Another Week of GW News, August 23, 2009

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August 23, 2009

• Chuckle, Alberta Clipper, RET, World Water Week, Bonner, API, Costs
• Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Methane, Carbon Tariffs, World Bank Misdirection, Late Comments
• Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
• Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
• Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Desertification, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
• Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering
• Journals, Misc. Science, E. O. Wilson, Alia negati
• Copenhagen, UN, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
• Politics:International, Security, Law & Activism
• America, Obama, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan, Asia, South America, Canada
• Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Courts
• Energy, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Joe's List
• Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
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Here's a wee chuckle for ya:

• 2009/08/23: ClimateP: (cartoon - Shanahan) Polar bear sex and solar cat nap humor
• 2009/08/18: ClimateP: (cartoons - Hallatt, Bennett) Climate and nuclear energy humor

  The Obama administration has approved construction of the Alberta Clipper bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Wisconsin:

• 2009/08/22: TreeHugger: US State Department To Permit "Alberta Clipper" Tar Sands Pipeline
• 2009/08/21: AfterGutenberg: Dance, Puppets, Dance -- And, the fateful search for non-ecocidal leadership continues [Alberta Clipper]
• 2009/08/21: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Approving a new tar sands pipeline hurts U.S. credibility on clean energy
• 2009/08/21: FTimes: Washington approves oil-sands [Alberta Clipper] pipeline
• 2009/08/20: Yahoo: Construction to begin on Minn. oil pipeline
  The U.S. State Department issued a permit Thursday allowing construction of a pipeline that will bring crude oil to the U.S. from Canada's oil sands, where environmental groups say extraction and refinement methods are contributing to global warming. With the permit in hand, Enbridge Inc. plans to start construction work on the Alberta Clipper pipeline, which will run through Minnesota and the northeastern corner of North Dakota from Superior, Wis., to Hardisty, Alberta.
• 2009/08/20: SolveClimate: State Department Signs off on Controversial Tar Sands Pipeline
• 2009/08/20: EJ: Native, Green Groups Oppose State Department Dirty Pipeline Permit -- Court challenge is being prepared to overturn decision
• 2009/08/20: CBC: U.S. approves Alberta Clipper pipeline
  The U.S. State Department issued a presidential permit Thursday to Enbridge Inc. for its $3.6-billion Alberta Clipper oil pipeline. In approving the permit for the 1,590-kilometre pipeline, which will run from Hardisty in central Alberta to Superior, Wis., the State Department said the pipeline "will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States." "These included increasing the diversity of available supplies among the United States' worldwide crude oil sources in a time of considerable political tension in other major oil-producing countries and regions," the U.S. government said in a statement. A presidential permit was required because the pipeline will cross the Canada-U.S. border.

Australia has passed a law aiming at 20% renewable energy by 2020:

• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Australia's Renewable Energy Target Law
• 2009/08/20: SolveClimate: Australian Senate Embraces Renewable Energy After Dumping Cap-and-Trade
• 2009/08/20: Guardian(UK): Australia passes 20% renewables bill
• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): The Senate has passed the Federal Government's renewable energy target legislation
• 2009/08/20: BBerg: Australia Approves Law to Boost Renewable Energy Four-Fold
• 2009/08/20: EarthTimes: Australia sets 20-per-cent goal for renewable energy
• 2009/08/19: Guardian(UK): Australian politicians commit to 20% renewable target by 2020 -- Law would double production of electricity from sun and wind
• 2009/08/19: ABC(Au): The Opposition has labelled Wednesday renewable energy agreement a victory for common sense and a win for Malcolm Turnbull
• 2009/08/19: ABC(Au): The Federal Opposition will pass the Government's renewable energy target legislation after both sides agreed on amendments to the bill
• 2009/08/19: TheAge: Renewable energy deal gets green light
  Wind farms and solar panels are set to take over Australia after politicians agreed on a historic deal to boost clean energy. Labor and the coalition struck the deal in a rare moment of cooperation that has sparked hopes they can agree on another controversial environmental issue - emissions trading. The surprise love-in on renewable energy led to an unusual day in parliament, with the major parties being nice to each other. The federal government's key election promise to have 20 per cent of electricity come from renewable sources by 2020 is now a done deal. Called the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme, it's the government's second-biggest climate change plan, after emissions trading.
• 2009/08/18: Google:AFP: Australia targets 20 pct renewable energy by 2020
• 2009/08/18: TheAge: Labor concession over climate bill [Aus-ETS]
  The Government has given the Opposition one concession on the renewable energy target legislation, as both sides move towards a compromise to pass it quickly. But other Opposition demands are still in the balance.
• 2009/08/18: ABC(Au): Bill paves way to 'bright, bold' energy future
  The Government's renewable energy bill has passed the House of Representatives, but another round of negotiations is needed before it will get through the Senate. The bill provides for 20 per cent of Australia's energy needs to come from renewable sources like wind farms within a decade. The Opposition supported the bill through the lower house last night after the Government agreed to treat the gas created from coal-mining as a renewable energy source. Coalition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says he's hopeful the Government will agree to further changes ahead of a Senate vote later this week.

The World Water Week conference went down in Stockholm:

• 2009/08/20: EarthTimes: Recycle water to cope with climate change: business leader [at WWW]
• 2009/08/18: UN: UNICEF plays large role in global safe water forum
• 2009/08/18: BBC: Water crisis to hit Asian food
  Scientists have warned Asian countries that they face chronic food shortages and likely social unrest if they do not improve water management. The water experts are meeting at a UN-sponsored conference in Sweden.
• 2009/08/17: BBC: Water reform is 'needed in Asia'
  Asia must reform its water use to feed 1.5 billion extra people by 2050, says a new report. The authors warn that without big changes to irrigation many nations will have to import food. The report says that 94% of suitable land in South Asia is already being used for growing food. According to their computer model the continent could obtain three quarters of the additional food it needs with better irrigation systems. The report will be presented on Tuesday to the World Water Week conference in Stockholm.
• 2009/08/17: EarthTimes: World Water Week opens with calls for action
  Water and its links to development, peace and conflict was highlighted Monday when delegates from over 130 countries gathered for the annual World Water Week. Keynote speakers included Swedish International Development Cooperation Minister Gunilla Carlsson and Rejoice Mabudafhasi, South African Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, who both touched on the linkage between climate and development issues.

Controversy over the duplicitous clean coal campaign continues:

• 2009/08/23: ClimateP: NPR takes on 'clean coal' astroturfers
• 2009/08/22: DeSmogBlog: Shower Congress with Coal in America
• 2009/08/19: PRWatch: More Pollution of the Climate Debate [Bonner]
• 2009/08/21: DeSmogBlog: ACCCE Coal Lobby Drops Bonner & Associates Over Forged Letters
• 2009/08/18: TPMM: More Forged Letters: Astroturf Firm Invoked Struggling Seniors To Argue Against Climate Bill
• 2009/08/21: TP: Caught in fraud, dirty coal group dumps one of its Astroturf contractors
• 2009/08/19: Guardian(UK): US Congress inquiry reveals fake letters from 'voters' opposed to climate bill
  Bonner & Associates, lobbyists hired to campaign against climate change bill, admit letters sent by sacked employee
• 2009/08/19: Guardian(UK): US coal industry won't give up easily on using atmosphere as a dumping ground
  Fossil fuel lobbyists are fiercely fighting US attempts to make the world's dirtiest power sector pay for its carbon emissions
• 2009/08/19: Grist: A farce to be reckoned with -- Families not allowed in 'families for coal' group
• 2009/08/19: WNV: 13th bogus letter sent to Perriello
• 2009/08/19: TreeHugger: Five More Forged Letters to Congress Opposing Climate Bill Discovered
• 2009/08/19: OilChange: "We are seeing fraud-mongering on clean energy"
• 2009/08/18: OBMB: Bonner & Associates + ACCCE: The Forgeries Continue
• 2009/08/18: ClimateP: Rep. Markey reveals 5 more forged astroturf letters
• 2009/08/18: WSJ:EnvCap: You've got (bogus) mail [ACCCE scandal]
• 2009/08/18: TP: Rep. Markey Reveals Five More Forged Astroturf Letters

  The oil companies liked the coal campaign so much they cloned it:

• 2009/08/23: HillHeat: GOP Team At American Energy Alliance Runs 'Energy Town Hall' Oil Bus Tour
• 2009/08/18: GreenGrok: Truth In Agitating On Climate
• 2009/08/21: Grist: I Got Yer Jobs Right Here -- Neutralizing Big Oil's climate-bill attack, with investment in manufacturing
• 2009/08/21: Grist: Majority of 'Energy Citizens' rallies organized by oil-industry lobbyists
• 2009/08/19: Tamino: Astroturf
• 2009/08/18: PRWatch: The Oil Industry Promotes Carpooling? ["Energy Citizens" rally in Houston]
• 2009/08/22: TP:WR: GOP Team At American Energy Alliance Runs 'Energy Town Hall' Oil Bus Tour
• 2009/08/21: ClimateP: American flags not welcome at oil astroturf rally; Iraq & Afgahnistan veterans denounce 'Oil Dependence Tour'
• 2009/08/20: DeSmogBlog: Texas and New Mexico 'Energy Citizens' Events Are Really "Energy Employees" Rallies
• 2009/08/20: TexasVox: Real Anti-Cap and Trade Grassroots blocked from Energy Citizens Rally
• 2009/08/20: TexasVox: Energy Citizens (Corporate Employees) Say the Darndest Things at API Astroturf Event
• 2009/08/19: TexasVox: Houston's Energy Citizens Company Picnic
• 2009/08/21: DemNow: "Astroturf Activism": Leaked Memo Reveals Oil Industry Effort to Stage Rallies Against Climate Legislation
• 2009/08/20: DeSmogBlog: Iraq and Afghanistan War Vets Denounce 'Energy Citizens' Campaign As "Oil Dependence Tour"
• 2009/08/20: DeSmogBlog: Houston Energy Citizen Event not a Rally - it was a Company Picnic
• 2009/08/19: DeSmogBlog: Congress Should Expose or Outlaw Astroturfers
• 2009/08/20: OBMB: API's Astroturfing Campaign Draws Greenpeace's Ire
• 2009/08/19: Guardian(UK): BP and Shell warned to halt campaign against US climate change bill
  Oil firms urged to leave American Petroleum Institute and halt political lobbying by Greenpeace
• 2009/08/19: Grist: Houston's 'Energy Citizen' rally was just a glorified company picnic
• 2009/08/19: NRDC:SwitchBoard: An Astroturf Double-Header Hits Houston and D.C.
• 2009/08/19: CSW: Oil lobby and its allies manufacture 'astroturf' rallies against climate legislation
• 2009/08/19: WSJ:EnvCap: Old Yeller: Big Oil Rallies Against Climate Change Bill
• 2009/08/18: HoustonChronicle: Energy workers rally against climate plan
• 2009/08/19: NYT: Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill
• 2009/08/17: Grist: ConocoPhillips works to undermine climate bill, despite pledge to support climate action
• 2009/08/18: Grist: Industry groups launch astroturf 'Energy Citizens' website
• 2009/08/18: AbqJournal: Oil Industry Behind 'Energy Citizens Rallies'
• 2009/08/17: ClimateP: Leaked memo: Big Oil manufacturing 'Energy Citizen' rallies to oppose clean energy reform
• 2009/08/17: Grist: Astroturf wars continue as more info comes to light on 'Energy Citizen' rallies
• 2009/08/17: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Astroturf Gone Wild: Summer of Fakes and Deception
• 2009/08/17: WSJ:EnvCap: Astroturfing the Climate Bill
  The most compelling summer theater isn't on Broadway or at the Delacorte Theater. It's been in Town Hall meetings as angry harangues on health-care reform are aimed at sitting senators. Consider this a prelude to this fall's theater season when the plot will revolve around the climate change bill.

Meanwhile on the bottom line:

• 2009/08/17: Grist: U.N. climate chief: $300B needed each year in global climate fight
• 2009/08/18: Grist: the spiraling cost of inaction -- Global warming triggers more disasters
• 2009/08/18: SolveClimate: Global Deal: $300 Billion is a Lot Less Than $23 trillion

  The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2009/08/22: ERabett: The Northeast Passage
• 2009/08/21: Reuters: Climate change opens [NorthEast Passage] Arctic route for German ships
• 2009/08/19: AfterGutenberg: Decline of Arctic Ice, No Longer An Early Warning
• 2009/08/21: Platts: US Coast Guard steels for role in Arctic as exploration increases
• 2009/08/19: EnergyDaily: Russia hosts international meeting on Arctic security
• 2009/08/19: CanWest: Scientists predict another year of major Arctic ice loss
• 2009/08/20: CCP: Thermokarst forming in Arctic tundra changing albedo, emitting methane -- Trouble in the Tundra
• 2009/08/19: ClimateP: NSIDC: Record low Arctic ice extent unlikely in 2009
• 2009/08/19: CCP: NSIDC Report of August 18, 2009: A change in ice motion slows seasonal decline

  As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

• 2009/08/18: UNDispatch: Global warming and an Arctic scramble
• 2009/08/17: CanWest: Polar posturing: Canada, Russia tensions in Arctic part politics, experts say
• 2009/08/16: BBC: Canada in Arctic show of strength
  Canada is launching a series of military exercises in the Arctic far-north region of the country.

While in Antarctica:

• 2009/08/20: PG:CC: Antarctica's Pine Island glacier and its implications for business strategy
• 2009/08/20: ClimateP: Antarctica's Pine Island glacier and its implications for business strategy and the Great Disruption

  Damocles sword hangs by an unravelling thread:

• 2009/08/21: NatureCF: Time to unleash seabed methane?
• 2009/08/19: CCurrents: Methane Seeps From Arctic Sea-Bed
• 2009/08/19: ClimateSight: Very Scary Stuff [CH4]
• 2009/08/19: DM:80B: Methane Seeps From the Arctic Seabed, Spooking Climate Scientists
• 2009/08/19: TreeHugger: Methane Discovered Bubbling Up From Arctic Sea Floor
• 2009/08/18: KSJT: Scientist, Science News: Methane bubbles streaming from sea floor. Could be warming (could be just never looked for them?)
• 2009/08/17: ClimateP: So many amplifying methane feedbacks, so little time to stop them all
• 2009/08/18: HotTopics: And now the bad news... [methane]
• 2009/08/18: BBC: Methane seeps from Arctic sea bed
  Scientists say they have evidence that the powerful greenhouse gas methane is escaping from the Arctic sea bed. Researchers say this could be evidence of a predicted positive feedback effect of climate change. As temperatures rise, the sea bed grows warmer and frozen water crystals in the sediment break down, allowing methane trapped inside them to escape. The research team found that more than 250 plumes of methane bubbles are rising from the sea bed off Norway
• 2009/08/17: NewScientist: As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up
• 2009/08/17: MTobis: Fire and Ice (Big Badaboom) [CH4]

  Regarding Carbon Tariffs:

• 2009/08/22: LA Times: Demand for tariffs in global-warming legislation splits allies
  Midwestern Democrats, who want duties placed on countries who don't limit greenhouse gas emissions, are at odds with Obama.
• 2009/08/18: ABC(Au): Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has accused the Prime Minister of instigating a scare campaign by suggesting Australia would be vulnerable to punitive tariffs in the absence of an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

  The World Bank is wedded to growth and barely acknowledges conservation:

• 2009/08/19: TreeHugger: World Bank Broke Its Own Environmental Rules to Lend to Palm Oil Corporation, Internal Audit Reveals

  Late comment on the APA:

• 2009/08/19: NewScientist: How psychology can help the planet stay cool

  Late comment on Bonn:

• 2009/08/17: NatureTGB: Climate gloom: soundbites from Bonn

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2009/07/: FAO: Crop Prospects and Food Situation
• 2009/08/12: FAO:GIEWS: Late and erratic rains in Eastern Africa raise food security concerns, El Niño an additional worry
• 2009/08/22: Monitor(Ug): Climate change: Now Uganda faces a food shortage crisis
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Mekong Delta May Be Inundated By Rising Sea
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Climate Change Threatens Central American Coffee
• 2009/08/21: EarthTimes: Drought-hit India will import food to meet shortage
• 2009/08/20: Time: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
• 2009/08/21: BBerg: Poor Farmers Biggest Losers From Warming Planet, Study Says
• 2009/08/21: BBC: India will import food to make up for shortages caused by a drought thought to be affecting 700 million people, the finance minister has said
• 2009/08/20: UN: Southern Sudan faces worsening food shortage, UN warns
• 2009/08/20: TreeHugger: Urban Poor in Developing Nations Particularly Badly Hit by Rising Food Prices, Climate Change
• 2009/08/20: Eureka: Increased climate volatility expected to worsen poverty vulnerability in developing countries
• 2009/08/20: Straight: UBC agricultural programs offer food for thought
  What would you do if you went to the store and discovered it was clean out of imported vegetables? And not just for that day or that week, but for the foreseeable future? "It could literally happen next week," Chris Thoreau, a fourth-year agroecology undergraduate student at UBC, told the Georgia Straight by phone. "It really could."
• 2009/08/20: Eureka: Study of 16 developing countries shows climate change could deepen poverty
• 2009/08/19: UN: New UN study examines hunger severity within Nepal
• 2009/08/17: NewScientist: India's thirsty farms drain rocks dry
• 2009/08/17: PhysOrg: Asia faces food shortage by 2050 without water reform
  A comprehensive new study of irrigation in Asia warns that, without major reforms and innovations in the way water is used for agriculture, many developing nations face the politically risky prospect of having to import more than a quarter of the rice, wheat and maize they will need by 2050
• 2009/08/17: NewScientist: Wheat gets worse as CO2 rises
  You may have thought that the silver lining of rising carbon dioxide levels would be a boost in crop yields. But evidence is mounting that we may trade quantity for quality. The discovery that staple crops like wheat have less protein when grown in high concentrations of CO2 has already caused concern, but the bad news doesn't stop there. Ramping up CO2 also changes the balance of amino acids and several trace elements, says Petra Högy from the University of Hohenheim in Germany.
• 2009/08/17: Guardian(UK): Asia facing unprecedented food shortage, UN report says
  Major investment in irrigation systems needed to feed population expected to grow by 1.5 billion over next 40 years

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2009/08/16: FarmOnline(Au): Food to win out over fuel
  Food will win through over fuel in the end, according to a Taiwan academic, speaking at the Food in Health Security in the Asia-Pacific Region (FIHS) conference in Taipei last week. Dr Yue-Wen Wang, Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, discussed the issue of biofuel production versus crops for food. "We need to eat but we don't need to drive," Dr Wang said. "The food security issue is the bottom line for agriculture and the biofuel production must be compromised for it."

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2009/08/22: BBC: The vegetable gardeners of Havana
  Climate change, drought, population growth - they could all threaten future food supplies. But global agriculture, with its dependence on fuel and fertilisers is also highly vulnerable to an oil shortage, as Cuba found out 20 years ago. Around Cuba's capital Havana, it is quite remarkable how often you see a neatly tended plot of land right in the heart of the city.
• 2009/08/22: TreeHugger: Omnivore's Delusion and the Joy of Industrial Agriculture
• 2009/08/21: PhysOrg: Predators key to sustainable farming
  Barn owls have emerged as the unlikely heroes in the fight against climate change, saving Malaysian farmers more than money, UQ PhD Student Chong Leong Puan has found.
• 2009/08/20: Grist: Sustainable ag meets the MSM -- and wins!
• 2009/08/20: Tyee: Replanting the City Farming Movement in BC
  Victoria led the way in 1918. Vancouver once had 52,000 Victory Gardens. Today, the idea is sprouting fast again. Second in a reader-funded series. Like many people working in urban agriculture, the recent surge in interest caught me by surprise. Last year it seemed as if an idea that had lingered for years on the fringe went mainstream, at least as an idea. People wanted to know all about getting started growing food. Lawn-converters, community gardeners, food activists, small business growers and just regular folks with a hankering for a home-grown salad began seeing the city not as a jungle of buildings and cars but a countless number of small farms. This year has been even crazier. The notion has spread so widely there's no longer any way to describe the typical aspiring grower. People of all ages, classes and backgrounds want to get involved. Mini-growing projects are sprouting up everywhere like mushrooms after a rain. Apparently, it takes a crisis to raise an urban farmer.
• 2009/08/20: UN: Haitian farmers boost food production with UN help
• 2009/08/19: Guardian(UK): Deep-fried locust, anyone? Insects may be the answer to our looming food crisis
  Sustainable and nutritious, it's time insects were seen as another source of protein. The problem is how to make them desirable
• 2009/08/20: CBC: Rice gene lets high-yield crop weather floods
• 2009/08/19: BBC: Snorkelling rice to feed millions
  A new "super" rice plant has been developed which grows "snorkels" when exposed to floods.
• 2009/08/18: BBC: Bolivians look to ancient farming
  Poor farmers in the heart of Bolivia's Amazon are being encouraged to embrace the annual floods - by using a centuries-old irrigation system for their crops ["camellones" - raised earth platforms of anything up to 2m high, surrounded by canals.]
• 2009/08/17: OurFuture: Food Security: All Investment Is Not Created Equal
• 2009/08/17: NatureN: Irrigation reform needed in Asia -- Farms must feed a growing population with a minimal impact on the environment

  Hurricane Bill skirted Bermuda and the US mainland, but may yet strike Eastern Canada:

• 2009/08/23: CNN: Massachusetts exhales as Bill passes, heads to Canada
  Tropical storm warning lifted for Massachusetts as Bill heads to Canada - Storm skirts East Coast; Massachusetts residents carry on with daily lives - President Obama and family scheduled to arrive Sunday at Martha's Vineyard - Forecasters warn of dangerous riptides along New England coast and north
• 2009/08/22: CNN: Hurricane Bill on last leg of trip to New England
  Massachusetts governor says tropical-force winds to hit state around 9 p.m. ET - Storm expected to pass off New England coast Saturday night or Sunday - Nova Scotia and Newfoundland making preparations for a hit - Riptides expected from Virginia up along the East Coast
• 2009/08/21: Maribo: Hurricane Bill, the Atlantic hurricane season and Pacific warming
• 2009/08/22: Wunderground: Bill batters Bermuda; Canada next
• 2009/08/21: CBC: Hurricane Bill countdown begins in Atlantic provinces
• 2009/08/21: CNN: Bill weakens to Category 2 hurricane
  Hurricane Bill downgraded to Category 2 storm - Hurricane expected to pelt Bermuda with 1 to 3 inches of rain - Battering waves developing on parts of U.S. East Coast - Bill is expected to pass between Bermuda and East Coast
• 2009/08/21: PhysOrg: NASA watches as Hurricane Bill sweeps over Bermuda
• 2009/08/21: Wunderground: A weakening Bill generating a major wave event for Bermuda and the U.S. coast
• 2009/08/21: EarthTimes: Hurricane Bill closes in on Bermuda
• 2009/08/21: CBC: Hurricane Bill puts Bermuda on watch
• 2009/08/20: CBC: Hurricane Bill to blast Atlantic Canada
• 2009/08/20: CNN: Hurricane Bill could brush Cape Cod, forecasters say
  Bermuda Weather Service issues hurricane watch - Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is at risk for a Sunday strike, forecasters say - Hurricane Bill downgraded to Category 3 storm - Parts of Northeast U.S. could see dangerous rip currents, coastal flooding
• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: NASA's QuikScat sees category 3 Hurricane Bill's winds go a long distance
• 2009/08/20: Wunderground: Bill weakens, but still generating huge waves
• 2009/08/20: CBC: Hurricane Bill to blast Atlantic Canada -- Bill weakens to Category 3 storm overnight, but could regain strength
• 2009/08/19: CNN: 'Extremely dangerous' Hurricane Bill churns in Atlantic
  Storm is not expected to make a direct hit on Bermuda - But island, eastern United States could see large swells - Category 4 hurricane's maximum sustained winds are at 135 mph
• 2009/08/19: Reuters: Dangerous Hurricane Bill could threaten east Canada
• 2009/08/19: PhysOrg: NASA's Aqua satellite gets two views of category 4 Hurricane Bill
• 2009/08/19: Wunderground: Bill intensifies to Category 4; globe has 5th warmest July on record
• 2009/08/19: EarthTimes: Hurricane Bill becomes stronger storm
• 2009/08/19: CBC: Hurricane Bill becomes Category 4 storm
• 2009/08/18: CNN: Bill expected to become Category 3 soon
  No weather models show Bill threatening U.S. - Bermuda may escape direct hit but get strong waves, high winds - Bill is the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season
• 2009/08/18: NASA: NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Wide-Eyed Hurricane Bill Strengthening
• 2009/08/17: TerraDaily: Storm hits Florida as first Atlantic hurricane gathers power
• 2009/08/18: Wunderground: Impressive Bill churning huge waves; New England air pollution episode underway
• 2009/08/17: EarthTimes: Bill becomes first Atlantic hurricane of season - Summary
• 2009/08/18: CBC: Hurricane Bill gathers strength in Atlantic
• 2009/08/17: CNN: Bill upgraded to hurricane; Claudette makes landfall
  Claudette could dump 10 inches of rain on parts of Alabama, Florida, Georgia - Bill becomes season's first hurricane Monday - Claudette hits southeast of Fort Walton Beach about 1:15 a.m. ET Monday - People along Florida Panhandle warned to be cautious, watch for heavy rain
• 2009/08/18: PlanetArk: Hurricane Bill on Atlantic Track Toward Bermuda
• 2009/08/17: NASA: Two NASA Satellites Captures Hurricane Bill's "Baby Pictures"
• 2009/08/17: CBC: Atlantic storm upgraded to hurricane [Bill] -- Claudette downgraded to tropical depression
• 2009/08/17: BBerg: Hurricane Bill Forms; Claudette Weakens Over Florida

  China & Taiwan are dealing with the impacts of Typhoon Morakot:

• 2009/08/22: BBC: Taiwan mourns for Morakot victims
  Flags are being flown at half-mast in Taiwan as three days of mourning begin for people who lost their lives as a result of Typhoon Morakot. At least 500 people are still missing...
• 2009/08/21: CBC: Taiwan digs for bodies after typhoon [Morakot]
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Taiwan Approves $2.9 Billion For Typhoon Reconstruction
• 2009/08/19: TerraDaily: Warmer Taipei-Beijing ties help typhoon aid efforts: analysts
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: Another Taiwan Minister [Defense Minister Chen Chao-min] Offers To Quit After [slow response to] Typhoon
• 2009/08/18: TerraDaily: President Ma Ying-jeou says extreme weather biggest threat to Taiwan
• 2009/08/19: CBC: Taiwan typhoon [Morakot] victims berate president
• 2009/08/19: Asia Times: Taiwan counts typhoon [Morakot] cost
• 2009/08/17: SeedDaily: Typhoon [Morakot] hits Taiwan agriculture, tourism hard: analysts
• 2009/08/18: ABS-CBN: Extreme weather 'biggest threat' to Taiwan
  Taiwan's leader said Tuesday the military will make evacuations and rescue operations one of its main roles as extreme weather events such as Typhoon Morakot and climate change now pose a bigger threat. Ten days after the typhoon hit the island, President Ma Ying-jeou told a news conference that rescue operations had ended and the typhoon response had entered a new phase focused on disaster relief and resettlement. Ma and senior officials began the news conference by bowing low in what he said was a symbolic apology to the Taiwanese people for not doing more in the immediate aftermath of the typhoon slamming into the island's south and centre on August 8. Ma has warned the death toll could climb to more than 500, with hundreds feared buried, while 128 people are so far confirmed dead.

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2009/08/22: HoustonChronicle: The state of the bay
  Nearly one year after Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc across Galveston Bay, the ecosystem is slowly recovering. But will it ever be the same?
• 2009/08/18: AfterGutenberg: Greatest Incidence of Tropical Storms in Last 1,000 Years
• 2009/08/21: UN: Haiti: UN agencies and peacekeepers prepare for hurricane season
• 2009/08/17: PhysOrg: Tropical Storm Claudette makes landfall in Florida, moving into Mississippi
• 2009/08/18: SolveClimate: The Katrina Pain Index
• 2009/08/17: Guardian(UK): Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
• 2009/08/17: PlanetArk: Tropical Storm Claudette Hits Florida
• 2009/08/17: TerraDaily: Hurricane Seasons Are More Active
• 2009/08/16: TerraDaily: Tropical storms race toward the Caribbean
• 2009/08/17: Wunderground: Claudette hits Florida; Ana approaches Puerto RIco; Bill becomes our first hurricane
• 2009/08/16: Wunderground: Ana, Bill, and Claudette--a rare early season triple threat
• 2009/08/17: NASA: Ana's Path Being Mapped by NASA Satellites, She's Drenching Puerto Rico
• 2009/08/17: NASA: Tropical Storm Claudette Makes Landfall in Florida, Moving Into Mississippi
• 2009/08/16: CCP: McCabe, Clark & Serreze, J. Climate, Trends in Northern Hemisphere surface cyclone frequency and intensity
• 2009/08/16: CCP: Michael E. Mann et al., Nature 460 (2009), Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years
• 2009/08/17: WWW: Hot Sea Running

  As for GHGs:

• 2009/08/20: NewScientist: Chinese emissions could peak in 20 years
• 2009/08/19: NatureCF: China cuts methane emissions from rice fields
• 2009/08/18: NatureN: China cuts methane emissions from rice fields -- But global warming could raise greenhouse gases produced by paddies elsewhere
• 2009/08/17: Eureka: Stressed crops emit more methane than thought -- University of Calgary scientists say uncounted for source of greenhouse gas could promote global warming
• 2009/08/17: NewScientist: North America puts carbon on a map

  As are the temperatures:

• 2009/08/17: Tamino: Not Computer Models
• 2009/08/20: QuarkSoup: Drop in World Temperatures?
• 2009/08/22: CCP: J. L. Lean & D. H. Rind, GRL, 36 (2009): How will Earth's surface temperature change in future decades?
• 2009/08/21: ClimateSight: Why Is it So Cold???!!!! [in North America]
• 2009/08/21: ClimateP: AP on record ocean warming: "Breaking heat records in water is more ominous as a sign of global warming than breaking temperature marks on land."
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): The Queensland Government's new climate change policy has predicted temperatures will soar in the state's far north -- well above the range of temperatures experienced over the past 50 years
• 2009/08/21: CSW: Ocean Warming, Ocean Warning: Global ocean surface temperature in July warmest on record
• 2009/08/21: CBC: Ocean surface temperature in July warmest on record
• 2009/08/20: KSJT: AP, NYTimes, etc: Surface of ocean hottest ever measured
• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record -- July was the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping
• 2009/08/19: Yahoo: Lower temperatures grist for global warming debate
• 2009/08/19: NatureTGB: Record warmth for global oceans
• 2009/08/19: MongaBay: Record global ocean temperature in July
• 2009/08/17: JEB: Evidence for bias in atmospheric temperature trends
  [...] In other words, the satellite measurements are biased low, if one attempts to interpret them as an estimate of the surface temperature trend via the standard 1:1.2 warming ratio.

Yes we have feedbacks:

• 2009/08/22: ERabett: The reverse iris [feedbacks]

  Aerosols are making their presence felt:

• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: Cleaning Up Black Carbon Provides Instant Benefits Against Global Warming
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: Southeast Asia Braces For More Haze

  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2009/08/18: KU: The greenhouse gas that saved the world -- Chemistry researchers uncover why the archean world was not frozen solid
• 2009/08/17: Guardian(UK): Early farming methods caused climate change, say researchers
• 2009/08/17: Eureka: Agricultural methods of early civilizations may have altered global climate, study suggests
• 2009/08/17: Telegraph(UK): Early farmers 'began global warming process'
  Farmers who used "slash and burn" methods of clearing forests to grow crops thousands of years ago could have increased carbon dioxide levels enough to change the climate, researchers have claimed.

While on the ENSO front:

• 2009/08/19: UN: El Niño weather pattern likely to continue into 2010, says UN agency
• 2009/08/17: TreeHugger: El Nino Explained, Plus Common Misconceptions

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2009/08/17: SLTrib: Researchers: shrinking Teton glaciers will affect Utah water
• 2009/08/17: People's Daily: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau warming will bring serious problems, experts warn

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2009/08/21: TreeHugger: Nile Delta Poised to Be Sunk by Sea Level Rise - Groundwater Salinity Already a Growing Problem
• 2009/08/21: TreeHugger: 20% of Mekong Delta Submerged With Rising Seas by 2100 - 10% of Ho Chi Minh City Will Go Under, Too
• 2009/08/21: OilChange: The Nile Delta: "We are going underwater"
• 2009/08/21: Guardian(UK): Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'
  The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe
• 2009/08/17: CCP: 1993-2008 global mean sea level changes recorded by the Jason-2 and -1 and TOPEX/Poseidon satellites

  Meanwhile in orbit:

• 2009/08/21: PhysOrg: ESA investigates new methods of mapping tropical forest from space
• 2009/08/21: PhysOrg: First IR Image from Newest Weather Satellite Captures Hurricane Bill
• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: NASA's A-Train of satellites 'on track' with hurricane research
• 2009/08/18: KSJT: Observer: After first [Cryosat] one splashed into Arctic, a UK team manages to get a second ice-inspecting satellite ready to go

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2009/08/21: NatureCF: Warming dries up dairy herds
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): Warming threatens Aussie ski fields: expert
  An academic has a pessimistic outlook for Australian snow resorts because of climate change. Associate Professor Catherine Pickering, of Griffith University, says global warming has reduced the amount of snow falling on resorts and has increased the fire risk in summer.
• 2009/08/20: NewScientist: Global warming could change Earth's tilt
• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: Climate change has some species fleeing the Texas heat
• 2009/08/19: Grist: Hotter summers will pose public health challenges
• 2009/08/20: AO: Earth Talk: Is global warming killing people?
• 2009/08/20: EUO: Thanks to global warming, EU gets new border with Switzerland
• 2009/08/19: EarthTimes: Swiss agree to redraw border with Italy as glaciers melt
• 2009/08/18: KSJT: Forth Worth Star Telegram: Texas heats up, residents flee north (mostly the ones with wings)
• 2009/08/17: JE: Record ocean warmth worries fishermen -- Hot spots include north Pacific south of Alaska
• 2009/08/17: TerraDaily: Increased Ocean Acidification In Alaska Waters

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2009/08/23: Guardian(UK): Amazon Indians warn of further protests
  Row over the government not appointing its representative to a truth comm ission to investigate June violence
• 2009/08/19: CBC: Ecologists fight logging road in Manitoba park
• 2009/08/20: ClimateP: The AP gets the bark beetle story right
• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: Washington forests may be solution to state's green-energy quest
• 2009/08/20: Eureka: NASA researcher nets first measure of Africa's coastal forests
  Impoverished fishermen along the coast of tropical African countries like Mozambique and Madagascar may have only a few more years to eke out a profit from one of their nations' biggest agricultural exports. Within a few decades, they may no longer have a livelihood at all. That's because swampy mangrove forests -- essential breeding grounds for fish and shellfish in these countries -- are being destroyed by worsening pollution, encroaching real estate development, and deforestation necessary to sustain large-scale commercial shrimp farming. The decline of these forests threatens much of Africa's coastal food supply and economy. The destruction of mangroves -- one of Earth's richest natural resources -- also has implications for everything from climate change to biodiversity to the quality of life on Earth.
• 2009/08/19: NatureN: Forest definition comes under fire -- Ecologists accuse framework convention of barking up the wrong tree
• 2009/08/19: NatureN: Paying to save the rainforests -- In Brazil, details are emerging for plans to stop deforestation. Can it serve as a model for other nations?
• 2009/08/19: SolveClimate: Reforestation Taking Root in Projects Around the World
• 2009/08/19: USAToday: Climate plan calls for forest expansion
• 2009/08/17: CBC: Pine beetle could hurt Alberta real estate
• 2009/08/16: SolveClimate: Bark Beetle Infestation Offers Warning on Delicate Workings of Climate Disruption

  Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

• 2009/08/21: Guardian(UK): 73 African migrants die at sea trying to reach Italy
• 2009/08/21: UN: UN voices shock at reports of neglect from survivors of Mediterranean boat tragedy
• 2009/08/21: BBC: UN shock at migrant boat deaths
  The UN Refugee Agency has expressed shock at reports that other vessels passed by and did not help as a boat sank carrying illegal immigrants. About 75 illegal immigrants from Africa died while travelling on a crowded rubber dinghy between Libya and Italy. It is thought many succumbed to hunger or thirst. Five Eritreans survived the journey and said no-one offered help. The UN said the failure of other ships to stop and help represented a betrayal of maritime tradition. Earlier this year, Italy and Libya began joint naval patrols in the Mediterranean to try to prevent the passage of illegal migrants.

Desertification looms as a threat:

• 2009/08/19: DN: Deserts Expand Faster as Earth Brightens

  A series of tornadoes zapped Ontario:

• 2009/08/22: CBC: Tornado-ravaged Ont. city lifts state of emergency
• 2009/08/21: G&M: Tornadoes touch down in Ontario
  Reports say an 11-year-old boy was killed near the town of Durham; widespread reports of damage to buildings
• 2009/08/21: CBC: Ontario storm devastation scoured
• 2009/08/20: CBC: Tornado touches down in Ontario town [Durham]

  Yes, we have heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2009/08/23: CNN: Battle on to contain Greece wildfires
  Crews battle to save homes as fires tear through Athens suburbs for third day - Police helpings to evacuate 20,000 residents of Athens suburb Agios Stefanos - Fires raging near Athens are worst since 2007 when 65 people killed - State of emergency declared; hundreds of firefighters and soldiers deployed
• 2009/08/23: EarthTimes: Athenians battle to contain fires burning out of control - 3rd Update
• 2009/08/23: EarthTimes: Athenians battle to contain fires burning out of control - Update
• 2009/08/23: EarthTimes: Greece declares emergency, fire out of control near Athens - 3rd Update
• 2009/08/23: BBC: Fire threat empties Athens suburb [Drafi]
  Residents of an entire Athens suburb have been ordered from their homes as out-of-control wildfires blaze around the Greek capital.
• 2009/08/22: CBC: Greek wildfires burn near Athens suburbs
• 2009/08/22: EarthTimes: Greece declares emergency, fire out of control near Athens - Update
• 2009/08/22: EarthTimes: Greece declares emergency as fire burns out of control near Athens
• 2009/08/22: BBC: Fires rage unchecked near Athens
  Major wildfires north-east of the Greek capital Athens are burning out of control, officials have said.
• 2009/08/21: CBC: New fires, evacuations hit B.C. Interior
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Wildfire Rages Near Athens, Threatens Homes
• 2009/08/21: EarthTimes: Firefighters battle to contain wildfire near Athens
• 2009/08/20: EarthTimes: Firefighters battle to contain wildfire near Athens
• 2009/08/20: EarthTimes: Wildfires burn down thousands of hectares in Spain and Portugal
• 2009/08/19: PlanetArk: Wildfire Rages In Greece For Second Day
• 2009/08/19: Grist: Global warming set to intensify August heat, Climate Central study finds
• 2009/08/17: TerraDaily: Australian inquiry slams wildfire failures
  An inquiry into Australia's worst wildfires said Monday that the disaster that claimed 173 lives in February showed residents should be encouraged to flee their homes as early as possible.
• 2009/08/18: EarthTimes: Firefighters battle fire in central Greece
• 2009/08/17: EarthTimes: Firefighters work to contain California blazes
• 2009/08/16: Oregonian: Wildfire risks rise along with more homes in Oregon's forests
• 2009/08/18: CBC: Montreal heat triggers spike in 911 calls
• 2009/08/16: EarthTimes: Thousands of firefighters contain half of California blaze
• 2009/08/16: USAToday: Texas drought produces long, busy fire season
• 2009/08/17: CBC: Australia wildfires report slams warning systems -- 'Stay and defend' policy questioned in wake of February infernos in Victoria state
• 2009/08/16: CBC: Firefighting chopper pilot believed dead after crash

  As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

• 2009/08/23: EarthTimes: Drought causes water shortage for 5 million people in China
• 2009/08/22: JFleck: What Kind of Drought is South Texas Having?
• 2009/08/21: USAToday: Study: Climate change means more heavy rain
• 2009/08/21: CPD:Metro: Review of Cleveland rainfall records indicates climate change has arrived
• 2009/08/20: Guardian(UK): The flooding of the Nile Delta (12 pictures)
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Flash Floods In Pakistan Kill At Least 27, U.N. Says
• 2009/08/21: EarthTimes: Heavy rains, winds bring Delhi to a halt
• 2009/08/21: CCP: P.A. O'Gorman & T. Schneider, PNAS, 2009: The physical basis for increases in precipitation extremes in simulations of 21st-century climate change
• 2009/08/20: ENN: Mexico Hit By Lowest Rainfall In 68 Years
• 2009/08/20: CBC: Manitoba injects $21M for flood repairs
• 2009/08/18: TerraDaily: Pakistan floods kill 27, affect 70,000: UN, officials
• 2009/08/18: USAToday: Ruling leaves North Georgia with water crisis
• 2009/08/17: PhysOrg: A hard rain's gonna fall: Analysis shows climate change to yield more extreme rainfall
  Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns. But the increase in extreme downpours is not uniformly spread around the world, the analysis shows. While the pattern is clear and consistent outside of the tropics, climate models give conflicting results within the tropics...
• 2009/08/17: CBC: Floods feared as Red Lake water levels rise
  Residents of the northwestern Ontario town of Red Lake are bracing for flooding as the lake's water levels continue to rise. Levels are the highest they have been in 30 years and are now threatening to damage property.
• 2009/08/17: UN: Deadly floods hit north-west Pakistan, UN aid agencies say
• 2009/08/17: CBC: Alberta ranchers forced to sell herds
  Many ranchers across Alberta are being forced to sell off part of their herds because they can't afford to feed them. The summer drought has more than doubled the price of hay and a hail storm earlier this month damaged what was left of many farmers' pastures.
• 2009/08/17: TreeHugger: Snowfall in Australia's Snowy Mountains Down 40% - Climate Change to Blame
• 2009/08/16: EnergyBulletin: Drought stalks India

  On the mitigation front, consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2009/08/23: PeakEnergy: Give them a bus or train every 10 minutes and they will come
• 2009/08/21: NRDC:SwitchBoard: From Russia With Electric Rail
• 2009/08/21: Maribo: Are new trains, like Vancouver's Canada Line, the solution?
• 2009/08/21: CalcRisk: DOT: Vehicle Miles Increased in June
• 2009/08/20: ZeroHedge: US Railroad Carload Traffic Down 19% [yoy]
• 2009/08/20: HelioPhage: The International Maritime Organisation's plans to warm the world
• 2009/08/17: NewScientist: Future trucks: Cleaning up the kings of the road
• 2009/08/15: Straight: Canada Line subsidy will be felt for years to come

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2009/08/19: PlanetArk: Germany Launches CO2 Scrubbing At RWE Plant
• 2009/08/18: NatureTGB: Scotland the grave (for carbon dioxide)
• 2009/08/18: PhysOrg: Scrubbing sulfur: New process removes sulfur components, CO2 from power plant emissions
  The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a reusable organic liquid that can pull harmful gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide out of industrial emissions from power plants. The process could directly replace current methods and allow power plants to capture double the amount of harmful gases in a way that uses no water, less energy and saves money.
• 2009/08/16: Guardian(UK): Energy experts call for carbon capture scheme for gas fired power stations
  Executives from leading energy firms argue that new gas plants should fit carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2009/08/22: KC: Advocates of geoengineering work on man-made fixes for global warming
• 2009/08/19: Maribo: Fun with language and geoengineering
• 2009/09/01: RoyalSoc: Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty [report to be released]
• 2009/08/18: BSD: Geoengineering jiu-jitsu and India
• 2009/08/18: Time: Can Geoengineering Help Slow Global Warming?

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2009/08/22: NERC:NORA: Quantifying terrestrial carbon stocks: examining the spatial variation in two upland areas in the UK and a comparison to mapped estimates of soil carbon by Frogbrook, Z.L. et al.
• 2009/08/20: ACP: Impact of prescribed SSTs on climatologies and long-term trends in CCM simulations by H. Garny et al.
• 2009/08/20: ACPD: Comparison of in situ and columnar aerosol spectral measurements during TexAQS-GoMACCS 2006: testing parameterizations for estimating aerosol fine mode properties by D. B. Atkinson et al.
• 2009/08/20: ACPD: Regional N2O fluxes in Amazonia derived from aircraft vertical profiles by M. T. S. D'Amelio et al.
• 2009/08/20: ACPD: Cross-hemispheric transport of central African biomass burning pollutants: implications for downwind ozone production by E. Real et al.
• 2009/08/15: GRL: (ab$) How will Earth's surface temperature change in future decades? by Judith L. Lean & David H. Rind
• 2009/08/21: CP: Modeling sensitivity study of the possible impact of snow and glaciers developing over Tibetan Plateau on Holocene African-Asian summer monsoon climate by L. Jin et al.
• 2009/08/19: ACP: Tropospheric water vapour above Switzerland over the last 12 years by J. Morland et al.
• 2009/08/19: ACP: Recent trends in atmospheric methyl bromide: analysis of post-Montreal Protocol variability by S. A. Yvon-Lewis et al.
• 2009/08/19: ACP: The shortwave radiative forcing bias of liquid and ice clouds from MODIS observations by L. Oreopoulos et al.
• 2009/08/19: ACPD: Aerosol number fluxes over the Amazon rain forest during the wet season by L. Ahlm et al.

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

• 2009/08/20: JEB: Comment (not mine!) on Roe and Baker
• 2009/08/19: TerraDaily: Missing Link To Cloud Formation Found
  The discovery of an unknown hitherto chemical compound in the atmosphere may help to explain how and when clouds are formed. The discovery of the so called dihydroxyepoxides (an aerosol-precursor), is reported in this week's issue of Science by a team comprising of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Copenhagen (UoC).
• 2009/08/17: NatureTGB: Climate researcher vs FOI, part two

  E. O. Wilson interview:

• 2009/08/22: NewScientist: E. O. Wilson: We must save the living environment

  Regarding Lindzen:

• 2009/08/19: JEB: A quick comment on Lindzen and Choi

  Regarding Chilingar :

• 2009/08/17: ERabett: Chilingar Redux

  Klotzbach again:

• 2009/08/20: MTobis: My Final Word on Klotzbach
• 2009/08/18: MTobis: Klotzbach in the Blogosphere

  The Pielke fan clubbe, alas:

• 2009/08/23: JEB: Oh dear -- This is getting a bit silly. Roger now says...
• 2009/08/19: JEB: Curiouser and curiouser
• 2009/08/22: JEB: Pielke and Matsui (2005) revisited
• 2009/08/21: BCLSB: Roger Pielke Jr. Does Jesus

  And on the road to Copenhagen:

• 2009/08/21: SMH: [Australian] Climate-change chief [negotiator] turns away from Kyoto pact
  Australia's chief climate change negotiator says a dramatic shift from the design of the Kyoto Protocol could be the best way to reach an international climate change agreement. Louise Hand told the Herald yesterday that the ''world is very different'' from when the Kyoto Protocol was reached in 1997, allocating binding carbon emissions cuts to developed countries.
• 2009/08/20: Yahoo: Agency [ClimateWorks Foundation] warns current climate proposals won't work
• 2009/08/19: Reuters: Budget cut to keep Maldives away from UN climate talks
• 2009/08/19: CFO: UNFCCC warns on climate talk delays
• 2009/08/19: NatureN: Forest definition comes under fire -- Ecologists accuse framework convention of barking up the wrong tree
• 2009/08/18: EurActiv: Swedish climate envoy: post-Kyoto treaty 'possible but difficult'
• 2009/08/18: EurActiv: Bonn climate talks 'augur badly' for Copenhagen summit
• 2009/08/18: UNDispatch: If environmental NGOs wrote the Climate Treaty...
• 2009/08/18: LiveMint: India opposes financing proposal to contain greenhouse emissions
  India, on its part, presented a financing framework suggested by the G-77 nations, a group that comprises the developing countries and China The UK, which currently chairs the grouping, presented three papers that essentially propose that each of the G-20 nations funds its own efforts to control climate change. [...] The new proposal goes against the stated stands of emerging economies such as India and China that developed countries need to fund efforts to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases.
• 2009/08/18: TreeHugger: Least Developed Countries and Island Nations Endorse 350 PPM Goal
• 2009/08/17: NatureCF: When money grows on trees
• 2009/08/16: Grist: Lame theory [Game theory] -- The computer has spoken: Copenhagen will be a failure
• 2009/08/16: CNN: Environmentalists hope UN talks tough on climate change
  UN talks in Copenhagen in December crucial for addressing climate change - Conference will devise replacement for the Kyoto Protocol - No longer just 'green issue' but environmentalists fear change won't be fast enough - Rhetoric increasing, many dub climate change 'greatest threat to humanity'

While at the UN:

• 2009/08/17: UN: Young people gather to demand action on climate change -- UN
• 2009/08/17: Google:AFP: Young activists from 110 countries want climate change action
• 2009/08/17: Grist: Notable quotable -- Yvo de Boer of U.N. climate convention says 350 ppm is pipe dream
  "I don't think there is a hope in hell that people will agree to 350 in Copenhagen. I think we'll get 2 degrees." -Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaking at a recent meeting with NGO officials.
• 2009/08/17: UN: Scientists and intellectuals 'key to new green economy,' Ban says

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2009/08/19: CFO: UK arrests seven in £38m VAT fraud investigation
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Europol Expects More Arrests In Carbon Fraud Probe
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: CFTC Muscles Into Emerging U.S. Carbon Market
• 2009/08/20: TreeHugger: Carbon Traders Arrested for Tax Fraud in London
• 2009/08/19: Reuters: S.Korea hopes to become Asia's carbon trading hub
• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): Seven accused of carbon tax fraud
  The British tax office has arrested seven people in London in a suspected $76 million value-added tax fraud in the European market in carbon allowances. Officers from HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) searched 27 properties around London and arrested six men and one woman in early morning raids

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2009/08/17: BBerg: Exxon Says Australia Carbon Tax Preferable to Trading

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

• 2009/08/22: GG&G: Leakage from Carbon Offsets
• 2009/08/19: C411: Cap and Trade: Economic Efficiency and Reduced Emissions

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2009/08/21: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Four ways the U.S. and China can start cooperating now to reduce emissions and tackle climate change together
• 2009/08/21: CarbonPositive: Australia, NZ ponder ETS harmony
• 2009/08/20: Google:AFP: NKorea-US talks shift to clean energy
• 2009/08/19: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Solar Power: Another Opportunity for US-India Cooperation
• 2009/08/19: PTI: India, US can devise together a plan on climate change: Clinton
• 2009/08/19: SolveClimate: Report Urges U.S.-China Cleantech Partnership, Not Competition

  As for GW & security:

• 2009/08/21: OpenDem: The hot, flat, insecure world: a governance test
  How human and institutional agents manage the interplay of global warming and insecurity will define the century, says Ruby Gropas.
• 2009/08/17: NYT: The Climate and National Security

  The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world as nations scramble to deal with climate change:

• 2009/08/23: Guardian(UK): Police riot notebooks reveal brutal use of shields against G20 protesters
  G20 demonstrators cite Met evidence in high court to show that officers were given no restrictions on use of force
• 2009/08/22: Guardian(UK): A force to be reckoned with
  The Metropolitan police have announced a new strategy for next week's Climate Camp -- putting women officers in charge of the operation. Will this avoid the violence seen at the G20 protests?
• 2009/08/18: Guardian(UK): Met police turns on charm ahead of climate protest
  Climate Camp will be first big test of policing since G20 -- Metropolitan police to disseminate information via Twitter
• 2009/08/18: Salon: How to kill a coal plant
  As a recent British protest shows, nonviolent civil disobedience may be our best hope to counteract global warming

And on the American political front:

• 2009/08/22: ClimateP: NYT Editorial: "One would think that by now most people would have figured out that climate change represents a grave threat to the planet."
• 2009/08/22: DM:BA: Rain prayer rain prayer go away
• 2009/08/20: ClimateP: Joe Klein on the GOP: "How can you sustain a democracy if one of the two major political parties has been overrun by nihilists? ... How can you maintain the illusion of journalistic impartiality when one of the political parties has jumped the shark?"
• 2009/08/21: OilDrum: Deaf and Dumb in America - No Peak Oil for Us!
• 2009/08/20: MissouriNet: Cap and trade legislation topic of discussion at State Fair
  [...] Governor Jay Nixon was asked about it, as well, as he held a news conference following the Governor's Ham Breakfast. He says Missouri's interests must be protected. "We'll watch what they (Congress) do," said Nixon. "But Missouri needs to have coal - clean coal the way they're doing in many parts of this state and this country - to provide the power in the short run and we'll make sure Missouri's interests are protected."
• 2009/08/19: UNDispatch: RedState confuses strategy and policy in climate article
• 2009/08/17: IGHiH: What the Health Care Debate has to do with Climate Change
• 2009/08/17: WSJ:EnvCap: Astroturfing the Climate Bill
  The most compelling summer theater isn't on Broadway or at the Delacorte Theater. It's been in Town Hall meetings as angry harangues on health-care reform are aimed at sitting senators. Consider this a prelude to this fall's theater season when the plot will revolve around the climate change bill.
• 2009/08/17: WSJ:EnvCap: No Respect? Cheap Natural Gas Draws Political Crowd

  The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2009/08/23: Guardian(UK): We believed Obama was going to tackle climate change. It isn't that easy
  Barack Obama might be the most powerful man in the world, but he faces tough opposition from all sides over climate-change legislation
• 2009/08/20: TreeHugger: Obama's Grandma Gets a Solar Roof in Kenya
• 2009/08/17: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Obama's View from Yellowstone: Pines Killed by Climate-Fueled Beetles

  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2009/08/23: ClimateP: The endless efficiency resource, Part 854: Energy Dept. Fails to Use Thermostats to Cut Costs
• 2009/08/21: WorldChanging: U.S. Government Seeks To Limit Federal Energy Use
• 2009/08/21: NOAANews: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke Approves Fisheries Plan for Arctic

  As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2009/08/20: GreenGrok: On the Climate Bill Fence: What Michigan's Duo - the Senators Levin and Stabenow - Are Thinking
• 2009/08/22: LA Times: Demand for tariffs in global-warming legislation splits allies
  Midwestern Democrats, who want duties placed on countries who don't limit greenhouse gas emissions, are at odds with Obama.
• 2009/08/20: Grist: Former Sen. Tim Wirth stirs up controversy over cap-and-trade, tries to tamp it down
• 2009/08/21: Grist: South Dakota Sen. Johnson (D) comes out in favor of passing climate bill
• 2009/08/19: FencePost: Markey, Stulp meet with farmers, ranchers in Greeley
• 2009/08/20: TP:WR: Collin Peterson Apes Sensenbrenner, Fears 'Catalytic Converter' For Cows
• 2009/08/20: BillingsGazette: Senators say they'll fight cap-and-trade legislation
  The cap-and-trade legislation before Congress can achieve a 17 percent carbon reduction for a cost of about $83 per household per year, according to recent analysis by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. However, congressional leaders from carbon-intensive states such as Wyoming remain adamantly opposed to the Waxman-Markey bill, insisting that the real costs of curbing greenhouse gas emissions would further bankrupt the nation. "There's nothing good about it," said U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. "I'm going to do everything to make sure it doesn't pass." U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., said the bill is "the biggest hidden tax in America."
• 2009/08/18: ClimateP: Global Boiling: Filibustering Our Farmers' Future
• 2009/08/17: ClimateP: Arlen Specter: "No doubt about" voting for cloture on the climate bill
• 2009/08/17: Grist: Sen. Arlen Specter says he won't block debate on a climate bill this year
• 2009/08/17: WaPo: 'The Clunkers of the Power-Plant World' -- Old Coal-Fired Facilities Could Escape New Rules
• 2009/08/17: TP:WR: Global Boiling: Filibustering Our Farmers' Future

  What are the lobbyists pushing?

• 2009/08/22: JSOnline: Climate bill costly for Midwest -- Utility group says House version penalizes coal
• 2009/08/21: TreeHugger: Iraq War Veterans Unite to Fight for Climate Bill
• 2009/08/20: NYT:GW: [AEA] Bus Tour Crosses Coal States to Oppose Climate Bill
• 2009/08/20: BDTOnline: Cap and trade opponents [Americans for Prosperity] rally in Bluefield, Va.
• 2009/08/19: PlanetArk: Unions Favor Deep CO2 Cuts And Green Jobs
• 2009/08/17: FN-USA: Big Food rallies against climate change legislation
  Multinational food and agritech giants are banding together in a bid to throw light on areas of climate change legislation they warn could severely hike food prices. The consortium that includes Cargill, General Mills, Tyson Foods and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, is preparing to release studies it says will demonstrate the potentially drastic effect global warming could have on the cost of food items.
• 2009/08/18: CDreams: Protesters Descend on Chevron's Richmond Refinery For Climate Justice, To 'Cap The Crude'
• 2009/08/14: TPR: Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data

  While in the UK:

• 2009/08/23: Guardian(UK): Carbon targets may be too tough, says John Prescott
  Emissions plan may have to be watered down to reach a deal, claims former deputy prime minister
• 2009/08/21: BBC: Life on the nuclear shortlist
• 2009/08/20: BBC: Green energy hit by 'faceless Nimbys'
  Last month, the government announced plans to boost the green energy sector, yet within weeks Vestas UK, the UK's only manufacturer of wind turbine blades, closed its plant on the Isle of Wight. The Report's Simon Cox examines the obstacles which could prevent the government's green rhetoric turning into reality.

And in Europe:

• 2009/08/21: EurActiv: Germany seeks leadership in electric cars
  Germany lawmakers on Wednesday (19 August) approved a plan to put a million electric cars on German roads by 2020, in a bid to become the worlds top market for electric vehicles.
• 2009/08/20: DerSpiegel: The World From Berlin -- 'Germany's Electric Cars Plan Is All About Image'
  Germany has moved up a gear in its bid to get viable electric cars off the drawing board and onto the streets. However the government's plan to get a million electric cars running by 2020 sparked more boos than cheers on Thursday, with some commentators complaining the high-profile plan is more about the election than the environment.

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2009/08/23: ABC(Au): The annual meeting of the South Australian Liberal Party has supported a motion to debate the use of nuclear power technology to reduce carbon emissions
• 2009/08/22: ABC(Au): Nationals vow to defeat emissions laws
  National Party Leader Warren Truss has warned regional Australia to prepare for new Federal Government taxes and urged Labor to put an emissions trading scheme on hold. Speaking to party delegates at the Nationals' federal council meeting in Canberra today, Mr Truss delivered a scathing review of the Labor's first term.
• 2009/08/22: ABC(Au): The Federal Government is being accused of seriously underestimating the cost of insulating some homes
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): Climate policy on agenda at Nationals conference
  The National Party will today formalise its opposition to the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme. The first item to be debated at the National Party's annual federal council is a motion to oppose the Government's key climate change policy. It is likely to get widespread support, but the move could cause friction with the Liberal Party.
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): Truss sticking with Turnbull 'in sickness and in health'
  Nationals leader Warren Truss admits there are continuing tensions between his party and the Liberals, but says the Nationals are committed to the Coalition. Both parties have been at odds over several policy positions in recent months, most notably the Government's emissions trading scheme.
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): The Queensland Government's new climate change policy has predicted temperatures will soar in the state's far north -- well above the range of temperatures experienced over the past 50 years
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): Rural lobby group AgForce says the Queensland Government's new climate change package offers more opportunity for landholders to help with the climate change solution
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): South Australian Premier Mike Rann says he is confident General Motors (GM) eventually will agree to manufacture an electric car at the Holden Elizabeth plant in Adelaide
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): MP looks for BlueScope emissions solution
  The federal Member for Throsby, Jennie George, says she is hopeful of finding a solution BlueScope Steel will be satisifed with on emissions trading. BlueScope says it continues to have grave concerns about the current design of the Federal Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme [CPRS aka Aus-ETS]
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Australia Government Seeks Talks On Emissions Scheme
• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): The State Opposition says Western Australia stands to lose jobs and tens of millions of dollars in revenue because it does not have a renewable energy plan
• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): Queensland unveils 'ground breaking' climate change strategy
• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): A woodchip mill on the New South Wales south coast is brushing-off claims that it is promoting a biomass plant as an accredited renewable energy project
• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): The aluminium industry has welcomed amendments to the Federal Government's renewable energy target legislation
• 2009/08/19: BCLSB: Australia's Cap & Trade Plan Will Be Passed
• 2009/08/18: ABC(Au): Heffernan's northern food bowl 'mythical'
  The Northern Territory Environment Centre has criticised a call to develop northern Australia as the nation's new food bowl. Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan says the Federal Government needs to develop the north to prepare for the impacts of climate change, including food and water shortages.
• 2009/08/18: ABC(Au): Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has accused the Prime Minister of instigating a scare campaign by suggesting Australia would be vulnerable to punitive tariffs in the absence of an emissions trading scheme (ETS).
• 2009/08/17: ABC(Au): 55pc back emissions trading bill: poll
  The latest opinion poll shows the Federal Government has strong public support for another attempt at getting its emissions trading scheme through Parliament. The Nielsen poll published in Fairfax newspapers shows 55 per cent of people want the Government to reintroduce its rejected emissions trading scheme to Parliament in three months' time. Only 29 per cent want the Government to wait to see what other countries will do.
• 2009/08/18: ABC(Au): Signs of thaw in climate bills stand-off
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned the business community to expect punitive tariffs and missed investment opportunities if the Government's emissions trading scheme is not passed by Parliament this year. But the Government has adopted a more conciliatory tone when it comes to its other key climate change policy, with the target for 20 per cent renewable energy use by 2020 passing the House of Representatives last night. The Government and Opposition agreed on a set of amendments to detach the scheme from the emissions trading bill and to include energy produced by gas from coal waste in the scheme.
• 2009/08/17: ABC(Au): Renewables target delay 'risking jobs'
  The Opposition says the Government is potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk by continuing to play politics with its renewable energy target legislation.
• 2009/08/17: ABC(Au): The South Australian Government is critical of the uncertainty created by a rejection of emissions trading legislation in Federal Parliament
• 2009/08/17: ABC(Au): Wind farm project fees to be waived
  The New South Wales Government has announced that it will waive all project fees for investors wanting to build wind farms. The Premier Nathan Rees says New South Wales is ready for the clean energy revolution. He has announced a number of measures designed to boost investment in clean energy generation.
• 2009/08/17: ABC(Au): Emissions bailout for industry 'unnecessary'
  The Australian Conservation Foundation says there is no need for any industry assistance under the Federal Government's renewable energy target legislation.

And New Zealand:

• 2009/08/21: HotTopic: Why did Nick Smith hide the facts on forestry?

  While in India:

• 2009/08/21: BBC: More Indians in 'extreme poverty'
  At least 38% of Indians live in extreme poverty, according to a new report by a government committee. The committee, headed by economist SD Tendulkar, considered education, health and sanitation indicators to arrive at the new figure. The figure is more than 10% higher than the current official poverty estimate of 27.5%. If the new estimate is accepted, government spending to alleviate poverty may have to greatly increase. Since 1972, poverty has been defined on the basis of the money required to buy food worth 2,100 calories in urban areas and 2,400 calories in rural areas. According to the current estimates, the number of poor in India is approximately 297 million. The new estimate will classify an additional 110 million people as living in poverty, says the BBC Hindi service's Shyam Sundar.
• 2009/08/19: Yahoo: India foresees sharp rise in its nuclear power
• 2009/08/18: EarthTimes: India's environmental crises alarming, says prime minister
• 2009/08/16: EarthTimes: 20 farmers commit suicide in southern India after lack of rain

  And China:

• 2009/08/21: Time: Electric Cars: China's Power Play
• 2009/08/21: BizGreen: China poised to seize clean tech crown
• 2009/08/20: ClimateP: Peaking Duck: Beijing's Growing Appetite for Climate Action
• 2009/08/20: CommonTragedies: Amidst Conflicting Reports, China's Emissions Message Sets Positive Tone
• 2009/08/18: TerraDaily: Global warming good for farming, tourism in Tibet: Chinese official
• 2009/08/18: Guardian(UK): China to debate 2030 emission cuts deadline
  Emissions of carbon dioxide will start to slow by 2020 and peak by 2030 if China implements cuts on the absolute amount of its emissions, report says
• 2009/08/18: NatureTGB: China's climate target confusion
• 2009/08/17: Xinhuanet: China injects "green power" into national economy
• 2009/08/18: EarthTimes: Thinktank says Chinese carbon emissions could peak by 2030
• 2009/08/17: MongaBay: China moves forward on global warming: top scientists recommend emissions peak in 2030
• 2009/08/18: PlanetArk: Factbox: China Climate Change Report Sets Out Options
• 2009/08/17: PlanetArk: China Study Urges Greenhouse Gas Peak in 2030
• 2009/08/17: Reuters: Factbox: China climate change report sets out options
  A new study by some of China's top climate change policy advisers has urged the government to set firm targets to curb greenhouse gas emissions so they peak around 2030. Following are some of the key proposals of that study, "2050 China Energy and C02 Emissions Report."

In Japan:

• 2009/08/21: Yahoo: Election likely to reset Japan climate target
• 2009/08/19: NatureN: Japan election sparks science pledges -- Both parties make vague promises about research, but differ in their climate targets

  And elsewhere in Asia:

• 2009/08/18: Inquirer(Ph): Coal is fuel of choice for power generation [Philippines]

  And South America:

• 2009/08/20: NatureTGB: Silva goes for gold with Greens [Brazil]
• 2009/08/17: UPI: Chile sees tidal power filling energy gap

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

• 2009/08/16: Reuters: Canada loses out as U.S. ups "green" ante
  The Obama administration's titanic $60 billion spending plan for the U.S. clean energy sector is luring investors away from "green" businesses in Canada, threatening the industry's growth here. Already battered by recession and tight credit markets, Canada's renewable energy and clean technology companies must now compete for investment with their U.S. peers, who have an unprecedented cache of federal cash grants and tax incentives.

The Tories made their annual trip to the Arctic this week:

• 2009/08/20: ChronicleHerald: Harper's Arctic strategy: Polar vision or empty words?
• 2009/08/20: BBC: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on a five-day visit to the northern Arctic region of his country
• 2009/08/19: CanWest: Arctic patrol-vessel plans delayed
  DND insists project isn't on the shelf $3B project unveiled 3 years ago, but hasn't been opened to bidders
• 2009/08/18: Google:CP: PMO Iqaluit gaffe draws smiles, frowns
• 2009/08/17: CBC: [Environment Minister Jim] Prentice consults Nunavut leaders on climate change
• 2009/08/18: CanWest: Harper treks north as Arctic strategy teeters on icy slope
  Every July or August since becoming prime minister, Stephen Harper wings his way into the Arctic for photo ops and various funding or policy announcements. [...] But in terms of the oft-promised ice-puncturing ships, ocean floor submarine sensors, deep sea port or mandatory passage registration regulations, his Arctic defence strategy has produced little beyond downgraded contracts, project delays and regurgitated news releases.
• 2009/08/17: CBC: MacKay makes Arctic army reserve unit official
  Defence Minister Peter MacKay officially launched Canada's first army reserve company to be based in the Northwest Territories on Monday, making it the only active reserve unit north of 60.
• 2009/08/17: G&M: Building the Arctic
  Billions of dollars have been pledged to develop Canada's North, but in much of Nunavut, the most basic needs remain unaddressed, leaving the territory with 'stone-age' infrastructure

Our neocon-just-like-George-PM likes to play tin-soldier:

• 2009/08/21: TStar: PM, military flex Arctic muscle
  Harper flies Sea King, takes helm of submarine to stress importance of protecting the North

I'll believe this when the Tories are out of office:

• 2009/08/16: Climatico: Canadian Government to drop intensity-targets, follow US lead

  The Canadian cash for clunkers program is a minimalist affair:

• 2009/08/21: CanWest: Cash-for-clunkers not necessary in Canada: Ontario cabinet minister
• 2009/08/21: CBC: Chrysler Canada offers boost to federal clunker program
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: Hyundai Canada Offers Scrappage Incentive Top-Up
• 2009/08/19: CBC: U.S. 'cash for clunkers' outpaces Canadian plan

  BC is wrestling with energy and impacts:

• 2009/08/19: CanWest: Gas plant must curb emissions, watchdog says -- Proposed facility could become province's largest source of CO2, group warns
  A proposed $500-million natural gas processing plant in northeastern British Columbia will become the province's single-largest source of carbon dioxide unless the government tightens the rules for greenhouse gas emissions, the Pembina Institute said Monday. EnCana and a consortium of gas producers are seeking approval from the B.C. environmental assessment office to build the Cabin gas plant 60 kilometres northeast of Fort Nelson, to process large volumes of gas that are expected to be produced from the sprawling Horn River Basin. Horn River has been cited as one of North America's largest potential gas plays and in the past two years has fattened the provincial treasury with hundreds of millions of dollars in bonus bids for drilling rights. When fully operational, the plant will annually emit 2.166 million tonnes of carbon dioxide -- about twice the CO2 output of B.C.'s largest emitter, Rio Tinto Alcan's aluminum smelter in Kitimat, and equivalent to 3.27 per cent of B.C.'s total industrial emissions. Cabin would rank approximately as the 25th-largest CO2 emitting facility in Canada. It will produce 800 million cubic feet of gas per day.
• 2009/08/19: CBC: Haida Nation makes huge wind-turbine investment
  The Haida Nation has put up $800 million to buy up to a 40-per-cent stake in an energy company that plans to place wind turbines off the northern coast of British Columbia. The agreement struck with NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. calls for the construction of 110 hydro-generating wind turbines in the Hecate Strait, about 100 kilometres from Prince Rupert, according to the company's website. The electricity generated by the turbines will be enough to power 130,000 homes, said Doug McClelland of NaiKun. "It will connect to the mainland grid through a submarine cable that will run 95 kilometres underwater to connect to the grid in Prince Rupert," McClelland told CBC News.
• 2009/08/18: CanWest: B.C. stumbling on forests and climate change
  Less than six months before the global climate summit in Copenhagen, this summer is giving us another taste of climate change. The extended heat wave reminded us that we're on the edge of a dangerous threshold unless we reduce carbon emissions quickly. The tree-planting carbon offset proposed by B.C.'s Ministry of Forests in July doesn't inspire confidence that the province understands how forests can truly help us meet this challenge.

How is Saskatchewan to deal with Alberta's externalities?

• 2009/08/22: ETP: Sask NDPers bypass the Wall government and its rejection of anthropogenic climate change...

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

• 2009/08/18: Reuters: Ontario to launch wind forecasting service in 2010

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2009/08/21: BBerg: Oil Sands May Get Cleaner as Shell, Exxon Bubble Tar to Froth

  As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

• 2009/08/21: CBC: Arctic treaty, protection central to Greens' northern strategy

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

• 2009/08/21: EnergyBulletin: Watching Myths Unwind
  A few generations from now our descendants will wonder, "What took them so long to figure out that we'd reached the limits to growth?" The answer, of course, is that growth is the core of the myth holding the American psyche together. If it's false, what's the meaning of "life, the universe, everything?"
• 2009/08/22: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Finding the best route to a sustainable future
• 2009/08/20: UNDispatch: Empowering women, ending global poverty
• 2009/08/20: EPI: [Book Byte] Throwing Out the Throwaway Economy by Lester R. Brown

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

• 2009/08/21: SLTrib: Current population growth not sustainable
• 2009/08/18: DenverPost:CtD: Staggering Indifference and Cowardice of American Media
• 2009/08/17: CalcRisk: U.S. Population Distribution by Age, 1950 through 2050 [cool graph]

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2009/08/19: CCurrents: Is There Any Point In Fighting To Stave Off Industrial Apocalypse?
• 2009/08/19: HotTopic: Fighting for the least bad outcome... [Lovelock]
• 2009/08/19: AlterNet: Is There Any Point in Fighting to Stave off Industrial Apocalypse?
• 2009/08/18: PeakEnergy: The Origins of Peak Oil Doomerism
• 2009/08/17: Guardian(UK): Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2009/08/13: ArchosaurMusings: Media tracking
• 2009/08/17: KSJT: A paleontologist excavates how the press handled his news (mainly, it appears, via rampant laziness)

  Here is something for your library:

• 2009/08/16: FTimes: The brighter side of expensive oil [Book Review] _$20 Per Gallon: How the inevitable rise in the price of gasoline will change our lives for the better_ by Christopher Steiner

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2009/08/22: TreeHugger: [Video Plug] Earth Days, The Movie: The Rise & Fall & Rise & ? of the Environmental Movement
• 2009/08/21: CCP: Complete video of Dr. Richard Alley's talk on climate change at Penn State [on August 19, 2009]
• 2009/08/19: LNB: The Methuselah Tree

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): Bayswater power station court hearing delayed
  A landmark court hearing involving environmentalists and a big Hunter Valley power station has been pushed back several weeks. Environmentalists have taken the Bayswater power station to court over what they say are unacceptable greenhouse gas emissions. The matter will be mentioned in the Land and Environment Court today, but a directions hearing has been deferred to September 11.
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: Green Groups Sue Chevron Phillips Over Pollution
• 2009/08/18: USAToday: Ruling leaves North Georgia with water crisis

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

• 2009/08/20: PN: Oil will hit $150 again -- Herrera, Simmons: The question is when, not if, but too many variables in play to predict
• 2009/08/21: AfterGutenberg: China Latest Global Leader to establish a Feed-in Tariff
• 2009/08/21: ABC(Au): Geothermal plant 'commercially attractive'
  The company looking at establishing a geothermal energy plant in south-east South Australia says it has completed a study that shows the cost of its power would be comparable to wind energy. Panax Geothermal's discounted cash flow analysis of its site at Penola found the project would be commercially attractive CEO Bertus de Graaf says the project has the added advantage of being able to deliver base-load power close to the grid.
• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: Hydrogen-rich Material Promises Advances in Energy Transmission, Fuel Storage
• 2009/08/21: PhysOrg: Boost for Methanol? New solid catalyst for the direct low-temperature oxidation of methane to methanol
• 2009/08/21: PlanetArk: Factbox - Australia's Renewable Energy Sector
• 2009/08/20: Grist: Should greens ally with natural gas against coal?
• 2009/08/21: BismarckTrib: Flares burn a third of natural gas
  Enough natural gas to heat every home in North Dakota through at least two brutal winters was burned off as an unmarketable byproduct in the state's oil patch in 2008, government and industry officials say. North Dakota produced a record 62.8 million barrels of oil last year, up nearly 18 million barrels from 2007. Natural gas, a byproduct of oil production, was pegged at 86 billion cubic feet, of which 26 billion cubic feet was "flared" because of the lack of collecting systems and pipelines needed to move it to market, said Lynn Helms, director of the state Department of Mineral Resources.
• 2009/08/21: Reuters: Asia's coal seam gas projects charge ahead, China leads
• 2009/08/21: Reuters: Oil hits 2009 high above $74 on economic optimism
• 2009/08/21: CNN: Oil surges to 10-month high
• 2009/08/21: BBC: Oil price touches high for 2009
  The price of oil has hit its highest level of the year, boosted by sharp rises in Chinese stocks and rising shares on Wall Street. The price of US crude was up 82 cents at $73.73, after touching $74.15 a barrel. London Brent was up 66 cents at $73.99, after earlier hitting $74.52.
• 2009/08/20: DM:DB: Can Scientists Really Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel?
• 2009/08/18: NewScientist: How to turn seawater into jet fuel
• 2009/08/19: PeakEnergy: Next Generation Tidal power
• 2009/08/20: WSJ:EnvCap: Meter Reader: Wading into the Controversial Net Metering Debate
• 2009/08/20: NYT: Drilling Ordeals Said to Delay Geothermal Project
  The Obama administration's first major test of geothermal energy as a significant alternative to fossil fuels has fallen seriously behind schedule, several federal scientists said this week, even as the project is under review because of the earthquakes it could generate in Northern California. Intended to extract heat from hot bedrock, the project has been delayed because the bit on a giant rig, meant to drill more than two miles underground, has struggled to pierce surface rock formations, the scientists said. The bit has snapped off at least once and become repeatedly fouled in a shallow formation called cap rock, and the drillers have twice been forced to pull it out and essentially start the hole over again.
• 2009/08/19: REA: Another Record for U.S. Renewable Electricity
  The latest figures from the Energy Information Administration show that net U.S. electrical generation from renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, solar, water, wind) reached an all-time monthly high in May 2009. Combined, those sources accounted for 13 percent of total electrical generation in the U.S...
• 2009/08/20: CBC: Natural gas price hits 7-year low
• 2009/08/19: ABC(Au): Australia's second largest steelmaker has indicated it cannot support the Federal Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme because it would adversely affect the steel industry
• 2009/08/19: ABC(Au): Renewable Energy Target to 'hurt farmers'
  The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) says farmers will be disadvantaged by the Federal Government's Renewable Energy Target scheme. Under the legislation, which was passed in the Lower House on Monday, businesses will have to obtain part of their energy from renewable sources. But the VFF says food processing is energy intensive and higher energy costs will hurt exporters.
• 2009/08/19: ABC(Au): Energy efficient homes scheme 'open to abuse'
  The Member for Hinkler in south-east Queensland says the Commonwealth's energy efficient homes program is open to abuse.
• 2009/08/19: ABC(Au): Geothermal tipped to cut carbon footprint -- The West Australian Government is looking to establish geothermal energy as a long-term, alternative source
• 2009/08/18: Grist: The top 10 sources for energy
• 2009/08/19: NYT:GW: Spain's Solar Market Crash Offers a Cautionary Tale About Feed-In Tariffs
• 2009/08/17: PhysOrg: New low emission coal technology will provide double power, reduce costs and help the environment
  Chemical engineer Professor John Zhu from the School of Chemical Engineering is working on Direct Carbon Fuel Cells (DCFC) which will create twice as much power from coal as current methods and minimise greenhouse gas emissions. Professor Zhu said that when coal reacts with air in the DCFC, it generated highly energy-efficient electricity. "The very high energy efficiency of the new technology will effectively halve the amount of coal required to create electricity," Professor Zhu said.
• 2009/08/18: OilDrum: The Coming Oil Crisis
• 2009/08/18: OilChange: Deeper into the Abyss
• 2009/08/16: GWIsReal: Record Month for Renewable Energy in the U.S.
• 2009/08/16: SF Gate: Geothermal power search holds promise, threat

  The answer my friend...:

• 2009/08/20: TreeHugger: 500 MW Chinese Wind Farm Begins Construction - To be Completed 2010
• 2009/08/17: SolveClimate: Wind Industry Fights Midwest Transmission Proposal to Stay Alive

  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2009/08/21: WorldChanging: ReneSola Awarded £425m Contract To Build Solar Power Station In China
• 2009/08/21: SolveClimate: Cheap as 'First Solar' in 2010: China's Trina Takes On PV Industry Leader
• 2009/08/21: SeattlePI: Cost for Kittitas solar plant triples
  The cost estimate for a proposed Kittitas County solar power plant has increased from an apparent $100 million to at least $300 million. On July 9, Howard Trott, head of the Teanaway Solar Reserve, gave an estimate of at least $100 million to build a 75-megawatt solar power plant near Cle Elum. On Wednesday, a Teanaway Solar Reserve release put the project's cost in excess of $300 million, saying that will pump millions of dollars into the local economy. Also on Wednesday, Trott said in a phone interview that the collective media misunderstood him on July 9, contending he actually said "hundreds of millions of dollars." However, Northwest Power and Conservation Council formulas put the cost at $525 million to $750 million.The power council's formulas show that a solar plant would cost $7 million to $10 million for each megawatt produced. That's because individual panels are expensive to make.
• 2009/08/20: DerSpiegel: Leaders In Alternative Energy -- Germany Turns On World's Biggest Solar Power Project
  This week, two of Germany's most important solar energy projects came online -- the second biggest solar power project in the world and one of the first solar thermal "power towers." The projects are part of the country's plan to provide 20 percent of its energy through renewable sources.
• 2009/08/20: PhysOrg: Germany's biggest solar park inaugurated [Lieberose]
• 2009/08/20: BBerg: Japan Power Bills to Swell as Utilities Pass on Solar Costs
• 2009/08/19: LA Times: Southern California Edison makes big solar power deal
  The utility agrees to buy enough electricity to supply up to 170,000 homes from two solar projects to be built in Riverside and San Bernardino counties by Arizona company First Solar.
• 2009/08/18: EnergyBulletin: Solar You Can Count On: Hybrid Solar/Natural Gas Plants Provide Power When Needed
• 2009/08/18: ClimateP: The dynamic duo: Hybrid solar/gas plants provide low-cost, low-carbon power when needed
• 2009/08/18: PhysOrg: Asian competitors shadow German solar industry
• 2009/08/18: TreeHugger: First Solar to Build 250MW & 300MW Solar Farms in California, Enough to Power 170,000 Homes
• 2009/08/17: Reuters: German firms create new U.S. solar thermal [CSP] company
  German solar thermal company Solar Millennium AG and plant builder MAN Ferrostaal AG have joined forces to capture a chunk of the growing U.S. market for solar thermal power. The two companies said on Monday they have created a new company, Solar Trust of America LLC, which was formed through the acquisition by Solar Millennium and MAN Ferrostaal of Solar Millennium's U.S. arm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Solar Trust Chief Executive Uwe Schmidt said the company aims to have 20 percent of the U.S. market for solar thermal energy, also known as concentrating solar power, or CSP.
• 2009/08/18: PlanetArk: Solar Power Offers Light and Hope to Bangladesh Villages

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2009/08/18: Grist: India Says: Take This Mine and Shove It
• 2009/08/17: Grist: Big Coal Juice Down: Plummets to 42.6% [of Electrical Generation]
• 2009/08/19: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Coal Clunkers: The Post Looks at Chicago's Aging Coal Plants
• 2009/08/17: TreeHugger: T. Boone Pickens and Ted Turner Suggest "Cash for Clunkers" for Coal Power Plants

  And in the clean coal saga:

• 2009/08/20: Grist: Who are the faces behind FACES of Coal?
• 2009/08/19: CSW: Mercury contamination, mainly from coal plant emissions, pervasive in fish nationwide, USGS finds
• 2009/08/19: ClimateP: Carbon polluters launch another PR campaign -- FACES of Coal -- seriously!
• 2009/08/18: PhysOrg: Toxic Coal Ash Threatens Health And Environment

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2009/08/22: FuturePundit: Algae Strain Uses CO2 Under High Light Conditions
• 2009/08/21: IR^2: Disruptive Technologies Are So Overrated [Joule Biotech]
• 2009/08/21: IR^2: My Point Exactly -- Hydrocarbon biofuels' promise tops that of ethanol, gasoline
• 2009/08/20: NYT:GreenInc: A New, More CO2-Absorbent Algae Strain?
• 2009/08/21: NYT:GW: Ethanol Producers Warily Eye Algae's Bloom
• 2009/08/19: OSU: Researchers boost production of biofuel [butanol] that could replace gasoline
• 2009/08/18: NewScientist: Slow progress on greening palm oil
• 2009/08/17: OilChange: Policy Re-Think Needed for "Biofuels Bogeyman"

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2009/08/19: Eureka: Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of symposium, Aug. 19-20
• 2009/08/19: OilDrum: The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction - Part II: What is known about Secondary Uranium Resources?
• 2009/08/17: SolveClimate: Nuclear Energy -- White Knight or Dangerous Fantasy?

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2009/08/21: OilDrum: Deaf and Dumb in America - No Peak Oil for Us!
• 2009/08/20: FCNP: The Peak Oil Crisis: More Disruptive Technology?

  More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2009/08/19: BBerg: Smart Grids May Help U.S. Boost Power Capacity by 13%
• 2009/08/18: AutoBG: Ford announces electric vehicle-to-grid communications system
• 2009/08/17: Reuters: Green dollars moving to smart grid, energy storage

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2009/08/18: IR^2: Notes on Energy Efficiency

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

• 2009/08/22: TreeHugger: How Long Will Tomorrow's Automotive Lithium Batteries Last?
• 2009/08/22: BostonGlobe: Electric vehicles aren't the solution - yet
• 2009/08/22: AutoBG: Where Toyota is today on pure electrics, plug-in hybrids and the like
• 2009/08/21: XPrize:AB: Calculating MPGe [MPG equivalent]
• 2009/08/21: AutoBG: Auto X Prize throws water on GM's 230 mpg claim, offers mpge [MPG equivalent] calculator
• 2009/08/21: BBC: The number of new cars made in the UK fell 17.9% in July from the same month a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said
• 2009/08/17: DerSpiegel: The Unclear Future of Electric Cars -- Will Replaceable Batteries Make Eco-Friendly Vehicles Viable?
  Worries about battery life and driving range keep many from being sold on electric cars. A new Renault-Nissan project envisions cars with replaceable batteries that can be exchanged at drive-in facilities in a matter of minutes. But will battery technology ultimately put the brakes on this plan?
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: Toyota To Buy Batteries For Hybrids From Sanyo: Source
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: Germany Agrees Plan To Lead Electric Car Market
• 2009/08/19: FTimes: Rivals jostle in the electric car charge
• 2009/08/20: TreeHugger: Adding Ultracapacitors to Hybrid Cars Could Boost Efficiency, Reduce Costs
• 2009/08/20: PeakEnergy: Ultracaps Could Boost Hybrid Fuel Efficiency
• 2009/08/19: AutoBG: Chevy Volt's 230 mpg rating, ad campaign comes under fire from Bill Ford, AdAge
• 2009/08/19: AutoBG: Germany setting sights on one million electric cars by 2020?
• 2009/08/19: Google:AFP: Germany wants a million electric cars by 2020
• 2009/08/17: TreeHugger: GM Shrinks its Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Makes it Cheaper, More Durable
• 2009/08/17: TreeHugger: How to Make Electric Cars Cheaper? Use the Same Batteries!
• 2009/08/17: AutoBG: Honey, I shrunk the fuel cell! Next-gen GM hydrogen stack gets small

  Cash-for-Clunkers, aka Scrappage, Plans are being legislated and argued around the world:

• 2009/08/22: CNN: Last-minute clunker deals swamp auto dealers
  Customers rush in for final weekend of "Cash for Clunkers" program - Phone at Honda dealer in Georgia "ringing off the hook" - "It's like Christmas!" dealership's busy receptionist says - Government red tape giving auto group's general manager headaches
• 2009/08/23: Guardian(UK): 'Cash for clunkers' deal boosts US car sales by 450,000 in three weeks -- Barack Obama has to end scheme early as result of massive take-up
• 2009/08/21: GreenGrok: Statistically Speaking: Cash for Clunkers Wrap-Up
• 2009/08/17: PRWatch: General Motors Likes the Cash, but not the Clunkers' Waste
• 2009/08/21: CBC: Chrysler Canada offers boost to federal clunker program
• 2009/08/21: TreeHugger: Cash for Clunkers to Run Out of Gas By Next Monday
• 2009/08/21: BBerg: 'Clunkers' to Close After Fueling Sales, Dealer Anger
• 2009/08/20: CBC: U.S. cash for clunkers program to end Monday -- Auto rebates total $1.9 billion US so far
• 2009/08/21: CanWest: Cash-for-clunkers not necessary in Canada: Ontario cabinet minister
• 2009/08/20: CNN: Cash for Clunkers ending
  With money running out, $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program will end on Monday. The tally so far: 457,000 cars and $1.9 billion in rebates.
• 2009/08/20: PlanetArk: Hyundai Canada Offers Scrappage Incentive Top-Up
• 2009/08/20: CNN: Dealers want end to Cash for Clunkers
  National Automobile Dealers Association wants an orderly closure of program and again expresses concerns that funds are running out.
• 2009/08/19: CBC: U.S. 'cash for clunkers' outpaces Canadian plan
• 2009/08/19: BRitholtz: Top 10 Cash-for-Clunkers Vehicles
• 2009/08/18: VoxEU: International trade in used vehicles as an 'alternative' cash for clunkers programme: Evidence from NAFTA by Lucas W. Davis & Matthew E. Kahn
  Under the US 'cash for clunkers' programme, billions of dollars are being allocated to pay drivers to purchase a new vehicle and scrap their old automobile. This column says the programme will reduce international trade in used cars, which significantly benefits consumers in developing economies. Such trade also increases the average emission efficiency of automobiles in both the US and developing nations, which raises the possibility that 'cash for clunkers' might raise global emissions.
• 2009/08/17: CNN: Clunkers: Toyota passes GM as top seller
  Cash for Clunkers buyers are still showing strong preference for smaller cars, as program tops 350,000 sales.
• 2009/08/16: AutoBG: Study: Cash For Clunkers not exactly a bargain, emissions reduction costs 10x more than carbon credits

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

• 2009/08/21: ClimateP: Energy and global warming news for August 21: Natural gas prices plummet to a seven-year low; Nile Delta under threat from rising seas -- without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe
• 2009/08/17: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for August 17th: China's top climate policy advisers push for 2030 emissions peak; Australia's Bureau of Meteorology: "It's reasonable to say that a lot of the current drought of the last 12 to 13 years is due to ongoing global warming."

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2009/08/22: Deltoid: Bob Ward on Plimer
• 2009/08/21: MTobis: Gerd Leipold's Kerfuffle
• 2009/08/22: Tamino: Constant
• 2009/08/19: Tamino: CO2 and the Volcanoes
• 2009/08/21: DeSmogBlog: Reynolds, Tol, Lomborg: The Case for Ignoring Climate Change
• 2009/08/21: Guardian(UK): Greenpeace's sea ice 'mistake' delights climate change sceptics
• 2009/08/21: AFTIC: How wrong does Plimer have to be?
• 2009/08/21: ClimateSight: Sinclair Wins
• 2009/08/20: AFTIC: Youtube restores Climate Crock of the Week's Watts takedown
• 2009/08/20: Deltoid: Matthew England challenges the climate science skeptics at the Ultimo Science Festival
• 2009/08/19: Yahoo: Lower temperatures grist for global warming debate
• 2009/08/19: TWTB: You can't stop the signal
• 2009/08/19: ClimateP: YouTube, Sinclair prove Anthony Watts knows as much about copyright laws as about climate science
• 2009/08/18: PacificFP: The Unstoppable Delusion Train
• 2009/08/19: GreenFyre: Where there's smoke, the climate change Denial lobby
• 2009/08/19: DeSmogBlog: YouTube Reinstates banned Climate video
• 2009/08/17: DeSmogBlog: Amazing as it Seem, We still have to shoot down the "Medieval Warming" Crock
• 2009/08/18: CSW: A memory of Robert Novak, 1931-2009, opponent of climate change mitigation policy
• 2009/08/16: ClimateP: The insincerest form of denial
• 2009/08/17: Deltoid: The Australian's War on Science 40
• 2009/08/17: ClimateSight: A Well-Documented Strategy

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2009/08/18: Tamino: Hope for the Future
• 2009/08/20: BNC: Classifying 'belief systems' in sustainable energy and climate change
• 2009/08/20: Grist: A walk through the week's climate news -- The Climate Post: Reality is the toughest wedge issue
• 2009/08/21: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Weekly Web Roundup: carpools, clunkers, carbon traders
• 2009/08/20: Grist: If progressives want a Clean Energy Bank, they need better economics
• 2009/08/21: TreeHugger: Youth of the World to Governments: Less Talk, More Action on Climate Change & Eco-Sustainability
• 2009/08/16: CDreams: Global Warming and the Only Question that Matters
• 2009/08/20: SolveClimate: US Universities Aim for Carbon Neutral Campuses
• 2009/08/20: ABC(Au): Sprummertime, and the living is easy?
  A leading scientist says Australia desperately needs more seasons, as we are dangerously out-of-touch with our climate.
• 2009/08/19: PhysOrg: Targeted investments in climate science could present enormous economic savings across the globe
• 2009/08/19: PeakEnergy: Carbon-Dioxide-to-Plastic?
• 2009/08/18: NewScientist: Cockroaches future-proofed against climate change
• 2009/08/17: MTobis: Tamino Rocks!
• 2009/08/17: DeSmogBlog: Climate Catastrophe: At Some Point, It Gets Personal
• 2009/08/16: NYT: Are We Too Late?
• 2009/08/17: DotEarth: Coming of Age as a Person and Species
• 2009/08/17: AlterNet: Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away

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

• WWW: World Water Week
• HelioPhage
• Paul Gilding - Cockatoo Chronicles
• Wiki: Thermokarst
• Warming101 -- Climate Blog Aggregator
• Global Warming is Real
• Climatico
• EAB: Environmental Action Blog
• Carbon Trade Watch
• DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science
• The Great Warming
• Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
• Climate Prediction Net
• BBC Climate Change Experiment
• Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center
• GFDL: Mike Winton (homepage)
• GoS: Grains of Sand - Observations from a strange planet
• SciAct: The Scientific Activist: Reporting from the Crossroads of Science and Politics
• Earth Future - Climate & Energy
• ScienceBlog

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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"Carbon cycle feedbacks are not so well understood, but it's becoming increasingly clear that they could literally be deal-breakers for humanity. We may be quite close to creating circumstances in which the biosphere releases huge quantities of carbon into the atmosphere. At that point, warming could become its own cause; it would no longer really matter what we do to mitigate our emissions of carbon dioxide. The global ecosystem would take over." -Thomas Homer-Dixon

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