Another Week of GW News, May 11, 2008

By illconsidered on May 12, 2008.

Sipping from the internet firehose...

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup

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Top Stories:Nargis, Melting Arctic, Antarctica, Late Comments
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, Sea Levels, THC, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration
Journals, Misc. Science, Schwartz, Pielke, Connolley
Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:International, Index, Bottom-Up Policy, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Courts
Energy, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Insurance
Carbon Lobby, Heartland, Polar Bear Spin, Gore Gambits, The Usual, Useful Links
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Another Week of GW News, May 11, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

Not a cartoon, but worth a chuckle:

The Cyclone Nargis story has morphed from a disaster to a death watch:

A South American volcano may have a climate impact:

The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

And in the Antarctic:

Late comment on Keenleyside:

Late coverage of Stern:

The food crisis remains a top story:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

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

Rammasun is churning the Western Pacific, unreported, but otherwise it is quiet:

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

In the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Yes we have feedbacks:

While in the paleoclimate:

Sea levels are rising:

The THC is back:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

The US Midwest got zapped by a string of tornadoes:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

As for carbon sequestration:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

Comments on Schwartz (and a refresher):

The zombie lives!!! It's the Pielke Fan Clubbe:

Lionizing Connolley:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 front:

As for 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:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

One of those green indices:

This has become a common pattern: national governments refuse to act, so states, provinces and/or municipalities take their responsibilities:

And on the American political front:

The latest on the EPA grindstone:

While in the climate bill chronicles:

Joe continued his 450 ppm series:

Arnold & the auto industry sparred:

In the Kansas coal war:

The US F&WS decision on polar bears is due this coming week:

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

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

While in China:

And in Japan:

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

Harper's Kyoto non-compliance gambit is being probed:

The Liberals are still talking carbon tax:

The Tories confirmed they were killing the MDA sale this week:

The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:

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

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

Apocalypso anyone?

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

The Keenleyside et al. paper has triggered a fresh round of betting:

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

Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

The nuclear energy controversy continues:

Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

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

The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

The Heartland 500 debacle rolls on:

The state of the polar bear is being spun:

With more of the same being prepared:

Al Gore is a favourite target:

Then there was the usual news and commentary: