Another Week of GW News, September 27, 2009

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Another Week of GW News, September 27, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose...

Another week of Climate Disruption News

September 27, 2009

It's always nice to start with a larf:

And in the almost funny file -- Yes Men, Onion & Fake Obama:

It was Climate Week:

The very diplomatic UN summit:

The G20 meeting went down in Pittsburg:

The Clinton Global Initiative went down this week mostly unremarked:

And on the road to Copenhagen:

No rest for the wicked. A new climate meeting starts Monday in Bangkok:

The UNCCD conference went down in Argentina:

The issue of subsidies is still in play. We'll see if the G20 mean it:

And on the Bottom Line:

The Planetary Boundaries argument appears to rewrap 'tipping points':

NASA's Icesat reports Arctic and Antarctic glaciers are thinning dramatically:

The UNEP says the IPCC seriously underestimated warming:

We are now in overshoot:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

That Damocles sword still hangs overhead:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

In the Pacific Ketsana slammed the Phillipines:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

Regarding the temperature:

As for the ozone layer:

While in the paleoclimate:

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

Glaciers are melting:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except for the odd dust storm:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

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

And on the carbon sequestration front:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

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

Several interviews:

Meanwhile at the UN:

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:

And on the American political front:

Defections from the Chamber of Commerce over global warming policy are becoming downright embarassing:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress:

Wrangling over the Senate version of Waxman-Markey continues:

What are the lobbyists pushing?

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

A ruling from the European Court of First Instance on Poland, Estonia & the ETS is raising questions:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And in New Zealand:

While in India:

And China:

While in Japan:

And elsewhere in Asia:

While in Africa:

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

Harper skipped the UN summit and went to a donut shop, which tells you what neocons think of the UN:

Rajendra Pachauri called on Canada to do more:

In the always 'interesting' matter of Canada-US relations: