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- Melting Arctic, SPM, GHG Record, Oxfam, Milankovitch
- Hurricanes, Mitag, Sidr, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR
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- Energy, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Carbon Lobby
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- 2007/11/20: uComics: (cartoon - Wiley) I Don't Mind Conceding Al Gore Was Right...
- 2007/11/20: SeattlePI: (cartoon - Horsey) A Cosmic Disconnect
Ted Glick has now been fasting 79+ days:
- 2007/11/21: TruthOut: Fasting and Victories by Ted Glick
Kyoto denier, John Howard lost the Australian election:
- 2007/11/24: HuffPo: Australian Leader Defeated in Election
- 2007/11/24: ClimateP: Australian denier bites the dust - literally
- 2007/11/24: DeSmogBlog: US Lone Holdout Against Kyoto As Australia's Howard Falls
- 2007/11/24: Yahoo: Howard's reign in Australia is over
- 2007/11/24: HuffPo: What Kevin Rudd's Australia Win Means
- 2007/11/24: PeakEnergy: Good Riddance To The Rodent
- 2007/11/24: AFP: Australia's opposition leader Rudd wins landslide election victory
Centre-left leader Kevin Rudd stormed to victory in Australia's election Saturday, ending Prime Minister John Howard's 11-year rule with pledges to change course on climate change and the Iraq war - 2007/11/24: CTV: New government sweeps to power in Australia
Canada cut an ignominous figure at the Kampala Commonwealth conference:
- 2007/11/24: DeSmogBlog: Canada Convinces Commonwealth To Do Nothing About Global Warming
- 2007/11/24: ENN: Commonwealth fails to back climate targets
- 2007/11/24: ENN: Commonwealth divided on climate change
- 2007/11/24: BBC: Commonwealth issues climate plan
Leaders of Commonwealth states have drawn up an "action plan" to tackle climate change that falls short of any binding agreement. The text, released after the second day of their summit in Uganda, is designed as a strong statement ahead of next month's UN climate talks. But the 53-member group could not reach a consensus on binding emission cuts. [...] Many Commonwealth nations, led by Britain, wanted an influential statement before next month's UN talks in Bali, which will discuss a new agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. But Canada had insisted that any statement should refer to the need for contributions from the world's major polluters, including the United States, which has so far resisted any binding targets. Australia is also a major CO2 emitter. Like the US, its outgoing government has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol - 2007/11/23: ABC(Au): Gonzi calls for united front on climate change
Commonwealth heads of state should send a strong message of support to next month's international summit on climate change in Bali, the 53-nation group's chairman said. "There is little doubt that in order to keep the adaptation challenge in manageable bounds, we must work decisively towards the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 per cent below 1990 levels, and this to be reached by 2050," Lawrence Gonzi, outgoing chairman and Maltese prime minister, said. "The challenge of climate change not only requires a united front but an unprecedented level of cooperation and firm action," Mr Gonzi said at the summit's opening ceremony in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. "We must send a strong message of support to the forthcoming climate change conference in Bali." - UNFCCC: United Nations Climate Change Conference, 3-14 December, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, (COP 13 and CMP 3)
- 2007/11/24: ClimateP: Keeping the Focus on Bali
- 2007/11/22: EnvFin: Bali launch for [100 million euro] EU renewables fund
- 2007/11/23: SMH: Indonesian minister wants poll victory for Kyoto-friendly Rudd
- 2007/11/22: Reuters: China wants rich nations to take lead in [Bali] climate talks
- 2007/11/22: Yahoo: UN climate panel co-head pessimistic about progress in Bali
- 2007/11/19: UNDispatch: IPCC Report and What to Expect From Bali
- 2007/11/19: ABC(Au): 5,000 police to guard Bali climate talks
- 2007/11/19: ABC(Au): Developed countries must 'show some spine' on climate change
ASEAN and a couple other Asian countries at the East Asian Summit [EAS] signed a weak climate pact:
- 2007/11/21: MongaBay: Asian countries sign symbolic global warming pact
- 2007/11/21: ABC(Au): Asia signs 'green region' environment pact
- 2007/11/21: ENN: Japan pledges $1.8 bln for green projects in Asia
- 2007/11/21: ENN: Asian leaders sign vague climate pact
- 2007/11/21: ENN: India and China sign [EAS] deal to stabilize greenhouse gases
- 2007/11/22: PlanetArk: East Asia Summit Declaration on Climate Change
- 2007/11/22: PlanetArk: India, China Sign Deal to Stabilise Greenhouse Gases
- 2007/11/21: AFP: Japan pledges Asia aid to fight climate change
OPEC set up a climate fund at their meeting:
- 2007/11/18: EnergyDaily: Kuwait, UAE, Qatar pledge 450 mln dlrs to climate fund
- 2007/11/19: DailyStar: For once, some Arab leaders are taking the lead on a major global issue [GW]
- 2007/11/18: BBC: OPEC leaders have pledged to provide the world with reliable supplies of oil and fight global warming, at the end of a rare summit meeting
- 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): Divided OPEC unites in qualified concern for planet
A lot of people are keeping an eye on the Arctic:
- 2007/11/24: TreeHugger: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Dept.: the Melting Arctic
- 2007/11/24: TStar: Arctic In Peril - Northerners eyeing new riches
- 2007/11/23: NatureN: Polar bears dying in years of early ice melt - Oldest and youngest bears in Canada's Hudson Bay die off after warm springs
- 2007/11/23: NatureCF: Early summer starves polar bears
- 2007/11/23: PhysOrg: Researcher: Inuit culture in peril - Global warming could doom the hunting and fishing culture of the Inuit...
- 2007/11/22: TStar: On the frontier of climate change - Researcher undertakes 26,000-kilometre trek to meet Inuit, study global warming first-hand
- 2007/11/21: Atmoz: Arctic Sea Ice Returns Fast
- 2007/11/20: Stoat: The impact on the stability of the Greenland ice sheet as well as on global weather patterns would likely be nearly unimaginable?
Late comment on the IPCC SPM:
- 2007/11/20: WorldChanging: The IPCC Report: The New World War Two
- 2007/11/19: IPSNews: Emergency Brakes Needed to Stop Climate Crash
In the end, governments accepted evidence from the world's top scientists that climate change impacts could be abrupt and irreversible, and that they require urgent action. "The threat is real," said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon - 2007/11/20: WarmingLaw: "Plant it this afternoon"
- 2007/11/20: CanWest: Running out the clock
- 2007/11/18: GristMill: [Dessler] What do we know about climate change? Contents of the IPCC Sythesis Report Summary for Policymakers
- 2007/11/19: NatureN: IPCC talks tough - New synthesis report aims to boost urgency of next month's Kyoto talks [in Bali]
- 2007/11/19: KSJT: Lots of (muted) Ink: IPCC says it again, with even less equivocation. On climate - do something, serious, and starting NOW
- 2007/11/19: C411: IPCC's Final Words: Reduce Emissions
- 2007/11/19: DeSmogBlog: The Final Global Warning: science has spoken and governments have signed on the dotted line
- 2007/11/19: DeSmogBlog: Top Quotes from the UN's Global Warming Report
- 2007/11/19: ENN: Climate report revives "dangerous" change dispute
- 2007/11/20: SciDaily: IPCC Synthesis Report: Risks And Rewards Of Combating Climate Change
- 2007/11/18: IHT: Alarming UN report on climate change too rosy, many say
- 2007/11/18: WaPo: Emissions Growth Must End in 7 Years, U.N. Warns - Report Lays Out Stark Choices to Avoid the Deaths of Species
- 2007/11/19: SMH: An Earth-sized challenge lobbed our way
"Be the change you want to see in the world." The words of Mahatma Gandhi were carefully chosen by the head of the United Nations peak scientific body on climate change when he delivered his team's stark report to the world at the weekend. Dr Rajendra Pachauri and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have presented a daunting challenge not only to the world's leaders but to its people. Cut your use of polluting fossil fuel energy over the next four decades essentially by 85 per cent or face losing almost a third of the world's species - 2007/11/23: MongaBay: Greenhouse gas levels rise to new record in 2006
- 2007/11/24: QuarkSoup: More on Portland GHGs
- 2007/11/24: QuarkSoup: Has Portland Really Cut its Greenhouse Gases?
- 2007/11/24: TreeHugger: Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit Record High, Methane Levels Flat in 2006
- 2007/11/23: ENN: Carbon dioxide at record high, stoking warming: WMO
- 2007/11/23: AfterGutenberg: Carbon Tracker
- 2007/11/23: PhysOrg: U.N.: Greenhouse Gases Hit High in 2006
- 2007/11/23: Yahoo: U.N.: Greenhouse gases hit high in 2006
- 2007/11/23: CBC: 2006 a record year for greenhouse gases: UN
- 2007/11/21: TruthOut: Kyoto Protocol Parties to Meet Targets
The industrial world is hurling more carbon into the atmosphere than ever before, and governments have a narrow window of just a few years to reverse the trend and avert calamitous climate change, the U.N. climate secretariat said Tuesday - 2007/11/21: GWWatch: GHG set to rise by 57 percent by 2030 --- that's 3 degrees C
- 2007/11/19: TerraDaily: Brazilian CO2 pollution outstripping economic growth: study
- 2007/11/20: TerraDaily: MIT Sees Acceleration In US Greenhouse Emissions
- 2007/11/20: TerraDaily: Greenhouse-gas emissions by industrialised countries at new high: UNFCCC
- 2007/11/19: PhysOrg: MIT sees acceleration in US greenhouse emissions
- 2007/11/19: Eureka: MIT sees acceleration in US greenhouse emissions - Technology not the magic bullet for cutting fossil fuels
Oxfam has released a report on the weather changes insurers have noticed:
- 2007/11/25: BBC: Weather disasters 'getting worse'
The number of weather-related disasters has quadrupled over the past 20 years and the world should do more to prepare for them, the aid agency Oxfam says. Population increases mean more people are affected when catastrophic weather events take place, it says in a report. Global warming is to blame for the growing number of weather disasters, Oxfam adds. An average of 500 such disasters are now taking place each year, compared to 120 in the 1980s, the report says. The number of floods has increased six-fold over the same period - 2007/11/19: Tamino: Wobbles, part 1
Late comment on Pryns & Rayner:
- 2007/11/21: BCLSB: The Wrong Trousers, The Right Trousers, Or No Trousers At All
In the hurricane wars, Mitag is slamming the Phillipines:
- 2007/11/25: SMH: Typhoon Mitag changes course prompting mass evacuations
Thousands of people were pouring into evacuation shelters on Saturday as Typhoon Mitag barrelled down on the eastern Philippines, officials said - 2007/11/23: BBC: Many flee from Philippines storm
Tens of thousands of people are being moved from their homes in the Philippines as emergency crews prepare for the oncoming Typhoon Mitag. The storm, packing 175km/h (109mph) winds, is expected to strike in the Bicol region on Saturday and could hit the capital, Manila, the following day - 2007/11/23: ArabNews: Shelters Packed in Eastern Philippines as Thousands Flee Coming Typhoon [Mitag]
- 2007/11/22: CBC: Mitag grows into a typhoon as it tracks toward the Philippines
And Bangladesh is dealing with the aftermath of Sidr:
- 2007/11/24: Guardian(UK): The fatal shore
Cyclone Sidr is the latest of a string of disasters to have befallen Bangladesh. Here the Costa-nominated author [Tahmima Anam] describes how her country is succumbing to global warming - 2007/11/22: CNN: Walking the path of death in Bangladesh
Many parts of Bangladesh still cut off from aid after devastating cyclone - Some regions so remote that the use of satellite phones is near impossible - Buried bodies line pathways, some corpses barely covered with leaves - Some villagers have not eaten for days, either through lack of food or grief - 2007/11/23: Guardian(UK): No food, no clothes, no home. The poor who have lost everything - Appeals for aid as country tries to recover from storm that has left 2m destitute
- 2007/11/22: BBC: Aid agencies say they are now reaching all the victims of last week's cyclone which struck southern Bangladesh
- 2007/11/21: BBC: Race to reach cyclone survivors
- 2007/11/21: ArabNews: Previous False Alarm Led People to Ignore Cyclone Warning
A false tsunami alert two months ago led thousands of Bangladeshis to ignore warnings as cyclone Sidr approached, costing many lives, villagers and officials said yesterday - 2007/11/20: UN: UN grants $8.8 million to aid cyclone victims in Bangladesh
- 2007/11/19: UN: UN agency airdrops food to stranded Bangladeshi cyclone victims
- 2007/11/18: UN: Bangladesh: Ban Ki-moon pledges full support of UN in wake of deadly cyclone
- 2007/11/20: Intersection:CCM: Missionary Claims Those Killed in Cyclone Face Eternal Damnation
- 2007/11/20: AFP: Aid trickles in for Bangladesh cyclone victims
- 2007/11/20: SMH: Fears that 15,000 may have died in Bangladesh cyclone
- 2007/11/20: Guardian(UK): After the cyclone, Bangladesh begins to bury its dead
Huge numbers of people still missing after Sidr - Death toll could rise above 10,000, say aid agencies - 2007/11/19: NatureTGB: Cyclone and early warning in Bangladesh
- 2007/11/19: CCM: Photographs From Bangladesh
- 2007/11/19: CCM: Why So Much Devastation in Bangladesh? Look at Bay of Bengal SSTs
- 2007/11/19: People's Daily: World's largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh major causality of cyclone
- 2007/11/19: CBC: Cyclone deaths in Bangladesh top 3,100
- 2007/11/19: AFP: Bangladesh in race to save cyclone survivors
- 2007/11/19: Telegraph(UK): Bangladesh cyclone death toll hits 15,000
- 2007/11/19: ArabNews: Millions Wait for Aid in Bangladesh
The death toll from the massive cyclone that smashed through impoverished Bangladesh could rise to 10,000 as a large number of storm-hit villages on the coast of the Bay of Bengal were still inaccessible - 2007/11/19: BBC: Aid reaches stricken Bangladesh [2300 dead]
- 2007/11/19: SMH: Cyclone death toll reaches 1700
- 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): Fears for thousands in remote areas as Bangladesh storm toll hits 2,300
While in other cyclone-hurricane news:
- 2007/11/21: Intersection:CCM: The Crazy North Indian Cyclone Season of 2007
- 2007/11/21: Wunderground: Giving thanks to the Hurricane Hunters and QuikSCAT scientists
- 2007/11/21: Eureka: LSU helps Bangladesh save lives by providing storm surge models 24 hours in advance of cyclone Sidr
- 2007/11/20: TruthOut: Katrina Rated Largest US Ecodisaster
- 2007/11/19: CSM: Katrina rated largest U.S. ecodisaster - The hurricane destroyed or damaged about 320 million trees across the South
- 2007/11/19: Wunderground: Atlantic hurricane season probably over - Cyclone Sidr's death toll tops 3,000
And on the ENSO front:
- 2007/11/18: AbqJournal: La Nina Does Her Part For Dry Days
Glaciers are melting:
- 2007/11/19: TerraDaily: New Zealand glaciers retreat due to global warming: scientists
- 2007/11/19: Yahoo: NZealand glaciers retreat due to global warming say scientists
Sea levels are rising:
- 2007/11/18: MTobis: Nature vs Real estate [SLR]
- 2007/11/19: IAfrica: Climate change's wild card: sea levels
- 2007/11/19: TerraDaily: Predicting Coastal Changes On A Changing Planet
While in near earth orbit:
- 2007/11/21: SpaceMart: TRMM Turns Ten - Studying Precipitation From Space
- 2007/11/20: Intersection:SRK: While No One is Watching
The campaign to uncover DSCOVR [Deep Space Climate Observatory] rolls on:
- 2007/11/23: BobPark: What's New? #3) Climate Change: A major gap exists in quantifying the change [DSCOVR]
- 2007/11/20: DeSmogBlog: NASA stonewalls another US agency that wants to launch DSCOVR
More GW impacts are being seen:
- 2007/11/23: Yahoo: Early climate change victim: Andes water
- 2007/11/23: NatureTGB: Attack of the killer jellyfish!
- 2007/11/23: NatureCF: Were salmon-killing jellyfish produced by global warming?
- 2007/11/21: Stoat: Sea ice again - how much effect does removing the Arctic sea ice make to the rest of the world?
- 2007/11/20: Yahoo: Climate change a growing threat in Tibet, media report
- 2007/11/19: IPSNews: Tropical Species Migrating North
- 2007/11/20: DeSmogBlog: Bangladesh: Devastating Present, Worse Future?
And then there are the forests:
- 2007/11/22: Yahoo: Indonesia's forests, a precious resource in climate change fight?
- 2007/11/21: TerraDaily: Dalai Lama bemoans deforestation of Tibet
- 2007/11/21: ABC(Au): Bali spotlight on Indonesian forests
- 2007/11/18: CDreams: Nation: Confronting the Global Timber Barons
Corals are dying:
- 2007/11/23: ClimateShifts: Coral reefs bursting to go
Desertification looms as a threat:
- 2007/11/20: TerraDaily: Ancient Chinese town on front lines of desertification battle
- 2007/11/20: AFP: Ancient Chinese town on front lines of desertification battle
We have heatwaves and wild fires:
- 2007/11/25: BBC: Up to 10,000 residents who were forced from their homes by wildfires in California are being allowed to return to their properties
- 2007/11/24: CNN: Wildfire swiftly devours homes, acreage near Malibu
Officials warn residents they're not out of danger even if winds die down - About 1,700 firefighters, 23 aircraft battling the wildfire - 35 homes destroyed; fire covers 2,200 acres - Hundreds evacuated; shelter set up at high school - 2007/11/22: PlanetArk: PNG Floods Kill 163, Thousands Displaced
- 2007/11/21: BBC: At least 150 people are now known to have died in eastern Papua New Guinea in floods triggered by heavy rain, reports from the Pacific nation say
- 2007/11/17: TerraDaily: Mexico fumigates flooded Tabasco to prevent dengue
- 2007/11/19: ENN: Floods displace 2,000 in Malawi
The troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:
- 2007/11/23: AfricaAsia: High food prices: Africa shows first signs of trouble
Recent violent unrest over soaring food prices in several West African nations points to new signs of trouble on a continent where nearly half the people live on a dollar a day, experts warn. After Mauritania and Morocco, Senegal this week was the latest country hit by violent protests - 2007/11/23: OilChange: Climate Change will Cause Agrarian Crisis
- 2007/11/22: TerraDaily: Scientists to discuss ways to 'climate-proof' crops [Hyderabad]
- 2007/11/22: TreeHugger: Plant Species Extinctions Could Slash Global Productivity in Half
- 2007/11/22: Yahoo: Scientists to discuss ways to 'climate-proof' crops
- 2007/11/22: AFP: Scientists warn of agrarian crisis from climate change
- 2007/11/21: Sedona: Our oil-based food system will run out of gas one day
- 2007/11/16: CapitalPress: Fuel costs give ag a chill - Rising prices for energy push net farm income down by 10 percent
- 2007/11/19: WaPo: Facing a Threat to Farming and Food Supply
- 2007/11/19: Yahoo: Food banks [pantries] struggling with shortages
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
- 2007/11/23: DailyTel: Methane-eating bacteria [methylokorus infernorum] could halt warming
- 2007/11/22: JFleck: Adaptation and Mitigation
- 2007/11/19: AfterGutenberg: IPCC Recommended Technologies and Practices to mitigate Emissions from Agriculture
- 2007/11/18: AfterGutenberg: IPCC Recommended Technologies and Practices to mitigate Emissions from Energy Production
- 2007/11/19: PhysOrg: Oceans could slurp up carbon dioxide to fight global warming
- 2007/11/20: SciDaily: Oceans Could Slurp Up Carbon Dioxide To Fight Global Warming
Consider transportation & GHG production:
- 2007/11/20: TreeHugger: How Carbon Neutral are British Trains?
While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:
- 2007/11/25: SMH: Climate for change in housing
- 2007/11/20: TreeHugger: 10 Commandments of (Sustainable) Design
Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:
- 2007/11/21: ENN: Proposed global warming solution [iron hypothesis] needs more scientific research
- 2007/11/18: AfterGutenberg: Don't Panic, But the Geo-engineers Have Arrived
- 2007/11/20: ABC(Au): Iron touted as tonic for climate-saving plankton [by Planktos]
Meanwhile in the journals:
- 2007/11/22: TC: Using in-situ temperature measurements to estimate saturated soil thermal properties by solving a sequence of optimization problems by D. J. Nicolsky et al.
- 2007/11/24: ACP: Application of a diode array spectroradiometer to measuring the spectral scattering properties of cloud types in a laboratory by A. R. D. Smedley et al.
- 2007/11/22: ACP: Size distributions of non-volatile particle residuals (Dp<800 nm) at a rural site in Germany and relation to air mass origin by C. Engler et al.
- 2007/11/22: ACP: Effects of total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 on surface radiation by S. Kazadzis et al.
- 2007/11/21: ACP: Data assimilation of stratospheric constituents: a review by W. A. Lahoz et al.
- 2007/11/23: ACPD: Dependence of cloud fraction and cloud top height on surface temperature derived from spectrally resolved UV/vis satellite observations by T. Wagner et al.
- 2007/11/23: ACPD: Aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation during the 1997 smoke episode in Indonesia by H.-F. Graf et al.
- 2007/11/23: ACPD: Intercomparison of UV-visible measurements of ozone and NO2 during the Canadian Arctic ACE validation campaigns: 2004-2006 by A. Fraser et al.
- 2007/11/22: ACPD: Biogenic emissions of NOx from recently wetted soils over West Africa observed during the AMMA 2006 campaign by D. J. Stewart et al.
- 2007/10/: UKCIP: (pdf - 60k) Climate Digest for October
- 2007/11/21: CP: How unusual was autumn 2006 in Europe? by G. J. van Oldenborgh
- 2007/11/20: ACP: Introducing the concept of Potential Aerosol Mass (PAM) by E. Kang et al.
- 2007/11/19: ACP: Elemental and organic carbon in PM10: a one year measurement campaign within the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme EMEP by K. E. Yttri et al.
- 2007/11/20: ACPD: Tropical thin cirrus and relative humidity observed by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder by B. H. Kahn et al.
- 2007/11/20: 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
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
- 2007/11/23: Stoat: Hansen, again
- 2007/11/22: PhysOrg: Interest in sub-glacial waters global
- 2007/11/22: BCLSB: Is The Science Settled Or What? Notes On A New Survey
- 2007/11/21: inel: Award for climate change work goes to Dr. Hope of Cambridge University Judge Business School
- 2007/11/22: TerraDaily: Are Current Projections Of Climate Change-Impacts On Biodiversity Misleading?
- 2007/11/21: Eureka: Are current projections of climate change-impacts on biodiversity misleading?
Further on free science publishing:
- 2007/11/21: JEB: Open access publishing
Obituary note:
- 2007/11/23: CBC: Hurricane intensity scale creator Herbert Saffir dies
Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:
- 2007/11/24: SciDaily: Kyoto Not Enough To Curb Climate Change
- 2007/11/23: SeanInSask: Beyond Kyoto - It is time to move on, but not give up
- 2007/11/20: ENN: Kyoto backers can exceed 2012 climate goals: U.N.
And on the emissions trading front:
- 2007/11/21: HillHeat: International Aid Groups Call for "Robust Permit Auctions" to Support Adaptation
- 2007/11/21: ENN: EU-U.N. carbon trade to link by April '09
- 2007/11/20: PhysOrg: Cap-and-trade policies could hurt Utah - Because Utah enjoys access to low-cost, coal-fired electric generation...
The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:
- 2007/11/20: EcoEcon: US Congressional Budget Office Favors Carbon Tax
The debate over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs continues:
- 2007/11/19: ENN: New carbon offset standard aims for transparency
Meanwhile on the international political front:
- 2007/11/24: Guardian(UK): Rich nations fail to honour climate pledge
A group of rich countries including Britain has broken a promise to pay more than a billion dollars to help the developing world cope with the effects of climate change. The group agreed in 2001 to pay $1.2bn (600m pounds) to help poor and vulnerable countries predict and plan for the effects of global warming, as well as fund flood defences, conservation and thousands of other projects. But new figures show less than 90m pounds of the promised money has been delivered. Britain has so far paid just 10m pounds. - 2007/11/23: DeSmogBlog: Global warming is a problem for rich countries to solve, China says
- 2007/11/19: UN: Asia-Pacific region needs sustainable growth, UN climate change envoy says
The United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy on Climate Change, Han Seung-soo, today in Bangkok called on countries in the region to pursue sustainable growth. "We can turn the crisis of climate change into a new economic opportunity," Mr. Han told a committee of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) - 2007/11/19: BBC: Climate 'will undo Asian success'
Climate change will reverse decades of social and economic progress across Asia, campaigners claim. A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies calls for urgent action to avert the threat. The Working Group on Climate Change and Development says industrialised countries must cut carbon emissions massively by mid-century. The coalition calls on the UK government to set an example by championing renewable energy. The report - Up In Smoke? Asia and the Pacific - says Asia is "effectively on the front line of climate change", as it is home to almost two-thirds of the world's population - 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): Climate change will destroy Asia's gains, study says
As for GW & security:
- 2007/11/22: Reuters: History shows climate changes led to war
- 2007/11/22: TerraDaily: New Research Shows Climate Change Triggers Wars And Population Decline
- 2007/11/21: MongaBay: Past climate change triggered wars, population decline
- 2007/11/21: PhysOrg: New research shows climate change triggers wars and population decline
- 2007/11/21: SciDaily: Climate Change Triggers Wars And Population Decline
- 2007/11/19: NewScientist: War has historic links to global climate change
And on the American political front:
- 2007/11/21: DeSmogBlog: California Making Green [by going green]
- 2007/11/21: WarmingLaw: More States, More Action, More Inevitability
- 2007/11/20: ClimateP: The so-so Voluntary Carbon Standard for offsets
- 2007/11/20: ClimateP: House Buys Carbon Credits Through Chicago Climate Exchange
- 2007/11/20: ClimateP: The Inaugural California Green Innovation Index
- 2007/11/20: Missoulian: Governor [Brian Schweitzer] releases goals on emissions
- 2007/11/19: CCurrents: A World Dying, But Can We Unite To Save It?
- 2007/11/19: ClimateP: Schendler Part III: Aspen SkiCo and global warming
- 2007/11/19: TruthOut: A World Dying, but Can We Unite to Save It?
- 2007/11/19: CDreams: BaltimoreSun: US Excess Vs. Nature's Limits
The Lieberman-Warner bill is still crawling toward its veto:
- 2007/11/20: HillHeat: Enviro Groups Call on EPW to Strengthen, Approve Lieberman-Warner
- 2007/11/15: Economist: Global warming - Getting the message, at last [L-W]
- 2007/11/19: TruthOut: Inclusion of Renewables in Energy Bill Receives New Political Support
Noting the US Thanksgiving holiday:
- 2007/11/21: ClimateP: Five climate events to be thankful for
- 2007/11/21: TreeHugger: Five Climate Change Events To Be Thankful For
An oddity at the Smithsonian:
- 2007/11/19: WaPo: Smithsonian Project Loses Oil Sponsor - $5 Million Gift for 'Ocean Initiative' Withdrawn [by API] Before Board Review
- 2007/11/19: PRWatch: Smithsonian: A Museum Acting Strangely
Some editors had advice for the Bush administration:
- 2007/11/20: HuffPo: Bush Fiddles While the World Burns
- 2007/11/21: Oregonian: Heed the climate scientists
A report by international experts makes it clear world leaders must move swiftly to fight global warming - 2007/11/21: STimes: Climate change: Lead or step aside
The United States can best influence how the world addresses global warming by leading the way instead of sniping from the sidelines. Constructive participation in meetings next month in Bali, Indonesia, must set the tone - 2007/11/20: SLTrib: Burning legacy: Bush is responsible for ignoring global warming
- 2007/11/19: SeattlePI: Global Warming: A call to action
- 2007/11/20: NYT: The Scientists Speak - The world's scientists have done their job. Now it's time for world leaders...to do theirs
- 2007/11/17: Nation: As the World Burns
The 2008 campaign is not lighting any fires:
- 2007/11/21: CSM: U.N. climate recap adds heat to '08 race
The US presidential candidates are focusing their position on global warming, the second-most-important issue for independent voters - 2007/11/20: OilChange: Presidential Hopefuls Outline Climate Plans
- 2007/11/19: GristMill: Errata - A few last bits of musing from Grist's presidential forum on climate
- 2007/11/19: GristMill: They write stories - Coverage of Grist's presidential climate forum
- 2007/11/19: GristMill: More light, less heat - Reflections on Grist's presidential forum on climate change
The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:
- 2007/11/19: DeSmogBlog: Gore and Bush to Meet Again
- 2007/11/19: SMH: An inconvenient task: Bush to honour Gore
While in the UK:
- 2007/11/23: Guardian(UK): [Energy Saving Trust (EST)] Study reveals UK's highest carbon emission areas
- 2007/11/23: Guardian(UK): Industry slow to act on carbon-saving advice, report finds
- 2007/11/20: Guardian(UK): Memo plays down impact of emergency savings 13bn 25%
- 2007/11/19: EnergyDaily: Climate change driving 'fourth tech revolution': British PM
- 2007/11/19: ENN: Britain stakes claim to global climate leadership
UK PM Gordon Brown has entered "what he says vs. what he does" territory:
- 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): Brown ready to make deeper emissions cuts
- 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): Cautious welcome for Brown's green vision - Campaigners say they want PM to back his words with action
- 2007/11/20: Guardian(UK): Has Brown finally become a bright-green revolutionary?
These environmental targets mean change on an epic scale - and will require the state to take a lead on painful decisions - 2007/11/19: BBC: PM outlines climate action plan
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said there will be a "green hotline" to advise people on what they can do to cut their impact on the environment. Mr Brown, who said the UK's emission target of a 60% cut by 2050 could be increased to 80%, said he would also seek the end of one-use plastic bags. He committed Britain to meeting EU targets on boosting renewable energy - 2007/11/24: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Bumpy takeoff for Heathrow plan
- 2007/11/23: inel: Carbon trading our way to extinction [Heathrow]
- 2007/11/22: Guardian(UK): [UK Transport Secretary, Ruth] Kelly reveals plans for third Heathrow runway
- 2007/11/22: Guardian(UK): MP says airport plans are 'absolute betrayal'
- 2007/11/23: Guardian(UK): Government accused of betrayal over Heathrow plan
- 2007/11/22: OilChange: UK Government Proposes Third Runway at Heathrow
And in Europe:
- 2007/11/24: AFP: Auto polluters must pay in Europe: Barroso
Car makers that fail to respect planned new EU emissions limits will have to pay "damages," European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said in an interview to be published Sunday - 2007/11/23: ENN: EU to require biofuels cut emissions 10 pct
- 2007/11/20: PlanetArk: Germany at Odds With UK on Renewable Goals
- 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): We'll fight you all the way, airlines warn EU over carbon-trading plans
Meanwhile in Australia:
- 2007/11/24: SMH: Climate debate we forgot to have about cap that does not fit
- 2007/11/23: ABC(Au): Libs back Moomba carbon storage plan
- 2007/11/23: ABC(Au): Clouds form over rain-making technology
Rain-making technology funded by the Australian Government has been given the thumbs down by international scientists, says an adviser to the World Meteorological Organisation - 2007/11/23: ABC(Au): Climate change emphasis 'hurting short-term efforts'
- 2007/11/19: ClimateShifts: Analysis of the Australian government response to the IPCC
- 2007/11/22: ClimateShifts: Beyond belief: Turnbull overturns scientific consensus
- 2007/11/23: Guardian(UK): The lucky country?
The Australian prime minister, John Howard, has poured scorn on the idea of global warming. But now the trees are dying, the crops are failing and the rivers are drying up. As the country prepares to go to the polls... - 2007/11/22: ABC(Au): Orange launches climate change action group
Another environmental group is being formed in Orange in central western New South Wales. The Orange Climate Action Now group, which will be launched tonight, will be a sub-committee of the Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange - 2007/11/22: DeSmogBlog: Australia Set to Become a Global Warming Leader With Howard's Expected Election Defeat
- 2007/11/22: ABC(Au): Experts launch climate action plan for incoming [Aus] govt
- 2007/11/21: ABC(Au): Climate change 'swinging seniors to Greens'
- 2007/11/21: OilChange: Oz: Opposition Leader [Kevin Rudd] Says Climate is Top Priority
- 2007/11/21: ABC(Au): Ads turn up heat on climate change
- 2007/11/21: ABC(Au): [Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander] Downer arrives for Asian summit
- 2007/11/20: ABC(Au): [Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander] Downer to push for climate change declaration
- 2007/11/19: France24: Climate change priority in Australian vote
- 2007/11/19: ABC(Au): Public transport key to climate change: Tas Libs
- 2007/11/20: ABC(Au): [Environment Minister Malcolm] Turnbull pumps $10m into rainmaking gamble
- 2007/11/19: ABC(Au): Survey shows environment a top priority for young voters
- 2007/11/19: TreeHugger: Climate Change to be a Determining Factor in Australia's Election
- 2007/11/19: Yahoo: Australia's Rudd will sign Kyoto pact if wins vote
- 2007/11/19: SMH: Environment goes from bad to worse
- 2007/11/19: SMH: Wentworth duel reflects growing climate of change [Aus election]
- 2007/11/19: SMH: Oasis country dying of thirst
In the "other Wentworth", the election and climate warnings are a dry argument. For the first time, Murray-Darling shire confronts the shock of a zero water allocation [Aus election] - 2007/11/19: SMH: The luck stops here: PM's time almost up
While in China:
- 2007/11/23: NewScientist: China surges ahead on clean energy spending
- 2007/11/22: ClimateP: The Story of the Week (if true): China wants to freeze emissions at 2005 levels
In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper continues his do-nothing mischief, this time for the international stage:
- 2007/11/24: DivaRachel: Canada drags Commonwealth down on Enviro issues
- 2007/11/25: ABC(Au): Commonwealth leaders focus on climate change
- 2007/11/24: TMoS: The Commonwealth's Last Dinosaur - Harper
- 2007/11/24: Impolitical: Harpie the global warming gambler
- 2007/11/23: Impolitical: John Baird's Canada: we're all talk and now an environmental international pariah
- 2007/11/24: CTV: The Commonwealth's leaders agreed to an action plan on climate change that doesn't set out binding targets or timelines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- 2007/11/23: AccidentalDeliberations: Off target - When asked to explain their withdrawal from Kyoto in all but the ability to show up at (and disrupt) ongoing negotiations for the next phase...
- 2007/11/23: Far-n-Wide: "Leading The World" - There we go, "leading the world" again, which seems to be a code phrase for "embarrassing"...
- 2007/11/23: TMoS: Canada Stands Alone On Climate Change in Kampala
- 2007/11/23: CBC: Harper stands alone on climate change at Commonwealth summit
- 2007/11/23: CTV: Canada blocking Commonwealth climate-change deal
Canada is reportedly holding up a resolution at the Commonwealth summit in Uganda which calls for binding climate change targets, sources have confirmed. Environmentalists and Commonwealth sources claim Canada has problems with the resolution despite virtually all other countries in attendance, except Australia, supporting it, reports The Canadian Press. The resolution calls for global emission targets and comes ahead of next month's UN-sponsored meeting in Bali, Indonesia where negotiations will be made to find a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. Climate Action Network Canada claims other international environmentalists told them that Canada and Australia are holding out on the resolution, reports CP - 2007/11/22: CBC: Opposition barred from Canadian delegation to Bali climate change talks
- 2007/11/22: G&M: Opposition MPs fuming about being left off Bali delegation - 'It's so petty,' NDP environment critic says
There'll be no room for opposition MPs in the Canadian government's inn at next month's crucial climate-change talks in Bali, Indonesia. Environment Minister John Baird's office confirmed yesterday that representatives from the three opposition parties would not be welcome as part of Canada's official delegation at the United Nations conference. That's a departure from a long-held government tradition of bringing critics along to major international conferences. Opposition MPs participated in a major UN environmental conference in Nairobi last November, for example. This coming meeting will set the stage for a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012 and does not include the developing world. - 2007/11/21: TStar: Climate change a test for Harper
Can you say inadequate?
- 2007/11/21: PhysOrg: Canada awards $1.1M for energy projects
The BC climate plan continues to evolve:
- 2007/11/20: CanWest: B.C. sets tough greenhouse gas reduction targets
Trim by 33 per cent from B.C.'s current levels by 2020; reports to be issued every two years - 2007/11/14: PembinaInstitute: Mind The Gap - A Blueprint for Climate Action in British Columbia, Summary Report
- 2007/11/21: Tyee: Falling Short on Climate Change - Report tries to bridge the gap between promises and policy
- 2007/11/21: CanWest: Going Green enshrined into law - Government bill establishes target to be achieved by 2020
- 2007/11/20: Tyee: First Nations Leader to Premier: Carbon Credits 'Belong to Us'
- 2007/11/20: G&M: B.C. to make climate-change targets part of law
- 2007/11/19: CanWest: Opposition, critics eager to see 'the devil in the details'
Premier Campbell is set to release his sweeping green plan this week - 2007/11/24: CBC:Q&Q: (mp3, ogg) Canada in 2050 - Our Future in a Changing Climate
The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:
- 2007/11/23: CCurrents: The Cancer Of Growth
It has become possible, only after tragedies such as the one that took place in Tabasco, to publicly debate a central precept of the dominant religion: the goal of accelerated economic growth. Fifty years of propaganda have converted the economists' dogma into a general prejudice. Without discussion, we accept that accelerated economic growth is desirable. Now the time has come to abandon this pernicious obsession - 2007/11/20: News(Au): Top ex-pat scientist urges population curbs
Halting population growth in developing countries should be part of a global strategy to reduce mankind's impact on the environment, according to an eminent expatriate Australian scientist. Immediate past president of the Royal Society, Professor Lord Robert May said that, given the threat of climate change, a declining global population was "a prerequisite" if humanity was to achieve a sustainable ecological footprint in the future. Addressing the Lowy Institute in Sydney last night, Lord May said a priority was educating and empowering women, "particularly in those cultures where this is not currently the case" - 2007/11/11: Zone5: Bursting point: The World's Unsustainable Population
Apocalypso anyone?
- 2007/11/19: MTobis: The Cliff; the Runaway Train
- 2007/11/19: BCLSB: Enjoy The Warm Weather, Blame China, Wait For The Mass Die Off
- 2007/11/19: TerraDaily: Cooling Down Begins At Svalbard Global Seed Vault
As for how the media handles the science of climatology:
- 2007/11/21: HuffPo: Where's the Press?
- 2007/11/19: CSpin: Midwest climate pact generates little attention
Regarding that Revkin 'centrism' spat:
- 2007/11/21: GristMill: What he said - Tobis on the multidimensionality of the climate discussion
[...] Opinion space is multidimensional, not linear. That is my problem with Revkin's approach. Journalism's common error isn't just about concentrating on extremes, it's about modeling the whole conversation as a one-dimensional spectrum of opinion - 2007/11/19: BSD: The real middle on climate science, and why no one is or should be there
And for your film & video enjoyment:
- 2007/11/24: CSW: Review of _Everything's Cool_ in the New York Times
- 2007/11/21: CSW: _Everything's Cool_ global warming film opens for a one-week run in New York and LA Nov. 23-29
Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:
- 2007/11/20: HillHeat: Major Court Ruling Against NHTSA on SUV CAFE Standards
- 2007/11/19: WarmingLaw: Full of Hot Air - Gauging some of the critical reaction to Thursday's 9th Circuit ruling...
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
- 2007/11/24: AfterGutenberg: 80% Natural Gas / 20% Bio-methane
- 2007/11/24: AfterGutenberg: Fuels from Hell, Fuels from Heaven
- 2007/11/22: BioEnergyBiz: Babcock & Brown offers rescue for biofuels fund
- 2007/11/22: EnvFin: RWE launches new company for renewables drive
- 2007/11/22: EnergyDaily: The Power Of Multiples: Connecting Wind Farms Can Make A More Reliable - And Cheaper - Power Source
- 2007/11/21: NewScientist: Cheap hydrogen power gets a nanotube boost
- 2007/11/20: TerraDaily: Chinese firm to construct 243 million dollar hydropower station [in Zambia]
- 2007/11/21: Eureka: The power of multiples: Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable - and cheaper - power source
- 2007/11/20: TruthOut: Give Thanks for Oil - and OPEC
- 2007/11/20: DotEarth: Is Hugo Chavez Smiling Over Kansas, or Coal?
- 2007/11/20: PhysOrg: Thermoelectric materials are 1 key to energy savings
- 2007/11/20: Eureka: MIT: Thermoelectric materials are 1 key to energy savings - Researchers jumpstart old field with new approach
- 2007/11/20: CNN: Oil makes fresh run at $100 - Crude sets new closing high, rising over $3 a barrel, on refinery outages, falling dollar and Fed hints at further rate cuts
- 2007/11/19: Atmoz: Tom Hansen (TEP): Watt Choices for the Future
- 2007/11/19: PhysOrg: Hydrogen, the wave of the future, but how far down the road?
- 2007/11/19: PhysOrg: Report finds increased domestic production won't make US self-sufficient in natural gas
- 2007/11/19: AFTIC: Efficient hydrogen production?
- 2007/11/19: ENN: Clean Energy's Best-Kept Secret: Waste Heat Recovery
Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:
- 2007/11/21: NEN: Because the sun is where the energy is
- 2007/11/20: AP: Solar wafer manufacturer opens plant in Oregon
The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:
- 2007/11/25: SMH: Scientists censures anti-coal lobby
One of Australia's most respected scientists has criticised anti-coal mining groups as being short-sighted. Professor Robin Batterham, a former chief scientist of Australia, has also warned that alternatives to traditional fossil fuels will have to be developed at a faster pace or society will suffer the effects of climate change. Although now group chief scientist for Rio Tinto, Professor Batterham said his comments about the coal industry were being made as a private expert - 2007/11/21: TEB: An Inconvenient, Dirty Truth About Cheap and Plentiful Coal
- 2007/11/22: NatureN: 50-year-old fire put out - An underground coal fire has been snuffed out in China after decades of burning.
- 2007/11/22: Stoat: Sock it to 'em [coal, Hansen]
- 2007/11/22: DeSmogBlog: Indiana OK's $2 Billion Next Generation [IGCC] Coal Plant
- 2007/11/21: GristMill: Environmentalism and the future of coal, part one - Jeremy Carl argues that coal will be with us for a long while
- 2007/11/21: TreeHugger: Liquid Coal: The Stupid Fuel
- 2007/11/22: PlanetArk: Indiana OKs [IGCC] Coal Plant That Can Fight Carbon
- 2007/11/22: PlanetArk: Nevada Coal Power Costlier Than Renewable: [ECONorthwest] Study
- 2007/11/21: SMH: Slash dirty coal within 15 years
- 2007/11/20: PhysOrg: Near Zero Emissions Coal study launched in Beijing [with BGS]
- 2007/11/20: BGS: UK scientists lead China closer to carbon capture and storage
- 2007/11/19: BBC: Is coal about to make a comeback?
- 2007/11/18: MOracle: Coal - The Next Energy Resource Boom
- 2007/11/18: LA Times: Coal addiction hinders climate cleanup
- 2007/11/19: Oregonian: Emissions goals set; now comes hard part
To reach targets, Oregon faces the prospect of cutting cheap, reliable coal energy at a time when power demand is surging - 2007/11/24: GristMill: Asking the wrong questions - An alternative view in biofuels, from a Briton in Sudan
- 2007/11/23: TreeHugger: Microbreweries Hopping Mad Over Biofuels
- 2007/11/20: CarbonFin: Carbon market takes sides in palm oil battle
- 2007/11/22: PhysOrg: Britain to build world's biggest biomass plant
- 2007/11/21: EnergyDaily: Britain to build world's biggest biomass plant
- 2007/11/22: EnergyDaily: DOE JGI Plumbs Termite Guts To Yield Novel Enzymes For Better Biofuel Production
- 2007/11/21: SciDaily: Termite Guts May Yield Novel Enzymes For Better Biofuel Production
- 2007/11/21: STimes: Seeding the way to better biofuels
The nuclear energy controversy continues:
- 2007/11/21: ABC(Au): US nuclear industry set for expansion [for the first time in 30 years]
- 2007/11/13: PINR: Economic Brief: Nuclear Revival in Europe Increasingly Likely
- 2007/11/20: PhysOrg: SE Asian leaders back nuclear energy
We have a peak oil sighting:
- 2007/11/24: Guardian(UK): $100 oil: the terrible truth - Nearing the price barrier is a pointer to the peak of output, and the crisis the powerful want to ignore
- 2007/11/22: Telegraph(UK): Apocalyptic vision of a post-fossil fuel world [Heinberg]
- 2007/11/19: TruthOut: Beyond the Age of Petroleum by Michael T. Klare
- 2007/11/19: Wired:Autopia: More Evidence We've Entered the End of Oil
And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:
- 2007/11/22: FuturePundit: Heating Furnace Efficiency Mandates And Comparison Of Heat Sources
- 2007/11/24: ModBee: Ceres schools get serious about cutting energy bill
- 2007/11/23: CSM: Will future home furnaces be more efficient? New US standards announced this week barely raise the bar, critics say
- 2007/11/21: REA: Coalition Says U.S. Standard for Home Furnaces is a 'Turkey'
- 2007/11/19: PhysOrg: Energy Dept. issues [higher efficiency] boiler, furnace guides
- 2007/11/19: CDreams: BostonGlobe: The Road to Energy Conservation
- 2007/11/19: ENN: Act Now on Climate Change: Go For Energy Efficiency
Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:
- 2007/11/24: AutoBG: Tata to unveil India's first fuel cell car in 2008
- 2007/11/23: ClimateP: VW: "Fuel cell cars won't save the world"
- 2007/11/19: DIYEC: Six Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared
- 2007/11/21: ClimateP: Dream of hydrogen car goes down in flames
- 2007/11/20: inel: Cars. All in a crazy day in California
- 2007/11/20: WarmingLaw: The Auto Industry's No-Good, Horrible, Very Bad Arguments
- 2007/11/20: WarmingLaw: The Auto Industry's No-Good, Horrible, Very Bad Week Continues
- 2007/11/19: GristMill: Plug-in reality check - The debate on plug-ins begins
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
- 2007/11/22: ENN: Climate change not priority for Indian firms: study
Most firms in India, one of the world's worst polluters, are yet to plan for the impact of climate change on their businesses, do not measure emissions or have deadlines to curb them, a study said on Thursday. However, many Indian companies are aware of the commercial opportunities presented by global warming, according to the survey by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a global agency working towards a low-carbon economy. Only about a third of 110 top companies polled responded to the survey that sought information on opportunities and risks from climate change, emission levels and strategies to cut pollution, among other issues - 2007/11/19: EnvEcon: Walmart doesn't want to be a green company--so why are they trying?
Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:
- 2007/11/24: HuffPo: The Greenwash: Why Not, Toyota?
- 2007/11/24: SMH: Rise of the great green wash
- 2007/11/22: EnvFin: All but one product fails greenwashing survey
Only one product out of more than 1,000 has passed a test to detect "greenwashing" carried out by environmental marketing agency TerraChoice - 2007/11/20: ClimateP: NBC's Vast Green Wasteland or Lipstick on a Pig
- 2007/11/20: TreeHugger: Greenwash Watch: Beyond the Marketing Spin
- 2007/11/20: OilChange: Oil for Climate Protection?
- 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): Wiping out 'greenwash'
Companies are keen to advertise their ecological credentials. But beyond the marketing spin, how green are they really? - 2007/11/23: ERabett: Hitting ourselves with a rake
- 2007/11/23: Deltoid: What if you demanded a debate and nobody came?
- 2007/11/23: DeSmogBlog: John Locke Foundation Fumbling in the Cold
- 2007/11/21: GristMill: [Dessler] OK, I'm demanding debate - Search for local climate skeptic in Texas proves fruitless [denial]
- 2007/11/21: Reuters: Big oil, its lobby court bloggers in media push
- 2007/11/22: inel: Oilcos woo bloggers to spread their tales
- 2007/11/22: TreeHugger: Why Demand Debate Over Climate Change?
- 2007/11/20: CSpin: Chicago Sun-Times business editor shills for denialists
- 2007/11/21: inel: ExxonMobil's destination: a world with more energy supplies --- and fewer greenhouse gas emissions
- 2007/11/21: WarmingLaw: Ending the Distortions
- 2007/11/21: DeSmogBlog: Sun-Times Editor Shills for Heartland Institute
- 2007/11/21: DeSmogBlog: Jim Gooch Drinks Global Warming Denial Hooch in Kentucky
- 2007/11/20: PRWatch: Bringing the Heat on Warming
- 2007/11/18: ChicagoTrib: Editor may feel some heat after letter, DVDs
- 2007/11/19: ClimateP: OPEC joins Bush, Gingrich, and Lomborg in climate technology strategy
- 2007/11/19: HfxNews: An unstoppable problem - Global warming is very real, but there's nothing humankind can do about it
- 2007/11/19: Deltoid: La Terre est ronde
- 2007/11/18: RealClimate: Les Chevaliers de l'Ordre de la Terre Plate, Part I: Allègre and Courtillot
- 2007/11/19: CCM: Why Was U.S. Science Scared to Challenge ExxonMobil?
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
- 2007/11/23: CCDenial: Don't Save the Planet
Please- I beg you- if you care about climate change forget about "saving the planet": this wretched phrase sums up everything that is wrong about the way we think about climate change - 2007/11/24: AfterGutenberg: Absolutely Now
- 2007/11/24: TSDoM: Good News and Bad News - Coastlines in the arctic & Kevin Rudd's victory
- 2007/11/23: 1Sky: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- 2007/11/23: ClimateP: The Poetry of Climate Action
- 2007/11/23: inel: Science community blamed AGAIN?! Climate policymakers need to carry the torch now
- 2007/11/23: JQuiggin: The Day after Tomorrow
- 2007/11/23: TreeHugger: David Suzuki in Real Life and in Print
- 2007/11/23: DeSmogBlog: Why Temperature Lags Behind C02 - another "global warming myth" explained
- 2007/11/22: ClimateShifts: Facing up to the realities of climate change
- 2007/11/22: EnvFin: New regulations push down US SO2
- 2007/11/22: FergusB: Doing something useful; is there a change in the wind?
- 2007/11/20: KSJT: NY Times ScienceTimes: Double tree news, our many denials
- 2007/11/20: DotEarth: An Effort to See That Carbon Saved Is Carbon Earned
- 2007/11/20: C411: The Global Warming in the Pipeline
- 2007/11/19: Guardian(UK): Our science fiction fate - The planet's dire state makes the imaginative leaps of dystopian SF writers redundant [says Brian Aldiss]
And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
- 1Sky
- Climate Shifts
- CACC: Campaign against Climate Change
- EPICA: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
- CRU: STARDEX - Statistical and Regional dynamical Downscaling of Extremes for European regions
- DeSmogBlog - Clearing the air on climate change
- Rising Tide (UK) - Taking Action on the Root Causes of Climate Change
- CCI: Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet using precision GPS measurements
- UTexas: AGASEA: Airborne geophysical survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica
- Climate Change Action
- Climate Justice Now!
- Climate IMC
- CRU: Climatic Research Unit - Information Sheets
- Bryan's Blog [Bryan Lawrence]
It's always nice to start with a wee chuckle:
Interest is rising in the upcoming Bali conference:
GHGs have hit a new high:
Tamino is starting a tutorial series on Milankovitch cycles:
And speaking of floods & droughts:
The Brown Government has revealed plans for a third Heathrow runway:
And Harper doesn't like to be reminded how poorly he is acting:
But "the rules of the road have been lodged":
CBC's Quirk & Quarks did an hour long special on the Canadian climate in 2050:
IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:
Biofuel bickering abounds:
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
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