Another week of GW News, August 22, 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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk.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's a sad, corrupt state of affairs this country finds itself in. I wish I had some hopeful words to offer. But at this point, American government appears to be broken. And our children and grandchildren will suffer for it." -Dave Roberts, on the failure of the climate bill

Another week of GW News, August 22, 2010

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Another week of Climate Disruption News

Sipping from the internet firehose...

August 22, 2010

More black humour in a climatic vein:

And for those who enjoy challenging Poe's Law:

Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

Apparently there is a finance minister's meeting coming up in Geneva next month:

The Himalayan nations had a tech chat in Kathmandu regarding water and ...:

The Australian Academy of Science issued a report on climate change this week:

The McShane & Wyner preprint is drawing a lot of negative comment:

Another one of those 'oh oh' studies... Global plant growth diminishing over the last decade:

The Question, asked by Michael and many others, continues to disturb:

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

The wildfires in Russia are dying down:

Pakistan's monsoon floods are epic, A major disaster:

Ummmm. Let's see. Which way is up?

The planet Earth is in annual overshoot as of August 21st. For the rest of the year we are 'drawing down' our remaining resources:

John Cook & friends are writing 'basic versions' of his skeptic counterpoints:

There is one major climategate inquiry report yet to come:

Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:

One can see how this will turn out:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

Regarding genetic modification of food plants:

The saga of the Pavlovsk Agricultural Station grinds on:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

It has been a quiet week in the hurricane wars:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for the Monsoon:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

While in the paleoclimate:

While on the ENSO front:

Regarding the solar hypothesis:

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:

Desertification looms as a threat:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Corals are dying:

Acidification is changing the oceans:

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:

As for 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:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

More DIY science:

John Guinotte profile:

Martin Green wins Eureka prize:

Regarding Judith Curry:

While at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

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

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:

And on the American political front:

The BP disaster still has American politics in a vise:

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

There has been some talk, not movement on the PACE front:

Cuccinelli's attack on Michael Mann is in court:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions (and inactions) of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress: