Another Week of Global Warming News, November 11, 2007

Sipping from the internet firehose...

(N.B. Sorry it is late, this is my fault, not Harvey's...)

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• Top Stories, Energy vs War Priorities, IEA Report, Expensive Energy, Bali, Ban Ki-moon Tour
• Arctic Ice, Tabasco Floods, Polls, GreenList, Ethics, Mayors, Forest Fires
• Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, ENSO, Glaciers, Satellites
• Impacts, Rainforests, Desertification, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel
• Mitigation, Transportation, Architecture, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
• Journals, Misc. Science
• UNFCCC, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
• International Politics, Security America, Britain, Europe, Australia, China, Canada
• Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video
• Energy, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Insurance, Carbon Lobby
• The Usual, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion
• .sig

Ted Glick has now been fasting 65+ days:

• 2007/11/09: TruthOut: "We Want More" - Ted Glick is on the 65th day of a Climate Emergency Fast

  What with this being Remembrance Day, it is worth noting actual priorities:

• 2007/10/30: SPR: A sick graph - Cost of the war in iraq compared to research and development of solar technology
• 2007/11/11: PeakEnergy: The Cost Of The Iraq War

  The big story of the week has to be the IEA report on oil:

• 2007/11/07: IEA: Statement on the Current Oil Market Situation
• 2007/11/07: IEA: The Next 10 Years are Critical - the World Energy Outlook Makes the Case for Stepping up Co-operation with China and India to Address Global Energy Challenges
• 2007/11/10: IrishTimes: Peak oil meets climate change
  Two frightening trends stand out from the annual report published this week by the International Energy Agency (IEA)
• 2007/11/08: EnvFin: IEA predicts 'shocking' rise in global energy demand
• 2007/11/10: CCurrents: Fossil Fuel Train Heads Into Overdrive
• 2007/11/10: PlausibleFutures: The End of Oil is Upon Us
• 2007/11/09: NYT: Rising Demand for Oil Provokes New Energy Crisis
• 2007/11/08: JFleck: Inexorable
• 2007/11/08: ClimateP: IEA: "The Next 10 Years are Critical"
• 2007/11/08: TruthOut: Global-Warming Gases Set to Rise by 57 Percent by 2030 - IEA
• 2007/11/07: Time: Oil Prices: It Gets Worse
  Oil prices hit a record high of $97 a barrel on Tuesday, but the next generation of consumers could look back on that price with envy. The dire predictions of a key report on international oil supplies released Wednesday suggest that oil prices could move irreversibly over the $100-a-barrel threshold in the not too distant future, as the global economy faces a serious energy shortage.
  This gloomy assessment comes from the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based organization representing the 26 rich, gas-guzzling member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The agency is not known for alarmist warnings, and its World Energy Outlook is typically viewed by policy wonks as a solid indicator of global energy supplies. In a marked change from its traditionally bland, measured tones, the IEA's 2007 report says governments need to make urgent, bold decisions on energy policy, or risk massive environmental and energy-supply crises within two decades - crises and shortages that could spark serious global conflicts.
  "I am sorry to say this, but we are headed toward really bad days," IEA chief economist Fatih Birol told TIME this week. "Lots of targets have been set but very little has been done. There is a lot of talk and no action."
• 2007/11/07: BBC: China 'to be largest energy user'
  China is set to become the world's largest consumer of energy by about 2010, according to a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA)
• 2007/11/07: DeSmogBlog: Asian Tigers Have Us By the Tail! [IEA]
• 2007/11/07: ENN: China, India Growth Force Action on Climate
• 2007/11/07: ENN: China, India Growth Force Action on Climate
  The International Energy Agency on Wednesday painted a grim picture of a tough and urgent global challenge to avoid the "alarming" climate change implications of soaring energy demand in China and India.
• 2007/11/07: BBC: Energy needs 'to grow inexorably'
  The global demand for energy is set to grow inexorably through to 2030 if governments do not changes their policies, warns a top energy official. Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said such a rise would threaten energy security and accelerate climate change. He said energy needs in 2030 could be more than 50% above current levels, with fossil fuels still dominant

Possibly as a result of the IEA story, possibly because of the 'majyk' $100/barrel number, a lot of people began to consider the practicalities of dealing with expensive energy:

• 2007/11/11: Guardian(UK): Opec under pressure as $100 barrel creates oil panic in the West
• 2007/11/10: ClimateP: The Oil Trap and Developing Countries
• 2007/11/09: SwissInfo: Oil prices not yet at Swiss pain threshold
• 2007/11/07: McClatchyDC: Is oil's price run-up a problem? Maybe
• 2007/11/09: MSNBC: Rising cost of oil threatens vulnerable economy - Experts uncertain if $100 crude - and possibly higher - will hurt growth
• 2007/11/08: Yahoo: World economy can live with $100 oil
• 2007/11/07: Forbes: The Empty Threat Of $100 Oil
• 2007/11/09: SwissInfo: Will the Swiss economy react as prices approach $100 per barrel?
  Experts say Switzerland has not yet reached its pain threshold in terms of oil prices even though they are hovering just below the $100 (SFr113) per barrel level
• 2007/11/08: EurActiv: Climate change 'could bring an end to globalisation'
  "The Age of Consequences" report, produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the US, predicts that scarcity of resources may "dictate the terms of international relations" for years to come as rich countries could "go through a 30-year process of kicking [the poor] away from the lifeboat"
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Curses, oiled again! High oil prices reshape the geopolitical landscape
• 2007/11/08: NYT: High-Priced Oil Adds Volatility to Power Scramble
• 2007/11/08: USAToday:Blog: Like it or not, $100 oil forces new energy policy on U.S.
• 2007/11/08: Yahoo: Like it or not, $100 oil forces new energy policy on U.S.

  Articles looking forward to the UNFCCC Bali meetings are starting to appear:

• UNFCCC: United Nations Climate Change Conference, 3-14 December, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, (COP 13 and CMP 3)
• 2007/11/10: TomPaine: Back Road to Bali
• 2007/11/09: PhysOrg: Experts to Prepare Global Warming Report
• 2007/11/09: Yahoo: China signals rejection of emission caps
  A Chinese official gave the clearest sign yet that Beijing will reject binding caps on greenhouse gas emissions at a global meeting next month, saying Friday developing countries must be allowed to raise emissions to fight poverty. "Climate change is caused mainly by developed countries," Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui said. "They should have the main responsibility for climate change and to reduce emissions." Beijing is about to overtake the United States as the world's top greenhouse-gas producer. It is under pressure from Washington to accept binding limits at a meeting in Indonesia of environment ministers from 80 nations to discuss a possible replacement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on emission reductions
• 2007/11/06: Economist: The icy road to Bali
  The UN's quiet new boss is hoping that his eco-tour of the southern hemisphere will concentrate minds on the planet's travails

Ban Ki-moon is touring the world leading up to Bali:

• 2007/11/11: UN: Antarctica shows need for action on climate change, Ban Ki-moon says
• 2007/11/10: CBC: UN chief visits Antarctica to see global warming effects
• 2007/11/11: ABC(Au): UN chief says global warming is 'an emergency'
• 2007/11/10: ABC(Au): UN chief visits Antarctica to see global warming's impact
• 2007/11/10: ENN: U.N.'s Ban says global warming is "an emergency"

  Here is a neat science and daunting Arctic story:

• 2007/11/08: BBC: Ice expedition tests 'successful'
  First tests on equipment that will provide key data on the current state of Arctic ice have been successful. In 2008, explorer Pen Hadow will trek 2,000km across the North Pole, dragging a radar that will probe the thickness of the ever-shrinking ice-cap. In advance of the expedition, the team headed to Eureka, north Canada, to test whether the instruments could perform in the tough Arctic conditions. Mr Hadow said that the team's "planning and hard work had paid off". The radar, known as Sprite, was able to make accurate ice measurements in temperatures of -35C, the team said. The onboard communications equipment was able to successfully relay data - including the still images and video seen on this page - making it one of the most northerly transmissions of high-speed data

It is not making a lot of news, but the Tabasco floods are slow to recede:

• 2007/11/08: UN: Mexico: UN World Food Programme rushes aid to flood-hit Tabasco
• 2007/11/10: Guardian(UK): Staying afloat [Tabasco flood]
• 2007/11/08: BBC: Disease warning in flooded Mexico
  Tens of thousands of Mexicans affected by widespread flooding in the state of Tabasco are at risk of epidemics of diseases, officials have said. The health ministry said teams of medical staff were to travel the area to administer injections against hepatitis, influenza and tetanus. There are also fears of an outbreak of other diseases, such as cholera and dengue fever. More than a million people have been affected by last week's flooding. At its worst, an estimated 80% of the state was under water.
• 2007/11/08: ENN: Cholera and Dengue Threaten Mexican Flood Victims
• 2007/11/07: HuffPo: Floods in Mexico: Not Exactly Over, Despite the News Cycle
• 2007/11/06: TGBeaver: Some lives are cheaper than others [Tabasco]
• 2007/11/07: BBC: Rescue workers in southern Mexico have found two bodies while searching for at least 16 people reported missing after a landslide buried their village
• 2007/11/05: TerraDaily: Anger rises in flood-stricken southern Mexico
• 2007/11/06: Wunderground: Mexico's Katrina [Tabasco]
• 2007/11/06: AFP: 16 missing as mudslide hits village in flood-hit Mexico
• 2007/11/06: BBC: A mudslide has struck a village [San Juan Grijalva] in Mexico's southern Chiapas state, leaving at least 16 people missing, feared dead, officials say

  A poll global poll by the BBC was echoed widely, but the Kaiser poll on American attitudes is more arresting:

• 2007/11/10: ClimateP: BBC Poll: World - including America - ready to take strong action on global warming
• 2007/11/09: C411: New Poll: Independents Overwhelmingly Support a Mandatory Cap on Carbon Emissions
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Poll: 107 percent of respondents willing to blow smoke up pollsters' asses
  New BBC poll finds that people are excited about paying more and sacrificing
• 2007/11/07: AutoBG: Poll shows us the obvious: Americans heart renewable fuels
• 2007/11/06: GristMill: So much for the new black - New Kaiser poll reveals voter priorities
• 2007/11/07: GWWatch: Most of world ready to combat global warming. Someone tell the politicians
• 2007/11/06: AFTIC: PIPA on People on Climate Costs [BBC global]
• 2007/11/05: DeSmogBlog: Poll shows governments lag behind citizens in readiness to tackle global warming
• 2007/11/05: ABC(Au): Global warming requires urgent attention: poll
• 2007/11/05: PhysOrg: Poll: People want to battle climate change
• 2007/11/05: ENN: Most would pay higher bills to help climate: poll [BBC global]
• 2007/11/05: EnvEcon: More fairly obvious climate survey results [global poll]
• 2007/11/05: CDreams: Reuters: Most Would Pay Higher Bills To Help Climate: poll
• 2007/11/05: BBC: Most ready for 'green sacrifices'
  Most people say they are ready to make personal sacrifices to address climate change, according to a BBC poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries. Four out of five people say they are prepared to change their lifestyle, even in the US and China, the world's two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide. Three quarters would back energy taxes if the cash was used to find new sources of energy, or boost efficiency

The Guardian did a GreenList series of articles after polling business carbon plans:

• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): The year the excuses ended
  Another year of reports, drafts and meetings brings us a year closer to 2020. But what have we achieved in 2007?
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): Solutions v sophistry
  The IPCC, an independent, global panel of scientists, has now clearly shown the causes and effects of climate change. Will the world listen?
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): Surplus to requirements?
  Emissions trading is the market's solution to carbon reductions, but the scheme has already hit snags. And does it really make a difference?
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): London calling the shots
  London has sidestepped central government's 'carnival of debate' and set itself some comprehensive climate change targets.
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): States united
  Fed up with the White House position on climate change - inaction - many US states are taking matters into their own hands
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): The shape of things to come?
  A leading climate change scientist gives his prediction of what living with the effects of climate change could be like within 50 years
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): Politics has failed
  Frustrated consumers, fed up with the impotence of politics to solve the deepening ecological catastrophe, are voting with their wallets
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): Counting carbon
  What happened when the Guardian and the CDP [Carbon Disclosure Project] asked 1,300 major firms to disclose their emissions?
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): Heading for trouble
  Can the government be serious about reducing emissions and promoting public transport if it also plans to expand road and air travel?
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): Half of UK's top firms fail to publish plans to cut carbon emissions
• 2007/11/05: Guardian(UK): Hall of shame - Which companies are the worst polluters?

  Ethical questions have been raised:

• 2007/11/10: MetroFrance: [Lester Brown interview] "We all have a stake in future civilisation"
• 2007/11/09: DotEarth: What Does the Present Owe the Future?
• 2007/11/07: Eureka: Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis
• 2007/11/05: SMH: Aid agency climate challenge
  World Vision, the aid agency headed by Mr Costello, will demand stronger pledges on greenhouse gas reduction and more aid to help poor countries cope with the impact of warming. "It is people in the world's poorest nations who will be most devastated by our carbon emissions," he told the Herald. "Climate change could undo 50 years of development."

Late coverage of that mayor's meeting last week:

• 2007/11/08: CSM: Many 'Green' mayors fall short
  Despite support of local greening efforts, cities will have to more than redouble their efforts in order to make a real difference, say experts
• 2007/11/05: WorldChanging: Bill Clinton's Seattle Climate Speech
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: House climate change committee hearing - Sparks fly when the mayors meet the Congressfolk
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Bloomberg - Four principals that should guide federal climate change policy
• 2007/11/04: GristMill: U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Clinton II - Working with cities to create markets for green products
• 2007/11/05: TreeHugger: U.S. Mayors Told Cities' Future Has To Be Green
• 2007/11/03: SeattlePI: Mayors' climate conference wraps up
  After two days of inspirational speeches and praise for programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the close of the U.S. Conference of Mayors offered a reality check

Late coverage of forest fires as carbon sources:

• 2007/11/08: BSD: Fire offsets of forestry offsets
• 2007/11/06: TerraDaily: US Fires Release Large Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide
• 2007/11/05: SciDaily: Wildfire Drives Carbon Levels In Northern Forests

  It has been a quiet week in the hurricane wars:

• 2007/11/05: CBC: Thousands still in the dark after Noel
• 2007/11/05: CCM: What's Up With the Hurricane Season?
• 2007/11/05: Wunderground: Noel is gone; Atlantic is quiet
• 2007/11/05: CBC: Eastern Canada cleans up after Noel
• 2007/11/04: G&M: Noel leaves 190,000 in Atlantic Canada without power

  Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

• 2007/11/07: CSpin: Another underreported story on CO2 emissions: they're getting stronger faster then expected
• 2007/11/08: Yahoo: Global-warming gases set to rise by 57 percent by 2030 [says IEA]
• 2007/11/06: C411: Rise of Atmospheric Carbon is Accelerating
• 2007/11/06: Reuters: Rich nations' 05 greenhouse gases up, near record
• 2007/11/05: BBerg: Japan's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise 6.4% From 1990 Levels
• 2007/11/05: ENN: Rich nations' climate emissions up, near record

  As for the temperature record:

• 2007/11/10: Tamino: Temperature 2007
• 2007/11/07: Atmoz: Interpreting Recent Temperature Trends in California
• 2007/11/05: Tamino: Analyze This [temp stats]

  While on the el Nino/la Nina [ENSO] front:

• 2007/11/08: NOAA: El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
• 2007/11/08: JFleck: La Nina
• 2007/11/08: TerraDaily: La Nina Persists
• 2007/11/07: PhysOrg: La Niña Persists

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2007/11/09: PhysOrg: Chile's San Rafael glacier fast disappearing
• 2007/11/09: FergusB: The peculiar synchronicity of curves [glaciers]
• 2007/11/09: Yahoo: Chile's San Rafael glacier fast disappearing

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/11/07: SciDaily: Hidden Details of Earth's Atmosphere Revealed By Orbiting Spacecraft

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/11/08: BBC: New insect species arrives in UK
• 2007/11/06: Yahoo: Groups to monitor whales in Beaufort Sea
  Endangered humpback and fin whales swam hundreds of miles north of their usual habitat this summer in what environmentalists say is another sign of the effects of global warming and the shifting Arctic ecosystem
• 2007/11/08: ENN: Human-generated Ozone Will Damage Crops, According to MIT Study
• 2007/11/07: ENN: Maldives says Warming Threatening Islands
• 2007/11/07: PhysOrg: Experts Warn Florida About Climate Change
• 2007/11/07: TerraDaily: Climate Change Could Diminish Drinking Water More Than Expected
• 2007/11/07: SciDaily: Climate Change Threatens Drinking Water, As Rising Sea Penetrates Coastal Aquifers
• 2007/11/06: PBS:Correlations: Ocean Acidification?
• 2007/11/06: CCM: Ocean Acidification... It's All About pH
• 2007/11/06: OSU: Climate change could diminish drinking water more than expected
• 2007/11/05: Yahoo: Tibetans wake up to nosebleeds in super-dry autumn

  And then there are the tropical rainforests:

• 2007/11/07: KSJT: NPR: The fires in the Amazon
• 2007/11/07: MongaBay: Subtle threats could destroy the Amazon rainforest - An interview with Amazon scientist Dr. Carlos Peres
• 2007/11/06: ABC(Au): Expert warns of climate change impact on Tassie's forests
• 2007/11/06: MongaBay: Carbon-negative bioenergy to cut global warming could drive deforestation: An interview on BECS with Biopact's Laurens Rademakers
• 2007/11/05: NPR: Amazon Fire Wars Exacerbate Global Warming

  Desertification looms as a threat:

• 2007/11/10: PhysOrg: Climate change: Europe's most arid country battles desertification
• 2007/11/10: TreeHugger: A Picture is Worth... The Future of Spain Under Climate Change?
• 2007/11/10: Guardian(UK): Spain shown perils of climate change

  We have heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2007/11/09: Guardian(UK): [Greece] After the inferno
  The fires that tore through Greece this summer killed 67 people and destroyed vast tracts of forest and farmland. With the local people still in shock, developers are cleaning up - and cashing in
• 2007/11/06: JFleck: Fire Scars [in Southern California]
• 2007/11/05: TerraDaily: Europe's forests flourishing, but fire remain a threat: study

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/11/09: PhysOrg: Drought leaves Tennessee [Orme] town dry
• 2007/11/09: DeSmogBlog: Global Warming Behind Water Crisis in Northeast China
• 2007/11/09: TheAge: Drought hits rice industry
  More than 200 rural factory workers are facing job losses in the Riverina region of southern NSW this summer as Australia's rice industry, which has been gripped by drought for five years, prepares to deliver its smallest harvest since 1928
• 2007/11/08: DeSmogBlog: Has He Tried Seeding Clouds? [Lanier]
• 2007/11/06: CBC: Death toll from Vietnam floods rises to 67
• 2007/11/05: TreeHugger: US Department Of Interior Secretary [Dirk Kempthorne] Calls Atlanta Drought "No Longer A Theory"

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/11/10: AlterNet: Biofuels Could Kill More People Than the Iraq War
• 2007/11/09: EcoEcon: Monboit: Biofuels as 'Crime Against Humanity'
• 2007/11/07: CCurrents: The Western Appetite For Biofuels Is Causing Starvation In The Poor World [Monbiot]
• 2007/11/06: CDreams: Monbiot: The Western Appetite for Biofuels Is Causing Starvation in the Poor World
• 2007/11/06: TruthOut: The Western Appetite for Biofuels Is Causing Starvation in the Poor World
• 2007/11/06: Guardian(UK): The western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation in the poor world
  Developing nations are being pushed to grow crops for ethanol, rather than food - all thanks to political expediency

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

• 2007/11/09: SwissInfo: Experts debate role of agriculture in aid
  Agriculture should play an essential role in reducing global poverty, delegates at an international meeting in the Swiss capital, Bern, heard on Friday
• 2007/11/09: Eureka: New public-private hybrid rice group aims to raise rice yields in the tropics
• 2007/11/05: ABC(Au): Global warming threatens Japanese rice farms

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/11/11: Guardian(UK): Why eating less meat could cut global warming
• 2007/11/10: JakartaPost: Global warming's true remedies
• 2007/11/08: MongaBay: Weathering technology could mitigate global warming
• 2007/09/27: ACS: (ab$) Electrochemical Acceleration of Chemical Weathering as an Energetically Feasible Approach to Mitigating Anthropogenic Climate Change by Kurt Zenz House et al.
• 2007/11/09: TreeHugger: A Novel Strategy to Counter Ocean Acidification [Kurt House]
• 2007/11/09: AutoBG: Pouring urea into the ocean to absorb CO2
• 2007/11/08: CBC: Make oceans vast carbon sinks, U.S. researchers say
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Trading, taxing, and public reconstruction - Some signs of another mitigation alternative emerging
• 2007/11/08: TerraDaily: Engineered Weathering Process Could Mitigate Global Warming
• 2007/11/08: Telegraph(UK): Global warming 'cure' found by scientists
• 2007/11/07: Eureka: Engineered weathering process could mitigate global warming
• 2007/11/07: Eureka: Scientists enhance Mother Nature's carbon handling mechanism
• 2007/11/07: ABC(Au): Woodside to plant trees to offset carbon footprint [from its gas fields]
• 2007/11/05: MTobis: Green Mainframes: Big is Beautiful

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2007/11/11: SMH: Fuel prices may ground United fleet
  United Airlines may ground up to 100 planes to save money on fuel expenses as other major carriers including American Airlines and Northwest Airlines also consider grounding aircraft
• 2007/11/08: Guardian(UK): Campaign to stop Heathrow expansion takes to the roads

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2007/11/07: EnvEcon: Green building

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2007/11/07: KSJT: Columbus Dispatch: A test of carbon sequestration deep in Ohio's sandstone basement

  And on the large scale geo-engineering front:

• 2007/11/05: AFTIC: Ocean Fertilization, or Just an Excuse to Dump Crap?
• 2007/11/06: TreeHugger: Weatherbird Leaves Port On Her Voyage of Recovery [Planktos]
• 2007/11/10: BCLSB: A Less Dorky Geo-Engineering Project

  A new (to me, anyway) idea has popped up:

• 2007/11/09: ABC(Au): Urea 'climate solution' may backfire
• 2007/11/05: Telegraph(UK): Proposal to fix Pacific with 'urea' dump
  Proposals to dump large quantities of nitrogen-rich chemical in the Pacific as a quick fix for climate change have emerged at a UN treaty meeting in London. Governments meeting to discuss whether the oceans should be used for experiments aimed at "fixing" carbon from the atmosphere heard that an Australian company is planning to dump 500 tons of industrially-produced urea - a substance that naturally occurs in urine - into the sea between Philippines and Borneo.
• 2007/11/07: GristMill: Planktos update
• 2007/11/06: DotEarth: Project to Capture CO2 With Plankton Puts to Sea

  And there was a big geoengineering conference:

• 2007/11/10: CCM: Scientists Endorse Geoengineering Research? Uh-Oh
• 2007/11/10: DeSmogBlog: Coming Soon To A Planet Near You: Frankenworld!

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2007/11/05: PhysOrg: Confronting worldwide disaster losses [regardless of the effect of climate change on our global weather patterns]

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/11/08: CPD: A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology by K. K. Andersen et al.
• 2007/11/09: ACP: Emissions from forest fires near Mexico City by R. J. Yokelson et al.
• 2007/11/09: ACPD: Long-term observation of mass-independent oxygen isotope anomaly in stratospheric CO2 by S. Kawagucci et al.
• 2007/11/09: ACPD: Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies by P. K. Quinn et al.
• 2007/09/27: ACS: (ab$) Electrochemical Acceleration of Chemical Weathering as an Energetically Feasible Approach to Mitigating Anthropogenic Climate Change by Kurt Zenz House et al.
• 2007/11/07: TCD: Modelling historical and recent mass loss of McCall Glacier, Alaska, USA by C. Delcourt et al.
• 2007/11/05: ACP: A cloud filtering method for microwave upper tropospheric humidity measurements by S. A. Buehler et al.
• 2007/11/05: ACPD: New particle formation in the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains by M. Boy et al.
• 2007/11/05: ACPD: Dust aerosol radiative effect and influence on urban atmospheric boundary layer by L. Zhang et al.

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

• 2007/11/05: Atmoz: Stratospheric Water's Impact on Climate
• 2007/11/05: Stoat: A bit more stealth
• 2007/11/05: SciDaily: Cirrus Disappearance: Warming Might Thin Heat-trapping Clouds

  Meanwhile on the UNFCCC front:

• 2007/11/09: ENN: UN climate panel to meet [in Spain next week], add pressure for action

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2007/11/09: SMH: Carbon offsets to be sold on flights
  Travellers flying on Virgin Atlantic will soon be offered carbon offsets alongside alcohol and perfume in front of their fellow passengers in an effort to shame them into buying them.
• 2007/11/05: ENN: World carbon market seen doubling this year

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2007/11/07: FuturePundit: Small Carbon Tax Would Make Nuclear Power Cheaper Than Coal
• 2007/11/05: EcoEcon: Greg Mankiw: Several Billion plus One Favor Carbon Taxes
• 2007/11/06: NEN: Sarkozy wants carbon tax

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

• 2007/11/07: GristMill: What price carbon? How high a price on carbon is needed to make renewables competitive?
• 2007/11/06: GristMill: Carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade, part kajillion - No carbon reduction program is a silver bullet

  I suppose this was predictable:

• 2007/11/06: BBC: China bolsters Antarctica posts
  China is building its third research station in Antarctica, shoring up its presence just weeks after the UK and Chile made renewed territorial claims

The GW security meme has been active:

• 2007/11/06: CDreams: IPS: Global Warming Is Biggest Security Threat
• 2007/11/05: ENN: Experts say climate change threatens national security
• 2007/11/05: ClimateP: Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change
• 2007/11/05: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Climate Wars Threaten Billions - More Than 100 Countries face Political Chaos and Mass Migration in Global Warming Catastrophe

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/11/09: AlterNet: Can Green Jobs Save the American Middle Class?
• 2007/11/09: ClimateP: Larry Craig's climate views belong in the toilet
• 2007/11/09: WarmingLaw: Waxman v. Johnson: No Mercy, No Recollection
• 2007/11/09: WarmingLaw: Mass. v. EPA and Coal: Johnson Gets Grilled
• 2007/11/09: JEB: Global Warming discovered!
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Nefarious legislative shenanigans - [Senator Pete] Domenici (R-NM) tries to kill the energy bill and sneak nuclear loan guarantees into the farm bill
• 2007/11/09: ENN: Politics of ethanol is to make more, Iowans agree
• 2007/11/09: AutoBG: House Speaker Pelosi wants a vote on energy bill before Thanksgiving
• 2007/11/09: SF Gate: Californians better informed on global warming threat, poll finds
• 2007/11/09: HuffPo: If you love renewable energy, it's time to freak out.[US energy bill]
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Getting nervous - Via Boucher, Bush signals willingness to sign onto (weak) mandatory carbon controls
• 2007/11/08: HillHeat: Boucher Says Bush Open to Coal-Friendly Cap-and-Trade Legislation
• 2007/11/07: HillHeat: Kerry Pushes Carbon Sequestration Development
• 2007/11/08: WarmingLaw: Another Question for [EPA head] Stephen Johnson (and Dick Cheney)
• 2007/11/08: WarmingLaw: Seattle Voters for Smart-Growth Climate Planning
• 2007/11/07: WarmingLaw: Fiddling While the Nation Warms?
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people - Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Murkowski condemns Rush to judgement - Alaska Senator defends young constituent against Limbaugh's attacks
• 2007/11/08: DeSmogBlog: Democratic Candidates Unite Around Big Carbon Cuts
• 2007/11/08: Oregonian: City [Portland] unveils carbon tax plan
• 2007/11/08: MTobis: Politicizing Climate Change
• 2007/11/07: ThinkP: White House Cites "Executive Privilege" To Block Inquiry On "Eviscerated" Global Warming Testimony
• 2007/11/07: CSM: Progress in California on curbing emissions - Its landmark plan to battle global warming, approved with fanfare a year ago, is moving forward
• 2007/11/07: ThinkP: McCain Exploits Coal Industry Smear Tactics To Help Sell His Energy Plan
• 2007/11/07: ClimateP: Inherit the Climate
• 2007/11/07: ClimateP: The Political Climate is Changing, Part II
• 2007/11/08: ABC(Au): Climate change holds key to voter swing: poll
• 2007/11/07: CSW: Legal deadline today for White House to issue federal science communication principles
• 2007/11/07: WaPo: Capitol to Buy Offsets in Bid to Go Green
  Daniel Beard, the House's chief administrative officer, will cut a taxpayer-funded check today for $89,000 to buy credits that will offset the impact of 30,000 tons of carbon belched into the atmosphere by the U.S. Capitol's antiquated, coal-burning power plant every year. That is not much -- out of a $2.7 trillion federal budget -- to strike a blow against climate change, but Republicans are hot under the collar about it precisely because they are not sure it will do anything about global warming
• 2007/11/06: ClimateP: The Political Climate is Changing, Part I
• 2007/11/06: TruthOut: Alaskan Youth Testifies on the Hill - and Draws Limbaugh's Ire [US pol]
• 2007/11/06: HillHeat: Climate Youth Invade Capitol [Power Shift]
• 2007/11/05: ENN: Florida Governor [Charlie Crist] to lobby for ethanol on U.S. Congress
• 2007/11/06: STimes: GOP could boost its prospects by joining climate-change fight
• 2007/11/05: HillHeat: Water Resources Development Act Veto Override On Tap
• 2007/11/05: CDreams: STimes: Fire, Water and Denial [US pol]

  California has sued the EPA over the auto emission waiver delay:

• 2007/11/09: AutoBG: State of California sues EPA over tailpipe emissions
• 2007/11/09: WarmingLaw: Strange Bedfellows [Cal suit]
• 2007/11/09: SF Gate: State sues feds over EPA delays on limiting vehicle emissions
• 2007/11/09: BBC: California is suing the US federal government over its failure to back the state's tough new anti-pollution laws regulating greenhouse gas emissions
• 2007/11/08: WarmingLaw: California Sues EPA Over Waiver Delay - fourteen other states will be joining the lawsuit
• 2007/11/08: ClimateP: Arnold Sues the EPA Over Vehicle Emissions
• 2007/11/08: ENN: California sues EPA over car emissions
• 2007/11/08: Google:AP: California Sues EPA Over Auto Emissions
• 2007/11/08: Reuters: California sues EPA over car emissions

  The Lieberman-Warner bill is dragging along:

• 2007/11/09: GristMill: Renewable energy on the ropes - Hound your representative to add an RPS to the energy bill
• 2007/11/09: GristMill: The Lieberman-Warner full committee markup...[Dec 5]
• 2007/11/08: HillHeat: AFL-CIO Letter Lists Concerns With Lieberman-Warner
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Tracking Lieberman-Warner: First full committee hearing - America's Climate Security Act goes before Boxer's Environment Committee - Part 2
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Tracking Lieberman-Warner: First full committee hearing - America's Climate Security Act goes before Boxer's Environment Committee
• 2007/11/08: HillHeat: Notes from the First Full Committee Hearing on Lieberman-Warner
• 2007/11/07: TruthOut: In Big US Energy Bill, Who Will Pay?
• 2007/11/06: NEN: No energy bill to give thanks for?
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: CBO vs. ACSA = TKO --- The Congressional Budget Office savages the Lieberman-Warner approach to climate change policy
• 2007/11/05: EnvEcon: The costs of America's Climate Security Act

  It appears major compromises are forthcoming:

• 2007/11/09: REA: U.S. Energy Bill -- Early Christmas Present or Lump of Coal?
  All the tough talk in Washington, D.C. about the need to combat global warming, make America energy independent and stimulate the economy with homegrown, renewable energy sources turned to a whisper on Thursday, as House and Senate Democratic leaders said they would remove key provisions for the renewable energy industries from the latest energy bill.

Iowa state has been holding hearings on coal & climate:

• 2007/11/07: DesmoinesRegister: New plants put King Coal in the cross hairs in Iowa - How should the state get its energy and fight global warming?
• 2007/11/07: DesmoinesRegister: Coal in 3 nations could undo much of world's efforts
• 2007/11/07: KSJT: Des Moines Register: On a coal plant permit and what to do with its CO2 - and Jim Hansen
• 2007/11/06: ClimateP: [link to pdf] Hansen's final Iowa testimony

  As for the 2008 campaign:

• 2007/11/10: TEB: Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Energy Policy
• 2007/11/07: GristMill: Who are you calling sensible, punk? Hillary Clinton struggles to explain away her previous opposition to corn ethanol
• 2007/11/08: TreeHugger: Presidential Candidate Profiles On Climate Change: A Dennis Kucinich Update
• 2007/11/07: GristMill: Match-O-Matic, make me a match - A handy tool to find your ideal presidential candidate
• 2007/11/06: BSD: Hillary gets her climate cap on
• 2007/11/07: TreeHugger: Presidential Candidate Profiles On Climate Change: A Hillary Clinton Update
• 2007/11/05: ClimateP: Clinton's outstanding energy and climate plan
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: Clinton's climate and energy plan - Some reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of Hillary's new proposal
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: The advisors speak - A conference call with Clinton's energy advisors, about her new energy plan
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: Hillary Clinton's climate and energy plan - The full text of Clinton's plan
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: Hillary's energy speech - Clinton lays out her new energy policy

  A Washington Post oped on energy & 2008 drew comment:

• 2007/11/08: TPM:HM: Sorry, Washington Post -- Polling Data Shows That Global Warming Issue Is Risky For Republicans
• 2007/11/07: CJR: Climate Consensus: Bravery or Blunder? WaPo raises possibility that anti-warming platforms might not win
• 2007/11/06: ClimateP: Washington Post claims "Climate Is a Risky Issue for Democrats"
• 2007/11/06: WaPo: Climate Is a Risky Issue for Democrats - Candidates Back Costly Proposals

  The Kansas rejection of coal plants has drawn a predictable response:

• 2007/11/08: DeSmogBlog: Kansas Gov Adbusts Big Coal
• 2007/11/08: DotEarth: Kansas Governor Gets No Apology from Big Coal
• 2007/11/07: ThinkP: Coal Industry Smears Kansas Governor [Kathleen Sebelius] As Ahmadinejad Booster For Denying Air Permit
• 2007/11/06: ClimateP: Smearing Sebelius: Kansas coal saga continues
• 2007/11/06: DotEarth: Is Burning Coal a Patriotic Duty?
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: Coal is the enemy of the human race: Xenophobia edition - Big Coal slimes Kansas governor Sebelius

  Evangelicals are still in conflict:

• 2007/11/06: MSNBC: More evangelicals concluding God is green - Traditionally conservative movement moving to embrace "creation care"

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/11/05: ThinkP: Gore Rips Media: "Don't Give Equal Time To Someone Who Believes The Earth Is Flat"

  While in the UK:

• 2007/11/09: Guardian(UK): Truth in reserve
  The world's supplies of oil are running out, experts around the world are agreeing. But is Britain listening? [Jeremy Leggett]
• 2007/11/08: BBC: Prince Charles has warned that climate change is the biggest challenge facing society
• 2007/11/06: Telegraph(UK): Climate change is like 'World War Three' [says UK Environment Agency head, Lady Young]
• 2007/11/05: IPPR: UK can meet an 80 per cent [by 2050] CO2 target
• 2007/11/05: inel: ippr + WWF + RSPB report = UKCO2/5 by 2050

  Gordon Brown's Labour governement has introduced a climate bill:

• 2007/11/10: GWWatch: UK law mandates 60% emissions cuts by 2050
• 2007/11/06: BBC: Climate bill's 60% emission cut
  Prime Minister Gordon Brown has committed the UK to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 60% before 2050 to help tackle global warming. The Climate Change Bill will make the UK the first country to put carbon emissions reduction targets into law. An independent committee on climate change will be set up to advise on "five-year carbon budgets" - part of a new commitment to carbon reduction
• 2007/11/06: Stoat: 80% by 2050?

  And in Europe:

• 2007/11/07: TerraDaily: EU proposes 'alliance' with developing world on climate change
• 2007/11/05: Relocalize: Swedish report reflects how it is no longer believable as leading nation for sustainable development
• 2007/11/05: EnergyDaily: EU debates common energy strategy
• 2007/11/06: SwissInfo: Foreign ministry adopts green flight plan
  The Swiss foreign ministry has signed a contract to offset its air travel greenhouse gas emissions by supporting an ecologically friendly power plant in India

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/11/09: SMH: I got it wrong, Dr Karl admits
  Scientists and industry groups working in the field of carbon capture technology have welcomed an admission by the Senate candidate Karl Kruszelnicki that his description of the technology as "a complete furphy" was wrong. Dr Kruszelnicki (also known as the presenter Dr Karl) said yesterday that research into clean coal technology should be pursued and that it was not a waste of taxpayers' money, going back on claims he made last week during an election campaign event for the Climate Change Coalition. "We have to do something in the short term because for the next 10 or 20 years we will be burning coal," he said. "So sequestering it is better than not sequestering it. In the short term it is a solution."
• 2007/11/08: TheAge: Dr Karl [Kruszelnicki] admits mistake over clean coal
• 2007/11/06: ABC(Au): Global warming agreement 'years away'
  One of Australia's most respected economists, Australian National University Professor Warwick McKibbin, says nations must act now on climate change rather than waiting for global consensus
• 2007/11/05: ABC(Au): Govt told to 'pull up socks' on environment

  Accusations, innuendo and obfuscation abound on the Nov 24th campaign trail:

• 2007/11/11: ABC(Au): Tasmanians rally against global warming - Hundreds of people have rallied in Tasmania as part of the national Walk Against Warming
• 2007/11/11: ABC(Au): Climate change will increase SES role, minister says
• 2007/11/11: ABC(Au): Tens of thousands march for climate change action
• 2007/11/11: BBC: Climate rallies across Australia
  Tens of thousands of people have staged protests across Australia calling on political parties to take stronger action against climate change. The Walk Against Warming rallies were held in state capital cities and about 50 towns as the country prepares for a general election on 24 November. Organisers said up to 150,000 people had taken part. The biggest protests were in Melbourne and Sydney
• 2007/11/10: SMH: Water - the dry argument that simply vanished
• 2007/11/09: ABC(Au): Coastal councils aware of rising sea levels impact
• 2007/11/10: ABC(Au): Climate change rallies urge political action
• 2007/11/09: ABC(Au): Climate change 'just as important' as [interest] rates
• 2007/11/09: ABC(Au): Major parties need to reveal carbon trading policies: AgForce
• 2007/11/09: TheAge: The major parties' green credentials are off the rails
  A fixation with road transport compromises climate change policy...
• 2007/11/09: SMH: Conviction served with fudge as environment foes spin to win
• 2007/11/09: ABC(Au): Emissions trading a small price to pay: Sustainable Energy Association
• 2007/11/08: ABC(Au): Climate change dominates environment [Turnbull - Garrett] debate
• 2007/11/02: GreenLeft: Liberals, Labor give up on global warming
• 2007/11/05: GWWatch: Vote 1 - responsible approach to climate change [Australian Federal Election]

  While in China:

• 2007/11/10: GristMill: Beijing Dispatch: China's carbon harbingers - Plans for reducing emissions in China
  [...] "It will be difficult or even impossible for China to reduce CO2 emissions in absolute terms." -Dr. Zhao
• 2007/11/07: NewScientist: (many links) China special: Growing pains of a superpower
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: China...
• 2007/11/09: ENN: China emission-cutting fund to reap up to $3 bln
• 2007/11/09: Guardian(UK): China seeks 30 pct increase in Saudi oil imports
• 2007/11/09: AutoBG: China sends mission to European Parliament to study CO2 regulations
• 2007/11/08: KSJT: China.org.cn - Its all-enviro, official Chinese news operation
• 2007/11/05: PhysOrg: Beijing to raise emission standards for Olympics
• 2007/11/05: People's Daily: Warming takes toll on water resources
  China suffers from a shortfall of nearly 40 billion cubic meters of water a year, largely because of global climate change, Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei said

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

• 2007/11/09: AutoBG: Canada to subsidize farmers to participate in biodiesel plant
• 2007/11/05: DeSmogBlog: Conservatives tout former government's climate change action as their own

  The conservatives are shutting down climate research:

• 2007/11/09: CanWest: Climatologists puzzled at rationale for ending research fund
  [...] Last week, the government defended its environmental policies, explaining that it closed a federal climate research network because it had "completed" its mandate to assess impacts of global warming on Canada
• 2007/11/09: CanWest: Tories' reason for ending fund irks scientists
  "I truly think they don't understand what research means," climatologist [Andrew Weaver] says
• 2007/11/06: TGBeaver: Win the Nobel and lose your funding!
• 2007/11/05: CanWest: Feds cutting climate studies: Nobel winners - AS billions in tax cuts are unveiled.
• 2007/11/05: CanWest: Nobel scientists deliver stinging criticism of federal government
  Nobel Prize-winning scientists from Canada say the Harper government is failing to protect the country from the dangers of global warming because it has shut down a federal climate change research network and blocked new studies on the impact of rising greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
• 2007/11/05: DeSmogBlog: Top Climate Scientists Denounce Canadian Government's Research Funding Cuts

  BC is still hashing out its climate plan:

• 2007/11/09: Tyee: Summit on Global Warming Plans - Business, labour, other 'key leaders' to huddle with premier's point man

  Manitoba is going to commit to Kyoto:

• 2007/11/04: WpgFP: Kyoto here we come - Manitoba commits to meeting protocol; here's how
  On Nov. 20, the provincial government will commit in the speech from the throne to meeting its targets under the Kyoto Protocol

While in Alberta, the difficult-tricky question of the tar sands looms:

• 2007/11/11: SMH: Canada's oil: black gold with a black heart
• 2007/11/10: TreeHugger: Bad PR Week in Fort McMoney

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2007/11/07: CasaubonsBook: Scared? Duh.
• 2007/11/07: CCurrents: Humanity Is The Greatest Challenge
  We humans face two problems of desperate importance. The first is our global ecological plight. The second is our difficulty acknowledging the first. Despite increasing climate change coverage, environmental writers remain reluctant to discuss the full scope and severity of the global dilemma we've created. Many fear sounding alarmist, but there is an alarm to sound and the time for reticence is over. We've outgrown the planet and need radical action to avert unspeakable consequences. This - by a huge margin - has become humanity's greatest challenge
• 2007/11/05: CasaubonsBook: Hitting the Nail on the Head With the Hammer...of Fear
• 2007/11/05: CBaker: The Switch Has Been Flipped: It's Too Late For Solutions

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/11/10: CSW: Accounting for an evolutionary shift in U.S. newspaper coverage of anthropogenic climate change
• 2007/11/10: MTobis: Celsius, Fahrenheit and Journalists
• 2007/11/10: Guardian(UK): Cry wolf, but gently - Hyperbole has weakened the argument on climate change. But Aesop has a salutary lobbyist's tale
• 2007/11/08: CSpin: False choices: economy or environment?
• 2007/11/09: DeSmogBlog: Clumsy Media Bias Dwindling, But U.S. Still Behind the U.K.
• 2007/11/08: BBC: Sowing the seeds of uncertainty - There has always been a problem about the way in which big environmental issues are handled by the media
• 2007/11/05: MTobis: Journalism Cannot Be Neutral

  Here is something for your library:

• 2007/11/02: CCD: [Book Plug] _Carbon Detox_ by George Marshall

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2007/11/06: CSW: "Out of Balance" awarded best environmental feature film at Artivist Film Festival in Hollywood

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2007/11/08: UN: UN environment agency announces new projects to boost clean energy
• 2007/11/10: AfterGutenberg: 4,000 Megawatts Worth
• 2007/11/09: USAToday: Offshore discovery could make Brazil major oil exporter
• 2007/11/09: ClimateP: Wind power installations set to soar 63% this year
• 2007/11/09: GristMill: No coal? OK, then what? Beware the allure of liquefied natural gas
• 2007/11/08: PhysOrg: Energy From Hot Rocks
• 2007/11/08: HillHeat: ASES: One in Four U.S. Jobs Could Be in Green Sector by 2030
• 2007/11/08: WU:Daily: We are married to oil and the breakup will be ugly
• 2007/11/07: UCDavis: Energy From Hot Rocks
• 2007/11/08: PeakEnergy: Geothermia Revisited
• 2007/11/07: NYT: The Carbon Calculus
• 2007/11/07: ChinaDaily: China to lead world wind power generation
• 2007/11/01: BBC: Wind-up lights for African homes - The technology behind the wind-up radio could soon be helping to light up some of the poorest homes in Africa
• 2007/11/05: ClimateP: Schendler Part II: Good RECs vs. Bad RECs
• 2007/11/05: TreeHugger: EEstor Update: People Are Losing Faith

  Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

• 2007/11/10: TEB: First Solar Posts Record Sales, Receives Substantial Contracts and Announces New Manufacturing Capacity
• 2007/11/06: NEN: The cost of solar
• 2007/11/05: TreeHugger: Australian Town [Cloncurry] Expects to Go Fully Solar in 2 Years

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/11/06: BBC: Coal conversion dilemma for US
• 2007/11/09: DotEarth:Striking Back at Big Coal, on Video
• 2007/11/07: NEN: "Clean" coal tests move forward
• 2007/11/07: HuffPo: Bringing Down Big Coal
• 2007/11/07: NewScientist: Switch to coal threatens to worsen global warming
• 2007/11/06: GristMill: Coal is the enemy of the human race: Begging the question edition - You can't begin an argument about coal's future by assuming coal's future
• 2007/11/05: GristMill: Coal cant - 'Clean coal' proposals are getting canceled right and left
• 2007/11/05: HillHeat: Kansas Coal Lobby Attacks Natural Gas Industry
• 2007/11/05: TruthOut: World's Coal Dependency Hits Environment
• 2007/11/05: BBerg: Gore Nightmare Wins as Europe Pays to Ship U.S. Coal

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/11/07: BioEnergyBiz: Swedish retailer drops palm-based biodiesel because of environmental concerns
• 2007/11/09: KSJT: NYTimes Biz Section: The chemistry of biofuels without subsidized corn
• 2007/11/08: TruthOut: Palm Oil Warning for Indonesia
• 2007/11/08: ENN: Booming Palm Oil Demand Fueling Climate Crisis
• 2007/11/07: TPV: Corn-to-Ethanol: US Agribusiness Magic Path To A World Food Monopoly
• 2007/11/08: BBC: Palm oil warning for Indonesia - Land clearances in Indonesia to cultivate palm oil threaten a "climate bomb", Greenpeace warns
• 2007/11/08: Guardian(UK): Big food companies accused of risking climate catastrophe
  The rush to palm oil and biofuels threatens to release 14 billion tonnes of carbon from Indonesia's peatlands
• 2007/11/07: GristMill: Monbiot lays it on the line - Politicians here and abroad are refusing to listen to arguments against biofuels
• 2007/11/07: TreeHugger: Time To Ecolabel Biofuels?

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2007/11/08: TruthOut: No Government Subsidies for New Nuclear Plants
• 2007/11/07: ChinaDaily: Beijing, Moscow sign nuke energy pacts
• 2007/11/05: TreeHugger: Interactive Map of Nuclear Reactors and Safety Problems

  Yes we have peak oil:

• 2007/11/10: OilDrum: Peak oil: BP, Conoco CEOs say it's here - also IEA's Fatih Birol really freaks out
• 2007/11/11: Independent(UK): Running on empty: peak oil production is in sight, global supplies will dwindle - and the US, for one, is ill-prepared
• 2007/11/10: OilDrum: World Energy to 2050: A Half Century of Decline
• 2007/11/05: CFNation: Ignoring the Obvious
• 2007/11/05: OnlineOpinion: Sleepwalking over the oil peak
• 2007/11/04: EnergyBulletin: Big melt meets big empty: Rethinking the implications of climate change and peak oil
• 2007/11/04: GPM: Big Melt Meets Big Empty [Heinberg]

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2007/11/08: TEB: LED Lights Reduce Energy Consumption 48% in Cree Headquarters
• 2007/11/07: PhysOrg: Simple tips can help keep your home warm this winter
• 2007/11/07: GristMill: Efficiency U. - Colleges and universities team up with Clinton Global Initiative to green their campuses
• 2007/11/07: GristMill: Lurching along on $100/barrel oil - Why we're not conserving like it's 1980
• 2007/11/06: ENN: Growing List Of Cities Switching To LED Holiday Tree Lights

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

• 2007/11/08: SustainableBusiness: Auto Workers, Dealers Break From Industry Over CAFE
• 2007/11/09: ClimateP: Pre-order your high-end plug-in hybrid now!
• 2007/11/09: WarmingLaw: Auto Industry Spin of the Day
• 2007/11/06: TEB: Is the Fuel Cell Car Dead?
• 2007/11/07: DeSmogBlog: Automakers: 1% of the Solution; 99% of the Problem
• 2007/11/06: TreeHugger: Cheapest New Cars in Norway Are Electric
• 2007/11/06: TreeHugger: Ballard Throws In The Towel on The Hydrogen Car
• 2007/11/05: CleanBreak: Is the fuel-cell car dead?
• 2007/11/05: AutoBG: All-electric Fiat Fiorino launches in February

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2007/11/11: Guardian(UK): Climate change funds: the new hot topic - The climate change bandwagon is gathering pace and fund managers have begun to jump on board
• 2007/11/07: KSJT: NYTimes biz section: the Business of Green

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2007/11/10: AutoBG: Switzerland forbids the oil sector to make any environmental claim
• 2007/11/07: Guardian(UK): Shell rapped over CO2 advert
• 2007/11/07: TreeHugger: Greenwash Watch: Kansans for Affordable Energy
• 2007/11/05: PRWatch: Ethanol Industry Fuels New Ad Campaign

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2007/11/05: WorldChanging: Insurers Can Have A Constructive Role in Fighting Global Warming

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/11/10: Stoat: Piers Corbyn Speaks!
• 2007/11/09: MObjectivist: Gibson vs Eraser
• 2007/11/09: ERabett: Let Roger Revelle Speak for Himself
• 2007/11/09: Stoat: The Real Truth About the Revelle-Gore Story
• 2007/11/09: DeSmogBlog: A Toast to the Skeptics -- With Saltwater Cocktails! [denial]
• 2007/11/09: LVRJ: 'A wholesale transformation'- Global warming doomsayers would radically alter our economy
• 2007/11/08: TreeHugger: Top Five Climate Skeptic Red Herrings
• 2007/11/07: DeSmogBlog: "The death of global warming" - spoof puts the fun back into lying about science
• 2007/11/08: RealClimate: Did we call it or what
• 2007/11/07: BCLSB: Now I'm A Denier Now!
• 2007/11/06: Atmoz: Christy's Nobel Moment Revisited
• 2007/11/06: WarmingLaw: Al Gore and An Old Friend
• 2007/11/06: GWWatch: How much scientific abuse can a polar bear? [Lomborg]
• 2007/11/06: DeSmogBlog: Top 5 Climate "Skeptic" Red Herrings
• 2007/11/06: DeSmogBlog: CBC Explains Why Deniers "Given the Hook"
• 2007/11/06: DeSmogBlog: On One Hand, Al Gore and the IPCC, on the Other ....?
• 2007/11/05: Denialism: Vikings Disprove Global Warming!
• 2007/11/04: inel: Deceit behind global warming by Christopher Booker and Richard North [denial]

  Some Coleman crankery was widely echoed:

• 2007/11/09: Denialism: Global warming crankery from co-founder of the weather channel
• 2007/11/07: IceCap: Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming "Greatest Scam in History"
• 2007/11/08: ThinkP: Right Wing Trumpets Global Warming Denial Of Discredited "TV Weatherman"
• 2007/11/08: DeSmogBlog: Forget science, we got ourselves a conspiracy theorist!

  A bogus 'sciencey' article caught a few people & got a lot of attention:

• 2007/11/10: Stoat: A small note on the [benthic] hoax
• 2007/11/10: EnergySmart: Pity the fool: Limbaugh falls for Global Warming Denier hoax
• 2007/11/10: DeSmogBlog: Anatomy of a Dupe - the John Locke Foundation
• 2007/11/09: DeSmogBlog: Rush Limbaugh Falls for Global Warming Hoax
• 2007/11/09: Atmoz: Benthic Bacteria Redux
• 2007/11/09: GristMill: Did you know the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary? Climate change skeptics fall for hoax paper
• 2007/11/07: Atmoz: Carbon dioxide production by benthic bacteria: the death of manmade global warming theory?

  The uselessness of web voting was demonstrated this week:

• 2007/11/09: BCLSB: The Left Out-FREEPS The Right: Climate Audit Rejected As Best Science Blog
• 2007/11/08: GristMill: Weblog Awards - Vote early and often
• 2007/11/08: MTobis: What's Wrong with Web Polls
• 2007/11/08: DeSmogBlog: The "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" beating "Vast Left Wing" Voting for Best Science Weblog
• 2007/11/08: ThinkP: Right Wing Campaigns To Get Climate Skeptic's Blog Named 'Best Science Blog' In Weblog Awards
• 2007/11/07: Deltoid: Junkscience endorses Climate Audit

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/11/08: CSW: Chris Mooney on the National Assessment scandal in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• 2007/11/09: MTobis: Revkin's Imaginary Middle Stance
• 2007/11/09: RealClimate: Find the error
• 2007/11/08: ClimateP: More of the Top 100 Effects of Global Warming
• 2007/10/30: Yahoo: Dream of a low-carbon, rural idyll getting closer?
• 2007/11/08: Guardian(UK): 'People realise it is time to take action' :Bill McKibben
  An unlikely action man is galvanising young Americans to march against climate change. And now he's inspiring the British to get on their feet as well
• 2007/11/07: DotEarth: The (Warming) World Is Not Flat
• 2007/11/07: FergusB: Songs for swinging climate lovers
• 2007/11/06: TruthOut: Big Melt Meets Big Empty: Rethinking the Implications of Climate Change and Peak Oil
• 2007/11/06: GristMill: Notable quotable - "If the internet goes down, global warming will triumph for sure." -Bill McKibben
• 2007/11/05: CSpin: StepItUp post script
• 2007/11/06: TreeHugger: Quote of the Day: Kenny Ausubel on Building a Green U.S. Economy
• 2007/11/06: EGovMonitor: Radical emissions reductions achievable and cost-effective
• 2007/11/05: CCurrents: Our Masters, Ourselves
• 2007/11/06: CCurrents: Climate Change Leadership
• 2007/11/05: inel: Political drag on climate action: 'leaders' holding us back?
• 2007/11/04: JEB: Gott-awful statistics
• 2007/11/06: JEB: A defence of climateprediction.net
• 2007/11/05: Stoat: Carbon again
• 2007/11/05: TreeHugger: BBC's Gardening Guru on Peak Oil and Climate Change
• 2007/11/05: DailyStar: The sun as savior - Stopping climate change in the Middle East: ways out of an unfolding catastrophe

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

• SPR: Solar Power Rocks!
• PlanetGreen
• Energy Smart
• WMO: World Meteorological Organization
• Reuters Environment Blog
• UA:ISPE: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
• UA:DGESL: Environmental Studies Laboratory - Publications
• ESMF: Earth System Modeling Framework
• Integrated Project CarboEurope-IP - Assessment of the European Terrestrial Carbon Balance
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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.

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

"Without carbon capture and sequestration, we are all toast." -Jiang Lin

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