Another Week of GW News, June 22, 2008

By illconsidered on June 23, 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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June 22, 2008

A Brief Note
Top Stories:Domingues et al., Greenland Ice Cores, Melting Arctic
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
Journals, Misc. Science, Hansen, Pielke
Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:International, Security, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, Canada
Ecological Economics, Media, Books, Courts
Energy, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Peak Oil, Cars, Business
Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
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A Brief Note:

The hard drive on my olde system has been failing irregulary, so before it goes completely, I have been switching to newer hardware and OS. During this transition period, coverage will lighter.

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"Internationally we're looking at a 43% inflation rate in food this year."
-Ed Schafer, US secretary of Agriculture, 2008

Another Week of GW News, June 22, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

June 22, 2008

A Brief Note:

It's always nice to start with a larf:

Estimations of ocean heat content have been revised dramatically [~50%] upward:

Temperatures rose surprisingly quickly in Greenland ~11,000 years ago:

The Arctic melt continues to get attention:

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:

In the hurricane wars, Typhoon Fengshen zapped the Philippines:

There is little news from Myanmar:

As for GHGs:

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:

As for wild fires:

Speaking of floods & droughts, China got whalloped:

The US Midwest flood is getting mainstream coverage:

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:

And on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

More on Hansen:

The Pielke fan clubbe again put in an appearance:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 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:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

As for GW & security:

And on the American political front:

One hears a lot about the campaigns, not much about their climate & energy policies:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

Here is a poll I would like to see replicated by a third party:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

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

The Liberals released their carbon tax plan this week:

The Conservative attacks ads [against the Green Shift] seem to be fizzling:

BC is still wrangling over its carbon 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:

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

Here is something for your library:

Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

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

The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

Then there was the usual news and commentary:

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

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