Another Week of GW News, April 6, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

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• Top Stories:Bangkok UNFCCC Conference, BC Cap & Trade, Otway, Food Panik
• Melting Arctic, Pielke & Co., GCMs, No Link, IMF, World Bank, Short Takes & Late Comments
• GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers
• Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
• Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering
• Journals, Misc. Science, Weitzman, Hansen
• Kyoto, Carbon Trade, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
• Politics:International, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, Canada
• Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Drudge, Revkin, Books
• Energy, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Insurance
• Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

Here's a wee chuckle for ya:

• 2008/04/03: ClimateP: (cartoon - Toles) Burning Bush 2.0
• 2008/04/04: OLJ: The Lighter Side - Privatization: The key to the coming solar age
  How is industrial civilization to deal with the end of the petroleum age and the onset of global warming? The answer seems obvious to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Air America's "Ring of Fire" radio program last month, he remarked: "Solar energy is hitting the earth for free -- the tides, the wind, the sun are all free. All we need is to implant the infrastructure to harvest those electrons, and in a few years we'll be off of foreign oil." Typical wooly-headed liberalism! And yet, RFK Jr. may have inadvertently hit upon the reason why research, development, and implementation of a large-scale solar energy industry has lagged: precisely because it is free. The obvious solution? Privatize the sun!

This is cute. BoA head Ken Lewis won both a 'Fossil Fool of the Year' award and a 'Force for Nature' award. Real world absurdist comedy:

• 2008/04/04: HillHeat: Enviros Criticize, Fete Ken Lewis of Bank of America For Climate Influence
• 2008/04/03: TP:WonkRoom: Bank of America: Fossil Fool Or Force For Nature?

  A UNFCCC conference went down in Bangkok this week:

• 2008/04/05: SwissInfo: Swiss say action on climate change is "crucial" [Bangkok]
• 2008/04/05: Yahoo: Nations take first step to climate deal
• 2008/04/03: EnvFin: Bangkok talks touch on emission reduction targets
• 2008/04/04: Google:AP: UN Climate Talks Consider Compromise
• 2008/04/04: Xinhuanet: Bangkok climate change talks [in] stuck due to Japan's "sectoral approach"
• 2008/04/04: CarbonPositive: Baby steps at Bangkok climate talks
  The first tentative steps toward thrashing out a new global climate agreement under the Bali roadmap process have been taken in Bangkok this week. But well before the week winds up, it's clear the early positioning at the first of eight talks to agree post 2012 action by the end of next year underlines that nations have moved little toward a consensus.
• 2008/04/04: Yahoo: Deal to examine aviation in climate deal
• 2008/04/04: PhysOrg: UN Says Markets Crucial to Climate Pact
• 2008/04/04: Yahoo: Nations inch towards new climate deal
• 2008/04/04: IHT: UN climate conference agrees to tackle shipping, aviation emissions
  A U.N. climate conference agreed Friday to consider allowing industrialized countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol to use emissions cuts in shipping and aviation to reach their targets for reducing gases linked to global warming. The agreement fell short of European Union demands that shipping and aviation emissions be included in a new climate pact alongside pollutants from power plants and agriculture.
• 2008/04/04: Google:AP: Climate Talks Snag Over Japan Proposal [sector by sector targets for energy efficiency]
• 2008/04/04: Hindu: Carbon emissions trading stirs debate [Bangkok]
• 2008/04/03: AsiaNewsNet: Old problems continue to haunt climate change talks
• 2008/04/03: Australian: Australia 'reverting on climate change'
  The Australian delegation to climate change talks in Bangkok has turned the clock back to the Howard era by failing to back binding greenhouse targets, environment group Greenpeace says.
• 2008/04/02: RawStory: Climate negotiators work on ambitious pact
• 2008/04/03: ABC(Au): World grapples with aviation's climate change footprint
• 2008/04/03: PhysOrg: US Cites Recession Fear in [Bangkok] Climate Talks
• 2008/04/03: Yahoo: World grapples with aviation's climate change footprint
• 2008/04/04: Xinhuanet: NGOs in Bangkok climate change talks: Market Yes, Target No for developing countries
• 2008/04/01: UN: Upcoming UN forums to focus on using technology to combat climate change
• 2008/04/02: Yahoo: Global economy woes cast shadow on climate talks
• 2008/04/01: TruthOut: Talks Begin on New International Climate Treaty
• 2008/04/01: ABC(Au): New climate treaty will be 'more ambitious' than Kyoto
• 2008/04/01: ABC(Au): Poor nations fear being left in cold on global warming
• 2008/04/01: ABS-CBN: New pact on climate change best left after US polls: UN
• 2008/04/01: ETimes: Bangkok climate change talks get off to good start, UN claims
• 2008/04/01: SF Gate: Climate talks open with rancor - Haves, have-nots see different solutions for global warming
• 2008/04/01: Google:AFP: Poor nations fear being left in cold on global warming
• 2008/04/01: WSJ:EnvCap: Replacing Kyoto: Is Japan Right? [Bangkok]
• 2008/04/01: Hindu: Poor nations seek more money to cope with global warming
• 2008/04/01: CBC: Poor nations want cash for climate change help [Bangkok]
• 2008/04/01: AFP: Key climate decision should wait for new US president: UN
  A global decision on how much rich countries should slash their greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade should be made after the United States has a new president, the UN climate chief said Tuesday. Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Convention on Climate Change which is chairing talks in Bangkok, said the highly sensitive issue should be thrashed out next year, after the US elections in November.
• 2008/03/30: CNN: World summit turns to greenhouse gases
  Weeklong conference will look at new global pact to replace 1997 Kyoto accords - Nations disagree on the amount of greenhouse gases to reduce - Aid to poor nations, deforestation among topics to be tackled at summit
• 2008/03/31: UN: World waiting for climate change solution, says Ban Ki-moon
• 2008/03/31: UN: Climate change threatens development efforts of world's poor - UN official
• 2008/03/30: TerraDaily: Negotiators gather to push new UN climate treaty
• 2008/03/31: ENN: "Kyoto II" climate talks open in Bangkok
• 2008/03/31: NEN: The U.S. emissions plan: foot-dragging
• 2008/03/31: Google:AFP: Climate change talks open in Bangkok
• 2008/03/31: UNFCCC: Bangkok Climate Change Talks - 31 March to 4 April 2008
• 2008/03/31: WSJ:EnvCap: From Bali to Bangkok: How To Cut Hot Air
• 2008/03/31: OilChange: "The state of our planet requires you to be ambitious" [UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at Bangkok]
• 2008/03/31: Reuters: "Kyoto II" climate talks open in Bangkok
• 2008/03/31: ChinaDaily: 163 nations meet on climate change
  Governments from 163 countries will launch discussions today on forging a global warming agreement, a process expected to be fraught with disagreements over which countries should take the lead to reduce greenhouse gases by as much as half by 2050. The weeklong, United Nations climate meeting in Bangkok comes on the heels of a historic agreement reached in December to draft a new accord on global warming by 2009
• 2008/03/31: CBC: Complex global warming talks face deep divisions
  Negotiators began their first talks Monday in Bangkok on forging a devilishly complex global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol - and faced wide divisions between rich and developing countries over how to slash greenhouse gases. The weeklong gathering of representatives from 163 countries launched a 21-month process aimed at concluding a new climate change agreement by December 2009 to rein in gases such as carbon dioxide blamed for the rise in world temperatures.
• 2008/03/31: ABC(Au): UN delegates gather for climate change talks
  The next round of United Nations climate talks begin in Bangkok today, with representatives from nearly 200 countries expected to discuss ways to set up a new agreement to cut emissions by 2020. The week-long meeting will attempt to set up negotiations for a new post-Kyoto pact to fight climate change. The talks will carry forward a set of decisions called the 'Bali Roadmap', which were adopted at the UN Climate Change Conference held in December in Bali.

Following its carbon tax, British Columbia has announced the first Cap and Trade legislation in North America:

• 2008/04/03: BC:Gov: Bill 18 - 2008 - Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act
• 2008/04/05: Maribo: Tax AND trade in British Columbia
• 2008/04/04: CanWest: B.C. puts limits on major polluters - Emissions control bill a key part of plan to cut greenhouse gases
• 2008/04/04: CBC: B.C. introduces carbon cap-and-trade legislation
• 2008/04/04: G&M: B.C.'s 'pioneering' carbon rules worry industry
  British Columbia has ratcheted up its campaign to reduce carbon emissions by introducing a cap-and-trade regime for large emitters, becoming the first province in Canada to formalize such a system and leading the way in North America. Under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act, announced yesterday, large emitters will face "hard caps" limiting their emissions. They will be able to buy and sell emissions allowances or buy offset units, under a system aimed at making it appealing to slash the output of harmful gases and create a market for the credits. The level of those caps, however, has yet to be established.

In Australia, the Otway basin carbon sequestration project got underway:

• 2008/04/04: CJR: Remember FutureGen? American press silent while Oz launches first carbon storage plant
• 2008/04/02: CNN: Australia launches project to bury carbon dioxide
  Australia opens its first geosequestration plant to bury carbon dioxide - Plant in the state of Victoria is the first in the southern hemisphere - Project will capture and compress 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide - Gas will be injected 2 kilometers underground into a depleted natural gas reservoir
• 2008/04/03: NatureTGB: Oz kicks off carbon storage
• 2008/04/02: NatureCF: Oz kicks off carbon storage
• 2008/04/03: ABC(Au): Carbon storage plant may offer Illawarra solutions
  The opening of a carbon storage plant in Victoria could help provide solutions for coal producing areas such as the Illawarra, according to an advocate of the procedure. Professor John Kaldi from the company C02-CRC says it is the first demonstration in Australia of the process called geosequestration, or storing carbon emissions underground. Professor Kaldi says 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions will be stored underground in a depleted gas field, two kilometres beneath the earth's surface.
• 2008/04/02: ABC(Au): Carbon capture trial launched - Australia's first geosequestration trial has been launched in Victoria's southwest at Nirranda, near Warrnambool
• 2008/04/02: Yahoo: Australia opens carbon burying plant
• 2008/04/02: SMH: Experiment on clean coal to bury waste
  A "Clean Coal" experiment will begin in Australia today when the Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, opens a demonstration plant that will inject up to 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into a deep underground storage site in Victoria. The storage site, two kilometres under dairy country in the Otway basin, is part of the world's largest demonstration plant burying carbon dioxide. The launch will be attended by energy officials from major greenhouse emitting countries including the US, Japan, South Korea and India, along with coal, gas and oil company executives who are here for the meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. But the event has been marred by the failure of China to send any officials to the meeting or the launch.
• 2008/04/01: ABC(Au): Researchers up-beat about geosequestration trial
• 2008/04/02: ABC(Au): Govt to unveil underground carbon storage plant

  There is much more on food production below, but it is worth noting in the headline that world grain markets are hectic:

• 2008/04/03: ClimateP: Corn hits a new record -- $6 a bushel
• 2008/04/04: WaPo: Rising Grain Prices Panic Developing World
• 2008/04/03: BBerg: Rice Jumps to Record on Speculation Demand Will Outpace Supply
  [...] Rough rice for May delivery rose 41 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $20.20 per 100 pounds on the Chicago Board of Trade, after earlier reaching a record $20.35. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization said global exports will drop 3.5 percent this year as nations curb sales. China, India and Vietnam have cut rice exports, and Indonesia has reduced import tariffs to protect food supplies and cool inflation. Rice in Chicago climbed 42 percent in the first quarter, more than all of last year's 33 percent gain. [...] Eroding global inventories also have fueled rallies in corn, wheat and soybeans. Corn has gained 73 percent in the past year, touching a record $6.0275 a bushel today in Chicago. Soybeans are up 65 percent in the past 12 months, reaching $15.8625 on March 3, the highest ever. Wheat rose to a record $13.495 a bushel on Feb. 27 and has more than doubled in the past year.
• 2008/04/03: Yahoo: Corn Prices Jump to Record $6 a Bushel, Driving Up Costs for Food, Alternative Energy
• 2008/04/02: NYT:PK: Grains gone wild

  A bunch of different angles on the melting Arctic:

• 2008/04/03: Reuters: Canadian researchers warn of new Arctic worries
• 2008/04/04: KSJT: Reuters, CBC, Globe and Mail: Canada's big MacKenzie Delta getting a climate change one-two punch
• 2008/04/04: CanWest: Arctic fantasies need reality check - Geologist knows risks of northern exploration
• 2008/04/04: G&M: River delta's rise puts Arctic's future in flux
  Climate change in Arctic seas is driving summer water levels at the Mackenzie's mouth to three times normal, B.C. researchers find
• 2008/04/04: CBC: Water levels rising in Mackenzie Delta lakes, scientist warns
• 2008/04/02: AutoBG: Melting Greenland could yield 50 billion barrels of oil
• 2008/04/01: TreeHugger: Arctic Could Contain 400 Billion Barrels of Oil
• 2008/03/31: BCLSB: Arctic Ice Starting To Melt Again

  The Pielke Fan Club had a major workout this week:

• 2008/04/06: Maribo: Do the IPCC scenarios underestimate future emissions?
• 2008/04/04: ClimateP: Contest: Can you spot all the major errors and misstatements in Pielke's reply to my challenge?
• 2008/04/04: ClimateP: Open challenge to Roger Pielke and Breakthrough Institute -- Part 1
• 2008/04/04: GristMill: Asking the right question - The implicit assumption in Pielke Jr.'s Nature commentary
  [...] More honestly phrased, the question RPJr et al are asking would be this: Assuming today's institutions and practices remain roughly as they are, can we beat global warming with existing technology?
  That makes a key assumption clear: that law, politics, and socioeconomic practices are static. Technology is the one dynamic variable.
• 2008/04/04: SciDaily: Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction Assumptions Overly Optimistic, Study Says [PFC]
• 2008/04/03: ClimateP: Romm "bombshell" exposes Breakthrough Institute non-bombshell
• 2008/04/03: GristMill: 'Bombshell'? Really? -- RPJr.'s latest achievement in getting huge news coverage for saying very little
• 2008/04/02: CBC: IPCC underestimates global warming challenge, researchers say
• 2008/04/02: NatureN: Are the IPCC scenarios 'unachievable'?
• 2008/04/02: NatureN: Climate challenge underestimated? Technology will not automatically come to our aid, experts warn.[PFC]
• 2008/04/02: NatureCF: Are the IPCC scenarios 'unachievable'?
• 2008/04/02: ClimateP: Shame on Nature for quoting Hoffert on behalf of Pielke without noting they're colleagues!
• 2008/04/02: ClimateP: Why did Nature run Pielke's pointless, misleading, embarrassing nonsense?
• 2008/04/02: NSF: Emission Reduction Assumptions for Carbon Dioxide Overly Optimistic, Study Says
• 2008/04/02: Eureka: Emission reduction assumptions for carbon dioxide overly optimistic, study says
• 2008/04/02: Eureka: CO2 emission reduction assumptions overly optimistic, says study
  Technological challenges of reducing CO2 underestimated by IPCC, according to CU-Boulder-led study
• 2008/03/30: ClimateP: The adaptation trap 2: The not-so-honest-broker

  A study has validated GCMs:

• 2008/04/06: SciDaily: Climate Models Look Good When Predicting Climate Change
  The accuracy of computer models that predict climate change over the coming decades has been the subject of debate among politicians, environmentalists and even scientists. A new study by meteorologists at the University of Utah shows that current climate models are quite accurate and can be valuable tools for those seeking solutions on reversing global warming trends. Most of these models project a global warming trend that amounts to about 7 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years.
• 2008/04/03: TerraDaily: Models Look Good When Predicting Climate Change
• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: Models look good when predicting climate change
• 2008/04/02: Eureka: Models look good when predicting climate change - They project about 7 degrees Fahrenheit warming over a century
  The accuracy of computer models that predict climate change over the coming decades has been the subject of debate among politicians, environmentalists and even scientists. A new study by meteorologists at the University of Utah shows that current climate models are quite accurate and can be valuable tools for those seeking solutions on reversing global warming trends. Most of these models project a global warming trend that amounts to about 7 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years.

A study has shown no link between global warming and sunspots, cosmic rays...:

• 2008/04/03: N3xus6: 'No Sun link' to climate change
• 2008/04/04: ClimateP: Sorry deniers, research finds (once again) that climate change is NOT caused by cosmic rays
• 2008/04/03: Stoat: 'No Sun link' to climate change
• 2008/04/04: BCLSB: No Solar Link
• 2008/04/04: DeSmogBlog: Global Warming Deniers Favorite "Sunspot" Theory Refuted... Again
• 2008/04/03: PhysOrg: Climate change -- research suggests it is not a swindle [not solar]
• 2008/04/03: ENN: Climate change: research suggests it is not a swindle
• 2008/04/03: SciDaily: Climate Change Is Not Caused By Cosmic Rays, According To New Research
• 2008/04/03: Eureka: Climate change -- research suggests it is not a swindle
• 2008/04/03: OilChange: Solar Activity "Not Behind Climate Change"
• 2008/04/03: GAB: Climate change sceptics slapped down in new study
• 2008/04/03: BBC: 'No Sun link' to climate change
  Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity. The research contradicts a favoured theory of climate "sceptics", that changes in cosmic rays coming to Earth determine cloudiness and temperature. The idea is that variations in solar activity affect cosmic ray intensity. But Lancaster University scientists found there has been no significant link between them in the last 20 years
• 2008/03/30: Stoat: Another one bites the dust

  The IMF says the fight against global warming is affordable:

• 2008/04/03: TerraDaily: Fight against global warming need not dent growth: IMF
• 2008/04/04: ENN: Good policies can contain climate change costs: IMF
• 2008/04/03: Yahoo: Fight against global warming need not dent growth: IMF
• 2008/04/04: WSJ:EnvCap: Climate Bill: How Do You Slice It?
  Well, that settles it then. Radically cutting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is not just necessary, but also relatively affordable, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday in its World Economic Outlook. Reports Bob Davis in the WSJ: "The policies needed to reduce emissions by 60% from 2002 would leave the global economy about 2.6% smaller than it otherwise would be in 2040, the IMF projected. Even so, the global economy would grow to about 2.3 times its current size between 2007 and 2040, the IMF said."

And the World Bank came in for a slagging:

• 2008/04/04: TruthOut: World Bank Accused of Climate Change "Hijack"
• 2008/04/04: ENN: World Bank accused of climate change "hijack"
• 2008/04/01: CDreams: FPIF: World Bank Climate Profiteering
  The World Bank's long-running identity crisis is proving hard to shake. When efforts to rebrand itself as a "knowledge bank" didn't work, it devised a new identity as a "Green Bank."
• 2008/04/04: Reuters: World Bank accused of climate change "hijack"
  Developing countries and environmental groups accused the World Bank on Friday of trying to seize control of the billions of dollars of aid that will be used to tackle climate change in the next four decades. [...] At the week-long Bangkok conference, the World Bank pushed its proposals for a $5-10 billion Clean Technology Fund, a $500 million "adaptation" fund and possibly a third fund dealing with forestry. However, developing countries want climate change cash to be administered through the existing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), which they feel is much less under the control of the Group of 8 (G8) richest countries.

An indigenous peoples conference in Australia focussed on climate change:

• 2008/04/05: ENN: Involve indigenous people in climate policy, says report
• 2008/04/03: ABC(Au): Inuits losing lives to climate change, conference hears
• 2008/04/02: ABC(Au): Forum to probe climate change effects on Indigenous people
• 2008/04/02: Eureka: Indigenous peoples hardest hit by climate change describe impacts

  Tamino posted a useful discussion of the solar cycle and temperatures:

• 2008/04/05: Tamino: Stalking the Elusive Solar-cycle/Temperature Connection

  And continued the How Not to Analyze Data series:

• 2008/04/01: Tamino: How Not to Analyze Data, part 3
• 2008/03/30: Tamino: How Not to Analyze Data, part Deux

  Late comment on the Wilkins ice sheet collapse:

• 2008/03/31: CBC: Chunk of Antarctic ice shelf collapses; global warming blamed
• 2008/03/31: C411: News from the Antarctic

  Late comment on Earth Hour:

• 2008/04/04: Maribo: The effect of Earth Hour [drop in electricity demand in various cities]
• 2008/04/01: ABC(Au): Call for Earth Hour lessons to apply all year
• 2008/03/31: PhysOrg: Earth Hour had impact, utilities say
• 2008/03/31: AutoBG: An idea we can get behind for the next Earth Hour: stop driving

  Meanwhile as for GHGs:

• 2008/04/05: CarbonFinance: EU emissions data surprise market
  Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from factories and power stations in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) rose slightly in 2007 compared with 2006, according to initial -- and incomplete -- data published by the European Commission today. Prior to the announcement, traders had predicted that the final figures for 2007 would be slightly lower than those for 2006 because of a mild winter and a slowing economy. Installations covered by the trading scheme have so far reported emissions of 1,883.6 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2 -- excluding Bulgaria and Romania who joined the EU in 2007. Verified emissions in 2006 totalled 2,027 Mt.
• 2008/04/04: JFleck: The Dramatic Effect of Europe's Kyoto Commitment - emissions up 1.1% last year
• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: New formula for combating the GHG nitrous oxide
• 2008/04/02: UFZ: New formula for combating the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
• 2008/04/02: WSJ:EnvCap: Carbon Copy: Europe's Still Not Cutting Emissions
• 2008/04/02: BBC: EU industry sees emissions rise - Carbon dioxide emissions from Europe's heavy industry sectors rose by 1.1% in 2007, say carbon market analysts.
• 2008/04/01: PhysOrg: Climate changing gas [dimethyl sulphide (DMS)] from some surprising microbial liaisons
• 2008/03/31: TerraDaily: No Laughing Matter - Bacteria Are Releasing A Serious Greenhouse Gas
• 2008/03/30: Eureka: No laughing matter -- bacteria are releasing a serious greenhouse gas [NO2]

  And in the carbon cycle:

• 2008/04/01: TruthOut: Are the Oceans Giving Up? Studies seem to indicate that oceans, which are major carbon sinks, may have had enough...

  Yes we have feedbacks:

• 2008/04/04: Tamino: Feedback

  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2008/04/01: PhysOrg: Study heats up 'snowball Earth' debate

  And on the ENSO front:

• 2008/04/04: UN: Global warming continues, regardless of La Niña weather pattern - UN agency
• 2008/04/04: PhysOrg: U.N. meteorologist predicts cooler summer
• 2008/04/04: BBC: Global temperatures 'to decrease'
  Global temperatures this year will be lower than in 2007 due to the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said. The World Meteorological Organisation's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. But experts have also forecast a record high temperature within five years.
• 2008/04/01: DotEarth: Ocean Cooling and Global Warming

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2008/03/29: Yahoo: Austrian glaciers shrink the most in five years

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2008/04/06: ABC(Au): Doctors issue climate change health warning
• 2008/04/06: ABC(Au): Iceland: life on global warming's front line
• 2008/04/06: ENN: Iceland: life on global warming's front line
• 2008/04/05: ENN: Nobel scientist warns on climate change
  The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who rang the first alarm bells over the ozone hole issued a warming about climate change on Saturday, saying there could be "almost irreversible consequences" if the Earth warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees F) above what it ought to be.
• 2008/04/05: TreeHugger: More Global Warming-Induced Ice Melting Could Yield "Explosive" [volcanic] Results
• 2008/04/04: CCurrents: Wanted - Homes For Small Island People
• 2008/04/05: McClatchyDC: Will new [Arctic] fishing grounds be global warming benefit?
• 2008/04/03: TerraDaily: Extreme weather starving Uganda's pastoralists
• 2008/04/04: People's Daily: Scientists call for sharing data on Himalayan snow
• 2008/04/03: CBC: Wandering polar bears a sign of climate change: expert
• 2008/04/03: NewScientist: Melting ice caps may trigger more volcanic eruptions
• 2008/04/03: PhysOrg: Harmful algae taking advantage of global warming
• 2008/04/03: Eureka: Harmful algae taking advantage of global warming
• 2008/04/03: Yahoo: Extreme weather starving Uganda's pastoralists
• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: Climate and cholera
• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: Tropical storms can quickly turn deadly
• 2008/04/02: SciDaily: King Penguins Threatened By Global Warming
• 2008/04/02: ABC(Au): Rare animals battling extinction threat
  Since European settlement two centuries ago, Australia has lost almost a third of its unique mammal species. Major causes like habitat loss, foxes and feral cats are well known. But now there's a new threat that some experts argue is the most dangerous of all: climate change.
• 2008/04/01: SciDaily: Global Warming Bringing Early Spring Seasons To Eurasian Forests
• 2008/03/31: CSIRO: Warming world holds new threats for Aussie wildlife
• 2008/03/28: ABC(US): Silent Insect Killer Ravages American West - Growing Epidemic of Mountain Pine Beetles Is Destroying Millions of Acres of Forests
• 2008/03/31: PhysOrg: Warming world holds new threats for Aussie wildlife

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2008/04/04: TreeHugger: "Guide To The Guides" Aims To Save World's Forests
• 2008/04/03: PhysOrg: Probing Question: Can logging be done sustainably?
• 2008/04/01: TreeHugger: London Investors "Buy" Guyana Rainforest, Will Sell its Services
• 2008/04/01: SciDaily: Tropical Forests Not Likely To Limit Expected Rapid Rise In Carbon Dioxide, Major Study Suggests
• 2008/04/01: Reuters: Norway to use forests to double bioenergy output
• 2008/03/31: ENN: Deforestation-Carbon Markets Research

  As for Corals:

• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: Coral reefs and climate change: Microbes could be the key to coral death

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2008/04/03: TerraDaily: Wild winds whip southern Australia leaving one dead: officials
• 2008/04/03: SMH: Two dead and thousands in dark as wild winds strike
  A woman was killed by a falling wall and a rigger died in a building site collapse as winds of up to 130kmh caused mayhem across Victoria, South Australia and the west of NSW.

As for wild fires:

• 2008/04/02: ACP: Global fire activity patterns (1996 - 2006) and climatic influence: an analysis using the World Fire Atlas by Y. Le Page et al.

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2008/04/05: BBC: Thousands flee floods in Brazil
  Flooding in north-eastern Brazil has killed at least 15 people and driven tens of thousands from their homes, civil defence officials have said. The victims drowned when the River Paraiba burst its banks and the walls of a medium-sized dam cracked in the normally arid state of Paraiba. The flood waters, caused by torrential rains, have also destroyed corn and bean crops, and washed away roads.
• 2008/04/04: ENN: Spanish region may ship water to relieve drought
• 2008/04/06: Guardian(UK): Drought ignites Spain's 'water war'
• 2008/04/05: TreeHugger: Graphic Of The Day: Monthly Average Water Levels, Lake Lanier, Atlanta, Georgia
• 2008/04/04: TreeHugger: Lessons From The Midwest Floods
• 2008/04/04: ENN: Spanish region may ship water to relieve drought
• 2008/04/03: CBC: Quebec watching 25 rivers for potential flooding
• 2008/04/01: CBC: Warm weather means flood warnings across Ontario
• 2008/03/31: PhysOrg: Arizona drought lingers even amid rains

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2008/04/05: DailyStar(Ba): Biofuel production hits food security?
• 2008/04/05: Guardian(UK): UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy - Ban Ki-moon speaks out amid global food shortage - 33 countries facing unrest as families go hungry
• 2008/04/04: PlanetArk: Food Prices To Rise For Years, Biofuel Firms Say
• 2008/04/03: NEN: Corn ethanol and hunger
• 2008/04/02: SF Gate: Fuel or folly? Ethanol and the law of unintended consequences
• 2008/04/01: PhysOrg: World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change
• 2008/04/01: Yahoo: World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change

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

• 2008/04/06: Guardian(UK): Food riots fear after rice price hits a high - Shortages of the staple crop of half the world's people could bring unrest across Asia and Africa...
• 2008/04/04: IRIN: Thailand: Rising rice prices fuel fears of food shortages and starvation
• 2008/04/05: DailyIndia: Half of Pakistan population at the risk of "food insecurity", warns WFP
• 2008/04/05: BBC: Food riots turn deadly in Haiti
  At least four people were killed and 20 wounded when demonstrations against rising food prices turned into riots in southern Haiti, officials say
• 2008/04/05: PeakEnergy: Rising Grain Prices Panic Developing World
• 2008/04/04: Bullet: Farmers Seek Defenses Against the Giants of Agribusiness
  Around the world, farm income is plummeting, pushing farmers off the land and into destitution. At the very same time, soaring food prices are putting tens of millions onto starvation diets. Welcome to the bizarre world of capitalist agriculture, where the drive to boost profits of giant transnational corporations is imperiling the production of our means of survival.
• 2008/04/04: FTimes: The rising cost of food - Fear of unrest mounts as hunger spreads
  Rising food prices could spread social unrest across Africa after triggering riots in Niger, Senegal, Cameroon and Burkina Faso, African ministers and senior agriculture diplomats have warned. Kanayo Nwanze, the vice-president of the United Nations' International Fund for Agriculture, told a conference in Ethiopia that food riots could become a common feature, particularly after the price of rice has doubled in three months.
• 2008/04/03: IHT: North Korean food shortages make tense situation worse - food rations suspended for six months in Pyonyang
• 2008/04/04: OLJ: Why food prices will go through the roof in coming months [Ug99 wheat fungus]
• 2008/04/04: BBC: Asian states feel rice pinch
  Asian countries have been struggling to cope as the cost of rice has reached record levels. The price of the staple crop has risen by as much as 70% during the last year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Shortages have begun to hit some importing countries.
• 2008/04/03: Reuters: Arabs without oil hard hit by food price spiral
• 2008/04/03: BBC: Rice at record as exports curbed
  The price of rice has hit a record on fears demand will outstrip supply as governments move to curb exports of the staple food. Rough rice for May delivery hit a record of $20.26 per 100lb, according to Bloomberg data. Export restrictions are in place in major rice producing countries such as India, China, Vietnam and Egypt. International rice prices have increased about 20% since the beginning of the year. Rice is the staple food for about three billion people worldwide.
• 2008/04/02: UN: Global rice production to rise by 1.8 per cent in 2008, says [FAO] UN agency
• 2008/04/02: TruthOut: Betting the Farm
• 2008/04/01: FTimes: The rising cost of food - Rush to restrict trade in basic foods
• 2008/04/01: ArgusLeader: Could high grain prices devastate prairie? Farmers finding little incentive to leave land alone
• 2008/04/01: Reuters: Hungry crowds spell trouble for world leaders
• 2008/03/31: Guardian(UK): Farmers fall prey to rice rustlers as price of staple crop rockets - Asian countries curb exports to avoid shortfalls as 'perfect storm' nearly doubles price in three months
• 2008/04/01: CasaubonsBook: The Food Crisis Getting Worse - Fast!
• 2008/04/01: TheAge: Scarce food beginning to cost the Earth
• 2008/04/01: OSSTimes: Worldwide food catastrophe not very far off -- 'Solutions' are fueling shortage [by Gwynne Dyer]
• 2008/04/01: PeakEnergy: Corn Rationing in 2008?
• 2008/04/01: News(Au): Global food prices soaring
• 2008/04/01: BBC: India introduces rice export ban
• 2008/03/31: ChronicleHerald: Food crisis growing peril
• 2008/03/31: AsiaSentinel: The region takes a battering as agflation hits its staple food
• 2008/03/31: Coloradoan: World's phosphorus situation scares some scientists
• 2008/03/31: Reuters: Tensions rise as world faces short rations
  Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers can't keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it's already boiling over. Around the globe, people are protesting and governments are responding with often counterproductive controls on prices and exports -- a new politics of scarcity in which ensuring food supplies is becoming a major challenge for the 21st century. Plundered by severe weather in producing countries and by a boom in demand from fast-developing nations, the world's wheat stocks are at 30-year lows. Grain prices have been on the rise for five years, ending decades of cheap food. Drought, a declining dollar, a shift of investment money into commodities and use of farm land to grow fuel have all contributed to food woes. But population growth and the growing wealth of China and other emerging countries are likely to be more enduring factors.
• 2008/03/31: TGBeaver: Calling Malthus - the world's wheat stocks are at 30-year lows...
• 2008/03/31: NakedCapitalism: Food Stamp Use to Reach Record Level
• 2008/03/31: NYT: As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2008/04/02: NatureN: Waste concrete could help to lock up carbon - Old building sites could help to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
• 2008/03/31: ClimateP: Is 450 ppm (or less) politically possible? Part 1
• 2008/03/31: PhysOrg: Specially-designed soils could help combat climate change
• 2008/03/31: WorldChanging: Carbon Neutral by 2020
• 2008/03/31: OilChange: Four Nations Bid to be Carbon Neutral [Iceland, New Zealand, Norway and Costa Rica]

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2008/04/04: NatureTGB: Cleaning up shipping lanes [sulphur]
• 2008/04/03: CSM: A secret to improving cargo ship efficiency: Go fly a kite

  The play of high fuel costs & transportation is receiving more attention:

• 2008/04/06: Guardian(UK): America's truckers grind to a halt - Rocketing diesel costs are forcing US hauliers out of work...
• 2008/04/04: GMB: Cross-elasticity - the demand for public transport depends on the price of gasoline
• 2008/04/02: HeraldNet: Commuters are voting with their bus fares
  Whether it's rising gas prices, worsening traffic or a growing green ethic -- or perhaps all three -- more and more commuters are getting on the bus.
• 2008/03/27: EcoShock: Peak Oil = Transportation Revolution

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2008/04/02: GristMill: Building green, one city at a time - Eager municipalities hopping on board
• 2008/04/01: People's Daily: Govt promotes energy-efficient buildings

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2008/04/03: EnvFin: Algae farms could thrive on CCS

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2008/04/05: PeakEnergy: Let's go on a fossil fuel binge. Scientists will cure it!
• 2008/03/31: KSJT: CBC Quirks and Quarks: If all else fails to cool us off, geoengineer the whole planetary climate (plus, Sacto Bee on iron fertilization)
• 2008/03/30: SacBee: S.F. entrepreneur floats a bold idea to 'fertilize' ocean - Sees ocean 'fertilized' with iron as a tool to slow climate change [Climos]

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2008/04/03: ACP: Comparison between early Odin-SMR, Aura MLS and CloudSat retrievals of cloud ice mass in the upper tropical troposphere by P. Eriksson et al.
• 2008/04/03: ACP: Normal mode Rossby waves and their effects on chemical composition in the late summer stratosphere by D. Pendlebury et al.
• 2008/04/04: ACPD: Particle size distributions in the Eastern Mediterranean troposphere by N. Kalivitis et al.
• 2008/04/04: ACPD: Increased UV radiation due to polar ozone chemical depletion and vortex occurrences at southern sub-polar latitudes in the period (1997 - 2005) by A. F. Pazmino et al.
• 2008/03/31: CP: Maintenance of polar stratospheric clouds in a moist stratosphere by D. B. Kirk-Davidoff & J.-F. Lamarque
• 2008/03/31: CP: Detecting vegetation-precipitation feedbacks in mid-Holocene North Africa from two climate models by Y. Wang et al.
• 2008/03/31: CP: A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology by A. Svensson et al.
• 2008/04/03: CPD: Borehole paleoclimatology -- the effect of deep lakes and "heat islands" on temperature profiles by V. T. Balobaev et al.
• 2008/04/03: TCD: Transient thermal effects in Alpine permafrost by J. Noetzli & S. Gruber
• 2008/03/31: TCD: Evaluation of the ground surface Enthalpy balance from bedrock shallow borehole temperatures (Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctic) by M. Ramos & G. Vieira
• 2008/04/02: ACP: Global fire activity patterns (1996 - 2006) and climatic influence: an analysis using the World Fire Atlas by Y. Le Page et al.
• 2008/04/02: ACP: Chemical ozone loss in the Arctic winter 1991-1992 by S. Tilmes et al.
• 2008/04/01: ACPD: A method for evaluating spatially-resolved NOx emissions using Kalman filter inversion, direct sensitivities, and space-based NO2 observations by S. L. Napelenok et al.
• 2008/04/01: PNAS: Diversity predicts stability and resource use efficiency in natural phytoplankton communities by Robert Ptacnik et al.
• 2008/04/01: PNAS: Anthropogenic increase in carbon dioxide compromises plant defense against invasive insects by Jorge A. Zavala et al.

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

• 2008/04/05: SciDaily: Multi-century High-resolution Climate Simulations Created Using Supercomputers
• 2008/04/03: CSM: Dust plays huge role in climate change
  Tiny particles heat up the atmosphere faster than scientist once believed. The good news is this dust can be cleaned up fairly quickly.
• 2008/04/02: BBC: Drilling into a climate hotspot
  Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have just returned from one of the most ambitious projects of the season: to drill an ice core from the top of a mountain high on the Antarctic Peninsula
• 2008/04/01: Eureka: NASA launches airborne study of arctic atmosphere, air pollution
• 2008/03/31: ClimateP: AMS Seminar Discusses the Sun's Role in Warming

  John & James on Weitzman:

• 2008/04/03: JFleck: Weitzman pt. II
• 2008/04/02: JFleck: Weitzman and Ahab
• 2008/04/02: JEB: Weitzman's Dismal Theorem again [climate sensitivity. Bayes]

  More Hansen:

• 2008/04/02: GristMill: Mr. Rogers responds - Duke Energy CEO responds to climate scientist Jim Hansen
• 2008/04/01: GristMill: Darth Vader and Mr. Rogers - James Hansen writes to Duke Energy on coal
• 2008/03/28: AusSMC: (link to pdf) Hansen letter to Rudd
• 2008/04/02: Deltoid: James Hansen writes to Kevin Rudd
• 2008/04/02: WSJ:EnvCap: Hansen v. Duke: The Perfect versus the Good?
• 2008/03/31: ABC(Au): NASA scientist urges PM to stop coal exports
• 2008/03/30: EnergyBulletin: Hansen to Australian PM: stop coal plants now

  Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

• 2008/04/04: Guardian(UK): The road from Kyoto [by Gwyn Prins]
  The strategy has failed. The world must follow Japan in a radical rethink of climate change policy

And on the carbon trading front:

• 2008/04/03: Guardian(UK): Carbon prices rise amid tighter rules
• 2008/04/01: OilChange: UK Watchdog Warns About Carbon Trading

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

• 2008/04/04: CDreams: Independent(UK): The Great Carbon Con: Can Offsetting Really Help To Save The Planet?
• 2008/04/03: GristMill: When does additionality matter? Part 3 -- Almost always, but the reason is more subtle than you think
• 2008/04/03: GristMill: Carbon policy details: Part 5 -- The solution: Output-based standards
• 2008/04/01: GristMill: Let me boil it down for you ... When additionality always matters
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: When does additionality matter? Part 2 - Measuring additionality has clear benefits -- and also some obvious costs
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: Carbon policy details: Part 4 - Spots vs. strips
• 2008/03/30: GristMill: When does additionality matter? Part 1 - The deceptively simple concept at the heart of carbon markets

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2008/04/02: GristMill: U-boat sightings - European biodiesel industry being bankrupted by loophole
• 2008/04/01: WSJ:EnvCap: U.S. Biofuels Subsidies: Not for Farmers, but for Europeans
• 2008/04/01: Guardian(UK): Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam - US 'splash and dash' loophole undermines climate change fight

  And on the American political front:

• 2008/04/06: QuarkSoup: Reporting CO2 [in Oregon]
• 2008/04/05: ClimateP: Maryland keeps getting greener
• 2008/04/05: OrlandoSentinel: Oil firms no longer need tax break, but renewable energy does
• 2008/04/03: PRWatch: Much Ado About Fossil Fuels on April Fool's
• 2008/04/05: TP:WonkRoom: Oil Industry Apologists Declare "We Like Oil," "Be Thankful," "Don't Blame Oil"
• 2008/04/04: TP:WonkRoom: Bush Climate Negotiator [Harlan Watson] Fails To "Understand The Real World"
• 2008/04/03: TruthOut: Massachusetts Leads Bid to Limit Greenhouse Emissions
• 2008/04/03: HillHeat: Lieberman: We're Close to Sixty Votes; Reid: L-W Hits Floor in June
• 2008/04/02: HillHeat: New Senate Renewable Tax Package Possible Today
• 2008/04/03: WarmingLaw: Climate Lawsuits: Why They Can't Wait 'Til 2009
• 2008/04/03: WarmingLaw: Jerry Brown vs. Chevron
• 2008/04/02: ClimateP: Lieberman-Warner promotes the transition to clean energy
• 2008/04/02: TruthOut: Dance of the Oil Fairies
• 2008/03/03: NewsWeek: The Energy Trap - Why the United States is doomed to be an energy outlaw
• 2008/04/01: CSW: House Select Committee to examine aviation's impact on global warming
• 2008/04/01: TP:WonkRoom: No April Fool: Coal Industry Asks For $1 Billion Tax On Fossil Fuels [so long as the proceeds go to the coal industry]

  The polar bear non-decision came under criticism:

• 2008/04/03: TruthOut: Inaction on Polar Bear Criticized
• 2008/04/04: GristMill: Polar bears are ... doing great? So say Big Oil-friendly opponents of protecting them
• 2008/04/03: CDreams: SF Chronicle: Oil Politics Alleged in Polar Bear Decision
• 2008/04/04: ThinkP: Beck Rants Against Polar Bears: "They Eat People! For The Love Of Pete, They're Big, Angry Bears!"
• 2008/04/03: SciDaily: Protection For Polar Bears Urged By National Wildlife Federation
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: Polar bears are fat! Listing polar bears as endangered species could ... harm polar bears? [denial]

  The Bush administration EPA is under fire, hit with a writ:

• 2008/04/02: TruthOut: EPA Seen Under Attack in Bush Years [by Bush & co]
• 2008/04/04: WarmingLaw: Congress vs. the EPA, Again: Both Chambers Seek to Link Warming and Human Health
• 2008/04/03: NYT: Group Seeks E.P.A. Rules on Emissions From Vehicles
• 2008/04/03: ALM: 18 States Going to Court to Force EPA to Respond to Supreme Court Ruling on Global Warming
• 2008/04/03: KSJT: Two updates on US science v. politics tangles: EPA's tardy response to Supreme Court on carbon; and OMB's foot dragging on fire retardant
• 2008/04/03: WarmingLaw: Eviscerating, Not Tweaking, The Clean Air Act
• 2008/04/02: AutoBG: EPA chief finds a way to further delay taking action on emissions
• 2008/04/02: SeattlePI: Washington, other states sue EPA on warming
• 2008/04/03: WaPo: EPA Is Sued for Answers on Emissions
• 2008/04/03: CSM: Bush's 'caution' on CO2 seen as 'foot-dragging' by critics
  Supreme Court has ruled that EPA can regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, but administration says deliberation needed.
• 2008/04/02: TP:WonkRoom: One Year After Global Warming Mandate, EPA Delays And Hides
• 2008/04/02: Guardian(UK): US states take agency to court over emissions standards
• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: States Suing EPA Over Global Warming
• 2008/04/02: GristMill: FOE to Bush: Pull Johnson out
• 2008/04/02: SierraClub: EPA's Continued Defiance of High Court Ruling Challenged
• 2008/04/02: WarmingLaw: States: EPA Delay "Fails the Rule of Reason"
• 2008/04/02: WarmingLaw: Massachusetts v. EPA, Ignored: One Year Later, Back to Court We Go...
• 2008/04/02: WaPo: Ignoring the Supreme Court - The Bush administration punts on greenhouse emissions
• 2008/04/02: C411: Legal Action to Compel EPA Compliance with Supreme Court
• 2008/04/02: ThinkP: 17 states sue EPA over global warming
• 2008/03/31: CAP: Johnson's Latest Dodge
• 2008/03/31: ClimateP: Latest dodge from EPA's Johnson
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: Snarkey Markey - Seeing through the EPA's BS

  One hears a lot about the campaign(s), not much about climate:

• 2008/04/03: ClimateP: Graham Claims McCain Has Done "Even More" Than Al Gore On Global Warming
• 2008/04/03: GristMill: Obama just can't quit Gore
• 2008/04/03: Yahoo: Obama would find Cabinet post for Gore
• 2008/04/03: ThinkP: [Sen. Lindsey] Graham (R-SC) Claims McCain Has Done "Even More" Than Al Gore On Global Warming
• 2008/04/02: TreeHugger: Obama Takes Al Gore's Advice On Climate, Would Offer Role In Administration
• 2008/04/02: TreeHugger: Obama Says Climate Change Is Real, Will Hire Gore
• 2008/04/02: DeSmogBlog: Obama eyes Gore for a major climate-change post
• 2008/03/31: ThinkP: Schwarzenegger Aide: McCain's Climate Plan Gets An 'F'

  Al Gore kicked off a climate PR campaign this week:

• 2008/04/03: CJR: Gore Wants You! The anatomy and coverage of his 'We' PR blitz
• 2008/04/03: Atmoz: Al Gore: We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
• 2008/04/02: MTobis: Gore Blimey - Two Gore-related items today
• 2008/04/02: OilChange: Gore Launches $300m Climate Advertising Blitz
• 2008/04/01: KSJT: Lots of Ink: Al Gore to take global warming to America's air waves (yep - yet more political ads)
• 2008/04/01: GristMill: Al Gore's got some big bucks - Thoughts on the newly announced 'we' campaign
• 2008/04/01: DeSmogBlog: Gore kick starts sweeping program to slash U.S. carbon emissions
• 2008/04/01: SF Gate: Gore calling on youth to save the planet
  Al Gore believes the road to solving the climate crisis winds through American pop culture, from "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser" on through "The Daily Show" and "The 700 Club." The former vice president and the beneficiary of his Nobel Prize, the Palo Alto-based Alliance for Climate Protection, want Washington politicians to act faster to solve the climate crisis. And they think the way to do this is to create a popular movement that appeals to Americans through the pop culture that unites them, rather than political issues that divide them.
• 2008/03/31: TP:WonkRoom: Gore Launches $300 Million Climate Action Campaign
• 2008/04/01: Guardian(UK): Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army - Huge drive for Congress action on global warming - $300m TV campaign will focus on job opportunities
• 2008/03/31: TruthOut: Gore Unveils $300 Million Climate Ads
• 2008/03/31: DotEarth: Madison Avenue Sells S.U.V.'s. Can It Sell Climate Action?
• 2008/03/31: PhysOrg: Gore Announces Global Warming Effort
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: Urgency and solvability: The "we" campaign - Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection unveils ambitious $300 million ad campaign
• 2008/03/31: WSJ:EnvCap: Winning Hearts and Minds: Gore's Permanent Campaign
• 2008/03/31: FPB: Al Gore puts his money where his mouth is
• 2008/03/31: DymaxionWorld: Better ads, please -- Al Gore's first ad in a multi-million dollar campaign...
• 2008/03/31: CBC: Gore's organization to spend $300M on climate change campaign
• 2008/03/31: WaPo: Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate [US$300 million campaign]
• 2008/03/31: Guardian(UK): Gore unveils $300m climate ads

  A couple of polls:

• 2008/04/03: ENN: Americans prefer energy fix to cancer cure: poll
• 2008/04/03: SF Gate: Poll: Make gas guzzlers pay higher fees

  The NYC congestion plan passed a hurdle this week:

• 2008/04/01: C411: NYC Congestion Pricing Plan Moves Forward
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: High noon for congestion pricing [in NYC] - What we lose if Bloomberg's plan goes down

  In Kansas, the coal continues inexorably:

• 2008/04/04: ClimateP: Can Kansas Envision the Dream Reborn?
• 2008/04/04: HillHeat: Kansas, Bleeding Carbon Emissions, Looks to the Outback-Bound EPA
• 2008/04/04: WarmingLaw: Kansas, Bleeding Carbon Emissions, Turns to the Outback-Bound EPA

  While in the UK:

• 2008/04/05: TreeHugger: UK Town [Middlesborough] Embraces Urban Farming on a Massive Scale
• 2008/04/03: Guardian(UK): [UK PM Gordon] Brown calls for 'inclusive globalisation' ahead of international conference
  The prime minister, Gordon Brown, will tomorrow host a high-level political conference aimed at tackling global issues such as climate change and poverty in the developing world. Brown will be joined by 15 world leaders and more than 300 international policymakers, academics and experts for the Progressive Governance conference in London.
• 2008/04/02: Guardian(UK): Brown pledges to help householders go green
• 2008/04/02: BBC: Concern over 'zero carbon' homes
  UK home-owners are not prepared to make the changes needed to live in "zero carbon" homes, according to a report. People felt the eco-friendly buildings would require extra maintenance and that they would have to cut back on certain appliances, it added. The National House-Building Council (NHBC) Foundation study said buyers also feared the homes would cost more. The government has set a target that all new homes in England must have no net carbon emissions by 2016.

Muddling through to an energy policy...:

• 2008/04/03: Times(UK): Why are we going back to coal?
  This Governments antediluvian policy of backing a new coal-fired power station is absurd
• 2008/04/02: Guardian(UK): 3bn pound climate change bill for energy firms
• 2008/04/01: Guardian(UK): Undercut and under fire: UK biofuel feels heat from all sides - Sector faces hostility from competitors and campaigners
• 2008/04/01: Guardian(UK): E.ON delays [Kingsnorth] coal-fired power plant to await carbon capture ruling
• 2008/04/01: Guardian(UK): Activists slam changes to green grants
• 2008/03/31: OilChange: Britain "Makes a Mockery" of Tackling Climate Change

  Heathrow agitation continues:

• 2008/04/05: inel: 4 million voices against Heathrow expansion
• 2008/04/02: inel: Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers says the case for a third runway has not been made

  Porsche followed through with their threat to sue London:

• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: Porsche challenge to London pollution charge
• 2008/04/02: M&C: Porsche sues over London plans to charge gas-guzzlers

  And in Europe:

• 2008/04/04: PhysOrg: Germany's biofuels plan stalls - 330,000 German cars & more than 2 million imported cars wouldn't be able to run on the E-10 gasoline
• 2008/04/03: PhysOrg: German auto industry says ready for biofuel ramp-up
• 2008/04/02: EUO: Germany wants EU compensation for nuclear phase-out
  The German economy minister believes Germany should be allowed to emit more carbon dioxide (CO2) in compensation for phasing out its nuclear energy.
• 2008/04/02: EnergyDaily: With Ambitious EU Legislation, Wind Energy Can Provide Huge Benefits To Europe

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2008/04/05: ABC(Au): Carbon trading not enough, says Rio Tinto scientist
  Australia's former chief scientist says the costs associated with cutting the nation's carbon emissions may be larger than originally thought. Dr Robin Batterham is currently chief scientist for mining giant Rio Tinto and he says the financial benefits of new energy technologies have been overstated.
• 2008/04/05: SMH: Get used to being greener, poorer
  Australians must accept that emissions trading is designed to make them pay more and lower their standard of living, at least where energy use is concerned, the Reserve Bank governor warns.
• 2008/04/05: SMH: Solar expert wants same support as coal
  One of Australia's leading solar engineers has criticised governments for a lack of support for the industry, contrasting it with the strong backing given to clean coal in the race to cut greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation
• 2008/04/04: ABC(Au): Vic Govt gives $72m for sustainable energy
• 2008/04/04: ABC(Au): Green group calls on NSW to release emissions costings
• 2008/04/04: ABC(Au): Clean coal key to Vic's energy future: Garnaut
• 2008/04/04: ABC(Au): Vic particularly vulnerable to climate change: [Victorian Premier John] Brumby
• 2008/04/04: SMH: $430b: how much greenhouse gas cuts will cost, says [The NSW Treasurer, Michael] Costa
  Making the cuts to greenhouse emissions recommended by the nation's economic adviser on climate change would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and slash the size of Australia's economy by 4 per cent, modelling by the NSW Treasury shows.
• 2008/04/02: ABC(Au): Not enough 'green energy' to meet carbon emission targets
  Electricity suppliers say they cannot source enough so-called 'green energy' to meet ambitious new carbon emission targets. The Commonwealth Government has committed to cutting emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, mirroring a commitment made last year by the ACT Government. However John Mackay, the chief executive of Canberra's power supplier ACTEW AGL, says given the current state of the industry, there is little chance of meeting the target
• 2008/04/02: ABC(Au): [Tasmanian] Parliament fires up over energy rebates
• 2008/04/01: ABC(Au): Let electricity industry work out carbon quandary: ESAA [Energy Supply Association of Australia]

  In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his do-nothing policy:

• 2008/04/03: CanWest: Tories reject climate pledge
  The Harper government has rejected [the "Kyotoplus" declaration by Climate Action Network] a new pledge taken by opposition leaders to endorse a tough international treaty to fight global warming
• 2008/04/01: G&M: Tories filibuster Layton bill on climate
  A Conservative filibuster went late into last night in a bid to derail a bill on climate change put forward by NDP Leader Jack Layton. [...] The legislation would set new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emission from 2015 through to 2050.
• 2008/03/31: Far-n-Wide: Incompetent And Proud Of It [Environment Minister John Baird]
• 2008/03/31: CanWest: Canada faces climate disaster: memo -- Government experts warn Tories to accept 2-degree limit on warming, or risk consequences

  Al Gore held one of his training sessions in Montreal which drew some comment:

• 2008/04/06: CanWest: Gore preaches climate gospel - Enviro-disciples flock to Montreal. Former vice-president's Climate Project holds first training seminar in Canada
• 2008/04/05: DeSmogBlog: Training Day: Al Gore offers "The Truth" - slide by slide
• 2008/04/04: DeSmogBlog: The Inconvenient Truthteller: Al Gore captivates Montreal
• 2008/04/04: DeSmogBlog: An inspirational kickoff from David Suzuki
• 2008/03/30: DeSmogBlog: In Search of Al Gore: A Climate Pilgrimage

  Late comment on BC's carbon tax:

• 2008/04/03: Tyee: Anti-Tax Group Flunks Math - Slam on BC's carbon tax by Canadian Taxpayers Fed doesn't add up.
• 2008/04/04: Tyee: Carbon Tax Screws BC's North? Finance Minister Taylor defends its fairness, rural or not

  Also in BC:

• 2008/04/02: CanWest: Government brings in low-carbon fuel bill - Bill 16 mandates five-per-cent renewable fuels by 2010 and fines for polluters

  The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:

• 2008/03/28: ROB: Liquid asset - Could the oil sands, Canada's greatest economic project, come undone simply because no one thought about water?
• 2008/03/31: EvilScientist: No water, no tar sand mine
• 2008/03/31: CBC: Loss of water permit threatens big oil sands project: report - A setback for Imperial Oil's $8-billion Kearl proposal
  The federal government has revoked a key water permit for Imperial Oil Ltd.'s proposed $8-billion Kearl oilsands mine as massive projects around Fort McMurray, Alta., come under intensified environmental scrutiny, the Globe and Mail reports. Imperial, majority-owned by Exxon Mobil Corp., has been granted an expedited court hearing, scheduled for early May, on its application to overturn the decision, the newspaper said Monday.

CCS planning is underway in Alberta:

• 2008/04/04: TEB: TransAlta and Alstom Developing CCS Facility in Alberta
• 2008/04/03: ROB: TransAlta strikes deal for large CO2 facility
  TransAlta Corp., facing rising unease over greenhouse-gas emissions from the coal-fired plants which provide most of its electricity generation, has announced a deal with Alstom to develop a large carbon dioxide capture and storage facility in Alberta. The project -- depending on taxpayer help -- is to use the European engineering and equipment giant's proprietary chilled ammonia process, "one of the more promising and potentially lowest-cost solutions," the companies said Thursday. TransAlta and Alstom plan to test the technology at a coal-fired generating station west of Edmonton, aiming to reduce CO2 emissions by one million tonnes per year. Work will begin this year with engineering, stakeholder relations and regulatory work budgeted at $12-million. The project, "subject to partner and government funding" of unspecified size, is expected to start testing in 2012.

A study posits the hot button issue of Canadian water will shortly be in play:

• 2008/04/04: CDreams: Reuters: Study: U.S. Droughts Endanger Canada's Water
• 2008/04/04: PlanetArk: NAFTA, US Drought Endanger Canada's Water -Study

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

• 2008/04/05: Guardian(UK): How to save the world [Sachs]
• 2008/04/04: FPB: George Soros on the financial sword of Damocles [ecoecon]
  George Soros, speaking in a conference call hosted by the New America Foundation today, had some interesting remarks about the state of the world economy. [...] One of the most interesting points Soros made was his take on the the coming fuel for the global economy: We've had the American consumer acting as the motor of the world economy and that is what is coming to an end... [We] need a new motor. And I believe we have a tremenous challenge with global warming, where you need to make tremendous investment to reduce carbon emissions... The investments necessary to avoid global warming could replace the excess consumption by the U.S. consumer as the motor of the world economy.
• 2008/04/03: Rabble: Will capitalism survive climate change?
• 2008/03/31: ScienceAlert: Facing up to the coming resources crunch

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2008/04/04: TreeHugger: Quote of the Day: Ted Turner on Climate and Cannibalism
• 2008/04/03: UPI: Turner talks of global change, cannibalism
• 2008/04/03: AJC: Ted Turner: Global warming could lead to cannibalism - Billionaire environmentalist says world has too many people
• 2008/04/03: FPB: Quotable: Ted Turner thinks global warming causes [will cause] cannibalism
• 2008/04/03: Guardian(UK): When is Doomsday?

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2008/04/06: JEB: Frogs and blogs [and critical thinking]
• 2008/04/03: RealClimate: Blogs and peer-review
• 2008/03/30: Maribo: The silly season (in climate) - we were drawn by the mud, by the blood, not by the issues

  Matt Drudge came in for calumny this week:

• 2008/04/04: GristMill: Matt Drudge's misleading mashup bolsters right-wing fantasy World - Drudge hijacks headlines to sell global warming denial
• 2008/04/04: DeSmogBlog: Matt Drudge Links His Way to Global Warming Fantasy Land
• 2008/04/04: TP:WonkRoom: Drudge Hijacks Headlines to Sell Global Warming Denial
• 2008/04/04: ThinkP: Drudge hijacks headlines to peddle global warming denial

  Andrew Revkin goes out of his way to be correct & respectful of deniers, which triggers comment:

• 2008/04/04: MTobis: Inuit Word for "Red Herring"
• 2008/04/03: DotEarth: Robins, the Inuit and the Warming Arctic

  Here is something for your library:

• 2008/04/03: CanWest: Life without transport by oil is closer than we think [book]
  Minivans, global air travel and the transport of goods by diesel truck soon will become the stuff of yesterday as the world adapts to depleting oil reserves. The planet, posits a new book by two Canadian academics, is on the cusp of a revolution in transportation that will steer people away from petroleum-fuelled vehicles and into ones that are either battery-powered or connected to electrical grids. Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil, by Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl, is one of the most thought-provoking books to cross my desk in a long while.

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

• 2008/04/06: DotEarth: How to Spark an Energy Quest
• 2008/04/05: TreeHugger: Researchers Extract Permafrost-Locked Methane from Gas Hydrates, Potentially Paving Way for Large New Energy Source
• 2008/04/03: EnvFin: Texas is top wind generator in the US
• 2008/04/05: Guardian(UK): Fuel made from coal ignites green row [coal-to-liquids (CTL)]
• 2008/04/04: SciDaily: Potential Hydrogen-storage Compound Could Fuel Hydrogen-Powered Cars
• 2008/03/31: NNSL: Researchers extract methane gas from under permafrost
• 2008/04/04: Xinhuanet: Fuel crisis hits Bali, Indonesia
• 2008/04/04: OilDrum: EROI Post - A Response from Charlie Hall
• 2008/04/04: NEN: Wind still strong but...
• 2008/04/04: NEN: Oil maven [Yergin] says new energy is a big deal
• 2008/04/04: WSJ:EnvCap: Blowing Hard: European Money Piles Into U.S. Wind
• 2008/04/03: WSJ:EnvCap: Get On Line: Wind Power's Real Hurdle
• 2008/04/01: CNN: Algae: 'The ultimate in renewable energy'
  Some types of algae are about 50 percent oil, suitable for biodiesel - U.S. government is once again experimenting with algae as fuel source - Scientists say there may be hundreds of thousands of species not yet identified - Algae have extraordinarily diverse sex lives
• 2008/04/02: TruthOut: Renewable Energy Hedges
• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: Hydrogen fueling stations stall in Calif.
• 2008/03/31: Yahoo: Indonesia feels the pinch as oil, commodity prices surge
• 2008/04/01: KSJT: San Jose Merc-News: Governator's hydrogen highway is short on H2 gas (But mega-solar power news from CA is sunnier)
• 2008/04/01: Eureka: Algae could one day be major hydrogen fuel source
• 2008/04/01: OilDrum: Why EROI Matters (Part 1 of 5)
• 2008/03/31: AngryBear: Oil Going Up? Cost of the Tar Sands
• 2008/03/31: TruthOut: The Clean Energy Scam
• 2008/03/31: TreeHugger: New Wind Power Record in Spain: 40.8% of Total Demand!
• 2008/03/31: TreeHugger: No Recession for Wind Power Industry
• 2008/03/31: PeakEnergy: EEStor Update
• 2008/03/31: NEN: Wind: incredible potential, particular challenges
• 2008/03/31: DymaxionWorld: EEStor math update
• 2008/03/27: Time: The Clean Energy Scam

  Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

• 2008/04/03: REA: Shedding Light on Thin-film Solar Cell Efficiency Research
• 2008/04/05: SMH: Beating the sunshine shonks
  Both hippie innovators and trained installers fear the real risks in cheap solar panels and dodgy installations...
• 2008/03/: FP: The List: The World's Largest Solar Energy Projects
• 2008/04/04: TruthOut: California Utility Signs $3 Billion Solar [thermal] Power Deal
• 2008/04/03: NEN: Solar: more, bigger, better
• 2008/04/02: AfterGutenberg: 1366 Technologies
• 2008/04/02: AfterGutenberg: In the Earth's Deserts, Utilizing Solar Thermal Energy
• 2008/04/03: TEB: MIT Spin-off Developing Solar Cells That are 27% More Efficient, No more Expensive to Make [1366 Tech]
• 2008/04/02: TreeHugger: BrightSource to Build 500 Megawatts of Solar-Thermal Power in Mojave Desert
• 2008/04/03: PeakEnergy: Concentrating On The Important Things - Solar Thermal Power
• 2008/03/31: NEN: Huge solar power plant for the West, Biggest solar power plant in the East

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2008/04/06: ABC(Au): Coal's days numbered: AGL boss
• 2008/04/03: GristMill: The Big Lump gets thumped -- King Coal's year of rejection by banks, judges, and a lot of other folks [EPI chronicle]
• 2008/04/02: EnergyDaily: Malaysia scraps controversial coal power plant on Borneo island
• 2008/04/02: EPI: The beginning of the end for coal - A Long Year in the Life of the U.S. Coal Industry
• 2008/04/02: WSJ:EnvCap: Bank of America: More Heat on Coal
• 2008/04/02: TP:WonkRoom: Nevada Power Company Making Risky Bet On Coal
• 2008/04/01: SMH: Hands off coal subsidies, all you renewa-fools
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: Cheap at any price! [coal]

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2008/04/01: ClimateP: WSJ: Biodiesel's advocates smarter than corn ethanol's
• 2008/04/01: PhysOrg: Fueling ethanol production while protecting water quality
• 2008/04/01: SciDaily: Some Biofuels Risk Biodiversity And Could End Up Harming Environment
• 2008/04/01: AutoBG: New study quantifies differences in biofuel crops, impact on environment
• 2008/03/31: PhysOrg: Study finds concerns with biofuels
• 2008/03/31: Blackwell: Study Finds Concerns with Biofuels
• 2008/04/01: PhysOrg: Fueling ethanol production while protecting water quality

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2008/04/04: ISN: Middle East atomic moves
• 2008/04/03: OilDrum: Continuing the Nuclear Debate
• 2008/04/01: PeakEnergy: Pitfalls of Nuclear Power, Part 1
• 2008/03/31: TreeHugger: State of the Planet Conference Puts Nuclear on the Table

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2008/04/05: PeakEnergy: Shell and "The Economics Of Energy" [Leggett on PO]
• 2008/04/01: GristMill: The forgotten solution - Transit investment should and will be a part of the peak oil solution

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2008/04/03: CTB: LED Your Light Shine [EarthLED CL-3 -- 3-watt LED light bulb equivalent to a 45-watt incandescent]
• 2008/04/02: PhysOrg: Heat From Data Center to Warm a Pool

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

• 2008/04/05: NewScientist: Plug-in hybrid cars ready to roll in California
• 2008/04/05: TreeHugger: Chevy Malibu+ Lithium-Ion= Chevy Volt?
• 2008/04/05: AutoBG: Auto Alliance: 1.8 million alternative fuel vehicles sold in 2007
• 2008/04/05: AutoBG: San Francisco green garage offers EV charging
• 2008/04/04: NEN: Did EV boosters see the opening?
• 2008/04/03: AutoBG: Hydrogen car projects affected by CARB regulations
• 2008/04/01: CanWest: People driving their cars to the end of the oil age
  Gasoline-powered cars are driving humanity to the end of the oil age, leaving electric vehicles as the best weapon against global warming. This is the major conclusion in a dramatic international report [_Plugged in: The End of the Oil Age_] written by a former Exxon insider [Dr. Gary Kendall] and released Tuesday to Canwest News Service.
• 2008/04/02: EconBrowser: Downturn in auto sales continues
• 2008/04/01: CalcRisk: More Auto Sales [GM -19%, Toyota -10%, Ford -14%]
• 2008/04/01: AutoBG: Toyota will spend $100m over four years in new Technical Research Institute in Michigan
• 2008/04/01: AfterGutenberg: Trust Your EV to DONG Energy?
• 2008/03/31: AutoBG: Silver lining: CARB creates huge new market for plug-in hybrids

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2008/03/31: IPEZone: Climate Change Investing Ain't Too Hot, Eh?

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2008/04/02: PRWatch: Bloggers Can Be Hard on Greenwashers
• 2008/04/01: WorldChanging: (Turin art show) Greenwashing. Environment, Perils, Promises and Perplexities

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2008/04/04: C411: The Insurance Industry Crisis
  [...] Insurance companies are scrambling to contain their exposure by hiking deductibles, limiting coverage, and often pulling out of risky markets altogether
• 2008/04/04: Guardian(UK): Lloyd's warns of a lack of natural disasters

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2008/04/04: TEB: Skeptics Speak Out on Global Warming
• 2008/04/03: TP:WonkRoom: Bush-Exxon Flak Claims Global Warming Debate Is "Environment Vs. Economy"
• 2008/04/03: JEB: Corbyn's April forecast
• 2008/04/02: ERabett: Mole whacking [Kansas]
• 2008/04/03: TreeHugger: Fossil Fool Awards 2008: And the Winners are...
• 2008/04/02: KSJT: Columbia Journalism Review Observatory: A conservative politico's climate blog, and advice for mainstream reporters [Morano]
• 2008/04/01: GristMill: Fossil Fools Day roundup - Activists worldwide target coal plants and banks
• 2008/04/02: Denialism: A history of denialism - Part III - Global Warming Denialism
• 2008/04/02: DeSmogBlog: Rush Limbaugh and Global Warming: the right wing radio attack on Al Gore
• 2008/04/02: DeSmogBlog: Welcome to Copenhagen Consensus 2008
• 2008/04/01: JEB: March Corbynwatch
• 2008/03/31: Deltoid: CO2, warming, and causality
• 2008/03/31: GristMill: [Dessler] Son of global-warming denial - Similarities between the skin cancer and climate change 'scams'
• 2008/03/30: ERabett: O. . . .
• 2008/03/30: DeSmogBlog: Solomon's "Denier" Book Cheered by Inner Circle

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2008/03/31: FuturePundit: Greater Knowledge Of Global Warming Breeds Apathy
• 2008/04/04: Atmoz: Using Color to Visualize Decreases in Sea Ice Extent
• 2008/04/03: CDreams: TStar: Calling on Youth to Save Our Planet
• 2008/04/03: ClimateP: Commenters on this blog -- and a joke -- explain things better than I do!
• 2008/04/03: ClimateP: Against the Grain: What Were They Thinking II?
• 2008/04/03: PhysOrg: Congestion pricing may boost NYC health
• 2008/04/03: Guardian(UK): The green scare
• 2008/04/02: DotEarth: The Technology Gap in the Climate Debate
• 2008/04/02: Guardian(UK): Shared ambition - Too many vehicles on the road isn't just an inner-city problem...
• 2008/04/01: NatureCF: Climate predictions vs. observations
• 2008/04/01: ABC(Au): Research needed to check gamba grass climate defender claim
• 2008/04/01: VoxEU: If climate sceptics are right, it is time to worry
• 2008/03/31: EconView: How Should We Respond to Uncertainty about Climate Change?
• 2008/03/30: MTobis: For those who have been off planet [what is the consensus?]
• 2008/03/31: News(Au): New geological age caused by humans

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

• Fossil Fools Day
• AusSMC: Australian Science Media Centre
• Design Activism - reflections on the role of design as activism
• EcoShock - Environmental Awareness Network
• Climos
• We Can Solve It
• NEN: New Energy News
• CTW: Carbon Trade Watch
• PEARL: Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory
• Stefan Rahmstorf - List of Publications
• GCI: Global Commons Institute
• EDGAR: Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research
• Plausible Futures
• PNT: Post-Normal Times
• NODC: Publication summary of the NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1990-2005

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release 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.

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

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

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