By illconsidered on August 10, 2009.

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Another Week of Global Warming News

August 9, 2009

Chuckle, Coal Fight, Bonner & Assoc., USGS, Pacific Island States, Cash4Clunkers, EPRI
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Methane, Antarctica, Carbon Tariffs, APA, Milankovitch, Late Comments
Food Crisis, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering
Journals, Misc. Science, Misc. Scientists
Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:International, Security, Law & Activism
America, Obama, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan, Asia, Russia, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Courts
Energy, Wind, Solar, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Insurance, Joe's List
Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
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Another Week of GW News, August 9, 2009

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Another week of Climate Disruption News

Another Week of Global Warming News

Information overload is pattern recognition

August 9, 2009

Why is GW levity almost all black humour?

But for a real laugh:

There's a knock-down-drag-em-out fight over coal going on in the USA. The issues are: mountaintop removal mining, coal ash, the forgery scandal and GHGs:

It looks like the Bonner and Assoc. forged letters scandal is growing legs:

The USGS published a Fifty-Year Record of Glacier Change this week:

The Pacific Island States held a meeting in Cairns:

Cash For Clunkers continues to be controversial:

The Electric Power Research Institute updated their a 2007 analysis on power generation:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

There's that Damoclean sword again!

While in Antarctica:

More on carbon tariffs:

What can one say but anaylyze this:

Speaking of Milankovitch:

Late comment on the US-China confab:

The food crisis is ongoing:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Typhoon Morakot grazed the Philippines, then slammed Taiwan and China:

Goni also zapped the NW Pacific, while Lana, Enrique and Felicia stalked the NE Pacific:

Elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

This temperature anomaly appears to be the result of currents changing, not GW directly. As for why the currents changed...:

While in the paleoclimate:

While on the ENSO front:

Glaciers are melting:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

As for tornadoes:

We have heatwaves and wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

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

And on the carbon sequestration front:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

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

Lovelock interview:

McLean et al.:

Klotzbach et al.:

Svensmark redux:

Pielke alas:

And on the road to Copenhagen:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

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

Meanwhile on the international political front:

As for GW & security:

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

And on the American political front:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress:

What are the lobbyists pushing?

While in the UK:

The Vestas occupation has been playing to an indifferent public and government:

Meanwhile in Australia:

While in New Zealand:

And in India:

And China:

While in Japan:

And elsewhere in Asia:

And in Russia:

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