Another Week of GW News, December 2, 2007

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• McKinsey & Co., UNDP Human Development Report, Scenarios, Oxfam, SPM
• Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, la Nina, Glaciers, WAIS, Satellites, LIMA
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• Nukes, Peak Oil, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Insurance, Carbon Lobby
• The Usual, Useful Links
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Here's a chuckle for ye:

• 2007/11/26: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) The Conveniences of Our Lifestyle

  The big story of the week has to be anticipation of the Bali conference starting tomorrow:

• 2007/12/03: ABC(Au): Bali welcomes climate change representatives
• 2007/12/02: PhysOrg: Indonesia Hosting Global Warming Talks
• 2007/12/01: GristMill: Injustice - The 100 most vulnerable nations have contributed least to climate change
• 2007/12/02: ENN: Bali talks to seek global climate deal in 2009
• 2007/12/02: ENN: India to tell West to shoulder climate change burden [Bali]
• 2007/12/02: Yahoo: Bali talks to seek global climate deal in 2009
• 2007/12/02: CCurrents: Poverty Sucks, The Earth And The Soul [Bali]
• 2007/12/02: Xinhuanet: UNFCCC: "Common but differentiated responsibilities" to play important role
• 2007/12/02: Xinhuanet: Dress code changed to fit Bali climate change meeting's aura
• 2007/12/02: Xinhuanet: Indonesia ready for UN climate change conference
• 2007/12/02: Xinhuanet: Roadmap on new climate change regime, a challenging task
  Worldwide efforts on tackling the worsening global warming issue will go into top gear here on Monday, with the opening of the 13th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Over 180 countries, represented by some 10,000 delegates, will take part in the conference on Dec. 3-14 in Bali, a resort island of Indonesia. The main purpose of the meeting is to begin negotiations for a new climate change regime to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012
• 2007/12/02: Guardian(UK): Bali's road map for planet's survival
• 2007/12/01: SMH: Emissions road map a crucial mission - It's crunch time in the fight against climate change - and Bali may present our final hope...
• 2007/11/30: Guardian(UK): Q&A: Bali climate change conference
• 2007/11/28: MongaBay: Hope in Bali: the December Meetings on Climate Change
• 2007/11/30: TruthOut: Bali: Now the Rich Must Pay [Stern]
• 2007/11/30: GristMill: Bali eve - Delegates of all stripes prepare for the trip to Bali
• 2007/11/30: C411: What We're Doing in Bali Next Week
• 2007/11/30: TerraDaily: In Bali The Other USA Will Be With The World
  Looking ahead to the U.N. Climate Change Conference that begins next week, a diverse chorus of elected officials and citizens are speaking out to assure the international community that Americans are moving global warming solutions forward, despite the lack of White House leadership
• 2007/11/30: DeSmogBlog: UN Warns Poor Countries Face "Adaptation Apartheid"
• 2007/11/30: ENN: China wary on international climate goals
• 2007/11/30: Yahoo: Bush clings to anti-Kyoto stance ahead of climate talks
• 2007/11/30: Guardian(UK): Climate chief calls for 80% cuts in greenhouse gas
• 2007/11/30: Guardian(UK): Bali: now the rich must pay by Nicholas Stern
• 2007/11/29: ABC(Au): Rich should pay for climate change: Brazil
• 2007/11/29: ENN: Japan to propose new climate forum with U.S., China
  Japan wants to involve China and the United States in talks over a new pact on climate change by launching a working group that will bring together all countries, including the major emitters that oppose existing plans. The foreign ministry said on Thursday that Japan would propose forming such a group at a meeting in Bali, Indonesia, next month to discuss long-term climate targets, research and development of emission-reducing technology and other issues
• 2007/11/29: Eureka: Having the climate cake and eating it, too
• 2007/11/29: Yahoo: U.S. officials plan only talk at UN meet
  U.S. officials intend to push at next week's United Nations climate conference for a framework for further negotiations and said Wednesday they will make no commitment to specific reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
• 2007/11/29: CSM: Bali climate summit: a test of the world's resolve
  At next week's meeting in Indonesia, more than 100 nations will gather to work on a new emissions pact
• 2007/11/26: QuarkSoup: Bali Carbon Footprint
• 2007/11/26: WaPo: Climate Obstacles Ahead
• 2007/11/26: ENN: India and EU to push trade and climate at [Bali] summit
• 2007/11/26: AFP: Before Bali, Merkel calls on EU partners to keep pledges

  150 global companies signed a pre-Bali communique calling for binding cuts in GHG emissions:

• 2007/12/01: TMoS: 150 Big Fat Pinkos Sign Bali Communique
• 2007/11/30: ThinkP: Top businesses demand action on global warming
• 2007/11/30: WaPo: 150 Global Firms Seek Mandatory Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 2007/11/30: Guardian(UK): Global business leaders call for climate change pact
• 2007/11/29: GristMill: Somebody didn't get the environment vs. economy memo - Over 150 companies worldwide sign climate petition in advance of Bali
• 2007/12/01: GWWatch: World's big companies want clear climate outcomes from Bali
• 2007/11/30: DeSmogBlog: White House Ignoring Big Business Push For Mandatory Carbon Caps
• 2007/11/30: DeSmogBlog: 150 Multinational Corporations Fess Up to Greenwishing
• 2007/11/29: Yahoo: Business leaders seek action on warming
• 2007/11/30: OilChange: Business Leaders Call for Climate Action
• 2007/11/29: EnvFin: More climate change regulation needed, says global business
• 2007/11/30: BBC: Business call for plan on climate
  Global businesses have called for a legally binding and comprehensive international deal on climate change. A binding agreement on emissions reductions would encourage business to invest in low-carbon technologies, a statement from 150 businesses said. The statement - backed by Prince Charles - will be sent to environment ministers and heads of state ahead of talks in Bali on climate change. Nokia, Tesco, Lloyds TSB and Nike are among the 150 firms that made the call. The signatories represent companies from Europe, the US, China and Australia

A McKinsey & Co. report on low cost ways to cut emissions generated a wave of excitement:

• 2007/12/02: TreeHugger: Negative Cost Opportunities Could Help U.S. Slash 28% of Emissions
• 2007/11/30: KSJT: NYTimes: Hey, America! Biz consultants say cut greenhouse gases a lot, make money (a lot of that too)
• 2007/11/30: GristMill: It can be done - McKinsey & Co. on how to reduce greenhouse gases
• 2007/11/30: ClimateP: McKinsey: Fighting climate change is affordable
• 2007/11/30: NYT: Study Details How U.S. Could Cut 28% of Greenhouse Gases
• 2007/11/29: C411: Study Finds Plenty of Low-Cost Ways to Cut Emissions

  The UNDP released a Human Development Report:

• 2007/11/29: NatureCF: Climate change "will undermine poverty progress" [HDR]
• 2007/11/: UNDP:HDR: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
• 2007/11/29: HillHeat: UN Human Development Report: Less Than a Decade to Change Course
• 2007/11/27: UNDP: Climate change threatens unprecedented human development reversals - UNDP report
• 2007/11/27: Google:CP: UN report criticizes Canada, other rich countries on climate change
• 2007/11/28: Yahoo: Tackling climate change to cost 1.6 percent of GDP: UN
  Climate change could have apocalyptic consequences for the world's poor and tackling it will require cuts in greenhouse gases costing 1.6 percent of global annual GDP, the UN Development Program said in a report Tuesday. Entitled "The Struggle Against Climate Change," the UNDP report paints an alarming picture of the climate change problem and urges richer countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050, with cuts of 30 percent by 2020. The proposed reductions in emissions are "stringent but affordable," the report said. Between now and 2030, the average annual cost would amount to 1.6 percent of global GDP, said the report to be presented Tuesday at a ceremony attended by UNDP chief Kemal Dervis and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
• 2007/11/27: Guardian(UK): 10 years to change our ways, warns UN report
• 2007/11/27: Yahoo: Poor in need of help from global warming
  Floods, droughts and other climate disasters will rob millions of children of the decent meals and schools they need unless rich nations pony up $86 billion by 2015 to help the poor adapt to global warming, an expert panel warned Tuesday. The U.S. government needs to cover $40 billion of that spending, which will "strengthen the capacity of vulnerable people" to cope with climate-related risks, according to the report commissioned by the U.N. Development Program. The nearly 400-page Human Development Report comes just a week before the world's nations convene in Indonesia to negotiate a new climate treaty. It adds a dire economic perspective to previous U.N. scientific findings that carbon and other heat-trapping "greenhouse gas" emissions must stabilize by 2015 and then decline. Without the money, the panel found, a warmer world "could stall and then reverse human development" in the countries where 2.6 billion people live on $2 a day or less

How's your crystal ball?

• 2007/11/26: PeakEnergy: Green Tomorrows: Four Scenarios

  Late comment on the Oxfam report:

• 2007/11/26: ClimateP: Weather disasters have quadrupled in 20 years
• 2007/11/26: TruthOut: Years of Living Dangerously: The Wild, Wild World
  It's not just your imagination, the weather really is getting worse... why disasters are coming faster, and more furiously than ever
• 2007/11/25: PhysOrg: Natural disasters have quadrupled in two decades: study
• 2007/11/26: DeSmogBlog: Natural Disasters Quadrupled in Last 20 Years
• 2007/11/25: ThinkP: Natural disasters quadrupled in past two decades [Oxfam]

  Late comment on the SPM:

• 2007/11/23: GreenLeft: UN report: Severe climate change may now be 'inevitable'

  In the hurricane wars, Hagibis & Mitag smashed the Philippines:

• 2007/11/30: TerraDaily: More deaths as storms [Hagibis & Mitag] exit the Philippines
• 2007/11/28: Xinhuanet: Typhoon Mitag death toll rises to 22 in Philippines
• 2007/11/26: TerraDaily: Typhoon Mitag slams into Philippines: officials
• 2007/11/25: ABC(Au): Flooding kills 7 as Philippines braces for typhoon [Mitag]
• 2007/11/26: ENN: Typhoon [Mitag] hits northern Philippines, heads for Taiwan

  Rebuilding after Sidr is going to take awhile:

• 2007/12/02: Xinhuanet: WFP to feed 2.2 mln cyclone victims in Bangladesh for 6 months
• 2007/12/01: PhysOrg: World's largest mangrove badly hit by cyclone: official
• 2007/12/01: ArabNews: UN Unveils Six-Month Plan to Help Cyclone Survivors [in Bangladesh]
• 2007/11/28: Intersection:SRK: Bangladesh: We Stand With You
• 2007/11/29: Xinhuanet: Cyclone [Sidr] death toll in Bangladesh rises to 3,256
• 2007/11/26: BBC: US helicopters fly in cyclone aid
  Helicopters from the US navy have begun delivering relief supplies to survivors of the devastating cyclone that hit southern Bangladesh 10 days ago. Some 3,500 people died and an estimated two million were made homeless after Cyclone Sidr hit coastal areas

In the Atlantic, the 2007 season came to a quiet end:

• 2007/11/30: CNN: Experts miss bull's-eye on hurricane numbers
  '07 season brought 6 hurricanes; NOAA predicted 7 to 9 - Only four named storms hit U.S., including one hurricane, Humberto - Colorado hurricane forecasters admit they were "not particularly successful" - Hurricanes Dean, Felix set record as first Cat 5 storms to hit in same season
• 2007/11/30: KSJT: New Orl. Times-Picayune: Hurricane season ends, a fizzle in US (don't tell Mexico it was a dud)
• 2007/11/30: ClimateP: So what happened to the 2007 hurricane season?
• 2007/11/30: Intersection:CCM: 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season Post-Mortem
• 2007/11/30: Wunderground: Hurricane seasons ends; did all of this season's storms deserve names?
• 2007/11/27: TerraDaily: Average Atlantic hurricane season draws to an end
• 2007/11/26: ERabett: A closing salvo in the 2007 hurricane wars

  And then there was the ongoing research:

• 2007/11/30: NewScientist: Swarms of tiny aircraft could track hurricanes
• 2007/11/30: SciDaily: Recipe For A Storm: Ingredients For More Powerful Atlantic Hurricanes
• 2007/11/29: PhysOrg: Recipe for a storm: The ingredients for more powerful Atlantic hurricanes
• 2007/11/29: Eureka: Recipe for a storm: The ingredients for more powerful Atlantic hurricanes
• 2007/11/25: WaPo: Biloxi's Recovery Shows Divide - While Casinos Prosper, Katrina's Mark Lingers in Working-Class Areas
• 2007/11/27: TerraDaily: Accuracy Of Past Hurricane Counts Good
• 2007/11/26: PhysOrg: Accuracy of past hurricane counts good
• 2007/11/26: ENN: Accuracy of past hurricane counts good
• 2007/11/26: Eureka: Accuracy of past hurricane counts good

  Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

• 2007/12/01: BBC: 50 years on: The Keeling Curve legacy
• 2007/11/29: TruthOut: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up for Cars, Trucks in 2006
• 2007/11/29: ABC(Au): US makes historic emissions reduction
• 2007/11/28: EnvEcon: EIA releases "Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2006"
• 2007/11/27: KSJT: AP, a few others: 2006 CO2 levels were a new record (well duh)
• 2007/11/27: ClimateP: WMO: CO2 levels hit new record in 2006
• 2007/11/26: QuarkSoup: Berkeley GHGs
• 2007/11/26: QuarkSoup: Seattle GHG emissions
• 2007/11/26: QuarkSoup: Hydrogen Cars and GHGs
• 2007/11/: NOAA: Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Record
• 2007/11/26: ENN: NOAA Celebrates 50-Year Carbon Dioxide Record

  As for the temperature record:

• 2007/11/28: ENN: 2007 set to be 6th warmest year on record
• 2007/11/28: Reuters: 2007 cools, set to be 6th warmest year on record
• 2007/11/27: ClimateP: NOAA: Record N. Hemisphere warmth in 2007
• 2007/11/25: USAToday: Winter forecast a mild one as temperatures get toastier - The Northern Hemisphere is the warmest this year since record-keeping started 127 years ago...

  While on the la Nina front:

• 2007/11/30: CBC: Blast from the past? Coldest winter in 15 years, Environment Canada says [La Nina blamed]
• 2007/11/30: CBC:CP: Canadians should brace for coldest winter in almost 15 years: forecast

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2007/11/28: Guardian(UK): On thinning ice - Mountains and glaciers are the barometers of our planet's climate.
• 2007/11/26: CNN: Loss of Andes glaciers threatens water supply
  Citizens of El Alto and La Paz depend on glaciers for at least a third of their water - Scientists predict the glaciers in the tropical Andes will disappear by mid-century - Melting glaciers also threaten crops and hydroelectric plants

As for the WAIS:

• 2007/12/01: BCLSB: Antarctica Is Melting
• 2007/12/01: MTobis: West Antarctica

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/11/30: PhysOrg: Earth Monitor Meeting Makes Progress
  The Group on Earth Observations aims to link up the myriad satellites, ground stations, radar systems and ocean monitors that often operate in isolation. Working together, the monitoring systems could boost the capacity to predict - and protect against - droughts, floods, hurricanes and disease
• 2007/11/28: SpaceMart: China, Brazil give Africa free satellite land images
• 2007/11/28: SciDaily: New Image Mosaic That Will Strengthen Global Forest Monitoring [REDD]
• 2007/11/27: TerraDaily: Keeping An Eye On The Weather - 30 Years Of Meteosat

  A consortium has released a mosaic map of Antarctic:

• 2007/11/28: NatureCF: NASA's new map of the big white [LIMA]
• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: A Picture is Worth... A High-Definition Antarctica [LIMA]
• 2007/11/27: Eureka: NASA-conceived map of Antarctica lays ground for new discoveries [LIMA]

  DHS wants Orwellian security on NASA scientists:

• 2007/11/27: Wired:Sci: JPL Scientists Stand Up To Government For Right To Privacy

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/12/02: SciDaily: Expected Drop In Nitrogen Deposition [will slow down forest growth] May Hamper Kyoto Targets
• 2007/11/29: Guardian(UK): Cold comfort in the Arctic
• 2007/11/28: NatureTGB: Climate change "will undermine poverty progress"
• 2007/11/29: ABC(Au): Flying foxes to wilt with climate change
• 2007/11/29: PhysOrg: [Chikungunya] Fever Outbreak [in Italy] Linked to Climate Change
• 2007/11/28: MiamiHerald: Report: Global warming will cost Florida
• 2007/11/28: Yahoo: Fever outbreak linked to climate change
  An outbreak in Europe of an obscure disease from Africa is raising concerns that globalization and climate change are combining to pose a health threat to the West. Nearly 300 cases of chikungunya fever, a virus that previously has been common only in Africa and Asia, were reported in Italy -- where only isolated cases of the disease had been seen in the past
• 2007/11/27: StraightGoods: Rising seas threaten cities - If Arctic icecap melts completely, coastal cities will have to move uphill
• 2007/11/28: GristMill: A jelly new world - An influx of jellies in strange places is not so hard to explain
• 2007/11/28: TerraDaily: Climate Change And Life In The Southern Ocean
• 2007/11/28: ENN: Climate change may cost Florida $345 billion a year: study
• 2007/11/28: ENN: Climate change to take heavy toll on Bangladesh: U.N.
• 2007/11/28: SciDaily: Climate Change Likely To Result In Eco-migration: What Can Be Done?
• 2007/11/27: DailyCamera: NOAA: Drought hinders CO2 uptake - Study finds 2002 dry weather left extra carbon in atmosphere
• 2007/11/28: NYT: U.N. Warns of Climate-Related Setbacks
• 2007/11/28: TMoS: Global Warming Tourism
• 2007/11/28: CCurrents: Climate change: How Poorest Suffer Most
• 2007/11/28: Guardian(UK): Crops hit, more water shortages, higher sea levels, bigger disease risk
• 2007/11/27: NewScientist: Volcanic eruptions cause sea level spike [by reducing evaporation]
• 2007/11/27: KSJT: SF Chronicle: Slow warming, salamanders proliferate. Fast warming, uh oh.
• 2007/11/27: PhysOrg: Global warming sends salamanders packing
• 2007/11/26: KSJT: CBC Quirks and Quarks: Canada in 2050. It'll look a lot different - more fire, less ice, more drought, floods -- and better wineries
• 2007/11/26: PhysOrg: Environmental exodus - the role of environmental degradation on population migration, or Ã'ecomigrationÃ'
• 2007/11/26: PhysOrg: Deadly virus mosquito moves north: health officials
  A mosquito that can carry the deadly dengue fever virus is moving north and has crossed the Swiss Alps, health authorities in the canton of Aargau said Monday. They said it had not yet been determined whether the tiger mosquitoes found so far are isolated individuals or part of an established local colony. Aedes albopictus can also carry the chikungunya virus, which infected more than 160 people in northern Italy earlier this year. In Switzerland, it had only been found previously south of the Alps, in the canton of Ticino. The Swiss health ministry plans to make chikungunya, which was described for the first time in Tanzania in 1952, a mandatory reportable disease from next year. The mosquito is also present in southern France and parts of Spain, as well as the United States, but the outbreak of chikungunya in Italy is thought to have been the first outside the tropics
• 2007/11/25: StatesmanJournal: Climate change helps invaders, harms natives - Oregon ecology soon may look like parts of California
• 2007/11/26: TMoS: Forget Global Warming, Global Drying Will Get Here First

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2007/12/01: TMoS: Saving Indonesia's Endangered Orangutan
• 2007/11/29: MetOffice(UK): Climate change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon rainforest
• 2007/11/29: MongaBay: Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?
• 2007/11/30: NewScientist: Forests could prove EU's carbon-cutting saviour
• 2007/11/30: PhysOrg: Options for saving the Amazon forest in the face of climate change
• 2007/11/29: TerraDaily: Reduce forest concessions, says Indonesian president: report
• 2007/11/30: SciDaily: European Union Forests Expanding, Absorbing Carbon At Surprisingly High Rate
• 2007/11/29: Guardian(UK): Europe's trees absorbing more carbon, study finds
• 2007/11/29: Eureka: European Union forests expanding, absorbing carbon at surprisingly high rate: study
• 2007/11/28: ABC(Au): More than a billion trees planted this year: UN
• 2007/11/28: ABC(Au): Wealthy nations must pay for rainforest protection: Brazil's Lula
• 2007/11/28: Yahoo: More than a billion trees planted in 2007: UN
• 2007/11/28: Telegraph(UK): Logging damage revealed by secret filming
  Secret filming by villagers has revealed the damage being caused to the Indonesian rainforests by uncontrolled logging and palm oil plantations
• 2007/11/28: BBC: Mass tree-planting in Indonesia
  Indonesia is trying to plant nearly 80 million trees in a single day, in an attempt to set a new world record and deflect criticism about deforestation. Police, soldiers and local officials joined President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the nationwide project

Corals are dying:

• 2007/11/29: PhysOrg: Study finds seasonal seas save corals with 'tough love'
• 2007/11/28: ABC(Au): Indonesia's corals threatened by climate change

  We have heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2007/12/01: ABC(Au): Tracks closed as south west bushfire burns out of control

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/11/30: NewsObserver: Durham may face water crisis first - Bull City, Raleigh have few pat rules if drought gets worse
• 2007/12/02: SMH: Drought that stole Christmas [trees]
• 2007/12/01: JFleck: The Christmas Tree Thing [Aus drought]
• 2007/11/27: IndexResearch: Water: The Impending Apocalypse
• 2007/11/20: Reuters: Autumn rain down 90 percent in China rice belt
• 2007/11/30: TreeHugger: Droughts Found to Hinder Carbon Dioxide Uptake
• 2007/11/29: TreeHugger: Why One Suburban Atlanta County Has No Drought Problem
• 2007/11/28: Guardian(UK): Fighting floods - From floating houses to rafts of hyacinths [Developed vs Developing world]
• 2007/11/25: AlterNet: We Face Worldwide Drought with No Contingency Plan
• 2007/11/27: TruthOut: Source of Water for West at Risk
• 2007/11/27: TreeHugger: Drought Stricken Atlantan's Get Conflicting Advice On Gray Water ReUse
• 2007/11/26: Atmoz: Warming may create substantial water supply shortages in the Colorado River basin

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/11/30: CubaNews: Bio-Fuel: More Poverty, Environmental Destruction and Hunger
• 2007/11/29: SciDaily: Limited Biofuel Feedstock Supply?
• 2007/11/27: CourierMail: Fuel quest may create food crisis
• 2007/11/26: Telegraph(UK): Biofuel and diet sow seeds of farm crunch
  Malthus may have been right after all, though two centuries early and a crank. Mankind is outrunning its food supplies. Hunger - if not yet famine - is a looming danger for a long list of countries that are both poor and heavily reliant on farm imports, according to the Food Outlook of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The farm crunch has been creeping up on the world for 20 years. Food output has risen at 1.3pc a year: the number of mouths at 1.35pc. What has abruptly changed is the twin revolution of biofuel politics and Asia's switch to an animal-protein diet. Together, they have shattered the fragile equilibrium. The world's grocery bill has jumped 21pc this year to $745bn (355bn pounds), hence the food riots ripping through West Africa, Morocco, Yemen, Bengal, and Indonesia

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

• 2007/11/30: TruthOut: Food Banks, in a Squeeze, Tighten Belts
• 2007/11/30: NYT: Food Banks, in a Squeeze, Tighten Belts
  Food banks around the country are reporting critical shortages that have forced them to ration supplies, distribute staples usually reserved for disaster relief and in some instances close. "ItÃ's one of the most demanding years IÃ've seen in my 30 years" in the field, said Catherine DÃ'Amato, president and chief executive of the Greater Boston Food Bank, comparing the situation to the recession of the late 1970s
• 2007/11/27: GristMill: Looking for a good investment? Food prices going up, along with everything else
• 2007/11/22: DStrahan: Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine - Heinberg
• 2007/11/24: SF Gate: Perennial crops: The garden that keeps giving

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/11/29: CSM: A dirty way to fight climate change - A promising strategy: Store carbon in the soil
• 2007/11/26: SciAm: 10 Solutions for Climate Change - Ten possibilities for staving off catastrophic climate change
• 2007/11/26: PhysOrg: Scientists tout success with drought-resistant plants: study
• 2007/11/25: BSD: A climate solution: "Biotic landfill cover treatments for mitigating methane emissions"
• 2007/11/26: DailyIndia: Process created to fight CO2 accumulations
  Researchers at Harvard and Pennsylvania State universities said their technology uses electrochemical means to remove hydrochloric acid from the ocean and neutralizes the acid by reaction with silicate (volcanic) rocks. The researchers said they can accelerate natural chemical weathering, permanently transferring CO2 from the atmosphere to the ocean

Can you say one dimensional folly?

• 2007/11/29: EnvEcon: Do Reforestation Policies Prevent Energy Conservation?

  As for transportation & GHG production:

• 2007/11/28: BSD: More jet travel imbroglio
• 2007/11/30: Far-n-Wide: Didn't Get The Memo

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: Pink is Green [buildings]
• 2007/11/27: BBC: Homes 'can cut CO2 by up to 80%'
  Carbon dioxide emissions from UK homes could be cut by up to 80% by 2050, according to a low carbon strategy produced by Oxford University. Financial incentives for home owners and tighter energy efficiency standards were among the study's recommendations. The measures would enable households to reduce their energy bills by ã425 each year, the report's author suggested
• 2007/11/21: MetroMag: Can LEED Survive the Carbon-Neutral Era?
  The rating system is beginning to gain wide acceptance, but critics now wonder whether the checklist approach can meet the daunting challenges ahead

As for carbon sequestration:

• 2007/11/28: AutoBG: DECARBit project tries to capture carbon the cheapest way possible: before combustion
• 2007/11/27: TerraDaily: Planting Carbon Deep In The Earth -- Rather Than The Greenhouse
• 2007/11/26: Eureka: Planting carbon deep in the earth -- rather than the greenhouse [Leeds]
• 2007/11/26: NEN: Carbon Capture: Reading between the lines
• 2007/11/26: CBC: Carbon dioxide could be injected into earth: study

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/11/30: GristMill: Another distraction debunked
• 2007/11/30: TerraDaily: New Research Discredits 100 Billion Dollar Global Warming Fix
• 2007/11/30: SciDaily: Ocean Fertilization 'Fix' For Global Warming Discredited By New Research
• 2007/11/29: Intersection:CCM: The Sad, Unfortunate Argument for Geoengineering Research
• 2007/11/29: Eureka: New research discredits $100B global warming 'fix' - Research raise doubts about viability of ocean fertilization
• 2007/11/26: StraightGoods: Geo-engineering to prevent disaster - Researchers gather to seek ways to moderate global warming
• 2007/11/26: SciDaily: Proposed Global Warming Solution Needs More Scientific Research [iron hyp]

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2007/12/01: ENN: Cutting forests for farmland 'yields meagre financial benefits'
• 2007/11/30: WarmingLaw: Good news from Down Under
• 2007/11/30: SciDaily: Breeding Heat Tolerant Beans To Withstand Warmer World
• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: The SwissEx: Making Environmental Monitoring High-Tech in Switzerland
• 2007/11/28: ENN: Global system could cut disaster toll by 2018
• 2007/11/27: SciDaily: Environmental Monitoring Goes High-tech In Switzerland
• 2007/11/26: PhysOrg: Environmental monitoring goes high-tech in Switzerland

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/11/26: CPD: Modeling a strong East Asian summer monsoon in a globally cool Earth, the MIS-13 case by Q. Z. Yin et al.
• 2007/11/28: ACP: Regional aerosol optical properties and radiative impact of the extreme smoke event in the European Arctic in spring 2006 by C. Lund Myhre et al.
• 2007/11/29: ACPD: Investigating the sources and atmospheric processing of fine particles from Asia and the Northwestern United States measured during INTEX B by R. E. Peltier et al.
• 2007/11/28: ACPD: Tracing biomass burning plumes from the Southern Hemisphere during the AMMA 2006 wet season experiment by C. H. Mari et al.
• 2007/11/28: ACPD: Global fire activity patterns (1996-2006) and climatic influence: an analysis using the World Fire Atlas by Y. Le Page et al.
• 2007/11/27: PNAS: How individual species structure diversity in tropical forests by Thorsten Wiegand et al.
• 2007/11/27: PNAS: An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker by Wouter Peters et al.
• 2007/11/27: GRL: (ab$) Oceanic gas hydrate instability and dissociation under climate change scenarios by Matthew T. Reagan & George J. Moridis
• 2007/11/27: GRL: (ab$) Recent Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent trends and implications for the snow-albedo feedback by Stephen J. Déry & Ross D. Brown
• 2007/11/26: GRL: (ab$) Warming may create substantial water supply shortages in the Colorado River basin by Gregory J. McCabe & David M. Wolock

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

• 2007/11/30: ABC(Au): Burnie base for climate change research
  International scientists have chosen Tasmania's north west coast to be the Southern Hemisphere base for new climate change research. The Southern Hemisphere's first Satellite Laser Ranging system opens today in Burnie. Chris Watson from the University of Tasmania says the equipment will help NASA use its satellites to measure climate change and sea level rise
• 2007/11/29: SciDaily: Antarctic Drilling [ANDRILL] Provides Climate Clues From Middle Miocene [~15 mya]
• 2007/11/27: Eureka: Climate change and life in the Southern Ocean - Research vessel Polarstern sets out for Antarctic research season
• 2007/11/26: SciAm: Examining the state of the science on climate change
• 2007/11/27: STimes: Trees giving bizarre clues to climate change [an overabundance of cones]
• 2007/11/26: NatureN: Researchers engineer drought-resistant plants - Genetically modified tobacco doesn't bite the dust

  A proposal for a global ocean monitoring system has been put forward:

• 2007/11/26: NatureTGB: Give us $3 billion, say marine researchers
• 2007/11/26: TerraDaily: Marine Scientists Warn Human Safety, Prosperity Depend On Better Ocean Observing System
• 2007/11/26: Scripps: Human Safety, Prosperity Depend on Better Ocean Observing System: Scientists
• 2007/11/25: Eureka: Marine scientists warn human safety, prosperity depend on better ocean observing system
• 2007/11/25: BBC: Better ocean monitoring 'vital'
  Warming seas, overfishing and pollution mean it is vital to improve the system for monitoring the world's oceans, says a group of distinguished scientists. The researchers say more data is needed to ensure the world is able to respond effectively to any potential threats. An "adequate initial system" would include an integrated network of buoys, research vessels, satellites and tagging marine animals, they added. The scientists want the global scheme to be completed within the next decade. The call for action has been made by the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), which includes many of the world's leading oceanographic research centres. A delegation of POGO members will make their case at the annual ministerial meeting of the international Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Cape Town, South Africa

Hansen wrote an essay, "Averting Our Eyes," that ruffled some feathers:

• 2007/11/30: ClimateP: Hansen apologizes, warns against "averting our eyes"
• 2007/11/29: MTobis: The Holocaust Analogy
• 2007/11/28: DotEarth: "Averting Our Eyes": James Hansen's New Call for Climate Action
• 2007/11/29: GristMill: Averting our eyes - A guest essay from climate scientist James Hansen
• 2007/11/26: ClimateP: Hansen stands by coal train/death train analogy
• 2007/11/26: DotEarth: Climate, Coal, and Crematoria
• 2007/11/26: GristMill: Global warming and the Holocaust - Is the analogy between climate change and Hitler's atrocities appropriate?

  In reviewing _Six Degrees_ by Mark Lynas, Eric Steig asks a killer question:

• 2007/11/26: RealClimate: Six Degrees [Book Review] _Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet_ by Mark Lynas
  Eric Steig's question: "If a reading of the published scientific literature paints such a frightening picture of the future as Six Degrees suggests -- even while it honestly represents that literature -- then are we being too provocative in the way we write our scientific papers? Or are we being too cautious in the way we talk about the implications of the results?"
• 2007/11/26: Tamino: I gave 'em the truth. They thought it was hell [Eric Steig]

  WMC is absconding to Cambridge, something to do with software:

• 2007/12/01: Stoat: So long, and thanks for all the fish
• 2007/12/01: RealClimate: Goodbye to all that

  It is my sad duty to announce the reincarnation of the Pielke Fan Club:

• 2007/12/01: ERabett: Return of Fat Bird
• 2007/11/30: Stoat: Oh no, not again
• 2007/11/29: Stoat: You could have knocked me down with a feather
• 2007/11/29: BCLSB: Who The Heck Is Roger Pielke Sr.?
• 2007/11/28: JFleck: Roger [Pielke] Sr. Returns

  Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

• 2007/11/26: StraightGoods: Kyoto on track, despite some slackers - Success due mainly to collapse of Central and East European communist regimes
• 2007/11/28: ENN: U.S. Increasingly Isolated in Stance Against Kyoto
• 2007/11/27: Atmoz: Pauchari Says 3 Years Until Judgement Day
• 2007/11/27: PhysOrg: Scientist [Rajendra Pachauri] Hopeful on Climate Conference
• 2007/11/27: MTobis: Does Pauchari Go Too Far?
• 2007/11/27: TerraDaily: Climate chief [IPCC head, Rajendra K. Pachauri] cautiously optimistic over key Bali meet
• 2007/11/27: ENN: World must fix climate in less than 10 years: U.N.
• 2007/11/25: PhysOrg: Then there was one: US now alone as Kyoto holdout
• 2007/11/26: QuarkSoup: More Deadline Nonsense

  There is a lot of work to do. Why are people wondering about the future role of the IPCC?

• 2007/11/29: NatureN: What comes next for the IPCC? - Now their fourth assessment is complete, should this climate-science advisory panel change?
• 2007/11/30: WorldChanging: Adaptation to Climate Change and the Future of the IPCC

  While on the emissions trading front:

• 2007/11/29: CDreams: Reuters: A Fifth of UN Carbon Credits May Be Bogus
• 2007/11/30: Yahoo: Japan firm announces first carbon spot trade
• 2007/11/27: EcoEcon: Japan Set to Buy Carbon Credits on the Cheap
• 2007/11/29: EnvFin: WWF questions 20% of CDM emissions reductions
• 2007/11/29: TreeHugger: Dutch Bank [Rabobank] to Offer Carbon Credits to Brazilian Farmers
• 2007/11/26: ENN: Carbon price seen vital but inadequate
• 2007/11/26: G&M: Cap-and-trade system sets the belching bar low

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2007/11/29: NEN: Coloradan proposes carbon tax

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

• 2007/11/30: TreeHugger: A Carbon Credit Scheme That Leverages Market Access Control
• 2007/11/30: OnTheCommons: (link to 633k pdf) _Citizen's Guide to Carbon Capping_ by Peter Barnes and Tomales Bay Institute
• 2007/11/30: TreeHugger: Avoiding Climate (Offset) Chaos
• 2007/11/29: EnvFin: US consumer agency to probe CO2 offsets, RECs
  The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is to develop guidelines for carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates (RECs), in light of growing consumer interest in these products
• 2007/11/29: SciDaily: Voluntary Carbon Standard Lacks Credibility, WWF Argues
• 2007/11/27: GristMill: Not-so-great grandfathering - Cap-and-trade vs. a carbon tax
• 2007/11/26: ENN: APX to develop greenhouse gas registry
  Private California company APX Inc said on Monday it is creating a registry aimed at increasing transparency in the murky voluntary greenhouse gas emissions offsets industry. APX will create the registry for the Gold Standard Foundation, a Swiss-based nonprofit supported by environmental groups that sets standards for voluntary emissions offset credits
• 2007/11/26: PEF: Carbon tax vs cap-and-trade

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2007/11/27: Yahoo: Sarkozy calls on China to join global 'New Deal' on environment
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday urged China, one of the world's major polluters, to join in a worldwide "ecological and economic New Deal" to fight global warming
• 2007/11/26: TerraDaily: China, France sign climate change pact
• 2007/11/27: ENN: Sarkozy urges Chinese climate help
• 2007/11/27: OilChange: Sarkozy Warns China of Carbon Tariffs
• 2007/11/26: Yahoo: China, France sign climate change pact
  Chinese President Hu Jintao and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday oversaw the signing of a bilateral pact on the fight against climate change. China and France "recognise the impact of climate change for the survival and development of humanity and recognise the importance and the urgency to fight against climate change and to put in place sustainable development," said the agreement. The two countries will strengthen cooperation on a variety of climate change-related environmental issues, including biodiversity, desertification and pollution. The two sides also emphasised the importance of controlling greenhouse gas emissions and pledged to promote technological cooperation in fields including energy efficiency and renewable energy. They will also establish a bilateral consultation mechanism and hold yearly talks to strengthen dialogue and cooperation on climate change. The joint statement also said China and France reiterated their commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol

And on the American political front:

• 2007/12/02: ClimateP: Terrific ad: Governors urge federal action on global warming
• 2007/12/02: GristMill: Notable quotable [see the comment]
• 2007/12/01: BSD: Climate change solution from Congress: fire Robert Samuelson
• 2007/11/30: WarmingLaw: Show Us The Way, Santa Fe [New Mexico formally implements California's Clean Cars program]
• 2007/11/29: DeSmogBlog: A Guide to Carbon Capping Policy in the US
• 2007/11/30: Yahoo: Bush clings to anti-Kyoto stance ahead of climate talks
• 2007/11/28: PBPost: Inaction on global warming could cost [Florida] state $167 billion, professor says
• 2007/11/27: Nation: Global Warming Is Reversible by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
• 2007/11/28: MTobis: Burnt Orange and Green [Texas pol]
• 2007/11/28: C411: Florida and Climate Change: The Costs of Not Acting
• 2007/11/27: TruthOut: US Key to Balanced Carbon Budget, UN Says
• 2007/11/25: TruthOut: Then There Was One: US Now Alone as Kyoto Holdout
• 2007/11/26: TerraDaily: Then there was one: US now alone as Kyoto holdout

  As for the climate change, energy bill(s):

• 2007/12/02: TreeHugger: With Dingell On Board, Dems Reach a Deal to Raise Fuel Economy
• 2007/12/02: AutoBG: More details emerge on new fuel economy bill, no Porsche rule
• 2007/12/01: ClimateP: House reaches deal on fuel economy
• 2007/12/01: GristMill: Energy bill back on track? Pelosi says bill up for vote next week will contain CAFE, RFS, and RES
• 2007/11/30: CNN: Lawmakers reach deal on auto fuel efficiency
  Congressional Democrats agree to boost fuel economy by 40 percent; compromise reached late Friday clears way for vote on energy bill
• 2007/12/01: AutoBG: Congressional leaders reach deal on new fuel economy standard, vote next week
• 2007/11/30: GristMill: Biden his time - Joe Biden rolls out climate and energy plan
• 2007/11/30: WarmingLaw: Congress vs. Everyone Else on Clean Energy
• 2007/11/29: GristMill: New version of Lieberman-Warner circulating
• 2007/11/29: HillHeat: New Lieberman-Warner Draft Circulated
• 2007/11/29: WaPo: Negotiators Close In on Energy Measure - Bill Raises Ethanol, Efficiency Targets; Fuel Credits for Auto Industry at Issue
• 2007/11/28: GristMill: Will the energy bill bail out ethanol? The corn industry hopes Congress will pull its fat out of the fire
• 2007/11/28: GristMill: Splitting up is hard to do - Pelosi joins Reid in bifurcating the energy bill
• 2007/11/28: HillHeat: Renewables and Tax Provisions Likely Carved From Energy Bill
• 2007/11/27: ClimateP: Congressional fuel-economy deal near
• 2007/11/27: GristMill: How not to make an energy policy - A strong and realistic energy policy is not dependent on any one fuel, technology, or supplier
• 2007/11/27: HillHeat: Movement on Energy Bill Compromise
• 2007/11/26: HillHeat: Cap-and-Trade: Will Congress Give Away Its Appropriations Authority?

  Elsewhere in the tragedy of contradictory desires:

• 2007/11/28: GristMill: You know what they say about a guy with a big footprint?
  The GAO has reported on subsidies to our electric sector, proving...that subsidies to the dirty folks vastly exceed existing or proposed subsidies to cleaner generation

US coal companies are feeling the heat & reacting:

• 2007/11/29: KSJT: Seattle Times: State puts coal plant applicant on hold. Where you gonna put the CO2? it asks
• 2007/11/29: ClimateP: More on the Coal Campaign in Kansas
• 2007/11/30: TruthOut: Kansas Denial of Bigger Coal Plant Fires Up Backlash - Hell hath no fury like business interests scorned
• 2007/11/30: GristMill: Coal's desperate campaign for survival - A multi-million dollar ad campaign tries to convince Americans that coal still rules
• 2007/11/30: DeSmogBlog: Kansas Lawmaker Claims Coal Plants Are Good For Crops
• 2007/11/27: GristMill: Another one bites the dust - Coal plant application rejected in Washington [State]
• 2007/11/26: DeSmogBlog: Big King Coal and the "Kansans For Affordable Energy"

  Meanwhile the coal companies have sponsored both the Democratic & Republican TV debates:

• 2007/11/28: GristMill: Not that coal has any undue advantage - Coal industry sponsors another presidential debate
• 2007/11/28: ThinkP: Coal Industry Sponsoring Tonight's CNN/YouTube Republican Presidential Debate

  After RGGI & WCI, we have the MidWest:

• 2007/11/26: CTB: Policy Progress in the Midwest

  The 2008 campaign is not making much climate news:

• 2007/11/28: TruthOut: In US Presidential Race, a Glut of Oil Promises
• 2007/11/28: STimes: Next president must confront the challenge of climate change
• 2007/11/28: NYT: Candidates Offer Different Views on Energy Policy
  As oil prices flirt with record highs, hovering around $95 a barrel on Tuesday, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are offering few quick fixes but profoundly different long-term approaches to energy policy. Over the next decade or two, the differences could have a major effect on billions of dollars in government spending, on the relative prices of gasoline versus renewable fuels and on the efficiency of American cars and trucks
• 2007/11/28: HuffPo: A Contract with the Planet [US pol 2008]
• 2007/11/27: GristMill: The GOP and climate - One small step for Republicans on climate, but giant leaps still needed
• 2007/11/26: GristMill: Kucinich, Clinton, and Edwards on climate and energy - Grist presidential climate forum: full transcript and video

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/11/27: TruthOut: Bush, Gore Bond Over Warming at White House
• 2007/11/27: DotEarth: Bush and Gore on Global Warming. Imagine That
• 2007/11/27: DeSmogBlog: Bush Recognizes True Leadership on Global Warming
• 2007/11/27: WaPo: Bush Meets Al Gore
• 2007/11/26: ThinkP: Gore's meeting with Bush was "very cordial."

  While in the UK:

• 2007/11/30: CDreams: Independent(UK): Britain's Brand of Fair-Weather Environmentalism
• 2007/11/27: Guardian(UK): UK companies need to 'take the challenge of climate change seriously' [environment secretary Hilary Benn told the CBI]
• 2007/11/27: Guardian(UK): UN attacks British blueprint to tackle climate change
• 2007/11/28: Guardian(UK): Cut carbon by up to third to save poor, UN tells west - Britain singled out for lack of ambition and delays on renewable energy sources
• 2007/11/26: EnergyDaily: [UK PM Gordon] Brown says decision on British nuclear power due early 2008
• 2007/11/26: Guardian(UK): CBI [Confederation of British Industry] report urges business to tackle climate change

  Does Gordon understand that contradictory policies fail?

• 2007/11/27: Guardian(UK): A dogma that has had its day
  Last week, he was cutting carbon emissions. This week, he's planning airport expansion. How joined-up is 'Green' Gordon?
• 2007/11/26: Guardian(UK): Brown: Britain's prosperity depends on airport expansion
  Gordon Brown today gave his unequivocal support for a third runway at Heathrow in an address to a conference of business leaders

And in Europe:

• 2007/11/27: AFP: EU challenges partners to match its global warming targets
• 2007/11/27: AFP: Facing tight cereals supplies, EU agrees to drop import duties
  [...] For years, Europe has produced more cereals than it needs, leaving the EU to buy up the excess and discourage more planting in order to stop prices collapsing and farmers going out of business. But Europe became a net importer of cereals this year amid a global commodities boom, driven by surging demand in fast-growing developing countries including China. The increasing use of farmland to grow crops for biofuels and drought in major farm producers such as Australia has added further pressure on the market, driving food prices ever higher and pinching supplies for raw ingredients
• 2007/11/26: EUO: EU should favour energy efficiency over renewables, says industry [Brussels-based business confederation, BusinessEurope]
• 2007/11/26: EUO: Brussels makes the case for nuclear energy
• 2007/11/26: SwissInfo: CO2 emissions should face higher taxes
  Switzerland needs more ambitious energy and climate policies according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released on Monday

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/12/02: OilDrum: Queensland Shale Oil Billions in The Balance?
• 2007/12/01: SMH: Beware Kyoto penalties, UN warns Australia
  The United Nations' chief climate negotiator says the Rudd government's decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is more than symbolic - and warns it faces penalties if it fails to meet its targets. Yvo de Boer applauded the decision to ratify the protocol, and said it would make "a big difference" to Australia's standing at global climate talks in Bali which begin on Monday. But he warned that if it fails to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target, "Australia is stepping into a legally binding international instrument that would oblige [it] to meet its target and it has penalties in place if [it] were to fail to do so."
• 2007/11/30: ABC(Au): [New federal Climate Change Minister, Penny] Wong swots up for Bali climate change summit
• 2007/11/30: SMH: Independence in emissions trading urged
  An independent body similar to the Reserve Bank should manage emissions trading to ensure "political interference" does not stymie its effectiveness, the incoming government's climate change adviser says. Ross Garnaut warned yesterday that climate change was a "diabolical policy problem" and that Australia stood to be damaged more than any other developed country because of its already hot, changeable climate and proximity to developing countries expected to be hit hard by global warming
• 2007/11/28: SMH: UN report points finger at Australia
• 2007/11/28: ABC(Au): Australian cities slow on climate issues: urban planners
• 2007/11/27: SMH: Farmers to feel bigger pinch of climate bill [LGA]
• 2007/11/27: ABC(Au): Report warns of climate change costs
  The Australian Local Government Association has released its latest State of the Regions report, with a warning that regional households will face considerable financial pressure from climate change
• 2007/11/27: ABC(Au): State's firefighting resources stretched - as it battles blazes in the North and South
• 2007/11/27: ABC(Au): Labor must address climate change now: Agforce

  The new Rudd government has been making policy announcements:

• 2007/12/01: TheAge: Rudd Kyoto promise pleases business
• 2007/11/29: ABC(Au): Labor's climate change policies will 'boost Aust credibility'
• 2007/11/29: BCLSB: From Rock God To Planetary Protector!
• 2007/11/28: TerraDaily: Australia risks breaching Kyoto: expert
• 2007/11/29: OilChange: From Ageing Rocker to Green Minister
• 2007/11/29: BBC: Ex-rock star in Australia cabinet
  Australia's prime minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, has announced the make-up of his new government. He appointed his deputy leader, Julia Gillard, as education minister, and a former rock star, Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett, as environment minister
• 2007/11/26: NatureN: Australia set to ratify Kyoto Protocol - Newly elected prime minister intent on changing Australia's climate stance
• 2007/11/25: GWWatch: Rudd wins Australian Federal Election on Green vote
• 2007/11/26: OilChange: Oz: New Prime Minister Will Ratify Kyoto
• 2007/11/25: BBC: Rudd sets new Australian agenda
  Australia's Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd has outlined his priorities after winning a sweeping general election victory over outgoing PM John Howard. Mr Rudd said he would overturn a number of his predecessor's policies, including signing the Kyoto Protocol and pulling troops out of Iraq
• 2007/11/26: Guardian(UK): Australia's new prime minister ready to sign Kyoto pact

  You can't get there from here quickly; Yes you can:

• 2007/11/28: SMH: Rudd could ratify Kyoto on day one
  The prime minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, is legally able to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change simply by getting the Governor-General to sign an order after Mr Rudd and his ministers are sworn into office, the former head of the Department of Environment has said
• 2007/11/27: ABC(Au): Ratifying Kyoto Protocol takes time: law expert
• 2007/11/27: ENN: Australia unlikely to sign Kyoto by Bali: analysts
• 2007/11/27: Yahoo: New Australian leader prepares to ratify Kyoto
  Australian prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd said Tuesday he was working on fulfilling his campaign pledge to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change[...] But an international law expert warned that ratifying the treaty could take some time, with normal processes requiring an impact analysis, a parliamentary inquiry and the passing of a new law giving effect to the protocol

While in China:

• 2007/12/01: EnergyBulletin: Living the diesel shortages in China
• 2007/11/29: Yahoo: China's Green Spending Falls Short

  In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, came in for a lot of criticism for his Commonwealth shenanigans:

• 2007/12/01: TMoS: What Harper and Rex Murphy Can't Grasp
• 2007/11/28: DeSmogBlog: Canada's PM pilloried over climate-change shuffle; rich nations urged to ante up
• 2007/11/28: Rabble: Stephen Harper's environmental bridge to nowhere
  It is not often that an emperor's clothes are torn from him in full public view, but that is precisely what happened to Stephen Harper at the Commonwealth summit in Kampala
• 2007/11/28: Far-n-Wide: Huh?
  The Prime Minister makes wild, unsubstantiated claims, while simultaneously turning a mere statement into a binding international agreement
• 2007/12/02: TStar: Emissions target that fails to bind
• 2007/11/28: CanWest: Experts blast Tories on climate change
• 2007/11/28: CanWest: Harper misreads the climate
  Misguided leaders like Stephen Harper are part of the reason global efforts to fight climate change are falling disastrously short
• 2007/11/28: CanWest: Harper has chosen to be part of the problem on climate control - PM's policy has left Canadians out in cold on global warming
• 2007/11/27: DeSmogBlog: Canadian PM Stephen Harper's Do-Nothing Recipe for Global Warming
• 2007/11/27: OilChange: Canada's Stephen Harper Is An "Eco-Criminal"
• 2007/11/27: TStar: Kid-glove treatment for Harper
  Only a few years ago, Stephen Harper was a climate change denier whose opposition to Kyoto made him too extreme for most Canadians. Harper is still opposing Kyoto. But now, as Canada's Prime Minister, he's able to do something about it. Indeed, he's playing a pivotal role in thwarting worldwide efforts to deal with climate change
• 2007/11/26: DeSmogBlog: Five Commandments, Stephen Harper style
• 2007/11/26: CanWest: Harper in minority on climate change - Commonwealth leaders hoped to build consensus for next month's environmental conference in Bali
• 2007/11/26: TMoS: Harper's Deliciously Perverse Logic - When it comes to global warming, trust Stephen Harper to say whatever suits him at the moment
• 2007/11/26: CTV: Opposition slams Harper over climate-change stand, his refusal to sign on to a climate change deal at the Commonwealth meeting

  Heaven only knows what will happen in Bali:

• 2007/11/30: UneFemmeVerte: Dion doing Harper's job - again
• 2007/12/01: CanWest: Dion to attend summit for Earth, not politics
• 2007/11/29: NatPo: Liberals' Dion to travel to Bali climate change summit
• 2007/11/30: Canoe: Ottawa says new Kyoto must be team effort
• 2007/11/29: CanWest: Harper sticks to environmental policies
• 2007/11/28: G&M: Quebec to voice dissenting view at Bali
  The Quebec government will voice its dissent over Prime Minister Stephen Harper's anti-Kyoto policy at next week's United Nations climate-change talks in Bali, Indonesia
• 2007/11/26: ScruffyDan: How to get China and India to agree to an emission cap

  Meanwhile there is all the usual politicking:

• 2007/12/02: CanWest: Tories block environmental progress: Dion
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper is deliberately sabotaging the Kyoto accord, Liberal leader Stephane Dion charged yesterday as he drew the battle lines for an election that many Liberals expect could take place early in the new year
• 2007/11/27: BCLSB: Elizabeth May And The Nazis, Redux
• 2007/11/27: Far-n-Wide: Baird's Rhetoric Finds More Support - Just once, when John Baird is making the rounds, spewing his nonsense...
• 2007/11/27: CanWest: Days numbered for polar bears, study says - Crisis by inaction. 'Canada has no plan' to help: foundation
• 2007/11/27: TStar: Poor to pay price of weak climate accord, UN says - Official heaps blame on Canada for failing to fulfill its responsibilities in combating global warming
• 2007/11/26: TMoS: Back To the Basics - We're Filthy

  On another one of those late Friday afternoon announcements, the Conservatives whispered they have signed GNEP (without releasing the terms):

• 2007/12/01: CanWest: Canada won't be dumping ground for nuclear waste - gov't
• 2007/11/30: JimBobbySez: Canada Signs Bush Nuke Plan [GNEP], Hidden Agenda Glowing in the Dark

  Still the tricky question of the tar sands looms:

• 2007/12/01: Politics'n'Poetry: Bedfellows: Oil, Gas & Uranium [tarsands]
• 2007/12/02: CanWest: Halt oilsands: water expert - Athabasca River at risk, says renowned U of A scientist
  The scientist who won Canada's top research prize for his work on pollution in the Great Lakes now wants a moratorium on development in the Alberta oilsands, saying the rush to extract petroleum could threaten the mighty Athabasca River. "They ought to put a moratorium, or at least a major slowdown, in oilsands development until some of the issues are looked at," said David Schindler, a professor of ecology at the University of Alberta. "It's complete nonsense to proceed full-bore with all of these developments and not to have a healthy monitoring program." But the head of oilsands science at Alberta's environment department says a moratorium is unnecessary and could be harmful in a socio-economic sense.
• 2007/11/29: OilChange: PetroCanada Backs Oil Sands Despite Royalty Increases
• 2007/11/26: GristMill: The cash nexus - Is there really so much money in environmental devastation that it can't be stopped?

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

• 2007/11/30: VoxEU: Achieving low-carbon growth for the world - Climate Change, ethics and the economics of the global deal by Nicholas Stern
• 2007/11/29: EconView: Nicholas Stern: Climate Change, Ethics and the Economics of the Global Deal
• 2007/11/29: Guardian(UK): Stern: Climate change a 'market failure'
  Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure that the world has seen, Sir Nicholas Stern, whose review last year warned of the economic and social costs of climate change, said tonight. Delivering the Royal Economic Society (RES) public lecture in Manchester, ahead of next week's world summit on climate change in Bali, Sir Nicholas said targets and trading must be at the heart of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse gases generally do not pay," said Sir Nicholas. "Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen. The evidence on the seriousness of the risks from inaction or delayed action is now overwhelming. We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. The problem is global and the response must be a collaboration on a global scale." He added that rich countries must lead the way in taking action. "That means adopting ambitious emissions reduction targets; encouraging effective market mechanisms; supporting programmes to combat deforestation; promoting rapid technological progress to mitigate the effects of climate change; and honouring their aid commitments to the developing world," he said
• 2007/11/26: SciAm: Clash: What Will Climate Change Cost Us?
  The science is clear: the climate is changing thanks to human activity. The question becomes: will preventing further globe-warming pollution ruin the global economy? Interviews: Sir Nicholas Stern, Bjorn Lomborg & Gary Yohe

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/11/30: GristMill: Climate media challenges - New briefing finds improvement but new challenges for climate reporting

  Here is something for your library:

• 2006/10/18: Guardian(UK): How close is runaway climate change? [Book Extract] _Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change_ by Paul Brown
• 2007/11/27: EnergyDaily: The Plan To Destroy OPEC [Book Review] _Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil_ by Robert Zubrin

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2007/11/27: ClimateP: Must See TV: Ice Ice Maybe (not)

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2007/11/26: WarmingLaw: California Nuisance Suit: Round Two [California has formally appealed]

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2007/12/02: TreeHugger: Will Brazil's New Oil Find Slow Progress on Biofuels?
• 2007/12/01: AutoBG: First hydrogen public fuelling station opens in Iceland
• 2007/11/29: CSM: Creativity buoys outlook for hydrogen economy
• 2007/11/25: FuturePundit: Obstacles And Opposition To Wind Power
• 2007/12/01: ENN: Innovative Geothermal Energy Project Launched in Canada
• 2007/11/29: QuarkSoup: Geothermal Energy
• 2007/11/30: Eureka: Helium isotopes point to the best sources of geothermal energy
• 2007/11/30: OilChange: EP Passes End Oil Aid Resolution
• 2007/11/29: LBL: Helium Isotopes Point to New Sources of Geothermal Energy
• 2007/11/29: DailyReckoning: Geothermal Power vs. Conventional Power Sources
  [...] Hands down, geothermal can beat coal, natural gas and uranium. Geothermal is more than competitive when it comes to price, such as cost per kilowatt-hour. There are no massive burner systems, no tall stacks, no rail lines or pipelines, no gigantic mines and processing facilities, essentially no air pollution, no toxic waste piles and long-term repositories
• 2007/11/29: NEN: Arctic Circle [Alaskan] wind power
• 2007/11/28: EnergyDaily: Renewable Energy Investment Market Sets Sights On 50 Billion Dollars By 2011
• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: Iowa To Get 500-Job Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Facility
• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: Texas Town Embraces Wind Energy. Climate Change, Not So Much
• 2007/11/28: Eureka: Sweet fuel supply - Could a fuel cell that runs on glucose save the planet?
• 2007/11/28: AutoBG: Green magic: Swiss company can turn used plastic bags into diesel
• 2007/11/26: EnergyDaily: Renewable energy way forward for poor countries: Germany
• 2007/11/26: PhysOrg: Smarter energy storage for solar and wind power
• 2007/11/26: AutoBG: Australian companies will use coal plant emissions and algae to make biodiesel
• 2007/11/25: StatesmanJournal: Market for geothermal heating heats up

  An interesting proposal for a European supergrid tied to Africa:

• 2007/11/26: TEB: Supergrid to Supply Europe with Wind Power
• 2007/11/27: NatureN: Europe looks to draw power from Africa - Sahara Desert could become home to solar-power plants [SuperGrid]
• 2007/11/25: Independent(UK): Wind-fuelled 'supergrid' offers clean power to Europe
  An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe's CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say

Google is pushing research in renewable energy:

• 2007/11/29: EnvFin: Google aims to make renewables cheaper than coal
• 2007/11/28: Guardian(UK): Google to pour millions into search for cheap green fuel
• 2007/11/28: KSJT: SF Chronicle, lots more: Google's money giving big boost to far-out energy ideas
• 2007/11/29: GristMill: News from the Googleplex - Is Google betting on a carbon tax?
• 2007/11/28: NEN: Google goes gaa-gaa for new energy
• 2007/11/27: TEB: Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal
• 2007/11/27: DotEarth: Google's New Search --- for Cheap, Clean Electricity
• 2007/11/27: PhysOrg: Google investing hundreds of millions in green energy
• 2007/11/27: BBC: Google's cheaper-than-coal target
  Search giant Google is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy technologies. The Californian firm wants to make green energy sources of electricity cheaper than that produced from coal. Its new initiative is known as RE < C, and will focus initially on solar thermal power, wind power and enhanced geothermal systems. The support, to be channelled through philanthropic arm Google.org, will go to firms, R&D labs and universities

Toe-to-Heel Air Injection, a new system of tar sand oil recovery, is being touted:

• 2007/11/29: TEB: New UK Heavy Oil Recovery System [THAI] Could Unleash Generations of Production of Inexpensive Oil
• 2007/11/29: EnergyDaily: Massive Canadian Oilfield Could Be Exploited Using New UK System [THAI]
• 2007/11/29: SciDaily: Massive Canadian Oilfield Could Be Exploited Using New System [THAI]

  Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

• 2007/12/02: TreeHugger: 1 GW of Organic Solar by 2017 - The Carbon Trust Aims High
• 2007/12/02: Guardian(UK): How Africa's desert sun can bring Europe power
  A 5bn pound solar power plan, backed by a Jordanian prince, could provide the EU with a sixth of its electricity needs - and cut carbon emissions
• 2007/11/29: GreenWombat:CNN: Solar showdown in Congress
• 2007/11/30: NEN: Big solar furnace sale
• 2007/11/30: AfterGutenberg: Sharp Again Scales up Photo Voltaic Laminate Production
• 2007/11/30: TEB: Sharp to Up Thin-film Solar Cell Capacity
• 2007/11/29: PhysOrg: Japan's Sharp sees bright future for solar power
• 2007/11/29: PeakEnergy: Australia just the spot for solar energy projects
• 2007/11/28: NEN: Canada goes solar with BIPV [Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics]
• 2007/11/27: TreeHugger: China's Biggest Solar Geek [Zhao Chunjian]

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/11/30: UPI Asia: Analysis: Asia likely to remain dependent on coal
• 2007/11/30: ChinaDaily: Largest coal-fired power plant starts operation
• 2007/11/30: ChinaDaily: Blueprint for coal sector
  China will not approve new coalmine projects with an annual capacity of less than 300,000 tons before 2010, according to the nation's top economic planning body
• 2007/11/29: NEN: Unrestrained [coal] in China
• 2007/11/27: GristMill: More proof that coal ain't cheap - Duke wins approval for a $3100/kW [IGCC] plant
• 2007/11/26: TerraDaily: Cleaner coal key part of energy supply: environmentalists
• 2007/11/26: SFReporter: Nuke to the Future - New technology takes on energy crisis. - The portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub...

  Dave Roberts & Jeremy Carl discussing coal:

• 2007/11/26: GristMill: Response to Jeremy Carl, part one - Developing nations will not remain immune to the need for sustainable development
• 2007/11/27: GristMill: Response to Jeremy Carl, part two - There are some compelling reasons to focus on cleaning up rather than abandoning coal
• 2007/11/30: GristMill: Response to Jeremy Carl, part three - The question for China and India is not whether to make the transition away from coal, but how soon

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/11/30: SciDaily: Biodiesel Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 2007/11/28: BioEnergyBiz: Palm oil certification scheme launched to criticism by environmentalists
• 2007/11/29: OilDrum: The Implications of Biofuel Production for United States Water Supplies
• 2007/11/28: WorldChanging: Corn Ethanol and the Great Dust Bowl
• 2007/11/28: TruthOut: Ethanol Craze Cools as Doubts Multiply
• 2007/11/28: TerraDaily: Biodiesel Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: Southeast Asia Paying High Environmental Cost For Palm Oil
• 2007/11/28: AutoBG: The ethanol backlash is accelerating; even the cows aren't happy

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2007/12/01: FuturePundit: Political Drive For Thorium Nuclear Reactor Development
• 2007/11/27: PRWatch: Californians Not So Hot on Nuclear Power
• 2007/11/26: EnergyDaily: Areva [France] announces 8 bln euro nuclear deal with China
• 2007/11/26: NewScientist: Nuclear industry may be running out of steam
  Rumours of a nuclear power renaissance have been greatly exaggerated. So says an audit of the nuclear power industry released on Wednesday. The report, commissioned by The Greens, a European parliamentary group, points out that many ageing reactors are due to close before 2030, and that 338 new ones would have to be built just to replace them

We have a peak oil sighting:

• 2007/11/29: Citizen: The End of Fossil Fuels - Global Considerations
• 2007/11/27: MotleyFool: The Frightening Idea of $100 Oil
• 2007/11/23: Time:CC: So maybe those peak oil people weren't crazy after all
• 2007/11/26: TruthOut: Reaching Our Peak Oil Supply

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

• 2007/11/28: FuturePundit: New Exxon Mobil Film For Lithium Ion Car Batteries
• 2007/12/01: TreeHugger: San Francisco Converts Entire Diesel Vehicle Fleet to Biodiesel
• 2007/12/01: ENN: Chicago Water Authority Purchases 30 All-Electric, Zero-Emissions Cars
• 2007/11/29: ClimateP: London Calling: Congestion Charge Recharges Electric Cars
• 2007/11/30: NEN: Electric vehicles are good for your world
• 2007/11/29: TEB: Exxon: Film May Lead to Car Battery that is Lighter and Safer
• 2007/11/30: CTB: Let in the Sun Shine
• 2007/11/29: AutoBG: First Th!nk [electric car] rolls off the line in Norway
• 2007/11/29: AutoBG: Coke to add 120 hybrid trucks to its US fleet in 2008
• 2007/11/28: TreeHugger: Honda Bucks the Trend, Announces It Will Produce A Hydrogen Car Next Year
• 2007/11/26: ClimateP: The Real Car Choice Facing Californians
• 2007/11/26: KSJT: Autoweek: A fine drive in a fuel cell car. But what's it mean?
• 2007/11/26: AutoBG: Ultra-capacitor/li-ion battery "hybrids" being developed in China

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2007/11/27: ENN: Climate Change & Business: The Carbon Disclosure Project

  Can you say every problem is an opportunity in disguise?

• 2007/11/30: ENN: U.S. and EU propose trade plan to counter climate change
  The United States and European Union launched a proposal in world trade talks on Friday aimed at countering global climate change by removing barriers to trade to climate-friendly technologies
• 2007/11/28: ClimateP: The job-creating answer to global warming

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2007/12/01: TreeHugger: Greenwash Watch: Solar Panels Do Not A Green House Make
• 2007/11/30: DotEarth: Six Sins of Greenwashing -- a Primer
• 2007/11/: TerraChoice: (link to 1.2meg pdf) 6 Sins of Greenwashing
• 2007/11/29: DotEarth: Green Is the New Green [wash]
• 2007/11/28: CSpin: NBC's Green Week really Greenwash week

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2007/12/02: Guardian(UK): Insurance ban for flood-risk homes - Houses built against advice 'should not get cover'
• 2007/11/30: PhysOrg: Storm names can boost insurance costs

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/11/29: Atmoz: A Lesson in Cherry Picking
• 2007/11/30: DeSmogBlog: Bogus Credits Can't Scam Mother Nature
• 2007/11/30: CCurrents: Counterpunching The CounterPuncher
• 2007/11/29: PRWatch: Kentucky Officials Treated to a Global Warming Snow Job
• 2007/11/28: WarmingLaw: Exxon's Legal Skeptics
• 2007/11/28: DeSmogBlog: Bjorn Lomborg: Saving the world from phony analogies
• 2007/11/28: DeSmogBlog: John Locke Foundation a Case Study in Global Warming Spin
• 2007/11/28: DeSmogBlog: John Locke Foundation: Echoes of Climate Change Denial
• 2007/11/27: DeSmogBlog: Kansas Energy Council Scrubs Global Warming From Website
• 2007/11/27: DeSmogBlog: John Locke Foundation's Reality Not Grounded in Reality
• 2007/11/26: WarmingLaw: Yes. We. Can. [FUD that bold measures to deal with global warming will result in financial disaster]
• 2007/11/25: JEB: Richard Black (BBC) on scepticism
• 2007/11/26: DeSmogBlog: Ignoring Expert Advice is the Only JunkScience
• 2007/11/26: DeSmogBlog: John Locke Foundation Pats Itself On The Back

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/12/02: GristMill: Gristmill community chastized! The global nature of global warming
• 2007/12/01: MTobis: Words I'm Giving Up for the New Year
• 2007/12/02: TreeHugger: What Does "Carbon Neutral" Mean Anyway?
• 2007/11/29: CDreams: Nation: Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out
• 2007/11/28: BBC: Venus offers Earth climate clues
• 2007/11/30: ClimateP: The Vision Thing III: What Will We Look Like in 2050?
• 2007/11/30: FergusB: Climate change is like my teeth
• 2007/11/28: Atmoz: Is it the Heat Island or a Linear Trend?
• 2007/11/29: Yahoo: Climate change: "Carbon footprint" enters everyday vocabulary
• 2007/11/29: AfterGutenberg: Don't Write Us Off Quite Yet
• 2007/11/29: SEJ: Climate change: A guide to the information and disinformation
• 2007/11/28: EnergyBulletin: Off course again
• 2007/11/27: DotEarth: Varied Views on Poverty and Climate
• 2007/11/27: JFleck: Climate Change As Seen From Nairobi
• 2007/11/27: SeattlePI: Climate Change: A little greener
• 2007/11/28: HuffPo: Taking Global Warming Personally (and Shedding Some Holiday Weight at the Same Time)
• 2007/11/27: ClimateP: So you want to calculate your carbon footprint
• 2007/11/27: FergusB: Two more reasons to be cheerful?
• 2007/11/27: Deltoid: A picture is worth a thousand words
• 2007/11/27: RealClimate: A phenomenological sequel
• 2007/11/27: Wunderground: Antarctic iceberg sinks cruise ship
• 2007/11/27: ENN: Brazil urges rich nations to curb climate change
• 2007/11/27: ENN: Rich and poor gird for climate change
• 2007/11/27: NEN: OPEC Goes Green?
• 2007/11/26: ClimateP: The Vision Thing I: Our Defining Moment
• 2007/11/25: JFleck: Did Climate Change Make Us What We Are Today?
• 2007/11/26: Stoat: Polar amplification, again

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

• CAN: Bali Blog
• SwissEx: Swiss Experiment
• USGS:LIMA: Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
• SierraClub: Global Warming and Clean Energy
• Columbia: Dr. James E. Hansen [web page]
• ESA: GLOBCARBON - Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation
• CDP: The Carbon Disclosure Project
• Wiki: Carbon cycle
• EAB: Environmental Action Blog
• Carbon Trade Watch
• DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science

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

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