Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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October 3, 2010
- Chuckles, COP16+, Tianjin, Right Livelihood, Loopholes, IUCN, Royal Society, Collisions, Pakistan
- Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, IP Rentiers, Bin Laden, No Pressure, Cook, Post CRU
- Melting Arctic, Geopolitics
- Food Crisis, Food Corps, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production
- Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Ocean Currents, Satellites
- Impacts, Forests, Wildfires, Corals, Acidification, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Floods & Droughts
- Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
- Journals, Other Docs , Misc. Science, Hansen, Mashey, Pielke
- International Politics: Rare Earths, Bank Tax, Security, Law & Activism
- Activism, Polls, Water Politics & Business, Software
- National Politics: America, BP Disaster, November, Prop 23, CAFE, Ethanol
- Obama, USAdmin, Congress, Climate Bill, Lobbyists
- Britain, Europe, Australia, Post Election, India, China, Asia, Russia, South America
- Canada, Post G20, Offshore Drilling, 2050 Canada, PQ Shale Gas
- Pipelines, Post Igor, Cameron, BC, Tar Sands, Sask, Ontario
- Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Video, Podcasts, Courts, Betting
- Energy, Fracking, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Efficiency, Cars
- Business, Joe's List, Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
- Shameless Self Promotion, .sig
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- 2010/09/27: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Tankrupt
- 2010/09/27: AFTIC: (cartoon - Diplotti) Through the looking glass
And for those who enjoy challenging Poe's Law:
- 2010/09/30: Wonkette: What To Do Between the Ridiculous Heat and Terrible Cold
Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:
- 2010/10/01: NYT: New Role Proposed for U.N. in Combating Global Warming
Rather than focus on reaching a legally binding climate agreement, the United Nations should take a stronger role in making sure that countries promote the development and use of cleaner energy sources, Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s former climate chief, said on Friday. - 2010/09/28: UN: At UN, developing nations urge boost in global support to fight climate change
- 2010/09/29: EarthTimes: China expects binding climate targets in 2011
- 2010/09/27: CBC: New UN climate deal will take years: Prentice
- 2010/09/27: UN: At UN, small island nations press for urgent action on climate change financing
- 2010/09/27: IndiaToday: Climate change: Jairam slams US 'commitment'
Speaking to Headlines Today Ramesh said that the US has failed to provide political leadership on climate change. He said the US commitment on the issue was not up to the mark. "The real problem is the United States. It's not in a position to provide political leadership. It does not have the legislation in place. Its commitments are not up to the mark," Ramesh told Headlines Today. - 2010/09/27: PlanetArk: China Seeks Binding Climate Treaty Late 2011: Report
- 2010/09/27: TEC: Cancun and Beyond: Financing the Energy Future
On Monday, UNFCCC talks restart in Tianjin, China:
- 2010/10/03: EarthTimes: Green groups call for strong action on eve of climate talks
Beijing - Green groups on Sunday called for more decisive action on global warming on the eve of week-long UN climate change talks to be held in China. The meeting, starting Monday in the north-eastern port city Tianjin... - 2010/09/29: TerraDaily: China says hopes to narrow climate gap at [Tianjin] talks next week
- 2010/09/29: UN: Island States call for concrete results from upcoming UN climate change meeting
The Right Livelihood Awards for 2010 were awarded this week:
- 2010/09/30: EarthTimes: Austrians laud 'Alternative Nobel' winner [Catholic Bishop Erwin Kraeutler who fights for the environment and indigenous people of Brazil]
- 2010/09/30: EarthTimes: Environmental and human rights activists share [the Right Livelihood Award for 2010]
Stockholm - Environment activists in Nigeria and Brazil, a Nepalese community-based organization and a non-profit health care organization from the Middle East were Thursday jointly awarded the Right Livelihood Award for 2010. The award, often called the "Alternative Nobel Prize" was announced by officials from the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Award Foundation. Nnimmo Bassey of Nigeria was selected for "revealing the full ecological and human horrors of oil production" and for efforts to "strengthen the environmental movement in Nigeria and globally". Erwin Kraeutler - an Austrian-born Catholic bishop in Brazil - was lauded for "a lifetime of work for the human and environmental rights of indigenous peoples." The jury also mentioned his "tireless efforts to save the Amazon forest from destruction." The Nepalese grassroots organization Sappros (Support Activities for Poor Producers of Nepa) and its leader Shrikrishna Upadhyay had shown how poverty can be reduced by empowering poor people, according to the jury. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, which was founded in 1988 by Israeli and Palestinian doctors, was selected for its efforts aimed at ensuring "the right to health for all people in Israel and Palestine," the jury said. The winners - selected among 120 nominees from 51 countries - are to share the prize money of 200,000 euros (270,000 dollars). - 2010/10/01: Eureka: Research suggests climate change target 'not safe'
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: Copenhagen Accord Commitments Mean 4.2°C Temperature Rise & No More Coral Reefs by 2100
- 2010/09/29: Eureka: Climate accord loopholes could spell 4.2-degree rise in temperature and end of coral reefs by 2100
A global temperature increase of up to 4.2 º C and the end of coral reefs could become reality by 2100 if national targets are not revised in the Copenhagen Accord, the international pledge which was agreed at last year's Copenhagen's COP15 climate change conference. - 2010/09/29: IUCN: New study shows over one fifth of the world's plants are under threat of extinction
- 2010/09/29: Kew: New study shows one fifth of the world's plants are under threat of extinction
- 2010/09/30: PlanetArk: Fifth Of World's Plants Endangered: Global Study
- 2010/09/29: SeedDaily: One fifth of world's plants threatened by extinction: study
- 2010/09/29: NewScientist: A fifth of all wild plant species face extinction
- 2010/09/28: NatureN: Threats to the world's plants assessed -- Habitat loss is the biggest hazard to plant biodiversity
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: 20% of World's Plant Species Threatened With Extinction - Yes, Human Activity is Main Cause
- 2010/09/29: ENS: One-fifth of All Plant Species at Risk of Extinction
- 2010/09/28: Eureka: New study shows over one-fifth of the world's plants are under threat of extinction
- 2010/09/29: BBC: One-fifth of world's plants at risk of extinction
- 2010/09/29: PhysOrg: New study shows over one-fifth of the world's plants are under threat of extinction
A global analysis of extinction risk for the world's plants, conducted by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew together with the Natural History Museum, London and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has revealed that the world's plants are as threatened as mammals, with one in five of the world's plant species threatened with extinction. The study is a major baseline for plant conservation and is the first time that the true extent of the threat to the world's estimated 380,000 plant species is known, announced as governments are to meet in Nagoya, Japan in mid-October 2010 to set new targets at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit. - 2010/10/01: WottsUWT: The Royal Society's Toned Down Climate Stance
- 2010/10/02: SkeptiSci: Uncertain Times at the Royal Society?
- 2010/09/30: ClimateP: UK's Royal Society wastes everyone's time with bland, pointless, and confused 'summary' of climate science
- 2010/09/29: BBC: The UK's national academy of science, the Royal Society, has launched a new guide to the science of climate change
- 2010/09/30: Guardian(UK): Royal Society's climate change guide cuts confusion out of the hard science
When La Nina collides with PDO & AMO?
- 2010/10/01: UCLA: Ocean conditions likely to reduce Colorado River flows during this winter's drought -- 'A recipe for a perfect drought'
The convergence in the coming year of three cyclical conditions affecting ocean temperatures and weather is likely to create unprecedented challenges for states that depend on water from the Colorado River, a new UCLA study suggests. "If I were concocting a recipe for a perfect drought, this would be it," said Glen MacDonald, co-author of the study and director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Along with a former graduate student, MacDonald has found that the combination of La Niña with two less commonly known ocean conditions -- the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation -- tends to result in drought in the upper reaches of the Colorado River. The ocean conditions have been known to diminish precipitation in the Southwest but, examined separately, have proven to be poor indicators of drought conditions in the upper reaches of the river. "It's the combination that's key," said lead author Abbie Tingstad, who conducted the research as a graduate student in geography at UCLA. She is now an associate physical scientist at the RAND Corp. The convergence of these patterns in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans may well drive water levels in the Lake Mead reservoir below a critical threshold and could potentially result in reduced water allocations for Arizona and Nevada, the researchers say. - 2010/10/01: WFP: Pakistan: Operational Update
With severe flooding continuing in the south and increasing needs, WFP is preparing to scale up operations to flood-affected populations in October, with plans to reach 7.1 million people. - 2010/10/02: Independent(UK): Bin Laden goes green to exploit Pakistan flood aid frustrations
- 2010/10/01: Guardian(UK): Pakistan floods: 'When the children come running, it makes my heart drop'
- 2010/10/01: UN: UN agency and Pakistan join forces to help jump-start livelihoods of flood-stricken
- 2010/09/30: UN: Many Pakistani flood victims returning to their places of origin - UN
- 2010/09/29: PlanetArk: U.N. Seeks US$2 Billion Aid For Pakistan Flood Relief
- 2010/09/28: CSW: Pakistani ambassador: "I urge leaders to pay attention to what climate change means for people"
- 2010/09/24: FAS:SN: Aid to Flooded Pakistan Slow to Materialize
Carbon Tariffs still have people on edge:
- 2010/10/03: ABC(Au): Emerson warns of 'green cloak' protectionism
- 2010/09/27: TCoE: When science collides with international politics [carbon tariffs]
Who's getting the subsidies?
- 2010/09/29: NYT: Spain Wins E.U. Green Light to Subsidize Coal for 4 More Years
- 2010/09/30: SolveClimate: Fight to End Corn Ethanol Subsidy Creates Strange Bedfellows -- Cato Institute and Friends of the Earth unite against a $6 billion boondoggle
The IP Rentiers are busily tying up the future:
- 2010/10/01: EurActiv: EU countries top world 'green patent' rankings
- 2010/09/30: UN: Six countries dominate clean energy patents, UN-backed study finds
Innovations in clean energy technologies are concentrated in six countries -- Japan, the United States, Germany, the Republic of Korea (ROK), France and the United Kingdom -- according to a new United Nations-backed study. The study, jointly produced by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), found that the six nations, led by Japan, hold nearly 80 per cent of all patents in the field of clean energy. It looked into some 400,000 patent documents and aimed to examine the effect of patents on the worldwide transfer of such technologies, including solar photovoltaic, geothermal, wind and carbon capture. The report also contains the first-ever survey on licensing practices in the clean energy arena. - 2010/10/02: ABC(Au): Bin Laden calls for action on climate change
- 2010/10/02: Independent(UK): Bin Laden goes green to exploit Pakistan flood aid frustrations
- 2010/10/02: TreeHugger: Bin Laden: Climate Change To Blame For Pakistan Floods
- 2010/10/02: Guardian(UK): Unlikely activist? Osama bin Laden calls for action on climate change
- 2010/10/01: Grist: Bin Laden concerned by climate, Pakistan floods
- 2010/10/01: BBC: 'Osama Bin Laden' tape on relief work
A new audio message purporting to come from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is on Islamist websites, say reports. In it "Bin Laden" expresses concern over natural disasters and calls for greater aid efforts for the victims, said US-based intelligence group SITE. - 2010/10/01: CBC: Bin Laden appeals for Muslim aid in new tape
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called for the creation of a new relief body to help Muslims in an audiotape released Friday, seeking to exploit discontent following this summer's devastating floods in Pakistan by depicting the region's governments as uncaring. It was the third message in recent weeks from al-Qaeda figures concerning the massive floods that affected around 20 million people in Pakistan, signalling a concentrated campaign by the terror group to tap into anger over the flooding to rally support. While the earlier messages by subordinates were angry, however, urging followers to rise up, bin Laden took a softer, even humanitarian tone -- apparently trying to broaden al-Qaeda's appeal by presenting his group as a problem-solving protector of the poor. - 2010/10/03: WtD: Own goal: 10-10 No Pressure video a disaster
- 2010/10/02: SMandia: A Modest Carbon Proposal by Jonathan Swifthack [no pressure]
- 2010/10/02: IJISH: (Digression) British climate group 10:10's video fiasco: don't just move on, learn lessons from it
- 2010/10/01: WottsUWT: Lower Than This They Cannot Stoop [d & no pressure]
- 2010/10/02: ClimateP: More thoughts on the offensive 'No Pressure' video
- 2010/10/01: ClimateP: Bill McKibben: Days that Suck (A response to the "No Pressure" Video)
John Cook and friends are keeping busy:
- 2010/10/01: SkeptiSci: IPCC Reports: Science or Spin?
- 2010/10/01: SkeptiSci: Dutch translation of the Scientific Guide to 'Skeptics Handbook'
- 2010/09/30: SkeptiSci: Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
- 2010/09/29: SkeptiSci: A detailed look at the Little Ice Age [AV]
- 2010/09/29: SkeptiSci: Blog review of scientific coherence by Steve Lewandowsky
- 2010/09/28: SkeptiSci: New temperature reconstruction vindicates ... by Ned
- 2010/09/28: SkeptiSci: French translation of the Scientific Guide to 'Skeptics Handbook'
- 2010/09/27: SkeptiSci: The Asymmetric War on Climate Change: No Cause for Alarmism?
- 2010/09/27: SkeptiSci: A detailed look at galactic cosmic rays [AV]
- 2010/09/27: SkeptiSci: 2010 Climate Change Resource Roundup
Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:
- 2010/10/01: IJISH: PR guy defended sex abuse scandal pastor, praised climategate.com owner, worked for Darrell Issa?
- 2010/09/26: IJISH: climategate.com campaign orchestrated by right-wing publicist Jim deYong (and Mark Fleming)?
The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:
- 2010/10/03: Guardian(UK): The disappearing world of the last of the Arctic hunters
- 2010/10/01: SolveClimate: As Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Ends, Sharp Downward Trend Continues -- Extent of sea ice shrinks to third-lowest ever in the satellite record
- 2010/10/01: DWWSJ: Looking For Answers In Ancient Ice
- 2010/09/30: SkeptiSci: How does global warming affect polar bears?
- 2010/09/28: SkeptiSci: Is Greenland losing ice? (psst, the answer is yes, at an accelerating rate) [BV]
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: In the Arctic, Previously Unimaginable Melting is Now a Reality
- 2010/09/29: TEC: Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Ends, with Ice Continuing its Recent Sharp Downward Trend
- 2010/09/27: WtD: Going, going...the decline in Arctic ice...
As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:
- 2010/09/27: Tyee: No, Double Hull Tankers Do Not Ensure 'Total Safety' -- Contrary to industry reassurances, Vancouver faces increasing risks of oil spill
- 2010/10/02: BBC: Oil firm Chevron has received government consent to drill an exploration well to evaluate a controversial prospect off Shetland
- 2010/09/27: DerSpiegel: Boon to Global Shipping -- Melting of Arctic Ice Opening up New Routes to Asia
The decline in the amount of ice floating on the Arctic Ocean is clearing the way for new shipping routes to Asia. Traffic was already brisk this summer. New ships are being designed to cope with icebergs during the voyage. - 2010/09/29: EnergyBulletin: Civilization's foundation [soil] eroding by Lester Brown
- 2010/09/28: EnergyBulletin: The food crisis is not about a shortage of food
- 2010/09/28: EnergyBulletin: Peak phosphorus still a threat to food security, despite new report
- 2010/09/28: ABC(Au): Fresh food prices could soar
A food security summit in Brisbane is hearing prices are expected to increase by up to 50 per cent over the next 10 years, making fresh food unattainable for some people. - 2010/09/29: Grist: Peak soil is no joke: Civilization's foundation is eroding by Lester Brown
- 2010/09/29: NatureN: Phosphate fertilizer warning for China -- Overuse of the fertilizer has wasted a valuable natural resource and caused serious pollution
- 2010/09/28: WtD: An Gorta Mór: the coming food security crisis
- 2010/09/27: BBC: 'Pollination crisis' hitting India's vegetable farmers
A decline in pollinating insects in India is resulting in reduced vegetable yields and could limit people's access to a nutritional diet, a study warns. - 2010/09/25: SwissInfo: UN summit ends in both hope and disappointment
A UN summit on halving poverty and hunger in the world by 2015 has ended with ambitious goals, but little new substance, says a top Swiss official. - 2010/09/28: NatureTGB: Nestlé announces half-billion-dollar research institute
- 2010/09/27: ScienceInsider: Nestlé Announces New Food Science Institute
- 2010/09/27: SwissInfo: Nestlé creates new bond between food and pharma
The world's largest food concern, Nestlé, has announced a major initiative to prevent and treat health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer's. The company, which is based at Vevey on Lake Geneva, said on Monday it was creating two separate organisations to develop personalised health science nutrition. It would invest "hundreds of millions of francs" over the next decade to build a world-class Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences to research nutritional strategies to improve health and longevity. - 2010/09/27: Dominion: Farmland Frontier -- New wave of agricultural land-grabs reaches Canada
Regarding genetic modification of food:
- 2010/10/01: DVoice: FDA Hearings Go Swimmingly for Frankenfish
- 2010/10/01: NatureN: Uganda prepares to plant transgenic bananas -- Sweet pepper gene confers resistance to bacterial wilt
- 2010/10/01: OSU: Growth of biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations
- 2010/09/28: SciAm:Obs: Genetically inserted insecticide contaminates U.S. waterways
- 2010/09/30: TreeHugger: While Bill Gates Wants Africa to Embrace Industrial GM Food, Italy Fines Franken-Maize Growing Farmer
- 2010/09/29: PlanetArk: Italy Court Fines Farmer For Growing GM Maize
- 2010/09/28: NatureTGB: Indian academies' GM crop report slammed
- 2010/09/28: NatureTGB: African countries develop GMO policies
- 2010/09/28: ScienceInsider: Plagiarized Report Presents New Hurdle to GM Eggplant in India
- 2010/09/27: Eureka: Insecticides from genetically modified corn present in adjacent streams
Stream ecosystems are tightly linked to agricultural fields and should be considered when adopting new agricultural technologies - 2010/10/02: Eureka: A painless way to achieve huge energy savings: Stop wasting food
- 2010/09/30: WFP: Niger: With Harvest Near, Hungry Poor To Receive Cash
- 2010/09/30: WFP: 10 Ways To Feed The World
- 2010/09/29: IPSNews: Africa - In Search of Lasting Farming Solutions to Climate Change
- 2010/09/30: Eureka: Black aspergilli species responsible for infecting corn identified
- 2010/09/27: CBC: Diversifying salmon farms works: researcher -- Growing mussels and seaweed with fish improves farms, UNB prof says
The Caribbean saw Matthew & Nicole, but otherwise it was relatively quiet:
- 2010/10/02: Wunderground: 97L to spread heavy rains in Lesser Antilles; major flooding in North Carolina
- 2010/10/01: CBC: Jamaica storm death toll rises -- Six dead, 15 missing in floods and mudslides
- 2010/10/01: CNN: Storm death toll rises; North Carolina city virtually underwater
Town in Bertie County, North Carolina, virtually underwater - At least eight deaths attributed to storm - CNN iReporters file dispatches from the scene - High wind warnings issued for parts of Northeast; airport delays likely - 2010/09/30: ENS: Record-Breaking Storm [Nicole] Soaks U.S. East Coast
- 2010/10/01: Wunderground: 97L a major rainfall threat; October hurricane outlook; NC rains finally end
- 2010/10/01: Eureka: GOES-13 sees an unholy matrimony: Nicole and low pressure swamp the US East Coast
- 2010/09/30: BBC: Death toll rises from Tropical Storm Nicole in Jamaica
- 2010/09/30: PlanetArk: Tropical Storm Nicole Kills Eight In Jamaica
- 2010/09/30: Wunderground: Nicole kills five in Jamaica; historic rains in North Carolina; tornadoes in the Mid-Atlantic
- 2010/09/29: BBC: Deadly Tropical Storm Nicole hits Jamaica
At least two people have been killed and about 12 others are missing after Tropical Storm Nicole triggered flash flooding in Jamaica, officials say. - 2010/09/29: Wunderground: Nicole's precursor moisture dumping epic rains on North Carolina
- 2010/09/29: Wunderground: TD 16 dumping torrential rains; extreme rainfall event for North Carolina
- 2010/09/28: Wunderground: Caribbean disurbance 96L nearly a depression; hottest day ever in Los Angeles
- 2010/09/29: EarthTimes: Tropical storm Nicole pours rain on Florida, Bahamas, Cuba
- 2010/09/29: EarthTimes: Rain, flooding from tropical storm [Matthew] leaves 54 dead in Nicaragua
- 2010/09/29: NASA: NASA Uses 3 Satellites to See Strengthening Tropical Storm Nicole
- 2010/09/28: Eureka: NASA sees colder cloud-top temps in new Tropical Depression 16, warnings up
- 2010/09/29: CBC: Tropical Storm Nicole passes Cuba
- 2010/09/27: PlanetArk: Tropical Depression Matthew Weakens, Dumps Heavy Rain
- 2010/09/26: Wunderground: Matthew dissipates; new Western Caribbean disturbance organizing
While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:
- 2010/10/01: NewScientist: Hawaii will face more frequent cyclones
- 2010/09/30: NOAANews: NOAA Provides Easy Access to Historical Atlantic Hurricane Tracks -- Website Provides Storm Paths by Zip Code; Includes Population Trends, Storm History
As for GHGs:
- 2010/10/01: ScienceInsider: Nations Strengthen Pact to Stem Methane Pollution
- 2010/09/28: MongaBay: Indonesia is the 3rd largest GHG emitter but reducing deforestation offers big opportunity, says government
- 2010/09/29: IBTimes: UK Emissions are Increasing, according to a leading Scientist [Robert Watson]
- 2010/09/27: ClimateSight: Does Breathing Contribute to CO2 Buildup in the Atmosphere?
As for the temperature record:
- 2010/10/01: SkeptiSci: An underwater hockey stick
- 2010/09/29: EarthTimes: Californians sweat, frolic, surf in record heat wave
- 2010/09/27: EarthTimes: Los Angeles swelters on hottest day on record: 45 degrees
- 2010/09/27: LA Times: L.A.'s hottest day ever
How hot was it? The National Weather Service's thermometer downtown reached 113 degrees for the first time since records began being kept in 1877 -- and then stopped working. The record highs follow a summer of record lows. - 2010/09/28: RenoGJ: Region breaks heat record as summer keeps its hold on fall
- 2010/09/26: CCP: 214 Record High Temperatures for September 24, 2010
While in the paleoclimate:
- 2010/09/29: GreenGrok: A Climate Debate
- 2010/09/29: Eureka: No evidence for Clovis comet catastrophe, archaeologists say
- 2010/09/27: NatureN: Plants set stage for evolutionary drama -- [Devonian] Oxygen increase triggered by vascular plants enabled the development of complex animals
While on the ENSO front:
- 2010/10/01: Reuters: Australia raises cyclone risk for sugar, coal areas
La Nina increases cyclone risk in north-east Australia - Increasing dry periods seen in key WA grain region - Greenhouse gases linked to increasing dryness - 2010/10/02: SciDaily: Searching for Dense Water Cascades in the Arctic Ocean
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
- 2010/09/28: NASA:JPL: Sentinels of Climate Change -- Global Ice Viewer
More GW impacts are being seen:
- 2010/09/30: Discovery: Clams Dwindle as CO2 Rises
- 2010/08/13: CSIRO: Climate change hits SE Australia fish species
Scientists are reporting significant changes in the distribution of coastal fish species in south-east Australia which they say are partly due to climate change. - 2010/09/28: Eureka: Study finds potential climate change side effect: More parasites on South American birds
- 2010/09/26: SolveClimate: Tibetan Nomads Struggle as Grasslands Disappear from the Roof of the World -- Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate change
And then there are the world's forests:
- 2010/09/28: TerraDaily: World's oldest trees under threat
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: 200K Acre Clear-Cutting Operation Uncovered in World's Largest Tiger Reserve
- 2010/09/28: Tyee: A Daring Détente in the Boreal Forest [The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement] -- In Canada's vast north woods, a cease-fire in the war over certified timber
- 2010/09/29: BBC:RB: The Great Bear [rainforest] and the big snap
- 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): One of the world's largest paper producers [Asia Pulp and Paper (APP)] says a Greenpeace report on its logging operations in Indonesia is flawed
- 2010/09/27: ENS: World's Largest Tiger Reserve Clearcut for Plantations
As for heatwaves and wild fires:
- 2010/10/01: PostMedia: Climate change forces B.C. to update wildfire strategy
- 2010/09/30: ABC(Au): The bushfire danger period starts for the entire region on October 1
- 2010/09/29: TerraDaily: Wildfires: A Symptom Of Climate Change
- 2010/09/29: DenverPost: Heat wave results in another record high for Denver
Corals are dying:
- 2010/09/30: PhysOrg: Remote Hawaii atoll corals suffer some bleaching
Corals at remote atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian islands suffered some bleaching this summer as ocean temperatures rose to higher-than-normal levels for a couple of weeks, but they were spared the large-scale mass bleaching observed this year in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, scientists said Wednesday. - 2010/09/27: ClimateShifts: Coral reefs sending a warning signal - A note from Drew Harvell
Acidification is changing the oceans:
- 2010/09/29: SciDaily: Acidification of Oceans May Contribute to Global Declines of Shellfish
The acidification of the Earth's oceans due to rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) may be contributing to a global decline of clams, scallops and other shellfish by interfering with the development of shellfish larvae, according to two Stony Brook University scientists... - 2010/09/27: Maribo: Glacier melt and water supply in North America
- 2010/09/27: TreeHugger: Kilimanjaro's Rapid Glacier Melting Quickened by Deforestation
Sea levels are rising:
- 2010/09/29: ABC(Au): Islanders leave Canberra without climate change funds
A group of Torres Strait Islanders say they are disappointed to be leaving Canberra without the assurance of new funding to save their homelands from rising tides. - 2010/09/29: ABC(Au): Torres Strait Islanders are taking their appeal for urgent action on climate change to Parliament House today
As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:
- 2010/10/02: CNN: Flood risks remain after heavy rains lash East Coast
"A lot of people cannot get to their homes," county official says - Rescue shelters are set up and animals in a small zoo are taken to higher ground - Flood warnings remain in northeastern North Carolina, New York - 2010/10/01: CBC: Nun dies in Sherbrooke flooding -- Roads closed, homes evacuated across Eastern Townships after heavy rains
- 2010/09/30: ClimateP: High Water: Coastal North Carolina's second 500-year rainfall in 11 years
- 2010/09/29: TerraDaily: At least 18 killed in Mexico landslides
- 2010/10/01: WinonaDN: Flood damage estimates swell
Damage estimates in the Winona area continue to climb in the wake of last week's flooding. Heavy rains and floodwaters caused more than $300,000 in damages in Winona County, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials determined when they visited the area Thursday. - 2010/10/01: CBS: Pounding Rain Floods Region
The National Weather Service reports nearly five inches of rain fell in Philadelphia and 11-inches dumped on Coatesville on Thursday night into Friday morning, causing widespread flooding throughout the region. - 2010/09/30: CNN:TJI: Life-threatening flash flooding in Cape Fear, N.C.
- 2010/09/29: TerraDaily: Nigerian flood victims face food shortages, disease outbreak
- 2010/09/29: TerraDaily: Landslides in Mexico take deadly toll
- 2010/09/30: CBC: Mexico landslide kills 16 in Chiapas
- 2010/09/29: BBC: A New landslide 'kills 12 people' in Chiapas
- 2010/09/30: ABC(Au): The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says Queensland has had its wettest September on record
- 2010/09/28: TerraDaily: Flood victims sleep by roadsides in northern Nigeria
- 2010/09/29: DemNow: Mudslide Buries Scores of Homes in Indigenous Mexican Town, But Massive Toll Said to Be Averted
- 2010/09/29: MST: Fall flooding: Fishy and bizarre mark flood aftermath -- Wabasha County deals with damage, while Northfield faces a carpet of carp. In St. Paul, they get ready for the worst
- 2010/09/29: BBC: Landslide buries 30 in north-western Colombia [after heavy rain]
- 2010/09/27: Wunderground: Huge Western Caribbean low bringing heavy rains; Wisconsin levee failing
- 2010/09/26: CBC: Flooding cuts off B.C. communities
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
- 2010/10/01: PhysOrg: Genetically altered trees, plants could help counter global warming
- 2010/10/01: Eureka: Climate change forcing a 'move it or lose it' approach to species conservation?
- 2010/09/29: ClimateShifts: Assisted colonization: Home on the range, or not?
Consider transportation & GHG production:
- 2010/10/01: Tyee: Get Rolling on Streetcars, Say Gathered Experts -- They reduce carbon, promote healthy development, and tourists love them, Translink is told.
- 2010/10/01: CalcRisk: U.S. Light Vehicle Sales 11.76 million SAAR in September
- 2010/10/01: CalcRisk: General Motors: September U.S. sales increase 10.5% to 173,155 units
- 2010/09/28: CalcRisk: ATA: Truck Tonnage Index "Plunged" 2.7 Percent in August
- 2010/09/28: HotTopic: Walking back to happiness
While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:
- 2010/09/28: FuturePundit: Passivhaus High Home Efficiency Shows Up In America
- 2010/09/30: Grist: Leading the way beyond LEED -- The case for super-ambitious Living Buildings. A talk with Jason McLennan
- 2010/09/26: WorldChanging: Passive Houses in America and Canada
As for carbon sequestration:
- 2010/09/30: Reuters: Costs soar for Norway Mongstad CCS centre-paper
Costs rise ninefold from original estimates-daily - PM says harder, more expensive, than thought
Building a carbon capture storage (CCS) test centre at the Statoil- (STL.OL: Quote) operated Mongstad refinery in Norway will cost nearly nine times as much as planned, a Norwegian daily reported Thursday. The budget for the CCS facility, considered by the International Energy Agency as a key technology to fight climate change, has risen to 6 billion crowns ($1.02 billion) from 700 million estimated in 2006, according to Dagens Naeringsliv. - 2010/09/29: Yahoo:AP: Energy Dept. commits $1 billion to FutureGen
The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday said it has formally committed $1 billion in federal stimulus money to the recently retooled FutureGen clean-coal project, beating a deadline to use the money or lose it and kicking off years of further work that could finally see the project completed. - 2010/09/27: DerSpiegel: Can Coal Be Made Cleaner? German States To Oppose CO2 Storage Law
The German government is set to approve new rules this week that would require states to allow the construction of test facilities for underground carbon storage and capture. But two regional states plan to oppose the draft law in the Bundesrat upper house of parliament. - 2010/09/27: Independent(UK): Climate change crisis 'can be solved by oil companies'
Climate change can be solved in a snap by making oil, gas and coal companies take responsibility for burying all the carbon dioxide emitted by the fossil fuel products they sell, one of Britain's leading young climate scientists said yesterday. - 2010/09/30: IPSNews: Geoengineering May Represent Earth's Best "Plan B"
Beyond Copenhagen and Cancún, a different climate debate has been brewing. The outcome of this debate, however, will affect far more than the climate, and that is precisely why it is so contentious. - 2010/09/27: ERW: Geoengineering: nanoparticles could beat sulphates
- 2010/09/29: IS&T: The Need for Climate Engineering Research
- 2010/09/27: ScienceInsider: With Emissions Caps on Ice, Is Geoengineering Next Step in D.C. Climate Debate?
- 2010/09/27: ClimateP: Martin Bunzl on "the definitive killer objection to geoengineering as even a temporary fix"
- 2010/09/26: ERabett: Now wouldn't that be fun
While on the adaptation front:
- 2010/09/30: NatureTGB: [NCAS] Report recommends adaptive adaptation strategy for global warming
- 2010/09/29: ScienceInsider: Report: U.S. Needs National Strategy for Adapting to Warmer Climes
Meanwhile in the journals:
- 2010/10/01: ACPD: Aerosol flux measurements above a mixed forest at Borden, Ontario by M. Gordon et al.
- 2010/10/01: OS: On the seasonal cycles and variability of Florida Straits, Ekman and Sverdrup transports at 26° N in the Atlantic Ocean by C. P. Atkinson et al.
- 2010/09/30: OSD: A new assimilation tidal model for the Mediterranean Sea by D. N. Arabelos et al.
- 2010/09/27: TCD: Spatial distribution of pingos in Northern Asia by G. Grosse & B. M. Jones
- 2010/10/01: TCD: Present dynamics and future prognosis of a slowly surging glacier by G. E. Flowers et al.
- 2010/09/30: CP: Using data assimilation to study extratropical Northern Hemisphere climate over the last millennium by M. Widmann et al.
- 2010/10/01: CPD: Modeling Mediterranean ocean climate of the Last Glacial Maximum by U. Mikolajewicz
- 2010/10/01: CPD: Early last glacial maximum in the Southern Central Andes reveals northward shift of the westerlies at ~39 ka by R. Zech et al.
- 2010/10/01: CPD: North Atlantic abrupt climatic events of the Last Glacial period recorded in Ukrainian loess deposits by D.-D. Rousseau et al.
- 2010/09/27: CPD: Deep ocean ventilation, carbon isotopes, marine sedimentation and the deglacial CO2 rise by T. Tschumi et al.
- 2010/10/01: AGWObserver: Papers on Cassiope tetragona as climate proxy
- 2010/09/29: Nature: (ab$) Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity by C. J. Vörösmarty et al.
- 2010/09/28: PLoS Biology: Inferring the Dynamics of Diversification: A Coalescent Approach by Hélène Morlon et al.
- 2010/02/25: JQS: (ab$) Does the Agulhas Current amplify global temperatures during super-interglacials? by Chris S.M. Turney & Richard T. Jones
- 2010/09/29: ACP: Optical closure experiments for biomass smoke aerosols by L. A. Mack et al.
- 2010/09/28: ACP: Dynamic adjustment of climatological ozone boundary conditions for air-quality forecasts by P. A. Makar et al.
- 2010/09/27: ACP: A map of radon flux at the Australian land surface by A. D. Griffiths et al.
- 2010/09/30: ACPD: Investigations of aerosol impacts on hurricanes: virtual seeding flights by G. G. Carrió & W. R. Cotton
- 2010/09/30: ACPD: Magnitude and seasonality of wetland methane emissions from the Hudson Bay Lowlands (Canada) by C. A. Pickett-Heaps et al.
- 2010/09/28: ACPD: Three-year observations of halocarbons at the Nepal Climate Observatory at Pyramid (NCO-P, 5079 m a.s.l.) on the Himalayan range by M. Maione et al.
- 2010/09/27: ACPD: A global survey of aerosol-liquid water cloud overlap based on four years of CALIPSO-CALIOP data by A. Devasthale & M. A. Thomas
- 2010/09/30: ERL: Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord pledges and its global climatic impacts -- a snapshot of dissonant ambitions by Joeri Rogelj et al.
- 2010/09/30: JACS: (ab$) Metallacarboranes: Toward Promising Hydrogen Storage Metal Organic Frameworks by Abhishek K. Singh et al.
- 2010/09/28: PNAS: [Letter$] Reply to O'Neill and Boykoff: Objective classification of climate experts by William R. L. Anderegg et al.
- 2010/09/28: PNAS: [Letter$] Climate denier, skeptic, or contrarian? by Saffron J. O'Neill & Max Boykoff
- 2010/09/29: TC: A glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976-2009 by T. Bolch et al.
- 2010/09/29: TC: Investigating the sensitivity of numerical model simulations of the modern state of the Greenland ice-sheet and its future response to climate change by E. J. Stone et al.
- 2010/09/29: AGWObserver: Papers on volcanoes and climate
And other significant documents:
- 2010/09/29: NCAS: [link to 2.7 meg pdf] National Climate Adaptation Summit
As for miscellaneous science:
- 2010/09/27: ERW: Insight: marine clouds are sensitive to surface wind speed
- 2010/09/30: ABC(Au): Tasmanian climate change scientists have developed a tiny remote-controlled helicopter to help them map fragile coastal moss beds in Antarctica
- 2010/09/28: CCP: William R. L. Anderegg, James W. Prall & Jacob Harold, PNAS 107 (39), Reply to O'Neill and Boykoff: Objective classification of climate experts
Regarding Hansen:
- 2010/10/02: HotTopic: Got myself arrested
- 2010/10/01: CCP: How Warm Was This Summer? by James Hansen
- 2010/10/01: ClimateP: NASA's Hansen: Would recent extreme "events have occurred if atmospheric carbon dioxide had remained at its pre-industrial level of 280 ppm?" The "appropriate answer" is "almost certainly not."
- 2010/09/30: CSW: Hansen joins Appalachia Rising mountaintop removal coal protest, 100 arrested at White House
- 2010/09/29: CCP: James Hansen: Human-made climate change pits the rich and powerful against the young and unborn, against the defenseless, and against nature. Our government allows and contributes to a great hoax, perpetrated on the public by moneyed interests, aimed at confusing the public about the reality of climate change. Join the Million Letter March!
- 2010/09/28: ClimateP: Around the world, activists arrested for protesting coal's destruction, including NASA's James Hansen
- 2010/09/29: NatureTGB: NASA's James Hansen in handcuffs again
NASA climate scientist James Hansen has gotten himself arrested while protesting mountaintop coal mining. Again. - 2010/09/27: HuffPo: James Hansen Arrested With 100 Others At Mountaintop Removal Mining Protest In DC (photos)
John Mashey has done a major evisceration of the Wegman report:
- 2010/09/26: DeepClimate: John Mashey on Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report
- 2010/09/30: BCLSB: Mashey on Wegman
- 2010/09/30: HotTopic: Wegman Report's "abysmal scholarship" revealed
- 2010/09/26: SMandia: Wegman-gate: Alert Congress & the Media
- 2010/09/27: APSmith: Deep Problems with the Wegman Report
- 2010/09/27: CCP: John Mashey on Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report (plagarized and financed by the Climate Denial Machine)
- 2010/09/27: Deltoid: The Wegman scandal
- 2010/09/27: DeSmogBlog: Wegman, et al: Using Statistics to Mislead Congress?
The Pielke fan clubbe, alas:
- 2010/09/30: WottsUWT: Pielke on ground water extraction causing sea level rise
The proposed Bank Tax refuses to die:
- 2010/10/01: EUO: Trichet puts damper on financial transaction tax
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet has said a financial transaction tax could only work if implemented across the globe, marking a setback for others who have argued that Europe could go it alone. - 2010/09/29: Google:AFP: UN environment chief urges recycling of rare metals
- 2010/09/30: Reuters: U.S. aims to end China's rare earth metals monopoly
- 2010/09/29: NakedCapitalism: Japan Calls Out China on Rare Earths Ban
As for GW, energy & security:
- 2010/09/29: ClimateP: UK's conservative Foreign Secretary: "You cannot have food, water, or energy security without climate security."
The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world:
- 2010/10/01: DerSpiegel: The World from Berlin -- Germany Shocked by 'Disproportionate' Police Action in Stuttgart
A hardline police operation against demonstrators protesting against a new railway station project in Stuttgart has shocked Germany, after more than 100 people were injured by tear gas and water cannon. German commentators argue that the police went overboard and warn of more violence to come. - 2010/09/28: CCP: 100 Mountain Top Removal Protesters arrested in front of the White House, including James Hansen
- 2010/09/28: CCP: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal; Black Cross Alliance plants flags at coal mines, strip mines, coal-fired plants, coal ash piles, and at the Southern Illinois University Coal Research Center
- 2010/09/28: Grist: More than 100 arrested at mountaintop-mining protest [slideshow]
- 2010/09/29: ProPublica: PA State Police: Intelligence Bulletins Were 'Unsubstantiated,' Work of 'Amateurs'
- 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): Coal protesters to face court
Nine environmental activists will face court next month after breaking into several coal terminals at the Port of Newcastle at the weekend. - 2010/10/03: Guardian(UK): Stewart Brand: My plan B for climate change
'Techno-hippy' and lifelong green Stewart Brand says a shift to nuclear power and GM food is needed to prevent global warming - 2010/09/30: CCP: International Day of Climate Action set to break record number of 350.org events: message from Bill McKibben
- 2010/09/29: BBC: Greenpeace swimmers end drill ship blockade
Greenpeace has ended its three day blockade of a drilling ship 100 miles off Shetland, after oil company Chevron won a second court order. - 2010/09/27: TreeHugger: Climate Activists Shut Down World's Largest Coal Port [in Newcastle, Australia]
Polls! We have polls!
- 2010/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: New poll shows overwhelming bipartisan support for stronger oil and gas regulations
- 2010/09/27: CBC: Oilsands poll shows Canadians evenly split
Regarding Water Politics and Business:
- 2010/10/02: TCoE: Water World
- 2010/09/27: NYT: Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of Reckoning
A once-unthinkable day is looming on the Colorado River. Barring a sudden end to the Southwest's 11-year drought, the distribution of the river's dwindling bounty is likely to be reordered as early as next year because the flow of water cannot keep pace with the region's demands. For the first time, federal estimates issued in August indicate that Lake Mead, the heart of the lower Colorado basin's water system -- irrigating lettuce, onions and wheat in reclaimed corners of the Sonoran Desert, and lawns and golf courses from Las Vegas to Los Angeles -- could drop below a crucial demarcation line of 1,075 feet. If it does, that will set in motion a temporary distribution plan approved in 2007 by the seven states with claims to the river and by the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and water deliveries to Arizona and Nevada would be reduced. - 2010/09/29: Guardian(UK): Human impact on world's rivers 'threatens water security of 5 billion'
- 2010/10/01: CSW: US faces collision between energy demands and water scarcity, reports Circle of Blue
- 2010/09/30: TerraDaily: China water diversion project poses risks
- 2010/09/28: TimesLive(Za): Water crisis mounting
By 2015, 80 percent of South Africa's fresh water resources will be so badly polluted that no process of purification available in the country will be able to make it fit for consumption. - 2010/09/28: SciAm:Obs: Genetically inserted insecticide contaminates U.S. waterways
- 2010/09/30: PlanetArk: World's Rivers In Crisis, Study Says
- 2010/09/30: TreeHugger: Majority of World's Rivers in a State of Crisis, But Solutions Can Be Cheap
- 2010/09/29: Reuters: World's rivers in crisis, study says
The world's rivers are in crisis including in North America and Europe where governments have invested trillions of dollars to clean up freshwater supplies, a study showed Wednesday. - 2010/09/28: SolveClimate: Energy Production Pushing Water Supply to Choke Point -- Report warns that without water, there can be no energy security
- 2010/09/27: NOAANews: NOAA and Partners: Decades of Research Find 'Unprecedented' Change in Lake Michigan
- 2010/09/27: JFleck: Water Pricing in California
- 2010/09/29: LA Times: China moving heaven and Earth to bring water to Beijing
The $62-billion South-North Water Diversion, which will bring water to the parched capital, is being compared to the Great Wall. But environmentalists are up in arms about the 'replumbing' of the nation's great rivers. - 2010/09/29: DM:80B: Water Woes: The Southwest's Supply Dwindles; China's Behemoth Plumbing Project [the South-North Water Diversion] Goes On
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: Southwest In a Water Juggling Act as Supplies Dry Up
- 2010/09/29: UWM: Report casts world's rivers in 'crisis state'
- 2010/09/29: Eureka: Global study finds widespread threats to world's rivers
Report by CUNY, U. of Wisconsin and international partners is first to integrate impact of multiple environmental stressors on humans and biodiversity - 2010/09/29: Eureka: Report casts world's rivers in 'crisis state'
- 2010/09/29: BBC: Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'
About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis. - 2010/09/26: TerraDaily: Ethiopians want more from sacred Nile waters
As for SW tools:
- 2010/09/30: SEasterbrook: Data Limits vs. Computational Limits
- 2010/09/28: SEasterbrook: Epistemology of Climate Modeling
And on the American political front:
- 2010/10/01: Belfer: AB 32, RGGI, and Climate Change: The National Context of State Policies for a Global Commons Problem
- 2010/10/01: ScienceInsider: Weather Satellite System Criticized in Review
- 2010/09/29: NAM: Calif. Bill Could Generate Billions to Help Cope With Climate Change
- 2010/09/30: TEC: Mired in Tight Race, Ohio Gov. Strickland Does Away with Renewable Energy Taxes
- 2010/09/30: REA: Renewable Energy Law Alert
Air Resources Board Adopts 33% Renewable Energy Standard; Four California Energy Agencies Vow to Cooperate on Implementation - 2010/09/28: PSinclair: "Folks, its about to become very dangerous to be a climate scientist"
- 2010/09/29: PostMedia: Nebraska groups launch campaign against Keystone -- TransCanada accused of being 'heavy-handed'
A coalition of Nebraska landowners and environmental groups will be the latest American lobbying organizations to protest TransCanada Corp.' s proposed $12-billion Keystone XL oilsands pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast when it launches an online anti-oilsands campaign today. Groups including the Nebraska Wildlife Federation, Bold Nebraska, the Nebraska Sierra Club, Guardians of the Good Life, Nebraskans for Peace, and the Nebraska League of Conservation Voters will unveil a web page and blog in Lincoln, Neb., today to protest what it is calling the company's "heavy-handed" tactics in forcing residents to accept the pipeline through their state. - 2010/09/28: NRDC:SwitchBoard: California air board sets enforceable targets for smart planning
- 2010/09/27: Grist: Friedman misses what's really holding America back on clean energy
- 2010/09/27: NRDC:SwitchBoard: California is leading, but not going it alone, on clean energy policies
- 2010/09/27: TEC: Doing the Right Thing on Energy Policy
The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:
- 2010/10/02: LA Times: High levels of cancer-causing chemicals recorded since BP spill
The pollutants were measured off the Louisiana coast by an Oregon State University team - 2010/10/01: ENS: Admiral Allen Steps Down as Gulf Oil Spill Response Commander
- 2010/09/30: Reuters: U.S. oil spill waters contain carcinogens: report
University researchers said on Thursday they recently found alarming levels of cancer-causing toxins in an area of the Gulf of Mexico affected by BP's oil spill, raising the specter of long-lasting health concerns. - 2010/10/01: EarthTimes: Coast Guard's Allen, in charge of Gulf spill clean-up, leaves post
- 2010/09/30: EarthTimes: US details new oil drilling rules, step towards ending moratorium
- 2010/10/01: NOAANews: NOAA Reopens More Than 5,000 Square Miles in the Gulf of Mexico to Fishing -- 89 percent of federal waters now open
- 2010/09/30: WashingtonsBlog: Scientists: 40 Times More Cancer-Causing Toxics in Gulf than Before Spill ... Dispersants to Blame
- 2010/09/30: CSM: Gulf oil spill: research voyage to search for oil can't find any
- 2010/09/30: ScienceInsider: BP Releases Long-Awaited Plan for $500 Million for Gulf Research
- 2010/09/30: OilChange: "Deep-water drilling will continue because that's where the oil is.."
- 2010/09/29: Guardian(UK): Barack Obama under fire for grossly underestimating Gulf oil spill
White House commission finds that administration lost public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations - 2010/09/29: Grist: Here's a switch: Gulf residents want feds involved in restoring their coastline
- 2010/09/29: NOAANews: Resource Restoration Planning Process Begins for BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
- 2010/09/28: ProPublica: More Questions About BP's Limited Investigation Into Gulf Disaster
- 2010/09/28: NakedCapitalism: WashingtonsBlog: Government Response to Gulf Oil Spill Was "A Little Bit Like Custer Underestimating The Number Of Indians On The Other Side Of The Hill"
- 2010/09/27: KSJT: AP: the size of the spill nailed down. Lots of other ink: legal, technical, safety recriminations flying all over
- 2010/09/27: PhysOrg: Experts question BP's take on Gulf oil spill
- 2010/09/27: Grist: Confusion hampered Gulf oil spill response, says Thad Allen
So how do you figure the 2010 elections will crack up?
- 2010/10/01: DeSmogBlog: Wisconsin GOP Senate Candidate Ron Johnson Says Climate Change Unproven
- 2010/10/02: PhysOrg: Obama promotes technology; GOP calls for tax cuts
- 2010/10/01: Maribo: Senate candidate in Wisconsin questioning climate change
- 2010/10/01: SolveClimate: Latest "Dirty Dozen" Inductees in Good Position to Win Senate Seats -- Angle, Buck and Johnson called a "triple threat to a clean energy economy" by League of Conservation Voters
- 2010/10/01: Grist: Maine: Guv candidate Paul LePage hates Obama, reporters, and the planet
- 2010/10/01: TreeHugger: Climate Denier Congressman to Lead Global Warming Committee?
- 2010/10/01: TP: [Wisconsin's Republican U.S. Senate candidate] Ron Johnson: 'The Science Of Global Warming Is Unproven'
- 2010/10/01: TP:WR: At Least 78 Republican Candidates Would Restrict All Abortion Funding
- 2010/09/30: ClimateP: McCain drinks the Kool-Aid [iced tea?] and becomes a climate conspiracy theorist
- 2010/09/29: TP:WR: McCain Has Become A Climate Conspiracy Theorist
- 2010/09/29: ClimateP: Who really is a bigger "threat to our basic way of life" -- President Obama, as Gingrich claims, or Newt himself, backed by Big Oil and special interest polluters?
- 2010/09/29: Grist: McCain has become a climate conspiracy theorist
- 2010/09/28: Grist: Stupid goes viral: Climate Zombies of Kansas, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Tennessee
- 2010/09/27: Grist: A price on carbon is a must, says Delaware senator [Ted Kaufman (D)]
- 2010/09/29: DM:BA: Every single Republican Senate hopeful is against climate change action
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: GOP Rep Vows to Make ClimateGate Investigations a "Top Priority"
- 2010/09/28: DeSmogBlog: Republicans running climate change denier for Governor in Maine
- 2010/09/27: ERabett: Rand Paul and deja vu all over again
- 2010/09/27: TP: [GOP Senate nominee, John] Raese Blames Volcanoes For Global Warming
The Prop 23 battle rages:
- 2010/10/03: CCP: Prop 23 battle heats up in California as Schwarzenegger comes out fighting against dirty oil money from Koch brothers and other out of state oil companies
- 2010/10/01: ClimateP: Job creators and the Terminator just say no to Prop 23
- 2010/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Texas: What Part of NO Don't You Understand?
- 2010/09/30: BSD: What Captain Kirk would do with the Texas oil companies and Proposition 23
- 2010/09/30: ClimateP: California's climate fight heats up...the Prop 23 fight...
- 2010/09/30: TreeHugger: Schwarzenegger Blasts "Black Oil Hearts" of Prop 23 Backers
- 2010/09/28: ClimateP: No on California Prop 23: It's getting HOT out here!
- 2010/09/29: Grist: Prop 23 campaigns begin television battle for undecided voters
- 2010/09/29: DM:CCM: No on Prop 23!
- 2010/09/27: TreeHugger: Van Jones Takes on Prop 23 and Koch's Anti-Climate Campaign (Video)
CAFE is in play again:
- 2010/10/01: ScienceInsider: EPA Proposes 62-mpg Fuel-Efficiency Standard by 2025
- 2010/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EPA/NHSTA Proposal Shows 62 mpg is the Clear Winner
- 2010/10/01: UCSUSA: Federal Agencies Say Automakers Could Hit 60 Miles Per Gallon by 2025
- 2010/10/01: AutoBG: Confirmed: U.S. considering 62 mpg CAFE target by 2025
- 2010/10/01: CBC: U.S. presses for higher fuel efficiency
The E85 Ethanol Subsidy is up for renewal:
- 2010/09/30: Reuters: Higher U.S. ethanol blends may face road blocks
- 2010/09/30: SolveClimate: Fight to End Corn Ethanol Subsidy Creates Strange Bedfellows -- Cato Institute and Friends of the Earth unite against a $6 billion boondoggle
- 2010/09/29: AutoBG: Ethanol raising hackles: fight over upping gas to E15 continues
- 2010/09/22: BWeek: Deficit Hawks Threaten Ethanol's Future -- A tax credit's possible expiration puts producers up against the wall
The Obama chatter is nonstop:
- 2010/10/01: Grist: Obama taps food-industry exec to top ag-research post
- 2010/09/30: CleanBreak: Obama to throw full weight of presidency behind clean energy policy in 2011: Rolling Stone interview
- 2010/10/01: TreeHugger: Want to Fire Obama for a Greener President?
- 2010/10/01: TEC: Obama Aims to Pull Rail Infrastructure Out of 1970s
- 2010/09/29: Maribo: Obama and Chu on piecemeal climate policy
- 2010/09/29: PlanetArk: Obama Says Energy Policy A Top Priority Next Year
- 2010/09/29: Grist: Obama: We may need to solve climate change in 'chunks'
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: Obama: US on Target to Reduce Emissions by 17% [below 2005 levels]
- 2010/09/28: TP:WR: Obama Is 'Committed' To Using 'Whole Weight Of The Presidency' To Address Climate Change
The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:
- 2010/10/01: Grist: Will Pete Rouse, Obama's new chief of staff, push for climate action?
- 2010/10/01: NYT:CW: Emanuel's Replacement [Pete Rouse] Might Calm the Climate Debate
- 2010/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EPA science on mountaintop removal impacts reaffirmed
- 2010/09/30: ScienceInsider: Interior Department Releases 'Scientific Integrity' Policy
- 2010/09/30: TEC: As DOE Wraps Up Recovery Act Energy Investments, Does Clean Tech Funding Cliff Loom?
- 2010/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: DOI's New Drilling Rules: Two Steps In The Right Direction
- 2010/09/30: ScienceInsider: [Subra] Suresh Confirmed as New NSF Director
- 2010/09/29: UCSUSA: NRC is Failing to Protect Public by Allowing Nuclear Plants to Leak Radioactive Water with Immunity, Report Finds -- Agency Has Ignored More Than Two Dozen Violations Since 2006
- 2010/09/29: UCSUSA: Science Group Praises New Department of Interior Scientific Integrity Policy as a Great First Step; Calls for Department to Furnish Details and Deadlines
- 2010/09/28: BBerg: EPA Advisory Panel Splits Over U.S. Technology Rules for Carbon Dioxide
- 2010/09/29: Yahoo:AP: Energy Dept. commits $1 billion to FutureGen
The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday said it has formally committed $1 billion in federal stimulus money to the recently retooled FutureGen clean-coal project, beating a deadline to use the money or lose it and kicking off years of further work that could finally see the project completed. - 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: EPA Revives Environmental Justice Working Group After Ten Year Hiatus
- 2010/09/27: NatureTGB: US Fish and Wildlife Service unveils climate change plans
- 2010/09/27: NatureTGB: Obama green team in hiring probe
As for what is going on in Congress:
- 2010/10/02: PostMedia: U.S. senators' oilsands visit pays dividends -- Legislation would protect supplies from Alta.
A pair of United States senators who recently visited Alberta are introducing legislation that would ensure U.S. government agencies can purchase fuel products made from the province's oilsands. While still in its early stages, the arrival of the "Oilsands Energy Security Act" should be seen as a vindication of Premier Ed Stelmach's strategy of promoting the oilsands message with key U.S. policy-makers, said Gary Mar, Alberta's top official at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. - 2010/10/01: SolveClimate: Oil and Water in Nebraska: In Congress, Cornhuskers Take Wait-and-See Approach to Pipeline
Third in a series exploring the election-season dynamics surrounding a plan to build the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska - 2010/10/01: Grist: A small venture that could generate big results
- 2010/09/29: TheHill:e2W: Sen. Rockefeller admits he can't overcome a White House veto of EPA reg delay
- 2010/09/30: ScienceInsider: Lawmakers At Odds over Polar Satellite System Overhaul
- 2010/09/28: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Legislative Watch
The future climate bill defines a battleline:
- 2010/10/01: NewYorker: As the World Burns -- How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change
- 2010/09/30: NYT:GW: Sen. Bingaman Pushes to Pass Energy Bills in Lame Duck
- 2010/09/30: Grist: Chances for renewable electricity standard now slim and slimmer
- 2010/09/28: TheHill:e2W: Durbin says energy legislation in lame-duck a 'long shot'
- 2010/09/28: Grist: No, nuclear power does not belong in the RES
- 2010/09/29: TEC: A national RPS [Renewable Portfolio Standard] for the US?
- 2010/09/28: TEC: RES: Symbolism or Substance?
- 2010/09/27: WaPo: Energy roulette
- 2010/09/29: REA: Two Wrongs Don't Make It Right
What are the lobbyists pushing?
- 2010/10/01: Atlantic: Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'
"The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists" to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. "It's shocking how the system actually works." - 2010/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Corn ethanol lobby group elects new Chairman, continues to push old agenda
- 2010/09/30: PRWatch: News Corp Gives $1 Million to U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- 2010/10/01: Grist: Industry wraps coal ash regulation fight in the mantle of civil rights
- 2010/10/01: OilChange: API Scaremongers Over Jobs
- 2010/10/01: VoxEU: "Revolving door" lobbyists: The value of political connections in Washington by Jordi Blanes i Vidal et al.
Lobbying in the US, as well as other democracies, is big business. This column investigates the extent to which former government officials "cash in" on their political connections when working as lobbyists. It finds that once the politician for whom they worked leaves office, their revenue falls 20%, or $177,000 per year, suggesting that lobbyists are paid more for "who they know" than "what they know". - 2010/09/27: TreeHugger: Big Oil & Coal Spent $500 Million to Kill Climate Bill
While in the UK:
- 2010/09/30: Guardian(UK): UK renewable energy production falls for second time in 2010
- 2010/09/29: TEC: Scots Strive for 80% Renewable Energy
- 2010/09/28: EnergyBulletin: UK government's oil shock warning
- 2010/09/29: ClimateP: UK's conservative Foreign Secretary: "You cannot have food, water, or energy security without climate security."
- 2010/09/29: Grist: Will Ed Miliband take Britain's Labor Party from red to green?
- 2010/09/28: NatureTGB: Fresh broadsides against UK science cuts
- 2010/09/27: Guardian(UK): Business leaders call for more incentives to invest in renewables
- 2010/09/27: BBC: UK 'needs domestic wind energy industry'
The UK government should build a home-grown wind power industry if it wants to meet EU targets on renewable energy, a report concludes. The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) says this would significantly bring down the costs of offshore wind power. The price of building offshore wind farms in has doubled in five years. - 2010/09/27: BBC: Northern Ireland [NI] targets 40% alternative energy by 2020
And in Europe:
- 2010/10/01: DerSpiegel: Stuttgart 21 Protests -- Merkel's Water Cannon Politics
The battle over the rebuilding of the central train station in Stuttgart, Germany, has escalated massively. Angela Merkel has pushed strongly for the project this week, and the harsh response by police to protesters could come back to haunt both the chancellor and her party. - 2010/10/01: DerSpiegel: The World from Berlin -- Germany Shocked by 'Disproportionate' Police Action in Stuttgart
A hardline police operation against demonstrators protesting against a new railway station project in Stuttgart has shocked Germany, after more than 100 people were injured by tear gas and water cannon. German commentators argue that the police went overboard and warn of more violence to come. - 2010/10/01: Guardian(UK): Protesters clash with German police over Stuttgart 21 rail project [11 pix]
- 2010/09/30: BBerg: EU Will Present Pathway to 2050 Carbon Goal [80% to 95% reduction] Next Year, Climate Envoy Says
- 2010/09/30: EurActiv: Commission approves Spain's coal aid
The European Commission has cleared Spain's controversial state aid plan to support its domestic coal sector over the next four years, despite warnings that it will scupper the EU's green energy goals. - 2010/09/29: NYT: Spain Wins E.U. Green Light to Subsidize Coal for 4 More Years
- 2010/09/30: EarthTimes: EU warns six members over renewable energy plans
Brussels - The European Union on Thursday warned Poland, Estonia, Belgium, Latvia, Hungary and Slovakia of legal action after they failed to draw up plans to boost their use of renewable energy. - 2010/09/30: PeakEnergy: Wind will power fossil fuel-free Denmark in 2050, report predicts
- 2010/09/30: REA: Europe Tops its Renewables Targets
Renewable energy in the European Union (EU) has outpaced its 2010 target and is on track to beat the union's goals for 2020, says the European Energy Council (EREC). - 2010/09/29: EurActiv: Commission proposes energy labelling for TVs
The European Commission tabled proposals yesterday (28 September) to introduce energy labels for televisions and update the existing labels for refrigerators, dishwashers and washing machines. - 2010/09/29: EurActiv: MEPs let van makers off lightly from CO2 cuts
The European Parliament's environment committee yesterday (28 September) extended a hand to the crisis-stricken automobile industry by voting to lower the long-term CO2 emission limits proposed for vans. The MEPs amended proposals to reduce emissions from light commercial vehicles by lowering the 2020 emissions limit to 140 grammes per kilometre. The European Commission had aimed to set the limit at 135g/km. The committee supported the EU executive's plans to phase in a 2016 target of 175g/km. - 2010/09/29: EUO: EU lobby register blasted as wildly inaccurate
- 2010/09/28: EUO: EU wants energy labels for televisions
- 2010/09/29: PlanetArk: EU Clampdown On Gas-Guzzling Vans Suffers Setback
- 2010/09/28: TEC: Germany saves its nukes at what price? The move comes with steep taxes on the reactors and a delusional energy policy
- 2010/09/29: BBC: Germany's government has given final approval to a plan to extend the life of nuclear reactors, reversing a decision of the previous government
- 2010/09/27: EUO: Farm ministers to discuss proposals to end GMO impasse
EU farm ministers are gathering in Brussels today (27 September) to discuss proposals by the European Commission to devolve decision-making on whether to allow genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to national governments. - 2010/09/27: EUO: Little agreement on commission GMO proposal
- 2010/09/27: PlanetArk: Bulgaria Plans Caps On New Green Energy Assets
Bulgaria plans to put limits on new renewable energy assets to avoid a spike in sensitive energy prices and a collapse of its aging power grid, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said on Friday. Traikov said the Balkan country can add up to 2,000 megawatts of new solar, wind and hydro power plants by 2020 without jeopardizing the security of power supply and keeping the energy prices at affordable levels. - 2010/09/27: TreeHugger: Northern Ireland Sets 40% by 2020 Renewable Energy Target
Meanwhile in Australia:
- 2010/10/03: ABC(Au): Emerson warns of 'green cloak' protectionism
Trade Minister Craig Emerson says he is concerned that some countries may use the issue of climate change as an excuse to put up trade barriers. British climate change economist Nicholas Stern says countries that do not put a price on carbon risk being shut out of world markets. But Dr Emerson has told Sky News that the Federal Government will not put up with old European trade barriers being veiled by a "green cloak". - 2010/09/28: ABC(Au):TDU: Why an ETS is still a good idea
- 2010/09/30: ABC(Au): Turnbull bats away climate committee challenge
Opposition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull says it is not up to him to decide whether he should sit on the Government's new climate change committee. Mr Turnbull, who lost the Liberal leadership over the issue of climate change, said during the election campaign that the Opposition's direct action policy was "less than ideal". Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to allow two MPs to sit on the cross-party committee, but he has refused to do so. - 2010/09/30: ABC(Au): New Greens MP for Melbourne Adam Bandt has urged politicians to treat the issue of climate change in the same way as they responded to the global financial crisis
- 2010/09/29: ABC(Au): No less fireworks in new-look Question Time
The Federal Opposition has used the first Question Time of the new Parliament to accuse the Government of breaking its word over climate change and asylum seekers. But the Government hit back with claims the Opposition are being wreckers. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott faced each other over the despatch boxes for the first time since the election for a shorter and sharper Question Time which is now operating under new rules. - 2010/09/29: ABC(Au): The Augusta-Margaret River Shire has released a plan to reduce the community's carbon emissions and is calling for public comment
- 2010/09/30: ABC(Au): The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says Queensland has had its wettest September on record
- 2010/09/30: ABC(Au): The bushfire danger period starts for the entire region on October 1
Mid North Coast residents are reminded they will need permits if they want to burn-off during the Bush Fire Danger Season. The season started early in the northern part of the region this year and begins everywhere else on October 1. Rural Fire Service Lower Mid North Coast Inspector, Wayne Leader says temperatures are starting to rise so it is important residents take care when lighting fires. - 2010/09/29: ABC(Au): Islanders leave Canberra without climate change funds
A group of Torres Strait Islanders say they are disappointed to be leaving Canberra without the assurance of new funding to save their homelands from rising tides. - 2010/09/29: ABC(Au): Torres Strait Islanders are taking their appeal for urgent action on climate change to Parliament House today
- 2010/09/29: ABC(Au): A report [by APAC Biofuel Consultants] suggests Australian demand for biofuels has outstripped the rate of global production growth in the past year
- 2010/09/29: Deltoid: David Karoly - talk on climate change in Sydney, Monday 11 October
- 2010/09/28: EarthTimes: Most Australian airline passengers untroubled by their emissions
- 2010/09/28: ABC(Au): Greens question conversion of coal to fuel
The Australian Greens party is vowing to oppose the conversion of Upper Hunter coal reserves into liquid fuels - 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): Prime Minister Julia Gillard is set to reveal who will sit on a new cross-party climate change committee, as the Government puts a renewed focus on implementing a carbon price
- 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): Queensland [Macarthur Coal chairman, Keith DeLacy] opposes carbon tax
- 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): Mining giant [Xstrata] calls for talks on carbon tax
- 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): Solar subsidy sparks surge in complaints
Several industry bodies are concerned that the work of hundreds of new solar installation businesses are not up to scratch. - 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): Coal protesters to face court
Nine environmental activists will face court next month after breaking into several coal terminals at the Port of Newcastle at the weekend. - 2010/09/27: PlanetJ: Australia's Contribution to Dangerous Climate Change and to Reducing its Risk
The shape of the new government is slowly emerging:
- 2010/09/27: Reuters: No carbon price in sight for Australia before 2012
Australia will not put a price on carbon emissions until at least 2012, after Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that a committee examining the issue would not finish its deliberations until end-2011. - 2010/09/27: ABC(Au): PM to chair climate change committee
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unveiled the line-up of the new multi-party climate change committee that will investigate ways to put a price on carbon. Ms Gillard will chair the committee which will also consist of Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, Greens senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne and independent MP Tony Windsor. Senator Milne will serve as co-deputy chair. The committee will report directly to Cabinet and will meet in the Cabinet room, meaning its deliberations will be kept secret until the Government chooses to release details of any decisions. - 2010/09/30: PeakEnergy: India's solar advantage
While in China:
- 2010/09/30: WaPo: China leading the world in clean energy investment
- 2010/09/29: Xinhuanet: China issues first provincial regulation on climate change
- 2010/09/27: BBC: China and Russia have signed a series of agreements to boost energy co-operation during a ceremony to open an oil pipeline between the countries
And elsewhere in Asia:
- 2010/09/28: MongaBay: Indonesia is the 3rd largest GHG emitter but reducing deforestation offers big opportunity, says government
- 2010/09/27: Reuters: Palau, at risk from rising seas, aims to drill for oil [Asian pol]
And in Russia:
- 2010/09/27: CBC: China, Russia sign energy deals
China and Russia signed agreements Monday to boost energy co-operation, while Moscow said it wants to supply its energy-hungry neighbour with all its natural gas needs. No dollar value was given to the agreements signed during a state visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, but they included documents on co-operation in coal, natural gas, nuclear energy and renewable energy. - 2010/10/03: BBC: Brazil votes for Lula successor
- 2010/10/01: DemNow: Ecuador Declares State of Emergency as President Correa Escapes Attack from Rogue Armed Forces
- 2010/09/30: AlterNet: Ecuador Rocked by Attempted Police Coup Against Left-Leaning President
In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his do-nothing policy:
- 2010/10/01: PostMedia: Industry groups, oil companies get most access to PM, lobbying records show
- 2010/09/29: CBC: Government accused of manipulating science news
- 2010/09/22: OpenMedia: Harper Silences Federal Scientists
- 2010/09/29: NatureN: Canada must free scientists to talk to journalists
Strict controls on what federal researchers can reveal about their work is a disservice to science and the public, says Kathryn O'Hara. - 2010/09/29: CBC: Government accused of manipulating science news
The federal government engages in "unacceptable political interference" in the communication of government science, says the head of a group that represents both government press officers and science journalists. "Openness is being held ransom to media messages that serve the government's political agenda," wrote Kathryn O'Hara, president of the Canadian Science Writers' Association, in an opinion published online Wednesday in the international scientific journal Nature. The article comes during Right to Know Week in Canada, a celebration of open information that "ironically ... comes on the back of new evidence of unacceptable political interference in the public statements of federal government researchers," said O'Hara, who is also the CTV chair in science broadcast journalism at Carleton University. "This message manipulation shows a disregard for both the values and virtues of journalism and science," she said. - 2010/09/30: PostMedia: Liberals demand full accounting of G8, G20 costs
The Opposition Liberals are on a mission to have all of the costs associated with the G8 and G20 summits revealed, predicting it will provide further evidence that the Conservatives "were spending like drunken sailors" and can't be trusted to manage the economy. - 2010/09/29: LFR: TTC employee busted on way to work at G20 speaks out
Questions about offshore and Arctic drilling continue:
- 2010/09/27: CBC: Que. blocks drilling in St. Lawrence Estuary -- Government to impose two-year moratorium after study raises alarm
The Smith book on 2050 GW caught some nationalistic interest in Canada:
- 2010/09/30: CleanBreak: John Allemang at Globe and Mail also celebrates a Canada that benefits from the suffering of others [L Smith]
- 2010/09/29: ClimateP: 'Oy Canada': Imagine our northern neighbor in 2050
- 2010/09/27: DM:CCM: Our Northern Future?
Shale gas drilling is not going down well in Quebec:
- 2010/09/29: CBC: Tensions at Que. shale gas meeting escalate -- Industry spokesperson leaves as security deteriorates in Saint-Hyacinthe hall
Tempers flared at a public meeting on shale gas development Tuesday night in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., with the leading proponent leaving the meeting out of concern for his safety. More than 600 people showed up for the information session hosted by the shale gas industry as part of a provincewide plan to sell Quebecers on the controversial approach to drilling for natural gas. Protesters quickly overwhelmed the standing-room only hall, taking to the microphones and storming the stage. They called on the province to implement a moratorium on exploration and drilling until a thorough environmental impact study can be done. - 2010/10/01: SolveClimate: Oil and Water in Nebraska: In Congress, Cornhuskers Take Wait-and-See Approach to Pipeline
- 2010/10/01: USAToday: States give few fines for pipeline violations
- 2010/09/30: SolveClimate: Oil and Water in Nebraska: One Voice on the Campaign Trail Piping Up
Second in a series exploring the election-season dynamics surrounding a plan to build the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska - 2010/09/29: PostMedia: Nebraska groups launch campaign against Keystone
- 2010/09/29: SolveClimate: Oil and Water in Nebraska: Elected Officials Ducking Pipeline Issue
This multipart series explores the election-season dynamics surrounding a plan to build the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska - 2010/09/27: AlterNet: A Proposed [Keystone XL] Dirty Oil Pipeline Would Put Americans at Risk for Cancer and Asthma -- Why Are Senators Pushing For Its Hasty Approval?
Newfoundland is slowly picking itself up after Igor:
- 2010/10/02: CBC: Road access restored to Igor-hit N.L. towns
- 2010/09/28: CBC: Thousands mired in Igor aftermath -- 'It's like a nightmare that we can't wake up from'
- 2010/09/29: CBC: Housing help needed for Igor victims: Williams
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams says his government may need to provide shelter to people who will be forced out of their homes by Hurricane Igor. - 2010/09/27: BBC: Canadian officials are warning that fully repairing the damage done by Hurricane Igor in Newfoundland last week is likely to take months
- 2010/09/27: CBC: Igor throws hundreds in N.L. out of work
- 2010/09/27: CBC: Igor fixes will take months -- More than 900 military personnel now on the ground
As expected, James Cameron caused a stir in the tar sands:
- 2010/09/30: Tyee: James Cameron Glides into the Tar Sands -- Andrew Nikiforuk is there as Hollywood's biggest director visits Extremistan
- 2010/09/29: CBC: Oilsands need more regulation: Cameron
Alberta should put a moratorium on approving new tailings ponds until the science evolves to better handle the waste from oilsands mining, Avatar director James Cameron suggested Wednesday after a three-day tour of the controversial oil deposits. Reclamation of tailings ponds isn't yet sufficiently viable -- either economically or scientifically -- to offset the environmental impact of oilsands mining, and the province needs to regulate the industry more closely, he added. - 2010/09/28: SOE: Fort Chipewyan: Source List for Public Health & Environmental Studies
- 2010/09/29: SOE: James Cameron Press Conference Video and Media Release
- 2010/09/29: SolveClimate: Director James Cameron Says Oil Sands Will Become "Curse" Without Science-Based Regulations -- Hollywood mogul declares "lifelong" commitment to help Canadian First Nations fight mining pollution
- 2010/09/29: CBC: Avatar's Cameron meets Stelmach, Notley
Alberta NDP environment critic Rachel Notley got some face time with James Cameron on Wednesday morning during the Canadian-born director's trip to learn more about the oilsands' impact on communities. At a breakfast meeting, Notley shared her views on oilsands development, and stressed with Cameron concerns that Alberta needs a strong environmental protection regime. Notley said she believes unfettered development will hurt the prosperity of the province and community health. Later Wednesday morning, Cameron will sit down with Premier Ed Stelmach to discuss the impact of the oilsands on northeastern Alberta. - 2010/09/28: CBC: Avatar director to help fund oilsands fight
Film director James Cameron has promised to help people in Fort Chipewyan fund possible litigation against the government over oilsands development in northern Alberta, according to the local chief. - 2010/09/27: CBC: Oilsands poll shows Canadians evenly split
- 2010/09/27: CBC: Director Cameron in Alta. for oilsands tour
Hollywood director James Cameron arrived in Fort McMurray, Alta., late Monday afternoon to start his tour of the oilsands. Cameron, the Canadian-born director of blockbuster films Avatar and Titanic, arrived from Vancouver on an Air Canada Jazz flight around 5 p.m. MT. - 2010/10/01: PostMedia: Climate change forces B.C. to update wildfire strategy
British Columbia Forest Minister Pat Bell has introduced an overhaul of the province's wildfire strategy to take into account the increasing frequency and intensity of forest fires brought about by climate change. The past two fire seasons have racked up bills between three and four times the long-term average cost for fighting fires in B.C., and the growing instability in local weather patterns means things will have to be done differently, Bell said in an interview. - 2010/10/02: PostMedia: U.S. senators' oilsands visit pays dividends -- Legislation would protect supplies from Alta.
- 2010/09/30: CBC: Oilsands water concerns focus of panel
Environment Minister Jim Prentice has announced the appointment of a six-person advisory panel to look into the water-testing regime in the Athabasca River around Alberta's oilsands. The group will advise Prentice on the current state of research and will recommend a new system, if necessary, the minister said Thursday in Ottawa. The panel has 60 days to make its recommendations. - 2010/09/30: G&M: Ottawa to probe oil sands on health, environmental worries
The Conservative government has struck a special panel of scientists to look into Alberta's oil sands. The six-member panel has 60 days to prepare a report for Environment Minister Jim Prentice on the state of environmental research and monitoring in the region. - 2010/09/28: OilChange: Greenwashing Mordor
- 2010/09/29: SOE: Health Concerns in Fort Chipewyan: Concerns Confirmed
- 2010/09/27: SOE: Health Concerns in Fort Chipewyan: Demands for Further Study
- 2010/09/27: SOE: Health Concerns in Fort Chipewyan: "'Answers' Lead to Questions"
- 2010/09/29: PostMedia: U.S. court could put roadblock on oilsands equipment transport -- Conoco, Imperial both plan to move heavy gear through scenic Northwest
With Alberta already enduring this week's tension-filled tour of the oilsands by Canadian-born Avatar director James Cameron, another high-profile oilsands controversy -- this one with links to Brad Pitt and Robert Redford -- is about to move into the spotlight. A U.S. court hearing Friday could put a major roadblock in front of a contentious bid by Imperial Oil to send more than 200 oversized truckloads of oilsands equipment along a highway that winds through Idaho and Montana en route to an open-pit bitumen operation in northern Alberta. The extra-heavy, extra-wide loads would be carried by specially reinforced transport trucks requiring both lanes of a series of two-lane roads. The loads would be moved slowly, at night and only in carefully planned runs aimed at holding up regular traffic for no more than 10 minutes at a stretch. - 2010/09/27: SolveClimate: Battle in Pacific Northwest over 800-Mile Route to Canada's Oil Sands Heats Up -- Fear of creating a permanent industrial corridor through the U.S. to serve Canada's tar sands industry
In Saskatchewan the question is Potash?
- 2010/09/29: BuckDog: Saskatchewan New Democrats Have A Plan For The Potash Industry
- 2010/09/27: CBC: PotashCorp's BHP suit to proceed -- But judge rules PotashCorp's information request too broad
A judge in Chicago ruled Monday that a hearing can proceed into Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan's lawsuit against BHP Billiton, despite the Anglo-Australian mining giant's attempt to have the case thrown out. U.S. District Court Judge David Coar scheduled the hearing for Chicago on Nov. 4. - 2010/10/01: REA: World's Largest Solar PV Project Complete [in Sarnia, Ontario]
- 2010/10/01: PI: Pembina reacts to Ontario plan to further cut coal power generation
- 2010/09/30: CleanBreak: Who knew? World's largest solar power plant is now in Ontario
- 2010/09/30: CleanBreak: Ontario to close four more coal-fired power units
- 2010/10/01: TEC: Ontario Building Momentum in Solar Installation
- 2010/09/29: Reuters: Ontario to shut 4 power plants in coal phase out
The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:
- 2010/09/27: EnergyBulletin: Behavioral economics: a breath of fresh air
- 2010/09/27: Independent(UK): Obsession with growth is asset stripping the planet
IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:
- 2010/10/02: Grist: The GINK Videos -- Self-reliance, population, and bringing children into a troubled world
- 2010/09/30: CNS: Environmentalist Stewart Brand: 'By Second Half of the Century the Population Crisis Will Be Seen As Not Enough People'
- 2010/10/01: TreeHugger: Population 4x More Important Than Climate Change on Water Shortage
- 2010/10/01: TP:WR: At Least 78 Republican Candidates Would Restrict All Abortion Funding
- 2010/09/27: CBC: China to continue 1-child policy
Apocalypso anyone?
- 2010/09/29: CCD: Collapse Porn?
As for how the media handles the science of climatology:
- 2010/09/27: Wired: How to save science journalism
- 2010/09/30: PRWatch: News Corp Gives $1 Million to U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- 2010/09/28: GreenGrok: Headlines with the "Huh" Factor
- 2010/09/30: S&R: Why science journalism is suffering
- 2010/09/30: Stoat: Climate Lies
- 2010/09/30: Deltoid: The Australian delenda est
- 2010/09/29: KSJT: AP: PBS beefs up science reporting, hires Miles O'Brien
- 2010/09/27: Stoat: Classic science journalism
- 2010/09/27: ClimateP: Best damn Guardian piece ever: This is a news website article about a scientific paper
- 2010/09/27: KSJT: Guardian: A blogpost spills the beans on deadline-crazed daily science writing the way the seasoned pros do it, god forbid
- 2010/09/27: ClimateShifts: This is a news website article about a scientific paper
- 2010/09/27: Deltoid: Is that true, or did you read it in The Australian?
Remember pepsigate?
- 2010/09/27: AdAge: Forbes' New Advertising Pitch: Wanna Buy a Blog?
- 2010/09/28: KSJT: Science bloggers find new homes, but ad controversies continue
Here is something for your library:
- 2010/10/01: HotTopic: [Book Review] _The Climate Connection: Climate Change and Modern Human Evolution_ by Renée Hetherington & Robert G.B. Reid
- 2010/10/01: TEC: [Book Review] _Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green' Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future_ by Robert Bryce
- 2010/09/29: DeSmogBlog: Climate Cover-Up Called "Superb" Book By Former TIME Editor
And for your film & video enjoyment:
- 2010/09/30: AFTIC: Inside an Antarctic Time Machine
- 2010/09/29: PSinclair: Massive Storm on YouTube + Zack Hemsey's "Mind Heist"
- 2010/09/29: DVoice: Troubled Waters Overcomes Censor Troubles -- More must-see Ag films
- 2010/09/27: PSinclair: Extinction: It's not just for Polar Bears anymore
As for podcasts:
- 2010/10/02: SkeptiSci: Irregular Climate podcast 11
Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:
- 2010/09/30: UCSUSA: NASA Scientists Battle Feds to Protect Privacy -- Supreme Court Will Hear Case Next Week
- 2010/09/29: PostMedia: U.S. court could put roadblock on oilsands equipment transport -- Conoco, Imperial both plan to move heavy gear through scenic Northwest
- 2010/09/27: CBC: PotashCorp's BHP suit to proceed
Among the non-members of Gamblers Anonymous:
- 2010/10/02: Stoat: Sea ice: and the winner is... no-one!
Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:
- 2010/10/01: EurActiv: Turkmenistan claims 'huge gas reserves' to supply Europe
- 2010/10/01: CSW: US faces collision between energy demands and water scarcity, reports Circle of Blue
- 2010/10/01: OilDrum: Verifying the Export Land Model - A Different Approach
- 2010/09/30: TEC: As DOE Wraps Up Recovery Act Energy Investments, Does Clean Tech Funding Cliff Loom?
- 2010/09/30: EnergyBulletin: A high-risk fossil fuel boom sweeps across North America
- 2010/09/30: Guardian(UK): UK renewable energy production falls for second time in 2010
- 2010/09/30: EarthTimes: Germany, Qatar sign deal on research for solar reactor
Berlin - Germany and Qatar are teaming up to push forward research on solar technology that could provide important low-carbon industrial benefits, according to a project launched in Berlin on Thursday. Germany's Fraunhofer Institute and the Qatar Science and Technology Park signed a joint research deal - the Solar Carbon Black Project - that involves the solar thermal production of hydrogen from methane, using a so-called "solar cracking reactor." - 2010/09/30: Eureka: Hydrogen fuel for thought -- Rice researchers find metallacarboranes may meet DOE storage goals
- 2010/09/30: OilDrum: The Case for the Australian Coal-to-Liquids Industry
- 2010/09/28: SolveClimate: Energy Production Pushing Water Supply to Choke Point -- Report warns that without water, there can be no energy security
- 2010/09/28: OilDrum: Trends in World Oil Supply/Consumption and Net Exports/Imports
- 2010/09/27: Guardian(UK): Japan to drill for controversial 'fire ice' [methane cathrates]
Japan seeks to improve energy security by drilling for frozen methane but environmentalists fear a leak of the greenhouse gas, which is 21 times as damaging as carbon dioxide - 2010/09/27: TEC: Planning for an Energy Future: The Zero Carbon Australia Plan as Representative Example
Hey! Let's contaminate the aquifer for thousands of years! It'll be a fracking gas!
- 2010/09/30: NYT:GW: Natural Gas Drillers Protest Nomination of Fracking Critics for EPA Review Panel
- 2010/09/30: Yale360: A High-Risk Energy Boom Sweeps Across North America
Energy companies are rushing to develop unconventional sources of oil and gas trapped in carbon-rich shales and sands throughout the western United States and Canada. So far, government officials have shown little concern for the environmental consequences of this new fossil-fuel development boom. - 2010/10/01: ProPublica: Pennsylvania Environmental Agency Butts Heads With Gas Drilling Company Over Town's Water Woes
- 2010/09/30: Philadelphia Inquirer: Pa. House approves tax on gas drilling in Marcellus Shale
- 2010/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: NRDC submits recommendations for upcoming EPA fracking study
- 2010/09/28: SolveClimate: Pennsylvania's Fracking Program Gets Mostly High Marks in Independent Review -- Still, stricter regulations and disclosure of toxic chemicals used are needed
- 2010/09/29: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Hydraulic fracturing implicated in another incident of groundwater contamination in Colorado
The answer my friend...:
- 2010/09/29: Guardian(UK): Wind will power fossil fuel-free Denmark in 2050, report predicts
Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:
- 2010/10/01: NewScientist: Work light twice as hard to make cheap solar cells
- 2010/09/30: ENS: Energy Powerhouse: Trapping Light With Nano-Thin Solar Film
- 2010/09/30: PSinclair: Solar Roadways -- Out of the Box thinking
- 2010/09/30: PhysOrg: Printable solar cells within reach?
- 2010/09/28: SolveClimate: DOE: Big Utilities Can Get Reliable Power from Small Solar PV Arrays
A Berkeley Lab study says when PV plant arrays are spread out over a range, output variability is largely eliminated - 2010/09/29: USAToday: Major solar projects make progress in California
- 2010/09/26: NYT: Asia Begins Embracing Solar Power
- 2010/09/27: NOLA: Brad Pitt's Make It Right houses are challenging the way New Orleans homeowners think about solar energy
- 2010/09/27: Sandia: Rain or shine, Sandia National Laboratories' researchers find new ways to forecast large photovoltaic power plant output
On the coal front:
- 2010/09/29: Olympian: Clean energy groups protest Centralia TransAlta coal plant
- 2010/09/28: DemNow: Appalachia Rising: 100 Arrested at White House Calling for End to Mountaintop Coal Removal
- 2010/09/26: TCoE: We can warm the world with coal [pic]
Biofuel bickering abounds:
- 2010/10/01: OSU: Growth of biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations
The nuclear energy controversy continues:
- 2010/10/01: PhysOrg: A future energy giant? India's thorium-based nuclear plans
- 2010/09/29: BNC: SNE 2060 -- thermal reactor build rates, uranium use and cost
- 2010/09/29: PeakEnergy: Pebble Bed Reactor Funding Melts Down
- 2010/09/26: NBF: World nuclear energy for 2010 -- 441 nuclear power reactors with a total net installed capacity of 374.692 GW(e)
Yes we have peak everything:
- 2010/10/01: EnergyBulletin: Military reports leading the charge in peak oil debate
- 2010/09/30: EnergyBulletin: Oil analyst [Charles Maxwell] tells Forbes: Peak oil by 2017
- 2010/09/30: EnergyBulletin: Stages of peak oil awareness
- 2010/09/30: PeakEnergy: South Africa Nearing Peak Coal?
- 2010/09/29: NYT:GW: Study: World's 'Peak Coal' Moment Has Arrived
- 2010/09/28: EnergyBulletin: Peak phosphorus still a threat to food security, despite new report
- 2010/09/28: EnergyBulletin: UK government's oil shock warning
- 2010/09/29: OilDrum: The oil 'peak' has been reached
- 2010/09/27: EnergyBulletin: The next oil price shock -- an update
- 2010/09/26: EnergyBulletin: Could peak oil save the human species?
More people are talking about the electrical grid:
- 2010/09/30: Reuters: New York can safely boost wind power sixfold by 2018: grid
New York could reliably boost power generation from wind from the current 1,275 megawatts to 8,000 MW by 2018, according to a new study by the state grid operator on Thursday - 2010/09/30: ClimateP: Smart meters need smart consumers -- Education as well as technology is key to realizing benefits
- 2010/09/30: TEC: What will drive the Smart Grid -- policy or the electric vehicle?
And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:
- 2010/10/01: TreeHugger: The Potential, and the Pit Falls, of Energy Efficiency (Video)
- 2010/10/01: TreeHugger: US Home Energy Efficiency Improved Since 1970, So Why Are The Bills The Same?
- 2010/09/30: WaPo: Are American homes more energy efficient? Not exactly.
The amount of energy that the average American requires at home has changed little since the early 1970s -- despite advances in technology that have made many home appliances far more energy efficient. Dishwashers use 45 percent less energy than they did two decades ago, according to industry data. Refrigerators use 51 percent less. But on a per-capita basis, Americans still require about 70 million British thermal units a year to heat, cool and power their homes, just as they did in 1971. (One BTU is the energy required to heat one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.) A key reason, experts say, is that American homes are getting bigger, which means more space to heat and cool. And consumers are buying more and more power-sucking gadgets -- meaning that kilowatts saved by dishwashers and refrigerators are often used up by flat-screen televisions, computers and digital video recorders. - 2010/09/29: NBF: University of Copenhagen Clean Air Device cuts building energy use by up to 25% and improves indoor air quality
- 2010/09/27: NBF: Sumitomo Electric Develops Superconductive Cable With 50% More Current Capacity
- 2010/09/26: ClimateP: The [LED] Light Fantastic
- 2010/09/27: TreeHugger: Survey Shows 73% of Lighting and Building Pros Using LEDs
Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:
- 2010/09/30: PhysOrg: Ford plans five electric cars, wants technology to improve
- 2010/09/29: TreeHugger: The Man Behind the Plan to Make Electric Cars Mainstream
- 2010/09/29: AutoBG: Suzuki reveals e-Let's electric scooter prototype
- 2010/09/29: AutoBG: Friedman: How China's electric vehicle industry is going to rocket past the U.S. - and everyone else
- 2010/09/28: DerSpiegel: Interview with VW Chief Martin Winterkorn -- 'The Next Step Is the Electric Car'
- 2010/09/27: PhysOrg: Study: Electric cars hold greater promise for reducing emissions and lowering US oil imports
- 2010/09/27: TreeHugger: Volvo Working on Storing Energy in a Car's Body Panels
- 2010/09/27: TEC: MIT's green car of the future?
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
- 2010/09/30: PlanetArk: Green Firms Face Prolonged Funding Drought: Bank
Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:
- 2010/10/01: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for October 1...
- 2010/09/30: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 30...
- 2010/09/29: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 29...
- 2010/09/28: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 28...
- 2010/09/27: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 27...
Other (weekly) lists:
- 2010/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin America: 9.27 - 10.1.2010
- 2010/10/01: Grist: A walk through the week's climate news -- The Climate Post: 2011 could see truly epic legislative battles over climate, energy
- 2010/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of September 21, 2010 to September 27, 2010
- 2010/09/27: IJISH: Mindless Link Propagation
- 2010/09/27: TDC: Climate Clippings -- Storm barriers, wind potential and King Coal's stumble
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
- 2010/10/03: SkeptiSci: Climate Cherry Pickers: Falling sea levels in 2010
- 2010/10/03: HotTopic: Like being savaged by a dead sheep (again)
- 2010/10/01: Grist: Heritage-gate -- Heritage hypocritically misrepresents scientists' words
- 2010/09/28: Tamino: Vindication?
- 2010/09/28: MGS: Does Lake Superior Remember the Last Ice Age?
- 2010/09/28: MTobis: Dr. Kenneth Green vs Horatio Algeranon
- 2010/09/28: Eureka: How reasonable it is to deceive yourself?
- 2010/09/27: DeSmogBlog: WUWT: Just Enough Information to Mislead
- 2010/09/27: WtD: Climate change denial in decline? SciAm study points to that possibility
Meanwhile in the 'clean coal' saga:
- 2010/10/01: Grist: Industry wraps coal ash regulation fight in the mantle of civil rights
As for climate miscellanea:
- 2010/10/02: moyhu: An entropy budget for the Earth
- 2010/10/02: TSoD: Absorption of Radiation from Different Temperature Sources
- 2010/10/02: ERabett: Warming Barry Brook's Blog
- 2010/09/30: GWWatch: Emissions down, interest up: Banking on a carbon neutral future
- 2010/10/01: BVerheggen: IPCC history and mandate
- 2010/09/30: DM:CCM: Communicating About Climate Science, Part II
- 2010/09/29: HSNW: World unprepared for "convergent crisis"
- 2010/09/29: TCoE: Our fundamental challenge
- 2010/09/28: KSJT: KQED Quest: One heatwave. Is it global warming. No. (But yes, really)
- 2010/09/29: NewScientist: Emission control: Turning carbon trash into treasure
- 2010/09/29: JHN&G: Prof says science clear on climate change
Climate change science is not as unsettled as skeptics imply and doubts about global warming stem more from fear of regulation than from scientific uncertainty, professor and author Naomi Oreskes told an audience last week. - 2010/09/27: TSoD: The Real Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 2010/09/26: ClimateP: What will future generations condemn us for?
And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
- NOAA:CSC: Historical Hurricane Tracks
- Wiki: Agulhas Current
- ERW: Environmental Research Web News
- Geoengineering Politics
- Wiki: South-North Water Transfer Project
- CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity - COP10 will be held in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, from 18 to 29 October 2010
- NASA:GISS: Surface Temperature Analysis
- GRL: Published This Year in Geophysical Research Letters
- PCCRC: Purdue Climate Change Research Center
- NOAA News mag
- James Annan's Work Page (with list of publications)
- AIP: The Discovery of Global Warming - A hypertext history
- AIP: Basic Radiation Calculations
- CACC: Campaign against Climate Change
- EPICA: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
- CRU: STARDEX - Statistical and Regional dynamical Downscaling of Extremes for European regions
Laugh. I dare ya:
Oh Joy! The Climate Accord misstep documented:
The IUCN has released an arresting report on plant life:
The UK Royal Society issued a climate change summary:
The Pakistan monsoon floods are an ongoing tragedy:
The deniers will love tying Bin Laden to greens. Corporate media will talk about eco-terrorists:
I expect we will hear a lot about this schmozzle:
The food crisis is ongoing:
On the food corp. front:
So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?
And how are we going to feed 9 billion?
As for ocean currents:
Glaciers are melting:
Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:
The issue of China and rare earth mineral trade continues to percolate:
What are the activists up to?
And in the Indian subcontinent:
And South America:
The G20 kafuffle is still in the air:
Pipeline wrangling is ongoing:
BC is dealing with impacts:
Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:
Ontario has it's Green Energy Act, now comes the implementation:
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