Another Week of Global Warming News, November 18, 2007

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The big story of the week is the IPCC meeting in Valencia, Spain that produced the Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report:

• 2007/11/17: IPCC: (pdf - 6.5meg) Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
• 2007/11/18: Times(UK): UN unveils full danger of climate change
• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): At a glance: IPCC climate change report
• 2007/11/18: inel: IPCC Synthesis Report press briefing (don't mention key vulnerabilities or danger)
• 2007/11/17: inel: IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report Release Valencia
• 2007/11/17: Stoat: Abrupt and irreversible?
• 2007/11/18: SciDaily: Climate Change Irreversible - United Nations Chief Urges Breakthrough After Dire IPCC Report Released
• 2007/11/18: Independent(UK): A world dying, but can we unite to save it?
  Pollution in the seas is now speeding global warming, says a devastating new climate report...from Valencia
• 2007/11/17: ScruffyDan: The latest IPCC report is the most dire yet; reality likely to be much more dire
• 2007/11/18: SMH: Global warming action urgent: UN chief
• 2007/11/17: CNN: U.N. report: Urgent action needed on 'severe' climate change
  U.N. delivers final report on science of climate change in Valencia, Spain - Ban Ki-moon: Some effects of rising greenhouse gas levels may be irreversible - Panel warns of devastating impact for developing countries, species extinction - Report's findings will be used in climate change negotiations in Bali next month
• 2007/11/17: ClimateP: Absolute MUST Read IPCC Report: Debate over, further delay fatal, action not costly
• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): Climate change report 'terrifying'
• 2007/11/17: ABC(Au): IPCC report urges swift action on global warming
• 2007/11/17: ABC(Au): Experts agree UN blueprint for climate change action
• 2007/11/16: DotEarth: A 4th Climate Warning. Anyone Listening?
• 2007/11/17: PhysOrg: Key Findings of UN Scientific Report
• 2007/11/17: PhysOrg: UN Panel Gives Dire Warming Forecast
• 2007/11/17: Deltoid: IPCC AR4 Synthesis report released
• 2007/11/17: DeSmogBlog: UN raises stakes in latest report on global warming; showdown set for Bali roundup
• 2007/11/17: ENN: U.N. says new report must spur climate change action
• 2007/11/17: Yahoo: Grim climate change report prompts UN call for 'breakthrough'
• 2007/11/17: Yahoo: UN chief demands climate 'breakthrough' after key report
• 2007/11/17: NYT: U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change
• 2007/11/17: Yahoo: Grim climate change report spurs UN call for 'breakthrough'
• 2007/11/17: HuffPo: UN Panel Gives Dire Warming Forecast
• 2007/11/17: HuffPo: UN Panel On Climate Change: White House Says Report Is "Lacking"
• 2007/11/17: SwissInfo: U.N. calls for climate change action
• 2007/11/17: SwissInfo: UN issues dire report on climate
• 2007/11/17: CBC: Evidence of climate change 'unequivocal': UN report
• 2007/11/17: AFP: Grim climate change report spurs UN call for 'breakthrough'
• 2007/11/14: Precaution: Climate Change Ups War Risk in Many States -- Report
• 2007/11/17: NYT: U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change
• 2007/11/17: AP: Panel: Earth Is Rapidly Getting Warmer
• 2007/11/17: TenerifeNews: 'Help save us from global warming disaster' Science fiction now science prediction?
• 2007/11/17: DeutscheWelle: Climate Change as Frightening as Science Fiction Movie
• 2007/11/14: IHT: Dire climate warning linked to China and India
• 2007/11/17: Guardian(UK): UN scientists urge carbon tax to fight global warming
• 2007/11/16: IHT: At the tipping point by Ban Ki Moon
• 2007/11/16: ABC(Au): Global warming could be irreversible: IPCC
• 2007/11/16: CSpin: IPCC prepares final synthesis report
• 2007/11/16: inel: IPCC Synthesis Report Briefing: Kerry, Ebi, Lyons, Clapp worth listening to
• 2007/11/16: PhysOrg: Climate Change Talks Reach Agreement
• 2007/11/17: GWWatch: IPCC Synthesis "...abrupt or irreversible climate changes and impacts..."
• 2007/11/16: GLB: IPCC Fourth Assessment Reports Available
• 2007/11/16: Yahoo: Climate change report to warn of potentially 'irreversible' impacts
• 2007/11/16: BBC: IPCC to warn of 'abrupt' warming
  Climate change may bring "abrupt and irreversible" impacts, the UN's climate advisory panel is set to announce. Delegates to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agreed a summary of its landmark report during overnight negotiations here. Discussions were said to have been robust, with the US and other delegations keen to moderate language. The summary will be officially launched by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on Saturday. It brings together elements of the three reports that the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC has already released this year, on the science of climate change, impacts and adaptation, and options for mitigating the problem. Among its top-line conclusions are that climate change is "unequivocal", that humankind's emissions of greenhouse gases are more than 90% likely to be the main cause, and that impacts can be reduced at reasonable cost
• 2007/11/15: TruthOut: Climate Change: Global Consensus, Lingering Discrepancies
• 2007/11/15: ABC(Au): Climate change accelerating, top scientists warn
• 2007/11/15: ENN: U.N. Climate Talks Make Slow Progress
• 2007/11/15: AFP: UN climate panel debates major risks from global warming
• 2007/11/15: SMH: Climate change to take just years
• 2007/11/15: ABC(Au): Climate change 'worse than thought'
• 2007/11/13: Yahoo: UN panel in 'difficult' debate over global warming paper
• 2007/11/15: CSM: Climate summary fuels worry
  With the pending release of a new global-warming report, environmentalists, politicians, and scientists wrangle in Spain for consensus
• 2007/11/14: SMH: Third of all species 'at risk'
  Almost one-third of the world's species will face extinction if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a United Nations report will say this week
• 2007/11/13: UN: Secretary-General calls on people of faith for support in climate change battle
• 2007/11/12: UN: Key UN climate change meeting kicks off in Valencia
• 2007/11/13: TruthOut: Millions of Jobs at Risk From Climate Change - UN
• 2007/11/13: TruthOut: Vital Facts "Deleted" From UN Report on Climate Change
• 2007/11/12: CSW: IPCC meets on 2007 Synthesis Report amidst concerns about climate change and political pressure
• 2007/11/13: TheAge: Vital facts 'deleted' from UN report on climate change [Spain]
• 2007/11/13: Google:AFP: UN panel in 'difficult' debate over global warming paper
• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: Sparks already flying at United Nation's climate talks
• 2007/11/12: Yahoo: UN official warns of ignoring warming [Spain]
• 2007/11/12: TruthOut: Failure to Tackle Climate Peril "Criminally Irresponsible," IPCC Told
• 2007/11/13: ABC(Au): Failure to tackle climate peril 'criminally irresponsible'
• 2007/11/12: ABC(Au): UN scientists to hammer out final climate change report
  The United Nations' top climate scientists have gathered in the Spanish port city of Valencia to boil down their landmark report on global warming into a summary version for policy-makers. [...] The document to be issued in Valencia next Saturday (local time) distils its 2,500-page, three-volume assessment - the first since 2001 - into a 25-page synthesis designed to guide government decisions on how to best accomplish this. There will also be a companion technical summary of about 70 pages
• 2007/11/12: ABC(Au): Climate change forum sparks heated debate
• 2007/11/12: ENN: Top U.N. Official [UNFCCC head, Yvo de Boer] Warns Against Inaction on Climate
• 2007/11/12: Yahoo: Failure to tackle climate peril 'criminally irresponsible', IPCC told

  The behaviour of the Bush administration -- particularly as it appears the other major Kyoto holdout, John Howard, is going to lose the election in Australia -- has come in for note:

• 2007/11/17: ScruffyDan: US delegates throw logic out the window to water down IPCC report
• 2007/11/17: Deltoid: Dog bites man - US delegates tried to water down the latest IPCC report...
• 2007/11/17: DotEarth: "Dangerous" Warming Still Undefinable to White House
• 2007/11/14: OilChange: Vital Facts "Deleted" From UN Climate Report
• 2007/11/13: BBerg: UN Panel's Global Warming Report May Win U.S. Support
• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: Will the US blink or balk at this week's UN Summit on Climate Change? [Spain]

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon wrapped up his pre-Valencia, pre-Bali eco-tour:

• 2007/11/13: PhysOrg: Ban: Warm Antarctica temps show eco-issues
• 2007/11/12: Times(UK): A global warning for UN chief from the ice floes at the foot of the world
• 2007/11/13: AFP: UN chief wraps up Brazil trip with Amazon visit
  UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he was "committed" to helping Brazil preserve its Amazon basin, after national and indigenous officials asked him to provide greater international political support
• 2007/11/12: OilChange: UN Chief Visits Antarctica

  OPEC held a meeting in Riyadh:

• 2007/11/17: ENN: OPEC summit to back climate change fight
• 2007/11/16: Yahoo: OPEC to put carbon capture at heart of new green agenda
• 2007/11/15: DeSmogBlog: Even OPEC Says We Should Take Global Warming Seriously
• 2007/11/15: ENN: OPEC Must Tackle Climate Change: U.N. Official
• 2007/11/12: ClimateP: OPEC issues bizarre oil threat, Financial Times also confused

  Apparently the direction of Arctic Ocean circulation is changing:

• 2007/11/15: ENN: NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
• 2007/11/13: NASA: NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
• 2007/11/14: TerraDaily: NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do An About-Face
• 2007/11/14: SciDaily: Arctic Ocean Circulation Does An About-Face
• 2007/11/13: MongaBay: NASA: Arctic Ocean circulation reversal not due to global warming
• 2007/11/13: PhysOrg: NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
  A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming

Elsewhere in the Arctic:

• 2007/11/15: HillHeat: NOAA Arctic Report Card
• 2007/11/13: FergusB: Short-term forcings in the Arctic; new discussion paper

  CARMA is gonna run over your Dogma:

• 2007/11/18: TreeHugger: We Win! Australia: The World's Best Carbon Emitters
• 2007/11/15: Google:AP: Learn How Much Your Power Plant Pollutes
• 2007/11/15: GristMill: Learn more about what's killing us - Three new sites track individual power plants and your connection to them
• 2007/11/16: EnergyDaily: CGD Ranks CO2 Emissions From Power Plants Worldwide
• 2007/11/15: AfterGutenberg: Good CARMA
• 2007/11/16: FPB: Australians have the world's dirtiest energy
• 2007/11/16: Guardian(UK): Australians named as world's worst polluters - Countries ranked by power station output
• 2007/11/15: ClimateP: CARMA - karma?
• 2007/11/15: ArabNews: Pollution Disputes [CARMA]
• 2007/11/15: ABC(Au): Aust power stations among world's worst CO2 polluters
• 2007/11/15: ABC(Au): NSW defends 'world's worst' power stations
• 2007/11/15: SciDaily: Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants Rated Worldwide
• 2007/11/15: EnvEcon: Fun with Carbon [CARMA]
• 2007/11/15: OilChange: Power Stations: Oz Named the Worst Emitter
• 2007/11/15: WaPo: World's Power Plant Emissions Detailed - U.S. Appears to Be Worst Carbon Dioxide Polluter, but China Is Catching Up Fast
• 2007/11/15: SMH: Greenhouse gases: proof we are up with the worst polluters
• 2007/11/14: BBC: Australians named worst emitters
  A study of the world's power stations has shown the extent to which developed countries produce more carbon dioxide per head than emerging economies. Australians were found to be the world's worst polluters per capita, producing five times as much carbon from generating power as China. The US came second with eight tonnes of carbon per head - 16 times more than that produced by India. The US also produced the most carbon in total, followed by China. The Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) website is the first global inventory of emissions and looks at 50,000 power stations
• 2007/11/14: MongaBay: How green is your power? New system [CARMA] tracks CO2 emissions of 50,000 power plants worldwide
• 2007/11/15: ABC(Au): Australian power stations 'worst greenhouse culprits'
• 2007/11/14: Eureka: CGD ranks CO2 emissions from power plants worldwide - It answers: How green is your power?

  The USCCSP released the first State Of The Carbon Cycle Report:

• 2007/11/13: USCCSP: North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle
• 2007/11/16: TerraDaily: First-Ever State Of The Carbon Cycle Report Finds Troubling Imbalance
• 2007/11/15: SF Gate: North American flora can't absorb continent's greenhouse gas output
• 2007/11/14: PhysOrg: First-ever 'State of the Carbon Cycle Report' finds troubling imbalance
• 2007/11/13: NOAANews: Government Science Panel Publishes Report on North America's Carbon Budget
• 2007/11/14: Eureka: First-ever 'State of the Carbon Cycle Report' finds troubling imbalance
  The first "State of the Carbon Cycle Report" for North America, released online this week by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, finds the continent's carbon budget increasingly overwhelmed by human-caused emissions. North American sources release nearly 2 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, mostly as carbon dioxide.
• 2007/11/13: PhysOrg: Study sees potential for acceleration in U.S. emissions
  U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, even with technological advances and current energy-saving efforts, according to a new study...
• 2007/11/13: PhysOrg: Report: Carbon Removal Has Little Impact
  Only about a third of the climate-damaging carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in North America is offset by carbon removing activities, a government report said Tuesday. Currently, North America produces more than one-fourth of the carbon dioxide released worldwide by burning fossil fuels and other activities, the U.S. Climate Change Science program said in the report

A BBC series on deniers got a lot of attention:

• 2007/11/16: BBC: Sceptics' week: Your comments
• 2007/11/16: OilChange: OPEC Shifts on Climate
• 2007/11/16: TEB: Global Warming Sceptics Countered by IPCC and Scientists
• 2007/11/15: NatureCF: The BBC on climate sceptics
• 2007/11/15: KSJT: BBC: A hard look at an idea that won't die. The sun and cosmic rays are tag-teaming the Earth's climate
• 2007/11/15: BBC: Climate science: Sceptical about bias
  Of all the accusations made by the vociferous community of climate sceptics, surely the most damaging is that science itself is biased against them
• 2007/11/15: DeSmogBlog: BBC - Climate science: Sceptical about bias
• 2007/11/15: CarsonsPost: BBC internal memo on climate change
• 2007/11/14: Denialism: I could have told him that
• 2007/11/14: Deltoid: No bias found
• 2007/11/13: Atmoz: Top 10 Global Warming Skeptic Arguments
• 2007/11/13: BBC: The IPCC: As good as it gets
• 2007/11/13: RealClimate: BBC contrarian top 10
• 2007/11/12: inel: BBC climate change project this week
• 2007/11/12: BBC: Unravelling the sceptics - What do "climate sceptics" believe?
• 2007/11/12: Deltoid: Top 10 warming skeptic arguments
• 2007/11/12: BBC: Climate scepticism: The top 10 - What are some of the reasons why "climate sceptics" dispute the evidence...?

  A couple of articles on particulates & global dimming:

• 2007/11/14: RealClimate: Global dimming and global warming
• 2007/11/15: Eureka: Worldwide atmospheric measurements will determine the role of atmospheric fine particles
  The Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, Finland, will host the first annual meeting of the European Integrated Project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality Interactions, EUCAARI, headed by Academy Professor Markku Kulmala, on 19-22 November 2007. The purpose of EUCAARI is to significantly improve current knowledge of the impact of fine particles in the atmosphere on climate and air quality. The first year of the project was dedicated to developing state-of-the-art aerosol measuring equipment, establishing a global network of measuring stations, and planning. The measuring period, beginning next spring, will collect data on European air through both ground-based and airborne measurements simultaneously
• 2007/11/14: NewScientist: Pollution is dimming India's sunshine

  The ARGO network is up & running:

• 2007/11/12: ABC(Au): One small step for climate change [Argo]
• 2007/11/12: ABC(Au): Robots deployed to measure climate change
• 2007/11/12: ABC(Au): Oceans warming faster than predicted [Argo]
• 2007/11/12: PhysOrg: Ocean robots network [Argo] achieves universal coverage

  The Atlantic was quiet, but Sidr ravaged the Bay of Bengal:

• 2007/11/18: Times(UK): Cyclone [Sidr] death toll may rise to 8,000
• 2007/11/18: CCM: Was Cyclone Sidr as Bad as Hurricane Mitch?
• 2007/11/18: Xinhuanet: Bangladesh cyclone death toll reaches 2217
• 2007/11/18: Xinhuanet: Bangladesh Red Crescent Society appeals for $5.7 mln assistance for cyclone victims
• 2007/11/18: BBC: Bangladesh rescue effort goes on
  Rescuers are continuing efforts to try to reach people hit by a powerful cyclone that tore through southern Bangladesh killing at least 2,000
• 2007/11/18: AFP: Three thousand dead from Bangladesh cyclone: TV
• 2007/11/18: CTV: Cyclone's toll surpasses 2,200 in Bangladesh
• 2007/11/18: SMH: Cyclone rips through villages, killing 1100
• 2007/11/18: Guardian(UK): Cyclone disaster toll climbs
  Still recovering from its summer floods, Bangladesh faces another grim struggle after a storm that killed at least 1,700 people
• 2007/11/17: Wunderground: Bangladesh reeling from Cyclone Sidr; Landmark climate change report issued today
• 2007/11/17: DeutscheWelle: Bangladesh cyclone death tolls soars
• 2007/11/17: BBC: Bangladesh toll more than 1,500
• 2007/11/17: CBC: Aid arrives as cyclone's death toll rises in Bangladesh
  The official death toll from a savage cyclone that wreaked havoc on southwest Bangladesh reached 1,723 Saturday, making it the deadliest storm to hit the country in a decade
• 2007/11/17: AFP: Bangladesh cyclone toll reaches 1,595: official
• 2007/11/17: CTV: More than 1,700 dead from Bangladesh cyclone
• 2007/11/17: Guardian(UK): Cyclone cuts trail of destruction through Bangladesh - 1,100 feared dead
• 2007/11/16: Reuters: CARE Responds as Casualty Figures from Cyclone Sidr Mount in Bangladesh
• 2007/11/17: CCM: Sidr: The Perspective of a Relief Organization
• 2007/11/16: CNN: Bangladesh could face new flooding as cyclone moves inland
  At least 1,100 killed by storm, Bangladesh news agency reports - Mountain rainfall could bring more water to flooded areas, forecaster says - U.S. military expected to send recovery help, officials say - About 600,000 people have fled from the southern coastal region
• 2007/11/15: GristMill: Consider Sidr - Sidr, a massive tropical cyclone, is going to hit Bangladesh-Indian border within 24 hrs
• 2007/11/17: DailyStar: Over 700 killed as cyclone wreaks havoc
  Death toll may cross 1,000; all communications, utility services snapped; thousands missing; houses, crops, trees destroyed; lakhs homeless
• 2007/11/16: HillHeat: Cyclone Sidr Devastates Bangladesh
• 2007/11/15: MTobis: Cat 5 hits Bangladesh, Calcutta
• 2007/11/16: GLB: Sidr: Aftermath unfolding
• 2007/11/16: CCM: From Sheril: Bangladesh Needs Your Help
• 2007/11/16: CCM: Cyclone Sidr: Death Toll Rising
• 2007/11/16: Wunderground: Tropical Cyclone Sidr Devastates Bangladesh
• 2007/11/16: ENN: Bangladesh cyclone toll tops 500
• 2007/11/16: HuffPo: Report 1,100 Dead in Bangladesh Cyclone
• 2007/11/16: SwissInfo: Bangladesh cyclone deaths near 600
• 2007/11/16: ChinaDaily: Report: Bangladesh cyclone kills 425
• 2007/11/16: BBC: At least 600 people are reported to have died after a powerful cyclone smashed into Bangladesh's coast, levelling villages and uprooting trees
• 2007/11/16: Google:AP: Cyclone Toll Reaches 1,100 in Bangladesh
• 2007/11/15: ArabNews: Storm Lashes Bangladesh's Coastal Areas
• 2007/11/15: MSNBC: Bangladesh cyclone sends millions fleeing - Winds up to 150 mph could trigger storm surges that submerge towns
• 2007/11/14: CNN: Millions to evacuate as cyclone slams into Bangladesh
  More than 3 million people expected to be evacuated, official says - No damage or casualties immediately reported - Tropical Cyclone Sidr batters Bangladesh with wind, rain, waves - Cyclone in the Bay of Bengal packing winds of 149 mph (240 kph)
• 2007/11/15: CCM: U.S. Media Notices Cyclone Sidr. Finally.
• 2007/11/15: CCM: Cyclone Sidr: Starting to Contemplate the Impact
• 2007/11/15: CCM: Cyclone Sidr: Category 5
• 2007/11/14: CCM: Still No Weakening for Cyclone Sidr
• 2007/11/14: CCM: Preparing for Sidr from the Other Side of the World
• 2007/11/14: TerraDaily: Cyclone poised to slam into Bangladesh, eastern India
• 2007/11/15: Wunderground: Cyclone Sidr slams into Bangladesh [Cat 4]
• 2007/11/14: Wunderground: Extremely dangerous Cyclone Sidr bears down on Bangladesh and India
• 2007/11/15: BBC: Bangladesh braces as cyclone hits
• 2007/11/15: AFP: Cyclone [Sidr] smashes into impoverished Bangladesh
• 2007/11/14: GristMill: Cyclone Sidr
• 2007/11/14: CCM: Time To Panic Over Cyclone Sidr
• 2007/11/14: CCM: NASA Snaps a Shot of Cyclone Sidr
• 2007/11/14: CCM: Does the U.S. Media Care About the Possible Disaster Unfolding for Bangladesh?
• 2007/11/13: CCM: Cyclone Sidr: It Gets Worse [Cat 4]
• 2007/11/12: CCM: Terrifying Cyclone Sidr in the Bay of Bengal

  Elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2007/11/17: TreeHugger: Katrina and Rita Responsible for Nation's Worst Ever Forestry Disaster
• 2007/11/15: MongaBay: Hurricane Katrina released large amounts of carbon by destroying 320m trees
• 2007/11/15: Eureka: Forests damaged by Hurricane Katrina become major carbon source
• 2007/11/15: Eureka: Forests damaged by Katrina may contribute to global warming
• 2007/11/15: NASA: Forests Damaged by Hurricane Katrina Become Major Carbon Source
• 2007/11/12: TerraDaily: In The Blink Of A Hurricane's Eye [Humberto]

  Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

• 2007/11/15: Yahoo: Greenhouse gases rising faster than UN forecasts: report
• 2007/11/14: SciDaily: Growth In US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Predicted To Accelerate

  As for the temperature record:

• 2007/11/15: BCLSB: We're Number 2 [on the list of "hottest years in the modern record"]

  The ozone hole is shrinking:

• 2007/11/16: ABC(Au): Hole in ozone shrinking, scientists say
• 2007/11/16: ABC(Au): Ozone hole closing up, research shows
  Satellite measurements have revealed the hole in the ozone layer is the smallest it has been for about a decade

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/11/13: PhysOrg: Satellite [SORCE] shows regional variation in warming from sun during solar cycle
• 2007/11/13: Eureka: [SORCE] Satellite shows regional variation in warming from sun during solar cycle

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/11/18: SciDaily: Delay In Autumn Color Caused By Increased Carbon Dioxide Not Global Warming
• 2007/11/16: WarmingLaw: We're All Connected
• 2007/11/15: People's Daily: Atmospheric CO2 rise changes face of autumn
• 2007/11/14: ENN: Island Nations Plan for Rising Seas, Mass Migration
• 2007/11/14: CSM: A melting Alaska draws visitors - Warming five times faster than the rest of the world, the state is seeing ecotourism change with the climate.
• 2007/11/13: NewScientist: Climate change is delaying spring in some areas
• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: Something's Fishy Off the State of Rhode Island
• 2007/11/13: ABC(Au): Millions of jobs at risk from climate change: UN
• 2007/11/12: C411: Extinctions Increase with Global Warming
• 2007/11/11: DeSmogBlog: Former Gore advisor warns that global warming could sound death knell for globalization
• 2007/11/12: ENN: Millions of jobs at risk from climate change: U.N

  And then there are the tropical rainforests:

• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): Indonesia proposes OPEC 'oil for forests' fund
• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): Greenpeace to keep up palm oil blockade
• 2007/11/11: FuturePundit: Rising Palm Oil Demand Destroying Rainforests
• 2007/11/15: TerraDaily: Vanishing forests a counterpoint to Indonesia's climate crusade
• 2007/11/16: TerraDaily: Primary Rain Forest Is Irreplaceable
• 2007/11/14: CSM: In new take on carbon-trading, Indonesia may get paid to save trees
  An environmental summit in Bali next month will probe incentives for countries to preserve forests

Corals are dying:

• 2007/11/12: IPSNews: Between a Reef and a Hard Place
  Coral reefs face certain extinction in a few decades unless there are unprecedented reductions in carbon emissions, leading Australian scientists warn
• 2007/11/12: SciDaily: Marine Catastrophe? Soft Corals Melting Away Due To Global Warming, Says Researcher

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2007/11/13: KSJT: Lots of ink: In Black Sea, a big storm and a BIG oil spill
• 2007/11/13: G&M: Once-in-a-century [Black Sea] storm caused environmental havoc
• 2007/11/13: CBC: [100 kph] Windstorm blows into Alberta, prompts weather warnings
• 2007/11/12: CBC: Thousands could be without power overnight after storm bashes West Coast
• 2007/11/12: TruthOut: Tanker Spills Oil in Black Sea Strait - Massive waves split a Russian oil tanker in two during a fierce storm Sunday...
• 2007/11/12: Wunderground: Black Sea storm causes ecological disaster; powerful Bay of Bengal cyclone [Sidr] forming

  We have heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2007/11/18: HuffPo: California Fire Documents Conflict With Reports

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/11/17: Denialism: Want to Water During a Water Shortage? Plant New Landscaping!
• 2007/11/16: CCurrents: The Great American Water Crisis
• 2007/11/16: CNN: Feds OK drought deal letting Georgia keep more water
• 2007/11/16: PhysOrg: Dry South: Corps Cuts Flow From Ga. Lake
  Federal biologists signed off on a plan Friday to reduce the flow of water from Lake Lanier, the main water source for Atlanta and the focal point of a three-state water fight as the Southeast contends with a historic drought. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided that federally protected mussels can live with less water from Lanier, which could allow drought-stricken Georgia to keep more water in the drying lake. The Army Corps of Engineers immediately reduced the flow of water from Lanier to Florida by 5 percent, and said it could cut it by 17 percent depending on lake levels
• 2007/11/16: ZMag: How Dry We Are? A Question No One Wants to Raise About Drought
• 2007/11/15: 236: Atlanta prays for rain, God responds sarcastically
• 2007/11/15: TerraDaily: More than 600 killed, millions impacted by Yangtze flooding [this year]
• 2007/11/15: TreeHugger: Atlanta Collar Counties Getting Serious On Water Use
• 2007/11/13: Guardian(UK): Up to 5,000 escaped crocodiles add to flood woes [in Vietnam]

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/11/15: Forbes: Food Vs. Fuel

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

• 2007/11/13: McClatchyDC: As food prices rise in China, so does consumer angst
• 2007/11/13: BBC: Sowing the seeds of farming's future
  Global food stocks are running low and rich nations should not take security of supplies for granted, argues Les Firbank. In this week's Green Room, he outlines his vision for sustainable farming amid the uncertainties we face in the 21st Century.
• 2007/11/15: PhysOrg: New European loess map
• 2007/11/13: UFZ: New European Loess Map - Distribution of fertile soil updated for the first time in decades
• 2007/11/14: GristMill: Can industrial agriculture feed the world? Another study shows organic ag outpacing conventional
• 2007/11/12: ENN: Inflation Fuels Global Hunger

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/11/17: SciDaily: Ocean Plankton Reducing Greenhouse Gases By Using More Carbon Dioxide
• 2007/11/15: TerraDaily: FAO report urges paying poor farmers to be green
• 2007/11/16: TreeHugger: New Stove Project Could Save 28 Million Tonnes of CO2
• 2007/11/15: TruthOut: Paying Farmers to Protect the Planet Is Vital: UN
• 2007/11/14: TechRev: Carbon-Dioxide Plastic Gets Funding - A startup is moving ahead with an efficient method to make biodegradable plastic
• 2007/11/12: CNN: Experts promote the global warming diet
  Americans can simultaneously save the planet and their health, say experts - Suggestion: Walk or bike half an hour a day instead of driving - Walking could cut annual U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide by 64 million tons
• 2007/11/12: ABC(Au): Oceans could absorb far more CO2: study
• 2007/11/11: TerraDaily: Global warming: Oceans could absorb far more CO2, says study

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2007/11/16: SMH: Tourism hit by climate change fears
• 2007/11/15: TreeHugger: EU to Regulate Emissions From Airlines
• 2007/11/13: SeattlePI: EU readies emission standards for airlines to fly there
• 2007/11/13: EUO: MEPs back cuts in air travel CO2 emissions
• 2007/11/13: BBC: EU wants tougher green plane laws
  The European Union's parliament wants stricter aviation emission targets as part of plans to tackle climate change and cut levels of greenhouse gases. At present airlines are not part of a EU-wide carbon trading system that applies to other polluting industries. Under the plans, airlines operating to or from the EU would have to join a cap-and-trade emissions system by 2011
• 2007/11/12: GristMill: Hear some trains a-comin' - Public transit will be necessary for CO2 reductions
• 2007/11/12: ENN: Booming World Tourism Heads to Bali With Conundrum

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2007/11/17: TreeHugger: Zero Carbon Dioxide is Goal for Narbonne Neighborhood
• 2007/11/15: ERabett: Think globally, act locally, save money
• 2007/11/15: NewsRevu: Green building, where are you? What works for one may not work for all
• 2007/11/11: ClimateP: Home Builders to Give LEED Competition
• 2007/11/12: WorldChanging: Green Building in Small Town America
• 2007/11/12: TreeHugger: Greenwash Watch: Builders Write Their Own Green Building Standard

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2007/11/15: TreeHugger: Southern Illinois To Sequester Wisconsin's C02
• 2007/11/14: BSD: Gristmill writes a bad analysis so I don't have to
• 2007/11/12: GristMill: Carbon sequestration and the precautionary principle - A guest essay from Peter Montague raises questions about the rush to sequestration

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/11/14: TreeHugger: Where We Stand on Iron Fertilization
• 2007/11/14: SMH: Nations wary of sowing oceans to capture carbon
• 2007/11/12: TerraDaily: World body warns over ocean 'fertilisation' to fix climate change
• 2007/11/12: NatureN: Convention discourages ocean fertilization - International treaty aims to put rules on geoengineering
  Law of the sea: who should regulate the triggering of phytoplankton blooms?
• 2007/11/11: DotEarth: More Heat on Ways to Lower the Thermostat
• 2007/11/12: MTobis: Geoengineering again
• 2007/11/12: CCM: Sheril on this Geoengineering
• 2007/11/12: TreeHugger: Scientists Decide to Consider Considering Geo-engineering
• 2007/11/12: Yahoo: World body warns over ocean 'fertilisation' to fix climate change
• 2007/11/09: WiredSci: A New Sheriff to Scrutinize High-Seas Climate Cowboys

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2007/11/11: ENN: Scientists strive to pinpoint warming forecasts
• 2007/11/13: ABC(Au): Scientists aim to predict climate change hotspots [the areas set to be most affected]

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/11/15: ACP: Impact of land convection on troposphere-stratosphere exchange in the tropics by P. Ricaud et al.
• 2007/11/15: ACPD: Advection patterns and aerosol optical and microphysical properties by AERONET over south-east Italy in the central Mediterranean by M. Santese et al.
• 2007/11/14: ACPD: Numerical modeling of Asian dust emission and transport with adjoint inversion using LIDAR network observations by K. Yumimoto et al.
• 2007/11/12: CP: Climate model boundary conditions for four Cretaceous time slices by J. O. Sewall et al.
• 2007/11/13: ACPD: Air pollution during the 2003 European heat wave as seen by MOZAIC airliners by M. Tressol et al.
• 2007/11/13: ACPD: Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using Meteosat Second Generation daytime data by B. Thies et al.
• 2007/11/12: ACPD: Method for evaluating trends in greenhouse gases from ground-based remote FTIR measurements over Europe by T. Gardiner et al.
• 2007/11/12: ACPD: 20-year LiDAR observations of stratospheric sudden warming over a mid-latitude site, Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP; 44deg N, 6 deg E): case study and statistical characteristics D. V. Charyulu et al.
• 2007/11/13: PNAS: Impact of vegetation removal and soil aridation on diurnal temperature range in a semiarid region: Application to the Sahel by Liming Zhou et al.
• 2007/11/13: PNAS: Peaking profiles for achieving long-term temperature targets with more likelihood at lower costs by Michel G. J. den Elzen & Detlef P. van Vuuren

  Elsewhere in miscellaneous science:

• 2007/11/13: KSJT: Toronto Star: A new radar system for spotting wind patterns (and a bonus stealth-plane uncloaker)
• 2007/11/12: CSW: R.I.P. John Firor - scientist, author, former director of NCAR
• 2007/11/12: TerraDaily: Researchers Successfully Simulate Photosynthesis And Design A Better Leaf
• 2007/11/12: CanWest: Tree stumps show speed of climate change

  Looking ahead to the upcoming Bali summit:

• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): Climate policies under scrutiny ahead of Bali summit
• 2007/11/15: CNN: Global warming's trillion dollar debate
  UN scientists say climate change is happening faster than thought as politicians head to Bali to hammer out Kyoto's successor
• 2007/11/14: UNDispatch: Outlook on Bali and American Involvement
• 2007/11/15: Nature: (Editorial) The heat is on - At December's climate-change meeting [in Bali], everyone can agree on one thing: it is make-or-break time
• 2007/11/16: Guardian(UK): Act now on climate change, says UN official - 'Deep trouble' will follow any failure to agree in Bali
• 2007/11/14: ABC(Au): Climate expert [Brian Fisher] warns Bali talks may not deliver

  While on the emissions trading front:

• 2007/11/16: NEN: Emissions trading to double
• 2007/11/14: ENN: U.N. Completes Carbon Trading Link Under Kyoto
• 2007/11/13: NEN: Verification Slows Emissions Market

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2007/11/15: EcoEcon: Tom Friedman Jumps on the Gas Tax Bandwagon
• 2007/11/13: EnergyDaily: Analysis: Poll finds energy tax support
• 2007/11/14: ABC(Au): Reserve Bank board member calls for carbon tax

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

• 2007/11/15: EnvEcon: CBO and cap-and-trade
• 2007/11/14: DeSmogBlog: Offsets Fall Short -- By Two-Thirds

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2007/11/17: PhysOrg: Asian leaders [ASEAN] promote green region, nuclear power
• 2007/11/12: TerraDaily: The Antarctic Free-For-All

  Some US Midwest Governors and a Canadian Premier signed a renewable energy pact:

• 2007/11/16: PhysOrg: Midwest governors endorse renewable energy
• 2007/11/16: ENN: Midwest governors sign climate change accord
• 2007/11/15: Time: US States Sign Global Warming Pact

  As for GW & security:

• 2007/11/15: SeattlePI: Global Warming: Real security issue

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/11/16: GristMill: Museum meddling - Republican war on science, edition MMCCCVIII
• 2007/11/15: EcoEcon: US Forest Service and Carbon Offsets: Perspective
• 2007/11/15: GristMill: Goooaaalll! What will it take to reduce Washington state GHG emissions 10 million tons by 2020?
• 2007/11/16: DeSmogBlog: The tail is now wagging the dog in U.S. climate-change struggle
• 2007/11/16: WaPo: Scientists Fault Climate Exhibit Changes - Smithsonian Head Denies Politics Altered Arctic Show Message
• 2007/11/15: Grist: The Consent of the Governors - Midwestern governors sign greenhouse-gas reduction pact
• 2007/11/15: WarmingLaw: California Car Dealers Feel the Heat
• 2007/11/15: NEN: Michigan: Another governor [Jennifer Granholm] for new energy
• 2007/11/14: APRN: White House Science Advisor on the hot seat over climate change
• 2007/11/15: ThinkP: Coal Industry Sponsoring Tonight's CNN Democratic Presidential Debate
• 2007/11/15: CSM: The politics of ethanol outshine its costs - Despite higher food prices and environmental damage, it's warmly embraced in Congress
• 2007/11/14: KSJT: SF Chronicle: Win some, lose some. But California is tops in US at fighting greenhouse gases, curbing power
• 2007/11/14: ClimateP: Fox News disses Clinton climate plan - and Wayne Rogers is no Alan Alda
• 2007/11/14: GristMill: Global warming and America's energy future - Grist to sponsor first presidential candidate climate and energy forum
• 2007/11/13: CSW: Senate hearing on federal climate research program will hear from OSTP director Marburger
• 2007/11/13: CSW: Kerry-Snowe global change research bill focuses on climate impacts assessment and communication
• 2007/11/14: SF Gate: California fighting global warming with technology, greenbacks
• 2007/11/12: GristMill: The heart of the matter - Everything comes down to whether fighting climate change will hurt ordinary voters
• 2007/11/13: HillHeat: NWF Campaign Targets 50 House Lawmakers
• 2007/10/25: NYRB: Alaska: Big Oil and the Inupiat-Americans
• 2007/11/11: ClimateP: Politico: Climate Is a Risky Issue for Republicans
• 2007/11/12: GristMill: [MTobis] Toxic optimists vs. plaid shirts - Delusional Beltway optimism about energy
• 2007/11/11: GristMill: A green wave lifts all boats - Van Jones looks to sustainability for pathways out of poverty
• 2007/11/11: CSpin: More on the WPost Democrats and climate change story
• 2007/11/12: HillHeat: Mass. v. EPA and Coal: Johnson Gets Grilled
• 2007/11/12: CCM: An Inconvenient Assessment

  State Governors are leaning on the federal government:

• 2007/11/15: ThinkP: Gore, Schwarzenegger planning presidential forum [on energy and climate change in New Hampshire in December]
• 2007/11/15: KSJT: NYTimes, more: Governors stepping up climate response pressure on feds
• 2007/11/15: C411: Governors Challenge Congress to Lead on Climate Change
• 2007/11/15: NYT: Governors Join in Creating Regional Pacts on Climate Change
• 2007/11/13: CSpin: U.S. Midwest governors to form climate pact

  What's happening with the climate & energy bills?

• 2007/11/16: C411: Environmental Defense President Testifies Before Congress
• 2007/11/15: REA: Energy Bill Update: Will Renewables Be a Part of the Political Landscape?
• 2007/11/16: GristMill: The speaker speaks on the energy bill - Nancy Pelosi answers my question about renewables in the energy bill
• 2007/11/15: GristMill: Tracking Lieberman-Warner: A friendly spin?
  Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): "This bill provides billions of dollars for coal. It's like a Manhattan Project for coal."
• 2007/11/15: ClimateP: Energy bill still stalled
• 2007/11/15: HillHeat: Notes from the Latest EPW Lieberman-Warner Hearing
• 2007/11/15: CSW: Webcast and Written Testimony from Senate Hearing on U.S. Global Change Research Program
• 2007/11/15: OilChange: America: No Breakthrough on Energy Bill
• 2007/11/14: ClimateP: Update on Lieberman-Warner and the energy bill
• 2007/11/14: TruthOut: Where's That Energy Bill?
• 2007/11/14: GristMill: Global warming and political will - The Lieberman-Warner bill is not strong enough to do the job by Senator Bernie Sanders
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: NYT sez: Don't gut it - New York Times supports renewables in energy bill
• 2007/11/14: HillHeat: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Comes Out Against Lieberman-Warner
• 2007/11/14: C411: Will the House Follow the Senate on a Climate Bill?
• 2007/11/14: NYT: Where's That Energy Bill?
• 2007/11/12: TruthOut: Energy Bill to Sacrifice Renewables
  Last Thursday, Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid said that they would jettison the renewable energy provisions in both the House and Senate versions of the 2007 energy bill in the interest of passing a bill before the Thanksgiving recess begins on November 17
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing - NRDC says it supports ASCA
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing - Prepared statements of those testifying before the committee
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing - Cardin wants more money for public transit
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing - Tom Carper requests improvements in ASCA

  The Bush Admin lost another court case:

• 2007/11/16: C411: Bush CAFE Standards Overturned on Appeal
• 2007/11/16: NYT: Court Rejects Fuel Standards on Trucks
• 2007/11/16: WarmingLaw: "NHTSA can't have it both ways": NEPA and GHG
• 2007/11/16: WarmingLaw: Clean Cars Hearing, Take Two
• 2007/11/16: WarmingLaw: Delights in the Details
• 2007/11/16: WarmingLaw: Judicial Baseball
• 2007/11/15: WarmingLaw: On Cloud 9(th Circuit) For Thanksgiving
• 2007/11/15: WarmingLaw: 9th Circuit Rules That Feds Must Account for Climate Change
• 2007/11/15: MSNBC: Court tosses federal fuel-economy standards - Seeking higher standards, Schwarzenegger says gov't "asleep at the wheel"
  A U.S. appeals court on Thursday threw out the government's new fuel economy standards for many sport-utility vehicles, minivans and pickup trucks in a victory for environmentalists. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the standards, which were to go into effect next year, did not properly assess the risk to the environment and failed to include heavier SUVs and trucks, among several other deficiencies the court found

The 2008 campaign is not making much climate news:

• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: Hilary Clinton Unveils Aggressive Climate Change Plan

  But the Gore-apalooza is bopping along:

• 2007/11/16: CCurrents: Gore's Triumphant "Second Act" Dramatizes Bush Failures, Signals Reversal
• 2007/11/16: ThinkP: Al Gore goes to the White House [Nov 26]
• 2007/11/13: TruthOut: Gore Has a New Ally Against Global Warming
  The former vice president joins a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he will focus on building "green" businesses and technologies
• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: Gore takes post with investment firm; vows to donate salary to climate protection
• 2007/11/12: ThinkP: Gore joins global clean energy venture firm [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers]
• 2007/11/12: BBC: Gore to join private equity firm - Al Gore is to become a partner of a US private equity firm with a history of supporting "green technology"
• 2007/11/13: Guardian(UK): Gore in green alliance with venture capital
• 2007/11/11: CNN: Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC
  The recovering politician is teaming with a legendary venture capitalist and bigtime moneyman to make over the $6 trillion global energy business

While in the UK:

• 2007/11/18: Xinhuanet: UK environment minister [Phil Woolas] stresses need for global climate action
• 2007/11/17: Guardian(UK): Climate change department faces 300 million pound cuts
• 2007/11/16: inel: UK Climate Change Bill
• 2007/11/14: Guardian(UK): Save planet and car industry, says Jones
• 2007/11/13: ABC(Au): Brown urges Labor to invest in environment

  And in Europe:

• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): EU commissioner hails climate change report

  The carbon emissions of European cars by manufacturer raised a ruckus:

• 2007/11/17: AutoBG: German automakers emit the most CO2 among European automakers
• 2007/11/15: EnvFin: German car emissions accelerate
• 2007/11/15: ENN: German Carmakers Lag France, Italy in CO2 Cuts: Group
• 2007/11/15: OilChange: Now its France V. Germany Over Car Emissions
• 2007/11/14: BBC: German car emissions 'are rising'
  New German-made cars sold in Europe in 2006 had higher carbon dioxide emissions on average than they did in 2005, according to a new study. The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) says it is because average weight rose by 1.4%

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/11/15: SMH: Climate change to take just years
  Australians will begin to see the stark effects of climate change within the next few years, not the next decades, a leading Australian scientist has warned. Graeme Pearman, the former head of CSIRO's atmospheric research unit, yesterday released a report showing that evidence of global warming has dramatically increased in the past 12 months
• 2007/11/14: ABC(Au): Ecology expert calls for climate change monitor
  A prominent Australian ecologist has called on both major political parties to urgently roll out a long-term monitoring system to help detect changes in the environment. The Australian National University's David Lindenmayer says many other countries have ecological research site networks to help monitor the effectiveness of environmental expenditure over a long-term period. Professor Lindenmayer says groups like the Australian Academy of Science have been calling for a local system for more than 30 years
• 2007/11/14: ABC(Au): Grim predictions for Qld Murray-Darling water resources [from CSIRO]
• 2007/11/13: ABC(Au): Gold Coast to become first climate change hub
• 2007/11/13: ABC(Au): Climate change group focuses on sustainable economy
  A group of Northern Rivers' community and business leaders are planning for the effects of climate change in the region
• 2007/11/12: ABC(Au): No choice on tough greenhouse targets: Flannery

  And it's all fun & games as the Nov 24th campaign rolls into its last week:

• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): Greens accuse PM [Howard] of climate change negligence
• 2007/11/18: ABC(Au): Garrett seizes on climate change report
• 2007/11/16: Deltoid: Climate Politics in Australia
• 2007/11/16: SMH: Experts ignored in climate funding
• 2007/11/15: ABC(Au): Tas pollies almost agree on climate change
• 2007/11/15: ABC(Au): 'Polar bears' tell PM to ratify Kyoto
• 2007/11/14: ABC(Au): WWF rejects lone stance on greenhouse gas
• 2007/11/14: ABC(Au): Eden-Monaro election forum puts focus on climate change

  While in China:

• 2007/11/14: FuturePundit: China Embraces Local Area Climate Engineering
• 2007/11/15: GristMill: Made for the USA? On who is accountable for Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions
• 2007/11/16: ChinaDaily: 12 heavy polluters punished under new 'green-credit' policy
• 2007/11/16: BBC: Loans cut for Chinese polluters
  In the first move of its kind, a dozen Chinese businesses have had loans blocked or withdrawn after being accused of flouting environmental laws
• 2007/11/14: Guardian(UK): All the world must tackle the fallout of China's growth
  If we do not solve the environment problem in China, the world is going to be in a very bad way, says CS Kiang
• 2007/11/15: CSM: Rising food prices test Chinese consumers - China's more open market, economists say, makes food vulnerable to global prices
• 2007/11/13: ClimateP: China prepared to make a climate deal
• 2007/11/13: WorldChanging: A Maverick's "Ecological Civilization" Goes Mainstream [China - Pan Yue]
• 2007/11/13: OilChange: China "Will Agree to Cut Emissions" [says Chinese environmentalist, Professor C S Kiang]

  A lot of people are focussing on China and energy:

• 2007/11/16: REA: Worldwatch Report Looks at The Role of Renewables in China's Future
• 2007/11/15: EnergyDaily: China to surpass US in CO2 utility emissions: study
• 2007/11/15: EnvFin: China set to beat renewables target - Worldwatch
• 2007/11/14: BioEnergyBiz: China limits foreign stakes in biofuel companies
• 2007/11/16: ChinaDaily: China powers ahead on renewable energy
  China is well on its way to acquiring fully 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2020, while the US is dragging its feet on transitioning away from fossil fuels
• 2007/11/15: NewScientist: China on target to meet renewable energy goal
• 2007/11/14: ENN: China Power Plant Emissions to Rise 60% by 2017

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

• 2007/11/16: DeSmogBlog: Canada's Harper and White House Soon All Alone in anti-Kyoto Land
• 2007/11/14: G&M: We'll dig deep to go green, poll finds - Canadians aspire to lead the world on climate issues, even if it pinches the pocketbook

  There's lots of trial balloons & leaks as BC works out its climate plan:

• 2007/11/17: G&M: B.C. set to legislate emissions cuts
• 2007/11/16: CanWest: Try environmental carrot first, B.C. legislature report says
  The provincial government should try the carrot before applying the stick when it comes to coaxing British Columbians to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions. That's the opinion of the legislature's Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, which yesterday released its unanimous report to Finance Minister Carole Taylor
• 2007/11/15: Straight: Rebates for green houses? [BC]
• 2007/11/15: TMoS: Climate Change for British Columbia
• 2007/11/14: G&M: SFU study slams [BC] Energy Plan as inefficient
• 2007/11/14: G&M: B.C. set to miss targets for emissions cuts, group [Pembina Institute] says

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

• 2007/11/17: Guardian(UK): We behave as if there is no penalty for our luxurious consumption
• 2007/11/12: EnergyBulletin: Wanted: a new global paradigm

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

• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: Let's quit sidestepping the facts; global warming is tied to too many people

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2007/11/13: CCM: Rolling Stone Knows How to Spin [Lovelock]

  Andrew Revkin & Dave Roberts spun up a little teapot tempest:

• 2007/11/17: BCLSB: In Search Of "The Center" In The Climate Change Debate
• 2007/11/16: CJR: Where is the Climate "Middle?" - Revkin's new Dot Earth blog sparks healthy debate
• 2007/11/15: TruthOut: Beyond Extreme: The Illusion of a New Climate Centrism [Revkin]
• 2007/11/15: GristMill: [Roberts] Chatting with Revkin - NYT author discusses recent story on climate 'centrism'
• 2007/11/15: ClimateP: NYT's Andy Revkin and E. O. Wilson get suckered by Newt Gingrich's phony techno-optimism
• 2007/11/15: DotEarth: Grist and Dot Earth: Framing the Climate Challenge
• 2007/11/14: JFleck: In Defense of Andrew Revkin
• 2007/11/13: MTobis: Reply to Revkin
• 2007/11/14: GristMill: Centrist dog food - NYT's Andy Revkin pens another stinker on the so-called 'center' of the climate debate
• 2007/11/14: Deltoid: More middle muddle
• 2007/11/14: HuffPo: More Nonsense about Climate "Centrism"

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2007/11/12: WarmingLaw: The Gang That Couldn't Plot Straight

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

• 2007/11/16: DotEarth: Connecting the Energy Dots
• 2007/11/15: EnvFin: E.ON to spend another 3bn [euros] on renewables
• 2007/11/15: ClimateP: James Hansen, writing on peak oil, gets rejected
• 2007/11/15: GristMill: Stupid idea, on so many levels - Expensive coal + hydrogen = ?
• 2007/11/15: TreeHugger: Green Stats: 2.2 [percent of worldwide power generated by various sources]
• 2007/11/12: NSF: Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate
• 2007/11/14: TEB: First Commercial Algae Facility Announced
• 2007/11/13: NatureTGB: Getting hydrogen from microbes
• 2007/11/13: ClimateP: How to keep wind power soaring
• 2007/11/13: PhysOrg: Wind turbines hazardous to birds, bats
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: How to get more distributed generation on the grid - Interview with smart grid expert Steve Pullins, part two
• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: ExMo Chief [Tillerson]: energy independence is "isolationist"
• 2007/11/13: ENN: Clean, carbon-neutral hydrogen on the horizon
• 2007/11/12: ENN: Waste water plus bacteria make hydrogen fuel: study
• 2007/11/13: CBC: Research boosts potential of hydrogen fuel
• 2007/11/12: Eureka: Clean, carbon-neutral hydrogen on the horizon
• 2007/11/11: USAToday: Businesses, truckers feel pain of higher diesel prices
• 2007/11/09: BWeek: $100 Oil: What, Me Worry? S&P: A resilient economy could cushion the effect of rising oil prices
• 2007/11/12: NEN: Emissions and Energy: A Changing Equation

  While among the solar afficionados:

• 2007/11/14: FuturePundit: Spherical Solar Photovoltaics To Cut Costs In Half?
• 2007/11/16: ABC(Au): $360m solar farm in the works
  Australian company CBD Energy has announced plans to build a $360 million solar farm and manufacturing plant in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. CBD Energy says the first stage of the project will cost $60 million. It involves the construction of a five-megawatt solar farm on land near Raymond Terrace, north of Newcastle, which it hopes to complete by June next year. Output will eventually be expanded to 30 megawatts, providing enough green electricity for more than 30,000 homes

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/11/18: LA Times: Coal addiction hinders climate cleanup
• 2007/11/17: Charlotte: Climatologist [J. Hansen] wants halt to coal plants - Scientist emphasizes need to stabilize carbon dioxide levels
• 2007/11/12: CTB: To Coal or Not To Coal?
• 2007/11/15: Economist: Coal power - Still going strong - Efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions have yet to dent enthusiasm for coal
• 2007/11/15: HillHeat: Finance Companies Gear Up for Coal Finance Direct Action
• 2007/11/15: NEN: NRG Will Try World's Biggest 'Clean' Coal Experiment in Texas
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: Coal: Still not cheap - The cost of the FutureGen 'clean coal' plant doubles
• 2007/11/12: ClimateP: The 'other' Achilles heel of coal
• 2007/11/12: TreeHugger: Great Rebuttal of a Terrible Coal Ad
• 2007/11/12: SMH: Dirty coal makes for a green fight [Aus pol]
• 2007/11/12: SMH: King Coal back on his throne

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/11/16: AfterGutenberg: Bioenergy Improves Ethanol Plant EROEI
• 2007/11/15: Yahoo: The politics of ethanol outshine its costs
• 2007/11/15: BBC: Biofuels bonanza facing 'crash'
  The biofuels bonanza will crash unless producers can guarantee their crops have been produced responsibly, the UN's environment agency chief has said
• 2007/11/13: GristMill: Independent Québec - Backing away from corn ethanol
• 2007/11/13: ENN: Palm oil: Cooking the Climate

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2007/11/16: MiamiHerald: Chávez: 'Peaceful' nuclear energy in future

  We have a peak oil sighting:

• 2007/11/18: TStar: Deal with it: Cheap oil era is over
  Canadians have worked themselves into a flap over the soaring loonie and its effect on the economy. Yet the cost of oil inching up toward $100-per-barrel has generated little more than a collective yawn. The reality is that the rise of oil, not the dollar, is this year's big news story and the end of cheap oil could prove to be the greatest challenge we have faced in a generation. Energy executives, leading international agencies and even U.S. President George W. Bush are acknowledging that the world is running short of oil. The facts speak for themselves. The total amount of oil being pumped out of the ground globally has been stuck at 85 million barrels a day for going on two years. It is just enough to meet current demand. This is despite energy companies spending 40 per cent more or $400 billion on exploration in the last year alone, a record investment that saw global reserves rise by a paltry 2 per cent. The inconvenient truth is that all the easy to get at oil was found decades ago and existing oil fields are either already producing near capacity or are in decline.
• 2007/11/16: CCurrents: Peak Oil And Silence
• 2007/11/15: DesertSun: Major oil crisis looms ever closer in the U.S.
• 2007/11/15: EPO: Is World Oil Production Peaking?
• 2007/11/14: Xinhuanet: Oil giant [Saudi Aramco] chief: World liquid energy resources far bigger than expected
• 2007/11/13: OilDrum: Energy Decline and National GDP in 2050: The Growth of Destitution

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

• 2007/11/16: AutoBG: Green group T&E says car industry tried to hide CO2 emissions
• 2007/11/14: CTB: All Electric ATV - No myth to bust on this one
• 2007/11/16: ClimateP: Iacocca: Plug-in hybrids, not hydrogen "the wave of the future"
• 2007/11/16: ClimateP: Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes
• 2007/11/15: Stoat: Electric car emissions?
• 2007/11/15: WarmingLaw: Toyota: Everything to Everyone...And No One
• 2007/11/13: ClimateP: Who will reincarnate the electric car?
• 2007/11/13: PhysOrg: Tiny Smart cars aiming to make it big in USA
• 2007/11/13: AutoBG: UPS leases 42 all-electric Zap Xebras for deliveries in Petaluma, California

  And in the "every problem is an opportunity in disguise" crowd:

• 2007/11/17: Guardian(UK): Climate change: How investors can weather a stormy future - Global warming is big business.
• 2007/11/16: CNN: Wal-Mart releases green report
  Wal-Mart releases its first major report on efforts to become greener - The report details dozens of sustainability programs, like organic cotton clothes - Report shows Wal-Mart's carbon emissions rose 8.6 percent in 2006 from 2005 - Environmental groups welcome the report, praise Wal-Mart for trying
• 2007/11/12: WorldChanging: Raising the Bar on Green Business

  The greenwashing chronicles:

• 2007/11/17: ClimateP: Royal Dutch Shell spanked for greenwashing ad
• 2007/11/16: DotEarth: A "Greenwash Brigade" Is on the Prowl
• 2007/11/16: OilChange: The Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/11/15: DeSmogBlog: Who is Roy Cordato?
• 2007/11/15: PRWatch: Unlocking One Think Tank's Oily Secrets
• 2007/11/15: Deltoid: Nigel Lawson's whopper
• 2007/11/15: C411: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Ad Misleads America on Costs of Global Warming Action
• 2007/11/16: NEN: Oil lobby fights back
• 2007/11/15: HillHeat: Coal Lobby Websites
• 2007/11/16: JEB: Kooks' corner - Those of you who care about the reputation of the AGU...
• 2007/11/15: DeSmogBlog: Coal Industry Front Group Sponsoring CNN Democrats Debate Tonight
• 2007/11/14: DeSmogBlog: Big Tobacco then, Global Warming Now
• 2007/11/14: ThinkP: Weathermen not educated in climate change
• 2007/11/14: ClimateP: Are meteorologists climate experts?
• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: Celebrate Our Coal, Come On! [ABEC]
• 2007/11/13: ThinkP: Right Wing Attacks ThinkProgress For Criticizing Global Warming Denial Of 'TV Weatherman'
• 2007/11/14: Guardian(UK): Saudi Arabia seeks positive role in tackling climate change
  Saudi Arabia insisted yesterday that it wanted to play a positive role in tackling global warming but this should be done with new technology, not "discriminatory" taxes against oil and petroleum
• 2007/11/13: ClimateP: Anti-environment, anti-technology Gingrich tries to rewrite history. Don't buy it or his new book
• 2007/11/12: ERabett: Why it was the European Warm Period and the Very Little Ice Age
• 2007/11/13: Deltoid: Caroline Overington uses "only joking" defence

  Late comment on the benthic bacteria hoax:

• 2007/11/10: TheLowCarbonKid: That Geoclimatic Studies hoax - and what it was about [benthic]
• 2007/11/11: CSpin: The Low Carbon Kid: That Geoclimatic Studies hoax - and what it was about
• 2007/11/11: DotEarth: The Life and Death of a Climate Hoax [benthic]
• 2007/11/11: BSD: Climate spoofing and climate betting [benthic]
• 2007/11/11: Deltoid: The benthic bacteria spoof

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/11/18: JQuiggin: Climate change roundup
• 2007/11/14: SMH: A chilling omen or a freak event? [Antarctic melt]
• 2007/11/16: BobPark: What's New #4) Climate: uh, maybe we should find out what the problem is.
• 2007/11/16: NatureCF: Greenhouse Politics
• 2007/11/16: NatureCF: Climate change round up
• 2007/11/16: inel: Accept an admission of defeat and an abdication of humanity?
• 2007/11/16: TreeHugger: George Monbiot: "We Need 100% Cut in Carbon Emissions"
• 2007/11/16: ENN: "Climate Witnesses" demand climate solutions
• 2007/11/15: DotEarth: Will [SimCity] Game's Impact Surpass "Inconvenient Truth?"
• 2007/11/15: TreeHugger: E-Paper Surpasses Dead Trees In Life-Cycle Test
• 2007/11/15: AutoBG: Movigi does the unnecessary and develops an artificial tree that captures CO2
• 2007/11/14: EnergyBulletin: Follow-up to 'The Big Melt' challenges assumptions on CO2 targets
• 2007/11/14: TCulture: Follow-up to "The Big Melt" Challenges Assumptions on CO2 Targets
• 2007/11/14: CasaubonsBook: We Have to Stop Making Greenhouse Gasses
• 2007/11/14: DotEarth: Heat Rises (Again) Over Climate Rhetoric
• 2007/11/14: WarmingLaw: Good Cop, Bad Cop
• 2007/11/14: CCM: All Global Warming is Local
• 2007/11/12: IPSNews: Climate Change: The Worst Can Still Be Avoided
• 2007/11/14: Xinhuanet: UN chief promises to back anti-deforestation efforts in Brazil
• 2007/11/13: DotEarth: Square Feet, Kilowatts and the Climate Challenge
• 2007/11/13: DotEarth: Words on Warming: Which Message Works?
• 2007/11/13: AFTIC: "Optimism is a moral imperative" -MTobis
• 2007/11/13: MTobis: Selling the Incomprehensible
• 2007/11/13: C411: Personal Impact: Does It Really Matter What You Do?
• 2007/11/13: DeSmogBlog: All Global Warming is Local - The Politics and Science of Regional Climate Impacts [CCM San Diego speech]
• 2007/11/13: TreeHugger: Swedish Tourism Cold Comfort For Warming Globe
• 2007/11/12: HuffPo: The Only Climate Change Question That Matters
• 2007/11/12: Tamino: Ridiculous
  There are a lot of ridiculous claims bandied about in the global warming discussion. No wonder so many people are confused
• 2007/11/12: ENN: Rich urged to bear climate change costs [by Christian Aid]

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

• Independent(UK): Environment - Climate Change
• Flaming Grasshopper
• Arctic Report Card
• CARMA: Carbon Monitoring for Action
• Plugs and Cars
• AGU Press Releases
• 2005/02/: NASA:GISS: Trial of the Century: Co-Conspirators Convicted
• Earth Times
• The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change
• NASA:GISS: Surface Temperature Analysis
• New Scientist on Climate Change
• GRL: Published This Year in Geophysical Research Letters
• PCCRC: Purdue Climate Change Research Center
• NOAA News mag
• James Annan's Work Page (with list of publications)
• 2005/06/: AIP: The Discovery of Global Warming - A hypertext history
• 2005/06/: AIP: Basic Radiation Calculations

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.

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