Another week of GW News, November 9, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

November 7, 2010

• Chuckles, Pre Cancun, Post Nagoya, Geoengineering Ban, Election Reaction, Pakistan
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• Melting Arctic, Walrus
• Food Crisis, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production
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It's always nice to start with a laugh:

1. 2010/11/05: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Communing with the enemy
2. 2010/11/02: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Tea-Party on, dudes
3. 2010/10/31: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Prize they Lard
4. 2010/11/05: uComics: (cartoon - Auth) The Tea Leaves Are Clear!
5. 2010/11/03: MTobis: (cartoon - Toles) Last Word

   And for those who enjoy challenging Poe's Law:

6. 2010/10/27: Onion: Democrats: 'If We're Gonna Lose, Let's Go Down Running Away From Every Legislative Accomplishment We've Made'

   Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

7. UNFCCC: The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, 29 November - 10 December 2010
8. COP 16, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Cancún, Quintana Roo
9. 2010/11/04: Guardian(UK): Rich nations urged to develop climate aid plan for Cancún
10. 2010/11/04: SolveClimate: As Host of Climate Talks, Mexico Faces Domestic Energy Paradox
    Mexico champions climate solutions but is also expanding its oil industry and car ownership
11. 2010/11/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: A growing number of climate negotiators call for a stop to the bickering so that we can find solutions to climate change
12. 2010/11/03: GlobalTimes(Cn): China vows efforts with UN for fruitful climate summit
13. 2010/11/03: IndianExpress: Climate change: India to host 48-nation talks [ahead of the Cancun meet]
14. 2010/11/03: BBerg: China Says Nations Have a `Common Duty, Responsibility' on Climate Change
15. 2010/11/01: UN: Models of climate action to be showcased daily by UN agency, ahead of Cancun parlay
16. 2010/11/01: WaPo: U.S. plays conflicted role in global climate debate
    As the next round of U.N. climate talks approaches this month in Cancun, Mexico, the Obama administration finds itself in an awkward position: pushing its enduring commitment to bold climate action even as the prospects for comprehensive legislation have evaporated at home. The atmosphere is very different from a year ago, when U.S. negotiators headed to Copenhagen touting the recent success of a House-passed climate bill. Now that legislation has died in the Senate, and with candidates poised to win this week who are more likely to focus on immediate economic concerns than on long-term environmental and energy ones, these constraints are shaping U.S. climate diplomacy.

Post Nagoya commentary:

17. CBD: COP 10 Outcomes -- Decisions (Advance Unedited Texts)
18. IISD: Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity -- 18-29 October 2010 | Nagoya, Japan
19. 2010/11/06: Guardian(UK): We've been conned. The deal to save the natural world never happened
    The so-called summit in Japan won't stop anyone trashing the planet. Only economic risks seem to make governments act
20. 2010/11/04: CCurrents: The Deal To Save The Natural World Never Happened
21. 2010/11/03: Rabble: Solving the problem of biodiversity
22. 2010/11/01: EurActiv: 'Historic deal' to save nature reached in Nagoya
23. 2010/11/02: EUO: EU threatened global biodiversity deal, critics say
24. 2010/11/02: UN: UN Member States endorse plan to halt biodiversity loss and share genetic resources
25. 2010/11/02: NatureN: World gets 2020 vision for conservation -- With a raft of agreements emerging from Nagoya, the next step is finding the cash to move beyond the blueprint
26. 2010/11/01: EurActiv: "Historic deal' to save nature reached in Nagoya
    Environment ministers from almost 200 countries on Friday (29 October) adopted historic targets to half the loss of natural habitats and dramatically increase nature reserves to 17 percent of the world's land area by 2020 from less than 10 percent today.
27. 2010/11/01: UN: Ban lauds landmark pact on sharing benefits of world's genetic wealth
28. 2010/11/01: PlanetArk: Nations Agree Historic Deal To Save Nature

    A fair number of people are trying to figure out what the geoengineering ban means:

29. 2010/11/03: CCentral: They've Banned Geoengineering -- But What Exactly Does That Mean?
30. 2010/11/01: ACS: Countries Agree To Ban Geoengineering -- Climate Technologies: Prohibition is adopted under the UN biodiversity treaty
31. 2010/11/02: KSJT: Wash. Post, Ch.& Eng News, etc: UN bans geoengineering for climate change or anything else
32. 2010/11/02: NatureN: Geoengineering faces ban -- Moratorium on schemes to reduce global warming clashes with reports urging more research
33. 2010/10/31: GeoengineeringPolitics: The Meaning of the Moratorium
34. 2010/10/31: MongaBay: Mixed messages on geoengineering: international community approves moratorium, US pushes research
35. 2010/11/01: NewScientist: What the UN ban on geoengineering really means [Pearce]
36. 2010/11/01: TreeHugger: Why the UN Moratorium on Geoengineering Is a Good Thing, Maybe

    International reaction to the US election:

37. 2010/11/05: Reuters: E.U. sees U.S. "disappearing" as partner on climate
    The European Union sees the United States "disappearing as a partner" in international climate talks after President Barack Obama suffered setbacks in midterm elections, the EU's top climate official said on Friday. Obama has conceded that big Republican gains in Tuesday's elections undermined prospects for comprehensive legislation to tackle climate change. "We're very disappointed about the United States going that way and dropping climate legislation," said Jos Delbeke, director general of the European Commission's climate team.
38. 2010/11/05: PlanetArk: Obama's Climate Pessimism Dims U.N., G20 Outlook
    U.S. President Barack Obama's pessimism about passing U.S. climate legislation also dims chances for action to slow global warming both in U.N. talks and in other groups such as the G20, experts say.
39. 2010/11/04: EUO: US election result raises concerns in Europe
40. 2010/11/03: ABC(Au): Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says the changed US Congress should not put off other countries from trying to take action on climate change

    The monsoon floods in Pakistan are an ongoing tragedy:

41. 2010/11/05: UN: UN humanitarian agency: Pakistan flooding victims still in urgent need of support
42. 2010/11/03: TerraDaily: UN raises winter funds alarm in flood-hit Pakistan
43. 2010/11/02: UN: UN telecom body brings emergency broadband to flooded Pakistan
44. 2010/11/02: PlanetArk: Pakistan Government Leaves Villages Wallowing In Neglect
45. 2010/11/01: TerraDaily: Pakistan flood victims need aid for two years: aid groups

    The new fund created to tackle extinction is gonna be busy:

46. 2010/11/01: ENS: SOS: New Fund Created to Tackle Extinction Crisis
    Save Our Species, SOS, a new multi-million dollar fund that will provide grants for conservation of threatened species and their habitats, was announced Friday by the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

What are the global financial institutions up to?

47. 2010/11/04: EarthTimes: World Bank wrestles with climate-friendly development, coal dilemma

    Meanwhile at the UNCFG:

48. 2010/11/06: EarthTimes: Positive response to 100-billion-dollar UN climate funding
49. 2010/11/05: UN: Climate change financing 'challenging but feasible' - Ban's advisory group
50. 2010/11/06: ABC(Au): UN calls for higher taxes to fund climate warning fight

    How long until we see an International Ecological Court?

51. 2010/11/04: CCurrents: A New Kind Of Crime Against Humanity? The Fossil Fuel Industry's Disinformation Campaign On Climate Change
52. 2010/11/02: TMoS: A Question In Need of an Answer -- Is climate change disinformation a crime against humanity?
53. 2010/11/02: HotTopic: Crime of the century
54. 2010/11/01: Guardian(UK): Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity?
    Deeply irresponsible corporate-sponsored programmes of disinformation have potentially harsh effects upon tens of millions of people

It has always been a danger that politicians would take 2 degrees as carved in stone, instead of monitoring feedbacks:

55. 2010/11/04: Reuters: 2 degree Celsius climate target may need to change: UK scientist
    A widely agreed international target to avoid dangerous global warming must take account of local impacts and may need to change, said the chief scientist at the MetOffice Hadley Center, Britain's biggest climate research center.

Late Comment on the Living Planet Report:

56. 2010/11/03: SolveClimate: Living Planet Report Says Rich Nations Inhabit a "False Paradise"
    Populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity's demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50% more than the earth can sustain

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

57. 2010/11/07: SkeptiSci: Ice-Free Arctic
58. 2010/11/04: CCentral: Scientist to Retrieve Detailed Photos of Greenland's 2010 Record Ice Melt [in the spring of 2011]
59. 2010/11/04: Guardian(UK): Arctic ice melted by climate change
60. 2010/11/04: CCP: Jason Box to retrieve Petermann Glacier photos in 2011
61. 2010/11/03: CCP: Arctic Sea Ice hits a record low for this time of year
62. 2010/11/03: Tamino: How Likely?
63. 2010/11/03: DeSmogBlog: Arctic Sea Ice Trends: Down, Down Down
64. 2010/11/02: JKB: Arctic sea-ice trend
65. 2010/11/01: SkeptiSci: Greenland ice mass loss after the 2010 summer
66. 2010/11/03: NatureN: Marine science: The tiniest catch -- Marine scientists are prowling the Bering Sea to learn how climate affects minute sea creatures and the lucrative fishery that depends on them
67. 2010/11/05: KSJT: Nature News: A freelancer's report, on pollock and more, from the Bering Sea

    As for the charismatic megafauna:

68. 2010/11/05: Discover: Will the Walrus Withstand a Warmer World?

    The food crisis is ongoing:

69. 2010/11/06: Google:AP: 'Staff of life' wavers under weight of humanity
    In these volcanic valleys of central Mexico, on the Canadian prairie, across India's northern plain, they sow and they reap the golden grain that has fed us since the distant dawn of farming. But along with the wheat these days comes a harvest of worry. Yields are not keeping up with a world growing hungrier. Crops are stunted in a world grown warmer. A devastating fungus, a wheat "rust," is spreading out of Africa, a grave threat to the food plant that covers more of the planet's surface than any other. In Chicago, London and other money centers, the wheat market is so roiled by bad news and speculators that rising prices may put bread out of reach for millions more of the world's poor.
70. 2010/11/05: Guardian(UK): US accused of forcing up world food prices
    Fresh round of US quantitative easing will weaken dollar and push up commodity prices, hitting consumers, say critics
71. 2010/11/05: China: Climate change 'takes toll'on grain harvest
    Climate change will trigger a drop in China's grain harvest over the next few decades and threaten food security, a leading agriculturalist warns. Tang Huajun, deputy dean of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), said a 5 to 10 percent crop loss is foreseeable by 2030 if climate change continues.
72. 2010/11/04: WSJ:RTE: In U.S., 14% Rely on Food Stamps
    [...]
    Some 42,389,619 Americans received food stamps in August, a 17% rise from the same time a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which tracks the data. That number is up 58.5% from August 2007, before the recession began.
73. 2010/11/03: UN: UN agencies seek funds to help people affected by food shortages in Djibouti
74. 2010/11/03: ProMedMail: Wheat stem rust, Ug99 - Kenya: (RV), update
75. 2010/11/02: MongaBay: Tropical agriculture "double-whammy": high emissions, low yields
76. 2010/11/01: CCurrents: Stupid Economics: Blaming The Poor And Hungry For Food Inflation
77. 2010/11/01: TrinidadExpress: Vital banana crop wiped out -- Terrible Tomas hammers St Vincent
    Not a single banana tree was left standing in the northern part of St Vincent and the Grenadines after the country was hit by Hurricane Tomas, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said yesterday. Banana production employs more than 60 per cent of the workforce on the island and accounts for more than 50 per cent of the country's merchandise exports, according to official statistics.

Look out! the IP Rentiers are coming!

78. 2010/11/05: REA: Is IP Standing in the Way of a Green Planet?

    Regarding the genetic modification of food:

79. 2010/11/05: PlanetArk: Monsanto Sees "Right Time" For GMO Wheat

    And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

80. 2010/11/07: PhysOrg: Scientists meet to ensure supply of Asia's staple, rice
    Scientists from around the world meet in Vietnam on Tuesday aiming to ensure a steady supply of rice -- the staple food for Asia's poor -- against threats that include climate change and urbanisation.
81. 2010/11/05: NatureN: Mayans converted wetlands to farmland -- The sophistication of the civilization's agricultural systems rivalled their pyramids
82. 2010/11/03: EnergyBulletin: From slash and burn to sustainable development from the grassroots in northeast India
83. 2010/11/01: CCurrents: Food security As If WomenMattered (Part II): Why And How It Works In Kerala
84. 2010/11/03: DerSpiegel: Corn vs. Marshes -- German Wetlands Are Increasingly Yielding to Agriculture
    Even as Berlin demands that developing countries preserve their rainforests, the country is doing little for biodiversity back home. Bogs and marshland in Germany are increasingly yielding to corn farming -- resulting in the release of huge quantities of CO2.
85. 2010/11/02: PhysOrg: Scientists find that evergreen agriculture boosts crop yields
86. 2010/11/02: TreeHugger: "Pay As You Plant" Insurance Helps African Farmers Recover from Climate-Induced Crop Loss

    In the hurricane wars, Tomas plagued the Caribbean:

87. 2010/11/06: TerraDaily: Hurricane Tomas moves north after killing six in Haiti
88. 2010/11/06: Wunderground: Tomas spares Haiti, heads out to sea
89. 2010/11/06: EarthTimes: Haiti escapes worst of Hurricane Tomas
90. 2010/11/06: CBC: Hurricane Tomas weakens to tropical storm
    Hurricane Tomas was downgraded to a tropical storm early Saturday as it passed over the Turks and Caicos Islands, losing steam a day after battering seaside towns in Haiti. The storm spared most of Haiti a direct hit, but floodwaters killed six people as Tomas came ashore Friday in the country's southwestern tip.
91. 2010/11/05: Wunderground: Hurricane Tomas lashing Haiti with torrential rains
92. 2010/11/04: Wunderground: Little change to Tomas as it bears down on Haiti
93. 2010/11/05: EarthTimes: Hurricane Tomas sweeps flooding across Haiti
94. 2010/11/04: ENS: Tropical Storm Tomas Heads for Shattered Haiti
95. 2010/11/05: Eureka: GOES-13 Satellite sees Hurricane Tomas lashing Haiti and eastern Cuba today
96. 2010/11/05: BBC: Haiti quake victims told to flee approaching hurricane
97. 2010/11/05: CBC: Hurricane Tomas bears down on Haiti
98. 2010/11/04: Wunderground: Tomas' rains reach Haiti and Jamaica
99. 2010/11/04: Eureka: NASA satellite data confirm a stronger Tropical Storm Tomas, hurricane warnings up
100. 2010/11/03: Eureka: NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tomas' power fluctuate
101. 2010/11/04: BBC: Haiti braced as Tropical Storm Tomas sweeps in
102. 2010/11/03: PhysOrg: NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tomas' power fluctuate
103. 2010/11/03: Wunderground: A weakened Tomas still a grave danger to Haiti
104. 2010/11/03: Eureka: NASA satellite sees Tomas weaken to a tropical depression ... for now
105. 2010/11/02: UN: As tropical storm blows toward Haiti, UN pre-positions humanitarian supplies
106. 2010/11/02: Wunderground: Tomas gradually strengthening; 14 dead in St. Lucia from the storm
107. 2010/11/02: EarthTimes: Concerns mounts as tropical storm [Tomas] heads to Haiti
108. 2010/11/02: Eureka: GOES-13 catches Tropical Storm Tomas' early morning strengthening
109. 2010/11/02: BBC: Hurricane kills 14 people in St Lucia
     At least 14 people are now known to have died on the Caribbean island of St Lucia after Hurricane Tomas triggered landslides, officials say. Tourism minister Allan Chastanet told local radio that the southern town of Soufriere had been worst hit and resembled "a war zone".
110. 2010/11/02: CBC: Haiti braces for tropical storm Tomas
111. 2010/11/01: UN: Haiti: UN helping to prepare for impending hurricane
112. 2010/11/01: Wunderground: Tomas remains weak; St. Lucia hard-hit by the storm
113. 2010/10/31: Wunderground: Tomas significantly weaker; damage very heavy on St. Lucia and neighboring islands
114. 2010/11/01: TrinidadExpress: Vital banana crop wiped out -- Terrible Tomas hammers St Vincent
115. 2010/11/01: BBC: Tomas weakens after whipping Caribbean isles
     Tropical Storm Tomas is continuing to swirl through the Caribbean, after hitting St Lucia and St Vincent in the Windward Isles over the weekend. The storm system has lost its hurricane status but US forecaster say Tomas could strengthen in the coming days. The storm is forecast to head in the direction of Haiti, where some 1.3 million people are still living in tents since January's earthquake.
116. 2010/11/01: CBC: Tomas weakens to tropical storm

     While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

117. 2010/11/04: Hindu: Rain battered coastal Andhra [Pradesh] braces for cyclone
118. 2010/11/03: EarthTimes: Taiwan raises death toll from Typhoon Megi to 36
119. 2010/11/03: Eureka: Tropical Storm Anggrek is tightly wrapped in NASA satellite imagery
120. 2010/11/02: UN: Myanmar: humanitarian assistance needed to respond to Cyclone Giri

     As for GHGs:

121. 2010/11/01: TreeHugger: US Military: Still the World's Largest Polluter

     And in the carbon cycle:

122. 2010/11/02: MIT: Laws of attraction
     Ocean micro-organisms are shown to behave like larger animals in the presence of sulfur. Might this offer clues about the roles they play in regulating Earth's climate?
123. 2010/11/02: Eureka: Every person emits 2 tons of CO2 a year through eating
124. 2010/11/01: Eureka: Expanding croplands chipping away at world's carbon stocks
     Nature's capacity to store carbon, the element at the heart of global climate woes, is steadily eroding as the world's farmers expand croplands at the expense of native ecosystem such as forests.
125. 2010/11/01: CBC: Trees' ability to soak up CO2 has limits

     As for the temperature record:

126. 2010/11/05: CC&G: 2010 On Track to Being 2nd Warmest Year Since 1880
127. 2010/11/02: ClimateP: January-to-October tied for hottest in satellite record

     Yes we have feedbacks:

128. 2010/11/02: RealClimate: More on feedbacks

     Aerosols are making their presence felt:

129. 2010/11/05: PhysOrg: Aerosol particles form in nighttime plumes from coal-fired power plants
130. 2010/11/02: NatureN: Q&A -- A sky-high eye on climate change -- Measuring aerosols and radiation at dizzying altitudes is all in a day's work for Angela Marioni
131. 2010/11/01: PhysOrg: Focusing on aerosols through the macro lens

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

132. 2010/11/02: BBickmore: National Science Foundation on Clouds

     While in the paleoclimate:

133. 2010/11/05: PhysOrg: Thawing a planet-sized snowball
134. 2010/11/03: SciDaily: How Ancient Plants and Soil Fungi Turned Earth Green [470 mya]
135. 2010/11/03: Eureka: Earth's climate change 20,000 years ago reversed the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean
     Global warming today could have similar effects on ocean currents and could accelerate climate change
136. 2010/11/02: NatureTGB: Oxygen boost helps dragonflies go large -- in the Permo-Carboniferous era, some 250-300 mya
137. 2010/11/02: TerraDaily: End Of Ice Age Holds Clues About Carbon Dioxide Patterns
     New University of Florida research puts to rest the mystery of where old carbon was stored during the last glacial period. It turns out it ended up in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. The findings have implications for modern-day global warming, said Ellen Martin, a UF geological sciences professor and an author of the paper, which is published in this week's journal Nature Geoscience.

While on the ENSO front:

138. 2010/11/04: NOAA:NCEP: El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
     Synopsis: La Niña is expected to last at least into the Northern Hemisphere spring 2011.

Regarding the solar hypothesis:

139. 2010/11/03: GRL: (ab$) Solar Influences on Climate by L. J. Gray et al.
140. 2010/11/03: QuarkSoup: Big Review Article on Solar Influences

     Regarding Climate Sensitivity:

141. 2010/11/06: SkeptiSci: Climate change from 40 million years ago shows climate sensitivity to CO2

     What's up with volcanoes this week?

142. 2010/11/04: TreeHugger: Asian Rainfall Patterns Unexpectedly Disrupted by Big Volcanic Eruptions
143. 2010/11/03: PhysOrg: Volcanoes have shifted Asian rainfall
144. 2010/11/05: TreeHugger: Volcano-Stimulated Rebound Of 2010 Salmon Run Challenges Anti-Science Environmentalism [Kasatochi]

     Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

145. 2010/11/05: PhysOrg: Use satellites to know your snow
     As winter approaches, northern dwellers will get assistance from space to help them face the harsh weather. Satellite information on snow cover is now available through ESA's GlobSnow project soon after it snows.
146. 2010/11/05: NASA: NASA Extends TIMED [Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics] Mission for Fourth Time
147. 2010/11/04: TerraDaily: SMOS Water Mission Celebrates First Year In Orbit
148. 2010/11/03: SciDaily: Last 'Tango' in Space: Satellite Duo to Generate 3-D Models of Glaciers and Low-Lying Coastal Areas
     Adding to their unique information from previous tandem missions, the European Space Agency's ERS-2 and Envisat satellites have been paired up again -- for the last time. Data from this final duet are generating 3-D models of glaciers and low-lying coastal areas.

More GW impacts are being seen:

149. 2010/11/04: Eureka: Polar bears can't eat geese into extinction -- New statistical model demonstrates that trophic mismatch feeds bears without exterminating snow geese
150. 2010/11/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: What Does Climate Change in Yellowstone Look Like? (Photo Essay)
151. 2010/11/01: AGU:DWWSJ: Climate Change Linked To Southeast U.S. Floods/Heatwaves
152. 2010/11/03: HotTopic: Under African skies
153. 2010/11/02: Telegraph(UK): Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from global warming say geologists
     The Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from global warming if mankind continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, geologists have warned.
154. 2010/10/31: Guardian(UK): In this remote town in Mali, climate change takes on a sinister reality

     And then there are the world's forests:

155. 2010/11/05: EnergyBulletin: In war-scarred landscape, Vietnam replants its forests
156. 2010/11/01: NewScientist: Clearing tropical forests is a lose-lose
     Clearing tropical forests for farmland is bad for the climate -- no surprises there. But now we've learned that it's also an inefficient way to feed people.

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

157. 2010/11/06: Tamino: Extreme Heat
158. 2010/11/02: DWWSJ: Climate Change Linked To Southeast Heat Waves and Floods
159. 2010/11/02: SEasterbrook: After the fire

     Acidification is changing the oceans:

160. 2010/11/07: Scotsman: Oysters at risk in acid oceans
161. 2010/11/06: TCoE: Double doc alert: Ocean acidification
162. 2010/11/05: KSJT: Trickle of Reports: Ocean acidification, the gorilla in the corner, is making some noise.
163. 2010/11/04: NatureTGB: Ocean pH dropping faster than expected
     Thanks to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, some Arctic waters are already experiencing pH dips that could be harmful to sea life. What's more, this acidification seems to be happening more rapidly than models have predicted.

Glaciers are melting:

164. 2010/11/03: Eureka: Water flowing through ice sheets accelerates warming, could speed up ice flow
165. 2010/11/03: PhysOrg: Water flowing through ice sheets accelerates warming, could speed up ice flow

     Sea levels are rising:

166. 2010/11/05: ABC(Au): The town of Beachport in the south-east of South Australia is under threat of flooding from the sea
167. 2010/11/04: TDC: Facing a rising sea, and wondering how far to step back
     Uncertainty over sea-level predictions makes planning for change difficult, but that's no excuse for inaction, says Princeton's Michael Oppenheimer.
168. 2010/11/04: TDC: Climate adaptation: Adding to a tide of worry
     Coastal cities worldwide struggle to slot climate impact into a lengthy catalog of worries. 'Cities are totally unable to deal with this extra level of complexity.'
169. 2010/11/01: ABC(Au): Pacific nation plans wall to block rising seas
     The low-lying Marshall Islands, a Pacific atoll chain that rises barely a metre above sea level, has announced plans for a wall to hold back rising sea levels.

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

170. 2010/11/04: GreenGrok: The Rise and Fall of Rainfall in a Warming World
171. 2010/11/03: GreenGrok: Where Has All The Water Gone? [Syed vs Wada]
172. 2010/11/05: EarthTimes: Death toll rises to 9 in flashfloods, landslides in Philippines
173. 2010/11/05: EarthTimes: Benin: Waiting for the end of the flood
174. 2010/11/05: EarthTimes: Death toll rises to four, thousands evacuated in Malaysian floods
175. 2010/11/05: CBC: Heavy rains kill 20 in Costa Rica
176. 2010/11/04: BBC: Costa Rica landslide kills at least 20 as storm hits
     A landslide in Costa Rica caused by heavy rain has killed at least 20 people in a suburb of the capital, San Jose, officials say.
177. 2010/11/03: TerraDaily: UN urges aid to counter Djibouti's five year drought
178. 2010/11/04: EarthTimes: Six people killed in landslide, flashfloods in northern Philippines
179. 2010/11/04: EarthTimes: Flash floods kill 16 in eastern Indonesia
180. 2010/11/04: CBC: Vietnam flood toll hits 159 [over the past month]
181. 2010/11/04: CBC: Thailand flooding death toll rises
     Floodwaters that swamped vast areas of southern Thailand and inundated its largest city have killed 12 people, officials said Thursday, bringing the flooding death toll from across the country to more than 120. The government's Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department said 122 people have died and nearly six million residents in 39 provinces in the northern, central, eastern and northeastern regions had been affected by two weeks of heavy floods in October.
182. 2010/11/03: UN: UN and partners launch $47 million appeal for flood-ravaged Benin
183. 2010/11/01: TerraDaily: Tens of thousands left homeless in Benin floods: UN
184. 2010/11/02: EarthTimes: 16 killed as heavy rains lash southern India
185. 2010/11/02: EarthTimes: Floods trap thousands in southern Thailand
186. 2010/11/02: CBC: Thailand hit by new flooding
187. 2010/11/01: EarthTimes: Four dead in latest Vietnam floods

     Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

188. 2010/11/03: TreeHugger: Author of 'The Biochar Solution' Says 'It's Not a Solution' (Video)
189. 2010/11/02: PhysOrg: Regulating Earth's climate with micro-organisms
     Scientists have sought to learn more about how the Earth's oceans absorb carbon dioxide and generally exchange gases with the atmosphere so they can better understand the corresponding effects on climate. To that end, many researchers are turning their attention to the microscopic organisms that help recycle carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other elements through the oceans. Finding out exactly how and to what degree they do that is an ongoing scientific challenge, and scientists may first have to learn more about how the microbes interact with their environment at the scale of the individual microbe.

Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation has somehow seemed chimeric:

190. 2010/11/01: ABC(Au): Carbon offsetting scheme [REDD] open to corruption, report warns
     A new report has warned the Federal Government should be wary of investing in future carbon offsetting schemes which involve forests in developing countries. The scheme, known as REDD, compensates nations for cutting their carbon emissions by stopping deforestation and preventing land degradation. Australian Council for International Development executive director Marc Purcell says the report shows the scheme is open to corruption and comes with significant risks.

Consider transportation & GHG production:

191. 2010/11/05: DVoice: The Privilege of Flying in a Time of Climate Change
192. 2010/11/03: CalcRisk: U.S. Light Vehicle Sales 12.26 million SAAR in October
193. 2010/11/03: CalcRisk: General Motors: October U.S. sales increase year-over-year
     GM reports 3.5% rise in Oct. U.S. car sales -- [GM] sold 183,759 cars and trucks...
     ...Ford U.S. October sales rise 19.2% to 157,935
     ...Chrysler October U.S. sales jump 37% ...to 90,137 vehicles...
     ...Toyota U.S. October sales decline 4.4%
194. 2010/11/01: AlterNet: Flying Is One of the Worst Things You Can Do for the Environment -- So Why Do So Many Well-Intentioned Folks Do It?

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

195. 2010/11/05: Grist: Big exciting news about building codes. No, really
196. 2010/11/04: TEC: Reducing the energy use of houses

     As for carbon sequestration:

197. 2010/11/05: NatureTGB: Controversial carbon-burial project cancelled
     Shell's plan to inject 400,000 tonnes of compressed carbon dioxide annually under a shopping mall in Barendrecht, the Netherlands, has been cancelled after years of protest from the town's residents.
198. 2010/11/05: MSNBC: Dutch drop plan to store CO2 under town
199. 2010/11/03: SciDaily: On the Way to CO2-Free Power Plants

     Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

200. 2010/11/04: Economist: Geoengineering Lift-off
     Research into the possibility of engineering a better climate is progressing at an impressive rate -- and meeting strong opposition
201. 2010/10/25: AlterNet: The Doomsday Machine and the Race to Save the World: Geoengineering Emerges as Plan B at the 11th Hour
202. 2010/11/05: ABC(Au): A report into a cloud seeding trial in the Snowy Mountains indicates snowfall has increased as a result
203. 2010/11/01: SciDaily: 'Cloud Seeding' Not Effective at Producing Rain as Once Thought, New Research Shows
204. 2010/10/31: MongaBay: Mixed messages on geoengineering: international community approves moratorium, US pushes research
205. 2010/11/01: DM:CCM: House Science Committee Endorses Geoengineering Research
206. 2010/11/01: TEC: Geoengineering: A congressman's thumbs up

     While on the adaptation front:

207. 2010/11/04: TCoE: The cost of adaptation

     Meanwhile in the journals:

208. 2010/11/01: NERC:NORA: Bedform signature of a West Antarctic palaeo-ice stream reveals a multi-temporal record of flow and substrate control by Alastair G.C. Graham et al.
209. 2010/11/01: NERC:NORA: Surface structure and stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula by N.F. Glasser et al.
210. 2010/11/02: NERC:NORA: Ice-flow velocities on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica, are stable over decadal timescales by G.H. Gudmundsson et al.
211. 2010/11/02: NERC:NORA: The final warming date of the Antarctic polar vortex and influences on its interannual variability by Joanna D. Haigh et al.
212. 2010/11/02: NERC:NORA: Record of a Mid-Pleistocene depositional anomaly in West Antarctic continental margin sediments: an indicator for ice-sheet collapse? by Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand et al.
213. 2010/11/02: NERC:NORA: The fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet in a geoengineered, high CO2 world by Peter J. Irvine et al.
214. 2010/11/04: NERC:NORA: History of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet since the early Pliocene - Evidence from cosmogenic dating of Pliocene lavas on James Ross Island, Antarctica by Joanne S. Johnson et al.
215. 2010/11/04: NERC:NORA: High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects by P.D. Jones et al.
216. 2010/11/04: NERC:NORA: The internal layering of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, from airborne radar-sounding data by Nanna B. Karlsson et al.
217. 2010/11/04: NERC:NORA: Climate impacts of the southern annular mode simulated by the CMIP3 models by Alexey Yu Karpechko et al.
218. 2010/11/04: NERC:NORA: Marine cold-air outbreaks in the North Atlantic: temporal distribution and associations with large-scale atmospheric circulation by Erik W. Kolstad et al.
219. 2010/11/05: ACP: Global evaluation of the Collection 5 MODIS dark-target aerosol products over land by R. C. Levy et al.
220. 2010/11/05: ACPD: First carbon dioxide atmospheric vertical profiles retrieved from space observation using ACE-FTS solar occultation instrument by P. Y. Foucher et al.
221. 2010/11/05: ACPD: Episodes of cross-polar transport in the Arctic troposphere during July 2008 as seen from models, satellite, and aircraft observations by H. Sodemann et al.
222. 2010/11/05: OSD: An ocean modelling and assimilation guide to using GOCE geoid products by K. Haines et al.
223. 2010/11/04: TCD: Retrieval of snow albedo and grain size using reflectance measurements in Himalayan basin by H. S. Negi & A. Kokhanovsky
224. 2010/11/05: Science: (ab$) Transient Middle Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature Variations by Peter K. Bijl et al.
225. 2010/11/03: CPD: The global ocean circulation on a retrograde rotating earth by V. Kamphuis et al.
226. 2010/11/03: CPD: Early ship-based upper-air data and comparison with the Twentieth Century Reanalysis by S. Brönnimann et al.
227. 2010/11/04: ACP: Aerosol effects on ice clouds: can the traditional concept of aerosol indirect effects be applied to aerosol-cloud interactions in cirrus clouds? by S. S. Lee & J. E. Penner
228. 2010/11/04: ACP: History of atmospheric SF6 from 1973 to 2008 by M. Rigby et al.
229. 2010/11/04: ACP: Dynamics of the Antarctic and Arctic mesosphere and lower thermosphere - Part 1: Mean winds by D. J. Sandford et al.
230. 2010/11/03: ACP: Emission and dry deposition of accumulation mode particles in the Amazon Basin by L. Ahlm et al.
231. 2010/11/01: ACP: Saharan dust and ice nuclei over Central Europe by H. Klein et al.
232. 2010/11/04: ACPD: On the impacts of phytoplankton-derived organic matter on the properties of the primary marine aerosol - Part 2: Composition, hygroscopicity and cloud condensation activity by E. Fuentes et al.
233. 2010/11/03: ACPD: Solar irradiance at the Earth's surface: long-term behavior observed at the South Pole by J. E. Frederick & A. L. Hodge
234. 2010/11/02: ACPD: Global distribution of sea salt aerosols: new constraints from in situ and remote sensing observations by L. Jaeglé et al.
235. 2010/11/01: ACPD: Satellite observations of aerosol transport from East Asia to the Arctic: three case studies by M. Di Pierro et al.
236. 2010/11/04: AGWObserver: Papers on climate science history
237. 2010/11/02: PNAS: (ab$) Highly episodic fire and erosion regime over the past 2,000 y in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon by Daniele Colombaroli & Daniel G. Gavin
238. 2010/11/02: PNAS: (Letter$) Is bioenergy for the birds? An evaluation of alternative future bioenergy landscapes by Joe Fargione
239. 2010/11/03: GRL: (ab$) Solar Influences on Climate by L. J. Gray et al.
240. 2010/11/03: Nature: (ab$) Reversed flow of Atlantic deep water during the Last Glacial Maximum by César Negre et al.
241. 2010/11/02: TC: Spatially extensive estimates of annual accumulation in the dry snow zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet determined from radar altimetry by S. de la Peña et al.
242. 2010/11/02: TCD: Glacier changes in the Pascua-Lama region, Chilean Andes (29° S): recent mass-balance and 50-year surface-area variations by A. Rabatel et al.
243. 2010/11/01: AGWObserver: New research from last week 43/2010

     And other significant documents:

244. 2010/11/04: UNDP: [many pdf links] Human Development Report 2010 -- The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
245. 2010/11/03: TCoE: Doc alert: US fuel economy guide
246. CBD: COP 10 Outcomes -- Decisions (Advance Unedited Texts)

     As for miscellaneous science:

247. 2010/11/06: moyhu: Condensation and expansion
248. 2010/11/05: SEasterbrook: AGU session on Climate Change Adaptation [coming up in December]
249. 2010/11/05: TSoD: The Three Body Problem
250. 2010/11/04: BBC: The world's longest running carbon dioxide experiment
251. 2010/11/03: RealClimate: Science, narrative and heresy
252. 2010/11/03: NatureN: Brazil's climate modellers are set to go global -- Supercomputer will drive model to analyse effects of wildfire on world climate
253. 2010/11/02: NatureCF: A call to contribute
     Next spring will bring a much-awaited and exciting new addition to the family of Nature journals. The newest of Nature's research journals, Nature Climate Change will dedicate its coverage to one of the greatest challenges for science and society.
254. 2010/11/02: SciNews: Arctic lake yields climate record -- Siberian drilling also penetrates meteorite crater
255. 2010/11/02: CSW: Somerville Part 2: Six public guidelines for recognizing and rejecting junk climate science and disinformation
256. 2010/11/02: CSW: Somerville Part 1: Better climate science education a task that "will take many years at best"
257. 2010/11/02: BCLSB: From The Geological Society Of London -- statement on climate change

     Regarding Michael Mann:

258. 2010/11/02: NewScientist: Professional climate change deniers' crusade continues by Michael Mann

     The Pielke fan clubbe, alas:

259. 2010/11/01: TEC: Growth and Climate

     Regarding Dörries:

260. 2010/11/05: Eureka: Should our biggest climate change fear be fear itself? Historian Matthias Dörries reveals the role of fear in our understanding of climate change

     Regarding Curry:

261. 2010/11/06: JEB: Where's the beef, Curry?
262. 2010/11/06: MTobis: Speak no Evil
263. 2010/11/05: MTobis: A take on Curry
264. 2010/11/05: APSmith: The paradox of Curry
265. 2010/11/05: AFTIC: Judith Curry plants her flag
266. 2010/11/05: BVerheggen: Judith Curry goes from building bridges to burning them
267. 2010/11/04: MTobis: Good questions
268. 2010/11/03: Grist: On the quest to keep politics out of climate science
269. 2010/11/03: MTobis: Curry's Hallowe'en Piece
270. 2010/10/31: ERabett: Maybe it ain't an act

     While at the UN:

271. 2010/11/04: UN: Landmark UN Human Development Report reveals global gains in development even in poorer nations
272. 2010/11/04: SolveClimate: Inaction on Climate Change Putting Decades of Human Progress at Risk
     Human development report says improving the lives of the world's poorest people is at stake
273. 2010/11/04: Guardian(UK): UN report warns of threat to human progress from climate change
274. 2010/11/04: Grist: Climate change and consumerism are biggest threats to future, U.N. warns

     And on the carbon trading front:

275. 2010/11/07: Guardian(UK): Chicago Mercantile Exchange starts offering rainfall futures and options
276. 2010/11/03: Reuters: Factbox: Regional carbon markets survive elections

     The proposed Bank Tax refuses to die:

277. 2010/11/03: 3Crisis: Spotlight G-20: Unpopular Sarkozy Gets it Right on Financial Transactions Taxes in G-20

     The rare earths tussle seems to be dying down:

278. 2010/11/02: CCurrents: China, 'Rare Earth' Metals And The Need For Industrial Restructuring In The West
279. 2010/11/01: TEC: Daniel Goldfarb: A Lesson from the Rare Earth Metals Embargo
280. 2010/11/01: Eureka: Scarcity of new energy [rare earth] minerals will trigger trade wars
281. 2010/10/31: BBC: Rare earths supply deal between Japan and Vietnam

     The energy race between China and the USA is on, or is it?

282. 2010/11/05: TEC: New Report Shows China's Clean Energy Lead Increasing

     As for GW, energy & water security:

283. 2010/11/01: HotTopic: Democracy under strain

     What are the activists up to?

284. 2010/11/06: EarthTimes: Massive protests as nuclear waste train reaches Germany

     Polls! We have polls!

285. 2010/11/05: SolveClimate: Despite Electoral Outcomes, Poll Shows Voters Want Clean Economy
     By a 22 percent margin, voters support EPA oversight of carbon emissions from power plants, vehicles and other sources

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

286. 2010/11/03: USGS: Most River Flows across the U.S. are Altered by Land and Water Management, Leading to Ecological Degradation
287. 2010/11/05: China: Most northern plain groundwater unsafe to drink
     Only 24 percent of groundwater in the North China Plain is safe to drink, a recent study by the China Geological Survey shows. The four-year study found groundwater in the area has been tainted by heavy metals, chemical fertilizers and surface water pollution caused by leaks from garbage dumps and sewage water irrigation. Zhang Zhaoji, a hydrogeology expert at the institute of hydrogeology and environmental geology under the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, said on Wednesday at the 12th annual meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology in Fuzhou, Fujian province, that the inferior quality of groundwater is damaging people's health and creating conflicts over the supply and demand for water. Most of the shallow groundwater in the plain is polluted to some extent, though the quality of the deep groundwater is relatively good, according to the study. The study said more than 75 percent of groundwater in the North China Plain is not safe to drink without being properly purified.
288. 2010/11/04: TreeHugger: Water Scarcity Spares Just Two Arab Nations by 2015
289. 2010/11/02: JFleck: Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: The "Festering Issue" of New Mexico Domestic Wells

     As for SW tools:

290. 2010/11/05: SkeptiSci: Compendium Maps: a visual summary of the climate debate
291. 2010/11/04: PSinclair: Now on Twitter: Climate Crock Debunker Bot
292. 2010/11/04: PhysOrg: Chatbot auto-tweets replies to climate change arguments
293. 2010/11/03: Mashable: Twitter Bot Auto-Debates Climate Change Critics
294. 2010/11/03: DM:DB: Chatbot Debates Climate Change Deniers on Twitter so You Don't Have to
295. 2010/11/03: TreeHugger: @AI_AGW Twitter Chatbot Argues with Global-Warming Deniers Automatically

     And on the American political front:

296. 2010/11/07: LA Times: In climate politics, Texas aims to be the anti-California
     The state has filed seven lawsuits against the EPA, and its members of Congress want to check the EPA's efforts to curb greenhouse gases. 'At times they're their own country,' one observer says.
297. 2010/11/04: CSpin: One year later...
298. 2010/11/04: DeSmogBlog: Special Interests Enabled By 'Citizens United' Spent $186 Million To Influence U.S. Midterm Races
299. 2010/11/05: TreeHugger: The Unintentional Truthiness of Karl Rove: "Climate is Gone"
300. 2010/11/03: TMoS: UCS to Fight Back Against Republican Denialists
301. 2010/11/03: ClimateP: Time: "How big a factor was cap-and-trade on election night? In reality, not all that much."
302. 2010/11/03: Grist: Lies, damn lies, and Politico -- Why this election wasn't a referendum on the climate bill
303. 2010/11/02: NMBW: Environmental Improvement Board [EIB] approves New Mexico cap-and-trade program
304. 2010/11/02: EnergyBulletin: Election day -- Reflecting on our failures
305. 2010/11/02: ClimateP: "Kill Some Crackers": GOP group staffed by Marc Morano pays Fox affiliates to influence election with anti-Obama hate speech
306. 2010/11/02: Grist: GOP wins could throw dirt on climate and energy policy
307. 2010/11/01: NatureTGB: Election eve details of green energy hiring scandal
308. 2010/11/02: Grist: 'A coup d'etat against the carbon cronies': chatting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
309. 2010/11/01: Grist: The GINK Chronicles -- Oklahoma guv candidate slammed for being childfree woman
310. 2010/11/01: TEC: What Won't Change After the Election?
311. 2010/11/02: OilChange: GOP Plans Attack on Climate
312. 2010/11/02: TWM: Walking is so 19th Century...
313. 2010/11/01: Reuters: Scenarios - Republican election impact on climate change
314. 2010/11/01: TP:WR: Climate Hawks Make Global Warming Denial Into Campaign Issue
315. 2010/11/01: TWTB: "GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists"
316. 2010/11/01: Tyee: US Tea Party's Deep Ties to Oil Sands Giant
     Owners of Koch Industries, a major processor of Alberta crude, spent millions to foment and support a movement against Obama's climate change policies.
317. 2010/11/01: WVGazette:CT: The 2010 election and the 'war on coal'
318. 2010/11/01: SolveClimate: Wind or Oil? New Mexico Voters Face Sharp Choice...
319. 2010/11/01: SolveClimate: To Get Elected, Florida's [Marco] Rubio Leaving Climate Action Past Behind
320. 2010/11/01: ClimateP: The fake populism from those pushing the anti-science disinformation of the plutocrats and pollutocrats
321. 2010/11/01: ClimateP: Washington Post: "There isn't a single Republican leader, in Congress or among the party's 2012 hopefuls, who has the power to disobey an order from Beck ... or Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly or Hannity."
322. 2010/10/31: MTobis: What we want
323. 2010/10/31: LA Times:GS: Prop. 23: Why did Valero launch a crusade against California's climate law?
324. 2010/10/31: TEC: A Conceptual Plan for Zero US Carbon Emissions and Energy Independence by 2050

     The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:

325. 2010/11/05: CBC: Coral damage related to BP oil spill: scientists
     U.S. scientists have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several kilometres from the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery made by a government-funded expedition is a strong indication that damage from the spill could be significantly greater than officials had previously acknowledged.
326. 2010/11/05: NatGeo: Giant Coral Die-Off Found - Gulf Spill "Smoking Gun" -- Black substance found coating large colonies of dead coral
327. 2010/11/05: ClimateShifts: First evidence of BP oil spill damage to corals
328. 2010/11/04: Reuters: Analysis: Post-spill, Gulf of Mexico key to BP's fortunes
329. 2010/11/05: NatureN: Oil spill cruise finds field of dead coral -- Scientific expedition assesses deep-sea damage in the Gulf of Mexico
330. 2010/11/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: A Forgotten Fishermen Fights to Survive the BP Oil Disaster
331. 2010/11/03: NatureTGB: Got Oil?
332. 2010/11/02: SolveClimate: BP Oil Spill Costs to Hit $40 Billion
     BP's pre-tax profits for the third quarter of 2010 down to $1.8bn, compared with $4.98bn a year ago.
333. 2010/11/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: BP and Halliburton Cut Corners, but Our Oil Addiction Doesn't Help
334. 2010/11/02: BBC: BP back to profit after oil spill
335. 2010/11/02: CBC: BP Gulf oil spill costs near $40B US
     BP returned to profit in the third quarter as higher oil prices helped it recover from the impact of April's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, though it said it still cannot estimate the ultimate cost of the disaster, now at about $40 billion US. The company reported Tuesday a net profit of $1.79 billion, compared with a loss of $17.2 billion in the second quarter but still below a profit of $5.34 billion a year earlier.
336. 2010/11/02: NakedCapitalism: WashingtonsBlog: Tests Now Being Conducted for Corexit and Oil -- Results Not Very Reassuring

     The election: What happened:

337. 2010/11/03: NYT:CW: House Goes Republican; Enviros Brace for Climate Changes
338. 2010/11/03: CSW: A good night for climate change deniers and contrarians
339. 2010/11/03: NewDeal2.0: The "None of the Above" Election
340. 2010/11/04: CCD: Fear and loathing in the US mid-term elections
341. 2010/11/02: QuarkSoup: At Least Oregon Seems (Mostly) Good
342. 2010/11/03: SolveClimate: As GOP Takes House, VA Clean Energy Champion Perriello Loses Seat
343. 2010/11/03: BSD: Looks like your humble climate blogger is going to be an elected official
344. 2010/11/02: ClimateP: Rand 'I believe business should be left alone from government' Paul elected Senator
345. 2010/11/02: Grist: Election 2010: Republicans take 6 of 11 key governor races
346. 2010/11/03: Grist: Boehner takes over and climate legislation fades to black
347. 2010/11/02: Grist: Election 2010: The scoop on energy and environment ballot measures
348. 2010/11/02: Grist: Election 2010: The Senate gets lots of new climate deniers
349. 2010/11/03: NatureTGB: Balance of power shifts after US midterm elections
350. 2010/11/03: ScienceInsider: Early Roundup on Climate Results Last Night: 'Bloodbath' Edition
351. 2010/11/03: DN:CCM: Senate Held, House Swept, Prop 23 Goes Down
352. 2010/11/03: CCurrents: Republicans Win Sweeping Victory In US Congressional Election
353. 2010/11/03: CBC: Republicans capture U.S. House -- Midterm results a 'repudiation of Washington,' Republican says
354. 2010/11/02: ClimateP: NBC News projects Republicans will easily take the House of Representatives
     Serious climate action or a significant increase in federal clean energy funding all but dead for foreseeable future

The election: What it means:

355. 2010/11/07: ClimateP: "Passenger rail is not in Ohio's future": New GOP governors kill $1.2 Billion in high-speed rail jobs
356. 2010/11/05: TreeHugger: 50% of the New Congressmen Deny Climate Change
357. 2010/11/05: TEC: The Mid-Term Elections and the Advanced Battery Industry
358. 2010/11/05: REA: What the Elections Mean for Wind Power in the US
359. 2010/11/03: CleanBreak: N.A. cap-and-trade may be non-starter, but WCI kept alive
360. 2010/11/05: CJR: A Referendum on Energy Issues? Not so fast
361. 2010/11/04: NYT:PK: The Fake Scandals Begin
362. 2010/11/06: TP: New GOP Governors Kill $1.2 Billion In High-Speed Rail Jobs
363. 2010/11/05: AlterNet: Vermont's Great Green Election Day Victory -- Kick out the Nuclear Plant
364. 2010/11/05: QuarkSoup: At Least [Oregon governor, John] Kitzhaber Still Cares about the Environment
365. 2010/11/04: TheHill:e2W: GOP lawmaker [Upton] vows to haul climate czar before Congress
366. 2010/11/05: SolveClimate: In Elections, "D" for Democrat Brought Doom More than Energy Positions
     Environmentalists say public support for clean energy remains strong, though "cap and tax" label fired up the opposition
367. 2010/11/04: Grist: The GINK Chronicles -- What does the election mean for population and reproductive rights?
368. 2010/11/05: CSW: Post-election rundown: was cap-and-trade vote a deciding factor?
369. 2010/11/03: UCSUSA: Congress Has Changed: What's Next on the Climate Front?
370. 2010/11/05: TreeHugger: Fate of High Speed Rail Uncertain after Election
371. 2010/11/05: OilChange: Compromise Can Be Dirty
372. 2010/11/04: TP:WR: Midterms: Green Power Helps Colorado Buck the National Trend
373. 2010/11/03: TWTB: And here we go
374. 2010/11/03: Salon: Science takes a hit on Election Day
     Technology leaders constantly complain about lousy education; time for them to step up to the need for real science
375. 2010/11/04: ClimateP: Report: Half the 2010 GOP freshman class are climate science deniers
376. 2010/11/03: ClimateP: Did Ken Buck's global warming denial cost the Tea Party favorite a Senate seat?
377. 2010/11/03: Reuters: Factbox: Regional carbon markets survive elections
378. 2010/11/04: KSJT: Lots of Ink: Climate science almost all politics now
379. 2010/11/04: Grist: Science proves it: Climate change legislation didn't hurt Democrats
380. 2010/11/03: Grist: Putting the midterm elections in the context of the latest climate science (and life as we know it)
381. 2010/11/03: Grist: What the midterms mean for federal ag-policy reform
382. 2010/11/03: DM:CCM: Refuting A Big Election Lie: The Claim That Supporting Clean Energy Doomed House Democrats
383. 2010/11/04: DM:80B: Do the Election Results Halt All Action on Climate Change?
384. 2010/11/03: ENS: Elections Usher in Divided Congress, Environment, Energy Issues Remain
385. 2010/11/03: TEC: Interpreting the Election Results
386. 2010/11/03: MTobis: Silver linings
387. 2010/11/03: QuarkSoup: Back and Forth
388. 2010/11/03: KSJT: This and that -- the US elections and some of their meaning for science beats
389. 2010/11/03: MongaBay: US elects barrage of climate change deniers, threatening support for green energy
390. 2010/11/03: Grist: What this election means for climate hawks: light but no heat
391. 2010/11/03: Grist: Republican victories not good news for transportation advocates
392. 2010/11/03: ScienceInsider: Reid Victory Likely to Keep Yucca Mountain Sealed
393. 2010/11/03: ScienceInsider: Oldest House Member Is in Line to Lead Science Panel
394. 2010/11/03: Atlantic: What Now? An Epic Election Meets the Future
395. 2010/11/03: UCSUSA: Post-Election 2010: Next Steps for Climate
396. 2010/11/03: TreeHugger: Election 2010: What it Means for Climate, Clean Energy & Green
397. 2010/11/03: TEC: Federal cap-and-trade may be non-starter, but AB 32 and WCI kept alive
398. 2010/11/03: OilChange: Two Small Bits Of Good News
399. 2010/11/02: DM:CCM: The Election: What Will Be The Consequences for Science?

     Prop 23 failed:

400. 2010/11/03: PI:B: Californians say no to Proposition 23, yes to climate action
401. 2010/11/05: Grist: Why did the Prop 23 fight in California go so well while the national effort flailed?
402. 2010/11/03: ENS: California Votes In Democrats, Rejects Proposition 23
403. 2010/11/03: Guardian(UK): Climate law survives Prop 23 challenge at California polls
404. 2010/11/03: SolveClimate: California Defends Climate Law, Remains National Bastion of Clean Energy Economy
405. 2010/11/02: UCSUSA: Prop 23 Defeat is Mandate for Clean Energy
406. 2010/11/03: TreeHugger: Californians Kill Prop 23, Embrace Climate & Clean Energy Law
407. 2010/11/03: AutoBG: California voters tell Proposition 23 to go back to Texas
408. 2010/11/03: NYT: Voters Reject 2-Sided Assault on Climate Law
409. 2010/11/03: BizGreen: Californians defy oil industry to save climate law
     Proposition 23 defeated as voters back climate change laws, despite multimillion-dollar campaign from oil giants
410. 2010/10/30: AlterNet: 5 Things You Need to Know About Prop 23 -- Big Oil's Shady Ploy to Thwart a Climate Change Measure

     But Prop 26 passed:

411. 2010/11/05: Atlantic: The Sneaky Threat That Could Cripple California's Climate Law
412. 2010/11/05: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Proposition 26 will not stop AB 32
413. 2010/11/04: Grist: Will Prop 26 scuttle California climate regulations?
414. 2010/11/01: ClimateP: Chevron and Proposition 26

     The ethanol subidy question is still floating around:

415. 2010/11/05: RRapier: The Stroke of a Pen
416. 2010/11/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: The proof is in the profits: it's time to end corn ethanol subsidies
417. 2010/11/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Hell hath no fury like the corn ethanol industry scorned

     The Obama chatter is nonstop:

418. 2010/11/05: WaPo: Obama shifting climate strategy after GOP gains
419. 2010/11/04: TEC: U.S. Leadership Stumbles Again: Obama Says New Energy Policy Unfeasible
420. 2010/11/04: ClimateP: The failed presidency of Barack Obama, Part 2
     He let die our best chance to preserve a livable climate and restore US leadership in clean energy -- without a serious fight
421. 2010/11/04: BizGreen: Obama vows to work with resurgent Republicans on energy policy overhaul
422. 2010/11/04: Grist: Obama lukewarm on using EPA authority to rein in carbon emissions
423. 2010/11/04: Grist: Obama tries to pick up the pieces on climate and energy
424. 2010/11/03: EarthTimes: Post-election, Obama suggests comprehensive climate bill is dead
425. 2010/11/04: ChinaDaily: Obama drops plan to limit global warming gases
426. 2010/11/03: Guardian(UK): Barack Obama's green agenda crushed at the ballot box
427. 2010/11/03: DerSpiegel: The Election of Rage -- Republicans Deal Heavy Blow to Obama
     America is demoralized, divided and angry. This mood has propelled the Republicans to victory in the House of Representatives, fueled by the support of the rightwing Tea Party movement. Now they'll have to prove they have more to say than just "no".
428. 2010/11/03: DerSpiegel: Obama's Election Debacle -- A Settling of Accounts with Mr. Perfect
429. 2010/11/02: DM:BA: Why isn't science doing better under Obama?
430. 2010/11/01: ClimateP: Obama's Legacy
431. 2010/10/31: Guardian(UK): Obama environment agenda under threat from incoming Republicans

     The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

432. 2010/11/01: WarmingLaw: The Good News about the Obama Administration's New Policy on Preemption and What it Means for Climate Action
433. 2010/11/06: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Industry Carbon Lawsuits [against EPA] Suffer "Wardrobe Malfunction"
434. 2010/11/01: GreenGrok: Energy Industry Verklempt Over EPA Regs
435. 2010/11/05: Grist: Who can fill Lisa Heinzerling's shoes? [at EPA]
436. 2010/11/04: TEC: Is nuclear getting too big a wedge of the R&D pie?
437. 2010/11/05: TEC: White House advisors: Federal loans for renewable power projects going to the wrong projects
438. 2010/11/03: NYT:GW: Republican Victories Boost Effort to Block EPA's Climate Rules
439. 2010/11/01: ENS: 23 States Get $2.4 Billion for High-Speed Rail, California Accountability in Doubt
440. 2010/11/02: NOAANews: NOAA Launches Education Website With New Look and Content

     As for what is going on in Congress:

441. 2010/11/05: WVGazette:CT: What happened to the House panel's investigation of Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster?
442. 2010/11/05: TP:WR: GOP Climate Deniers Vie To Run House Energy Committee
443. 2010/11/03: FDL: Sign of the Times: Hearings on "Scientific Fraud" of Global Warming Expected
444. 2010/11/04: PlanetArk: Factbox: Views Of Republicans To Lead Key Energy Committees
445. 2010/11/04: ScienceInsider: [Rep Ralph] Hall (R-Tx) Claims Science Panel, Vows 'Strong Oversight' on 'Climate Change, Scientific Integrity'
446. 2010/11/03: TP:WR: Half Of GOP Caucus Are Climate Zombies, Four Members Admit Science Is Real
447. 2010/11/03: DeSmogBlog: Welcome the GOP Anti-Science Caucus - Only Four GOP House Members Acknowledge Science of Climate Change
448. 2010/11/03: REA: How House Republicans May Control the Energy Debate
449. 2010/11/03: RawStory: GOP to investigate 'scientific fraud' of global warming: report
450. 2010/11/03: BBC: US Republicans to fight Obama agenda
451. 2010/11/01: NYT:GW: GOP Firebrands in House Ready Assault on Interior

     The future climate bill defines a battleline:

452. 2010/11/03: TreeHugger: Rep. Boehner, The Election, and Guessing What's Next For Climate and Energy Action
     Everyone is trying to read the tea leaves to figure out what's going to happen to climate and energy legislation now...

What are the lobbyists pushing?

453. 2010/11/04: TP: Seattle Chamber Of Commerce Wants Everyone To Know It Is 'Separate And Distinct' From U.S. Chamber
454. 2010/11/02: TreeHugger: Big Oil Spent $70 Million on Anti-Clean Energy Ads this Year

     Something funny going on Kansas?

455. 2010/11/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Death in the Afternoon [Kansas coal]
456. 2010/11/04: SolveClimate: In Kansas Coal Plant Battle, Greens See Foul Play
     Governor [Mark Parkinson (D)] boots KDHE director [Rod] Bremby as agency weighs coal plant permit before EPA's Tailoring Rule kicks in
457. 2010/11/04: TreeHugger: Kansas Environment Secretary Fired for Not Fast-Tracking Coal Plant Permit

     Redistricting is one of the subsidiary issues floating around:

458. 2010/11/01: MoJo: The Real Prize in Tuesday's Elections
     The GOP is hoping to redistrict dozens of Dems out of their congressional seats -- and if things go their way in the Rust Belt, they just might pull it off.
459. 2010/11/04: DemNow: Big Gains in State Races Position Republicans to Alter Political Landscape in Upcoming Redistricting

     While in the UK:

460. 2010/11/07: Guardian(UK): David Cameron letting China off climate change hook, says Labour
461. 2010/11/05: AutoBG: Report: Mayor of London to slash electric vehicle funding by two-thirds
462. 2010/11/05: TEC: Anti-wind energy campaigners to cost England over £1.3bn
     UK renewable energy trade organisation RenewableUK told its members this week that anti- wind farm campaigners could cost the country £1.3bn. A report, produced by Garrard Hassan and commissioned by RenewableUK says that England has the potential to see £1.3bn in investment that will directly create jobs and opportunities for local companies, funds for community activities and increased business rates for local authorities. However according to RenewableUK this is being threatened by the actions of anti-wind farm campaigners.
463. 2010/11/01: TEC: Early Renewable Energy Adopters [in UK] Angry at Government U Turn
464. 2010/10/29: Guardian(UK): The great forest sell-off
     The government's plan to put half of England's state-owned forests up for sale might raise billions, but what will we lose?
465. 2010/10/31: BBC: Climate measures 'bring benefits'
     Scots could see major health and economic benefits if it makes the changes necessary to hit ambitious carbon emission targets, Friends of the Earth Scotland has said.

And in Europe:

466. 2010/11/05: EurActiv: EU looks to alternative fuels for 'green' cars
     The EU needs a long-term strategy on alternative fuels to decarbonise its transport sector by 2050, according to a draft report from the European Commission, seen by EurActiv.
467. 2010/11/04: EurActiv: EU states express doubts over carbon offset ban
     European Union member states may oppose new rules on how far their factories and power plants can offset their carbon emissions, to be proposed by the European Commission, environment ministries told Reuters. The EU executive is expected to propose in the next two weeks curbs or an outright ban from 2013 on the most common types of offsets. Europe's emissions trading scheme caps planet-warming gases emitted by industry, but allows companies to offset emissions by paying for carbon cuts in developing countries, as a cheaper alternative to cutting their own. Shutting the main supply of offsets could push up carbon prices, if agreed by a majority of member states at a meeting of Commission officials and environment ministers later this month.
468. 2010/11/04: EurActiv: Commission adopts 4bn euro plan for renewables, CCS
     The European Commission adopted a proposal on Wednesday (3 November) to give four billion euros of funding to cutting-edge climate technologies such as renewable energies and carbon capture and storage (CCS). The so-called 'New Entrant Reserve 300' fund was agreed in 2008 by EU heads of state to support CCS technology...
469. 2010/11/04: PlanetArk: EU Nears Carbon Offset Plan, Governments Express Doubts
     The European Union's executive Commission wants to ban from 2013 the most common types of carbon offsets used by factories and power plants, to boost the credibility of its emissions trading scheme, two EU sources said. Some EU governments may oppose the plan, which requires majority approval by member states, environment ministries and industry sources told Reuters. "The early draft proposal covers three main gases -- Adipic acids, nitrous acids and HFC 23," one EU source said on condition of anonymity. "They are trying to keep it simple so it would be a strict ban." The EU Commission will propose the ban in the next two weeks, and not before November 11, the source added.
470. 2010/11/03: EUO: EU nuclear waste proposals include export ban
471. 2010/11/03: EarthTimes: Nuclear waste cannot be outsourced, Brussels tells EU governments
472. 2010/11/03: BBC: Nuclear waste storage problem must be addressed: EU
     Europe needs to identify sites for long-term storage of nuclear waste, with deep burial underground the best option, the European Commission says. A draft EU directive presented on Wednesday calls for national plans to be drawn up in the next few years, as the EU still has no final storage sites for nuclear waste. Exports of nuclear waste beyond the EU for long-term disposal will be banned.
473. 2010/11/02: EurActiv: EU's new transport strategy to put price on pollution
     The European Commission wants to make transport users pay for emissions, noise and other harm they cause as part of proposals laid down in a draft White Paper on Transport, seen by EurActiv.

Meanwhile in Australia:

474. 2010/11/07: ABC(Au): Clinton, Gillard announce solar partnership
     The Australian and United States governments have pledged to make solar energy cheaper in the next five years. The Federal Government is investing $50 million on joint solar power research projects with the US, to cut the cost of the technology to that of conventional power sources. The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, says solar energy should be more affordable by 2015.
475. 2010/11/07: ABC(Au): The Greens want native forest logging across Australia banned
476. 2010/11/07: ABC(Au): An international accounting group has urged Australia to consider setting up a national standard for monitoring water usage, particularly for large businesses
477. 2010/11/06: ABC(Au): Cash for clunkers scheme delayed
     The Federal Opposition says the rebate scheme for trading in older cars is heading to the scrap heap. The Government announced today the launch of the Cleaner Car Rebate scheme has been moved back six months, from January to July.
478. 2010/11/04: CCurrents: Australia's Hazardous Road To Climate Action
479. 2010/11/05: ABC(Au): The town of Beachport in the south-east of South Australia is under threat of flooding from the sea
480. 2010/11/04: ABC(Au): Hundreds show anger over timber sell-off plan
     The Opposition says a strong attendance at a forum in Mount Gambier will send a strong message to the South Australian Government that the region will not stand for a sell-off of its timber. Hundreds of people packed the venue and spilled into outside areas for the first public meeting about the Government's plan to sell more than a century of SA timber.
481. 2010/11/03: ABC(Au): Jamberoo farmers carbon cocky
     A Jamberoo dairy farming family who turned a struggling farm into one of Australia's most productive operations has been named runner up in the NSW Carbon Cocky Awards. The awards recognise the work farmers do to on their land in increase soil carbon, and consequently improve their output. Michael, Lyn and Nick Strong from Clover Hill Dairies are living proof that by looking after the soil and land, the land will look after them.
482. 2010/11/02: BNC: Two nuclear-solar dialogues in Melbourne next week
483. 2010/11/02: PeakEnergy: BG's $15bn Gladstone project starts coal seam gas race
484. 2010/11/01: JQuiggin: Learning from mistakes, not repeating them

     The Murray-Darling Basin Plan controversy continues:

485. 2010/11/06: ABC(Au): PM unveils irrigation package for Vic farmers
     The Federal Government will provide close to a billion dollars to northern Victorian irrigators to improve their water efficiency.
486. 2010/11/05: ABC(Au): Burke faces Riverland irrigators on Murray demands
     Federal Water Minister Tony Burke admits he has a huge responsibility to achieve successful water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin.
487. 2010/11/05: ABC(Au): Farmers furious at auction water changes
     More than 80 south-west farmers are bidding for additional water at an auction in Harvey after their allocations were slashed earlier this year. The extraordinarily dry conditions have forced the private co-operative Harvey Water to cut allocations from 85 percent to 34 percent.
488. 2010/11/05: ABC(Au): Murray Darling Basin Authority faces Forbes and Dubbo crowds
     Irrigators say the Murray Darling Basin Authority's explanation of its proposed cuts to water have failed to ease their concerns. The Authority held two public forums in Forbes and Dubbo yesterday, to explain its recommended reductions of 23 per cent in the Lachlan Valley and between 14 and 18 per cent on the Macquarie and Castlereagh Rivers.
489. 2010/11/04: ABC(Au): Water cuts treat farmers as 'second-class citizens'
     Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has told a public meeting in central New South Wales that the Government must not allow the agriculture sector in the Murray-Darling Basin to be destroyed by water cuts.
490. 2010/11/04: JQuiggin: Framing and farming
491. 2010/11/04: ABC(Au): Hundreds converge on Forbes for Murray Darling Basin Authority's public consultation
     Bus loads of people are coming from the state's far west to the only public consultation in the Lachlan Valley on the Murray Darling Basin Authority's draft plan. Up to 1000 people are expected to converge on Forbes for the meeting. People are travelling up to four hours from Hillston, at the western end of the Lachlan River, to voice their concerns about the draft guide's proposed cuts to water entitlements of around 23 per cent in the catchment. The Forbes RSL holds up to 500 people and the carpark is being turned into an open air theatre for the hundreds of others who are coming.

And in New Zealand:

492. 2010/11/06: HotTopic: Licking lignite

     While in China:

493. 2010/11/05: Grist: China says its car boom is ruining air quality
494. 2010/11/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: China's energy consumption to be kept below 4.2 billion tons of coal by 2015 and other China environmental news
495. 2010/11/02: BBerg: China to Subsidize Electric Car Battery Development, Business News Reports
496. 2010/11/02: NBF: China declares that it will keep coal consumption below 3.8 billion tons per year by 2015 about three and half times as much as number two coal user, the United States

     And South America:

497. 2010/11/02: RWER: Dilma's Victory in Brazil has enormous implications for the Western Hemisphere
498. 2010/11/01: Guardian(UK): Brazil wins with Dilma Rousseff
     It's not the result Washington wanted, but Dilma's victory creates the chance to consolidate Brazil's social progress under Lula
499. 2010/11/01: Guardian(UK): Dilma Rousseff wins Brazil's presidential election

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

500. 2010/11/03: PI:B: Still waiting for the U.S. on energy issues? Time for Canada to unhitch the wagon
501. 2010/11/01: PI: Feds tough on crime, AWOL on pollution
502. 2010/11/02: TMoS: Harper Cons Counting on Repugs to Dodge Carbon Emissions Initiatives
     Canada's laughing stock environment minister, Jumpin Jim Prentice, figures a Republican victory in today's mid-term elections will put a North American cap-and-trade plan safely on the back burner.
503. 2010/11/02: CBC: Cap-and-trade likely on hold: Prentice
     Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice expects a North American cap-and-trade plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions will move to the back burner if Republicans make expected gains Tuesday in U.S. midterm elections.

The G20 controversy lingers:

504. 2010/11/05: WpgFP: RCMP watchdog launches public-interest probe of G8-G20 summits
505. 2010/11/05: DtPB: Toronto G20: Cost numbers starting to come out
506. 2010/11/05: CBC: G8/G20 costs top $857M -- Final tally 25% less than estimated cost: officials
507. 2010/11/05: CBC: RCMP G8/G20 actions probed
     The RCMP's watchdog has launched an investigation into the conduct of the Mounties during the G8 and G20 summits in Toronto and Muskoka this June. The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP (CPC) said the complaint, lodged by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, relates to a number of allegations, including the Mounties' possible involvement in the infiltration and surveillance of individuals or groups before and during the summits. The "public interest investigation" will also focus on the RCMP in relation to the use of force, detentions and arrests of people during the protests, the planning of the security fences and conditions at the Eastern Avenue detention facilities in Toronto. The CPC said it has received 28 complaints regarding the RCMP's role in the summits held in Ontario's Muskoka region and downtown Toronto in late June.
508. 2010/11/04: CBC: Toronto G20 security cost $125M: police chief
     Toronto's police chief says he expects to come in under budget on his portion of security for the G20 summit, but that doesn't impress some MPs still stunned by the size of that budget. William Blair told a House of Commons committee Thursday that he budgeted $124.8 million to keep Toronto streets safe during the June summit. A big portion of that was to fly in, accommodate and pay about 2,000 police officers from across the country. The hefty tab does not include policing by the Ontario Provincial Police and the RCMP, which had even higher costs. Overall, the G20 in Toronto and the G8 in Huntsville, Ont. -- held over three days -- are estimated to have cost about $1.3 billion.
509. 2010/11/04: POGGE: No G20 inquiry in Ontario
510. 2010/11/04: CBC: Badgeless G20 police will respond individually
     The 90 Toronto police officers accused of removing their name tags during G20 demonstrations will have to respond to the allegations individually, their union says.
511. 2010/11/03: G&M: Nearly 100 Toronto officers to be disciplined over G20 summit conduct
     Nearly 100 Toronto police officers will be disciplined for removing their name tags at the G20 summit, says the city's police chief who also admitted charges were thrown out against roughly 100 people because the force failed to obtain appropriate arrest warrants. Police Chief Bill Blair was called before the Commons public safety committee on Wednesday to explain his officers' actions during the June summit which resulted in the arrest of more than 1,000 people. Many of the people who confronted police over the tumultuous three-days of protests that closed down Toronto's core said officers were not wearing badge numbers or name tags on their uniforms -- allegations that were bolstered by photographs in the media.
512. 2010/11/03: OrwellsBastard: No name tag? You disgust me, Officer
513. 2010/11/04: CBC: Restaurants seek G20 compensation -- Toronto restaurateurs want compensation for losses they suffered during the G20 summit last June
514. 2010/11/04: CBC: Dozens of police face discipline over G20 ID badges
     About 90 police officers face disciplinary action for not wearing identification badges during the G20 summit in June, the chief of the Toronto Police Service said Wednesday. Bill Blair made the comment during an appearance in Ottawa at a meeting of the House of Commons' public safety committee, which is looking into issues surrounding the G8/20 summits that took place in Huntsville and Toronto.
515. 2010/11/04: TStar: 90 officers facing disciplinary action for hiding their identity at G20
     About 90 Toronto police officers are facing disciplinary action for removing the name badges from their uniforms during the G20 summit, Chief Bill Blair said Wednesday. Blair was appearing in Ottawa before the House of Commons public safety committee to answer questions about summit security. He discussed the disciplinary action in response to MPs' queries about accusations that a large group of officers deliberately tried to hide their identities from G20 protesters.

Questions and debate about offshore and Arctic drilling continue:

516. 2010/11/03: CBC: Georges Bank drilling ban to be indefinite -- 'It's just not worth the risk,' energy minister says
     A sensitive marine area teeming with fish off Nova Scotia's southwest coast would be protected from commercial offshore oil and gas drilling indefinitely under legislation introduced Wednesday by the provincial government. Commercial drilling would not occur on Georges Bank unless science produced evidence it would be safe to proceed, Energy Minister Bill Estabrooks said. Even then, Estabrooks said, it would take a public hearing and a vote in the legislature to lift the moratorium.
"It's just not worth the risk to drill in an area this important to Nova Scotians," he told a news conference.
517. 2010/11/04: PostMedia: Gov't powerless to halt offshore drilling by itself, documents show
     Canada's natural resources minister has been warned by officials in his department that the federal government would be powerless to unilaterally halt offshore drilling projects in areas where regulatory oversight is shared with the provinces, Postmedia News has learned.
518. 2010/11/01: CBC: N.L. oil spill talk 'risky', Paradis told
     A briefing note advised Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis that a 'non-trivial' spill off the coast of Newfoundland could leave oil in the water for weeks or months and much of it likely wouldn't be recovered.A briefing note advised Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis that a 'non-trivial' spill off the coast of Newfoundland could leave oil in the water for weeks or months and much of it likely wouldn't be recovered. (Canadian Press)There were some things the federal government just didn't want to talk about during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill -- like what if it happened here. Newly released documents reveal that officials advised Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis to avoid talking with two provincial counterparts about the effects of a big oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland. A briefing note obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act advises that it would be "risky" to discuss the scenario. It was prepared ahead of discussions with Nova Scotia Energy Minister Bill Estabrooks and Kathy Dunderdale, natural resources minister for Newfoundland and Labrador. The document describes the potential fallout from a large oil spill off Newfoundland's eastern coast, including damage to the fishing industry and the deaths of many sea birds.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice quit:

519. 2010/11/04: PI: Pembina reacts to Minister Prentice's resignation
520. 2010/11/06: PostMedia: Prentice departure a big loss for shallow Tory talent pool
521. 2010/11/04: WpgFP: Prentice resignation leaves Tory environmental agenda in more trouble
522. 2010/11/04: DeSmogBlog: Environment Minister Prentice Quits for CIBC Job
523. 2010/11/04: CBC: Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice leaving politics to join CIBC

     A move from bad to worse:

524. 2010/11/05: CBC: Baird takes over Mackenzie pipeline file
525. 2010/11/05: OSun: PM taps Baird as environment minister
     Ottawa West-Nepean MP John Baird is Canada's environment minister again, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced late Friday. Baird, already the government's House leader, replaces Jim Prentice, who resigned to take a private sector job on Thursday. Baird, who was environment minister before Prentice, will maintain his House leader role as well.

Pipelines remain a problem:

526. 2010/11/04: TheHill:e2W: TransCanada pushes back at [Sen. Mike] Johanns (R-Neb) request for more pipeline review
527. 2010/11/03: PlanetArk: Scenarios: U.S. Battle Brews Over Canada Oil [tarsand] Pipeline
528. 2010/11/03: RawStory: Revealed: BP rates 148 of its own Alaska pipelines 'F' for safety
529. 2010/11/03: CBC: Enbridge spill cleanup almost done
     Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. said Wednesday the cleanup from two oil pipeline breaks in the U.S. Midwest [Michigan & Chicago] over the summer is mostly complete.

After 2 years, the Tories have finally named a Canadian Polar Commission board:

530. 2010/11/04: CBC: Canadian Polar Commission board named
     There is a new board of directors at the Canadian Polar Commission, which had been without a board for over two years. Indian and Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan has announced the appointment of 10 new directors to Canada's lead polar research agency, including chairman Bernard Funston. Funston, a lawyer, northern circumpolar affairs consultant and longtime member of the Arctic Council, was born and raised in the Northwest Territories but is currently based in Ottawa. Nellie Cournoyea of Inuvik, N.W.T., was chosen as the commission's vice-chair.
531. 2010/11/02: CBC: Polar Commission still lacks board after 2 years
     The ongoing absence of a board of directors at the Canadian Polar Commission could hurt Arctic research, says one prominent researcher. Benoit Beauchamp, executive director of the Arctic Institute of North America, said the two-year absence of a board at Canada's lead polar research agency could mean misspent money and missed opportunities in the field of northern research. The commission is a federal advisory agency set up in 1991 to monitor, promote and disseminate scientific research on Canada's Arctic. It has been operating without a sitting board of directors since October 2008 because the federal government has yet to appoint members to the board.
532. 2010/10/31: G&M: Key northern agency has not had a board or a president since 2008
     A federal agency that oversees scientific research in polar areas, including work on climate change, has been left leaderless for more than two years by the Harper government. The Canadian Polar Commission has operated without a board of directors since the fall of 2008. It was created by the Mulroney government in 1991 to "monitor, promote, and disseminate knowledge about the polar regions to Canadians and internationally." It has an annual budget of $1-million.

The Energy Policy Institute of Canada presented a national energy strategy document this week:

533. 2010/11/04: CBC: Clean energy strategy draws support
     A new national energy strategy plan meant to make Canada a "centre for clean energy innovation" is drawing the interest of federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers, CBC News has learned. Broadly speaking, the strategy, which has yet to be named, would also strengthen ties between the various levels of government by encouraging voluntary co-operation on energy conservation and environmental protection. "It's a good framework for moving forward," Alberta Energy Minister Ron Liepert said Wednesday. His counterpart in British Columbia, Bill Bennett, also said the ministers "respect the work that's been done." Bruce Carson, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper who now co-chairs the Energy Policy Institute of Canada (EPIC), presented the strategy to the country's energy ministers at their annual meeting in September, in Montreal.

Post Igor:

534. 2010/11/04: CBC: Hurricane Igor compensation sent out by N.L.
535. 2010/11/03: CBC: Hurricane Igor claims reach $65M

     Idahoans are still hassling over those huge loads bound for Alberta:

536. 2010/11/04: STimes: Mega-load opponents ask for formal hearing
     Residents along U.S. 12 asked the Idaho Transportation Department on Thursday to conduct formal hearings before issuing any special permits allowing oil companies to transport huge loads of refinery equipment over the roadway.

In BC, Campbell is quitting:

537. 2010/11/03: CBC: B.C. Premier Campbell stepping down

     Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

538. 2010/11/06: CBC: Oil sector pays for Alberta group fighting stench
539. 2010/11/06: BCLSB: Alberta Does Not Speak With One Voice On The Tar Sands
540. 2010/11/04: PI:B: Alberta caves to oilsands interests, dilutes wetland policy
541. 2010/11/05: PI:B: European delegates take home wrong message about oilsands
542. 2010/11/02: PI: Ducking responsibility for tailings lakes
543. 2010/11/04: Tyee: Gouged Earth: Big Part of Oil Sands Carbon Footprint
     What's more destructive, rainforest wrecking bio-fuel farms or Alberta's open pit mines? Study adds it up.
544. 2010/11/05: NRDC:SwitchBoard: More migratory bird deaths in tar sands tailings ponds - yet another reason to say no to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
545. 2010/11/03: CBC: European politicians praise tarsands -- EU members had expected to visit a 'disaster area'
546. 2010/11/01: CBC: EU delegates to visit oilsands
     Representatives of the European Union came to Alberta on Monday seeking answers in the ongoing debate over the health and environmental impacts of the oilsands. A delegation from the European Parliament, the legislative arm of the EU, met with provincial government leaders and is heading to northern Alberta on Tuesday for a firsthand look at the oilsands. Delegate Antonyia Parvanova said the group is trying to sort out conflicting information. "We noticed there is a disparity between the official data and what has been presented by the NGOs on water usage and C02 emissions," Parvanova told reporters after the meeting at the legislature.
547. 2010/11/01: DeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers Are Kings of Alberta Oil Sands Too
548. 2010/11/01: Tyee: US Tea Party's Deep Ties to Oil Sands Giant
     Owners of Koch Industries, a major processor of Alberta crude, spent millions to foment and support a movement against Obama's climate change policies.

In Saskatchewan the big question is Potash?

549. 2010/11/04: CBC: Sask. steps up pressure on PotashCorp
550. 2010/11/04: RPPE: Potash, Economic Nationalism, and National Champions
551. 2010/11/04: CO2Art: Potash: BHP says Canada is a "Branch Office" Country
552. 2010/11/04: BuckDog: Potash: The Folly Of Privatization
553. 2010/11/03: BBC: Canada blocks BHP takeover bid for Potash
554. 2010/11/04: CBC: PotashCorp decision 'principled': Clement
555. 2010/11/04: TStar: Potash takeover: Doing 'the right thing'
556. 2010/11/03: G&M: Mr. Clement has much to explain
557. 2010/11/03: TStar: Walkom: Potash decision is about politics and cartel pricing
558. 2010/11/03: CBC: BHP's PotashCorp bid rejected for now -- Clement give BHP Billiton 30 days to make additional offers, undertakings
     The federal government has rejected BHP Billiton's $40 billion hostile takeover of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.
559. 2010/11/03: Rabble:MD: Potash and the Canadian corporate elite
560. 2010/11/03: ScottsDiatribe: The Russians are coming for the Potash?
561. 2010/11/03: BuckDog: $tephen Harper's Broken Promise AND Brad Wall's Weak Leadership Is Hurting Saskatchewan
562. 2010/11/03: CBC: PotashCorp takeover decision expected -- Announcement will come after close of N. American markets, Clement says
563. 2010/11/02: G&M: Western opposition to Potash sale complicates PM's decision
     [...]
     Richard Haskayne, a veteran of Canadian boardrooms who's headed several of this country's biggest companies, is one Calgary businessman who's been lobbying Tory ministers to reject the takeover. Mr. Haskayne, a former chairman of MacMillan Bloedel and Nova Corp., says a green light for BHP to take over Potash would be wrenching for Canada, given that four premiers oppose the deal. "It's going to be as divisive as the NEP," Mr. Haskayne said, referring to the interventionist 1980 national energy program that infuriated Albertans.
564. 2010/11/02: BuckDog: Premier Brad Wall Has A BAD Record On Proceeding With Lawsuits against Ottawa
565. 2010/11/02: BB: "As Divisive as the NEP"
566. 2010/11/02: CBC: PotashCorp -- Hostile takeover offer: how the bid is unfolding
567. 2010/11/02: PostMedia: Wall in tough on BHP
     It sure seemed like it was first-and-goal at the one yard line for the Saskatchewan government on Friday. With plenty of support on the line, it seemed all that Premier Brad Wall had to do was go to Ottawa to carry the ball over the goal line. BHP Billiton's $38.6-billion takeover bid of PotashCorp would be easily overcome. Touchdown! But like the Roughriders' season of late, Wall's momentum also seems to have stalled. Or so it appears after the cancellation of the premier's planned meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the potash file.
568. 2010/11/02: PostMedia: Tories 'feeling the pressure' on potash deal: Layton
     The potential political price of approving BHP Billiton Ltd.'s hostile takeover attempt of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. is beginning to weigh on the Conservative government, federal NDP Leader Jack Layton said Monday.
569. 2010/11/02: Reuters: Canada PM won't make BHP-Potash decision: spokesman
     A top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday denied a newspaper story that Harper would decide whether to approve a hostile bid by BHP Billiton for fertilizer maker Potash Corp.
570. 2010/11/02: PostMedia: Wall says province may sue Ottawa over bid
     Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said Monday his province will consider suing the federal government if it decides to allow the $38.6-billion US hostile takeover of the world's largest fertilizer company to go ahead.
571. 2010/11/02: CBC: Clement says no PotashCorp decision yet
572. 2010/11/02: NatPo:FC: Don Martin: PMO claims potash takeover not Harper's to decide
573. 2010/11/01: PostMedia: Investment Canada gives Potash takeover tentative nod
574. 2010/11/02: TStar: Just say 'No' to Potash deal by Paul Hellyer
575. 2010/11/01: CBC: Wall won't go to Ottawa to discuss Potash
     Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall won't go to Ottawa this week to talk about his opposition to a $40-billion potash deal. Last week, Wall was in Toronto telling an audience why he's opposed to Australia-based BHP Billiton's proposed hostile takeover of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. Wall says the proposed deal creates no "net benefit" to Canada and would result in the Saskatchewan treasury losing billions of dollars in revenues over a decade.
576. 2010/11/01: CBC: PotashCorp bid to be raised: report
     Media reports out of the United Kingdom say BHP Billiton could be ready to sweeten its hostile $38.6-billion US takeover bid for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.

Ontario has it's Green Energy Act, now comes the implementation:

577. 2010/11/04: Grist: Get F.I.T.! [Ontario] Provincial feed-in tariffs spurring community power

     In the Maritimes:

578. 2010/11/05: CBC: N.B. wind power surges in summer
     New Brunswick's focus on introducing wind generation into the power mix is starting to show dividends as it accounted for more than 30 per cent of the province's energy load three times last summer. New Brunswick's wind capacity represents three per cent of the total generating fleet, a small amount compared to the traditional forms of generating power, such as oil, which produces 33 per cent of the province's power, or hydro, which generates 24 per cent. But Sylvain Gignac, the president and chief executive officer of the New Brunswick System Operator, said at three different times in the summer, wind power supplied more than one-third of all the electricity being used in New Brunswick.
579. 2010/11/05: CBC: Gas extraction might ruin water, union says
     A provincial government union is urging P.E.I.'s environment minister to ensure a gas exploration company doesn't ruin the Island's groundwater. The Union of Public Sector Employees wants Richard Brown to ensure PetroWorth doesn't carry out a procedure called fracking. That's where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped into a natural gas well. The extreme pressure fractures the sandstone, enabling the gas to flow better. But there are concerns the chemicals could contaminate drinking water. Also, the process uses a lot of water.
580. 2010/11/02: CBC: AECL reactor work to be probed by N.B.

     As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

581. 2010/11/07: WpgFP: Canadian Forces preparing for more disasters caused by climate change: report

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

582. 2010/11/04: CCurrents: Time To End War Against The Earth by Vandana Shiva
583. 2010/11/06: DVoice: Corporations and the Free Market
584. 2010/11/02: EnergyBulletin: Argentina's collapse and the grassroots of resilience

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

585. 2010/11/06: Grist: The GINK videos -- 'Sister Wives' is latest reality show to glorify mega-families
586. 2010/11/04: CCurrents: A Discussion About Overpopulation And Some Related Matters
587. 2010/11/04: Grist: The GINK Chronicles -- What does the election mean for population and reproductive rights?
588. 1997/03/: Mn4Sustain: How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population - Environment Connection by T. Michael Maher>
589. 2010/11/01: Grist: The GINK Chronicles -- Oklahoma guv candidate slammed for being childfree woman

     Apocalypso anyone?

590. 2010/11/01: CCurrents: Who Needs Stephen King When We Are Living In A Nightmare?

     As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

591. 2010/11/07: BCLSB: The Future That Might Have Been, Or: How Fox News North Planned To Target David Suzuki
592. 2010/11/05: BobPark: What's New?
     3. Media: "Closing the newspaper with a sigh is not enough."
593. 2010/11/05: Guardian(UK): C4's What the Green Movement Got Wrong: environmentalists respond
594. 2010/11/02: JEB: Climate Change Question Time
595. 2010/11/05: JEB: More on Leake
596. 2010/11/04: TreeHugger: Controversy Explodes Over "Bias" in Documentary on the Green Movement
597. 2010/11/03: TP:WR: Ignoring Evidence, Politico Spins Climate Vote As Electoral Loser
598. 2010/11/02: Guardian(UK): Channel 4 accused of misleading contributors to green documentary

     While activists search for effective communication techniques:

599. 2010/11/04: ClimateP: How to beat the media in the climate street fight [Simon Lewis]
600. 2010/11/03: NatureN: How to beat the media in the climate street fight
     Researchers must take a more aggressive approach to counter shoddy journalism and set the scientific record straight, says Simon L. Lewis.

Here is something for your library:

601. 2010/11/05: HotTopic: [Book Review] _Preparing for Climate Change_ by Michael Mastrandrea & Stephen Schneider
602. 2010/11/04: TreeHugger: How Can We Really Eradicate Ecocide? Polly Higgins' New Book Shows How International Law Will Help
     [Book Plug] _Eradicating Ecocide_ by Polly Higgins
603. 2010/06/28: WOL:Geofluids: Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths
     [Book Review] _Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths_ by Steven M. Gorelick

And for your film & video enjoyment:

604. 2010/11/05: TreeHugger: How Climate Denial Becomes Fact in Right-Wing Media (Video)
605. 2010/11/05: AFTIC: Rachel Maddow reports from the Right Wing alternate reality
606. 2010/11/05: TCoE: The most important and horrifying video you'll see this year
607. 2010/11/05: PSinclair: The Greatest Threat to the Planet: The Right Wing Echo Chamber
608. 2010/11/05: ClimateP: Must-see: Rachel Maddow on right-wing media -- "Things that would have been disprovable myths in times past in America now become conservative truths."
609. 2010/11/05: Grist: Dave Roberts, on EnergyNow
610. 2010/11/04: HotTopic: The Climate Show #1 (Astral Express)
611. 2010/11/03: SEasterbrook: What is a climate model?

     As for podcasts:

612. 2010/11/04: SkeptiSci: New podcast: The Climate Show

     Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

613. 2010/11/06: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Industry Carbon Lawsuits [against EPA] Suffer "Wardrobe Malfunction"
614. 2010/11/06: ScienceInsider: Judge Tosses Argument in Polar Bear Lawsuit
615. 2010/11/05: TEC: Native Americans Sue Solar Project Over Endangered Lizard Habitat
616. 2010/11/05: PlanetArk: Judge Asks U.S. To Review Polar Bear Listing
617. 2010/11/05: LA Times: Native Americans sue U.S. over solar power plant in desert
     The Quechan tribe alleges that Tessera Solar's 709-megawatt project on 6,000 acres near El Centro could damage 'cultural and biological resources of significance.'
618. 2010/11/04: LA Times:GS: Obama faces tricky decision on polar bear, climate change
     Just as President Obama faces a Congress that promises to be more skeptical of climate-related environmental regulation, a federal court has tossed a controversial case back in his lap: the polar bear.
     [...]
     The bear is "threatened," not "endangered," which can make a big difference in regulation that follows listing under the act.
     [...]
     Environmentalists sued almost immediately to boost the bear into the "endangered" camp, and a federal judge agreed Wednesday that the Department of Interior should review the bear's protected status, which will remain the same in the meantime.
619. 2010/11/02: NYT: States, Enviro Groups Urge Court to Let EPA Climate Rules Proceed
     Days after the Obama administration asked a federal court not to stop U.S. EPA's climate program from taking effect on Jan. 2, a coalition of 20 states and 13 environmental groups has pledged its support for the agency, saying that despite "extravagant claims of harm" from industry, the new greenhouse gas regulations would hardly hurt them.
620. 2010/11/01: ENS: Judge Voids Coal Mine Expansion Permit on Navajo Tribal Land

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

621. 2010/11/05: GoodMag: Getting Oil Is Getting Expensive
622. 2010/11/04: BizGreen: IEA fears oil price escalation without global climate deal
     Per-barrel prices could top $135 within 25 years if current carbon targets are not strengthened, International Energy Agency report says
623. 2010/11/01: OilPrice: US Coal to Gasoline Plant Will be the Largest in the World
624. 2010/11/07: BNC: Electricity costs exhibits
625. 2010/11/06: OilDrum: How to Get a Pipeline Built - Revisited
626. 2010/11/03: E&C: Alaska Loses Future Oil Reserves -- USGS Drops a Bomb on Alaska's Oil Future
627. 2010/11/05: NRDC:SwitchBoard: New toxic air data from oil and gas operations, this time from the Four Corners
628. 2010/11/04: ClimateP: Investing in clean energy -- A new study...makes the case for public-private investment in the clean energy economy...
629. 2010/11/04: EarthTimes: OPEC raises mid- and long-term oil demand forecasts
630. 2010/11/03: PhysOrg: Geothermal heat pumps reduce energy costs at wastewater plants
631. 2010/11/03: OilDrum: Current and Future Saudi and Russian Oil Production
632. 2010/11/03: AutoBG: PM of India [Singh]: Demand for hydrocarbon fuels to increase 40% in ten years
633. 2010/11/02: OilDrum: A Primer on Reserve Growth - part 3 of 3 - Revisited
634. 2010/11/01: BBC: Oil price hits six-month high of US$83.45
635. 2010/11/01: OilChange: BP Disaster Adds to Oil Major "Identity Crisis"
636. 2010/10/31: TEC: A Conceptual Plan for Zero US Carbon Emissions and Energy Independence by 2050

     Hey! Let's contaminate the aquifer for thousands of years! It'll be a fracking gas!

637. 2010/11/05: CBC: Gas extraction might ruin water, union says
638. 2010/11/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: PA: "gas drillers do not have a great record of obeying environmental laws"
639. 2010/11/04: OilDrum: More evidence related to the high cost of horizontal drilling and fracking
640. 2010/11/03: TEC: Industry, environmental group working on shale gas drilling rules
641. 2010/11/02: SolveClimate: Two Companies Seek Trade Secret Status for Fracking Fluids in Wyoming
642. 2010/11/02: ProPublica: Two Companies Seek Trade Secret Status for Fracking Fluids in Wyoming
     Two chemical manufacturers are seeking an exemption from new rules in Wyoming that require public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas drilling process suspected of polluting groundwater. ChemEOR, based in Covina, Calif., and CESI Chemical Inc., based in Marlow, Okla., have asked the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to grant their fracturing fluids trade secret status, according to state oil and gas supervisor Tom Doll. The designation would still require the companies to share their formulas with the state but would exempt them from making the information available to the public.
643. 2010/10/27: YesMag: Pennsylvania Township Declares Freedom from Fracking
     Licking, Pennsylvania defies state law by banning corporations from dumping fracking wastewater.
644. 2010/11/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Examiner columnist perpetuates oil and gas industry spin on fracking

     The answer my friend...:

645. 2010/11/05: CBC: N.B. wind power surges in summer
646. 2010/11/02: PhysOrg: S.Korea to build 8.2 billion-dollar offshore wind farm
647. 2010/11/01: PlanetArk: U.S. Wind Power Posts Slowest Quarter Since 2007

     Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

648. 2010/11/05: Grist: The focus on big projects holds back solar in U.S.
649. 2010/11/05: PhysOrg: Fine-tuning photosynthesis
650. 2010/11/03: EarthTimes: Norway's REC opens billion-dollar solar plant in Singapore
651. 2010/11/02: TEC: California Solar Projects in Danger as Federal Supports Expire

     Feed-In-Tariffs are being variously implemented around the world:

652. 2010/11/04: Grist: Get F.I.T.! [Ontario] Provincial feed-in tariffs spurring community power
653. 2010/11/05: OilDrum: The Impact of Solar Feed-In Tariffs in Germany
654. 2010/11/01: JQuiggin: Learning from mistakes, not repeating them
655. 2010/11/01: TEC: FERC Ruling Is Good News for Feed-in-Tariffs and Distributed Generation

     On the coal front:

656. 2010/11/05: PlanetArk: Coal Still King As Green Power IPO Struggles [in India]
657. 2010/11/05: TreeHugger: Colorado Coal Mine Refuses to Capture Methane - Releases Directly into Atmosphere Instead, Depriving Government of $250M

     Biofuel bickering abounds:

658. 2010/11/02: RRapier: The Palm Oil Conundrum
659. 2010/11/05: PlanetArk: BP Sees Biofuel Growth From U.S. Grass, Brazil Sugar
660. 2010/11/04: PlanetArk: Oil Majors Invest In Ethanol, Expect 2011 Recovery/A>
661. 2010/11/04: NewScientist: Cold climates no bar to biogas production
662. 2010/11/02: Eureka: Algae for biofuels: Moving from promise to reality, but how fast?
663. 2010/11/01: AutoBG: Retailers urged to limit E15 sales to flex fuel vehicles only

     The nuclear energy controversy continues:

664. 2010/11/05: DerSpiegel: 30 Years of Division -- Gorleben Nuclear Waste Depository Splits Community
     The Gorleben nuclear waste depository has been a site for anti-nuclear protest for 30 years, and this weekend 30,000 are expected to return to the north German site. The issue of where to store the toxic waste has divided the region and split families apart.
665. 2010/11/03: TEC: Vietnam signs nuclear reactor agreements with Russia and Japan
666. 2010/11/04: NBF: David Leblanc explains why Thorium reactors need a lot less fissile nuclear material to start and for ongoing operation

     Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

667. 2010/11/05: CCurrents: The Peak Oil Crisis: The Leading Edge
668. 2010/11/04: EnergyBulletin: The Peak Oil Crisis: The Leading Edge
669. 2010/11/01: CCurrents: The Peak Oil Debate Is Over by Dr. James Schlesinger
670. 2010/11/02: PhysOrg: How much oil is there, how much more will we use and at what price?
671. 2010/11/01: EnergyBulletin: The impact of peak oil: An alternative view
672. 2010/11/01: OilDrum: Dr. James Schlesinger: "The Peak Oil Debate is Over" at ASPO-USA Conference

     More people are talking about the electrical grid:

673. 2010/11/02: PhysOrg: Saving energy with power grid of the future

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

674. 2010/11/06: AutoBG: Hybrid sales soar to 5-month high in October
675. 2010/11/06: NBF: Michael Bloomberg wants 1 million electric cabs for the top 40 cities in the world
676. 2010/11/04: PhysOrg: Electric cars get charged wirelessly in London
677. 2010/11/04: AutoBG: GM happy to promote pure electric vehicles, just not in U.S.
678. 2010/11/04: AutoBG: Honda CEO [Takanobu Ito]: Looks "like there will be a market for electric vehicles" after all
679. 2010/11/03: DOE:EERE: DOE and EPA Release 2011 Annual [Car] Fuel Economy Guide
680. 2010/11/02: Grist: Nissan sells out of electric Leaf before it hits U.S. showrooms
681. 2010/11/02: AutoBG: What is EVSE? It's Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, and here's what it's all about

     As for Energy Storage:

682. 2010/11/05: PeakEnergy: Australian Cleantech: RedFlow [battery company]
683. 2010/11/02: BBerg: China to Subsidize Electric Car Battery Development, Business News Reports

     Can you say surreptitious control?

684. 2010/11/02: TechRev: Bogus Grass-Roots Politics on Twitter

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

685. 2010/11/05: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for November 5...
686. 2010/11/04: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for November 4...
687. 2010/11/03: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for November 3...
688. 2010/11/02: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for November 2...
689. 2010/11/01: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for November 1...

     Other (weekly) lists:

690. 2010/11/05: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin America: 10.25 - 11.5.2010
691. 2010/11/05: IJISH: Mindless Link Propagation
692. 2010/11/04: Grist: A walk through the week's climate news -- The Climate Post: Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from the midterms' effects on climate
693. 2010/11/04: NRDC:SwitchBoard: India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of October 26 to November 2, 2010

     The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

694. 2010/11/05: TCoE: But the climate has always changed!
695. 2010/11/02: EconBrowser: Detachment from Reality and Innumeracy as Impediments to Rational Discourse
696. 2010/11/01: DeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers Are Kings of Alberta Oil Sands Too
697. 2010/11/01: BBickmore: The Monckton Files: His Lordship in a Nutshell
698. 2010/10/31: Guardian(UK): Republicans go climate sceptic
699. 2010/11/03: TP:WR: Half Of GOP Caucus Are Climate Zombies, Four Members Admit Science Is Real
700. 2010/11/03: DeSmogBlog: Welcome the GOP Anti-Science Caucus - Only Four GOP House Members Acknowledge Science of Climate Change

     As for climate miscellanea:

701. 2010/11/05: PhysOrg: Engineered yeast could produce low-cost plastics from renewable resources
702. 2010/11/04: OilChange: When Ignorance Costs More than Bliss
703. 2010/11/03: Deltoid: Climate Change: Do you feel lucky?
704. 2010/11/03: ERabett: Infra Digging Michael Tobis
705. 2010/11/03: CCurrents: Despair Follows Delusion
706. 2010/11/02: EconoSpeak: One Person's Green Infrastructure Is Another's "High Speed Pork"
707. 2010/11/03: SkeptiSci: Geological Society discuss climate change evidence from the geological record
708. 2010/11/02: TCoE: How much risk are you willing to take? [Lewandosky]
709. 2010/11/02: ABC(Au):TDU: Climate change: are you willing to take the risk? by Stephan Lewandowsky
710. 2010/11/01: TSoD: Theory and Experiment -- Atmospheric Radiation
711. 2010/11/01: AFTIC: A tale of two secret meetings
712. 2010/11/01: TreeHugger: How Much of Climate Change is Caused by Humans?
713. 2010/10/31: QuarkSoup: The Worst Kind of Climate News
714. 2010/10/31: ClimateSight: Some Cool Developments

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

715. OilPrice
716. UCSD: [online course] Syllabus: Climate Change 1: The Earth's Climate System
717. EPOCA: European Project on OCean Acidification
718. EPIC: Energy Policy Institute of Canada
719. DOE: Fuel Economy
720. Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal [Note COA]
721. NOAA Education Resources Website
722. UNEP: 30 Ways in 30 Days
723. CBD: COP 10 Outcomes -- Decisions (Advance Unedited Texts)
724. IISD: Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity -- 18-29 October 2010 | Nagoya, Japan
725. Science: Science Now
726. Science: Science Insider
727. Science News
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728. WRI: World Resources Institute
729. TDC: The Daily Climate

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