Another week of GW News, June 20, 2010

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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk.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.

-het

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

"It is difficult for people living now, who have become accustomed to the steady exponential growth in the consumption of energy from fossil fuels, to realize how transitory the fossil fuel epoch will eventually prove to be when it is viewed over a longer span of human history. The situation can better be seen in the perspective of some 10,000 years, half before the present and half afterward. On such a scale the complete cycle of the exploitation of the world's fossil fuels will be seen to encompass perhaps 1,300 years, with the principal segment of the cycle (defined as the period during which all but the first 10 percent and the last 10 percent of the fuels are extracted and burned) covering only about 300 years."
-M. King Hubbert, Scientific American, September 1971, Page 61

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Another week of GW News, June 20, 2010

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Sipping from the internet firehose...

June 20, 2010

It's always nice to start with a larf:

And for those interested in exploring the nether reaches of Poe's Law:

Tomorrow is summer solstice. Happy midsummer night's eve:

Post Bonn chatter:

The BASIC group has scheduled a meeting at Rio:

Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

Post Cochabamba:

Companies and countries complicit in Kyoto fraud?

The Nature/UC spat gave me an excuse to exercise my hobby horse again:

Science did a special report on Changing Oceans which generated some follow-up:

A report asserts CO2 levels link tropical and arctic water temperatures over the past 2.7 million years:

And on the Bottom Line:

Subsidies, tax exemptions, loan guarantees & grants weave a difficult to penetrate web:

A Mediterranean Carbon Fund is being planned for 2011:

Here's one of those studies I would like to see replicated:

And another:

Regarding the IPCC review process and suggestions:

Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:

Late comment on the Beeville hoax:

Late coverage of the IPY-OSC:

Late comment on IPBES:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

As for the charismatic megafauna:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The OECD & FAO published the _Agricultural Outlook 2010_ this week:

One report. Two headlines. Compare:

Look out! the IP Rentiers are coming!

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Blas & Celia are blowing around the Eastern Pacific, while the Atlantic saw only numbered storms:

And elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for the Monsoon:

GHGs are up, up, up:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Aerosols are making their presence felt:

While in the paleoclimate:

Regarding the solar hypothesis:

The cliff, aka tipping points, aka planetary boundaries, put in an appearance:

As for ocean currents:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Desertification looms as a threat:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

This week in extreme weather:

A while ago someone was wondering what to call these unusually heavy downpours which have been cropping up. As someone in Illinois remarked, "We seem to be having these 500 year floods every second year." The name that seems right to me is "Global Warming Deluge":

Meanwhile in tornado alley:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Corals are dying:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

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

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

Regarding Josh Cinner:

Regarding Bob Watson:

Regarding David King:

Regarding Stefan Rahmstorf:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

The proposed G20 Bank Tax is turning into a tussle:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world:

What are the activists up to?

Polls! We have polls!

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

The Lancet reports that groundwater arsenic poisoning is widespread in Bangladesh:

As for SW tools:

And on the American political front: