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information. A group of 28 employees at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said the new security checks invaded their privacy, and sued in August to overturn the requirements. NASA maintained it was following a government-wide policy applying to millions of civil servants and contractors

More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/10/07: Yahoo: Melting ice pack displaces Alaska walrus
  Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice
• 2007/10/02: NYT: Grim Outlook for Polar Bears
• 2007/10/06: SciDaily: Elevated Carbon Dioxide Spurs Shrub Growth
• 2007/10/05: TreeHugger: Hope that Corals Will Withstand Global Warming's Impact
• 2007/10/03: BBC: Bluetongue cases increase to 24
• 2007/09/20: BasqueResearch: A greenhouse to study the impact of climate change on plants
• 2007/10/01: Globe&Mail: Lake Superior hits record lows
• 2007/10/01: ABC(Au): Climate change may increase weed threat

  And then there are the tropical rainforests:

• 2007/10/05: TruthOut: World Bank Accused of Razing Congo Forests
• 2007/10/06: AFTIC: South America chokes as Amazon Burns
• 2007/10/05: Independent(UK): South America chokes as Amazon burns
  Vast areas of Brazil and Paraguay and much of Bolivia are choking under thick layers of smoke as fires rage out of control in the Amazon rainforest, forcing the cancellation of flights. Satellite images yesterday showed huge clouds of smoke and much of the Amazon basin burning as fires, originally set by ranchers to clear land, have raged into the forest itself.
• 2007/10/06: RFF(UK): Stop the carve up of the Congo forests
• 2007/10/06: Nation: The Fight to Save Congo's Forests
• 2007/10/04: PhysOrg: Wai Wai choose conservation economy for traditional Amazon territory
  Three years after gaining formal title to their traditional territory in the northern Amazon, the Wai Wai people of Guyana have achieved another milestone when the region was declared the nation's first Community Owned Conservation Area. Under regulations passed by the Guyana parliament, the Wai Wai community formally designated their land a protected area and adopted a management plan, developed with the support of Conservation International (CI), for the 625,000-hectare (1.54-million-acre) tract on the northern border of Brazil's Pará state
• 2007/10/04: Guardian(UK): World Bank accused of razing Congo forests [an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts]
• 2007/10/02: TruthOut: Amazon Jungle Could Be Lost in 40 Years, Say Campaigners
• 2007/10/02: PhysOrg: Amazon Rainforest at risk from initiative to connect South American economies [IIRSA]

  As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2007/10/05: Missoulian: Experts look at forest 'reality'
  Since 2002, six of 11 Western states have set records for the amount of acreage burned in a single season. California has done it twice

And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/10/07: SMH: Water from thin air is a cool idea
• 2007/10/05: USAToday: Warm U.S. winter expected to worsen drought conditions
• 2007/10/06: SciDaily: Climate Change Likely To Help With Groundwater Recharge
• 2007/10/05: Yahoo: Water companies need to adapt to climate change: experts
• 2007/10/04: Atmoz: Precipitation Trends in the Southwest United States
• 2007/10/04: PhysOrg: Australian rainfall - a view of the future

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/10/03: BBC: Will biofuel leave the poor hungry?
  It is one of the most hotly debated environmental topics of the year - whether the drive to produce alternative so-called green fuels will take food from the mouths of the hungry

And the troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:

• 2007/10/05: P&P: UN backs organic farming
• 2007/10/05: UN: Surging wheat prices push staple products out of reach of poor - UN agency
• 2007/10/04: TerraDaily: High cereal prices may fuel problems in poor areas: FAO chief [Jacques Diouf]
• 2007/10/04: SMH: Drought begins to bite at the checkout
  Drought will cause "significant increases" in the cost of food, including meat, milk, eggs and bakery goods, Australia's biggest retail boss, Woolworths chief executive Michael Luscombe, has warned
• 2007/10/03: EconView: More Food Divided by More People
• 2007/09/30: TheAge: Food shock as 'agflation' sees prices rise

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/10/01: FSF: Carbon footprint: vegan diet vs. Chevy Suburban
• 2007/10/05: KSJT: Xinhua: China bosses in shirtsleeves! It means turn off air conditioners.
• 2007/10/05: JEB: The future face of conferences?
• 2007/10/04: AutoBG: In Japan, hybrid larch trees can capture 30 percent more carbon
• 2007/10/04: ENN: Indonesia to Plant 79 Million Trees in One Day
• 2007/10/04: Reuters: Indonesia to plant 79 million trees in one day

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2007/10/05: AutoBG: Johns Manville: 44 percent of Americans think that cars emit the most greenhouse gases - wrong!
• 2007/10/01: TreeHugger: Home Energy Usage

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2007/10/06: FuturePundit: Extraction Of Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere Seen Possible
• 2007/10/03: NewScientist: Chemical 'sponge' could filter CO2 from the air
• 2007/10/02: AutoBG: Pioneering European CO2 capture plant coming to Spain in 2009
• 2007/10/02: TEB: BASF, RWE Power and the Linde Group to Develop New CO2 Capture Process

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/10/06: CDreams: SeattlePI: The Last Green Taboo: Engineering the Planet
• 2007/10/02: LFB: Geoengineering: A Cure for Global Warming
• 2007/10/02: CCurrents: The Folly, Egoism And Dangers Of Climate Geo-Engineering
• 2007/10/01: KSJT: Boston Globe: Those plans to strew iron in the seas...There ought'a be a law, but there ain't.

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/10/06: GRL: (ab$) Long term climate implications of 2050 emission reduction targets by Andrew J. Weaver et al.
• 2007/10/05: CP: Millennial temperature reconstruction intercomparison and evaluation by M. N. Juckes et al.
• 2007/10/05: ACP: Climate impact of supersonic air traffic: an approach to optimize a potential future supersonic fleet - results from the EU-project SCENIC by V. Grewe et al.
• 2007/10/04: ACP: Perturbation of the European free troposphere aerosol by North American forest fire plumes during the ICARTT-ITOP experiment in summer 2004 by A. Petzold et al.
• 2007/10/04: ACP: Long range transport and fate of a stratospheric volcanic cloud from Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat by A. J. Prata et al.
• 2007/10/04: ACP: Global model simulations of the impact of ocean-going ships on aerosols, clouds, and the radiation budget by A. Lauer et al.
• 2007/10/06: ACPD: Influence of particle size and chemistry on the cloud nucleating properties of aerosols by P. K. Quinn et al.
• 2007/10/02: CP: Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet by P. Huybrechts et al.
• 2007/10/01: CP: The origin of the 1500-year climate cycles in Holocene North-Atlantic records by M. Debret et al.
• 2007/10/02: ACP: Nitrate aerosols today and in 2030: a global simulation including aerosols and tropospheric ozone by S. E. Bauer et al.
• 2007/10/02: ACP: Evaluation of ECMWF water vapour fields by airborne differential absorption lidar measurements: a case study between Brazil and Europe by H. Flentje et al.

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

• 2007/10/02: ENN: Ancient Fossils Points to Carbon Dioxide As a Driver of Global Warming
• 2007/10/01: NewScientist: Caribbean forests thrived in 'Little Ice Age'
• 2007/10/01: Guardian(UK): How old masters are helping study of global warming - Paintings of striking sunsets show effect of huge volcanic eruptions on climate

  James Hansen has raised a few eyebrows with a paper positing a 6C climate sensitivity:

• 2007/10/02: JEB: Climate sensitivity is 6C?
• 2007/10/02: FergusB: Go and read another blog [Hansen]
• 2007/10/01: ClimateP: Another "Must Read" from Hansen: "Long-term" climate sensitivity of 6C for doubled CO2
• 2007/10/01: Atmoz: James Hansen - It's Still Not Too Late

  More on Schwartz:

• 2007/10/03: Tamino: Two Boxes

  Here is an interesting twist on the upcoming Bali conference:

• 2007/10/04: BBC: Democrats eye key climate summit [Bali]
  A team of leading US Democrats is planning to send a delegation to a key UN climate conference to rival President Bush's official team. They are so frustrated by Mr Bush's refusal to support US emissions cuts that they will travel to Bali to set out their alternative vision. The UN summit in December is seen as a vital step towards a new global climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol

And on the Kyoto-2 front:

• 2007/10/02: ENN: UK chief scientist [David King] confident on 2009 climate deal
• 2007/10/01: TruthOut: Deforestation Needs to Be in Next Climate Pact
• 2007/10/01: CDreams: Reuters: Deforestation Needs To Be In Next Climate Pact

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2007/10/04: ENN: Power Utility Wants Auctioning of CO2 Permits by 2020
• 2007/10/03: NEN: Who cares about the price of carbon? [trading]

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2007/10/03: BCLSB: [Economist] Richard Tol Changes Tune, Talks Carbon Tax
• 2007/10/03: EnvEcon: Some basic economics of Quebec's carbon tax
• 2007/09/30: BCLSB: Quebec Leads The Way [carbon tax]

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

• 2007/10/04: NEN: Banks want cap-and-trade

  The UN held a largely unreported conference on tourism & climate:

• 2007/10/03: Yahoo: Tourist industry to pledge climate-friendly future
• 2007/10/03: UN: To sustain growth, tourism sector must take action against climate change - UN
• 2007/10/01: TerraDaily: Tourism set to suffer from the climate change it generates: UN
• 2007/10/02: ENN: Climate change will alter world travel patterns

  The GW security meme put in an appearance:

• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): Climate change as much a concern as terrorism: survey

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/10/05: SF Gate: Officials hope voters might favor gas tax boost to fight warming
• 2007/10/04: C411: Climate Vote 2007: Why Now, Why Cap and Trade?
• 2007/10/04: Yahoo: Official says US will regulate carbon
• 2007/10/04: GovExec: Lawmakers to Pentagon: Plan for climate change
  The Defense authorization bill approved by the Senate this week would require the Pentagon to consider the effects of climate change on military capabilities, facilities and missions. The House version of the bill (H.R. 1585) contains similar language, which means the provision likely will become law
• 2007/10/04: ENN: White House says Climate talks beyond platitudes [Connaughton spin]
• 2007/10/04: BellinghamHerald: Scientist: Global warming real threat
  Despite the overwhelming evidence that air pollution is making the globe hotter and threatening massive disruption of human life, the U.S. government is doing little or nothing to address the problem, a University of Washington scientist said Wednesday. "We bear responsibility for this problem but we have no coherent strategy," said Thomas Ackerman, professor of atmospheric sciences. "There are solutions, but we need to act now." Ackerman, director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, spoke at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College as part of the World Issues Forum series.
• 2007/10/03: EnvEcon: To hell with the planet. Global warming is good for Kansas
• 2007/10/02: DeSmogBlog: Beating Around the Bush [CCM]
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: The Bush Administrations Policies and Measures - Fact Checked Matrix
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: Why is Uncle Sam so committed to reviving nuclear power?
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: Fool me once...The real story behind the Bush administration's climate claims
• 2007/10/01: HillHeat: CQ: [Senate Finance Chairman Max] Baucus (D-Mt) Proposes Ethanol Credit Cut
• 2007/10/01: WarmingLaw: Let The Sunshine In
• 2007/10/01: NEN: On farms and carbon credits

  Wrangling over a climate bill continues:

• 2007/10/05: FoodGuide: Lieberman climate bill: "worse than nothing"
• 2007/10/04: WaPo: Lawmakers Will Proceed on Climate Plan - Leaders Focus on System of Tradable Allowances for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 2007/10/03: ClimateP: Update on Warner-Lieberman climate bill
• 2007/10/03: GristMill: Donning his cap - Dingell endorses a cap-and-trade climate plan
• 2007/10/03: HillHeat: Boucher, Dingell in House Energy Committee Call for Cap-and-Trade
• 2007/10/02: ClimateP: Dingell's Absurd Poison-Pill Climate Plan
• 2007/10/02: GristMill: Goooooooooal - Moving toward a better energy policy
  There's a great line often ascribed to Yogi Berra: "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." This perfectly describes U.S. energy policy -- and offers a way forward that would not only create lots of social benefits, but just might make energy policy something that matters to U.S. electoral politics

The EPA still has not ruled on California emissions waiver & the Governator's gonna sue:

• 2007/10/05: PlanetArk: EPA on Track to Act on Calif Emissions Waiver

  Meanwhile others are asking the EPA to regulate ship emissions:

• 2007/10/04: EarthTimes: Environment advocacy group asks EPA to take urgent action against global warming caused by ships
• 2007/10/06: Google:AP: EPA Asked to Regulate Ship Emissions
• 2007/10/04: TruthOut: EPA Urged to Limit CO2 Pollution From Cargo and Cruise Ships
• 2007/10/04: TreeHugger: EPA Petitioned to Limited CO2 Emissions from Ships
• 2007/10/04: Yahoo: EPA asked to regulate ship emissions
• 2007/10/04: AutoBG: California, others ask EPA to limit ocean ships' emissions
• 2007/10/03: WarmingLaw: Jerry Brown Takes to the Seas [ship CO2]
• 2007/10/03: LA Times: Brown to broaden fight over dirty air
  California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown will petition the federal government today to crack down on global warming emissions from ocean-going vessels, most of which sail under foreign flags
• 2007/10/03: SF Gate: Petitions seek EPA control of emissions by diesel-powered ships
  The roughly 100 million tons of greenhouse gases put out every year by oceangoing ships in the United States should be brought under control by the EPA to combat global warming, according to petitions set to be filed today by environmental groups and the California attorney general. The two petitions are the first formal requests to the Bush administration asking for controls on greenhouse gases released by cargo and cruise ships, which are propelled by the largest type of diesel engines.

Rep. Markey & Toyoto had a little run in:

• 2007/10/04: HillHeat: Markey Calls Out Toyota On "Impossible" CAFE Standards
• 2007/10/03: HillHeat: Toyota "Dear Colleague" Letter about NRDC Campaign
• 2007/10/03: HillHeat: Toyota vs. NRDC and Markey on CAFE Standards
• 2007/10/03: WarmingLaw: Not Loving What They Do For Us... [Toyoyo]
• 2007/10/03: DeSmogBlog: In a classic display of corporate cynicism, Toyota fights stronger emission standards in U.S.
• 2007/10/03: AutoBG: NRDC slams Toyota for Greenwashing and supporting Hill-Terry [bill]

  The 2008 campaign is not generating much climate change discussion:

• 2007/10/04: GristMill: Fighting global warming from space - Hillary lays out science proposals

  And in Mexico:

• 2007/10/06: SOSD: Gore discusses global warming in Mexico - Calderón focuses on climate change

  While in the UK:

• 2007/10/03: Guardian(UK): Tories call for new industrial revolution to tackle climate change
• 2007/10/01: BBC: Advisers endorse tidal power plan
  An influential government advisory body has endorsed proposals for a tidal barrage across the Severn estuary. The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) says the project should meet "tough" environmental conditions and remain in public ownership

The judge in that Inconvenient Truth suit issued a preliminary ruling:

• 2007/10/04: Stoat: Tip of the iceberg
• 2007/10/03: BBC: Ex-US vice president Al Gore's climate change documentary can be shown in England's secondary schools, a High Court judge has said.
  An Inconvenient Truth promotes "partisan political views" but it is not unlawful to show to students, Mr Justice Burton said
• 2007/10/03: DailyMail: Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias
  Mr Justice Burton is due to deliver a ruling on the case next week, but yesterday he said he would be saying that Gore's Oscar-winning film does promote 'partisan political views'

The Ecological Debt Day story (below) was given a UK twist:

• 2007/10/06: NEF: 'China-dependence' going up for life in UK, as World as a whole goes into 'ecological debt'
• 2007/10/06: BBC: UK 'exporting emissions' to China
  The UK's increasing dependence on Chinese goods is contributing to a rise in carbon emissions, a report suggests. The New Economic Foundation (NEF) says such reliance is adding to CO2 levels because China's factories produce more CO2 per item than British ones. The report also says many similar goods are both imported and exported, adding needlessly to CO2 output in transport

And in Europe:

• 2007/10/01: TerraDaily: Paris adopts 'climate plan' to slash emissions

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/10/07: SMH: Anger at polling on climate, IR ads
  The Federal Government is conducting expensive national research to test voter response to its heavily criticised advertising campaigns
• 2007/10/05: TruthOut: How We Can Save Ourselves by Tim Flannery
• 2007/10/05: ABC(Au): Health Department climate report a 'call to action'
• 2007/10/05: ABC(Au): Murray-Darling water report gives 'bleak' outlook
  A new report by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission reveals that current water availability is the lowest it has been in 116 years of modelling
• 2007/10/05: ABC(Au): Regional towns not ready for climate change: [AATSE] study
• 2007/10/04: ABC(Au): Scientist says Australia behind on climate change action
  A prominent Australian climate scientist [Monash University's Dr Graeme Pearman] says governments in Australia and around the world are still not "getting" the problem of global warming
• 2007/10/04: ABC(Au): Experts confident climate report will assist NT planning
• 2007/10/04: News(Au): Sacrifices today will stop a barren future
• 2007/10/04: TreeHugger: Climate Paranoia Strikes Deep
  "Australia must populate its undeveloped tropical north or face invasion by Asian refugees driven south by climate change, an outspoken Government MP has warned." [...] This thinking is from a government that has, for years, busied itself with climate denial, backing US-grown obfuscations. When denial collapses, paranoia fills the gap. A perfect distraction from the work of mitigating against climate disaster.
• 2007/10/04: TheAge: How we can save ourselves [Flannery]
• 2007/10/03: Australian: Australia in climate crisis: Garrett
• 2007/10/04: SMH: Heat is on local authorities over warming
  Local governments will need to take a major role in adapting the country to cope with climate change, the Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has warned
• 2007/10/04: SMH: Happy to pay for more renewables
• 2007/10/04: SMH: Faiths call on 'captive' Government to set emissions target
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): Report prompts call for governments to get tougher on climate change [by Conservation Council of Western Australia]
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): More needs to be done on climate change: chief scientist
  Commonwealth chief scientist Jim Peacock says the planting of new forests across large parts of the country would play a major role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
• 2007/10/02: ABC(Au): Greens urge more action on climate change
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): Religious leaders pressure Govt on emissions
• 2007/10/02: ABC(Au): Labor urges Govt to act on climate change report
• 2007/10/02: GWWatch: GetUp! gets $250K to put down Government climate campaign
• 2007/10/02: ABC(Au): Researchers gather to discuss hot, dry outlook

  The possibility of an influx of climate refugees kicked off a round of recrimination:

• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): [Senior Liberal Senator, Bill] Heffernan predicts Top End migration influx
• 2007/10/04: ABC(Au): Warning on climate refugees from within Australia
  The UN secretary-general's official representative in Australia Abdullah Mbamba says the Federal Government should be prepared for "climate refugees" to come from within Australia. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said last month that climate change will cause an influx of refugees to try and illegally enter Australia
• 2007/10/03: ABC(Au): [Senior Liberal Senator, Bill] Heffernan plays down climate refugee comments

  Here's some cum grano salis speculation :

• 2007/10/03: CarbonPositive: Australia may adopt Kyoto on Bali eve
• 2007/10/05: ABC(Au): New northern ice age [via THC shutdown] could send refugees to Aust

  While in China:

• 2007/10/05: Google:AFP: China to raise coal output, open 'super' mines
• 2007/10/05: ClimateP: China and the Question of Action
• 2007/10/04: GristMill: The elephant in the environmental room - How do you solve a problem like [Maria] China?
• 2007/10/02: Yahoo: China offers surprise hope in climate change fight

  While in Japan:

• 2007/10/02: ENN: Japan to remap climate plans to reach Kyoto goal

  And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues to do as little as possible:

• 2007/10/04: CanWest: Feds hinder green plan - Canada owes $1.5M to UN
• 2007/10/02: StraightGoods: Five degrees of desperation - Bush, Harper and friends trying to wriggle away from action on global warming
• 2007/10/01: DeSmogBlog: 5 reasons Canada is NOT a leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions

  The Canadian Council of Chief Executives has called for action in reducing GHGs:

• 2007/10/01: DeSmogBlog: Canada's CEOs urge 'aggressive' action on global warming
• 2007/10/01: CBC: CEOs call for 'aggressive' action on climate change
  An influential group of Canadian chief executives says climate change is the "most pressing and daunting" issue the world faces today and business must do its share to fight the problem. A task force of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives released a report Monday that calls for a national action plan that would see government, business and individuals working in concert to make real reductions in greenhouse gas emissions

Quebec's carbon tax came into effect this week:

• 2007/10/01: Reuters: Quebec introduces carbon tax, Canada CEOs urge more
• 2007/10/01: CBC: Green light for Quebec carbon tax amid cost fears

  Details on B.C.'s climate change plan are slow to emerge:

• 2007/10/03: CanWest: Climate change action: Where your $4 million is going -- so far
• 2007/10/02: CanWest: Time for details on B.C.'s climate-change plan

  The issue of Alberta's oil royalties is threatening to blow up:

• 2007/10/06: CanWest: Analysts speak for shareholders, not the public - Corporate, public interests out of alignment on royalty review issue
• 2007/10/06: KChapman: New York Analyst Calls Albertans Stupid Over Royalties - Has Not Read the "Our Fair Share" Report
• 2007/10/05: Macleans: Doomsday: Alberta stands accused - A huge fight between East and West -- over the oil sands -- is just starting
• 2007/10/05: CBC: Energy giant [Conoco] rages against plan to hike Alberta royalties
• 2007/10/04: DeSmogBlog: PR Giant Launches Alberta Astroturf Group [to fight against increased oil royalties]
• 2007/10/04: CanWest: Big Oil not kidding about pulling out of Alberta
• 2007/10/02: StraightGoods: Alberta should be collecting a lot more money - Royalty report recommendations are far from extreme
• 2007/10/03: RigZone: Canadian Royalty Review Causes Major Backlash
• 2007/10/02: CanWest: Report shreds government's credibility - Wilful neglect of duty outlined by auditor general has cost Albertans billions [in oil royalties]

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

• 2007/10/06: FergusB: Why do economic criteria look 'wrong' when we're discussing the 'value' of the environment and the climate?
• 2007/10/05: JVail: Future Planning: Hedging the Solution Space
• 2007/10/05: ClimateP: Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus - Part IV, Why bother?
  The question has been raised -- why spend time "debunking" S&N when they seem to be well-meaning folks struggling for a genuine solution to global warming, unlike, say, Bjorn Lomborg? Aside from the fact that they are adding great confusion and misinformation to a critical debate, the answer is simple -- they aren't well-meaning.
• 2007/10/05: ClimateP: Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus - Part III, What Californians know that S&N don't
• 2007/10/03: ClimateP: Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus - Part II, Breaking the technology breakthrough myth
• 2007/10/02: ClimateP: The Death of "The Death of Environmentalism": Nordhaus & Shellenberger are part of the problem - Part I
• 2007/10/05: GristMill: The meaning of global warming, part one - Guest essay by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
• 2007/10/01: IR^2: [Pdf Review] How Can We Outlive Our Way of Life? by Tad Patzek
• 2007/10/03: ClimateP: Why sustainable development is so damn hard - Philippines edition
• 2007/10/02: OilDrum: Review: How Can We Outlive Our Way of Life?
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: Reshaping market economies - A reply to Shellenberger & Nordhaus
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: Putting your inner political superego on hold - A utopian realist agenda [N&S]
• 2007/10/01: MTobis: Nordhaus Seeks Magic Bullet, Will Pay

  A note on Weitzman:

• 2007/10/06: JEB: Weitzman's Dismal Theorem
• 2007/10/06: Stoat: Weitzman's Dismal Theorem?

  Did you have a happy Ecological Debt Day?

• 2007/10/06: ABC(Au): Excess consumption sending Earth into 'ecological debt'
• 2007/10/06: TreeHugger: Ecological Debt Day
• 2007/10/06: Yahoo: World moves into the ecological red
  The world moved into 'ecological overdraft' on Saturday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red, the New Economics Foundation think-tank said. Ecological Debt Day this year is three days earlier than in 2006 which itself was three days earlier than in 2005. NEF said the date had moved steadily backwards every year since humanity began living beyond its environmental means in the 1980s.

Ecologically viable? What's that?

• 2007/10/07: TreeHugger: Quote of the Day: Michael Jessen on Zero Waste
• 2007/10/08: SciAlert: Sleepwalking into danger
• 2007/10/06: EnergyBulletin: Confronting the Triple Crisis
• 2007/10/02: BaltimoreChronicle: The Nature of the New World by Lester R. Brown
• 2007/10/04: EnergyBulletin: Toward an ecotechnic society
• 2007/10/01: AlterNet: How to Address Humanity's Global Crises? Challenge Corporate Power, Embrace True Democracy by Vandana Shiva

  Apocalypso anyone?:

• 2007/09/30: EESD: Avoiding Collapse in Modern Civilization
• 2007/10/05: CCurrents: Global Climate Change: Threat To Nature And Human Society
• 2007/09/: FP: Why Climate Change Can't Be Stopped

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/10/07: FergusB: Does it say what it does on the tin?
• 2007/10/06: YCMF: Top News Executives Focus on Climate Science
• 2007/10/02: CJR: Yale Launches Climate, Media Forum - Aims to improve communication between scientists and the press
• 2007/10/03: Maribo: Greenhouse gases from biofuels and the reporting of science
• 2007/10/03: FergusB: How climate science is perceived; a problem revealed?
• 2007/10/03: MTobis: Trust and Expertise
• 2007/10/03: CCM: Major Endorsement for Framing Science Thesis
• 2007/10/02: Denialism: Sheril takes apart the latest environmental scaremongering nonsense [CAP]
• 2007/10/02: CCM: The Center For American Progress Blew It (Or, CRAP from CAP)
• 2007/10/01: FergusB: Why do you not trust the experts?

  Here is something for your library:

• 2007/10/03: FTimes: Great awakening ahead for gas guzzlers [Book Review] _Zoom: The global race to fuel the car of the future_ by Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran
• 2007/10/06: Globe&Mail: It's not just Alberta, it's the whole country [Book Review]
  _Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)_ By William Marsden
• 2007/10/04: Zone5: [Book Review] _Peak Everything: Waking up to the Century of Declines_ By Richard Heinberg
• 2007/10/: CalCars: Books that Focus on or Discuss Plug-In Hybrids (PHEVs)
• 2007/10/03: ERabett: Some new textbooks on-line

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2007/10/06: Yahoo: Automakers to appeal emissions ruling [Vermont]
• 2007/10/06: AutoBG: Carmakers appealing ruling on Vermont emissions rules
• 2007/10/02: NEN: Justice for climate change

  A tease on the betting front:

• 2007/10/07: Deltoid: I wonder if they'd bet on it?

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

• 2007/10/07: SciDaily: Energy Lost From Hot Engines Could Save Billions If Converted Into Electricity
• 2007/10/05: CNN: The green job boom - Renewable energy supporters say the industry could create millions of new jobs, but economists are split.
• 2007/10/05: TruthOut: Hydropower Doesn't Count as Clean Energy
• 2007/10/05: GreenOptions: Report from Nobel Conference - Heating Up: The Energy Debate
• 2007/10/02: CTB: Solar Power 2007
• 2007/10/04: EnvFin: Spain boosts solar target [from 400MW to 1,200MW by 2010]
• 2007/10/04: REA: Alberta 900 MW Cap on Wind Power Lifted
• 2007/10/05: REA: Scaling Geothermal for Reliable Baseload Power
• 2007/10/05: TreeHugger: World's Largest Windfarm Gets Approval
• 2007/10/04: ClimateP: Bill Clinton (!) explains utility decoupling
• 2007/10/04: ClimateP: The Energy Department's Strategic Unconventional Fuels Fantasy
• 2007/10/04: GristMill: The growth of renewable energy markets
• 2007/10/04: ENN: [German utility] E.ON takes first step into U.S. renewables market
• 2007/10/04: BrisbaneTimes: Australia 'falling behind' on renewable energy
• 2007/10/04: NEN: Forbes foresees 2008: New Energy
• 2007/10/04: NEN: GE sells wind to Canada
• 2007/10/03: GristMill: No news is good news - The Solar Power Conference revealed no breakthrough solar tech -- and that's a good thing
• 2007/10/03: DailyKos: Energy COOL: New approaches to pumped storage
• 2007/10/03: HillHeat: Energy Storage: On the Hill, On the Blogs
• 2007/10/03: NewScientist: Grass-munching bugs could charge rural phones [via a microbial fuel cell (MFC) that runs on plant waste]
• 2007/10/03: Clemson: Clemson physicist addresses international forum on thermoelectric energy
• 2007/10/03: NEN: World wind growing fast [20.5%]
• 2007/10/02: ABC(Au): Solar takes off with US power supply deal
• 2007/10/02: NEN: Big money buys big wind
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: Why $100-per-barrel oil would be no big deal [China coal]
• 2007/10/01: Guardian(UK): Portugal gambles on 'sea snakes' providing an energy boost - World's first wavefarm awaits launch day

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/10/05: TEB: TECO Cancels IGCC [integrated gasification combined-cycle] Power Plant
• 2007/10/04: EnvFin: Banks targeted in campaign to kill coal
  Bank of America and Citi are being asked to stop financing the coal industry, in a campaign launched this week by environmental activist group Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
• 2007/10/05: GristMill: Nice electrical power you got there. Shame if something happened to it. - The coal industry's extortion is on increasingly obvious display
• 2007/10/03: TruthOut: US Moving Backwards [150 new coal-fired power plants]
• 2007/10/03: CDreams: IPS: Citigroup, Bank of America Raked Over Coal

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/10/06: SciDaily: Switchgrass: Bridging Bioenergy And Conservation
• 2007/10/03: REA: Growing Biofuels: The Sustainability Opportunity
  The biofuels boom has brought on a backlash, and the biofuels community is beginning to mount a response
• 2007/10/05: Reuters: Green fuels will save the earth - or not
• 2007/10/05: ZMag: Agro-fooling ourselves
  EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for "agrofuels". Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world's poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming...
• 2007/10/03: WaPo: Is Ethanol the 'Energy Security' Solution?
  [...] is ethanol a truly renewable energy source, and is it more secure and dependable than oil? The answer to both of those questions, surprisingly, is no.
• 2007/10/05: PlanetArk: Biofuel Bandwagon Slows as Feedstock Prices Surge
• 2007/10/04: Stoat: Biofuels, again
• 2007/10/04: SMH: Warning on danger of biofuels
• 2007/10/03: GristMill: The 'Exxon of corn' licks its chops - Archer Daniels Midland sees glut as opportunity to consolidate the ethanol market
• 2007/10/03: AutoBG: USA and Europe ethanol producers peeved with OECD's report on bad biofuels
• 2007/10/03: AutoBG: Nobel Prize winner states: Biofuels may actually increase global warming
• 2007/10/01: AutoBG: Texas biofuel companies facing harsh difficulties
• 2007/10/01: KSJT: NYTimes, Economist: Not a good news week for ethanol

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2007/10/02: PRWatch: Nuclear Industry "Constructs" Its Own Reality
• 2007/10/02: EUO: EU makes the case for nuclear energy
• 2007/10/01: Rachel's: Why is Uncle Sam so committed to reviving nuclear power?

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2007/10/03: EESD: PG&E Gives Away 1 Million CFLs
• 2007/10/04: EnvFin: Office Depot profits from saving energy
• 2007/10/05: Yahoo: Reader's Digest study: Britain near bottom of the table for energy efficiency
• 2007/10/05: C411: Energy-Efficient Mortgages: It Pays to Go Green
• 2007/10/04: ClimateP: California makes efficiency "business as usual"
• 2007/10/03: PhysOrg: U.S. [DOE] urges using compact fluorescent bulbs
• 2007/10/02: CNN: Wal-Mart sells 100 million energy-saver bulbs

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

• 2007/10/06: FuturePundit: Fuel Efficiency Decline Reverses In United States
• 2007/10/06: TreeHugger: London Greener Car Sales to Reach £1.2 Billion Next Year
• 2007/10/06: AutoBG: Sam's Club [Walmart] to sell lithium-ion electric car in Christmas promotion
• 2007/10/05: AutoBG: Two reports agree: new CO2 limits will raise the price of European Cars
• 2007/10/04: KSJT: AP, NYTimes, etc: What's so green about Toyota, ally of gas hogs?
• 2007/10/04: GristMill: Discover Brilliant Q&A: Bill Williams of Zenn Motors - A chat with Zenn about NEVs and EEstor
• 2007/10/01: CNet: Electric cars and hybrids: Silicon Valley vs. Detroit
• 2007/10/04: OilChange: GM to Test-Drive Fuel-Cell Cars
• 2007/10/03: BBC: Fuel-cell cars to get test drive

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

  Meanwhile in the "every problem is an opportunity in disguise" crowd:
• 2007/10/03: NEN: Wal-Mart wants to lead on energy, climate change
• 2007/10/02: OilChange: Dell Goes "Carbon-Neutral" but Read the Small-print

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2007/10/02: PRWatch: Chevron Taps "Human Energy"
• 2007/10/01: ClimateP: Those greenwashing Chevron ads
• 2007/10/01: DeSmogBlog: Chevron's New Ad: The Pot Calling the Kettle Green

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2007/10/03: ENN: Climate Change Seen Posing Big Risk For Insurers

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/10/05: GristMill: Never doubt that a small group...The threat from climate deniers
• 2007/10/05: ERabett: Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it [OISM]
• 2007/10/06: Deltoid: JPANDS
• 2007/10/04: ERabett: Before there was E&E there was JPANDS
• 2007/10/04: RealClimate: My model, used for deception
• 2007/10/04: RealClimate: Cosmic rays don't die so easily
• 2007/10/04: CCM: It Hates Us, Precioussssss
• 2007/10/04: CSM: Climate warming skeptics: Is the research too political?
• 2007/10/03: GristMill: Weird junior high debate cards republished - The Heartland Institute accidently steals seventh grader's paper
• 2007/10/02: ClimateP: More swiftboating of James Hansen
• 2007/10/01: ERabett: Bankruptcy [Aethon has a new name and a new food source] [Michaels]
• 2007/10/01: ERabett: That's all folks
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: [Dessler] More from the dark side - How climate skeptics like Fred Singer operate

  Lomborg got a few whacks:

• 2007/10/02: Stoat: Cool it? [lomborg]
• 2007/10/01: DeSmogBlog: Bjorn Lomborg - the 'Polyanna of Global Warming'
• 2007/10/01: TreeHugger: Demolishing Lomborg's Cool It

  And Monckton came in for some self-generated ridicule:

• 2007/10/06: BSD: Mostly hilarious Monbiot-Monckton exchange
• 2007/10/03: Stoat: Watch Monckton squirm
• 2007/10/03: DeSmogBlog: "Viscount" Monckton at Ease Lying for Money

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/10/06: NWN: Global Warming, Western Ranching, and the Bovine Curtain
• 2007/10/05: TruthOut: The Making of a Climate Movement
• 2007/10/06: GWWatch: What happens after global warming?
• 2007/10/05: CDreams: Nation: The Making of a Climate Movement
• 2007/10/05: Maribo: The 100 year letter project
• 2007/10/05: BCLSB: The Younger Dryas, Celestial Impacts, and Scarborough Bluffs
• 2007/10/04: ENN: Another warm winter seen for much of U.S. [NOAA]
• 2007/10/04: NYT: A Swiftly Melting Planet
• 2007/10/04: Reuters: Another warm winter seen for much of U.S. [by NOAA]
• 2007/10/02: GristMill: A greener economy from the grassroots
• 2007/10/03: WKBT: Global warming expert James Hansen addresses Nobel Conference [at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minn.]
• 2007/10/02: KSJT: Time Mag: Two takes on climate change politics
• 2007/10/01: GristMill: Knocked Krupp - Is Environmental Defense leader Fred Krupp a savvy dealmaker or a stooge?
• 2007/10/02: EconView: "A Sea Change in Public Opinion" [regarding GW]
• 2007/10/01: Tamino: Explain this
• 2007/09/28: CFR: Alternative Views on Climate Change
• 2007/09/26: PRWatch: Czech President the Anti-Gore, Says U.S. Think Tank
• 2007/10/01: TStar: The Three Stooges of global climate change [US/Canada/Australia]
  The urgency of dealing with climate change is not going to go away. It is only going to get worse. Moreover, the longer we delay in getting truly serious, the greater the cost of curbing emissions and adapting to the impact of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere
• 2007/10/01: AFTIC: Carbon dioxide did not end the last ice age
• 2007/10/01: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Cold water on global warming plans

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

• Green Options
• YCMF: The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
• California Cars Initiative for Plug-In Hybrids
• Climate Change in Australia
• Yahoo: Climate Change Forum
• EDGAR: Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research
• Kyoto USA
• CTW: Carbon Trade Watch
• Plausible Futures
• PNT: Post-Normal Times
• NODC: Publication summary of the NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1990-2005

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

PS. You can access the previous postings of this series here

"The other thing which I think is very important is vested interests. Who wants to keep the world the way it is? The oil industry; the chemical- industry; the food industry; the car industry; the airline industry. These are very powerful. Who rules Britain? Not parliament."
-Michael Meacher, Former Minister of State for the Environment, Privy Counsellor and UK Member of Parliament

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