Another Week of GW News, October 12, 2008

By illconsidered on October 13, 2008.

Information overload is pattern recognition...

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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October 12, 2008

Top Stories:Overshoot, Bailout Blues, YACCC, Grumbine, World Bank, Late Comments
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Permafrost
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon Cycle, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation: Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
Journals, Misc. Science
Kyoto, Kyoto-2, UN, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics: America, Britain, Europe, Australia, India, Brazil, China, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books
Energy, Hurricane & Cost Impacts, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing
Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
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"The only time [candidates] deal with the environment is ... well, actually, they don't seem to be dealing with it at all." -Ingrid Jackson

Another Week of GW News, October 12, 2008

Information overload is pattern recognition...

October 12, 2008

Laugh. I dare ya:

September 23rd was Earth Overshoot Day:

The credit crunch, the bailout and the energy - climate struggle implications:

The UN & China are setting up yet another climate change conference (I have heard no further news) [YACCC: Yet Another Climate Change Conference]:

Rob Grumbine continued his education project:

Someone at the World Bank doesn't get it:

Late coverage of sunspots:

Late coverage of the methane burp:

The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

As for the geopolitics of the Arctic resources:

And the always favourite permafrost carbon store:

The food crisis remains a top story:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

The Atlantic and Western Pacific were mainly quiet, while Norbert & Odile blew around the East Pacific:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

While in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

The ozone layer seems not to be under control:

While in the paleoclimate:

While on the el NiÃ±o/la NiÃ±a [ENSO] front:

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:

As for the corals:

And wild fires:

While in the hydrological cycle, floods & droughts:

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:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

And on the Kyoto-2 front:

While at the UN:

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:

And on the American political front:

Maneuvers in the interminable energy debate:

So, how come they talk about 'clean coal', but no one is acting to make it happen? Could it be a PR gimmick?

Rep John Dingell (D-Mich) has offered another climate plan:

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

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

While in India:

And in Brazil:

And China:

In Canada, it's all election, all the time:

A carbon tax and the Liberal Green Shift plan are getting last minute support:

The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms yet:

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:

ABC got itself into an advertising wrangle:

Here is something for your library:

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

Recovery from Gustav and Ike is slow:

As for the impacts of high energy costs:

Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

The nuclear energy controversy continues:

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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