Another week of GW News, August 15, 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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk.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.

"Before we worried if climate change was loading the dice, now we have to start thinking about whether climate change is loading the gun." -Eli Rabbet

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Holy crap -- just reading the headlines was a lot of work. It's an impressive compilation, to say the least.
On a previous version the decline of Fraser River sockeye was mentioned. That has been ongoing ... until this year. We don't know why, but it looks like we're in for a pretty huge run in 2010. A judicial inquiry was called after last year's dismal return -- the results of that inquiry when released will be juxtaposed with an environment of abundance.

Sorry to hijack the thread: big news on this Fraser River sockeye thing. Please go out and buy some Fraser sockeye.

Another week of GW News, August 15, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

Another week of Climate Instability News

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

August 15, 2010

It's always nice to start with a smile, however twisted:

And for those who enjoy challenging Poe's Law:

Looking back at the recently completed Bonn meeting:

Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

And at Klimaforum10:

The Jet Stream is being fingered as a significant factor in the recent chaotic weather:

The Question, asked by Michael and many others, has echoed in the blogosphere and around the world:

The floods and lanslides have been nonstop in China for two months:

The wildfires in Russia are intense:

Pakistan's monsoon floods are epic:

And on the Bottom Line:

Late coverage of that Ecuadorian oil deal:

A week ago, 1 Sky asked a question. So far, I have seen two answers, one straight & one Machiavellian:

Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:

Late Comment on the State of the Climate Report:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

As for the charismatic megafauna:

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

The food crisis is ongoing:

That Russian court ruled against saving the Pavlovsk Experimental Station's irreplaceable seed library:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

Regarding genetic modification of food plants:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

TD5 spun up close to shore in the Caribbean and Dianmu zapped South Korea, then Japan:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for the Monsoon:

The suggestion has been made that the European floods would be more properly called a Monsoon:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Clouds are one of the major uncertainties in climate. Much research revolves around them:

Regarding the solar hypothesis:

Yes we have a Tipping Point sighting:

And the State of the Oceans:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

This week in extreme weather:

With the odd tornado:

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:

Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation has somehow seemed chimeric:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

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

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

Regarding Gavin Schmidt:

A Schneider interview:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

While at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

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:

As for SW tools:

Among the world's religions:

After making Water a human right, here is something for the global community to consider:

And on the American political front:

The BP disaster still has America by the short hairs:

So, how do you figure the 2010 elections will crack up?

The Inter Agency Task Force report on Carbon Capture and Sequestration was reported variously:

The Digg scheme still has people teed off:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress: