Another Week of GW News, June 1, 2008

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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk.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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P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

"You can lie to me and you can lie to yourself, but you can't lie to mother nature." -Khalihari

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Another Week of GW News, June 1, 2008

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June 1, 2008

The temperature record 1945-1955 looks to be due for revision:

Under a court order, the Bush administration has released its US CCSP report four years late:

The methane belch is back:

A study has cast a major pillar of Kyoto in doubt:

The news from Myanmar, post Nagris, remains scarce & dismal:

The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

There was a big (closed) meeting in Ilulissat, Greenland this week:

The Convention on Biological Diversity conference agreed to a moratorium on ocean fertilization projects:

Around the world, various advocacy groups are protesting the high price of fuel, after ignoring the issues of peak oil and GHGs for decades. Watch for falling governments, reduced taxes, hobbled green policies and fuel shortages:

Yes we have another list:

The food crisis remains a top story:

Preliminary to the upcoming High Level Conference on Food Security in Rome this June 3-5, Latin American & Caribbean countries got together to discuss their options:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And just how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Alma crossed into the Atlantic & became Arthur, while Nakri blew across the western Pacific unreported:

And elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

As for the temperature record:

Yes we have feedbacks:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

Meanwhile in tornado alley:

As for wild fires:

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:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

More Hansen:

The Pielke fan clubbe seems to be dying:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

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:

There was a lot of chatter about the G8 meeting last weekend:

This might liven things up in the international scene:

And on the American political front:

The USDA came out with another unsettling climate change report:

They're still arguing over which climate bill Bush will veto:

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

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

Change is in the air:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

Canadian minority neocon PM Harper made a quick tour of Europe to demonstrate how out of it he is:

Discussion of the Liberal's unreleased carbon tax plan remains heated:

The Western premiers conference gave rise to several stories:

The Tories are continuing their biofuel plan:

What do you suppose Baird will say when US policy changes?

BC is still wrangling over their climate plan:

The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:

And then there is the miscellaneous Canadiana:

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:

Here is something for your library:

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

Yes, we have a new cold fusion report:

Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

Amory Lovins put his finger on a vital nuclear fact:

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 carbon lobby are up to the usual:

The Exxon shareholder's meeting gave rise to several stories: