Another Week of GW News, August 17, 2008

By illconsidered on August 18, 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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August 17, 2008

Top Stories:World Water Week, Electric Bicycles, Grumbine, Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Sea Levels
Impacts, Forests, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
Journals, Misc. Science, Hansen, Koerner obit
Kyoto-2, UN, Carbon Trade, International Politics
America, Britain, Europe, Australia, Pacific Islands, China, Japan, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video
Energy, High Cost Impacts, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing
Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

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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.

"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 Member of Parliament

Another Week of GW News, August 17, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

August 17, 2008

It's always nice to start with a chuckle :

I rather like this turn of phrase. Think it will catch on?

There is a big water conference going on in Sweden:

Is somebody running a PR campaign? All of a sudden a lot of people are talking about electric bicycles:

Robert Grumbine of sci.env FAQ fame, is posting for a new generation of climatologists:

The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

As for the geopolitics of the Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

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:

Hernan, Kammuri, Iselle, Vongfong & Fay blew around the globe:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

And the temperature record:

While in the paleoclimate:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

We have heatwaves and 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:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

More Hansen:

Koerner Obituary:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 front:

And at the UN:

As for carbon trading:

While on the international political front:

And on the American political front:

The fractious energy debate rolls on:

Resistance to the Bush administration's proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act is building:

Some idiocy deserves special notice:

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

In the UK, much of the debate centres on energy:

The Kingsnorth climate camp roiled the debate:

While in the background:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And in the Pacific Islands:

While in China:

And Japan:

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

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

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:

And for your film & video enjoyment:

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

As for the impacts of high energy costs:

Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

I hope people notice the big IFs attached to this announcement:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

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:

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate?

Oh lordy, don't tell me I need an absolute nuttery category:

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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