Another week of GW News: October 18, 2009

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk. An overview of my writing is available here.

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P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

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Another week of GW News: October 18, 2009

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Another week of Climate Disruption News

October 18, 2009

Here's a chuckle for ya:

This is not strictly humour, but Tim's first paragraph made me laugh:

Post-Bangkok recriminations and analysis:

Pre-Copenhagen posturing and negotiation:

The Caitlin Arctic Ice survey reported this week - the media says the ice will be gone in 10, 20 and 30 years:

Blog Action Day was Thursday October 15th -- Google shows 415,000 English pages in the last week:

A minor blogstorm has broken out over Superfreakonomics:

The Major Emitters Forum is meeting in London this weekend:

In the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed held a cabinet meeting underwater for climate change PR:

And on the Bottom Line:

So will North America have an el Nino winter or what?:

The idea of Carbon Tariffs is still upsetting people:

A modest suggestion:

The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum had a mostly unreported meeting:

The echo of 4 degrees is still reverberating:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

The US DOI has proposed changing polar bears' CITES classification:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

World Food Day was Friday Oct 16:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

The Philippines are preparing for Lupit, after Ketsana and Parma:

In the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Rick has roared into a Cat 5:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

While in the temperature record:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

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:

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 zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:

As for carbon sequestration:

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:

On the Kyoto front:

While at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

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

Meanwhile on the international political front:

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 CBO Congressional testimony on Cap & Trade got spun:

The Chamber of Commerce PR disaster grinds on:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

The EPA is re-evaluating MTR; the Army Corps is holding hearings; the noise level is building :

A suppressed Bush-era EPA greenhouse gas endangerment finding has been released:

As for what is going on in Congress:

Kerry-Boxer aka CEJAPA defines a battleline:

ACCE's PR intrument, Bonner & Associates, get to testify before a Congressional committee:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

It looks like Malcolm Turnbull's ETS travail has come to a head:

So are Australians as fickle as Americans? or is this a bogus survey?

And South America:

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

Jim Prentice got himself into a 'Did So! Did Not!' tussle over the Bangkok G77 walkout:

The Tories have now announced major funding for two carbon capture projects:

The Tories are plumbing a new low by lobbying the US-EPA to kill shipping pollution regulation:

As for the Liberals:

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

Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

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