Another Week of GW News, August 10, 2008

By illconsidered on August 11, 2008.

Sipping from the internet firehose...

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August 10, 2008

Top Stories:UK Warming, Tropical Rainfall, Forest CO2, Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering
Journals, Misc. Science, Hansen, Pielke
Carbon Trade, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:WCI, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books
Energy, High Cost Impacts, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing
Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
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Another Week of GW News, August 10, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

August 10, 2008

Here's a chuckle for ya:

A report out of the UK warns the nation to prepare for drastic (4C+) warming:

Another report on warming and rainfall:

A report on forest absorption of CO2 was notable for the widly disparate angles taken:

The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

And the geopolitics:

The food crisis remains a top story:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Cyclones Edouard, Hernan, Kammuri & Kika blew around:

Otherwise in the hurricane wars:

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

As for the temperature record:

While in the paleoclimate:

On the ENSO front:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

While 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:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

As for 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 put in an appearance:

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:

More on the WCI:

And on the American political front:

Energy is shaping up to be the big 2008 issue:

The Bush administration EPA has denied Texas' request for an ethanol waiver:

Elsewhere in the EPA:

Just another funding cut:

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

How do you think this will crack up?

While in the UK:

How's Boris doing?

Several power station protests got a lot of attention:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And in China:

In Japan:

In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, stealth released another inconvenient report:

The Liberal Green Shift carbon tax plan is still getting press:

Wrangling over the BC climate plan continues:

The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:

As for 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:

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

Late chatter on that MIT electrolysis [not hydrolysis as I mistakenly said last week (sigh)] report:

High energy costs (& the undeclared recession) are impacting America:

Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

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:

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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