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Another week of Climate Disruption News

Another Week of Climate Disruption News

Information overload is pattern recognition

May 3, 2009

• Chuckle, Top Stories:Major Emitters, IHDP, Central Asian Water, ADB Report, EGU, Tim DeChristopher
• Melting Arctic, Arctic Council, Geopolitics, Wilkins Disintegration, Climate Crunch, Late Comments
• Food Crisis, Food Production
• Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Satellites
• Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
• Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
• Journals, Misc. Science. Hansen
• Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
• Politics:International, Security, America, Obama, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Canada
• Ecological Economics, IPAT, Media, Books
• Energy, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Cars, Greenwashing, Joe's List
• Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

It's always nice to start with a laugh:

• 2009/04/30: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Elephants in da house
• 2009/04/29: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Surface Reflection
• 2009/04/27: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Divine Interventions
• 2009/04/26: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Power Play

  The Major Economies Forum was quickly twisted into the Major Emitters Forum; decided nothing:

• US StateDept: Major Economies Process on Energy Security and Climate Change
• 2009/04/28: McClatchyDC: World's largest economies start push for agreement on climate
• 2009/04/29: USNWR: U.N.'s Top Climate Change Official: A New Willingness to Tackle Emissions
  Major developing countries like China are doing far more to address climate change than most Americans realize, the top climate change official at the United Nations said yesterday after a meeting in Washington of ministers from the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters. The two-day meeting, requested by President Obama, brought together officials from 16 of the world's major economic powers -- the United States, the European Union, China, and India, among others -- for a special, intimate round of negotiations as they work toward signing a new climate change treaty with the rest of the world by the end of the year. Though the meeting itself yielded no real breakthroughs...
• 2009/04/29: SusBiz: Major Economies Conclude Climate Change Talks
• 2009/04/29: TP:WonkRoom: China's Changing Climate Provides New Energy In Negotiations
• 2009/04/28: NatureTGB: Major emitters, still going under Obama
• 2009/04/29: ClimateP: As the major emitters convene, is China ready for an emissions targets? Part 1
• 2009/04/29: CarbonPositive: Major emitters talk, yet to act
• 2009/04/29: Rediff: India says it cannot accept a cap on development
  India said on Wednesday it will not accept any cap on its development in the name of climate change, asserting that any negotiation on climate change should take into account the overriding developmental objectives of the developing countries. Briefing reporters at the conclusion of a two-day meeting of 17 major economies on climate change and energy, prime minister's special envoy Shyam Saran said there has to be a balance between historical responsibility and current emissions.
• 2009/04/28: EarthTimes: Climate envoys slightly more optimistic after top emitters meeting
• 2009/04/28: Yahoo: Some progress at U.S. climate [MEF] talks
  U.S.-hosted climate talks with the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters concluded on Tuesday with signs of progress but sizable differences as nations work toward a deal this year to fight global warming.
• 2009/04/29: TP:WonkRoom: China's Changing Climate Provides New Energy In [MEF] Negotiations
• 2009/04/28: GreenGrok: Major Emitters Meet in D.C. to Discuss Climate Change
• 2009/04/28: PlanetArk: Scenarios - Players And Outcomes At Washington Climate Meeting [mef]
• 2009/04/27: NYT:GW: U.S. will 'lead the way' on int'l climate plan, Secretary Clinton says
• 2009/04/27: BBerg: Clinton Says U.S. to Make Up for 'Lost Time' on Climate Change
• 2009/04/27: EarthTimes: Clinton calls for broad steps on climate change
• 2009/04/27: Yahoo: U.S. pledges to make up for lost time in climate fight
  The United States gathered China, India and the world's other top greenhouse gas polluters in Washington on Monday to "make up for lost time" and lay the groundwork for a U.N. deal to fight climate change.
• 2009/04/28: NYT: Clinton Says U.S. Is Ready to Lead on Climate
• 2009/04/28: WSJ:EnvCap: Clinton: Want Growth? Save the Climate
• 2009/04/27: Guardian(UK): US admits responsibility for emissions to bring big polluters together
  Hillary Clinton offers admission to ease obstacles towards reaching agreement at climate change summit in Copenhagen
• 2009/04/27: NPR: 'Major Emitters' Meet To Tackle Climate Change
• 2009/04/27: EarthTimes: Clinton seeks 'meaningful' steps against climate change [MEF]
• 2009/04/27: ENN: 'Major Emitters' Meet To Tackle Climate Change
• 2009/04/27: Yahoo: Washington forum draws worst greenhouse polluters
• 2009/04/27: Reuters: U.S. pledges to make up for lost time in climate fight

  The IHDP held a meeting in Bonn:

• International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
• 2009/05/01: NatureCF: IHDP: the Bonn Declaration that wasn't
• 2009/04/30: NatureCF: IHDP: No time for pessimism, says small islands leader
• 2009/04/29: NatureCF: IHDP: From London to Ibadan, 'it's not our problem'
• 2009/04/28: NatureCF: IHDP: Blasé economics
• 2009/04/27: NatureCF: IHDP: should 90% of climate change research be social science?

  Five Central Asian countries had a conference on water which did not go so well:

• 2009/05/01: ABC(Au): Asia must unite on water plight: expert
  A Central Asia summit meeting this week on how to share dwindling water resources broke down in bitter disagreement. The United Nations says that by 2050, three out of four people in the world could be affected by water scarcity.
• 2009/05/01: RadioAustralia: Water scarcity to be major issue in Asia
  A Central Asia summit on how to share dwindling water resources broke down in bitter disagreement this week. The region's five leaders meeting in Kazakhstan couldn't find any common ground on the contentious issue in one of the world's driest regions. The Asia Society's Leadership Group on Water Security is warning that Asia could see many more of these disputes in the decades to come. By 2050, as many as three out of four people around the globe could be affected by water scarcity, according to the UN.
• 2009/04/28: BBC: The presidents of five Central Asian states [Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan] are due hold a summit in the Kazakh city of Almaty about water, the most contentious issue in the region

  The ADB [Asia Development Bank] released a report that got a lot of people's attention:

• 2009/04/28: CSM: Climate change: Southeast Asia's preparation falls short
  The Asian Development Bank says the cost of inaction could be severe for the region's agrarian-based economies and rapidly growing coastal cities
• 2009/04/28: MongaBay: Global warming to cripple Southeast Asia economically
• 2009/04/28: PlanetArk: Global Warming Threatens Economic Chaos In SE Asia - ADB
• 2009/04/27: KSJT: Wires, NYTimes, Fin. Times, etc: Climate change to hit S.E. Asia especially hard - and how does one make that to sound anything but business as usual?
• 2009/04/27: EarthTimes: South-East Asia among 'most vulnerable' to climate change
• 2009/04/27: BostonGlobe: [ADB] Report: Climate change bodes ill for SE Asia

  The EGU reviews are in:

• 2009/04/28: JEB: The EGU review part 1
• 2009/04/29: JEB: The EGU review part 2
• 2009/04/30: JEB: The EGU review part 3
• 2009/05/01: JEB: The EGU review part 4

  A trial date has been set for Tim DeChristopher:

• 2009/04/29: SLTrib: Accused BLM bid monkey-wrencher pleads not guilty
  NASA climate scientist [James Hansen] joins march, calls U. student's act extremely important Tim DeChristopher pleaded "not guilty" Tuesday to disrupting a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction in December and pledged to use his prosecution to attack policies he says are allowing climate change to careen out of control. About 200 supporters rallied for the 27-year-old University of Utah student at the downtown Salt Lake City library and marched with him to the federal courthouse, where he was arraigned and his weeklong trial was scheduled to begin July 6.
• 2009/04/28: CSW: Jim Hansen rallies for monkey-wrench activist Tim DeChristopher at his arraignment today in Utah

  The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2009/04/29: SciDaily: Arctic Communities Challenged When Temperature Rises -- CAVIAR: Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions
• 2009/04/28: Guardian(UK): Planes, weather pains and ice runways in the Arctic
  The Catlin Arctic Survey is dependent on getting its basic supplies regularly replenished -- and it's quite the team effort
• 2009/04/27: BBC: Testing times for Arctic research

  The Arctic Council met in Norway this week:

• 2009/04/30: EUO: Arctic Council rejects EU's observer application
• 2009/04/30: CBC: Arctic nations must act at UN climate change conference: ministers
  Foreign affairs ministers from Canada and seven other Arctic countries wrapped up top-level meetings in Norway on Wednesday, having been urged to make commitments to fight climate change at an upcoming United Nations conference later this year.
• 2009/04/29: EarthTimes: Denmark takes over Arctic Council chair, climate change challenge
• 2009/04/29: CBC: Canada against EU entry to Arctic Council because of seal trade ban
• 2009/04/28: EarthTimes: Arctic [Council] countries meet to discuss climate change
• 2009/04/28: CBC: Global warming key topic for Arctic Council meeting
  The premiers of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, and Yukon's deputy premier, have departed for Tromsø, Norway, host city of the Arctic Council's biennial ministerial meeting. Officials will gather Wednesday for talks on subjects ranging from oil and gas exploration and shipping, to the impact of global warming. On Tuesday, there will be a meeting about global ice melting, co-chaired by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and council chair Jonas Gahr Stoere, the Norwegian minister of foreign affairs. Climate change is the main topic, but ministers will also approve a declaration that will guide the work of the Arctic Council for the next two years.

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

• 2009/04/28: PlanetArk: "Plenty Of Opportunities" From Arctic Thaw [Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere interview]

  While in Antarctica, the Wilkins ice shelf collapse continued apace:

• 2009/04/28: TerraDaily: ESA: Wilkins Ice Shelf is now unstable
• 2009/04/29: NatureCF: Wilkins ice shelf collapse continues
• 2009/04/29: PlanetArk: New York City-Sized Ice Collapses Off Antarctica
• 2009/04/29: ENN: Huge Ice Shelf Breaks From Antarctica, Fractures
• 2009/04/29: SciDaily: Satellite Imagery Shows Fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf Destabilized
• 2009/04/02: SkepticalScience: Why is Antarctic sea ice increasing?
• 2009/04/28: CBC: Antarctic ice shelf crumbling into icebergs
• 2009/04/28: PhysOrg: Icebergs break away from Antarctic iceshelf
• 2009/04/28: ESA: Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised
  Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf -- indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable. This follows the collapse three weeks ago of the ice bridge that had previously linked the Antarctic mainland to Charcot Island. The ice bridge, which effectively formed a barrier pinning back the northern ice front of the central Wilkins Ice Shelf, collapsed on 5 April removing about 330 sq km of ice. As a consequence of the collapse, the rifts, which had already featured along the northern ice front, widened and new cracks formed as the ice adjusted in the days that followed.
• 2009/04/28: Google:AFP: Icebergs break away from Antarctic [Wilkins] iceshelf
• 2009/04/28: CCP: Angelika Humbert: Northern ice front of Wilkins Ice Shelf unstable -- 700 km² broken off; David Vaughan blames AGW -- New York-sized ice shelf collapses off Antarctica
• 2009/04/28: CCP: European Space Agency Envisat and TerraSAR-X satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised
• 2009/04/28: CCP: European Space Agency: Wilkins Ice Shelf's northern front now calving and breaking up into ice bergs
• 2009/04/28: Reuters: New York City-sized ice collapses off Antarctica [Wilkins]

  Nature did a special, most of which is behind a paywall, on the climate crunch this week:

• Nature: ($) Road to Copenhagen: The Climate Crunch
• 2009/04/30: CCP: Nature, 458, Climate crunch: A burden beyond bearing
• 2009/04/30: CCP: Stephen H. Schneider, Nature, 458, The worst-case scenario -- CO2 at 1,000 ppm
• 2009/04/30: Independent(UK): Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study -- World will have exceeded 2050 safe carbon emissions limit by 2020, scientists say
• 2009/04/30: NatureCF: The wheel of climate fortune
• 2009/04/30: KSJT: To keep warming below IPCC's 2C danger level, vastly deeper cuts in carbon dioxide are needed, scientists assert
• 2009/04/30: Guardian(UK): World already halfway to 2C rise, say scientists
• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): Climate countdown: Half a trillion tonnes of carbon left to burn
  To avoid dangerous climate change of 2C, the world can only burn another half a trillion tonnes of carbon, climate change experts warn
• 2009/04/29: GreenGrok: Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun
• 2009/04/29: Nature: [Editorial] Time to act
  Without a solid commitment from the world's leaders, innovative ways to combat climate change are likely to come to nothing.
• 2009/04/29: NatureN: Climate crunch: A burden beyond bearing
• 2009/04/29: ClimateP: Must have PPT in disappointing issue of Nature devoted to "The Coming Climate Crunch"
• 2009/04/29: RealClimate: Hit the brakes hard
• 2009/04/29: BBC: 'Safe' climate means 'no to coal'
  About three-quarters of the world's fossil fuel reserves must be left unused if society is to avoid dangerous climate change, scientists warn. More than 100 nations support the goal of keeping temperature rise below 2C. But the scientists say that without major curbs on fossil fuel use, 2C will probably be reached by 2050. Writing in Nature, they say politicians should focus on limiting humanity's total output of CO2 rather than setting a "safe" level for annual emissions. The UN climate process focuses on stabilising annual emissions at a level that would avoid major climate impacts.

More on aerosols:

• 2009/05/01: PlanetArk: Time For A Fair Discussion On Black Soot
• 2009/04/30: TStar: Soot new culprit in Arctic's rapid melt -- Blanket of carbon particles may speed thaw of sea ice, scientists say

  More on the solar cycle:

• 2009/04/27: PhysOrg: Our Sun: A Little Slow On the Uptake for Cycle 24
• 2009/04/27: ENN: The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?

  Late comment on the Anchorage Indigenous summit:

• 2009/04/29: NewInt:TEB: The butterfly effect
• 2009/04/24: KTUU: [Indigenous] Climate change conference ends on disputed resolution
• 2009/04/27: CBC: No consensus on climate change document at indigenous summit
  Indigenous delegates at a UN conference on climate change in Alaska could not agree on a final summit document due to disagreements over oil and gas drilling on native lands. Some delegations at the UN-sponsored Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change were demanding a complete moratorium. Others disputed that language, saying that the use of fossil fuels should be phased out but indigenous people should be allowed to develop their resources.

The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2009/05/01: ClimateP: Ponzi redux: Scientific American asks "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?"
• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): US families rely on handouts in world's richest country -- Working parents feed their children in soup kitchens as cost of living soars
• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): Which US states have the most people on food stamps?
• 2009/04/30: PlanetArk: Food Scare Sparks Developing World Land Rush: Think Tank
• 2009/04/30: AlterNet: A Tsunami of Hunger Looms on the Horizon
• 2009/04/28: PeakEnergy: Australian Food bowl on brink of $5bn catastrophe
• 2009/04/28: BBC: Science cash 'to beat food riots'
  Food riots are a real threat in some developing and emerging countries unless funds for agricultural research are increased, says a UK scientist. Prof Douglas Kell says investment in the UK alone needs to be increased by £100m if farmers are to produce sufficient food to meet global demand. "This is happening now," he told BBC News. "Last year, in Indonesia and Mexico, there were food riots."
• 2009/04/26: AdelaideNow: Food bowl on brink of $5bn catastrophe
  The nation's key food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is on the verge of economic collapse as the value of production plunges by at least $5 billion, experts say. Drought and declining irrigation water have plunged inland Australia's heartland into crisis with the loss of at least one third of the basin's $15 billion annual income. Worse is predicted for the coming financial year if the drought continues.

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2009/05/02: SciDaily: Solar-Powered [Drip] Irrigation System Unveiled At U.S. National Arboretum
• 2009/04/30: CBC: Gene discovery could help make crops resistant to heat, drought
• 2009/05/01: AlterNet: Farms Race: The Obama's White House Garden Has Given Fire to an International Movement
• 2009/04/30: NYT:GreenInc: Sustainability and Crop Engineering
• 2009/04/30: DotEarth: Genes, Food and the Path Toward 9 Billion
• 2009/04/28: NatureTGB: GM turns corn into multivitamin
• 2009/04/27: UPI: Genetics may save crops in global warming
  U.S. plant molecular biologists say they are developing gene variants of wheat, rice and corn that can produce increased yields under heat stress.
• 2009/03/23: UN:Publications: The United Nations Must Manage a Global Food Reserve
• 2009/04/27: GG&G: Six Stylized Facts About U.S. Agricultural Subsidies

  Kujira zapped the Philippines and Kirrily churned the South Indian:

• 2009/05/03: EarthTimes: Storm [Kujira] batters eastern Philippines: 12 dead, 15 missing
• 2009/05/03: EarthTimes: At least 10 killed, 15 missing as storm [Kujira] batters eastern Philippines
• 2009/05/02: EarthTimes: Tropical storm kills 11 in Bangladesh

  The one year anniversary of Cyclone Nargis gave rise to several retrospectives:

• 2009/04/30: BBC: Nargis one year on: Labutta voices
  Labutta, a small town in the southwest of the delta region, was devastated by Cyclone Nargis. Here, survivors talk about their continuing struggle.
• 2009/05/01: UN: One year after Myanmar cyclone, international support still critical, UN says
• 2009/05/02: BBC: UN warning over Burma cyclone aid
  Hundreds of thousands of people in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta still need assistance - a year after a deadly cyclone, the UN and aid agencies warn. The UN and Burma's neighbours made a $700m (£469m) appeal for reconstruction in February but have so far received pledges of only $100m (£67m). The UN says it is now allowed to bring in all the staff it needs after an initial ban by Burma's (Myanmar) junta.
• 2009/05/01: PlanetArk: Factbox: Key Facts About Cyclone Nargis
• 2009/04/30: BBC: Cyclone Nargis: One year on
  In May 2008, tropical cyclone Nargis bore down on southern Burma, claiming at least 140,000 victims and affecting 2.4 million others

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2009/04/26: FuturePundit: New Orleans Not Protectible From Extreme Flooding?
• 2009/05/01: NOAANews: Four Hurricane Names Retired From List of Storms
• 2009/04/30: KSJT: Science News: Hurricanes contribute to global warming and don't just result from it
• 2009/04/28: NewScientist: Levees won't save New Orleans from another Katrina
• 2009/04/27: MongaBay: Tropical storms affect carbon sinks by knocking down forests
• 2009/04/27: NewScientist: Hurricanes reduce ability of forests to store carbon
• 2009/04/27: PlanetArk: Levees Can't Save New Orleans From Floods - [NAS] Report
• 2009/04/27: PlanetArk: Texas Mayor Learns From Cuba Hurricane Experience

  As for GHGs:

• 2009/05/01: PlanetArk: Factbox: Greenhouse Gas Goals For Major Nations
• 2009/05/01: ERW: Asian emissions soar
• 2009/04/29: SciNews: A limit for carbon emissions: 1 trillion metric tons -- To reduce risks of severe damage from climate change, humans should burn no more than 1 trillion tons of carbon in total
• 2009/04/30: ENN: Scientists put carbon ceiling at a trillion tonnes
• 2009/04/30: OilChange: Half-Way to Climate Catastrophe
• 2009/04/29: USAToday: Study: World can 'safely' burn only 25% of oil
• 2009/04/29: CBC: Deep emission cuts needed to limit global warming: scientists
• 2009/04/29: NewScientist: Humanity's carbon budget set at one trillion tonnes
• 2009/04/29: PhysOrg: To meet climate goal, only quarter of fossil fuels can be used: study
• 2009/04/28: G&M: Canada's greenhouse gas emissions soared to new high in 2007
  At 26 per cent above 1990 levels, emissions in violation of Kyoto Protocol pledge; rates far worse than in United States
• 2009/04/28: PlanetArk: Factbox - Greenhouse Gas Goals For Major Nations

  At this rate the CO2 level will soon be over 400 ppm:

• 2009/04/28: Hindu: Arctic CO2 at highest level in 50 million years
  [...] The level of the gas at the Zeppelin research station in Svalbard, about midway between mainland Norway and the north pole, last week peaked at more than 397 parts per million (ppm), an increase of more than 2.5ppm on 2008. It has since begun to reduce and yesterday stood at 393.7ppm. Before the industrial revolution, the CO2 level was about 280ppm
• 2009/04/27: Guardian(UK): Arctic CO2 levels growing at an 'unprecedented rate', say scientists
  Figures from a measuring station in northern Norway show that CO2 levels are increasing by 2-3 parts per million every year

And in the carbon cycle:

• 2009/04/27: ASA: Landfill Cover Soil Methane Oxidation Underestimated -- A literature review reveals that landfill cover soils oxidize more methane than guidelines suggest

  As for the temperature record:

• 2009/04/29: BBerg: Germany Sees Hottest Weather Ever as 'Climate Train' Speeds Up

  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2009/05/01: PhysOrg: Sea-floor Sediments Illuminate 53 Million Years of Climate History
• 2009/04/29: PhysOrg: Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?
• 2009/04/29: Wunderground: A cautionary tale--the PETM

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2009/05/01: Eureka: Glacial advances -- Glaciers in the Southern Hemisphere are growing out of step with those in the North
• 2009/04/30: Eureka: Southern glaciers grow out of step with North -- New dating technique points to differences over 7,000 years
• 2009/04/29: DeSmogBlog: Glacial Melting Redraws Italian-Swiss Border, Hints at Future Water Wars
• 2009/04/29: SciDaily: Ice Sheet Behavior Much More Volatile And Dynamic Than Previously Thought, Tahiti Corals Show
• 2009/04/28: Guardian(UK): The world's melting glaciers (16 pictures)

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2009/04/27: TerraDaily: [US] Weather Satellites Continue To Face Cost Overruns And Delays

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2009/05/01: PhysOrg: Sea Salt Holds Clues to Climate Change -- What is climate change doing to the saltiness, or salinity, of our oceans?
• 2009/05/01: Eureka: Climate change threatens Lake Baikal's unique biota -- Endemic diatoms at the base of the lake's food chain depend on disappearing ice
• 2009/04/30: PlanetArk: Climate Change Menaces Galapagos - Scientists
• 2009/04/29: ABC(Au): Experts probe species' climate change vulnerability
  A Queensland scientist says work is being done to identify which plant and animal species are most at risk from climate change. Experts in the field are meeting in Townsville, in the state's north, at a marine and tropical sciences research conference. Dr Steve Williams from James Cook University's School of Marine and Biology says they are trying to establish a framework for identifying species which need help.
• 2009/04/29: PhysOrg: Mercury levels in Arctic seals may be linked to global warming
• 2009/04/28: PlanetArk: Q+A: How Does Climate Change Hit GDP?
• 2009/04/27: DM:CZ: More on Global Warming and Habitat Destruction
• 2009/04/27: DM:80B: Global Warming Forces an Alaska Town to Relocate
• 2009/04/27: SciDaily: Climate Change Increases Cholera Cases In Africa, Study Suggests
• 2009/04/27: SciDaily: The Season Of Ticks: Could Climate Change Worsen Lyme Disease?

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2009/05/01: NewScientist: Warning over DNA damage from forest fires
• 2009/05/01: PhysOrg: New Southern California beetle killing oaks
• 2009/05/01: TreeHugger: Tea Time: Deforestation, Drought and Death
• 2009/05/01: Eureka: New Southern California beetle killing oaks
• 2009/05/01: Ohio: Conserving forest key to fighting global warming -- Nature Conservancy urges American businesses to replant trees in effort to combat climate change
• 2009/04/29: PNNL: Potentially harmful chemicals found in forest fire smoke
• 2009/04/30: Eureka: NASA study says climate adds fuel to Asian wildfire emissions
• 2009/04/28: BBC: In search of forestry's El Dorado
  The world's tropical forests face the double challenge of climate change and deforestation, says Andrew Mitchell. In this week's Green Room, he explains why he is not giving up on the "impossible dream" of convincing governments that these trees are worth more alive than dead.

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2009/05/02: CNN: 12 injured in Dallas Cowboys practice arena collapse
  Witness: Team photographers were up in framework of structure, rode it down - Dallas Cowboys' practice facility collapses during thunderstorm, injuring 12 - None of the injuries appears to be life-threatening, says county EMS chief - About 70 people were inside the facility when it fell, fire official says

As for tornadoes:

• 2009/04/27: CCP: NOAA: Annual and Monthly Tornado Statistics

  Two years after Greensburg, Kansas was devastated by a major tornado the town is striving to live up to its name:

• 2009/05/02: TreeHugger: Greensburg is Back! Tune Into the Second Season
• 2009/04/29: CNN: After tornado, town rebuilds by going green
  Two years ago, a devastating tornado wiped out most of Greensburg, Kansas - Given a clean slate, the town is rebuilding as a model green community - City leaders are using solar, wind technology to harness power and geothermal heat - A new nonprofit is building 12 houses with energy-efficient features

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2009/05/01: LLNL: Plants may affect the effect of wildfires
• 2009/05/01: CBC: Halifax wildfire under control -- Up to 1,200 people forced to leave their homes
• 2009/04/30: EarthTimes: Heat wave sweeps across India -- with temperatures shooting up to 47 degrees Centigrade
• 2009/04/28: EarthTimes: Heat stroke kills eight in Bangladesh

  As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

• 2009/05/01: EarthTimes: Climate factors, international cooperation key to saving Aral Sea, Ban says
• 2009/04/30: CBC: Government gives permission for mandatory buyouts of flooded homes
• 2009/04/26: SacBee: Water controversies boil over
  Any doubt that California is hip-deep in an epic struggle for water was put to rest earlier this month when an estimated 10,000 farmers and farmworkers marched 50 miles across the gasping San Joaquin Valley.
• 2009/04/28: UN: Climate factors, international cooperation key to saving Aral Sea, Ban says
• 2009/04/27: PlanetArk: Madagascar Drought Puts 250,000 Children At Risk
• 2009/04/27: ENN: NCAR Study Blames Climate for River Water Loss

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): International shipping has a good record on pollution control [by Robert Ashdown of the Chamber of Shipping]
• 2009/04/29: SunTimes: Chicago area transit use jumps 9% over last 5 years, RTA says
• 2009/04/27: OreDigger: Is Our Transportation System Sustainable?
• 2009/04/27: CalcRisk: Truck Tonnage: More Cliff Diving in March [4.5%]

  While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:

• 2009/04/30: ABC(Au): Singapore has unveiled an ambitious plan to certify 80 per cent of the city-state's buildings as environmentally green
• 2009/04/27: WSJ: The Green House of the Future

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2009/04/28: Kentucky: University of Kentucky scrubbing away pollution
  To tackle the challenge of "scrubbing" copious amounts of carbon dioxide belched from coal-fired power plants, University of Kentucky researchers have turned to household cleaners. Ammonia solutions similar to Windex will play a pivotal role in research at the crux of a 10-year, $24 million project among UK, electric utility companies and the state to develop efficient and effective ways to reduce carbon dioxide from electricity plants that use coal.
• 2009/05/01: ENN: Major Potential CO2 Storage in the North Sea
  The North Sea could store the carbon dioxide from all Europe's power stations for hundreds of years, the results of major research to be unveiled today will reveal. Porous rocks beneath the seabed of the North Sea and disused oil and gas fields could provide storage for millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide.
• 2009/04/28: BizJournals: Two California professors to get $30M from DOE for carbon capture work

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2009/04/29: SeedMag: Five experts debate engineering the climate, how it would be governed, and the ways we're doing it already.
• 2009/05/01: TWTB: SEED on geo-engineering, plus credit where credit is due Pielke Jr. edition
• 2009/04/29: ClimateP: Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism
• 2009/04/29: PeakEnergy: Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism
• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): The climate engineers -- Schemes to reflect sun or absorb CO2 warrant study - to sort the real science from the science fiction
• 2009/04/27: WorldChanging: Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2009/04/28: UN: UN gathers experts to help West African farmers cope with climate change

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2009/04/30: ACP: Technical Note: Feasibility of CO2 profile retrieval from limb viewing solar occultation made by the ACE-FTS instrument by P. Y. Foucher et al.
• 2009/04/30: ACPD: Measurements of total and tropospheric ozone from IASI: comparison with correlative satellite and ozonesonde observations by A. Boynard et al.
• 2009/04/30: ACPD: Satellite measurements of formaldehyde from shipping emissions by T. Marbach et al.
• 2009/04/30: ACPD: Extensive reduction of surface UV radiation since 1750 in world's populated regions by M. M. KvalevÃ¥g et al.
• 2009/04/27: TC: Transient thermal effects in Alpine permafrost by J. Noetzli & S. Gruber
• 2009/04/27: TC: Testing longwave radiation parameterizations under clear and overcast skies at Storglaciären, Sweden by J. Sedlar & R. Hock
• 2009/04/28: TCD: Layer disturbances and the radio-echo free zone in ice sheets by R. Drews et al.
• 2009/04/28: ACPD: Increasing surface ozone concentrations in the background atmosphere of southern China, 1994-2007 by T. Wang et al.
• 2009/04/28: ACPD: The influence of biogenic emissions from Africa on tropical tropospheric ozone during 2006: a global modeling study by J. E. Williams et al.
• 2009/04/28: ACPD: The shortwave radiative forcing bias of liquid and ice clouds from MODIS observations by L. Oreopoulos et al.
• 2009/04/27: ACPD: Cloud condensation nuclei measurements in the eastern Mediterranean marine boundary layer: CCN closure and droplet growth kinetics by A. Bougiatioti et al.
• 2009/04/28: PNAS: Changes in biogenic carbon flow in response to sea surface warming by Julia Wohlers et al.
• 2009/04/28: PNAS: Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought by Henry D. Adams et al.
• 2009/04/28: PNAS: Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics by Brian J. Enquist et al.
• 2009/04/28: PNAS: A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics by Geoffrey B. West et al.
• 2009/04/25: GRL: (ab$) Is the climate warming or cooling? by David R. Easterling & Michael F. Wehner
• 2009/04/24: CBO: [link to 777k pdf] Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

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

• 2009/04/27: ABC(Au): 'Ocean glider' to collect climate change data
  A miniature submarine will be launched this week off the coast of Portland, in south-west Victoria, to monitor climate change from the ocean floor

Now here is a study I would like to see replicated:

• 2009/04/28: TreeHugger: 84% Reduction in Jet Fuel Carbon Emissions Possible Using Camelina, New Analysis Shows

  More Hansen:

• 2009/04/29: DeseretNews: NASA scientist warns of climate change
  Denial may be the easiest route now, but it likely will not be an option in years to come. NASA scientist James Hansen gave a public lecture at the University of Utah on Monday, outlining the current and expected impacts that climate change will have on the Earth and the ecosystems that populate it.
• 2009/04/29: SLTrib: Accused BLM bid monkey-wrencher pleads not guilty
  NASA climate scientist [James Hansen] joins march, calls U. student's act extremely important Tim DeChristopher pleaded "not guilty" Tuesday to disrupting a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction in December and pledged to use his prosecution to attack policies he says are allowing climate change to careen out of control. About 200 supporters rallied for the 27-year-old University of Utah student at the downtown Salt Lake City library and marched with him to the federal courthouse, where he was arraigned and his weeklong trial was scheduled to begin July 6.

Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 front:

• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): Q&A: Copenhagen climate change summit 2009
• 2009/04/29: EurActiv: Rich and poor still divided over climate pact
  Over 30 national proposals submitted to the UN in recent weeks have revealed that a significant divide must still be bridged between rich and poor countries if a new global climate agreement is to be concluded in December. The proposals are to form the basis of a negotiating text for the post-Kyoto treaty, and will set the tone for the next round of UN negotiations in June. Differing views on sharing the cost of climate change, which have been a stumbling block, persist in the submissions.
• 2009/04/29: PlanetArk: Melt From Andes To Arctic May Spur UN Climate Pact
• 2009/04/28: TreeHugger: China, India to Rich Nations: $200 Billion to Fight Climate Change, Please
• 2009/04/27: DeutscheWelle: EU looks to Washington for climate change
  Europeans hope the US will break the deadlock over climate change negotiations by making concrete and ambitious pledges to cut carbon emissions

And on the carbon trading front:

• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): European carbon trading scheme will not cut power sector emissions, MPs told
  The European carbon trading system is a 'failure' and will not help the UK to meet its emission reduction targets, electricity generator EDF warns a committee of UK MPs

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2009/05/01: AutoBG: CO2-based tax has already affected the average French car

  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:

• 2009/04/27: NEN: Cap&trade, cap and dividend, pros, cons, other options

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2009/05/02: TP:WonkRoom: French Climate Negotiator Calls On Obama To Move Faster On A Green Economy

  As for GW & security:

• 2009/05/01: HuffPo: Overselling "Climate Conflict"? Will global warming turn into global warring?
• 2009/04/27: BrisbaneTimes: What will we tell the next generation?
  Last month, the chief scientific adviser to the British Government, Professor John Beddington, predicted a global catastrophe by 2030 on the simple premise that while global demand for food, water and energy is escalating, the supply of these three essentials is diminishing. He predicted civil unrest and international conflict.

And on the American political front:

• 2009/05/01: inel: Climate Change in the American Mind - new report from Yale & GMU 4C
• 2009/05/01: TreeHugger: Palin Says "Thanks, But No Thanks" to Energy Efficiency
• 2009/05/01: GreenGrok: The Affordability of the Proposed National Renewable Standard
• 2009/04/30: ClimateP: Americans support greenhouse gas regulation even if it could "substantially" raise energy prices
• 2009/05/01: NEN: Solar asks for extras from feds
• 2009/04/30: TP:WonkRoom: Byron Dorgan Tells His Flood-Ravaged State That A Repowered America Is 'Not Going To Happen'
• 2009/04/29: ClimateP: Will the GOP's untenably calamitous position on clean energy and climate make them a permanent minority party?
• 2009/04/29: NEN: New energy standard (RES) won't raise rates
• 2009/04/27: SLToday: Green jobs in Missouri? We'll take 'em.
• 2009/04/27: Oregonian: Oregon's climate change bill gets a downgrade
• 2009/04/27: GG&G: Six Stylized Facts About U.S. Agricultural Subsidies

  The California Low Carbon Fuel Standard came in for comment and opposition:

• 2009/05/01: TreeHugger: Low Carbon Fuel Standard Fixes 35-Year Old Problem in US Energy Policy
• 2009/04/29: BioEnergyBiz: Ethanol sector unites against California's [LCFS] land-use ruling on emissions
• 2009/04/27: PlanetArk: California Rule Could End Ethanol's Honeymoon
• 2009/04/27: PlanetArk: US, California Push Ahead In Climate Politics

  The Obama administration is still undoing Bush's midnight regulation changes:

• 2009/04/29: NatureTGB: Interior revokes Bush rule on endangered species
• 2009/04/29: PlanetArk: US Interior Revokes Bush Endangered Species Rule
• 2009/04/29: DM:80B: Obama Moves to Undo Bush-Era Environmental Policies
• 2009/04/28: NOAANews: Salazar and Locke Restore Scientific Consultations under the Endangered Species Act to Protect Species and their Habitats
• 2009/04/28: TreeHugger: Dept. of Interior Declares Existing Mountaintop Coal Removal Policy a "Major Misstep"
• 2009/04/28: Reuters: U.S. seeks to end Bush mountaintop coal mining rule
• 2009/04/27: McClatchyDC: Obama administration to tighten coal-mining rules

  The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2009/05/02: ClimateP: The Next 100 Days, Part 2: Bring on the Sizzle
• 2009/05/01: AlterNet: Farms Race: The Obama's White House Garden Has Given Fire to an International Movement
• 2009/04/30: ClimateP: The Next 100 Days, Part 1: A second serving of beef, please
• 2009/04/29: WSJ:EnvCap: Monsieur Obama: You could do better on CO2 targets
• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): Barack Obama's 100 days: Green measures
• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): 100 days: Obama's big green dream
• 2009/04/28: HuffPo: Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please
• 2009/04/29: CCP: [text] Remarks of President Barack Obama, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, April 27, 2009
• 2009/04/28: ClimateP: Obama: "Our future on this planet depends on our willingness to address the challenge posed by carbon pollution," vows "we will exceed [R&D] level achieved at the height of the space race."
• 2009/04/28: DM:CCM: On Science, Obama Keeps Getting Better and Better -- But He's Still Missing Something
• 2009/04/28: CanEast: With high-speed rail, Obama is on the right track
• 2009/04/27: Ph&Ph: [text] President Barack Obama at the US National Academy of Sciences
• 2009/04/27: NatureN: Obama promises spending boost for science -- Ambitious target for economically tough times
• 2009/04/26: ClimateP: The Green FDR: Obama's first 100 days make -- and may remake -- history
• 2009/04/27: DotEarth: Obama's Call to Create, Not Just Consume
• 2009/04/27: Google:AFP: Obama keeps climate pledge, but Congress is key
• 2009/04/27: CSW: White House science & budget offices must lead in revitalizing federal climate research
• 2009/04/27: BBC: President Barack Obama has set the goal of devoting 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) to US science research
• 2009/04/27: CBC: Obama vows 3% of GDP for science research

  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2009/04/30: EnvFin: EPA sees CAIR replacement in two years
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hopes to have an emissions control programme to replace the rejected Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) established in two years, according to a top EPA official.
• 2009/05/01: NatureN: Energy research centres unveiled -- US Department of Energy rolls out funding for science partnerships
• 2009/04/28: Nation: Planet Earth: Too Big to Fail -- How EPA Could Use Clean Air Act...
• 2009/04/30: TreeHugger: How Obama & EPA Could Use Clean Air Act to Enact Cap-and-Trade Without Congress
• 2009/04/30: TreeHugger: Desert Rock Nevada, Coal-Fired Power Plant Permit Withdrawn By USEPA
• 2009/04/29: TreeHugger: $93 Million of Stimulus Money for Wind Power Released by Dept of Energy
• 2009/04/28: BizJournals: Two California professors to get $30M from DOE for carbon capture work

  As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2009/05/02: NewScientist: Climate sceptic [US Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok)] backs [black-]carbon study
• 2009/05/01: Reuters: U.S. bill to create clean energy investment agency
  U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation this week that would establish a new independent agency to spearhead government clean energy investments. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and ranking member Lisa Murkowski, would establish a Clean Energy Deployment Administration within the Energy Department. The new agency would provide various forms of credit including loans and loan guarantees to support environmentally friendly technologies that diversify the nation's energy supply and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. A clean energy investment fund created from collected payments and fees would be used to start the agency.
• 2009/05/01: TreeHugger: South Dakota Senator Wants to Prevent EPA from Using Land-Use Changes to Calculate Biofuels' Eco-Footprint
• 2009/04/30: DeSmogBlog: GOP Releases Talking Points on Waxman-Markey To Encourage All Republicans To Lie In Unison
• 2009/05/01: TP:WonkRoom: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tx) Bashes Economist John Reilly: 'He May Go To M-I-T But He Is An N-U-T'
• 2009/04/30: ClimateP: Rep. Shimkus: "Man will not destroy this Earth. This Earth will not be destroyed by a flood." Rep. Barton: "I wish I had another dozen John Shimkuses on the committee."
• 2009/04/29: OGJ: Waxman, Markey agree to additional climate change hearing
• 2009/04/28: PhysOrg: Top lawmaker wants mileage-based tax on vehicles
• 2009/04/28: ThinkP: Global Warming Denier Michele Bachmann Named To House GOP 'Energy Solutions' Group
• 2009/04/27: ClimateP: House Energy panel delays markup of energy and climate bill -- in part to accommodate Republicans begging for more hearings
• 2009/04/27: ClimateP: The one simple change that could vastly improve Waxman-Markey: Sunset the rip-offsets
• 2009/04/26: ClimateP: Waxman whacks Gingrich upside the head -- with the help of some quotes from Climate Progress
• 2009/04/27: CarbonPositive: State carbon schemes face 2012 shutdown
  State-based emissions trading schemes in the US would be closed down from 2012 under the latest Congress proposal for national cap and trade scheme to begin the same year. While it was generally expected that regional schemes would make way for any federal nationwide scheme that emerged, a six-year ban on state schemes included in the proposal has raised concerns.
• 2009/04/27: EarthTimes: Obama's Democrats drag feet as US opens international climate talks

  The deny and delay tactics of the vested interests are coming to the fore:

• 2009/05/01: NYT: An Affordable Salvation
  The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation's capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a cap-and-trade system on emissions, have risen sharply. But the opponents of action claim that limiting emissions would have devastating effects on the U.S. economy. So it's important to understand that just as denials that climate change is happening are junk science, predictions of economic disaster if we try to do anything about climate change are junk economics.
• 2009/05/01: TP:WonkRoom: Industry Analysts Who Got Acid Rain Cap & Trade Wrong Now Attacking Obama's Green Economy Legislation
• 2009/05/01: ThinkP: New Oil Lobbyist Group Targets Democratic Congressmen With Anti-Clean Energy Ads
• 2009/04/30: ClimateP: Mysterious industry front-group affiliated with Ken Lay's former speechwriter launches anti-Waxman-Markey ads with phony MIT cost figures
• 2009/04/30: PhysOrg: US wants to move on climate change
  The Obama administration, in a major environmental policy shift, is leaning toward asking 195 nations that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty to enact mandatory reductions in hydrofluorocarbons, according to U.S. officials and documents...
• 2009/04/30: TreeHugger: 13 Republicans to Play Pretend on Climate, Hold Mock Hearings
• 2009/04/30: DeSmogBlog: GOP to host "Mock Climate Hearing" (a.k.a. Coal/Oil-apalooza 2009)
• 2009/04/30: NYT:CW: Farm groups seek stake in House climate bill
• 2009/04/29: CQPolitics: Opponents of Climate Change Bill Launch Ad Campaign
• 2009/04/29: TreeHugger: Climate Bill Battle Heats Up -- This Could Get Ugly
• 2009/04/27: IBTimes: Clean coal infrastructure in U.S. estimated to cost 1 trillion:experts
• 2009/04/29: DeSmogBlog: Surprise, Suprise! Industry-Funded Study Predicts Economic Doom From Obama Climate Proposal
• 2009/04/28: TheHill: Costly cap
  Another day, another study on the economic impacts of a cap-and-trade bill. This one comes from CRA International at the request of the Coalition for Affordable American Energy, which includes business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Wholesalers-Distributors that are skeptical of the Democratic approach to cutting carbon dioxide emissions
• 2009/04/28: TreeHugger: Big Coal Scare Tactic: South Carolina Utility Claims 50% Increase In Power Bills From Cap & Trade
• 2009/04/27: GreenGrok: Climate Negativity From the Naysayers
• 2009/04/26: USAToday: Utilities amp up lobbying over climate debate
• 2009/04/27: USAToday: Utilities ante up in climate debate -- Spending surges 30% for lobbyists on issue

  This virtually guarantees Coleman will appeal his election loss all the way to the Supreme Court:

• 2009/04/28: ClimateP: PA Sen. Arlen Specter to switch parties, giving Dems 60 seat filibuster-proof majority (soon). "The Republican Party has moved far to the right... I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats."
• 2009/04/28: WSJ:EnvCap: Specter: What Will Pennsylvania Senator's Defection Mean for Climate Legislation?
• 2009/04/28: TP:WonkRoom: Specter Joins Conservative Democratic Bloc On Climate And Energy
• 2009/04/28: CNN: Longtime GOP Sen. Arlen Specter becomes Democrat
  Pennsylvania Republican has been in the Senate for five terms - Move would give Democrats 60-seat majority if Franken takes office - Republicans have been angry over his support of stimulus plan

The religiosos are divided in their reactions to global warming:

• 2009/05/01: Tennessean: Global warming strongly divides Christian clergy

  And the Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2009/05/02: ClimateP: O'Reilly Factor, Ingraham use doctored video to smear Gore
• 2009/05/01: WSJ:EnvCap: Black Carbon: Al Gore's New Crusade
• 2009/04/28: Yahoo: Al Gore calls for prompt action on melting ice
• 2009/04/28: Guardian(UK): Al Gore calls on world to burn less wood and fuel to curb 'black carbon'
• 2009/04/27: PlanetArk: Gore Pushes For US Climate Law This Year

  While in the UK:

• 2009/05/01: BBC: Government 'missing own CO2 goal'
  UK government departments are not on course to meet their own targets for reducing carbon emissions, according to the Sustainable Development Commission. The government's environmental watchdog warned that more needed to be done if emissions were to be cut by 12.5% from 1999-2000 levels by 2011-12. In an assessment, it called on the government estate to "lead by example".
• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): UK government missing own carbon cut targets
• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): No green shoots on climate change
  The first 'green budget' is very balanced -- every measure to stop climate change is balanced with one that makes it worse
• 2009/05/01: PlanetArk: UK Launches Green Study For Marine Energy
• 2009/05/01: NEN: UK power sellers want more certainty in emissions market
• 2009/04/30: PlanetArk: Big Utilities Buy Into Britain's Nuclear Future
  Three of Europe's biggest utilities bought land to build nuclear power plants in England and Wales Wednesday, in a sale that generated 387 million pounds to retire old reactors the government wants replaced. France's EDF bought a plot next to an old reactor at Bradwell near London, which it might sell on, and a joint venture between Germany's E.ON and RWE bought land at Wylfa in Wales and Oldbury in south-west England, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said Wednesday.
• 2009/04/30: Guardian(UK): UK 'will struggle' to meet 2020 renewables goal
  Coalition of energy and climate scientists reveal scenarios for how lifestyles and energy generation in Britain must change to reach 2050 emission reduction targets
• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): Think big on renewables scale
  Current renewable installations can only deliver small amounts of energy; so when we build clean energy facilities, we have to think big...
• 2009/04/28: Guardian(UK): Climate change activists in custody after Westminster protest
• 2009/04/28: BBC: The UK government has launched an £11m ($16m) five-year research programme into ocean acidification
• 2009/04/27: BBC: Clash over ecological economics
  Warnings are being sounded about the way government is preparing for the cost of climate change. The government's former chief scientific advisor, Professor Sir David King has told BBC News that he believes that the government is being misled by economic assessments of the impact of climate change such as those drawn up by Lord Stern in his review for the Treasury published in 2006. Prof King believes that such models are underestimating the true cost of tackling the problem and leading to poor investments by businesses and governments
• 2009/04/27: BBC: Climate cost models 'unhelpful'
  The government is being misled on the impact of climate change by relying on "unhelpful" economic models, the former UK chief scientific advisor has warned. Professor Sir David King said the 2006 Stern Review underestimated the true economic cost of tackling the problem. No model had predicted the current downturn, and none could cope with the scale of problems the world could face due to climate change, said Prof King. Other experts have previously said the review underestimated the costs. Prof King, who is now director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, said he questioned the value of what he described as the "simple models" in the review
• 2009/04/27: Guardian(UK): Climate protesters glue themselves around Parliament statue -- Four members of Climate Rush form a chain around a statue inside Houses of Parliament

  It looks like someone is getting worried:

• 2009/04/29: OpenDem: Climate protest: rock the state, save the planet
  A new generation committed to non-violent direct action is evolving the capacity and will to make its political masters respond to the global climate crisis. The British government has in 2008-09 reacted with notable vigour to a series of non-violent public actions and peaceful demonstrations over climate change. The character of the policing of these events suggests a high degree of national coordination stemming from a deep concern that they could escalate to the point of having a major political impact.
• 2009/04/25: Guardian(UK): "UK police can afford more than 20 quid," the officer said
  Tape recordings reveal how undercover police tried to recruit environmental activist to network of 'hundreds' of paid informants they have among protest groups
• 2009/04/29: WSWS: British police spying operation caught on audio
• 2009/04/27: PlanetArk: UK Climate Protester Says Police Tried To Recruit Her
• 2009/04/26: Guardian(UK): Why spy on peaceful protesters? By exposing the police surveillance of Plane Stupid, we can spark a debate about whose interests this really serves

  And in Europe:

• 2009/04/30: EnvFin: [European] Commission slams 'patchy progress' on EU renewables goals
• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): European carbon trading scheme will not cut power sector emissions, MPs told
  The European carbon trading system is a 'failure' and will not help the UK to meet its emission reduction targets, electricity generator EDF warns a committee of UK MPs
• 2009/04/29: EurActiv: EU environment agency calls for 'ecosystem pricing'
  With the EU failing to achieve its ambitious target of halting biodiversity loss in Europe by 2010, the bloc's environment agency is calling for protection measures to be integrated into agricultural, forestry and fisheries policies, and goods and services to be priced according to their true impact on the environment

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2009/05/01: ABC(Au): New energy industry [20%] targets welcomed
  The Tasmanian Premier says plans to reintroduce renewable energy targets will have a massive effect on hundreds of millions of dollars of stalled projects in the state. The Council of Australian Governments meeting in Hobart agreed to reintroduce the Renewable Energy Targets scheme, which will see 20 per cent of the nation's electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.
• 2009/05/01: ABC(Au): Wind energy company Acciona says a renewable energy target of 20 per cent will help to stimulate the industry
  The company has built the Southern Hemisphere's biggest wind farm at Waubra, west of Ballarat. A 20 per cent target by 2020 was endorsed at yesterday's Council of Australian Governments meeting, but the legislation is yet to be introduced to Parliament
• 2009/05/01: ABC(Au): The Australian Coal Association has told a Senate inquiry that the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme will cost the industry $5 billion in its first five years
• 2009/05/01: ABC(Au): The Federal Opposition and the Greens say new COAG mandatory renewable energy targets will exclude action by individuals
• 2009/04/30: HotTopic: Unreliable witness [Aus-ETS Review]
• 2009/04/30: ABC(Au): The Federal Treasury says wages growth will be slightly slower under the Government's proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS)
• 2009/04/30: ABC(Au): Queensland's Climate Change Minister say it is too early to know how the proposed emissions trading scheme will affect mining industry jobs
• 2009/04/29: ABC(Au): ETS a 'black hole of uncertainty'
  As Prime Minister Kevin Rudd sits down with premiers to talk climate change today, the Opposition has released the report it commissioned into Labor's emissions trading scheme, saying it confirms all of its fears. The Pearce Review is an independent economic study commissioned to help finalise the Coalition's climate change position. The report finds Kevin Rudd's plan "potentially threatens the balance sheets of key industries" and does not assess the economic impact of the first 20 or 30 years of the scheme. The Government is seeking to get its carbon pollution reduction scheme passed by the Senate in June.
• 2009/04/29: ABC(Au): The Federal Government has hit out at the Greens' position on a climate change scheme
• 2009/04/29: ABC(Au): The Federal Government has played down criticism of its emissions trading scheme by the head of BlueScope Steel and Reserve Bank board member, Graham Kraehe
• 2009/04/29: PlanetArk: Australian Firms Win Green Energy Exemptions: Report
• 2009/04/28: ABC(Au): Coal miner warns emissions scheme to cost jobs
  A major coal mining company says more job losses are likely if changes are not made to the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS). The chief executive officer of Anglo Coal, Seamus French, told a Senate inquiry into the proposed scheme that as it currently stands, it would have a significant impact on its operations and that assistance would be needed to protect coal mining jobs.
• 2009/04/28: ABC(Au): Guarantees sought for Condobolin research station
  A working party established to secure the future of Condobolin's Agricultural Research Station wants assurances from the New South Wales Government about the centre's continued operation.
• 2009/04/28: ABC(Au): Steel, beef industry bosses issue warning on ETS
  Bluescope Steel chairman and Reserve Bank board member Graham Kraehe says the Federal Government needs to delay its emissions trading scheme (ETS) or risk job losses
• 2009/04/28: JQuiggin: At the Senate Committee [CPRS Inquiry]
• 2009/04/27: ABC(Au): Southern council plans for rising sea levels
  Clarence City Council, in Tasmania's south, will change its planning scheme to take account sea levels rising because of climate change
• 2009/04/27: ABC(Au): A south-west Queensland Mayor says she is concerned new state Climate Change Minister Kate Jones is too inexperienced for the job

  And in New Zealand:

• 2009/04/27: inel: Permission to Speak, Sir?! Top NZ climate scientist is fired, for not asking!
• 2009/04/28: NatureN: Climate scientist fired for talking to media -- Sacking follows string of warnings from New Zealand institute

  While in China:

• 2009/05/01: Reuters: China studying carbon tax ideas -report
  Chinese state thinktank researchers will soon issue preliminary proposals for a carbon tax that may one day become part of the government's efforts to tame growing greenhouse gas emissions, experts told local media. Su Ming, deputy director of an institute under China's Ministry of Finance, said the research on a carbon tax had been requested by that ministry and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the proposal may be published "within a month," the National Business Daily reported on Thursday.
• 2009/04/29: Reuters: China low-carbon path hard but doable - [Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research] study

  And Japan:

• 2009/04/29: CFO: Japan opposition floats climate bill

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

• 2009/04/29: EnvironmentCanada: Canada's 2007 Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• 2009/04/28: G&M: Canada's greenhouse gas emissions soared to new high in 2007
  At 26 per cent above 1990 levels, emissions in violation of Kyoto Protocol pledge; rates far worse than in United States
• 2009/04/29: TStar: Planet Harper baffles top scientists
  First there was laughter, then awkward silence. Not one scientist in the auditorium was prepared to venture an opinion on Gary Goodyear, the federal minister of state for science and technology. The moderator prodded a few colleagues to speak. They shook their heads. The question-and-answer session of the "Science Dinner of the Year," held last week by the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science, was not off to promising start
• 2009/04/28: G&M: U.S. To Devote 3% of GDP to Science -- Obama's research pledge shows contrast in scientific dreams
  Barack Obama committed his administration to fostering the greatest increase in scientific research and education in American history yesterday, at the very time that Stephen Harper is cutting funding.

These classes will be conducted by Colin Campell & James Hansen no doubt:

• 2009/05/01: TStar: Summer School for Diplomats - Energizing Canada's brand
  As oil supplies dry up and countries wean themselves off polluting power sources, Ottawa is training its diplomats to sell Canada as a clean-energy superpower Diplomats are going back to school for classes in Alberta's tar sands and Canada's other vast energy resources in a bid to cement our brand as an energy superpower. Courses starting this summer will teach Foreign Affairs officials the ABCs of bitumen, nuclear, hydro and renewable energy at a time when conventional oil supplies are drying up and countries try to wean themselves off polluting power sources. Educating diplomats on a top Conservative priority is vital as energy security emerges as a leading foreign policy issue, topping the agenda at international forums "after decades of relative unimportance," government documents say. Priority will be given to officials in countries where energy issues have the highest profile and may require diplomats to return to Ottawa for the training, the documents say. The Tories want the country's foreign missions to have an "increasing capacity to advocate on Canada's behalf on energy issues."

The Liberals had a convention in Vancouver to ratify Ignatieff and define policies:

• 2009/04/29: Tyee: Ignatieff's New Story -- Try as he might to drop the green message, it's central to Canada's fate.

  In BC, election wrangling is keeping everyone entertained:

• 2009/04/27: Tyee: Global Warming Debate Lost in Carbon Tax Fog
• 2009/04/30: Tyee: Beyond the Carbon Tax -- Two enviros argue it's 'fluff' and 'blackmail' and no real fix for climate change.
• 2009/05/01: Tyee: Which Party Is More Green? Grades Aren't Posted -- Sierra Club, Suzuki, others haven't issued platform report cards, so we asked.
• 2009/04/30: DeSmogBlog: Ottawa Think-Tank Calls B.C.'s Carbon Tax Canada's "Most Effective"
• 2009/04/27: DeSmogBlog: Ottawa Citizen compares BC NDP to Conservative Party on Carbon Tax stance
• 2009/04/27: MoD: BC NDP global warming plan: bad for the environment, bad for the economy

  Ontario is still wrestling with its energy policy:

• 2009/04/28: TStar: Ontario backs off green audit for homes -- Energy assessments will no longer be mandatory

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2009/04/30: NatureTGB: Shell slumps [tarsands]
  [...] Canadian Oil Sands profits dropped by 86% this quarter compared to last year.
• 2009/04/30: BCLSB: Blame Ontario ... for Tar Sands in the tank
• 2009/04/29: OilChange: Shell's Tar Sands Operations Make a Loss
• 2009/04/24: G&M: Can science save the oil sands? [super-critical CO2 extraction]
• 2009/04/28: CBC: Petro-Canada slides to Q1 loss [C$47 million]

  Elsewhere in Alberta:

• 2009/04/30: CBC: Evolution classes optional under proposed Alberta law

  I am deeply skeptical about this plan, but with few corroborating details, we'll see if the Tories do anything besides talk:

• 2009/04/29: MongaBay: Canada and Britain abandon conventional coal
• 2009/04/29: G&M: Ottawa takes aim at coal power
  The federal government is planning sweeping new climate-change regulations for Canada's electricity sector that will phase out traditional coal-fired power. Any new coal plants will have to include highly expensive -- and unproven -- technology to capture greenhouse gas emissions and inject it underground for permanent storage, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said in an interview yesterday. Ottawa also plans to impose absolute emission caps on utilities' existing coal-fired power plants and establish a market-based system to allow them to buy credits to meet those targets, Mr. Prentice said. [...] The government has already adopted new emission standards for vehicles -- following the lead of the United States -- and will also release regulations aimed at major industrial emitters, including Alberta's oil sands producers. It has set a target of having a 90-per-cent emission-free electricity sector by 2025, a goal that will require increased use of nuclear, wind power, hydro and other renewables.

As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

• 2009/04/29: BCLSB: Member Motion On Black Liquor
• 2009/04/28: CBC: Saskatchewan could produce more conventional oil than Alberta: [Saskatchewan Energy and Resources Minister Bill] Boyd
• 2009/04/27: BCLSB: Black Liquor Tax Credit To Stay For Now
• 2009/04/27: NewResilient: Why we must fight the Government's plan to end the Canadian Grain Commission as a Farmer Advocate

  The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:

• 2009/05/01: AFTIC: Anti-green economics - Paul Krugman
• 2009/05/01: MR: Capitalism in Wonderland
• 2009/05/01: ClimateP: Nobelist Krugman attacks "junk economics": Climate action "now might actually help the economy recover from its current slump" by giving "businesses a reason to invest in new equipment and facilities"
• 2009/04/30: MTobis: Tardis Earth: Malthus Discredited
• 2009/04/30: GG&G: Climate Change Economics and Politics
• 2009/04/30: EnergyBulletin: From fame to shame: The coming crisis of unecological economics
• 2009/04/29: NYT:PK: Anti-green economics
• 2009/04/29: EurActiv: EU environment agency calls for 'ecosystem pricing'
  With the EU failing to achieve its ambitious target of halting biodiversity loss in Europe by 2010, the bloc's environment agency is calling for protection measures to be integrated into agricultural, forestry and fisheries policies, and goods and services to be priced according to their true impact on the environment
• 2009/04/29: CCurrents: Sane Environmentalism To Save Earth
• 2009/04/28: Guardian(UK): Economic man is dead. Time for rebirth -- Our future as a species depends on more than GDP. Agencies such as Unesco can help us discover a more human agenda
• 2009/04/27: BBC: Clash over ecological economics
  Warnings are being sounded about the way government is preparing for the cost of climate change. The government's former chief scientific advisor, Professor Sir David King has told BBC News that he believes that the government is being misled by economic assessments of the impact of climate change such as those drawn up by Lord Stern in his review for the Treasury published in 2006. Prof King believes that such models are underestimating the true cost of tackling the problem and leading to poor investments by businesses and governments
• 2009/04/27: MTobis: Malthusian in Theory but not in Practice?

  IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:

• 2009/04/29: MTobis: The Tautology and Its Weaknesses

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2009/04/27: ClimateP: Media stunner: When asked "Does it matter, from a journalistic point of view, whether [Freeman Dyson is] right or whether he's wrong?" his NYT profiler replies "Oh, absolutely not."

  Here is something for your library:

• [html, pdf or book] _Sustainable Energy - without the hot air_ by David MacKay
• 2009/05/02: CanWest: [3 Books Discussed] What's ahead?

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

• 2009/05/02: OilDrum: Review Response: Depletion and the Future Availability of Energy Sources
• 2009/05/03: PeakEnergy: A New Processing Scheme for Algae Biofuels
• 2009/05/01: TreeHugger: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: Lockheed Martin Hopes to Bring It Closer to Financial Viability
• 2009/04/29: DerSpiegel: The World Needs an Energy Framework
• 2009/04/30: WSJ:EnvCap: Renewable Energy Standards: Much Ado About Not Too Much
• 2009/04/28: NewScientist: How to turn greenhouse gas into a clean fuel
• 2009/04/28: DM:80B: Geothermal Explosion Highlights a Downside of a Leading Alt-Energy Source
• 2009/04/28: NewScientist: Geothermal explosion rocks green energy hopes
  The bid to produce green power on a commercial scale using heat mined from subterranean rocks -- or "hot rocks" -- has suffered a major setback, with the breach of a four-kilometre-deep well on Friday in the Cooper Basin in South Australia. [...] The company was in the final stages of commissioning a demonstration one-megawatt power plant for Innamincka when the rupture occurred, and steam started to escape from the well.
• 2009/04/28: PeakEnergy: Beyond Fossil Fuels: Daniel Kunz on Geothermal Energy
• 2009/04/26: SeekingAlpha: The Impending Mother of All Oil Shocks
• 2009/04/26: PRIA: Beyond Peak Oil and Climate Change [CO2 ==> methanol process]

  The answer my friend...:

• 2009/05/02: TreeHugger: Texas Wind Farm Uses NASA Radar to Prevent Bird Deaths
• 2009/05/01: AzCentral: Investors see bright future in wind energy
• 2009/04/30: EnvFin: First Wind scores financing for major Utah project
  Californian wind farm developer First Wind has secured $376 million to finance the first phase of a 203.5MW wind farm in Utah, involving a syndicate of nine banks.
• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): Texas wind farm pioneers radar technology to protect migrating birds
• 2009/05/01: PhysOrg: 'Smart turbine blades' to improve wind power
• 2009/04/30: OilDrum: A North American Wind Energy Scenario
• 2009/04/28: ClimateP: U.S. wind energy industry installs over 2,800 MW in first quarter -- double Q1 2008
• 2009/04/28: BBC: Wind turbine-maker Vestas Wind Systems is to cut 1,900 jobs - mainly in the UK and Denmark - despite reporting a 70% rise in quarterly profits

  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2009/05/03: JQuiggin: Grid parity
• 2009/04/29: FuturePundit: Solar Photovoltaics Prices Coming Down
• 2009/05/02: CleanBreak: Major gas utility warms up to residential solar thermal
• 2009/04/27: REA: Protecting Net Metering: The Civil Rights Movement for Solar Energy
• 2009/04/30: Guardian(UK): A potential breakthrough in harnessing the sun's energy
  New solar thermal technology overcomes a major challenge facing solar power -- how to store the sun's heat for use at night or on a rainy day
• 2009/04/29: ClimateP: The secret to low-water-use, high-efficiency concentrating solar power
• 2009/04/30: PlanetArk: First Solar Results Top Street, Shares Soar
• 2009/04/30: TStar: Warming up to Sunshine -- Solar thermal technology goes mainstream as utility tests sun-powered hot water systems in 1,200 homes
• 2009/04/28: CleanBreak: ATS's Photowatt temporarily shuts down solar manufacturing
• 2009/04/28: TreeHugger: World's Largest Solar Tower [Seville, Spain] Now Powers 10,000 Homes
• 2009/04/28: SciDaily: Bright Future With Solar Lanterns For India's Poor
• 2009/04/28: NEN: Windy City to build big sun [solar]
• 2009/04/27: TreeHugger: Chicago's South Side to Get Biggest Urban Solar Power Plant in the US

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2009/04/28: NEN: Cost makes coal a bad bet for power company stockholders
• 2009/04/27: Guardian(UK): Coal: Capturing the future

  And in the clean coal saga:

• 2009/04/27: WSJ:EnvCap: Clean Coal: Not Ready for Prime Time Yet
• 2009/04/27: ThinkP: Coal CEO: 'Clean Coal' Is The Future, But 'We Have Not Invested Any Dollars In The Technology, Per Se'
• 2009/04/27: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Will clean coal clean up our climate?

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2009/04/29: TreeHugger: More Biofuel Woes: One Third of US Biodiesel Plants Sitting Idle
• 2009/04/29: SciDaily: New Hope For Biomass Fuels: Breaking The Ties That Bind

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2009/05/03: BNC: Admiral visions of a future now past
• 2009/04/28: Yahoo: Companies that want to build new nuclear reactors [list]
• 2009/04/30: BNC: Rethinking nuclear power
• 2009/04/27: OLJ: 23 years after Chernobyl, nuclear power is still a threat
• 2009/04/27: WSJ:EnvCap: No Nukes: What do new FERC Chairman and Greenpeace USA Boss Have in Common?

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2009/05/01: OilDrum: "Peak Oil" or "Limits to Growth"

  More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2009/04/30: REA: All There is To Know About the Smart Grid and Renewables
• 2009/04/30: PeakEnergy: Giving the Power Grid Some Backbone

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

• 2009/05/01: GEA: Auto Sales Plunge Near 30 Year Lows
• 2009/05/02: AfterGutenberg: Another Plug-in Hybrid Retrofit Kit
• 2009/05/01: CalcRisk: Auto Sales: Very weak in April
• 2009/05/01: CalcRisk: Ford Sales off 31.3% YoY in April
• 2009/05/01: BBC: US car sales continue to suffer
  US car sales continued to struggle in April as cash-conscious consumers remained reluctant to buy new vehicles, and the industry faced turmoil. Chrysler saw a 48% drop in April sales from the same month a year ago, a day after seeking bankruptcy protection. Japan's Toyota sales fell 42%, with Nissan seeing a 38% slide. Sales at Ford slid by almost 32%, General Motors lost 34% and Honda were off 25%.
• 2009/04/29: AutoBG: Mitsubishi reportedly increasing iMiEV production numbers, again
• 2009/04/24: Oregonian: So, what's the deal with electric cars?
• 2009/04/28: SeattlePI: Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year
• 2009/04/28: SciDaily: Zero Emissions Motorcycle Gears Up For The Big Race
• 2009/04/27: PhysOrg: EarthTalk: Why doesn't U.S. have high-mileage diesel cars, like Europe?
• 2009/04/26: OaklandPress: Energy sources key to solving auto crisis
• 2009/04/27: AutoBG: Hitachi develops new high power lithium ion battery

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2009/04/30: Guardian(UK): Greenwash: Fujitsu's green laptop costs the earth
  Fujitsu promises to buy 'green energy' to offset the emissions from the energy use of each of its new 'wind-powered' laptops. But consumers are being asked to pay an extortionate price for carbon-free guilt

Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:

• 2009/05/01: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for May 1: Australian scientists get desperate and blunt
• 2009/04/30: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for April 30: Canada to phase out dirty coal?
• 2009/04/29: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for April 29: Profiles of the two key "W's" -- Waxman and Wellinghoff
• 2009/04/28: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for April 28 -- Climate Lobbying 101: Whoever gives the gold, makes the rules
• 2009/04/27: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for April 27: CSP, politics of Waxman-Markey

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2009/05/02: JQuiggin: Pearson and the parallel universe
• 2009/05/02: RealClimate: Monckton's deliberate manipulation
• 2009/05/02: DotEarth: A Climate Correction
• 2009/04/30: CCurrents: Climate Myths?
• 2009/04/30: PRWatch: Climate Front Group Ignored Its Own Scientists
• 2009/04/30: PRWatch: Industry Says Green Is Bad for the Environment
• 2009/05/01: Guardian(UK): John Tomlinson beats his own record for climate denial nonsense
• 2009/04/29: GWWatch: Andrew Bolt: affirmed yet cognition challenged
• 2009/05/01: JQuiggin: Boswell ballistic
• 2009/05/01: Deltoid: Ian Plimer 'can not recall' where his graph came from
• 2009/04/30: IJI: Two climate change 'conferences' in four months
• 2009/04/30: TreeHugger: 75 Companies Which Backed Global Climate Coalition Lies About Global Warming [list]
• 2009/04/29: Guardian(UK): The media laps up fake controversy over climate change
  Proof of paid-for climate denial at the Global Climate Coalition comes as no surprise, but it is no less depressing for that
• 2009/04/29: Stoat: Bored
• 2009/04/29: JQuiggin: Oz meltdown: Quiggin edition
• 2009/04/29: Deltoid: The Australian's War on Science 36
• 2009/04/29: DeSmogBlog: Behind the Orange Curtain, Facts about Climate Change Can be Hard to Find
• 2009/04/28: DeSmogBlog: Exposing ExxonMobil's Climate Change Doublespeak [video]
• 2009/04/25: SkepticalScience: How to cherry pick your way to Antarctic land ice gain
• 2009/04/20: SkepticalScience: Is the climate warming or cooling?
• 2009/04/27: BNC: More ice, flat temperatures - what does it all mean?
• 2009/04/28: DeSmogBlog: What Scientists Have to Say About Global Cooling
• 2009/04/27: Deltoid: Plimer does the Gish gallop
• 2009/04/27: WorldChanging: Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism
• 2009/04/27: TreeHugger: Ben Stein: "Global Warming is By No Means Proved"
• 2009/04/27: NEN: Scientists warned business about climate change but business chose profits

  The Post is living up to its reputation:

• 2009/05/02: BDL: Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned Watch (Yet Another Fred Hiatt Special)
• 2009/04/30: TWTB: Washington Post's Fred Hiatt is still bending over for George Will
• 2009/04/29: CommonTragedies: WaPo vs. Climate Change
• 2009/04/30: DM:Loom: Just Keep Calling It Fact-Checking And Someday They'll Believe You
• 2009/04/29: TP:WonkRoom: Hiatt Stands By His Man, Accuses Critics Of George Will Of 'Trying To Shut Him Down'
• 2009/04/27: TP:WonkRoom: Washington Post and Newsweek Columnist Samuelson OC Register: 'There's No Evidence Man-Made CO2 Is Harmful'
• 2009/04/27: ThinkP: Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson OC Register: 'There's no evidence CO2 is harmful.'
• 2009/04/27: ClimateP: Robert Samuelson joins the ranks of the shamefully ignorant climate science deniers -- that makes 3 on the Washington Post opinion page!

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2009/05/02: BSD: Pielke Jr. and Dave Roberts are on the same (wrong) page [US pol]
  [...] Unwarranted skepticism is a huge dead weight, something that keep politicians from doing the right thing, and knocking it down is still necessary.
• 2009/05/02: SciDaily: Climate Change: How The '2 Degrees Celsius Target' Can Be Reached
• 2009/05/01: Eureka: Bowman Global Change says public engagement critical to solving climate crisis
• 2009/04/30: ClimateP: Clean energy messaging 101: 'Green' jobs are out, 'clean energy' jobs are in
• 2009/05/01: RealClimate: Welcome to the fray
• 2009/04/30: GreenGrok: Is Scientific Ignorance Environmental Bliss?
• 2009/04/30: CommonTragedies: Catastrophic Understanding
• 2009/04/29: Yahoo: Catastrophic Climate Future: Are We That Stupid?
• 2009/04/27: CIP: Climate Beyond the Greenhouse
• 2009/04/28: ClimateP: It's not nice to fool (with) Mother Nature or Nobody likes a heat wave like the NYT ed board
• 2009/04/28: SciAm: How to Live with Ecological Intelligence [Daniel Goleman interview]
• 2009/04/27: Guardian(UK): [Houghton] The truth about climate change
  Vested interests have tried to spread misinformation about global warming, but scientific evidence shows urgent action is needed
• 2009/04/26: Commentary: [mp3/ram] Dr. Mark Jaccard

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

• ERW: Environmental Research Web
• US StateDept: Major Economies Process on Energy Security and Climate Change
• 2009/04/29: EnvironmentCanada: Canada's 2007 Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
• CarbonPositive
• inel
• Auto Blog Green
• CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project
• SkepticalScience: Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics
• LNB: Long Now Blog
• Science Progress

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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