Another Week of GW News, June 7, 2009

By illconsidered on June 9, 2009.

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Another week of Climate Disruption News

Information overload is pattern recognition

June 7, 2009

Chuckle, Top Stories:Bonn, UNFCCC Meetings, Ethanol Summit, FAO Meeting,
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Open Access, Late Comments
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Corals, Climate Refugees, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
Journals, Misc. Science, Pielke, Thomas Berry
Kyoto, Carbon Trade, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:International, Protectionism
America, Obama, Britain, Europe, Australia, India, China, Japan, Asia, Brazil, Middle East, Africa, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Courts
Energy, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Joe's List
Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

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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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk.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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P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

"We submit:
[...]
8) That the ideas which dominate our civilization at the present time date in their most virulent form from the Industrial Revolution. They may be summarized as:

It's us against the environment.
It's us against other men.
It's the individual (or the individual company, or the individual nation) that matters.
We can have unilateral control over the environment and we must strive for that control.
We live within an infinitely expanding "frontier".
Economic determinism is common sense.
Technology will do it for us.

We submit that these ideas are simply proved false by the great but ultimately destructive achievemnets of our technology in the last 150 years. Likewise they appear false under modern ecological theory. The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself." -Gregory Bateson, _Steps to an Ecology of Mind_, page 492-493,
Testimony to the University of Hawaii Committee on Ecology and Man, March 1970

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Wow, what a comprehensive list of information. I especially like your link on the left sidebar, "How to talk to a climate skeptic." That's perfect information for me.

Another Week of GW News, June 7, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose...

Another week of Climate Disruption News

Information overload is pattern recognition

June 7, 2009

Here's a chuckle for ya:

The UNFCCC talks in Bonn are generating a lot of news and comment:

After Copenhagen a raft of further UNFCCC meetings are scheduled:

An Ethanol Summit was held in Brazil:

And the FAO held a meeting in Tunis:

An International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation has been formed:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

University College London has gone Open Access:

Late comment on the GHF report:

Late comment on that Laureate confab:

Sol, redux:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

No storms in the hurricane wars, but lots of chatter:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

And the nitrogen cycle:

As are the temperatures:

While in the paleoclimate:

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

Glaciers are melting:

As for the THC:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Things are getting real in the Peruvian Amazon:

Corals are dying:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

As for 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 zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:

And on the carbon sequestration front:

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:

The Pielke fan clubbe is back:

Thomas Berry obit:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

While at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

The debate over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets, auction vs. allocation, and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs continues:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

Accusations of protectionism are rising:

Late coverage of Pelosi's trip to China:

And on the American political front:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress:

Wrangling over the Waxman-Markey climate bill is ongoing:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And in India:

While in China:

While in Japan:

And elsewhere in Asia:

And in Brazil:

As if the Middle East needed another spark:

While in Africa:

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

And in the mouse and elephant department:

In BC, it's back to politics as usual:

Ontario has it's Green Energy Act, now comes the implementation:

Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

While elsewhere in Alberta:

As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

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

And in the realm of neo-classical economics: