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Another Week of Climate Instability News

Information overload is pattern recognition

January 10, 2010

• Chuckles, COP15, Cochabamba, COP16, Mountaintop Mining, 2010+, Retrospectives, Winter, Arctic Oscillation
• Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, CO2 Sensitivity, Late Comments
• Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica
• Food Crisis, Food Production
• Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Ocean Currents, Satellites
• Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Corals, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Floods & Droughts
• Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
• Journals, Other Docs , Misc. Science, Michael Mann, Lindzen and Choi, Pielke, Richard Alley, Rapp, Hansen, Qing Bin Lu
• UN, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Carbon Labelling, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
• International Politics, Security, Law & Activism, Religioso, Polls
• America, Obama, Congress, Britain, Europe, Australia, India, China, Africa, Canada
• Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Courts
• Energy, Fracking, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Insurance
• Joe's List, Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

Is funny. Yes?

• 2010/01/06: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) What a long day...
• 2010/01/06: AutoBG: EESTOR gets a bad rap (actually, it's kind of good)

  Give your sensawundah a kick:

• 2010/01/05: APOD: A Roll Cloud Over Uruguay

  There is still a lot of COP15 chatter:

• 2010/01/09: CSW: Copenhagen post-mortem: Interview on Al Jazeera
• 2010/01/06: CommonTragedies: Post-holiday Post-mortem
• 2010/01/10: SMH: China would never accept checks at Copenhagen: official
  China was never going to accept outside reviews in Copenhagen of its efforts to slow greenhouse gas emissions, a top official said on Saturday, after critics accused Beijing of blocking the talks. Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, told a forum that Beijing achieved its goal at the climate talks by ensuring aid for developing nations was not linked to external checks.
• 2010/01/09: TCoE: Non-breaking China news -- China would never accept checks at Copenhagen: official
• 2010/01/07: EnvFin: Copenhagen likely to slow low-carbon investment - investors
• 2010/01/09: CCurrents: The Meaning Of Copenhagen
• 2010/01/09: CCurrents: Overcoming The Copenhagen Failure by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• 2010/01/05: VoxEU: Looking ahead from Copenhagen: How challenging is the Chinese carbon intensity target? by Carlo Carraro & Massimo Tavoni
  China has promised to lower its carbon intensity by 40%-45% by the year 2020. This column says that standard estimates imply that China could meet that target simply by continuing its long-term historical trend. But China's recent experience of a lower income elasticity of carbon intensity suggests additional efforts and leadership could be required.
• 2010/01/08: EnergyBulletin: Heroes and villains in Copenhagen, and beyond
• 2010/01/08: IndiaTimes: Copenhagen Accord won't be a consensus decision
  The Copenhagen Accord will not become an official consensus decision under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change with Cuba formally rejecting it. The formal submission by Cuba to the UN opposing the controversial accord, comes after four countries -- Venezuela, Bolvia, Cuba and Sudan -- had opposed it during the recently concluded climate meet.
• 2010/01/06: ThisDay: Climate Change Debacle: What Options for Nigeria?
  The summit of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark may well rank as the largest global gathering in 2009. But the failure by world leaders to agree on the crucial points of the conference diminished its status...
• 2010/01/06: PS: Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• 2010/01/06: EconView: Stiglitz: Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure
• 2010/01/06: ClimateP: Stavins on Another Copenhagen Outcome: Serious Questions About the Best Institutional Path Forward
• 2010/01/06: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Answers to Copenhagen Questions
• 2010/01/06: NRDC:SwitchBoard: China and Copenhagen: Resolutions for 2010
• 2010/01/06: CCurrents: The World Half A Century Later by Fidel Castro
• 2010/01/04: CCurrents: On The Road To Copenhagen And A World Food Crisis
• 2010/01/04: OpenDem: The Copenhagen accord -- What happened at the COP15 climate talks?
• 2010/01/04: OpenDem: Beyond Copenhagen: what kind of bottom-up climate activism do we need?
• 2010/01/04: DemNow: Greek PM George Papandreou on Global Warming, Socialism and Democracy
• 2010/01/05: Belfer: Another Copenhagen Outcome: Serious Questions About the Best Institutional Path Forward
• 2010/01/04: NYT:CW: Path From Climate Summit Unclear for Many
  When presidents and prime ministers departed the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen last month, they left behind a vast legal tangle that experts have barely begun to unravel. A half-dozen edicts that world leaders handed down -- dealing with everything from verifying carbon emission cuts to mobilizing billions of dollars for poor nations -- require formal enactment rulings from the parties to the U.N. climate conference. But by the time the global summit came to a close on Dec. 18, nations had made none of the necessary follow-up rulings. Left unsettled and largely unexplained: how and when the leaders' directives laid out in the Copenhagen Accord will become reality.
• 2010/01/04: CNN: After Copenhagen: Hope for the future [Mark Lynas interview]
• 2010/01/05: ClimateP: Brazil's Lula turns Copenhagen pledge to cut CO2 emissions into law -- Plus a review of the best analyses on the UN climate conference
• 2010/01/04: FTimes: America is losing the free world
• 2010/01/04: BBC: Climate deal 'satisfies' Saudis
  Saudi Arabia says it is "satisfied" with the conclusion of last month's UN climate summit in Copenhagen. However, the country's lead negotiator Mohammad Al-Sabban told BBC News that the UN climate process may be heading for stalemate, like world trade talks.
• 2010/01/03: NYT: Fault Lines Remain After Climate Talks
  [...]
  Opinions have been as varied and discordant in the aftermath of the meeting as they were at the sessions in the Bella Center in Copenhagen, where thousands of delegates argued and postured -- to uncertain ends -- in the twilight of 2009. For the past two weeks, those involved in the conference and onlookers alike have traded a variety of "I told you so" denunciations of the meeting; celebrations of its perceived collapse; and mild praise for the ability of nearly 200 nations to come together and, at the very least, agree to keep talking -- essentially what the Copenhagen Accord accomplished. With the new year just getting under way, it is likely that a good deal of finger pointing -- and finger wagging -- is yet to come. For now, the following reactions from a cross section of politicians, industry representatives, authors, environment advocates and others suggest that, if nothing else, the fault lines that preceded the conference are still very much in place.
• 2010/01/04: IndiaTimes: Copenhagen Accord disappointing: PM Manmohan Singh
  In a departure from the line taken by his environment minister, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed his disappointment over the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. Addressing the 97th Indian Science Congress on Sunday, the Prime Minister said nations "made limited progress" at the climate change conference at Copenhagen and that "no one was satisfied with the outcome". Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has maintained that India had protected its interests. Even so, Mr Ramesh acknowledges that the Copenhagen Accord has "in-built hazards" for developing countries.
• 2010/01/04: OilChange: A New Year and a New Hope?
• 2010/01/03: Reuters: UK's Brown says climate change agreement possible
  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting.
• 2010/01/03: EnergyBulletin: The Meaning of Copenhagen

  Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls Alternative Climate Meeting in Cochabamba on April 20-22:

• 2010/01/05: NYT: Bolivia Leader Calls Alternative Climate Meeting
  Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday he's inviting activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an alternative climate conference following the failure of a summit in Copenhagen to produce binding agreements. The leftist leader said the April 20-22 meeting in Cochabamba will include indigenous peoples, social movements, environmentalists and scientists as well as governments ''who want to work with their people.'' Morales said the meeting is meant partly to pressure industrialized nations to accept that they have a ''climate debt'' to poor countries and will work toward an international court on environmental crimes. Other topics will include a ''universal proposal for the rights of mother earth'' and the transfer of technology.
• 2010/01/06: TreeHugger: See You in Cochabamba! Evo Morales Plans Bolivian Alternative Climate Summit for April

  COP16:

• 2010/01/05: SolveClimate: Mexico City Offers Clearer Setting for Next Climate Conference -- Humanitarian, Economic Challenges Are Obvious in the Streets

  A paper on mountaintop mining got a lot of play:

• 2010/01/08: KSJT: AP, WaPost, Balt. Sun etc: Scientists go political on coal mining, say stop it already on decapitation of mountains
• 2010/01/08: NRDC:SwitchBoard: The Science is in: Out With Mountaintop Removal
• 2010/01/08: DM:80B: Scientists Demand End to Mountain Decapitation; Mining Projects Advance Anyway
• 2010/01/08: WaPo: Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped
• 2010/01/07: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Scientists Support Ban on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• 2010/01/07: TreeHugger: Scientists Say Mountaintop Removal Mining Should Be Banned - No Remediation Ever Enough

  Predictions, projections, and prospectives for 2010 and the decade to come:

• 2010/01/09: PeakEnergy: Top 10 cleantech promises to watch for in 2010
• 2010/01/07: REA: The Decade of Climate Change and Peak Oil
• 2010/01/09: CCurrents: The Next Decade's Top Sustainability Trends
• 2010/01/07: TreeHugger: The World Resource Institute's "Environmental Stories to Watch in 2010"
• 2010/01/06: CCurrents: The World In 2020

  There are still some 2009 and decade retrospectives:

• 2010/01/09: TreeHugger: And Now, Here's Some Good News
• 2010/01/08: SolveClimate: For Stocks, 2009 Marked Rise of Energy Efficiency, Electric Cars -- 2010 Anyone's Guess; Private Money to Follow Government Lead
• 2010/01/07: TreeHugger: Future Green Trends - Top 5 posts on the Year + Decade Ahead From Around The Blogosphere
• 2010/01/04: TCoE: Joe Romm wraps up 2009

  There have been cold snaps all over the place:

• 2010/01/10: EarthTimes: Nine dead in Mexico from frigid weather
• 2010/01/09: ClimateP: Following third warmest November, December not even close to contiguous U.S. record for cold
• 2010/01/08: DM:80B: Once Again, Cold Weather Doesn't Disprove Global Warming
• 2010/01/09: CBC: Europe hit with more blizzards, bitter cold
• 2010/01/08: ClimateP: Met Office: "It is not cold everywhere in the world."
• 2010/01/07: TS:QuarkSoup: Record Lows in a Warming World
• 2010/01/06: Guardian(UK): Britain's cold snap does not prove climate science wrong
• 2010/01/06: ClimateP: Where on Earth is it unusually warm? Greenland and the Arctic Ocean, which is full of rotten ice
• 2010/01/06: Telegraph(UK): Cold weather 'doesn't undermine global warming science'
  The current cold weather gripping the UK does not undermine the fact the world is warming, experts said today.
• 2010/01/06: TerraDaily: Snow brings mayhem to Britain as Europe shivers
• 2010/01/07: EarthTimes: Freezing China frets over coal stocks, energy supplies
• 2010/01/07: ClimateP: "Experts: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming"
• 2010/01/07: CSM: It's cold outside. What happened to global warming?
• 2010/01/07: CBC: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming: experts
• 2010/01/07: CBC: Britons struggle with icy conditions after storm
• 2010/01/06: NatureTGB: It's cold up north...
• 2010/01/06: KSJT: Discovery, Dot Earth blogs: What's with all this arctic air blowing through..??
• 2010/01/05: ClimateShifts: Yes, it's really cold -- No this isn't evidence of global cooling
• 2010/01/05: Independent(UK): 'No conflict' between Big Freeze and climate change
• 2010/01/05: NatGeo: North America's Cooling Due to Natural Causes in 2008?
• 2010/01/05: TerraDaily: Deep freeze in China as S. Korea cleans up after record snow
• 2010/01/06: BBC: Snow brings disruption in Europe
• 2010/01/06: CBC: Britain blasted by heavy snow
• 2010/01/05: EarthTimes: Heavy snow snarls roads and shutters schools in Europe
• 2010/01/05: EarthTimes: Cold snap kills 18 in Nepal
• 2010/01/04: TerraDaily: Record snow brings travel misery to China, South Korea
• 2010/01/04: EarthTimes: Record snowfall brings chaos to Seoul, Beijing
• 2010/01/04: EarthTimes: 100 dead as cold wave grips India
• 2010/01/04: BBC: Beijing hit by record snowfall
  The authorities in Beijing have closed schools and mobilised thousands of people to help clear roads after the heaviest snowfall for nearly 60 years.
• 2010/01/04: BBC: 'Dozens die' in India cold wave
  Dozens of people have died in a cold wave sweeping through northern India, the country's state broadcaster Doordarshan says. The majority of deaths have happened in the state of Uttar Pradesh, according to media reports.
• 2010/01/04: CBC: Asian cities hit by record snowfalls

  The Arctic Oscillation is getting attention due to the cold snaps:

• 2010/01/09: TCoE: The Arctic oscillation, again
• 2010/01/05: NSIDC: Extreme negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation yields a warm Arctic
• 2010/01/07: CCP: Arctic Oscillation Index, Surface Temperature Anomalies, Polar Vortex, Chris Mooney's "Water World"
• 2010/01/07: Wunderground: The U.S. and European cold blast: blame the NAO
• 2010/01/06: CCP: Richard Black of the BBC: Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather (on the unusually extremely negative Arctic Oscillation)

  And on the Bottom Line:

• 2010/01/09: BNC: Emission cuts realities for electricity generation -- costs and CO2 emissions
• 2010/01/04: CSM: The comparative costs of climate change
  How much will decarbonizing the economy cost, and compared to what?

Carbon Tariffs still have people on edge:

• 2010/01/08: EurActiv: Carbon tariffs resurface in Copenhagen aftermath
  The idea of a carbon tax at the EU's borders is gaining momentum after the Copenhagen climate talks, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy leading calls for a tariff on imports from China and other nations with less stringent environmental protection rules.
• 2010/01/06: EarthTimes: Sarkozy demands EU-wide carbon tax
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Wednesday for a carbon tax across Europe and punitive tariffs on products that fail to meet climate standards. "We will not accept goods that fail to conform to our environmental standards," Sarkozy told business leaders at a New Year's reception in the western town of Cholet.
• 2009/12/17: NatureCC: Scrap the carbon tariff
  Despite their political popularity, carbon tariffs will be next to impossible to implement effectively, and as such will do little to solve the climate problem.
• 2010/01/06: NatureCF: Would a carbon tariff even work?

  The troublesome and troubling question of CO2 Sensitivity:

• 2010/01/07: IoD: Is the Earth even more sensitive to CO2 levels than we thought?

  Late Comment on Knorr:

• 2010/01/05: ClimateP: Yes, the atmospheric CO2 fraction has risen at a dangerously fast rate in the past 160 years, reaching levels not seen in millions of years

  The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2010/01/09: CCP: A. L. Swann et al., PNAS 2010, Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high-latitude warming through the greenhouse effect
• 2010/01/08: G&M: Nunavut's polar-bear hotline bucks conventional wisdom
• 2010/01/08: TreeHugger: Melting Ice Increasing the Chance of Polar Bear-Human Meet-Ups
• 2010/01/07: Eureka: Polar bears in southern Beaufort Sea spending more time on land and open water -- Bears changing habitat in response to sea ice conditions
• 2010/01/07: CCP: D. R. Roberts et al., J. Quart. Sci., Ice stream influence on West Greenland Ice Sheet dynamics during the Last Glacial Maximum
• 2010/01/07: TStar: Canada's Arctic meltdown grows at alarming pace
  American researchers suggest the melting season for Arctic sea ice is growing faster across much of the Canadian Arctic than anywhere else in the world. A recently published article outlines how they used satellite microwave data to measure when sea ice begins to melt in the spring and when it starts refreezing in the fall. The researchers were able to look with 99 per cent accuracy as far back as 1979 and examine the entire circumpolar globe, the first time scientists have been able to do so. They found that, on average, sea ice has started melting 2.5 days earlier every decade and begun to refreeze 3.7 days later. That means the average melt season is just under 20 days longer than it was 30 years ago.

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

• 2010/01/06: TCoE: Methane surge detected
• 2010/01/07: CCP: BBC: Igor Semiletov --Methane release from the East Siberian Shelf is underway and it looks stronger than it was supposed [to be]
• 2010/01/06: BBC: Methane release 'looks stronger'
  Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed. Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat. The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of Russia, led by Igor Semiletov from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. "Methane release from the East Siberian Shelf is underway and it looks stronger than it was supposed [to be]," he said. Professor Semiletov has been studying methane seepage in the region for the last few decades, and leads the International Siberian Shelf Study (ISSS), which has launched multiple expeditions to the Arctic Ocean. The preliminary findings of ISSS 2009 are now being prepared for publication, he told BBC News. Methane seepage recorded last summer was already the highest ever measured in the Arctic Ocean.

While in Antarctica:

• 2010/01/08: NewScientist: Why Antarctica isn't melting much ... yet

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2010/01/05: CNN: More than 1 million in Somalia going hungry, aid agency [WFP] says
• 2010/01/08: IPSNews: Three-Quarters of Hungry Are Rural Poor
  Climate change, associated with a four-fold increase in natural disasters in the last decade, and the growth of world population, which is expected to reach nine billion by 2050, pose new challenges for aid initiatives like those of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
• 2010/01/05: UN: Uptick in attacks forces UN food agency to shut down programmes in Somalia
• 2010/01/05: BBC: Somali militants force WFP exit
  The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has pulled out of large parts of southern Somalia because of threats from powerful Islamist rebel groups. The WFP says the partial suspension of its operations will affect about one million people.
• 2010/01/05: BBC: Afghan aid fails to feed the hungry

  And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2010/01/08: Grist: GMO job -- Gates Foundation throws its lot with agribusiness
• 2010/01/08: CCurrents: A Farming Model To Sustain The World
• 2010/01/03: CCurrents: Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage
• 2010/01/05: BBC: 'Grow your own' strategy unveiled
  Plans to boost food production in Britain and reduce its impact on the environment have been unveiled. The government's 20-year food strategy includes making land available for people to grow their own food and more healthy cooking courses.
• 2010/01/05: Guardian(UK): DEFRA's joined-up thinking recognises the fragility of UK food production
  The government's 20-year food and farming strategy fully integrates policy for the first time since the second world war
• 2010/01/04: PhysOrg: Thai hill farmers help preserve genetic diversity of rice
• 2010/01/05: Grist: Can GMO seeds be 'sustainable'?
• 2010/01/05: AlterNet: 6 Ways to Keep Your Kids From Getting Fat
• 2010/01/04: NewScientist: Gene rice on its way in China
• 2010/01/04: PhysOrg: Genes for drought-tolerance, aflatoxin may mingle to boost corn production
• 2010/01/04: PhysOrg: Solar-powered irrigation significantly improves diet and income in rural sub-Saharan Africa

  Cat 4 Edzani stalked across hte South Indian ocean fortunately far from land:

• 2010/01/08: Eureka: Super cyclone Edzani staying safely at sea spawning super swells
• 2010/01/07: Eureka: 2 NASA satellites see Edzani power up in clouds and rainfall

  While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2010/01/05: Wunderground: NHC increases hurricane forecast lead times
• 2010/01/05: NOAANews: NOAA's National Hurricane Center to Provide Greater Lead Time in Watches and Warnings

  As for GHGs:

• 2010/01/06: TCoE: Liar, liar, planet's on fire
• 2010/01/08: CIP: Carbon Dioxide and Climate
• 2010/01/08: PlanetArk: German CO2 In 2009 Lowest Since 1990: Expert
  German emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) last year fell by just under 9 percent to their lowest level since 1990, an expert said on Thursday, citing declines in industrial activity due to the economic crisis. Europe's biggest economy cut man-made CO2 emissions, which contribute to global warming, to 760 million tons in 2009, down 74 million from 2008, the biggest year-on-year fall since 1991, said Hans-Joachim Ziesing, who compiles the data annually.
• 2010/01/07: MGS: CO2 and temperature for 800,000 years
• 2010/01/04: RealClimate: The carbon dioxide theory of Gilbert Plass

  And in the carbon cycle:

• 2010/01/08: Eureka: Echinoderms contribute to global carbon sink
  The impact on levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere by the decaying remains of a group of marine creatures that includes starfish and sea urchin has been significantly underestimated.
• 2010/01/07: CUBoulder: Warmer Climate Could Stifle Carbon Uptake by Trees, New CU-Boulder Study Says
• 2010/01/08: NatureCF: Sea stars suck it [Carbon] up
• 2010/01/07: NatureN: Sea stars suck up carbon -- Much more carbon is sequestered by echinoderms than previously thought
• 2010/01/07: SciNow: Southern Winds Help Stash Earth's Carbon Dioxide
• 2010/01/07: MongaBay: Bottom-dwelling sea animals play surprising role in carbon sequestration
• 2010/01/07: PhysOrg: Warmer Climate Could Stifle Carbon Uptake by Trees, Study Says
  Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

As for the temperature record:

• 2010/01/08: CSM: Comparing Earth's current warming to the Pliocene
  The early Pliocene period might be the best analog for the warmer world scientists expect in the not-too-distant future. About 4.5 million years ago, during the early Pliocene period (3 to 5 million years ago), temperatures on Earth were some 3 to 4 degrees C (5.4 to 7.2 degrees F.) higher in the tropics, and perhaps 10 degrees C (18 degrees F.) warmer near the poles. To get that much warming, current climate models have to pump up atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to between 500 and 600 parts per million -- about twice the preindustrial level of 280 ppm. We're currently around 387 ppm. And, given the lack of progress so far toward curbing fossil-fuel emissions, we'll be fortunate to stabilize atmospheric concentrations at 450 ppm. Scientists are therefore quite interested in what the world looked like during the early Pliocene, and why. At least in terms of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, that seems to be where we're headed.
• 2010/01/07: TS:QuarkSoup: This Has Been the Warmest Decade on Record
• 2010/01/06: VOA: Australians Sweating After Hottest Decade on Record
• 2010/01/07: EarthTimes: Hong Kong churns out hot-weather records
• 2010/01/06: ABC(Au): NZ feels the heat after hottest decade
  New Zealand, like Australia, has just experienced its hottest decade on record.
• 2010/01/06: PeakEnergy: And Thus Ends the Hottest Decade on Record . . .
• 2010/01/05: EarthTimes: Australia has its hottest decade ever -- each decade since the 1940s had been warmer than the previous one
• 2010/01/05: Reuters: Australia baked under hottest decade on record
  Australia experienced its hottest decade on record from 2000 to 2009 due to global warming, the nation's bureau of meteorology said on Tuesday, as annual summer bushfires again burn drought lands and destroy homes.

Aerosols are making their presence felt:

• 2010/01/09: CCP: M. E. Monge et al., PNAS, Jan. 6, 2010: Light changes the atmospheric reactivity of soot

  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2010/01/03: FuturePundit: Last Interglacial Had Higher Seas

  While on the el Niño/la Niña [ENSO] front:

• 2010/01/10: Guardian(UK): The resurgence of El Niño means that 2010 could yet be the hottest year on record
• 2010/01/07: NOAA:NCEP: El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
  Synopsis: El Niño is expected to continue at least into the Northern Hemisphere spring 2010.

As for ocean currents:

• 2010/01/06: PhysOrg: New study probes mystery of loop current in eastern Gulf of Mexico

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2010/01/06: ScienceInsider: More Turmoil on Earth-Sensing Satellites
• 2010/01/05: SpaceNews: Top NPOESS Official To Resign
• 2010/01/04: Eureka: The PARASOL Satellite moving off the A-Train's track
• 2010/01/04: ScienceInsider: Deadline Looms for [US] Earth-Sensing Satellites Report

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2010/01/08: ABC(Au): Climate change could impact turtle gender: scientist
  There are concerns climate change could affect turtles that travel from across the Asia Pacific to nest on islands off the north Queensland coast.
• 2010/01/06: TerraDaily: Namibia's landmark quiver trees dying from climate change
• 2010/01/03: IndiaTimes: Climate change far worse than thought before
  Global alarm over climate change and its effects has risen manifold after the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, many of the 2,500-odd IPCC scientists have found climate change is progressing faster than the worst-case scenario they had predicted. Their studies will be considered for the next IPCC report, but since that will come out only in 2013, the University of New South Wales in Sydney has just put together the main findings in the last three years. Most are by previous IPCC lead authors "familiar with the rigour and completeness required for a scientific assessment of this nature", a university spokesperson said.
• 2010/01/05: BBC: Do we need to say our prayers?
  For millions of people in Africa, climate change is a reality, says Greig Whitehead. However, as he explains in this week's Green Room, in religious nations such as Kenya, many believe that tackling global warming is beyond their control.

And then there are the world's forests:

• 2010/01/08: G&M: Pine beetles transform B.C. forests into greenhouse enemy
• 2010/01/08: TreeHugger: Willie Smits on Regrowing the Indonesian Rainforest and Harvesting Biofuels
• 2010/01/07: CBC: Pine beetle blamed for B.C. forestry layoffs

  Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

• 2010/01/03: NYT: Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2010/01/05: ClimateP: China blames freak storm on global warming
• 2010/01/05: TheAge: Extreme weather linked to climate change, say Chinese
  Freak snowstorms and record low temperatures sweeping northern China are linked to global warming, say Chinese officials.
• 2010/01/04: CBC: Maritimes recover after 'weather bomb'

  As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2010/01/07: Eureka: Mobile bushfire monitoring -- Modern wireless technologies could save bushfire lives

  Corals are dying:

• 2010/01/08: ABC(Au): Science 'playing critical role' in reef survival
  Marine authorities say the last decade of scientific research has helped the Great Barrier Reef to survive the threat of climate change during the hottest decade on record. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's chief scientist, David Wachenfeld, says peer reviewed science plays a critical role in shaping reef management decisions.
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Great Barrier Reef 'overrun by weeds'
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Scientists are concerned by a study that has found significant seaweed growth on the Great Barrier Reef

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2010/01/08: NewScientist: Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim
• 2010/01/07: PhysOrg: As Rainier's glaciers recede, debris chokes rivers
• 2010/01/08: TheNews(Pk): Glacial meltdown to bring floods, then drought
  The glacial meltdown in Himalayas and Karakoram due to global warming will first bring in heavy floods in the river system in South Asia and China followed by drought like conditions. This was stated by Higher Education Commission Chairperson Dr Javaid R Laghari while addressing the inaugural session of 2-day International Seminar on 'Impact of climate change on water resources and glaciers: concerns and challenges' organised by Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University here on Thursday.
• 2010/01/05: EuroNews: Bolivia on the global warming frontline

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2010/01/03: FuturePundit: Last Interglacial Had Higher Seas
• 2010/01/07: SolomonStar: Rising sea hits islands of Lau
• 2010/01/05: Olympian: 'Noise' about climate change -- Group uses high tide to illustrate concerns about rising sea levels

  As for disruptions of the hydrological cycle [floods & droughts]:

• 2010/01/10: EarthTimes: 7 missing in central Australian floods
• 2010/01/07: al Jazeera: Drought and conflict in south Sudan
• 2010/01/08: UN: Celebrities set off for Kilimanjaro to spotlight water crisis, raise funds - UN
  Actors, rappers and environmentalists are scaling Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to spotlight the global clean water crisis, which affects more than 1 billion people worldwide...
• 2010/01/08: NOAANews: NOAA Ranks December [18-20] Snowstorm a Category 3 on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale
• 2010/01/08: EarthTimes: Guatemala to recieve 1.3 million euros in drought aid from EU
• 2010/01/08: EarthTimes: Albania's Drin river breaks barriers, floods villages
• 2010/01/07: EarthTimes: Albania orders mass evacuation as melting snow worsens flooding
• 2010/01/08: AlterNet: Why Just About Everything You Hear About California's Water Crisis Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
• 2010/01/07: UN: UN sends help for 30,000 flood victims in Kenya
• 2010/01/06: NewWest: Long Drought Ahead From Global Warming, Study Says
  Warmer temperatures will hurt forests and fuel wildfires [in northern US Rockies], Nobel winner Steven Running finds.
• 2010/01/07: EarthTimes: Albania orders mass evacuation as melting snow worsens flooding
• 2010/01/07: EarthTimes: Vietnam's Red River at its lowest level in 108 years
• 2010/01/07: ABC(Au): Councils hit twice by flooding
  Queensland's Local Government Association (LGAQ) says some councils are still rebuilding roads washed away in flooding last year.
• 2010/01/06: ABC(Au): More rain, floods for parts of Queensland
• 2010/01/06: EarthTimes: Albania faces 'catastrophe' after floods, prime minister warns
• 2010/01/06: SciDaily: Major Australian Droughts Traced to Different Causes
  Southeastern Australia has been subject to several severe, long-term droughts during the past century, including the "Federation" drought (1895-1900), the "World War II" drought (1937-1945), and the "Big Dry" (1997 to present). All three droughts were widespread and devastating, but until now the causes and nature of these three droughts had not been compared. Verdon-Kidd and Kiem highlight the differences in the nature and causes of these three droughts. The researchers find that the droughts exhibited different severity, spatial extent, and seasonality. In addition, the three droughts resulted from different climate modes: The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) were the primary drivers of the Federation drought; the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and ENSO were major causes of the Big Dry; and a combination of Indian Ocean, ENSO, and SAM was a causal factor of the World War II drought.
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Rain brings no relief to drought operation
  State Water says Wyangala Dam in central west New South Wales needs to reach 10 per cent capacity before tough restrictions can be eased for water users on the Lachlan River.
• 2010/01/04: CSM: California's groundwater shrinking because of agricultural use
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Flooding from northern New South Wales is expected to partially fill the Menindee Lakes, but not fill them completely
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Flood peak warnings for western Queensland
• 2010/01/04: PlanetArk: Death Toll From Brazil Mudslides Rises to 76
• 2010/01/04: EarthTimes: Storms and floods leave 26 dead in northern Kenya
• 2010/01/04: EarthTimes: Floods break drought in Australia's parched inland
• 2010/01/04: CCP: Ummenhofer et al., What causes Southeast Australia's worst droughts?
• 2010/01/04: CCP: D. C. Verdon-Kidd & A. S. Kiem, GRL, 36 (2009), Nature and causes of protracted droughts in southeast Australia: Comparison between the Federation, WWII, and Big Dry droughts
• 2010/01/03: Guardian(UK): Floods kill scores in Brazil
  Emergency workers try to recover bodies from devastated parts of Rio de Janeiro after days of heavy rain

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2010/01/10: Guardian(UK): McDonald's seeks to cut cows' methane emissions
• 2010/01/07: Grist: World veterinary agency to probe link meat-climate link

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2010/01/09: IBA: Commuters are leaving mass transit for their cars, and they have their reasons
  The great debate for middle-class commuters -- to drive or take transit -- is now a no-brainer for many who are finding it cheaper and faster to take their cars. The recession has changed the way commuters think. Gas prices are down and transit fares are up; freeway traffic is looser, while transit service is less frequent.
• 2010/01/07: HotTopic: Lester Brown: US falling out of love with cars
• 2010/01/08: Guardian(UK): Can the aviation industry ever be green?
• 2010/01/08: CBC: Hydrogen-powered buses at Olympics under scrutiny
  The world's largest fleet of hydrogen-powered buses will debut at the Winter Olympics in Whistler, B.C., next month amid criticism that the move is environmental window dressing. The Suzuki Foundation is questioning the 20 buses, meant to showcase the ecological correctness of the Olympic Games. Ian Bruce, a foundation climate change campaigner, said he did not disagree with B.C. seeking potential clean technologies, but added that the project must be financially viable.
• 2010/01/07: KUOW: Can Biofuel Make Air Travel Climate-Friendly?
• 2010/01/06: Eureka: All sustainable transportation subsidies shouldn't be created equal, experts say
• 2010/01/07: TCoE: Whoop-dee-doo, the US has fewer cars
• 2010/01/07: BBC: Boeing reports 61% fall in orders
  Aircraft maker Boeing has reported a 61% drop in commercial aircraft orders for 2009. The US-based company said a total of 263 airplanes were ordered last year, down from 662 in 2008. But the number of commercial aircraft it actually delivered last year rose 28% to 481.
• 2010/01/07: CBC: Auto industry overbuilt: KPMG survey
  Executives at carmakers and their suppliers fear the world's major auto industries are still producing too much, despite drastic cutbacks, a KPMG survey suggests. In the survey of 200 senior leaders at global automakers and suppliers, almost 90 per cent of North American respondents said overcapacity is still a problem, despite numerous closures and tens of thousands of jobs lost in recent years.
• 2010/01/05: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Public Transit: More Jobs Bang for the Stimulus Buck!
• 2010/01/06: SolveClimate: Carbon-Friendly Skies? Improved Air Traffic Control Systems Could Drastically Reduce Emissions
• 2010/01/05: ScienceInsider: Planes and Boats Pose Growing Greenhouse Threat

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

• 2010/01/08: TreeHugger: A LEED of One's Own: New Green Building Certification in the Works for Turkey
• 2010/01/08: WSJ:EnvCap: Urban Wasteland: Tackling Energy Waste in Skyscrapers

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2010/01/05: KSJT: Small pubs: Near New York - a huge basaltic repository for sequestered CO2?? PNAS paper says yes.
• 2010/01/05: SolveClimate: Scientists Suggest Storing CO2 in Offshore Basalt Formations -- More Secure than Sandstone and Close to Major Metro Areas
• 2010/01/04: Eureka: Scientists target East Coast rocks for CO2 storage [by mineralization] -- Power plants might pipe emissions under seabed
• 2010/01/04: MongaBay: Underwater rocks could be used for massive carbon storage on America's East Coast
• 2010/01/04: SciAm: Where on Earth will we store all that captured CO2? Try the U.S. east coast
• 2010/01/04: E2T: Report: Carbon Price Needs to Be at $40 for Commercial CCS
• 2010/01/04: PhysOrg: Scientists target East Coast rocks for CO2 storage
• 2010/01/04: ENN: Carbon Dioxide Recovery and Use

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2010/01/08: BBC: How aircraft contrails form cloud [slideshow]
• 2010/01/09: NewScientist: Paint away the carbon dioxide
  Growing grass on your roof and other attempts to make homes carbon neutral are mere "green bling". So says Rachel Armstrong of University College London (UCL), who suggests that her smart paint can turn buildings into carbon sinks. Armstrong created the paint by dissolving salts and esters in oil droplets. Repeated coatings react with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to produce calcium carbonate - which is the main constituent of limestone - and alcohol. The resulting "biolime" will provide extra strength and insulation, she says. How much CO2 could be removed from the atmosphere in this way has not yet been tested.
• 2010/01/07: TechRev: The Geoengineering Gambit
  For years, radical thinkers have proposed risky technologies that they say could rapidly cool the earth and offset global warming. Now a growing number of mainstream climate scientists say we may have to consider extreme action despite the dangers.
• 2010/01/07: PeakEnergy: A New Spin on Climate Engineering
• 2010/01/05: TheAge: Extreme weather linked to climate change, say Chinese
  Freak snowstorms and record low temperatures sweeping northern China are linked to global warming, say Chinese officials.
• 2010/01/03: TreeHugger: A New Spin on Climate Engineering
• 2010/01/04: NatureCF: Governing geoengineering

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2010/01/09: TreeHugger: Fair Trade Farmers Spearhead Climate Adaptation Efforts

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2009/12/19: GRL: (ab$) How different would tropospheric oxidation be over an ice-free Arctic? by A. Voulgarakis et al.
• 2010/01/09: ClimateShifts: A new open access collection of papers on coral diseases
• 2010/01/09: AGWObserver: Papers on glacial terminations
• 2010/01/08: ACPD: Uptake of NO3 and N2O5 to Saharan dust, ambient urban aerosol and soot: a relative rate study by M. J. Tang et al.
• 2010/01/08: TC: Interaction between ice sheet dynamics and subglacial lake circulation: a coupled modelling approach by M. Thoma et al.
• 2009/12/17: Nature: (ab$) Probabilistic assessment of sea level during the last interglacial stage by Robert E. Kopp et al.
• 2010/01/05: CP: A unified proxy for ENSO and PDO variability since 1650 by S. McGregor et al.
• 2010/01/06: CPD: Characteristics of cold-warm variation in the Hetao region and its surrounding areas in China during the past 5000 yr by M. Li et al.
• 2010/01/07: ACP: High resolution modeling of CO2 over Europe: implications for representation errors of satellite retrievals by D. Pillai et al.
• 2010/01/07: ACP: Constraint of anthropogenic NOx emissions in China from different sectors: a new methodology using multiple satellite retrievals by J.-T. Lin et al.
• 2010/01/05: ACP: Data assimilation of CALIPSO aerosol observations by T. T. Sekiyama et al.
• 2010/01/05: ACPD: A multi-decadal history of biomass burning plume heights identified using aerosol index measurements by H. Guan et al.
• 2010/01/04: AGWObserver: Papers on the Milankovitch cycles and climate
• 2010/01/05: PNAS: Long-term nutrient enrichment decouples predator and prey production by John M. Davis et al.
• 2009/11/26: GRL: (ab$) Nature and causes of protracted droughts in southeast Australia: Comparison between the Federation, WWII, and Big Dry droughts by Danielle C. Verdon-Kidd & Anthony S. Kiem

  And other significant documents:

• 2010/01/: FAS:CRS: (938k pdf) Hydrological and Regulatory Issues Related to the California Drought
• 2009/12/: Pew: [link to pdf] Aviation and Marine Transportation: GHG Mitigation Potential and Challenges
• 2009/10/06: PI: [links to presentations] Population Growth and Rising Consumption: What's Sustainable?

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

• 2010/01/09: Grist: What does climate consensus look like?
• 2010/01/07: SEasterbrook: AGU Day 3 part C: How good are predictions from climate models?
• 2010/01/07: Eureka: How plants 'feel' the temperature rise
• 2010/01/05: JFleck: Measuring Albedo
• 2010/01/05: ClimateShifts: The importance of stupidity in scientific research
• 2010/01/05: SciDaily: Ecosystem, Vegetation Affect Intensity of Urban Heat Island Effect
• 2010/01/03: ERabett: James McCarthy [President of the AAAS] tells it like it's going to be

  Regarding Michael Mann:

• 2010/01/09: PhiladelphiaInquirer: Climate expert in the eye of an integrity storm
• 2010/01/07: BSD: Cato and Pat Michaels bouncing on the edge of defamation
• 2010/01/05: ClimateP: Patrick Michaels and Cato keep repeating an egregious falsehood about Michael Mann and the stolen emails

  Regarding Lindzen and Choi:

• 2010/01/08: RealClimate: Lindzen and Choi Unraveled
• 2010/01/08: RealClimate: First published response to Lindzen and Choi
• 2010/01/08: TWTB: Knowing Dick about climate sensitivity [LC09]

  The Pielke fan clubbe, alas:

• 2009/12/29: BuffaloBeast: 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains
• 2010/01/08: CCP: AlterNet.org censors Buffalo Beast article on climate villains -- deletes Roger Pielke, Jr., under pressure from bogus think tank

  Regarding Richard Alley:

• 2010/01/07: MoD: CO2 is, and has always been, the biggest climate control knob in the earth's history
• 2009/12/17: SEasterbrook: AGU Day 2: The role of CO2 in the earth's history
• 2010/01/05: MGS: The Biggest Control Knob

  Regarding Donald Rapp:

• 2010/01/07: DeepClimate: Donald Rapp: More divergence problems

  Hansen, again:

• 2010/01/04: Grist: James Hansen vs. Cap-and-Trade
• 2010/01/04: IoD: James Hansen says goodbye to "scientific reticence"

  Regarding Qing Bin Lu:

• 2010/01/03: ERabett: Commander Coincidence

  Meanwhile at the UN:

• 2010/01/08: EuroVoice: EU wants reform of UN climate talks
• 2010/01/05: CCurrents: Climate Change Has No Time For Delay Or Denial by Rajendra Pachauri
• 2010/01/04: Guardian(UK): Climate change has no time for delay or denial by IPCC head, Rajendra Pachauri
  Powerful vested interests and climate sceptics will work overtime to block legislation and discredit the science ahead of the next global climate summit in Mexico
• 2010/01/04: Guardian(UK): Climate change scepticism will increase hardship for world's poor: IPCC chief
  Rajendra Pachauri predicts lobbying will intensify to impede progress to agreement on binding treaty in Mexico City
• 2010/01/04: ENS: 2010 Year of Biodiversity Tries to Rein in Runaway Extinctions

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2010/01/06: CFO: Analysts predict upwards path for carbon prices in 2010
• 2010/01/07: EnvFin: Copenhagen likely to slow low-carbon investment - investors
• 2010/01/08: PlanetArk: Frustrated Carbon Traders Try Other Commodities
• 2010/01/07: BBerg: States to Lead Carbon Markets as Federal Plan Stalls
• 2010/01/07: PlanetArk: U.S. Carbon Market Growth Seen Without Climate Bill
• 2010/01/05: Reuters: U.S. carbon market growth seen without climate bill
  Voluntary carbon markets in the United States will grow especially at the regional level even if a stalled federal climate bill fails to impose "cap and trade" on American industry, the chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) said on Tuesday.
• 2010/01/04: E2T: Report: Carbon Price Needs to Be at $40 for Commercial CCS

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2010/01/07: EUO: Paris wants pan-European carbon tax
• 2010/01/06: EarthTimes: Sarkozy demands EU-wide carbon tax
• 2010/01/06: PlanetArk: Big French Firms To Pay Variable Carbon Tax
  Large French companies that pollute heavily will be penalized under new carbon tax legislation but are likely to pay variable rates, French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said in remarks published on Tuesday. More than 1,000 companies would be penalized according to how much energy they use to produce and how much competition their sectors face, Lagarde told French daily Les Echos. The companies had been exempted from paying carbon tax in France under legislation that was annulled two days before it was due to come into force on January 1.
• 2010/01/06: EarthTimes: Sarkozy demands EU-wide carbon tax

  How will Carbon Labelling work? Will it?

• 2010/01/05: Telegraph(UK): Food labels to show 'carbon footprint' under Government plans

  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:

• 2010/01/04: SolveClimate: Is China Ready for Cap-and-Trade? 'Cap-and-Trade is a Ferrari; China Needs a Tractor'

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2010/01/08: EarthTimes: [EU President] Van Rompuy: Europe is on the defensive against new powers
  The European Union is "on the defensive" against the world's emerging powers following its humiliation at United Nations climate-change talks in Copenhagen, the bloc's full-time president said Friday. In Copenhagen, the EU was sidelined as the United States, China, Brazil, India and South Africa drew up a greatly watered-down deal between themselves. Analysts saw the moment as defining a shift towards a new world order in which Europe is a secondary force. "There is now certainly, after Copenhagen, the awareness in all countries that things have changed in the world: the balance of power has shifted and Europe is more on the defensive now than it was a few years ago," Herman Van Rompuy told journalists in Madrid.
• 2010/01/07: WSJ:EnvCap: Go East: Asia tops Americas in 2009 Renewable Energy Spending
• 2010/01/04: FTimes: America is losing the free world
• 2010/01/04: TreeHugger: Why China and Europe Invest More in US Wind Power than the US Does

  As for GW & security:

• 2010/01/08: NRDC:SwitchBoard: The CIA and Pentagon Call Climate Change a Security Risk--Even If Fox News Doesn't
• 2010/01/07: al Jazeera: Drought and conflict in south Sudan

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

• 2010/01/08: CCurrents: Letter From Climate Prisoners In Denmark
• 2010/01/07: Yahoo:AFP: Greenpeace says made to 'pay' for climate summit failure
  The head of Greenpeace Spain, freed from 20 days in Danish custody along with three others, on Thursday accused authorities in Copenhagen of making them "pay" for the failure of the climate summit.
• 2010/01/06: Guardian(UK): Copenhagen activists to appear before judge for state dinner gatecrash
• 2010/01/07: Guardian(UK): Copenhagen gatecrash protesters released after 20 days
• 2010/01/06: TerraDaily: Greenpeace climate protesters released from Danish jail: police
• 2010/01/06: Reuters: Denmark releases four "red carpet" climate activists
  Danish police released four Greenpeace activists on Wednesday who were detained 20 days ago for sneaking into a gala dinner for heads of state to protest against what they deemed failed U.N. climate talks. Three of them, dressed in evening gown and tuxedo, walked up the red carpet on December 17, duped guards and entered Copenhagen's Christiansborg Palace to unfurl banners saying "Politicians Talk, Leaders Act" before dignitaries and TV cameras. The fourth man, who remained outside, was detained later for his part in the protest. Police held the Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swiss activists in custody as a security risk, but said on Wednesday their detention was no longer necessary. Climate talks in Copenhagen last month secured bare-minimum agreements that fell well short of original goals to reduce carbon emissions and stem global warming, after rich and developing economies failed to paper over differences. Greenpeace welcomed the activists' release but poured scorn on the Danish police for holding them for three weeks. "The unnecessary imprisonment of these four peaceful activists has effectively been punishment without trial," said Mads Christensen, executive director of Greenpeace Nordic.
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Australians told to behave after protester's arrest
  The Federal Government has warned Australians to respect the laws of other countries following the arrest of a woman during the Copenhagen climate summit. Natasha Verco was released overnight after spending three weeks in custody in Denmark, and will face court on March 16 on charges of assaulting a police officer and planning to disturb public order. If convicted, Verco faces up to six months in jail.
• 2010/01/04: ABC(Au): Princess Mary urged to help free Copenhagen protester
  Denmark's Tasmanian-born Princess Mary is being urged to intervene in the case of an Australian protester who has been held in a Danish jail since the Copenhagen climate summit. Friends of the Earth spokeswoman Holly Creenaune says fellow campaigner Natasha Verco was arrested over the protests at the summit last month and has now been held in detention for more than three weeks. About 25 protesters gathered outside the Danish consulate in Sydney to demand Verco's release this morning. They were planning to deliver a letter to Princess Mary calling for all the charges to be dropped. The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it is assisting Verco. Ms Creenaune says she understands Verco will appear in a Danish court today, but neither she nor the woman's family has been able to get in touch with her. "It's our information that Natasha has been charged with an incitement charge, basically an incitement to get people to come to a protest," she said. "Danish people are alleging that she was organising for a protest that was going to be violent. But that protest was organised as a non-violent protest."

Among the world's religions:

• 2010/01/04: WBIR: Conservative skeptics battle clerics who believe in climate change

  Polls! We have polls!

• 2010/01/04: OSun: Planet in peril: Poll
  More than half of Canadians believe greenhouse gases produced by human activity are a key factor spurring climate change, and they say the planet is in peril if significant action isn't taken soon. The findings of the Leger Marketing poll conducted less than a week after the end of climate talks in Copenhagen suggest that Canada's political leaders must more clearly explain their plans for the environment.

And on the American political front:

• 2010/01/10: ProJo: R.I. joins 10 other states to cut emissions
• 2010/01/10: WaPo: The unintended ripples from the biomass subsidy program
  It sounded like a good idea: Provide a little government money to convert wood shavings and plant waste into renewable energy. But as laudable as that goal sounds, it could end up causing more economic damage than good -- driving up the price of raw timber, undermining an industry that has long used sawdust and wood shavings to make affordable cabinetry, and highlighting the many challenges involved in decreasing the nation's dependence on oil by using organic materials to create biofuels.
• 2010/01/08: WorldChanging: Voting for a Climate Neutral Future
  People are buzzing here in Seattle about the idea of making a commitment to city-wide carbon neutrality by 2030 an explicit part of the city's planning, environmental and economic development strategies.
• 2010/01/10: TreeHugger: San Francisco To Vote on Plan to Halve GHG Emissions
• 2010/01/09: NYT: Of Individual Liberty and Cap and Trade
• 2010/01/08: CSW: After Copenhagen, questions about U.S. commitment to climate change aid to developing countries
• 2010/01/07: EnvFin: OPIC to slash portfolio emissions 50%
  The US has introduced legislation requiring the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the projects it invests in by 50% over the next 15 years. OPIC provides support to US companies exporting goods and services to new and emerging markets.
• 2010/01/05: ProPublica: Montana Gas and Oil Regulatory Actions on the Rise
• 2010/01/07: Grist: The Story of a Can't-Do Nation -- The melting of America
• 2010/01/06: PhysOrg: Study: US biofuels policies flawed
• 2010/01/05: Grist: Richard "Dick" Pombo running for Congress again in California
• 2010/01/05: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Public Transit: More Jobs Bang for the Stimulus Buck!
• 2010/01/06: TreeHugger: Conservative Blogger Unveils Secret Environmentalist AVATAR Plot to Make People Care About Others
• 2010/01/06: Rice: Study: US biofuels policies flawed
  Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy paper cites economic, environmental and logistical shortcomings
• 2010/01/05: StLToday: New coal-fired power plant fuels debate
• 2010/01/04: ABC(US): Study Says Mich. Climate Plan Would Boost Economy
  Independent study says Michigan's plan to fight climate change also would boost state economy
• 2010/01/05: ClimateP: Lindsey Graham censured again by SC county party...
• 2010/01/04: ClimateP: Doris Kearns Goodwin: "What would have happened right after September 11th if President Bush had called for a Manhattan Project for independence from Middle Eastern oil?"
• 2010/01/04: ClimateP: How ultraconservative Texans are rewriting your kids' textbooks and bringing global-warming denial into science class

  It may be instructive to watch this issue play out between Minnesota & North Dakota:

• 2010/01/06: TreeHugger: Minnesota Slaps North Dakota with World's First Carbon Tariff UPDATE: Not Really a Tax . . .
  [...]
  UPDATE: It has come to my attention that the law under dispute does not mandate a carbon tariff--it merely allows for the creation of one in the event that carbon pricing becomes necessary. It is instead a planning guidance number range, which utilities are to use in planning for likely rate increases in 2012. It is not a tax per se, but is being said to function like one.
• 2010/01/01: SciAm: First Carbon Tariff Will Tax CO2 at the Border
  The first carbon tax to reduce the greenhouse gases from imports comes not between two nations, but between two states. Minnesota has passed a measure to stop carbon at its border with North Dakota.

The Republicans are trying to make an issue of climate scientists and the CIA cooperating:

• 2010/01/05: DM:80B: Climate Intelligence Agency? Spooks Share Satellite Pics With Climate Scientists
• 2010/01/05: TheHill: Barrasso wants hearings on CIA's climate change work
  Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Tuesday called for hearings on the use of intelligence satellites for gathering images of changing climate conditions, alleging that Central Intelligence Agency work with scientists on climate change is sapping the agency's focus on preventing terrorism.
• 2010/01/04: NYT: C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists
  The nation's top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government's intelligence assets -- including spy satellites and other classified sensors -- to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests. The collaboration restarts an effort the Bush administration shut down and has the strong backing of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2010/01/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Obama's First Year a Good One for the Environment

  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2010/01/09: PhysOrg: Yahoo, IBM and H-P win stimulus money for energy projects
• 2010/01/08: Grist: Is the Obama administration about to eat the foodies' lunch?
• 2010/01/08: Grist: The policy and politics of Obama's $2.3 billion in clean energy tax credits
• 2010/01/09: TreeHugger: EPA Puts Methane Mitigation on its To-Do List
• 2010/01/09: AutoBG: DOE announces $2.3 billion for clean tech jobs, including $16.9 million for Think
• 2010/01/06: ProPublica: Stricter Rules for Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Land
• 2010/01/07: Guardian(UK): Obama administration proposes strict new smog standards
• 2010/01/07: Grist: EPA gets tough on smog
• 2010/01/07: Grist: U.S. breaks with 'drill anywhere' energy policy, Salazar announces
• 2010/01/07: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Secretary Salazar announces oil and gas leasing reforms to restore law, order and balance to public land management
• 2010/01/06: NRDC:SwitchBoard: DOE Shows Serious Commitment Toward Creating an Energy Efficient Information Technology Infrastructure
• 2010/01/06: DOE: Secretary Chu Announces $47 Million to Improve Efficiency in Information Technology and Communications Sectors -- Recovery Act Projects to Lower Energy Use by Data Centers and Telecommunications Systems
• 2010/01/07: TreeHugger: US Public Lands Will No Longer Be Oil Industry's Candy Store: Secretary of Interior [Ken Salazar]
• 2010/01/06: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EPA Greenlights More Mountaintop Mining Destruction in Appalachia
• 2010/01/06: TreeHugger: EPA Approves One New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine, Finds 'Path Forward' for Second
• 2010/01/05: NYT:GreenInc: B.L.M. Expedites Review of Energy Projects
• 2010/01/06: DallasNews: EPA rulings could force pollution cuts in Texas
• 2010/01/05: NatureCF: Newsmaker of the Year
• 2010/01/04: SolveClimate: US [BLM] Confirms Plans to 'Fast-Track' Solar on Federal Lands in 3 Western States -- First Wave of 14 Solar Facilities to Bump into Desert Activists
• 2010/01/05: Reuters: New rules to limit wind power in Wyoming
  Wind energy development is "functionally precluded" in about 20 percent of Wyoming under new Bureau of Land Management guidelines laid out on Monday to protect a threatened bird, the governor's office said.
• 2010/01/03: BSD: Federal NEPA environmental rules to consider climate change (except they do already)

  The Obama administration undid another Bush regulation:

• 2010/01/07: TreeHugger: Reversing Bush, EPA Proposes Strictest Ever Smog Standards

  As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2010/01/04: TP:WR: Rep. John Linder (R-Ga): Food Stamps Create 'An Entire Class Of People' Who Are 'Living Off The Government'

  Kerry-Boxer aka CEJAPA defines a battleline:

• 2010/01/08: Reuters: Beleaguered U.S. climate bill seeks Obama lift
  President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech to Congress could indicate how badly he wants a global warming bill, which opponents say will cost U.S. jobs and raise prices -- a scary prospect for politicians trying to ride out a horrible economy in an election year.
• 2010/01/07: Guardian(UK): US climate change legislation Q&A: what will happen in 2010?
• 2010/01/06: ClimateP: Waxman sees push for climate bill in 2010
• 2010/01/05: SF Gate: Bingaman: Cap and trade bill unlikely this year
• 2010/01/03: SF Gate: Climate change bill faces tough Senate fight
  It took Democratic leaders weeks of negotiations, deal-cutting and floor debate before they could squeak a broad health care overhaul bill through the Senate last month. But that was nothing compared to the challenge facing Senate leaders this spring if they press forward with controversial legislation to combat global warming. The plan to cap greenhouse gases blamed for the Earth's rising temperature is complicated by election-year politics and fears about exacerbating the nation's economic woes.
• 2010/01/03: NYT: Where the Action Is on Climate
  Even as many members of Congress resist as too hard or too costly the steps necessary to address global warming, American cities and states -- the largest of which have carbon footprints bigger than those of most nations -- have quietly been making serious commitments to curb emissions. Instead of finding reasons to do nothing, Congress should build on these actions to fashion a national response to climate change.

The Republicans are marshalling forces to kill an EPA CO2 endangerment regulation:

• 2010/01/08: ScienceInsider: Lisa Murkowski Wants Laws, Not Green Eyeshades, to Dictate Carbon Emissions
• 2010/01/08: NYT:GW: Both Sides Gird for Bruising Senate Debate Over EPA Amendment
  Senate climate legislation advocates are bracing for a floor battle this month over a Republican campaign that they fear could drag down efforts to pass a major global warming bill before the real legislative debate can start. Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has the green light to offer an amendment on the Senate floor as soon as Jan. 20 that is aimed at halting U.S. EPA regulations on climate change. Democratic leaders agreed late last month to let Murkowski have the roll call during debate over separate legislation to raise the federal debt ceiling.
• 2010/01/05: WarmingLaw: Happy New Year! Industry Files Lawsuit Seeking to Block Endangerment Finding
• 2010/01/08: TreeHugger: Another Attempt to Block Global Warming Action -- Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) wants block EPA CO2 endangerment regulations
• 2010/01/05: TreeHugger: A Dangerous Quid Pro Quo? EPA To Give UP CO2 Regulation for A Climate Bill?

  What are the lobbyists pushing?

• 2010/01/08: OilChange: US biofuels: "Just throwing money out the window"
• 2010/01/08: AutoBG: Auto Allliance, 13 other organizations tell EPA and DOE to go slow on E15 decision
• 2010/01/06: Reuters: Greens seek review of carbon offsets on U.S. lands
  Conservationists urged Obama administration officials on Wednesday to move cautiously on the use of carbon offsets on public lands, saying the mechanisms may interfere with land managers charged with protecting forests and other lands.
• 2010/01/04: TreeHugger: FollowTheOilMoney.org Shows What Corps Are Buying Which Congress Members

  While in the UK:

• 2010/01/09: Guardian(UK): Our letter to tomorrow
  As the election approaches, we must remember that politicians hold the key to ensuring the survival of our natural world
• 2010/01/08: Guardian(UK): £75bn for UK's biggest offshore wind programme signals new era for renewables
  Crown Estate has revealed successful bidders for nine windfarm sites expected to create tens of thousands of new jobs and help the UK meet clean energy and carbon emission targets
• 2010/01/08: Times(UK): Wind farms could power half of Britain's homes, but jobs could go overseas
• 2010/01/08: BBC: New wind farm zones are announced
  Successful bids for nine new offshore wind farm zone licences within UK waters have been announced. A consortium including Npower and Norway's Statkraft won the licence for the biggest zone, in Dogger Bank, which could produce nine gigawatts of energy. Turbines in the nine zones could generate up to 32 gigawatts of power, a quarter of the UK's electricity needs. The winners have signed exclusive agreements with the Crown Estate, which owns the UK seabed.
• 2010/01/05: Reuters: UK offshore wind costs can fall 40 percent: Carbon Trust
  New technology and careful choice of sites could slash projected costs for Britain's next round of offshore wind farm project by as much as 40 percent, the Carbon Trust, which advises the government, said on Tuesday.
• 2010/01/05: Guardian(UK): Britain must grow more sustainable food, says Benn
• 2010/01/05: SkyNews: Climate Change Warning For UK Farmers
  British farming is about to get political, as climate change and rising prices mean food security will become a major issue.
• 2010/01/05: TreeHugger: England Launches a "Cash for Boilers" Program
• 2010/01/05: BBC: Boiler scrappage scheme launched
  A government scheme that gives households in England £400 off the cost of a new boiler will be launched later.
• 2010/01/04: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Let's steam ahead with high-speed rail for all our major cities

  And in Europe:

• 2010/01/06: SwissInfo: Geothermal sector faces heat of public scrutiny
  Switzerland's fledgling geothermal power industry needs to win back sceptics following the highly publicised failure of a project in Basel, experts have warned. But supporters insisted there is no chance of the promising alternative energy source dying a death in Switzerland despite the Basel experiment ending in earthquake damage and a criminal court case. The Deep Heat Mining project in Basel was officially abandoned last month after triggering earth tremors that caused SFr9 million ($8.7 million) in damage to buildings. The project's boss was taken to court accused of wilful criminal damage, but was acquitted.
• 2010/01/09: Economist: Germany's [feed-in tariffs] solar subsidies - Fed up -- Germany's support for solar power is becoming ever harder to afford
• 2010/01/08: EurActiv: Green activists urge EU to act on Nord Stream gas pipe
  [Nord Stream is a planned natural gas pipeline travelling 1,220 kilometres between Vyborg, Russia, and Greifswald, Germany, under the Baltic Sea.] Estonian environmental groups have asked the European Commission to take action against EU countries that have granted permission to construct the Nord Stream pipeline, accusing them of failing to comply with EU environmental laws.
• 2010/01/07: EuroVoice: EU to review climate strategy in February
• 2010/01/07: BizGreen: Miliband: UK will push EU to raise emissions target to 30 per cent
• 2010/01/06: EurActiv: EU urged to prioritise tackling energy poverty
  To help households struggling to pay their energy bills, a group of NGOs has urged the EU to create strategies to combat fuel poverty in its energy legislation by improving efficiency and building social support structures.
• 2010/01/05: Grist: Sarkozy wants French carbon tax to take effect in July
• 2010/01/05: PlanetArk: France Tries To Thrash Out New Carbon Tax Formula

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2010/01/08: ABC(Au): Government aims for 90pc car emission cuts
  The Federal Government has released proposed new car emission standards which it wants to introduce from 2012.
• 2010/01/08: ABC(Au): An Asian development company has lodged applications for planned solar towers in north-west Victoria
• 2010/01/06: PeakEnergy: Australia's Renewable Energy Future
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Australia bakes through warmest decade on record
  The Bureau of Meteorology says figures showing Australia has experienced its hottest decade since records began in 1910 are clear evidence of climate change.
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Warmest decade proves Abbott 'got it wrong'
  Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says figures released by the Bureau of Meteorology prove the Opposition has got it wrong on climate change.
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): North Qld carbon credit company facing legal action
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has started legal proceedings against a north Queensland carbon credit business. The ACCC alleges Prime Carbon made false or misleading representations including that carbon credits listed on the National Environment Registry were supervised by the Australian Government.
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Locals angry over pipeline plans
  The Victorian Government's vow to proceed with a major water infrastructure project is being condemned by country residents.
• 2010/01/05: Google:AFP: Australia suffers hottest decade as globe warms
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): Warmest decade proves Abbott 'got it wrong'
  Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says figures released by the Bureau of Meteorology prove the Opposition has got it wrong on climate change.
• 2010/01/05: ABC(Au): The New South Wales Farmers Association has renewed calls for the Federal Government to initiate a royal commission into the science behind climate change
• 2010/01/04: ABC(Au): Queensland coal industry 'cautiously optimistic' about 2010
• 2010/01/04: GWWatch: To watch in 2010: Tony Abbott vs Tony Abbott

  And in the Indian subcontinent:

• 2010/01/08: BBerg: India Will Meet Its Copenhagen Climate Commitment, [environment minister Jairam] Ramesh Says
  India will include its proposal to limit greenhouse gases through 2020 in the Copenhagen climate- change agreement, meeting a pledge made last month, the environment minister said. The fourth-biggest polluter from burning fossil fuels will submit its plan to be part of the international declaration and can carry it out without needing funds from richer nations, Jairam Ramesh said in an interview in New Delhi.
• 2010/01/06: PTI: India's climate change stand invited criticism in 2009
• 2010/01/04: NatureN: India's nuclear future -- Srikumar Banerjee, head of India's Atomic Energy Commission, outlines plans for the country's energy supply
• 2010/01/04: IndiaTimes: Copenhagen Accord disappointing: PM Manmohan Singh
  In a departure from the line taken by his environment minister, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed his disappointment over the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. Addressing the 97th Indian Science Congress on Sunday, the Prime Minister said nations "made limited progress" at the climate change conference at Copenhagen and that "no one was satisfied with the outcome". Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has maintained that India had protected its interests. Even so, Mr Ramesh acknowledges that the Copenhagen Accord has "in-built hazards" for developing countries.

While in China:

• 2010/01/07: EnvFin: Experts split on significance of China's new green energy law
• 2010/01/07: PlanetArk: Cold Snap Spurs Power Rationing In China
• 2010/01/07: Reuters: China 2009 power output from majority plants up 6.7 pct
• 2010/01/05: Guardian(UK): Speculation over change in role for Chinese climate negotiator
  Media outlets in Hong Kong suggest He Yafei has been punished for failing to smooth relations at Copenhagen between China, the US and Europe

And in Africa:

• 2010/01/07: Reuters: Morocco to invite bids for solar station in Feb
  Morocco will invite bids for construction of its first solar power station at the end of next month as part of a $9 billion solar energy project, its energy minister said on Wednesday. The 500-megawatt plant will be in the southern town of Ouarzazate, the site where Morocco's ruler, King Mohammed, announced the launch of the nationwide solar project last year.
• 2010/01/05: NYT:CW: South Africa Wants to Cut Emissions, but Lacks Policies to Match Its Rhetoric
• 2010/01/03: Nation(Ke): Climate change gnaws at our growth projections

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

• 2010/01/08: CanWest: The Yes Men accuse Canada of wiping out 4,500 websites after climate-change hoax
• 2010/01/07: WpgFP: Ottawa orders study into environmental, health effects of making renewable fuels
• 2010/01/05: VC: Canadians Unhappy with Harper's Performance at Copenhagen Summit
• 2010/01/04: APOV: Harper And Climate Change: Because Ignoring It Will Somehow Make It Go Away
• 2010/01/04: OSun: Canada lags world in high-speed rail -- Study for Quebec City-Windsor corridor expected by spring

  The Tories have been cavalier in ignoring environmental assessments:

• 2010/01/03: CanWest: Tories have ignored environmental assessment panel, member says
  A federal panel that advises the government on the environmental impact of new economic development has been left on the sidelines for nearly two years, Canwest News Service has learned. Throughout this time, sweeping changes to regulations have been passed, effectively exempting thousands of projects from mandatory evaluations. ``We haven't had any notice that the minister has dissolved the committee, but it's kind of awkward to have a committee that doesn't meet,'' said Gary Schneider, who sits on the panel. Schneider, the co-chairman of the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island, said the last meeting of the Regulatory Advisory Committee was in the spring of 2008. But, he said, no consultations were held with the panel in 2009, as the government introduced a series of exemptions for new infrastructure projects. More than 90 per cent of thousands of new projects receiving funding from the Harper government will proceed without a federal environmental assessment,
• 2010/01/03: POGGE: Environmental assessments? We don't need no stinking environmental assessments!

  The RCMP arrested & released Wiebo Ludwig regarding the EnCana bombings:

• 2010/01/10: CanWest: Police release Wiebo Ludwig without pressing charges -- Lawyer wants to know why client arrested
  A fter hours of police interrogation, controversial oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig walked out of a police station facing no charges Saturday, but clearly at the centre of a major police investigation into a series of pipeline bombings in northeastern B.C. Despite Ludwig's release, police said they remain confident they arrested the right man. RCMP Insp. Tim Shields said prosecutors are still reviewing the recommended charges. He added that new evidence had been gathered in the previous 24 hours that could add to the case.
• 2010/01/09: CBC: No charges as Ludwig returns home
  Convicted bomber Wiebo Ludwig has been released from a jail in Grande Prairie, Alta., without charges being laid as police continue to search his property as part of their investigation into a series of attacks on pipelines in British Columbia. After spending the night in custody, Ludwig said little to reporters on Saturday, but showed his disdain for the oil and gas industry. "I just want to go home, connect the dots and see where we go from here," he said as he walked to his truck, where his son and wife were waiting. "Someone still has to fight the oil and gas industry." The longtime activist was arrested Friday after agreeing to meet with an investigator in the case. Shortly after the arrest, Ludwig's lawyer said he believed the Mounties would charge his client with extortion. Police are investigating six natural gas pipeline bombings near Dawson Creek, B.C., since October 2008, along with letters demanding that Calgary-based energy company EnCana cease operations.
• 2010/01/08: CTV: Wiebo Ludwig faces extortion charge in pipeline blasts
• 2010/01/08: CBC: Convicted bomber arrested in B.C. pipeline blasts
  Wiebo Ludwig, an Alberta activist convicted of bombing oil and gas wells in the 1990s, has been arrested and faces an extortion charge in connection with more recent bombings at EnCana pipelines in northeastern B.C., according to his Edmonton lawyer. "I can advise you that that I've been told by the RCMP that Rev. Ludwig is in custody under arrest, and he is to be charged with one count of extortion," Paul Moreau told CBC News on Friday.

After the Joint Review Panel delivered its report, the National Energy Board will hold hearings:

• 2010/01/06: CBC: Mackenzie pipeline hearings set for April
  The National Energy Board (NEB) will hold a final round of hearings in mid-April on the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline in the Northwest Territories. If approved, the 1,200-kilometre natural gas pipeline would be built through the N.W.T.'s Mackenzie Valley to link northern gas with existing networks in Alberta.
• 2010/01/04: PlanetArk: Canada Pipeline Report May Help Unlock Federal Funds

  Corporate lobbyists have their claws firmly entrenched in Ottawa:

• 2010/01/10: CanWest: Prentice leads way in contact with lobbyists
  Ottawa's lobbying industry reported communicating with members of the Harper cabinet more than 1,500 times last year, posting more contacts with Environment Minister Jim Prentice than any other minister. A Citizen analysis of communications reports filed by registered lobbyists shows that, on average, about seven times every working day in 2009, a lobbyist spoke on the phone to a Conservative cabinet minister spoke or met one in person. With the environment near the top of the public agenda this year, Prentice's door swung open the widest for lobbyists, with 136 face-to-face or telephone contacts reported in the year, the data show.

Late news on Copenhagen:

• 2010/01/08: CanWest: Canada signs Copenhagen pact -- Cuba to opt out; Greenhouse gas cut only 3% from 1990

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2010/01/08: CanWest: Oilsands 'hidden truths' revealed in documents -- Gov't keeping mum, conservation group says
  Newly released federal documents reveal potentially inconvenient truths about the environmental impact of Alberta's oilsands industry, as well as the risks and economic costs of the Harper government's climate change strategy. The documents take aim at a government assessment of the oilsands sector prepared by the Natural Resources Department. Officials from Environment Canada, who reviewed the assessment warned that it reflected the views of oil companies and not the facts.
• 2010/01/07: G&M: Oil sands producers prefer B.C. carbon rules
  Industry fears further adoption of California's approach to low-carbon fuel standards, which will impose a greater regulatory burden Canada's oil industry can live with U.S. states adopting low-carbon fuel standards, so long as they follow British Columbia's oil-sands-friendly model rather than the California approach. As dozens of American states pursue climate-change regulations aimed at transportation fuels, the Alberta-based industry is focusing on the crucial details of the proposed rules, rather than aggressively opposing their adoption. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) points to B.C.'s low-carbon fuel standard as a model that does not impose a discriminatory regulatory burden on oil sands producers. British Columbia adopted low-carbon fuel rules last month. Unlike California regulations, the B.C. version treats all gasoline the same in terms of carbon intensity, whether it is derived from oil sands bitumen or conventional light crude.
• 2010/01/08: AD: "Biased, and thus not credible or serving the public good"
• 2010/01/07: G&M: U.S. carbon rules pose oil sands hurdles -- Eleven American states join push to develop a common low-carbon fuel standard
  Canada's oil sands producers face the prospect of a patchwork of costly climate regulations in their key U.S. markets as American states step up their efforts to adopt California-style low-carbon fuel standards. Dozens of states are moving ahead with regulations that would penalize more carbon-intensive fuels like those made from oil sands bitumen, and encourage the use of greener alternatives. The states are proceeding amid growing doubts about President Barack Obama's ability to get cap-and-trade legislation through Congress this year.
• 2010/01/07: TreeHugger: China Now Controls Majority Of Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands Corp

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

• 2010/01/05: Grist: Economics as pathology, part two
• 2010/01/05: CCurrents: Earth Itself Has Become Disposable
• 2010/01/01: ESC: Why Ecological Revolution?
  It is now universally recognized within science that humanity is confronting the prospect -- if we do not soon change course -- of a planetary ecological collapse. Not only is the global ecological crisis becoming more and more severe, with the time in which to address it fast running out, but the dominant environmental strategies are also forms of denial, demonstrably doomed to fail, judging by their own limited objectives.
• 2010/01/04: Guardian(UK): After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable
  Consumerism has, as Huxley feared, changed all of us -- we'd rather hop to a brave new world than rein in our spending
• 2010/01/04: OilDrum: Dennis Meadows - Economics and Limits to Growth: What's Sustainable?
• 2009/03/12: GP: The "Great Disruption"

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

• 2010/01/08: UNDispatch: The One Billion Dollar Opportunity
• 2010/01/06: WestmeathExaminer: Our planet is now overstocked!
• 2010/01/05: BBC: MPs call for '70m population cap'
  A cross-party group of MPs and peers have called on the main parties to make a manifesto pledge not to allow the UK's population to exceed 70 million. Former minister Frank Field is among those arguing current immigration rates, unless restricted, will impact on public services and quality of life.
• 2010/01/05: AlterNet: Legal Abortion Is a Fundamental Right -- Why Do We Often Forget That?
• 2010/01/03: ClimateP: Paul Ehrlich interview on World Population

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2010/01/04: ClimateP: The year climate science caught up with what top scientists have been saying privately for years
  Key aspects of the climate are changing faster than expected and if we stay on our current emissions path, we face catastrophe

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2010/01/08: DeSmogBlog: BBC Trots Out Skeptic Benny Peiser To Question Global Warming In A Snow Storm
• 2010/01/08: ClimateP: NYT's David Brooks: "I totally accept the scientific authorities who say that global warming is real and that it is manmade."
• 2010/01/07: CJR: Just in Time for Winter -- Homans on weathermen as climate skeptics
• 2010/01/08: ClimateShifts: Fox News hosts and reporters routinely lie about global warming: a round up by Media Matters
• 2010/01/06: Guardian(UK): BBC Trust to review science coverage
• 2010/01/06: BBC: Trust to review impartiality in science coverage

  On useful discussion in the blogosphere:

• 2010/01/08: HuffPo: Charles Johnson Got Threats After Breaking With Right, Relocated

  Here is something for your library:

• 2010/01/06: MongaBay: Could space technology save our planet?
  [Book Review] _Paradise Regained: the Regreening of Earth_ by Les Johnson, Gregory Matloff & C. Bangs
• 2010/01/05: TreeHugger: [Book Review] _Prosperity Without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet_ by Tim Jackson
• 2010/01/04: HotTopic: [Book Review] _Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis_ by various authors, edited by Eileen Crist & Bruce Rinker

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2010/01/08: Guardian(UK): The Road brings fictional ecological disasters into the here and now
• 2010/01/06: TreeHugger: Conservative Blogger Unveils Secret Environmentalist AVATAR Plot to Make People Care About Others
• 2010/01/04: Grist: Climate science is older and better established than you think

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2010/01/05: WarmingLaw: Happy New Year! Industry Files Lawsuit Seeking to Block Endangerment Finding
• 2010/01/05: TreeHugger: LG Gets More Green Rankings From UL Environment, and Sues DoE for Stripping Its Energy Star Labels [courts]
• 2010/01/05: NetInt:TWMB: Suing Shell
  Four farmers and a fisher from three villages in the Niger Delta together with Friends of the Earth Netherlands are suing Shell over environmental destruction of their land and fishing ponds. The case is being heard in The Hague, which has now confirmed that the Dutch courts do have jurisdiction over Shell Nigeria.

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

• 2010/01/10: PeakEnergy: Small British Company Bets on Tidal Power
• 2010/01/06: SwissInfo: Geothermal sector faces heat of public scrutiny
• 2010/01/09: OilDrum: Is the United Kingdom facing a natural gas shortage?
• 2010/01/08: REA: When Will Renewable Energy Companies Overtake Traditional Energy Companies?
• 2010/01/07: DerSpiegel: Tidal Energy -- Tapping the Power of the Sea
  In Great Britain and other European countries, companies are preparing to use the energy of ocean waves and tides to produce electricity. The UK is hoping to produce as much as 5 percent of its electricity needs with tidal power plants.
• 2010/01/08: ScienceCareers: Taken for Granted: A Shot at Transforming America's Energy Future [with ultracapacitors]
• 2010/01/07: PlanetArk: Oil Above $83 As Cold Snap Continues 10-day Rally
• 2010/01/07: PlanetArk: Energy Use Surges As Cold Shocks Northern Hemisphere
• 2010/01/07: WSJ:EnvCap: Go East: Asia tops Americas in 2009 Renewable Energy Spending
• 2010/01/06: BBC: The power, glory and controversy -- Scotland looks to profit from green energy era
• 2010/01/06: PeakEnergy: Australia's Renewable Energy Future
• 2010/01/06: PeakEnergy: Ocean waves -- our new electricity supplier
• 2010/01/05: PlanetArk: Iberian Power Prices Bounce Back As Wind Drops
• 2010/01/04: MWDN: Renewable energy faces difficulties
• 2010/01/04: CBC: Will rising oil prices derail recovery?
• 2010/01/04: CalcRisk: Oil Prices Push Above $81 per Barrel
• 2010/01/04: MENAFN: Iraqi oil production to reach over 11m bpd within 5 years

  Fracking is in the spotlight in New York:

• 2010/01/05: PlanetArk: NYC Urges Ban On Shale Gas Drilling In Watershed
• 2010/01/04: CBC: Total makes $2B shale gas bet in U.S. -- Moves to back Chesapeake Energy
• 2010/01/04: PlanetArk: EPA Questions New York State Plan To Drill for Shale Gas
• 2010/01/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: NY Legislators Agree: Governor Must Throw Out Gas Drilling Study, Start Over
• 2010/01/04: Tennessean: TVA's natural gas plan draws fire -- Environmentalists say drilling causes problems underground
• 2010/01/04: TheStreet: Chesapeake, Total in $2.25B Shale Gas Deal
  Chesapeake Energy...said a U.S. unit of France's Total...will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake's upstream Barnett Shale assets in a $2.25 billion joint venture. Total will pay $800 million in cash at closing and an additional $1.45 billion by funding 60% of Chesapeake's drilling and completion costs until the $1.45 billion obligation has been funded. Chesapeake expects that to occur by the end of 2012. The closing of the transaction is anticipated by the end of this month, Chesapeake said in a statement Monday.

The answer my friend...:

• 2010/01/06: PlanetArk: Kenya Plans To Put Up 10 MW Wind Energy Project
• 2010/01/05: TreeHugger: Cape Wind Faces New Spiritual Opposition From Native Americans
• 2010/01/05: SciDaily: Smart Wind Turbines Can Predict the Wind [with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner]
• 2010/01/04: ICT: Small-scale turbines get praise in Alaska villages
• 2010/01/04: TreeHugger: Why China and Europe Invest More in US Wind Power than the US Does
• 2009/12/31: GARP RE: Blowing in the Wind
  Despite all the hot air coming out of Washington on the need to bolster the renewable energy sector, much of the recent investment in American wind technology and wind farms stems from places like Japan, China, and Europe. New wind energy projects, it seems, are having difficulty locating funding and gaining traction in the U.S. With an unemployment rate hovering at ten percent, it's a wonder that a sector with such promise for growth and job creation has to go overseas to get a helping hand. What gives? Three elements stand out: frozen credit lines, regulatory and legislative uncertainty, and risk aversion to new projects.

Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2010/01/08: NYT: China Tries a New Tack to Go Solar [Thermal]
• 2010/01/06: Grist: Solar energy's dirty little secret
• 2010/01/07: PeakEnergy: World's largest solar project [420 mw Solargen Energy in Panoche Valley] prompts environmental debate
• 2010/01/06: PlanetArk: Sharp, Enel, STMicro To Jointly Make Solar Cells
• 2010/01/06: TreeHugger: Solar Technology Takes the Salt Out of Ponds on the Cheap
• 2010/01/06: Eureka: University of Nevada, Reno researcher devises new solar pond distillation system
  Renewable energy methods hold hope for terminus lake water quality worldwide Ecosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane distillation system powered by renewable energy.
• 2010/01/06: GTM: Massachusetts: The Next Hot Solar Market?
• 2010/01/04: SF Gate: Small-scale solar plan clashes with big energy

  On the coal front:

• 2010/01/04: CCurrents: Coal And Its Ruptured Landscape; Navigating The Ruins Of Appalachia
• 2010/01/05: DVoice: Coal and Its Ruptured Landscape -- Navigating the Ruins of Appalachia

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2010/01/06: FuturePundit: Study Questions Ethanol Subsidies
• 2010/01/07: WSJ:EnvCap: Cornyation: Good Days for Ethanol, Bad for Biodiesel
• 2010/01/07: Eureka: Scientists' breakthrough in production of biofuels [microbubbles]
• 2010/01/06: KUOW: Skagit Farmers Wary Of Biofuel Crops
• 2010/01/06: PhysOrg: Japanese project aims to turn CO2 into natural gas [using sea floor bacteria]
• 2010/01/06: PhysOrg: Study: US biofuels policies flawed
• 2010/01/05: UIllinois: Miscanthus, a biofuels crop, can host western corn rootworm
• 2010/01/03: AutoBG: Expiration of biodiesel subsidy ends bad year for industry
• 2010/01/04: AutoBG: 2000-2009: The Ethanol Decade?

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2010/01/10: Times(UK): A nuclear reactor that could fit in the shed -- Companies are rolling out plans to make thousands of mini power stations
• 2010/01/09: PeakEnergy: this place is best shunned and left uninhabited
• 2010/01/07: NBF: China has 21.9 Gigawatts of Nuclear Power Under Construction and More Nuclear Plant Uprates
• 2010/01/04: EurActiv: Lithuania shuts Soviet-era nuclear plant
• 2010/01/04: NatureN: India's nuclear future -- Srikumar Banerjee, head of India's Atomic Energy Commission, outlines plans for the country's energy supply

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2010/01/07: NewYorker: The Future of Phosphorous
• 2010/01/06: OilDrum: Iraq Could Delay Peak Oil a Decade
• 2010/01/06: OilDrum: What can communities do for peak oil mitigation, in recessionary times?
• 2010/01/07: OilChange: Is Iraq a "Game-Changer" for Peak Oil?
• 2010/01/05: OilDrum: Heads in the Sand? Or, Why Don't Governments Talk about Peak Oil?
• 2010/01/05: PeakEnergy: Iraq Could Delay Peak Oil a Decade
• 2010/01/03: EnergyBulletin: The Peak Oil Year 2009

  More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2010/01/10: Telegraph(UK): UK plans for most ambitious offshore wind project in the world will need 'supergrid'
  Britain will have to be connected to a 'supergrid' with northern Europe to realise Gordon Brown's plans to provide more than a quarter of electricity needs from offshore wind.
• 2010/01/06: EUO: Giant offshore grid to link up north-western Europe
  Nine north-western European countries are planning a giant underwater energy grid in the North Sea linked to wind farms, tidal power stations and hydroelectric plants. Thousands of kilometers of high-tech energy cables are set to be laid on the seabed of the North Sea in the coming ten years, in what will become Europe's groundbreaking energy park, Germany's Sueddeutsche newspaper reports.
• 2010/01/06: EarthTimes: 43-billion-dollar North Sea green energy [grid] plan unveiled
• 2010/01/06: DerSpiegel: The World from Berlin -- 'The European Answer to the Failed Climate Summit in Copenhagen'
  An international power grid for green energy planned in Northern Europe could usher in a new era in both carbon-free power and cross-border competition among the continent's energy firms. But it's still a long way off, argue German commentators.
• 2010/01/05: DerSpiegel: 30 Billion Euro Project -- Europe Plans New Power Grid to Boost Green Energy
  Nine countries in northern Europe are hoping to boost renewable energies by creating a new grid to balance out weather-related fluctuations, according to a German newspaper report. The 30 billion euro project is urgently needed to help boost green power and combat climate change.
• 2010/01/04: PeakEnergy: Sun, wind and wave-powered: Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'
• 2010/01/04: BizGreen: Sun, wind and wave-powered: Europe unites to build renewable energy "supergrid"

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2010/01/05: USAToday: Demand for upgraded energy efficiency at home is weak
• 2010/01/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Efficient TVs Coming to California
• 2010/01/05: TreeHugger: Super Smooth: Magnetic Bearings Glide Closer to the Mainstream

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

• 2010/01/10: ClimateP: 2010's Triumphs & Challenges for Plug-In Vehicles
• 2010/01/08: PhysOrg: Sanyo rolls electric bicycles into US market
• 2010/01/04: FuturePundit: Yet Another Promising Battery Chemistry
• 2010/01/07: FuturePundit: Electric Bikes Big In China
• 2010/01/07: FuturePundit: Battery Costs For Electric Cars Versus Prius
• 2010/01/08: FuturePundit: Boston Consulting Group On Electric Car Battery Costs
• 2010/01/09: AutoBG: 2010 Toyota Yaris starts at £10,256 in the UK, gets up to 46 mpg (U.S.)
• 2010/01/08: Guardian(UK): China overtakes US as world's biggest car market
  13.5m vehicles sold in China in 2009, 10.4m in US - China sees 45% growth in car industry year-on-year
• 2010/01/08: AutoBG: Study: Battery electric vehicles unlikely to be cost competitive
• 2010/01/07: NYT: Study Raises Cost Estimate for Electric Cars
• 2010/01/07: HotTopic: Lester Brown: US falling out of love with cars
• 2010/01/07: BBC: Annual car sales near two million
  Sales of new cars in the UK reached almost two million last year, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has said. Although the number of registrations was the lowest level since 1995, sales in the latter half of the year were boosted by the scrappage scheme. Full-year sales fell 6.4% from 2008's total to 1,994,999 vehicles.
• 2010/01/05: Reuters: U.S. scrapped more cars than bought new ones
  The United States scrapped 14 million autos while buying only 10 million last year, shrinking the country's car and light duty truck fleet to 246 million from a record high of 250 million, according to the report to be released on Wednesday by nonprofit group the Earth Policy Institute (EPI).
• 2010/01/06: BizInsider: U.S. Car Ownership Takes Biggest Dive Since 1960 -- Americans' car fleet dropped by four million vehicles in 2009
• 2010/01/06: BBC: US car firms see sales collapse
  US car makers have reported plummeting car sales following a tough year for the industry. General Motors saw sales fall by 30% in 2009, while Chrysler reported its worst annual sales for 47 years. Sales at Ford, which avoided bankruptcy last year, fell 15%, though it saw its first gain in market share since 1995. Total US car sale in 2009 were at their lowest levels for nearly 30 years, according to figures from the research company Autodata.
• 2010/01/06: TSun: December upbeat for Canadian cars -- After a year of decline, sales rebound in final month
  [...]
  According to data released yesterday by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, Can- adian light vehicle sales were down 10.7% to 1.46 million units in 2009 -- their lowest level since 1998 and the largest year-over-year drop since 1990. Four of the five biggest automakers saw substantial Canadian sales declines last year, but General Motors took the biggest hit with a 29.1% drop. Chrysler's sales for the year were down 26.7%, Honda saw a 19.1% drop and Toyota sold 9.5% fewer cars. Of Canada's biggest automakers, only Ford managed to secure a positive number for the year, with sales up 6.8%.
• 2010/01/05: CalcRisk: Ford: December U.S. Sales up 32.8% Compared to 2008
  Chrysler Dec. U.S. sales fall 3.7% to 86,523 -- GM Dec. U.S. sales fall 6.1% -- Toyota Dec. U.S. auto sales up 32% to 187,860
• 2010/01/05: CalcRisk: U.S. Light Vehicle Sales 11.25 Million SAAR in December
• 2010/01/05: Grist: Electric car Think to be assembled in U.S. in 2011
• 2010/01/05: AutoBG: Report: Number of cars in the U.S. dropped by four million in 2009 - is America's love affair ending?

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

• 2010/01/07: BBC: Motor industry faces scrappage hangover
• 2010/01/05: AutoBG: China extends vehicle scrappage scheme, increases maximum bonus

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2010/01/10: Guardian(UK): McDonald's seeks to cut cows' methane emissions
• 2010/01/07: EnvFin: Almost half of asset managers ignoring climate - Ceres
• 2010/01/06: SolveClimate: Cleantech Investing Drops 33% in 2009, But Recovery Hope Grows -- Sector Continues to Strengthen, Despite Lack of a Climate Treaty
• 2010/01/07: Guardian(UK): Top British firms drag their feet to reduce carbon footprints
  24 firms account for 87% of emissions by FTSE 100 companies -- 77% of FTSE firms will aim to cut pollution by 2.5% a year
• 2010/01/07: Reuters: FTSE 100 firms on track to meet UK 2020 CO2 target - cut CO2 by 34-42 pct by 2020
• 2010/01/06: SolveClimate: Investor Survey Finds Asset Managers Fail to Weigh Climate Change Risks

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2010/01/07: EnvFin: Climate change worsening natural catastrophe rate - Munich Re
• 2010/01/04: Wunderground: A quiet 2009 for natural disasters

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

• 2010/01/08: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for January 8...
• 2010/01/07: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for January 7th...
• 2010/01/06: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for January 6...
• 2010/01/05: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for January 5...
• 2010/01/04: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for January 4...

  Other (weekly) lists:

• 2010/01/07: Grist: A Walk Through the Week's Climate News -- Climate Post: Warming apparently takes extra time off for holidays
• 2010/01/08: HuffPo: Weekly Mulch: Climate Reform's Good, Bad, and Ugly

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2010/01/08: DeSmogBlog: Climate Criminal Action Figures?
• 2010/01/06: RS: The Climate Killers -- Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming
• 2010/01/06: RS: As the World Burns
  How Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block progress on global warming
• 2010/01/09: ClimateP: Rolling Stone on "The Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe."
• 2010/01/09: DeSmogBlog: TV Weathermen -- the Carbon Lobby's "Useful Idiots"
• 2010/01/09: TBWDW: Sources and resources for investigating climate denialism
• 2010/01/08: ERabett: The Mikes have the Willies
• 2010/01/08: MTobis: Bad Guys
• 2010/01/08: MoD: The fact that denier science is rejected by the peer-reviewed literature is not evidence of bias, or conspiracy
• 2010/01/07: CJR: Just in Time for Winter -- Homans on weathermen as climate skeptics
• 2010/01/: CJR: Hot Air -- Why don't TV weathermen believe in climate change?
• 2010/01/08: Grist: Scientists demand meeting to talk climate with head of American Farm Bureau
• 2010/01/08: ClimateShifts: Pseudo "CO2 Science"
• 2009/12/29: BuffaloBeast: 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains
• 2010/01/08: IoD: The climate change boycott gambit
• 2010/01/08: HotTopic: Oops, he did it again
• 2010/01/07: ClimateP: Meteorological Malpractice: Accuweather's Joe Bastardi pushes the "70s Ice Age Scare" myth again
• 2010/01/07: YaLibnan: The Flat Earth Society Is Alive and Doing Well In Saudi Arabia
• 2010/01/06: TWTB: It's 2010 and cosmic rays still aren't driving climate change
• 2010/01/07: AlterNet: The 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains
• 2010/01/05: JKB: MEP Roger Helmer's yearly climate conference
• 2010/01/04: MR: Cockburn on Global Warming: A Rebuttal
• 2010/01/05: DeSmogBlog: Hilarious Conspiracy Movie Features Lesser Canadian Denier
• 2010/01/05: ERabett: Cockburning
• 2010/01/04: Stoat: A child's garden of wikipedia, part I
• 2010/01/05: OilChange: IPCC: Watch out for the Sceptics and Lobbyists
• 2010/01/05: IoD: Brit Hume: Televangelist and climate change pseudo-skeptic [video]
• 2010/01/04: ERabett: Getting there first
• 2010/01/04: TreeHugger: Whole Foods' John Mackey a Climate Change Skeptic?!? Seems So.
• 2010/01/04: TreeHugger: IPCC Head Pachauri Says Climate Skeptics, Lobbyists Will Ramp Up Efforts to Sabotage 2010 Global Deal
• 2010/01/04: DeSmogBlog: Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Also a Global Warming Denier
• 2010/01/04: HotTopic: Popgun for hire: A$20,000
• 2010/01/04: TCoE: War is Peace, indeed
• 2010/01/03: ClimateP: Anti-science disinformers step up efforts to intimidate and harass climate scientists

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2010/01/09: ClimateShifts: Rolling Stone magazine weighs in on climate change
• 2010/01/10: KlimaZwiebel: A student is asking .... five questions
• 2010/01/08: TCoE: Climate literacy
• 2010/01/08: CCurrents: Fight Climate Change: Live The Good Life
• 2010/01/07: SolveClimate: 7 Energy Efficient Gadgets that Could Be 2010 Game-Changers -- CES Opens in Vegas with an Eye on Efficiency
• 2010/01/06: TS:QuarkSoup: More on Chris Mooney's Wrong Information
• 2010/01/06: ClimateP: Can U.S. skiing be saved?
• 2010/01/05: OpenDem: Can consumers save our climate?
  After Copenhagen, can market forces -- and consumers in particular -- help address global warming?
• 2010/01/05: TCoE: The battle rages on
• 2010/01/04: TBWDW: Global warming messages for children of all ages
• 2010/01/04: Stoat: Ask Stoat
• 2010/01/03: MoD: Quote of the day -- Stephan Faris

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

• GeoEngineering Watch
• WMO: Intergovernmental Meeting for the High-Level Taskforce on the Global Framework for Climate Services (Geneva, Switzerland, 11-12 January 2010)
• MediaMatters: Global Warming
• SEasterbrook: Serendipity
• EPI: Earth Policy Institute
• EcoSocialism Canada
• DOE:EIA: Country Energy Profiles
• TBWDW: The Boy Who Denied Wolf
• ENS: Environment News Service
• Follow the Coal Money
• Follow the Oil Money
• Population Institute
• NAP: What you need to know about energy...

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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